Minnesota 82, Houston 102

April 18, 2018

Opening Round - Houston wins 4-1

Toyota Center (Houston) (Houston, Texas)

Attendance: 18,055

Officials: Mark Lindsay, Derrick Stafford, Pat Fraher, Nick Buchert

Team Rebounds: Minnesota (4) Houston (11)

Technicals: Minnesota (0) Houston (0)

  1 2 3 4 Final
MIN (47-35) 23 17 18 24 82
HOU (65-17) 18 37 25 22 102

Advanced Poss ORtg DRtg
MIN 97 84.4 105.0
HOU 97 105.0 84.4

Four Factors eFG% TO% OR% FTR
MIN .419 0.165 0.173 0.188
HOU .448 0.093 0.222 0.167

Minnesota Timberwolves

# Player Status Pos Min FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A FIC Off Def Reb Ast PF STL BLK TO PTS
23 Jimmy Butler Starter SG 24:58 3-6 1-1 4-4 6.5 0 4 4 2 1 0 0 3 11
67 Taj Gibson Starter PF 22:56 3-4 0-0 2-2 7.2 1 4 5 0 2 1 1 2 8
0 Jeff Teague Starter PG 19:25 3-7 0-1 2-3 -0.6 0 1 1 1 4 1 1 4 8
32 Karl-Anthony Towns Starter C 23:46 2-9 1-3 0-2 7.0 2 8 10 0 1 1 1 0 5
22 Andrew Wiggins Starter SF 30:36 6-14 0-3 1-2 8.5 1 7 8 3 3 1 1 3 13
88 Nemanja Bjelica Bench PF 18:59 5-9 2-4 4-5 15.4 2 6 8 2 3 2 0 1 16
11 Jamal Crawford Bench SG 29:07 3-9 0-2 2-3 4.9 1 3 4 2 1 0 0 0 8
5 Gorgui Dieng Bench C 24:14 1-8 0-2 0-0 3.2 1 5 6 1 1 0 3 1 2
1 Tyus Jones Bench PG 28:35 1-5 0-1 0-0 5.0 0 5 5 3 0 1 0 1 2
25 Derrick Rose Bench SG 17:24 4-9 1-1 0-0 3.2 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 9
  Team                   4            
        240 31-80 5-18 15-21 78.4 9 43 56 15 16 7 7 16 82
          38.8% 27.8% 71.4%                    

Houston Rockets

# Player Status Pos Min FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A FIC Off Def Reb Ast PF STL BLK TO PTS
1 Trevor Ariza Starter PF 34:54 5-14 3-10 2-4 7.8 0 5 5 1 2 1 0 0 15
15 Clint Capela Starter C 28:40 4-6 0-0 0-0 16.5 4 12 16 1 2 0 1 1 8
13 James Harden Starter SG 30:46 2-18 1-10 7-8 7.5 0 4 4 7 2 3 3 3 12
3 Chris Paul Starter PG 29:47 10-18 3-5 4-4 24.2 0 3 3 8 2 3 1 1 27
17 P.J. Tucker Starter SF 22:53 2-6 2-5 0-1 2.1 0 2 2 0 3 0 1 0 6
10 Eric Gordon Bench SG 28:52 3-13 2-10 1-2 -0.5 2 2 4 0 1 0 0 2 9
14 Gerald Green Bench SF 26:16 7-17 5-12 2-2 18.2 3 9 12 1 2 0 1 0 21
55 Aaron Jackson Bench SG 03:14 0-0 0-0 0-0 -1.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
7 Joe Johnson Bench PF 16:12 1-3 0-0 0-0 1.8 0 2 2 2 1 0 0 1 2
42 Maybyner Nene Bench C 11:58 0-0 0-0 0-0 6.0 2 2 4 1 1 0 2 0 0
21 Chinanu Onuaku Bench C 03:14 0-0 0-0 0-0 2.5 1 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 0
9 Zhou Qi Bench PF 03:14 1-1 0-0 0-0 2.0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 2
  Team                   11            
        240 35-96 16-52 16-21 87.1 12 42 65 22 17 8 9 9 102
          36.5% 30.8% 76.2%                    

Minnesota Timberwolves Depth Chart

  PG SG SF PF C
Starters Jeff Teague
14.2p, 3r, 7a		 Jimmy Butler
22.2p, 5.3r, 4.9a		 Andrew Wiggins
17.7p, 4.4r, 2a		 Taj Gibson
12.2p, 7.1r, 1.2a		 Karl-Anthony Towns
21.3p, 12.3r, 2.4a
Rotation Tyus Jones
5.1p, 1.6r, 2.8a		 Jamal Crawford
10.3p, 1.2r, 2.3a		  
 		 Nemanja Bjelica
6.8p, 4.1r, 1.3a		 Gorgui Dieng
5.9p, 4.6r, 0.9a
Rotation  
 		 Derrick Rose
8.4p, 1.4r, 1.5a		  
 		  
 		  
 

Houston Rockets Depth Chart

  PG SG SF PF C
Starters Chris Paul
18.6p, 5.4r, 7.9a		 James Harden
30.4p, 5.4r, 8.8a		 P.J. Tucker
6.1p, 5.6r, 0.9a		 Trevor Ariza
11.7p, 4.4r, 1.6a		 Clint Capela
13.9p, 10.8r, 0.9a
Rotation  
 		 Eric Gordon
18p, 2.5r, 2.2a		 Gerald Green
12.1p, 3.2r, 0.6a		 Joe Johnson
6.8p, 3.1r, 1.5a		 Maybyner Nene
6.5p, 3.4r, 0.9a
Lim PT  
 		 Aaron Jackson
8p, 3r, 1a		  
 		 Zhou Qi
1.2p, 1.2r, 0.1a		 Chinanu Onuaku
4p, 4r, 1a

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