Minnesota 104, Houston 122

April 25, 2018

Opening Round - Houston wins 4-1

Toyota Center (Houston) (Houston, Texas)

Attendance: 18,055

Officials: Karl Lane, Brian Forte, Sean Wright, Zach Zarba

Team Rebounds: Minnesota (8) Houston (6)

Technicals: Minnesota (0) Houston (0)

  1 2 3 4 Final
MIN (47-35) 26 33 15 30 104
HOU (65-17) 25 30 30 37 122

Advanced Poss ORtg DRtg
MIN 90 115.6 135.6
HOU 90 135.6 115.6

Four Factors eFG% TO% OR% FTR
MIN .563 0.089 0.132 0.190
HOU .614 0.044 0.200 0.159

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 29:42 4-10 0-1 0-0 11.2 0 5 5 5 0 1 1 0 8
67 Taj Gibson Starter PF 23:25 5-7 0-0 0-0 6.5 1 1 2 0 2 0 1 0 10
0 Jeff Teague Starter PG 36:31 6-14 3-5 2-4 13.0 2 2 4 7 3 0 0 1 17
32 Karl-Anthony Towns Starter C 35:30 9-14 1-2 4-4 22.8 1 13 14 4 4 0 1 2 23
22 Andrew Wiggins Starter SF 37:14 5-14 1-4 3-6 0.2 0 4 4 0 4 0 0 2 14
88 Nemanja Bjelica Bench PF 02:58 0-0 0-0 0-0 0.8 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
11 Jamal Crawford Bench SG 25:55 8-10 2-3 2-2 12.8 0 2 2 2 1 1 0 3 20
5 Gorgui Dieng Bench C 12:30 0-2 0-0 0-0 1.2 1 3 4 0 1 0 0 0 0
13 Marcus Georges-Hunt Bench SF 00:46 0-0 0-0 0-0 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 Tyus Jones Bench PG 11:29 0-1 0-1 0-0 3.8 0 2 2 3 0 0 0 0 0
25 Derrick Rose Bench SG 24:00 3-7 2-3 4-4 5.8 0 0 0 2 3 0 0 0 12
  Team                   8         1  
        240 40-79 9-19 15-20 88.0 5 33 46 23 18 2 3 9 104
          50.6% 47.4% 75.0%                    

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 38:27 5-11 4-7 2-2 11.0 0 4 4 3 4 0 0 0 16
15 Clint Capela Starter C 33:24 12-14 0-0 2-4 27.8 4 11 15 1 1 0 1 0 26
13 James Harden Starter SG 37:37 8-21 4-11 4-4 22.8 1 4 5 12 2 2 2 3 24
3 Chris Paul Starter PG 34:10 6-16 0-8 0-0 12.2 0 5 5 9 1 0 0 0 12
17 P.J. Tucker Starter SF 33:07 5-8 5-7 0-0 10.2 0 3 3 2 4 0 0 1 15
33 Ryan Anderson Bench PF 10:22 2-3 1-2 0-0 6.2 1 2 3 1 0 0 0 0 5
28 Tarik Black Bench PF 00:46 0-0 0-0 0-0 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
10 Eric Gordon Bench SG 31:52 5-11 3-7 6-7 9.6 1 0 1 0 3 1 1 0 19
14 Gerald Green Bench SF 08:35 1-2 1-2 0-0 3.5 0 2 2 0 1 0 1 0 3
55 Aaron Jackson Bench SG 00:46 0-0 0-0 0-0 1.0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
42 Maybyner Nene Bench C 10:08 1-2 0-0 0-2 1.0 1 1 2 0 1 0 0 0 2
9 Zhou Qi Bench C 00:46 0-0 0-0 0-0 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
  Team                   6         1  
        240 45-88 18-44 14-19 103.4 8 32 46 29 17 3 5 5 122
          51.1% 40.9% 73.7%                    

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		  
 		  
 		 Gorgui Dieng
5.9p, 4.6r, 0.9a
Rotation  
 		 Derrick Rose
8.4p, 1.4r, 1.5a		  
 		  
 		  
 
Lim PT  
 		  
 		 Marcus Georges-Hunt
1.4p, 0.4r, 0.2a		 Nemanja Bjelica
6.8p, 4.1r, 1.3a		  
 

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		  
 		 Ryan Anderson
9.3p, 5r, 0.9a		 Maybyner Nene
6.5p, 3.4r, 0.9a
Lim PT  
 		 Aaron Jackson
8p, 3r, 1a		 Gerald Green
12.1p, 3.2r, 0.6a		 Tarik Black
3.5p, 3.2r, 0.3a		 Zhou Qi
1.2p, 1.2r, 0.1a

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