Minnesota 113, Denver 122

April 19, 2023

Opening Round - Denver wins 4-1

Ball Arena (Denver, Colorado)

Attendance: 19,683

Officials: Marc Davis, Ed Malloy, Tyler Ford, Lauren Holtkamp

Team Rebounds: Minnesota (5) Denver (11)

Technicals: Minnesota (0) Denver (0)

  1 2 3 4 Final
MIN (42-40) 22 27 40 24 113
DEN (53-29) 31 33 23 35 122

Advanced Poss ORtg DRtg
MIN 93 122.1 131.9
DEN 93 131.9 122.1

Four Factors eFG% TO% OR% FTR
MIN .595 0.141 0.257 0.241
DEN .600 0.108 0.250 0.235

Minnesota Timberwolves

# Player Status Pos Min FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A FIC Off Def Reb Ast PF STL BLK TO PTS
10 Mike Conley Starter PG 37:46 5-9 2-4 2-3 13.1 1 0 1 7 0 0 0 1 14
27 Rudy Gobert Starter C 38:54 7-11 0-0 5-6 15.5 2 6 8 4 5 0 1 2 19
32 Karl-Anthony Towns Starter PF 34:12 3-12 2-5 2-2 5.0 1 11 12 2 5 0 1 5 10
12 Taurean Prince Starter SF 18:11 4-8 3-6 1-2 6.2 1 2 3 1 5 0 0 0 12
1 Anthony Edwards Starter SG 41:43 14-23 6-10 7-8 28.5 1 1 2 4 4 2 3 1 41
5 Kyle Anderson Bench PF 26:45 4-5 0-0 2-2 12.5 3 4 7 4 4 1 0 2 10
4 Jaylen Nowell Bench SG 15:51 1-5 0-1 0-0 -1.8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
9 Nickeil Alexander-Walker Bench SF 26:38 2-6 1-5 0-0 2.0 0 2 2 2 2 1 0 2 5
  Team                   5            
        240 40-79 14-31 19-23 97.1 9 26 40 24 25 4 5 13 113
          50.6% 45.2% 82.6%                    

Denver Nuggets

# Player Status Pos Min FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A FIC Off Def Reb Ast PF STL BLK TO PTS
5 Kentavious Caldwell-Pope Starter SG 39:14 3-10 0-2 2-2 4.5 0 3 3 2 1 1 0 0 8
50 Aaron Gordon Starter PF 32:39 6-11 0-0 0-0 13.2 6 4 10 3 5 0 0 0 12
15 Nikola Jokic Starter C 37:14 10-19 1-3 6-9 20.9 3 6 9 9 4 0 0 3 27
27 Jamal Murray Starter PG 38:57 13-22 6-10 8-9 23.9 0 3 3 5 3 2 0 4 40
1 Michael Porter, Jr. Starter SF 28:40 5-7 2-3 4-5 12.4 0 6 6 0 4 1 0 0 16
32 Jeff Green Bench PF 26:07 5-7 1-1 0-0 5.2 0 0 0 2 3 0 1 2 11
11 Bruce Brown, Jr. Bench SG 29:47 3-7 0-3 0-0 7.0 0 3 3 5 4 2 0 1 6
0 Christian Braun Bench SF 07:22 1-2 0-0 0-0 1.5 0 2 2 0 1 0 0 0 2
  Team                   11            
        240 46-85 10-22 20-25 106.6 9 27 47 26 25 6 1 10 122
          54.1% 45.5% 80.0%                    

Minnesota Timberwolves Depth Chart

  PG SG SF PF C
Starters Mike Conley
11.9p, 2.7r, 6.7a		 Anthony Edwards
24.6p, 5.8r, 4.4a		 Taurean Prince
9.1p, 2.4r, 1.6a		 Karl-Anthony Towns
20.8p, 8.1r, 4.8a		 Rudy Gobert
13.4p, 11.6r, 1.2a
Rotation  
 		 Jaylen Nowell
10.8p, 2.6r, 2a		 Nickeil Alexander-Walker
6.2p, 1.7r, 1.8a		 Kyle Anderson
9.4p, 5.3r, 4.9a		  
 

Denver Nuggets Depth Chart

  PG SG SF PF C
Starters Jamal Murray
20p, 4r, 6.2a		 Kentavious Caldwell-Pope
10.8p, 2.7r, 2.4a		 Michael Porter, Jr.
17.4p, 5.5r, 1a		 Aaron Gordon
16.3p, 6.6r, 3a		 Nikola Jokic
24.5p, 11.8r, 9.8a
Rotation  
 		 Bruce Brown, Jr.
11.5p, 4.1r, 3.4a		  
 		 Jeff Green
7.8p, 2.6r, 1.2a		  
 
Lim PT  
 		  
 		 Christian Braun
4.7p, 2.4r, 0.8a		  
 		  
 

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