Minnesota 109, Denver 112

April 25, 2023

Opening Round - Denver wins 4-1

Ball Arena (Denver, Colorado)

Attendance: 19,691

Officials: Kevin Cutler, Curtis Blair, Brian Forte, Scott Foster

Team Rebounds: Minnesota (8) Denver (6)

Technicals: Minnesota (0) Denver (0)

  1 2 3 4 Final
MIN (42-40) 29 18 30 32 109
DEN (53-29) 22 26 29 35 112

Advanced Poss ORtg DRtg
MIN 95 115.1 118.2
DEN 95 118.2 115.1

Four Factors eFG% TO% OR% FTR
MIN .556 0.148 0.200 0.235
DEN .471 0.127 0.340 0.376

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 38:23 2-7 1-4 2-2 10.8 1 3 4 9 3 2 0 3 7
27 Rudy Gobert Starter C 40:28 5-6 0-0 6-9 18.4 4 11 15 2 6 2 0 3 16
32 Karl-Anthony Towns Starter PF 38:23 9-17 1-6 7-9 17.4 1 10 11 3 6 1 1 3 26
9 Nickeil Alexander-Walker Starter SF 38:10 5-11 3-9 1-1 8.6 0 1 1 3 3 1 0 0 14
1 Anthony Edwards Starter SG 39:55 13-27 0-6 3-4 20.0 1 7 8 7 3 0 2 1 29
25 Austin Rivers Bench PG 13:56 1-2 0-1 0-0 2.0 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 2
12 Taurean Prince Bench PF 22:16 5-10 3-7 0-0 4.5 0 0 0 0 2 2 1 3 13
4 Jaylen Nowell Bench SG 08:19 1-1 0-0 0-0 -1.2 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 1 2
13 Nathan Knight Bench C 00:10 0-0 0-0 0-0 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
  Team                   8            
        240 41-81 8-33 19-25 100.4 8 32 48 24 27 9 4 14 109
          50.6% 24.2% 76.0%                    

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 26:02 3-6 1-4 3-3 4.9 0 2 2 1 4 2 0 2 10
50 Aaron Gordon Starter PF 33:50 4-9 0-3 6-7 9.1 2 4 6 2 5 1 0 1 14
15 Nikola Jokic Starter C 41:55 8-29 3-8 9-10 29.5 9 8 17 12 4 2 2 2 28
27 Jamal Murray Starter PG 41:08 12-23 5-9 6-6 21.8 1 3 4 5 2 1 0 2 35
1 Michael Porter, Jr. Starter SF 38:55 3-10 2-7 0-0 8.8 1 9 10 0 3 2 0 0 8
32 Jeff Green Bench PF 18:43 0-1 0-0 0-2 0.5 1 0 1 0 2 1 1 0 0
11 Bruce Brown, Jr. Bench SG 29:53 3-6 0-2 8-8 9.5 1 4 5 2 0 1 0 4 14
0 Christian Braun Bench SF 09:34 1-1 1-1 0-0 2.5 1 1 2 0 1 0 0 1 3
  Team                   6            
        240 34-85 12-34 32-36 104.5 16 31 53 22 21 10 3 12 112
          40.0% 35.3% 88.9%                    

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		 Nickeil Alexander-Walker
6.2p, 1.7r, 1.8a		 Karl-Anthony Towns
20.8p, 8.1r, 4.8a		 Rudy Gobert
13.4p, 11.6r, 1.2a
Rotation Austin Rivers
4.9p, 1.6r, 1.4a		  
 		  
 		 Taurean Prince
9.1p, 2.4r, 1.6a		  
 
Lim PT  
 		 Jaylen Nowell
10.8p, 2.6r, 2a		  
 		  
 		 Nathan Knight
3.7p, 1.5r, 0.3a

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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