![]() ![]() Teague thinks Minnesota has been more focused on stopping what the Rockets can do offensively than what the Wolves can do on the offensive end. If they do that, and Towns ends up sealing a player on the interior, then Minnesota can get the ball to its center for an easy bucket. They have to swing the ball and drive into the paint. Moving forward, Teague said the Wolves need to “make multiple plays, and multiple efforts” within each possession. By then, Towns was forced to kick the ball out with only a few seconds left on the clock, leaving someone to throw up “some miracle shot.” It wasn’t pretty, or effective. When they finally did get the all-star center the ball, Houston would send a double team. In Game 2, Teague said the Wolves just eyed Towns down in the post as precious seconds drained off the shot clock. Timberwolves win ugly over winless Lakers In Game 2, attempting to get Towns involved stunted any offensive flow. In Game 1, Towns wasn’t really part of the Wolves’ offensive game plan. The Rockets have frustrated Towns by pushing him off his spots in the post and sending double teams to limit his effectiveness. Houston is blitzing Jimmy Butler with two defenders to force the ball out of the All-NBA guard’s hands. The Rockets have snuffed the Wolves’ half-court offense. I think we played right into their hands.” “We lost both games, and we played a slow pace. “What we’ve been playing like hasn’t worked,” Teague said. In this series, that pace is even slower, averaging just 97.43 possessions. Minnesota averaged just 98.31 possessions per game during the regular season, giving the Wolves’ the league’s 22nd fastest pace. He has pushed for such a style all season, to no avail. That Teague is suggesting a faster pace isn’t a surprise. And just get their defense shifted a little bit.” If we do that, we can get some easy scores. “Trying to get the ball up as fast as we can. “Pushing the ball up, on makes and misses,” he said. Teague thinks making a conscious effort to get out and run off Rockets misses and turnovers would get Minnesota’s wings some easy baskets and potentially get Karl-Anthony Towns out of his funk. Instead, Houston’s stellar defense has thrived in the half-court game. The fewer the possessions, the better chance the Wolves figured to have to steal wins. Heading into the series, slowing the game down seemed to make sense against a high-powered Rockets offense. But Teague countered by pointing out the Wolves also have no previous experience overcoming offensive struggles.īut he has a few ideas for potential remedies. It was suggested to Teague on Friday that the fact Minnesota has been so good scoring all season should make it easier to get the offense going. We’ve got to figure out a way to get it going.” “All year we talked about our defense, and our offense was clicking. “It’s pretty different, right? We usually score the ball so easily,” Wolves point guard Jeff Teague said. ![]() Saturday, Houston leads 2-0 because, oddly enough, the Wolves can’t score. As the best-of-seven series heads back to Minnesota for Game 3 at 6:30 p.m.
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