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GAME THREAD: Minnesota Timberwolves (2-0) @ Phoenix Suns (0-2) - (April 26, 2024)




[Post Game Thread] The Indiana Pacers protect home court in overtime and take a 2-1 series lead over the Milwaukee Bucks, 121-118. Myles Turner leads a balanced attack with a playoff career high 29 points & 9 rebounds, Tyrese Haliburton racks up 18/10/16 and the game winning bucket.
[Post Game Thread] The Indiana Pacers protect home court in overtime and take a 2-1 series lead over the Milwaukee Bucks, 121-118. Myles Turner leads a balanced attack with a playoff career high 29 points & 9 rebounds, Tyrese Haliburton racks up 18/10/16 and the game winning bucket.
Post Game Thread
118 - 121
Box Scores: NBA - Yahoo
 
GAME SUMMARY
Location: Gainbridge Fieldhouse (17274), Clock: Final
Officials: Ed Malloy, David Guthrie, and Karl Lane
Team Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 OT Total
Milwaukee Bucks 22 33 28 28 7 118
Indiana Pacers 39 28 23 21 10 121
 
TEAM STATS
Team PTS FG FG% 3P 3P% FT FT% OREB TREB AST PF STL TO BLK
Milwaukee Bucks 118 41-88 46.6% 10-31 32.3% 26-27 96.3% 11 52 20 26 6 11 2
Indiana Pacers 121 45-105 42.9% 13-49 26.5% 18-24 75.0% 19 62 32 20 5 8 4
 
PLAYER STATS
Milwaukee Bucks MIN PTS FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A ORB DRB REB AST STL BLK TO PF ±
Khris MiddletonSF 41:20 42 16-29 4-9 6-6 3 7 10 5 0 0 3 5 2
Bobby PortisPF 43:45 17 7-15 1-3 2-2 5 13 18 0 1 1 3 3 -1
Brook LopezC 38:57 14 7-12 0-2 0-0 1 3 4 3 0 0 1 2 -10
Damian LillardSG 44:38 28 6-20 4-12 12-12 0 1 1 8 3 0 2 2 1
Patrick BeverleyPG 42:12 11 3-5 1-1 4-5 1 1 2 1 0 1 2 6 -8
Malik Beasley 06:55 0 0-2 0-2 0-0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 -11
Pat Connaughton 13:11 0 0-1 0-1 0-0 0 2 2 2 1 0 0 1 -5
AJ Green 14:26 4 1-1 0-0 2-2 0 3 3 0 0 0 0 2 10
Andre Jackson Jr. 17:16 2 1-2 0-0 0-0 1 2 3 0 1 0 0 4 7
Jae Crowder 02:17 0 0-1 0-1 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Thanasis Antetokounmpo 00:00 0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
MarJon Beauchamp 00:00 0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Danilo Gallinari 00:00 0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Giannis Antetokounmpo 00:00 0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Chris Livingston 00:00 0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Indiana Pacers MIN PTS FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A ORB DRB REB AST STL BLK TO PF ±
Aaron NesmithSF 42:49 13 3-13 1-7 6-7 4 4 8 3 3 1 2 3 -7
Pascal SiakamPF 41:40 17 7-17 0-3 3-5 4 5 9 4 1 1 0 1 1
Myles TurnerC 41:30 29 10-21 4-10 5-6 1 8 9 1 1 0 0 4 10
Andrew NembhardSG 39:39 16 6-10 3-6 1-2 3 2 5 4 0 0 1 5 4
Tyrese HaliburtonPG 45:49 18 8-22 1-12 1-1 5 5 10 16 0 1 4 1 16
Obi Toppin 17:28 15 6-11 2-6 1-2 0 6 6 0 0 0 1 3 -3
Ben Sheppard 17:11 6 2-4 1-3 1-1 0 1 1 2 0 0 0 1 3
T.J. McConnell 15:44 7 3-6 1-2 0-0 1 0 1 2 0 1 0 2 -3
Jalen Smith 03:07 0 0-1 0-0 0-0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 -6
Kendall Brown 00:00 0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Isaiah Jackson 00:00 0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
James Johnson 00:00 0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Doug McDermott 00:00 0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Jarace Walker 00:00 0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Bennedict Mathurin 00:00 0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0



[Nehm] Doc Rivers, on Damian Lillard: "I think it's his Achilles again, so we'll see." Rivers: "Honestly, Dame was really struggling. In the overtime, he literally said, 'I'll be the decoy. I just can't go as far as explosion.' So I thought Dame just being out there was huge for us."






Nikola Jokic on defeating the Lakers 11x in a row: "I think it’s really hard to play against the same team over and over again. You kind of get bored with the style of the play. So you just need to just trust what we are doing and don’t get bored with success. Because it can (go) wrong really quick"
Nikola Jokic on defeating the Lakers 11x in a row: "I think it’s really hard to play against the same team over and over again. You kind of get bored with the style of the play. So you just need to just trust what we are doing and don’t get bored with success. Because it can (go) wrong really quick"

Source

“To be honest, I think every game is tougher and tougher,” Nikola Jokic said. “You can see, they were up 20 in Denver, in Game 2. They were up 12 today in the first half. But yeah, I think it’s really hard to play against the same team over and over again. You kind of get bored with the style of the play or whatever. So you just need to — especially for us, because we won the last three — just trust what we are doing and don’t get bored with success. Because it can (go) wrong really quick.”

Talk about suffering from success



Joel Embiid has more flagrant fouls than Draymond Green in just over half the games
Joel Embiid has more flagrant fouls than Draymond Green in just over half the games

Draymond: 21 flagrants in 970 total games played (15 flagrants in 813 regular season games played and 6 flagrants in 157 playoff games played)

**Embiid:**23 flagrants in 489 games played (16 flagrants in 433 regular season games and 7 flagrants in 56 playoff games)

Also has more flagrants in the playoffs than Draymond in almost 3x less games.

Source: https://www.espn.com/nba/player/stats/_/id/3059318/type/nba/seasontype/2

https://www.espn.com/nba/player/stats/_/id/6589/type/nba/seasontype/3


[Post Game Thread] The Dallas Mavericks (2-1) defeat the Los Angeles Clippers (1-2), 101-90.
[Post Game Thread] The Dallas Mavericks (2-1) defeat the Los Angeles Clippers (1-2), 101-90.
90 - 101
Box Scores: NBA - Yahoo
 
GAME SUMMARY
Location: American Airlines Center (20402), Clock: Final
Officials: James Capers, Bill Kennedy, and Justin Van Duyne
Team Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Total
Los Angeles Clippers 23 18 26 23 90
Dallas Mavericks 18 36 24 23 101
 
TEAM STATS
Team PTS FG FG% 3P 3P% FT FT% OREB TREB AST PF STL TO BLK
Los Angeles Clippers 90 32-70 45.7% 10-29 34.5% 16-20 80.0% 8 48 19 24 5 19 4
Dallas Mavericks 101 39-86 45.3% 9-34 26.5% 14-19 73.7% 11 46 21 16 12 8 7
 
PLAYER STATS
Los Angeles Clippers MIN PTS FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A ORB DRB REB AST STL BLK TO PF ±
Kawhi LeonardSF 24:32 9 4-7 0-0 1-1 1 8 9 2 0 0 4 2 -4
Paul GeorgePF 30:22 7 3-11 1-6 0-0 0 5 5 5 0 0 1 5 3
Ivica ZubacC 32:16 19 8-11 0-0 3-3 3 5 8 1 1 1 2 4 -5
Terance MannSG 22:46 2 0-3 0-2 2-2 3 0 3 2 0 0 0 3 -11
James HardenPG 43:55 21 7-13 5-8 2-3 0 2 2 5 2 1 5 2 -21
Russell Westbrook 19:13 1 0-7 0-4 1-2 0 3 3 1 1 2 2 2 -2
Norman Powell 30:21 21 7-11 4-6 3-3 0 6 6 1 0 0 3 4 -11
Amir Coffey 17:30 0 0-2 0-2 0-0 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 -10
Mason Plumlee 10:14 7 2-2 0-0 3-4 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 -6
Bones Hyland 03:14 0 0-1 0-1 0-0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 4
Brandon Boston Jr. 02:47 3 1-2 0-0 1-2 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 4
Kobe Brown 02:47 0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 4
Daniel Theis 00:00 0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
P.J. Tucker 00:00 0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Kai Jones 00:00 0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Dallas Mavericks MIN PTS FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A ORB DRB REB AST STL BLK TO PF ±
Derrick Jones Jr.SF 27:14 11 4-8 1-3 2-2 2 1 3 0 0 1 0 1 12
P.J. WashingtonPF 34:12 10 5-10 0-4 0-0 2 3 5 1 3 1 0 2 23
Daniel GaffordC 25:37 8 4-5 0-0 0-0 3 1 4 0 2 3 0 1 9
Kyrie IrvingSG 36:35 21 8-17 3-7 2-2 0 4 4 6 2 0 2 4 17
Luka DoncicPG 40:21 22 7-25 3-13 5-7 1 9 10 9 2 0 5 2 11
Dereck Lively II 15:25 13 6-8 0-0 1-2 0 2 2 0 0 2 1 2 5
Josh Green 25:10 8 3-5 1-2 1-2 2 3 5 0 1 0 0 0 -3
Maxi Kleber 15:55 3 1-1 1-1 0-0 0 1 1 3 0 0 0 1 -6
Dante Exum 11:33 0 0-4 0-3 0-0 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 0
Jaden Hardy 02:47 1 0-2 0-1 1-2 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 -4
Dwight Powell 02:47 2 0-0 0-0 2-2 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 -4
A.J. Lawson 02:21 2 1-1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 -5
Markieff Morris 00:00 0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tim Hardaway Jr. 00:00 0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Olivier-Maxence Prosper 00:00 0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0




[Holmes] Kevin Durant: "My whole being has been committed to playing basketball... If I wasn't doing this, what the f--- else am I doing? Until the wheels fall off. I can't just not be the best basketball player that I can be every day."