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Timberwolves-Warriors: 5 takeaways from Minnesota’s bounce-back Game 2
Anthony Edwards battles through injury, Julius Randle posts a double-double and Minnesota rolls to a 117-93 Game 2 victory.
MINNEAPOLIS – Never mind whatever it is that’s going on with zany road-team advantage over in the Eastern Conference. It was left to Oklahoma City first, then the Minnesota Timberwolves to impose some order out West on what began in this round as homecourt chaos.
The Wolves’ 117-93 victory over Golden State Thursday at Target Center wasn’t as bloated as what the Thunder did to Denver a night earlier. But it achieved the same thing, evening the conference semifinals series at 1-1 as the series switched cities.
Actually, Minnesota’s situation was a little more dire than OKC’s. Had the Wolves failed to beat the Warriors with Stephen Curry – after losing Game 1 despite a hamstring injury prematurely ending Curry’s night – even diehard fans might have winced at what likely would have come.
But that scenario (perhaps an updated version of former Wolf Jimmy Butler coming into the gym and punking the franchise again the way he notoriously did in 2018) did not happen.
Here are five takeaways from the game Minnesota didn’t dare lose, as the series shifts to San Francisco beginning with Game 3 on Saturday (8:30 p.m. ET, ABC).
1. Wolves felt the urgency and responded
Everything has been fast-tracked in this series. First, the opposing coaches began lobbying the officials for calls after just one game. And Minnesota already was feeling must-win urgency in Game 2.
To their credit, the Wolves met the challenge. They scored the game’s first 13 points, led 20-5 deep in the opening quarter and, by that time, had held Golden State to 2-for-12 shooting (1-for-8 on 3s) and even 0-for-2 from the foul line.
Not having Curry on the court for a defense is like not having vegetables on your plate when you’re 12.
The Wolves went wire-to-wire with the lead, pumping it to 22 in the second quarter and 25 near the end. Julius Randle was their pillar, with 24 points, seven rebounds and 11 assists. Jaden McDaniels was a two-way star, helping pester Butler into just 17 points on a night the Warriors needed way more from the “Playoff” guy. McDaniels scored 16 points himself and added three steals and three blocks.
The Wolves sagged in the third quarter, getting sloppy with the ball as their lead got chiseled to 62-55 at 6:57. But a pair of 3-pointers and the Warriors’ intermittent offense pushed the margin back into double figures.
2. Kerr throws players at wall, 2 of ’em stick
Losing Curry is like snagging a fancy sweater – things can unravel fast. He is the hub and the focus of Golden State’s offense, a player whose standard rest within games is challenging enough to cover for. Losing him for long stretches, whole games or, in this case, for at least a week to his hamstring injury requires serious triage.
“Part of the game plan coming in was to play a lot of people and we did,” coach Steve Kerr said. “We have to figure out what we’re going to be able to do in this series without Steph. We gave a lot of people a lot of chances and some guys really stepped up.”
Stephen Curry’s hamstring injury has caused cascading effects on the Warriors rotation, and the Wolves take advantage in Game 2.
Two in particular: Jonathan Kuminga and Trayce Jackson-Davis. Jackson-Davis is a deep reserve big man who hit all six of shots, clogged the middle defensively and scored 15 points. Kuminga, 22, is a thoroughbred athlete and long seen as part of Golden State’s future. Wrapping his fourth NBA season, he fell out of the rotation in April, a negative heading into restricted free agency. Kuminga scored a team-high 18 off the bench.
“We’ve got to figure out rotations and who we start, but they’re going to be a part of it,” Kerr said after his personnel experiment. “We’ve got to find some better ways to score.”
3. Edwards takes licking, keeps ticking
For several uneasy minutes to close the first half, it looked this might turn into a series of chess – as in, key pieces taken off the board for both sides. Midway through the second quarter, Edwards hit the floor and had his left ankle stepped on by Golden State’s Jackson-Davis.
As the action shifted to the other end, Edwards stayed down. Coach Chris Finch called a timeout and his star shooting guard had to be helped to the locker room, where he stayed through halftime.
“This one I was really worried about,” said Finch, when asked about Edwards’ knack of bouncing back from injuries within games. “I was planning on not seeing him for the rest of the game, to be honest with you.”
Edwards did come back, though. He looked shaky in the third, but scored 10 in the fourth. It wasn’t the showtime folks have been expecting, but he was moving all right. He has 48 hours for treatment before Game 3 and, remember, he’s a fast-healing 23-year-old.
“One thing about Ant is he’s not gonna sit out,” teammate Nickeil Alexander-Walker said. “He’s got to be damn near dead.”
4. Draymond infractions inch toward danger zone
Warriors center Draymond Green has positioned himself on the cusp of potential suspension, picking up yet another technical foul with 8:46 to play in the second quarter.
Green had the ball, with Minnesota’s Naz Reid guarding him from behind, when Reid reached and fouled. Green flailed his arms in a way that banged Reid in the head.
Referee’s verdict: Foul on Reid, dead-ball technical on Green. At which point, Green went ballistic. But the game moved on, and Green now sits within two technical-foul points of a 1-game exile.
“He’s going to have to be careful now. We need him,” Kerr said.
5. Minnesota regresses from mean history
The Wolves had set a new NBA low for 3-point accuracy after Game 1. Combined with their 7-for-47 work in the clincher over the Lakers last week, Minnesota’s 5-for-29 in Game 1 Tuesday set an NBA low for consecutive playoff performances: 12-for-76, just 15.7%.
This time, with better shot selection and floor spacing, they took 37 and hit 16, a robust 43.2%. At 32.1% for the postseason, they still have work to do to approach their 37.7% accuracy of the regular season, which ranked fourth.
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TWO HARBORS — Minneapolis native Anne Drolet had never ventured north of Duluth before her excursion up the North Shore alongside her friend, Janet Kilsdonk, on Thursday.
After stopping for a slice at Betty’s Pie along Highway 61, the two made a point to visit Gooseberry Falls Park to experience the sights and sounds of the historic landmark, which was recently named the nation’s Best State Park in the
USA Today 10Best Readers’ Choice Awards
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As a first-time visitor to the historic park, established in 1937, it didn’t take long to understand why.
“With the waterfalls (and) just the feel of the space, it feels like a place you would meditate, and so it feels very spiritual in its own way,” said Drolet while standing steps away from the lower falls.
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A 68-year-old Minnesota woman missing for three days was found alive almost completely submerged in mud over the weekend, her rescuers told a local news station.
Kathryn Jane Woessner, of Alexandria, was found west of Backus, around 80 miles away from the city where she lives, on Saturday, the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office said this week.
Woessner had been reported missing and had last been seen on June 3, the sheriff’s office said.
The two people who found her, Adam Sandbeck and Mike Gravalin, told NBC affiliate KARE if Minneapolis that they had been riding an off-road vehicle on trails around Backus and Hackensack on Saturday when they found Woessner’s van stuck in the muddy area.
A closer examination showed that there was more than just a vehicle — what they said they thought was a body in a puddle next to the van.
“And then she whispered, ‘Help me,’ and it scared the crap out of me,” Sandbeck told KARE.
All that could be seen was “the round part of her face, like her mouth, her lips,” he told the station. The two men pulled her out and called 911, they told KARE.
Woessner told Sandbeck that she’d fallen in the puddle, which she said “was like quicksand,” he told the station.
She was taken to a hospital after being rescued, the sheriff’s office said in a statement.
Minnesota
Kyler Murray, J.J. McCarthy to continue Minnesota Vikings QB competition into training camp
The challenge for Kyler Murray as a newcomer to the Minnesota Vikings learning a complex offense has an extra dimension.
He has to take turns.
Committed to staging a legitimate competition for their starting quarterback position, at least during this less-urgent part of the offseason, the Vikings have divided the time in drills with the first team between Murray and incumbent J.J. McCarthy. That’s the way they’ll start training camp next month, too.
“You’ve got to put it together in a way that challenges those guys and see who responds, see who handles adversity well, and ultimately see who elevates the offense,” coach Kevin O’Connell said after the last practice of minicamp on Thursday. “It’s an open competition, and I want to see these guys in very unique and in many ways difficult circumstances elevate themselves and their games to help the Minnesota Vikings.”
There’s no deadline for the decision, O’Connell said, though for the Vikings to be at their best for the Sept. 13 regular-season opener against the Green Bay Packers they’ll likely declare their starter at least a couple of weeks in advance of that. The frequency and quality of repetitions during open-to-the-public practices in training camp will undoubtedly stoke the embers of speculation that fuel the popularity of this sport, but the coaching staff has a plan for putting both quarterbacks in as many meaningful situations as they can once the pads come on in camp.
“I wouldn’t read much into who gets what on which days,” O’Connell said, well aware of the intense scrutiny on this team’s quarterback depth chart for a third straight year since McCarthy was drafted 10th overall in 2024. “I know me saying that was the waste of the time that it took to say it, but we’re going to put together a way where we can put them in the different aspects of situational football that they need to get.”
Murray, the first overall pick in the 2019 draft who was cut by the Arizona Cardinals and signed with the Vikings for the veteran minimum salary for this year so he can try to cash in as a free agent for 2027, has been the presumptive favorite for the job even if he’s newer to the system.
“Now having to split reps, me already being behind, not getting the amount of reps you would typically want a guy to get learning an offense, that’s probably the toughest part,” Murray said this week.
Offensive coordinator Wes Phillips said McCarthy’s offseason has “been a continuous upward arrow for him.” From O’Connell to wide receiver Justin Jefferson, all of the Vikings who’ve been publicly asked about McCarthy’s progress from his mostly rough 2025 debut have remarked about sharpened skills and fundamentals. But at some point, if Murray becomes the team’s long-term choice, McCarthy might well find himself playing elsewhere.
“I think I’ve made it very clear I wanted to be here, before I got here. I love this organization. I love the coaching staff. I absolutely love these players to death,” McCarthy said. “This is where I want to be. I feel like I can thrive in this system.”
The Vikings clearly still believe that to some degree, at least if patience were not part of the equation.
“It’s probably going to end up being a difficult decision,” O’Connell said, “just based on where I know those guys are going to go.”
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