The Golden State Warriors will be trying to crawl their way out of the NBA bad streak when they meet the Minnesota Timberwolves at the Chase Center on Monday morning.
Overall the Warriors are 13-9 currently placed in the fifth place of the Western conference and the Timberwolves too are on a vantage now with overall win loss ratio of 12-10, currently placed in the ninth position in the Western conference.
It has been nine games since Golden State enjoyed consecutive wins and the latest fall came on Saturday when the Warriors lost 107-90 to this opponent here in California, their seventh lost in the last 10 games.
Stephen Curry came back from injury and scored 23 points, four assists and two rebounds, Jonathan Kuminga scored 13 points, and Andrew Wiggins scored 11 points.
The Warriors also had their reserve and former Michigan State star Draymond Green pile up 10 points, together with 9 rebounds and 6 assists, while the Warriors themselves could could not hang on in the last quarter and won only 18-29.
Minnesota have been a nemesis to GSW over the past one or two seasons, as Kerr’s side fell to the Timberwolves four times in the previous season and Saturday‘s defeat, the fifth in a row.
Golden State have now settled for 12th place for scoring an average of 114.1 points, while on the defensive side the team is conceding 109.3 points per game (seventh best defensively) though the totals record is still impressive at 13-9 0 ATS for the season.
On a much less successful note, after a very poor start to the new NBA season the Minnesota Timberwolves are getting back on the track that made them one of the toughest teams to beat in the Western Conference last year.
On Saturday, Anthony Edwards led the way with 30 points and nine assists, Rudy Gobert added 17 points and 11 rebounds, and Julius Randle had 16 points and nine assists.
The Timberwolves started slowly and fell down 15-8, but they erased the early disadvantage with a 23-2 second-quarter flurry and never looked back as they pushed to their fourth consecutive win, the second-longest active streak in the West.
As a result, the Timberwolves are now averaging 110.7 points per game, but their main strength has been on the defensive end, as they allow only 106.6 PPG (fourth best in the NBA).
The Warriors lost two rotation players over the weekend, with Andrew Wiggins leaving the game early after worsening his ankle injury, and Moses Moody joining him for an early shower due to knee pain.
De'Anthony Melton recently had ACL surgery and will be sidelined for the foreseeable future, Gary Payton II is questionable due to left knee irritation, and the organization is keeping an eye on Curry and Green after their first games back.
Rob Dillingham, the Timberwolves' eighth overall draft pick, has had little time to get his career started and is currently out due to a right ankle strain.
