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One night, after a dramatic win over the Celtics at home, the Cavaliers ran out of gas after attempting another comeback the next night in Atlanta, coming back from a 21-point deficit with a 40-point third quarter before stumbling. Jarrett Allen doubled the loss, but overall, Cleveland shot just 23 percent from the long variety, as the understaffed Hawks have avoided the season sweep.
After losing Karl-Anthony Towns to a knee injury, the T-Wolves earned a dramatic win Thursday night in Indiana, with Edwards scoring a season-high 44 points and saving Minnesota’s bacon on a high-flying block by Aaron Nesmith. the last moments. Rudy Gobert doubled up and the Timberwolves won for the fifth time in seven games.
Minnesota swept Cleveland’s season series last year and won 3 straight up in the series, with the Cavs heading to the Twin Cities later this month. After tonight’s competition, the Wine
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After being selected as the first overall pick in the 2020 draft, Anthony Edwards took over at the next point and was recently named to his second consecutive All-Star appearance.
Georgia’s rugged shooter comes into tonight’s festival with a career-high scoring average (26. 4 points per game) and assists (5. 1 points per game) and has been one of the keys to Minnesota’s turnaround. Edwards, who has scored more than 40 problems this season, has had his ups and downs since the break, topping the 30-point mark three times and making two outings with 11 and 13 points.
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Edwards will be able to see Isaac Okoro for much of Friday night. And Okoro enters the game betting some of his balls of the season, finishing off with 17 points on 7-of-13 shooting in his fourth straight start on Wednesday. In those four games, the fourth-year Auburn home team averaged 15. 5 shots, shooting 50 percent from the ground, 39 percent from long range.
In six career games against the T-Wolves, Okoro scored in double digits twice, averaging 9. 5 points per game on 60 shots. Over the course of the season, Okoro shoots 50 from the ground and 40 from beyond the arc.
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Even with Karl-Anthony Towns likely sidelined for the rest of the regular season, the Timbewolves still have one of the Conference’s most productive two-way tall men in Rudy Gobert.
Gobert comes to town averaging a double-double for the eighth straight season, leading Minnesota in rebounds (12. 8 rpg, 2d in the NBA) and blocked shots (2. 15 bpg, 7th). Gobert, a two-time All-Star and three-time NBA Defensive Player of the Year, comes into the night’s festival on a streak of 4 consecutive double-doubles, adding up to an effort of 18 points and 14 rebounds last night in Indiana.
In 15 career games against the Cavs, Gobert has doubled his tally in five of them, a 15-point, 13-rebound, two-block performance in a win here in Cleveland last November. to the wine
In his last 4 games against Minnesota, Jarrett Allen has at least 20 problems in 3 of them and doubled his lead in two.
Allen has been remarkable since mid-December and enters Friday’s game with 29 double-doubles this season, adding 18 points and 19 rebounds in Wednesday’s loss at Atlanta, leading Cleveland in both categories.
Since Dec. 15, the 25-year-old Texan has averaged 17. 8 points per game and 12. 0 runs per game with a dozen blocked shots.
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