Promotion! Timberwolves 4-1 Lakers, Gobert becomes a surprise 27+24, the Lakers two major problems are too obvious

The G5 Lakers returned to home against the Timberwolves in the first round of the NBA playoffs. After the first four games, the Lakers were behind 1:3. They had no way out in this game and wanted to try to win a game at home. Reddick also adjusted the lineup, but the team's adjustment did not achieve results, and they fell behind quickly at the beginning. Although the score difference was narrowed for a while to maintain the suspense of the game, they were taken away by the Timberwolves in the last moment. The final series score was frozen at 1:4. The Lakers were eliminated. Promote! The Timberwolves 4-1 Lakers, Gobert became a surprise player 27+24. The two major problems of the Lakers are too obvious. After the start of the game, the Lakers' small lineup did not gain any results. Gobert scored continuously in the inside, and Doncic frequently caused damage to bite the score for the team, but the Timberwolves made consecutive hits from the outside, and the score difference was widened to 9 points at the end of the first quarter. In the second quarter, James scored consecutively, and the Timberwolves maintained the lead in the second rebounding attack. The Lakers were ten behind at the end of the first half. In the third quarter, Doncic continued to score with James and Hachimura Shirato, helping the Lakers take the lead in the third quarter. In the final quarter, the two sides fell into a tug-of-war and the scores rose alternately. Finney Smith and McDaniels left the court with six fouls, the Lakers were in a scoring drought, Randle scored Conley's three-pointer at the basket, and in the end the Timberwolves took the game away in a wave. The series scored 4:1 to eliminate the Lakers, and I advanced to the next round.

The Lakers finished the overtake of the score when they were 14 points behind, but in the end they did not maintain their advantage and were eliminated. The problem of the Lakers losing in this game is very obvious. The small lineup did not help them on the defensive end, but instead caused them to lose rebounds frequently. The frontcourt rebounds were 10 fewer than the Timberwolves in the whole game, and he let Gobert grab 24 rebounds by himself. This is the biggest disadvantage of the Lakers' lack of strong inside, and they use more small lineups in the game, but weak defense and lack rebounding protection.

Although Doncic James and Hachimura both got 20+ data and the Lakers also maintained the lead in the score for a while, another problem appeared at the last moment, that is, the physical energy consumption brought by the five small lineups, which made the Lakers be taken away by a wave of flows many times in the last moments of this round of series. As the team's star, James had obvious physical problems at critical moments and could not lead the team to withstand the opponent's impact in the final quarter. What the Lakers need to do during the offseason is to strengthen and adjust the team's lineup, and some players can really give up. The Timberwolves' game has been quite ups and downs. With a quick start, the outside feel dropped sharply, and the Lakers chased points one after another until the last moment. Randall scored consecutively at critical moments, and Conley also made three-pointers to help them defend the victory of the game. Edwards felt bad in this game, with 0 of 10 shots from outside the three-point line, and only 15 points, 11 rebounds and eight assists in the whole game. In this case, the team still wins mainly due to the performance of the two inside players in the team. Gobert made 12 of 15 shots and scored 27 points and 24 rebounds, and grabbed 9 frontcourt rebounds by one person, more than the Lakers team, becoming the Timberwolves' surprise in this game. Randall scored 23 points, 5 rebounds and 4 assists to help the team take the lead.

In the end, the Timberwolves refused to lead by 14 points and were reversed by the Lakers, freezing the big score of the series at 4:1. For them, they have a big problem to pay attention to when advancing to the next round, that is, the ups and downs outside the three-point line. In this game, they only hit 7 three-pointers for 47 shots outside the three-point line, with a shooting percentage of only 14.9%. If you want to go further in the playoffs, the Timberwolves must adjust this.