Minnesota Timberwolves @ New Orleans Hornets

25-32, 12-18 Away

Final

	1	2	3	4	T
Timberwolves MIN	21	20	26	23	90
Hornets NO	20	26	33	20	99

New Orleans HornetsHornetsNO

15-41, 7-21 Home

Minnesota Timberwolves

starters
Kevin LoveK. Love
Wesley JohnsonW. Johnson
Martell WebsterM. Webster
Nikola PekovicN. Pekovic
J.J. BareaJ.J. Barea
bench
Anthony TolliverA. Tolliver
Derrick WilliamsD. Williams
Michael BeasleyM. Beasley
Anthony RandolphA. Randolph
Brad MillerB. Miller
Darko MilicicD. Milicic
Luke RidnourL. Ridnour
Ricky RubioR. Rubio
Wayne EllingtonW. Ellington
Malcolm LeeM. Lee
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
35	29	11-23	3-8	4-5	12	3	0	1	1	5	7	3	-11
18	0	0-2	0-1	0-0	0	2	1	0	0	0	0	1	+4
21	5	1-5	1-3	2-4	2	2	1	2	1	0	2	2	-4
26	11	4-9	0-0	3-3	6	0	0	0	1	3	3	2	-4
34	10	4-12	2-4	0-0	1	7	3	0	0	0	1	1	-14
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
7	3	1-3	1-1	0-0	1	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	+6
15	4	2-5	0-1	0-0	1	0	0	1	1	0	1	1	-11
30	20	7-11	3-4	3-4	7	1	3	1	1	1	6	4	-13
13	2	1-1	0-0	0-0	2	1	2	0	1	0	2	1	+2
--	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
--	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
--	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
--	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
27	4	1-9	0-3	2-2	1	0	0	1	1	0	1	1	-5
14	2	1-1	0-0	0-0	0	4	0	0	0	0	0	1	+5
	90	33-81	10-25	14-18	33	20	11	6	7	9	24	17
		41%	40%	78%

New Orleans Hornets

starters
Jason SmithJ. Smith
Trevor ArizaT. Ariza
Chris KamanC. Kaman
Greivis VasquezG. Vasquez
Eric GordonE. Gordon
bench
Carl LandryC. Landry
Gustavo Alfonso AyonG. Ayon
Lance ThomasL. Thomas
Al-Farouq AminuA. Aminu
Emeka OkaforE. Okafor
Chris JohnsonC. Johnson
Xavier HenryX. Henry
Jarrett JackJ. Jack
Marco BelinelliM. Belinelli
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
36	26	12-16	0-0	2-2	10	0	0	3	0	5	5	4	+4
16	4	2-4	0-0	0-0	1	3	0	2	1	0	1	0	+12
31	21	9-10	0-0	3-3	10	4	2	1	4	2	8	2	+15
33	11	5-11	1-5	0-0	5	10	3	1	0	0	5	2	+25
25	10	3-12	1-3	3-5	3	1	2	1	0	1	2	3	0
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
24	8	2-7	0-0	4-4	6	0	1	0	1	2	4	1	+4
1	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
5	0	0-1	0-0	0-0	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	-7
29	9	3-8	1-1	2-2	6	3	2	0	2	2	4	3	+8
--	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
--	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
17	4	2-6	0-0	0-0	2	1	2	1	0	0	2	1	-9
--	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
25	6	2-7	1-4	1-3	3	4	1	0	0	0	3	1	-7
	99	40-82	4-13	15-19	48	26	14	9	8	13	35	17
		49%	31%	79%

+/- denotes team's net points while the player is on the court

Matchups

MIN

NO wins season

2-1

Game 1@ NO

Final

Game 2@ MIN

Final

Game 3@ NO

Final

Game Information

New Orleans, LA

Referee:Jason Phillips

Referee:David Jones

Referee:Haywoode Workman

Western Conference

Northwest	W	L	PCT	GB	STRK
Oklahoma City	64	18	.780	-	L2
Denver	54	28	.659	10	W12
Minnesota	49	33	.598	15	W2
Portland	42	40	.512	22	W2
Utah	22	60	.268	42	L1

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