Such a Butler, let alone say that he can score 40 points

Also down 3-1, the Celtics showed the courage to break through the kettle today, Mazzulla dared to DNP Porzingis in the second half, and the whole team dragged the series to G6 with the determination to fight for Tatum.

But today's Warriors are showing a routine finish to the last game of the season. Compared to the Celtics, the Warriors obviously have a chance to wait for Curry's return, but they don't cherish that.

Of course, in this round of the series, except for the first game of the Timberwolves being stunned, the other four games showed that the two sides were not at the same level. I've said many times that the Warriors are certainly not a playoff-caliber team without Curry, but regardless of the quality of the players, you lose confidence in winning at the beginning, and the process is just a slow death.

After watching the Warriors' basketball for so many years, it was the first time I saw the scene before the end of the first half today. From 2:50 to the last 33 seconds in the second quarter, Dream Green made five consecutive shots in the Warriors' offensive round, and all the finishes were here in Dream Chasing.

Except for Dream Chasing, no one has the courage to take responsibility in this time period, Dream Chaser scored two goals, and then kept throwing. The point difference was stretched all the way by Randle to 15 points, and the death knell of the Warriors was slowly ringing at this moment.

At the end of the third quarter, the Warriors were already trailing by 21 points, and I thought the fourth quarter would usher in a full quarter of garbage time, but the people the Warriors really wanted to play came up. Post, Poger, Moody, and Santos fought back and chased the difference to just 11 points at one point.

Moody was the first Warriors player to warm up on the court today, but he didn't get a minute in the first three quarters of the day, and it wasn't until it was almost garbage time that Kerr thought of taking Moody as a dead horse as a live horse doctor.

Moody scored 12 points in the fourth quarter, made two three-pointers and made two steals to play his best few minutes since the playoffs began. Unfortunately, this was also his last playing time of the whole season, and the Warriors' chasing points was held up by the Timberwolves, ending the season 1-4.

The Warriors' exit may have been doomed at the moment Curry's injury, but today's way of going out is obviously not accepted by fans. After Curry's absence, Butler, the team's big man, scored more than 17 points in only one of his four games.

In Series G3, Butler played 43 minutes and scored 33 points, and after the game, Butler said with confidence: "If it comes to the point where some people say you have to score 40 points or something like that - of course I can do it." ”

Then in the next two games, Butler disappeared completely, taking a total of 20 shots, 16 free throws and scoring 31 points in both games. If G4 can also find a reason for Butler's downturn that G3 consumes too much, then Butler seems to have no excuse for today's life-and-death battle.

1 shot in the first quarter, 5 shots in the first half, and only a rebound and a big open three-pointer in the last quarter when there was no suspense, I once thought that Butler would be like G4 and didn't have a shot in the last quarter.

When the team needed Butler to step up the most, he chose to pass the ball to the likes of Dream, Bojie and Kuminga again and again. When he needed to turn the tide in the last quarter, he played a supporting role beside Post and Moody.

In the first half of the game, against Divine and even against Conley, Butler chose to pass the ball out and not look at the basket. Butler did play 42 minutes today, but there were rounds where he might as well have stayed on the sidelines. A Butler who is not aggressive, let alone can score 40 points.

You can't deny the Warriors' success this season and Butler's role, after all, they were on the brink of the play-in tournament before Butler's arrival, and fans were already desperate. Butler's arrival changed everything, and Dream, Curry, and Butler quickly had chemistry that made waves in the West.

In the first round, he eliminated the Rockets to complete the black seven, and Butler played with an injury and played some tough game moments. But when there is no Curry by his side, Butler also seems to have lost energy. The Warriors seem to be the trident, but only Curry is the source of it all.

After last season, especially after the Towns and Randle trades, one of the questions surrounding the Timberwolves was, "Are you part of the Western Conference finals, or do you just happen to be in the Western Conference Finals?" ”

In the first half of the season, the answer tended to be the latter. But when the Timberwolves finished that locker room meeting, they suddenly opened up the second vein of Ren Du, and the team worked together, playing better and better as the season progressed, until they returned to the Western Conference Finals again today. You can now say that the Timberwolves are a team that belongs to the Western Conference finals.

Edwards played the best game of his career so far today, with 12 assists a playoff high. Every time he was faced with a pack, he was able to accurately distribute the ball to his outside teammates, and Conley Sr. continued to convert those passes into assists.

When he broke into a deeper position, he could also deliver cannonballs to Gobert and Maidan at any time. When he faced a single defense, one by one, the hard three-pointers broke the Warriors' defensive confidence again and again. He only scored 22 points in this game, but he was better than those games where he scored 30 or 40 points.

At the same time, Randle, who has been underrated countless times, has 29 points, 8 rebounds and 5 assists on 13-of-18 shooting like a god of war today, and he has already had a triple-double in this series. The level of shooting of him and Huazi is enough to become a weapon to break through the Warriors' defense.

The Timberwolves have won six series in history, and four of them have been in these two seasons, and Huazi has won Durant, Jokic, James and Curry in these four rounds, of course, Curry basically did not play.

He is like the male protagonist of the novel in Shuangwen, who has long regarded the world-famous masters as his own experience bag, he has let go of a lot of nonsense, but he has turned the boasted into reality again and again. Of course, the road to escalation continues, and we still can't be sure where the novel is going.

The tide of the times never stops because of anyone, neither James nor Curry can stop Huazi's progress. The world is anxious to listen to the stories of the young, and the world will never look back and shed mercy for the losers.