Karl-Anthony Towns scored 18 of his 29 points during Minnesota's ascendant 3rd quarter, and the Timberwolves snapped their six-game losing streak with a 107-83 triumph implicit the Los Angeles Lakers connected Friday night.
D'Angelo Russell had 22 points against his erstwhile squad and Patrick Beverley added 11 points and 7 rebounds for Minnesota, which seized power portion outscoring the Lakers 40-12 successful the third.
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The surge started with a stunning 29-4 tally retired of halftime, and Russell added 11 points aboriginal successful the 4th fourth arsenic the underachieving Wolves rolled to their archetypal triumph since Oct. 27.
Anthony Davis had 22 points and 8 rebounds arsenic the Lakers dropped to 2-3 with LeBron James sidelined by a strained abdominal muscle.
Following the woeful second-half showing, Davis lit into his team's performance, labelling the third-quarter effort "embarrassing".
"We got to determine who we privation to be. A title team? That's not america close present … That's embarrassing … No effort successful the 3rd quarter," helium said.
"We sucked. No defense. Can't people … Why? I can't archer you.
"What we can't bash is constituent the digit …. We person to enactment unneurotic … and we volition enactment unneurotic … we gotta larn from the film."
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"We person capable guys to triumph hoops games … we person to enactment a agelong of games - wherever we play our benignant of hoops for 48 min - together, & we unrecorded with the results."
Russell Westbrook scored 20 points connected his 33rd day for Los Angeles, which had a coagulated archetypal fractional earlier disintegrating successful the 3rd and losing for the 4th clip successful 11 games.
Towns led the Wolves' complaint retired of halftime, going 6 for 7 with 4 3-pointers — and mocking Carmelo Anthony's celebratory 3-point head-tap motion astatine slightest doubly on the way. After holding the Lakers to their lowest-scoring 4th of the play successful the third, Minnesota stretched its pb to 33 points aboriginal successful the fourth.
Anthony had 3 points connected 1-of-12 shooting successful the 19-year veteran's archetypal nightmare crippled for the Lakers, who changeable 11 for 44 and committed 13 turnovers successful the 2nd half.
While the injury-plagued Lakers inactive person a winning record, their rebooted roster has already taken its stock of humiliating defeats this season, getting drilled successful Portland past week and losing doubly to rebuilding Oklahoma City.
Anthony Edwards had 9 points for Minnesota successful his archetypal crippled since dropping a career-high 48 connected Golden State.
The Lakers made a 22-4 tally successful the archetypal quarter, but Minnesota scored 11 consecutive points successful the second. The Wolves opened the 2nd fractional with a 22-3 spurt and held LA without a tract extremity for astir 8 minutes, abruptly turning a competitory crippled into a blowout portion the Staples Center assemblage booed.
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