With an opportunity to assist solidify a shot at making the NBA playoffs, the Minnesota Timberwolves took on the Portland Path Blazers, a group that was eradicated from the play-in match on Sunday.
The Blazers have seated plenty of their finest gamers towards Minnesota, together with Damian Lillard, Jerami Grant and Anfernee Simons.
Nonetheless, Minnesota misplaced, 107-105, and Karl-Anthony Cities was a giant offender, as he took simply three photographs in 25 minutes and scored eight factors.
Karl Anthony Cities tonight 1/3 8 factors pic.twitter.com/T5CifAqkxs
— AD FANATIC (@tywow28) April 2, 2023
Followers have been fairly disgusted by her anemic efficiency.
Karl Anthony Cities is fraudulent
– Natic within the attic (@FanaTicG16) April 2, 2023
The legend of path blazers Karl Anthony Cities 🔥
— Dev🥊 (@WegendDVN) April 2, 2023
Is Karl Anthony Cities the closet of 🤡 in human kind? I am sorry kitty kat 😩 however I am annoyed by this loss
—Nicky AirPads (@RocMobile) April 2, 2023
Karl Anthony-Cities took 3 photographs and scored 8 factors. In 25 minutes and in one of the crucial wanted video games of the yr. @KarlTowns – you proceed to be the sweetest huge man in NBA historical past.
— NameCanBeBlank (@ItLandedHere) April 2, 2023
Cities entered this contest averaging 20.8 factors per sport this season, however his numbers are down from earlier seasons.
Final yr he had 24.6 factors per sport whereas capturing 52.9% from the sector and 41.0% from 3-point vary, however this season his accuracy has dropped to 49.2 % in complete and 34.9% from the town middle.
Worse nonetheless, Cities’ rebound is down.
As lately because the 2020-21 marketing campaign, he grabbed 10.6 rebounds per sport, however this yr that mark has dropped to 7.9 per contest.
After a powerful 2021-22 season by which they received 46 video games and battled the Memphis Grizzlies within the first spherical of the playoffs, the Timberwolves have been a disappointment this yr.
Many blame the commerce for middle Rudy Gobert, which led to the group transport 5 future first-round picks and 5 viable function gamers.
Gobert and Cities have not actually gotten alongside properly this season, particularly on the offensive finish, the place Minnesota ranks solely twenty fourth in offensive score.
Except the group begins figuring this couple out, they’re going to be caught with Gobert, who’s underneath contract for 3 extra seasons at over $40 million a yr.
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