Damn it, is it still not possible! The Timberwolves were eliminated in a panic in the Western Conference Finals. Is it an accident that they entered the Western Conference Finals?

Thunder defeated the Timberwolves 124-94 in the Western Conference Finals G5. The series scored 4-1 and cut off the wolf's teeth without bloodshed. After thirteen years, the Thunder, whose average age is only 24.2 years old, has become the youngest team in NBA history to enter the finals.

Alexander, who won the regular season MVP this season, continued to pursue his honorary Grand Slam. He was crowned the Western Conference Finals MVP with his phenomenal performance of 31.4 points, 5.2 rebounds, 8.2 assists and 1.8 steals per game, and became the first player in NBA history to win the regular season MVP and the division final MVP awards in a single season. Alexander is also the league's scoring leader this season. If he can lead the team to win the championship as he wishes and be elected as the MVP in the Finals, he will become the fourth player in NBA history to unlock the scoring champion in a single season, regular season MVP and finals FMVP. The top three are Tiangou Kareem, Michael Jordan and Shaquille O'Neal.

Amid the cheers of the thunder hanging and singing to the road to win the championship, the Timberwolves' lonely back, who was eliminated 1-4 in the Western Conference Finals for two consecutive years, looked particularly embarrassed. After crossing the Los Angeles Lakers and Golden State Warriors in the first two rounds of the playoffs, the Timberwolves' calls for the Western Conference have also surged, but they still have nowhere to hide in the face of the Thunder's high-pressure defense in the Western Conference Finals.

We have talked many times before that the biggest problem of the Timberwolves is that they have serious lack of offensive development capabilities and outside projection stability. Their offensive handling is too rough. Although they can forcibly overcome some rounds of games with their physical talent, in high-end games that really test offensive and defensive strategies and game details, they obviously lack the timing and lack solutions to the problem.

The Thunder continued the defensive strategy of the previous game, limiting the space for his ball-holding attack through Dort or Caruso's leadership defense against Edwards and assisted defense delays, forcing Edwards to take the ball and testing other Timberwolves' ability to handle the ball. Once Edwards used the screen to get rid of the entangled catch with the ball without the ball, the Thunder immediately put pressure on the strong side to press, and narrowed the middle to block Edwards' usual breakthrough route.

The Thunders' defense against Edwards was effective in the last game. The reason why the Timberwolves were able to fight with the Thunder until the critical moment was because the Timberwolves' shooters made extraordinary shooting performance. McDaniels, Alexander Walker and Divinchenzo both contributed at least 20 points. The three-pointers made 13 of 22 three-pointers, with a three-point shooting percentage of 59.1%. The Thunder's defensive logic is to completely block Edwards and then allow everything to happen. Even if the Timberwolves shooters exploded in the last game, it failed to shake the Thunder's defensive decision. The Thunder had every reason to believe that the Timberwolves' outside feel would fluctuate significantly. The Timberwolves had many sluggish performances in the first two rounds of the playoffs.

This game also verified the Thunder's defensive logic. The Timberwolves felt cold in the first quarter, especially McDaniels and Alexander Walker made a total of 0 of 10 shots, and the team scored only 9 points in the first quarter to set the team's history of the playoffs with the lowest score in a single quarter. The Thunder even have the energy to optimize their defensive matchups. The Thunder is against McDaniels by Homgren. The beauty of this move is that McDaniels, who is in a low state, puts pressure on the strong side through five defenses and four directions. If the Timberwolves can pass the ball to McDaniels in a weak position, Homgren uses his own assisted defense sweeping and height and wingspan to prevent interference.

What about Randall? The Thunder sent Jaylen Williams to entangle him. Although Randall has the advantage of size, Jayway can continue to interfere with Randall and test his ball protection ability. Once Randall wants to break into the penalty area with his brute force, Haltenstein, who is in the inside, and Homgren, who is waiting for an opportunity to defend, have already piled up a wall of people. Randall can only be forced to stop the ball at high positions more, making the Timberwolves' already stagnant attack more difficult.

Under the Thunder's iron wall, the Timberwolves began to frequently experience low-level mistakes with serious technical deformation. Not only did they fail to match the Thunder's defensive strength at the technical level, but their mental level also completely collapsed under the Thunder's repeated pressure. The Timberwolves, who were in desperate situation, failed to show their bloodthirsty fighting temperament. They could only watch the Thunder helplessly and numbly launch a defensive counterattack, and were defeated like a mountain of defeat.

The Timberwolves are also lucky to be able to enter the Western Conference Finals this season. In the first round of the playoffs against the Lakers, James, Doncic and Reeves were affected by injuries to varying degrees. In addition, the Lakers, who just introduced Doncic in the middle of the season, lacked available centers. They are actually a semi-finished team with a lineup that has not yet been fully formed. In the second round of the playoffs, the Warriors defeated the Timberwolves in the first game and gave a blow, but with Curry's left hamstring being absent, the Timberwolves taking advantage of the situation to win four consecutive games and seize the opportunity to advance before Curry returns.

In the first two rounds of the playoffs, neither the Lakers nor the Warriors could really create defensive trouble for Edwards, and Randall could also form counter-suppression with his body shape advantage and confrontation intensity. In addition to being a strong attack at low positions, he could also contribute the value of high positions to support. The Timberwolves' ability to awaken the strongest form in the first two rounds of the series is closely related to their opponent's own problems.

is not disrespectful to the Timberwolves. It has been the best performance in the history of the Timberwolves for two consecutive years. Edwards also developed a three-point skill after dying about the Western Conference Finals last year. At the age of 23, he is still in an infinitely rising stage. But standing in front of them is a historic team with a player who is about to reach a season-high honors Grand Slam.

The last level, falling under Oklahoma City, was the best ending for the Minneapolis.