Minneapolis – With her right thumbs up beaten closely with a black bandage after surviving a fight of seven games with the Rockets, the Superstar of the Warriors Steph Curry predicted that another difficult series awaits Golden State against Minnesota in the second round.
“You are expecting physicity and you expect a series of murderers,” Curry said Shootarrand at the Target Center on Tuesday morning.
Curry said his thumb “is in an ideal place”, but noted that it was almost impossible to avoid having struck him during the games, which the Rockets often did during a series where he still has an average of 24 points per game.
Like Houston, the Wolves are counting on a range with two bigs with Julius Randle and Rudy Gobert, and have a higher athlete to the shooting guard at Anthony Edwards.
This is where similarities end, however.
“Minnesota is a different configuration, and they have different models on which they count,” said Curry. “Obviously, Ant plays at a high level, and Rudy, which he did in match 5 of the first round was crazy.”
The Warriors Nemesis Gobert collected 27 points and caught 23 rebounds in the closing match against the Lakers, and will be a handful, whether defended by Draymond Green, Kevon Looney or Quinten Post.
But Edwards is the man on which the Warriors expect to hide in the second round. The 23 -year -old with a penchant for the abandonment of superstars was a curry teammate at the Paris Olympic Games.
“He has just brought great energy every day in practice and during the matches,” said Curry about Edwards. “He understood that his role in this team was different from what he is doing here in Minnesota. He transferred well, and we needed this youth and this confidence, and even this chatter.”
Now opponents, Curry explained why it is so difficult to defend Edwards, the 3 -point NBA leader (320) and a well -balanced jumper that also launched 54 Dunks during the regular season.
“He gets a good appearance of 3 because you have to respect the reader, and when you press yourself, he can get out,” said Curry. “I don’t know how much you can remove it, it’s just (that) you have to try to make every possession as difficult as possible.”
The teams played four times during the regular season, but Curry did not think there was a lot to glean from these previous matches, because the last one occurred in January, before the blockbuster trade that sent Jimmy Butler (a former Timberwolves player) in Miami in the Bay region.
Four months after their last match, Curry’s goal for the two game set in Minneapolis is simple.
“We want to get at least one of them here, and we would like it tonight,” said Curry.
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