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00:00With home court advantage, the Lakers hosting the Minnesota Timberwolves in our 3-6 split.
00:05Another series we think is going to be close, but the Lakers were the outright favorites,
00:10entering game number one on Saturday night.
00:13Minnesota had other ideas.
00:15The Timberwolves winning outright as a four-and-a-half-point dog in downtown L.A., 117-95.
00:23A total of 215, and a hook does stay under,
00:26despite 37 points from Luka Doncic in his Lakers' playoff debut.
00:31The Minnesota Timberwolves have enough on the other side with some brilliant three-point shooting.
00:36Anthony Edwards, 22 points, four of nine from deep.
00:39Jaden McDaniels, 25 points, perfect from beyond the arc,
00:43and 23 points from Nas Reed off the bench, including six made triples.
00:48Minnesota wins by 22 to steal game number one on the road.
00:52Yeah, knocked down 21 triples on the road in a playoff game.
00:56Which was 50% from the floor, which is so impressive to see that happen.
00:59Specifically, again, it's a Lakers team that you think would be fired up for that game.
01:02And they were.
01:03Watching that first quarter, like 28 to 21 Lakers.
01:06Luka was on one here.
01:07But LeBron James was nowhere to be found off the jump here.
01:11Slowly starting out.
01:12Scored some points there in the second half.
01:13Eight for 18, only 19 points.
01:15Wasn't good enough.
01:16But you're talking about, again, you need some of those bench players,
01:18those ABC guys to step up.
01:21You know you have the superstars in Anthony Edwards.
01:22But Nas Reed coming eight of 12 from the floor, six of nine from three-point range,
01:26as he pointed out.
01:27That's massive stuff.
01:28That is a huge victory in a statement game from Minnesota, who said,
01:31you know what?
01:32Last year, we thought we could win a championship.
01:34We made some changes.
01:35Lost Carl Anthony Towns.
01:36Got Julius Randle in town.
01:37Things didn't really come together, per se, in the regular season.
01:40Still a good team.
01:40One game away from winning 50 games as a franchise.
01:43But that is a big-time win.
01:45And also, what were you doing with Los Angeles Lakers?
01:48There's a lot of hype and excitement that the healthy Lakers are in the playoffs with Luka.
01:51And then you see Luka drop 37 points, five of 10 from three-point range.
01:55And they got smoked.
01:56LeBron's got to be better.
01:57That supporting cast has to be much better for the Lakers.