PLAYER NOTES:
Karl-Anthony Cities completed the evening with 16 factors, 12 rebounds, three assists and 4 blocks, his twenty fifth profession 4+ block recreation. His 16 factors and 12 rebounds mark his second double-double of the season.
Karl-Anthony Cities performed his 360th profession recreation this night and together with his first help on the evening tallied his 1,000th profession help. He now joins Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (256 video games), Elgin Baylor (257 video games), Tim Duncan (354 video games) and David Robinson (349 video games) as the one gamers in NBA historical past to report 8,000+ factors, 4,000+ rebounds and 1,000+ assists within the first 360 video games of their profession.
On the last buzzer, Anthony Edwards recorded 18 factors on 8-of-12 taking pictures. In his first two video games within the NBA, he has scored 33 factors, the fourth-most by a Timberwolves rookie of their first two video games.
Malik Beasley contributed 18 factors and 6 rebounds tonight. By way of 16 video games with Minnesota, Beasley has tallied 331 factors, accounting for the fourth most by a Timberwolves participant of their first 16 video games with the franchise.
Beasley has moreover linked on 53 three pointers, essentially the most three-pointers made via a gamers first 16 video games with the Timberwolves.
D’Angelo Russell tallied a team-high 25 factors together with six assists. This marks his 68th profession 25+ level outing (sixth with Minnesota).
In 26:42 minutes, Ricky Rubio recorded 9 factors and 6 assists. Along with his sixth assists, he eclipsed the three,000 help mark in a Timberwolves uniform.
Jarrett Culver notched 14 factors and 6 rebounds, his second-straight double-digit scoring outing of the season.
TEAM NOTES:
With the win, the Timberwolves transfer to 2-0 on the season for the second yr in a row and the eighth time general. With the win tonight, it marks the primary time since 2014 that the Timberwolves have received two straight in Utah.
Minnesota linked on 13 pictures from deep tonight, their second-straight recreation with 10+ three-pointers. Final season the Timberwolves made 10+ threes on 56 events together with a streak of 16 video games from Dec. 30, 2019, to Jan. 27, 2020.
Of these 13 three-pointers, 11 of them got here within the first half, marking simply the seventh time the Timberwolves have linked on 10+ threes within the first half in crew historical past.
The Timberwolves outperformed the Jazz in factors within the paint (56-50) and fast-break factors (16-11).
