Charlotte Hornets disapponting loss to the Minnesota Timberwolves in overtime 125-120

On Saturday night, the Minnesota Timberwolves snapped a four-game losing streak by beating the Charlotte Hornets 125 to 120 in overtime. The Hornets were winning 104-97 with less than a minute left in the fourth quarter. Then with 39 seconds left in the fourth quarter Zach Lavine, Ricky Rubio hit three pointers and then with 8.9 seconds Andrew Wiggins hit a step-back three pointer to tie the ball game up at 106. Kemba had a chance to win it with a step-back 18-footer at the buzzer but he air balled it. The Timberwolves started the overtime on a 7-0 run and would eventually win by five.

Frank Kaminsky scored the Hornets first five points and was 3-3 with 8 points to start off the game with. In a whole the Charlotte Hornets started off the game hot, blocking shots, steals, transition offense, passing the ball well, few turnovers. They were playing good smart basketball in the first quarter, the Hornets scored 29 points in the first quarter and lead 29 to 19. Over the past two games the Hornets have hold opponents to an average 16 points in the first quarter. Minnesota would come back and cut the lead to three at halftime, 52-49. The combo of Wiggins and Towns for Minnesota combined for 56 points and was 22 of 43 from the field. Minnesota also blocked 10 shots tonight while winning the turnover battle 14 to 10. Minnesota has a good young team, if they could make a few trades and to get depth and leadership and keep their stars, the Timberwolves can be good in a few years. The Hornets kept struggling from the free-throw line by shooting only 69% from the free-throw line while the Timberwolves shot 86% from the free-throw line.

The MVP for last night game for me would be Frank Kaminsky with 21 points, 8-16 from the field and 9 rebounds. The main reason is because hopefully this game has helped him get his groove back, past few games he has been awful and with Marvin Williams out at least one more game and even when he comes back we need his scoring. Personally, I think he should use his pump fake more often, he has one of the best pump fakes in the league and seemed like every time he pumped faked he would caught his defender and could take an advantage of it. He used it all the last year and it worked almost every time, he even used once tonight and got his defender up in the air and drove to the rim and got the bucket and-one. Other leading scorers for the Hornets are, Kemba Walker with 22 points 8 assist, Michael-Kidd Gilchrist with 15 points 7-7 from the free-throw line, Nicolas Batum with 15 Points 8 rebounds 12 assist. Timberwolves leading scorers are, Andrew Wiggins with 29 points, Karl-Anthony Towns 27 points 15 rebounds, Ricky Rubio 9 points and 12 assist. The Charlotte Hornets (11-9) will try to get back to their winning ways Monday in Dallas against the Mavericks (4-15).