TNT Crew reacts to Timberwolves vs Clippers Highlights & Kawhi Injury

hard and assist but Minnesota goes from down 22 to up 22 what am I what are you doing what am I Candace Barber with no Clippers with no Clippers something's wrong with you welcome Jamal Crawford C ding ding you win a million dollars Candace par you got one Clippers there was a lot of possible C was missing okay it got hurt yeah Kawai did go home early uh but let's check out these highlights how we got here with sha doing inside Clipper jokes oh that man a cat there is something about Anthony Edw

ards that is special and we are going to have to wait and see the news on kawh Leonard hopefully we really hope that he's doing okay Clippers got off to a hot start Harden triple then Paul George to Kawai the floater and then Leonard to George Paul George Baseline slam Clippers up 15 early in the first second quarter Norman pal extending the lead at this point Kawai had already gone to the locker room changed into Street Clos but the Clippers still had the lead this is about the time when Shaq l

ooked at us and said Minnesota's coming back to win this game and Anthony Edwards went crazy because you know what I recognize an alien from my planet of by Oh by by stands for bust your ass oh nice he's in La he wants all the smoke he wants to be great he knows his team is under man listen we can could be down 1520 but here I come and then Kawai goes away and like he said in the interview if you don't have the best offend on them and you just putting all these you know other little cats on them

I'm going go to work and everybody else Kawai left the arena due to back spasms did not return everybody else play Inspire listen when your leader plays hard and you start doing things the others will follow nil Alexander Walker unconscious in this oh get them knees up Rudy five threes so look at that look at that look at this that fade away too much game that's too much game too much hoop game I recognize him from the planet by he's one of our young martians Minnesota now with a six-point lead

Mike connley was feeling it as well he had five threes 10 threes Alexander say when that happen to you I like that fouy lashes yes right there when you're flying through the air especially when you're over kicking him legs like a fish out of water goar did not return so another injury as you can see grabbing his chest we're going to have to monitor going forward some Icy Hot rib juice oh rib juice now from Icy Hot Anthony Edwards two threes in this one 37 points the Minnesota Timberwolves outsc

ored the Clippers by 26 in the second half alone outscored them by 16 on The Fast Break 22 in the paint goar had seven offensive rebounds the entire clipper roster had eight offensive rebounds but the Timberwolves in a very tight Western Conference race get a very key win over the Los Angeles Clippers let's look at those Western Conference standings and everything that changed Thunder with the loss now moves them into a tie for First with the Nuggets it also means that the Timberwolves with thei

r win are just a half a game back the top of the standings right now are tough the third place team right now would face the Phoenix Sun and you saw all the action down there put that back up one more time let's put the standings up Shaq is still processing his big take Shaq what do you see I don't know Candace and Jamal if you guys have a thought like this if you're the Nuggets do you want to stay two cuz if the playoffs start today you play the winner of the kings of Mavericks or do you try to

Golden One and face a dangerous Lakers Warriors some other things could happen too yeah I'd be a loser though if you're one seed and here's what the brackets would be today if it were to happen Minnesota Phoenix Clippers pelicans and then of course OKC and Denver facing whoever comes out of the that mix if you're the Nuggets after you've already proving you can win it you'll play anywhere I know Mike Malone I played for him he's assistant coach with the Knicks he's going to have them re up to p

lay Anywhere remember we talked about the Lakers before he wants all the smoke with anybody yeah but we all definely wants to smoke with the we all know it's about matchups I wouldn't want to play Golden St and then all of a sudden clay wakes up cuz right now nobody's really you know Scouting For clay but D I don't want him having two or three good games and then you know putting pressure on them so I would I I would rather play Sacramento or Dallas if I was Denver I think it's also avoiding Pho

enix like the third seed to me is the one of the three of the timber wolves Thunder can you imagine a thunder Phoenix first round matchup a t-wolves phoenix first round M match up or Denver Phoenix first round matchup so to me I think the team in that playoff is to avoid is like where you're jockeying for position is that and it'll probably be one of those three like you said like Phoenix is going to be the most dangerous that nobody's talking about I'm telling you Shaq they're going to be dange

rous going down the stretch I want to give the young guy more props from what we saw from Anthony Edwards before we keep talking about the playoffs because we talked about what happens to this team without Carl Anthony towns and what that's going to be on Edward shoulders and we were in the back after every play going wow I just want to give him more credit on national TV being down 22 and winning by 22 Shaq said it earlier like he's seen a young Kobe he's seen a young dwade Ant-Man is cut from

that clock there's no doubt about it he wants to be great he wants to be one of the greatest look who he's guarding look who he's guarding he's not hiding like a lot of people do and saying you know I'm going to go guard over here away from of Paul George like NE on The Matrix right there was truly incredible and Jamal to I don't know what you're saying like SGA impresses me but the first two years I didn't really hear about him Ant-Man has been like this since high school so I don't have to tea

ch him how to be a dog he's he's already a dog he's the he's he's the popular that when you look at all them pit bulls he's that one Pitbull that's already biting and going crazy going I want him that's the one I want so you know uh no uh disrespect to SGA but he definitely you know when when he was with the Clippers he wasn't doing what he's doing now so he's developed into that Antman has been doing this since high school and college so and he's a real dog like there's some fake dogs when thin

gs are going well they're you know they're not front running but they're running in front he's a real dog he's going to get you you know I will say this Ant-Man if he's on that level which he raises to the occasion Rises to the occasion and I think his postgame interview for me is the confidence that you can't teach like that unwavering belief in yourself and that's what you need in the playoffs like he doesn't doubt it if he's 15 for 29 he's going to take the same shot and play the same way and

I think a young team or a young star like him and I know you don't like to say it will just say cat but he reminds me a lot of the greats that play on both ends of the floor like this isn't just him leading offensively this is him leading the Timberwolves defensively they're the number one team in the league y uh fourth seed team right now in the west is the Clippers they lose this game coach tyo sitting down at the podium now let's take a listen to what he has to say Ty uh what do you know abo

ut kawai's um issue and was he dealing with this uh earlier then tonight yeah he's been dealing with it for a couple days um back spasms and um wasn't sure if he's was going to go this morning but he came to uh shoot around got some treatment did what he had to do and tried get on the court and play today and um it just didn't it didn't loosen up for him do you uh do you think he can make the upcoming trip uh I'm not sure I hope so hey you you have a want to Tribute all right so uh there was he

left Sunday's game Kawai did with a groin injury we're going to wait and see the Clippers are going on a road trip four of their next five are on the road they go to Chicago to New Orleans home against Atlanta and then two straight games in Portland but this is definitely a scary site in Allstar for the Clippers the reason that I think everyone believes in the Clippers is because he has been healthy starting in 57 of 63 games if he doesn't go it does seem like the Western Conference as a whole c

ould change it's something we'll Monitor and again we're hoping that he is okay you know a lot of teams have that if they're healthy to play well Nick's are one of those team Philly is one of those teams same goes for the Clippers you know if if those guys are healthy they're definitely dangerous Kandy showed in the first half when they all were in they were moving the ball uh very fluid out there look really good but one of those guys go down and then one of the other two don't step up and you

don't have a Russell Westbrook they become a regular team that's why when I was looking at ant and I'm saying you know this kid is a dog he wants it they're in La there's three places you always got to have a great game in La Miami and New York and when he walk in the arena in that hood he already knew he was like hey I'm in I've been out here a few days knees feeling nice I know I'm going to go to work so when they got down by 20 a guy like an who never stops that's why I said you know what but

Kawai going out the Clippers gonna have some you know some U Fage and then he's just G to do what he does I think T is just concerned about getting the Clippers to the playoffs healthy yeah which he's talked about but a bigger piece I mean Russell Westbrook finished a lot of games for the Clippers and he orchestrated a lot of Norman Powell shots and so now you see bones Highland moving into that role and he doesn't play the facilitating push the ball change the tempo that rust does so I think n

ot only kawhai being out but also Russ not being in to kind of Usher that second unit into that third quarter and what they scored 15 points in that third quarter which I think has a huge impact on them and the depth this is what it's for right obviously nobody can replace Kawai but that means to Shaq's point this is where PG has to go to 30 now Harden has to go to 25 and oh by the way Norman p had 11 at the half he ended with 11 he has to go up to 20 took three or four more shots but does po uh

get his own shot kind of he can go get it some I didn't say he can't I'm saying where he's been successful it's been usually on the catch and shoot it is but my thing is he took six shots at the half he ended with nine shots like that's where you have to have the aggressiveness to keep going because your team needs it right now you're missing your top gun but long term if kawhai is not healthy it doesn't the Clippers it doesn't really matter at that point and I just want to say one thing about

the Western Conference seatings I know we can focus on the first round matchups homec court advantage in the second round is going to be so important you look at those top three teams in the West Oklahoma City 26-7 at home 19- 13 on the road Denver 27-6 at home 18 and 14 on the road it's different environments 53 games over 500 at home only 19 on the road for