Timberwolves 129-87 Thunder (8 Jan, 2009) Box Score

Oklahoma City Thunder

5-31, 1-16 away

	1	2	3	4	T
OKC	24	19	23	21	87
MIN	42	30	26	31	129

Minnesota Timberwolves

10-25, 5-12 home

129

Oklahoma City Thunder

starters
Kevin DurantK. Durant
Jeff GreenJ. Green
Desmond MasonD. Mason
Robert SwiftR. Swift
Russell WestbrookR. Westbrook
bench
Joe SmithJ. Smith
Chris WilcoxC. Wilcox
D.J. WhiteD.J. White
Nick CollisonN. Collison
Nenad KrsticN. Krstic
Mouhamed SeneM. Sene
Earl WatsonE. Watson
Damien WilkinsD. Wilkins
Kyle WeaverK. Weaver
team

MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
22	3-13	0-2	3-3	0	2	2	1	0	0	2	0	-27	9
19	4-8	1-2	0-0	1	0	1	0	0	0	1	1	-31	9
30	4-8	0-0	0-0	2	2	4	0	0	2	0	3	-22	8
14	2-4	0-0	0-0	2	3	5	1	0	0	0	1	-9	4
30	5-10	0-1	6-8	0	1	1	12	0	0	2	1	-25	16
MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
8	0-3	0-0	0-0	1	1	2	0	0	0	0	2	-3	0
13	1-4	0-0	0-0	0	1	1	1	0	0	1	2	-18	2
0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
28	6-8	0-0	5-5	1	9	10	0	1	0	1	3	-15	17
15	3-8	0-0	0-0	0	5	5	0	1	2	1	3	-8	6
0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
23	3-10	1-3	0-0	0	3	3	6	0	0	3	1	-25	7
21	3-10	1-2	0-0	0	2	2	0	0	0	2	2	-23	7
18	1-2	0-1	0-0	0	2	2	2	2	0	2	0	-4	2
	35-88	3-11	14-16	7	31	38	23	4	4	16	19		87
	39.8%	27.3%	87.5%

Minnesota Timberwolves

starters
Craig SmithC. Smith
Ryan GomesR. Gomes
Al JeffersonA. Jefferson
Sebastian TelfairS. Telfair
Randy FoyeR. Foye
bench
Brian CardinalB. Cardinal
Mark MadsenM. Madsen
Kevin LoveK. Love
Corey BrewerC. Brewer
Calvin BoothC. Booth
Jason CollinsJ. Collins
Kevin OllieK. Ollie
Mike MillerM. Miller
Rashad McCantsR. McCants
Rodney CarneyR. Carney
team

MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
25	7-9	0-0	0-0	2	4	6	0	0	1	0	1	+22	14
27	4-12	2-7	0-0	2	4	6	3	3	0	2	2	+28	10
29	8-14	0-0	5-9	5	8	13	0	1	1	1	0	+20	21
35	4-8	1-3	0-0	1	3	4	5	1	0	1	1	+32	9
29	10-16	6-9	6-6	0	3	3	6	2	1	1	3	+28	32
MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
10	0-1	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	2	1	1	1	1	+13	0
7	1-5	0-0	0-2	1	1	2	0	0	0	0	1	+5	2
23	4-5	0-0	8-10	4	11	15	2	0	1	2	2	+18	16
0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
22	3-6	1-3	1-1	1	3	4	3	1	1	2	0	+18	8
7	1-3	1-2	0-0	0	0	0	1	1	1	1	1	+5	3
26	6-13	1-4	1-3	2	2	4	1	2	1	1	2	+21	14
	48-92	12-28	21-31	18	39	57	23	12	8	13	14		129
	52.2%	42.9%	67.7%

+/- denotes team's net points while the player is on the court

Regular Season Series

MIN leads 2-1

Timberwolves
85
Thunder
88

Game 1

3/11

Timberwolves
105
Thunder
103

Game 2

29/11

Thunder
87
Timberwolves
129

Game 3

8/1

Thunder
97
Timberwolves
90

Game 4

22/3

Target Center

1:00 AM, 8 January 2009

Minneapolis, MN

Attendance: 10,272

Referees:
Greg Willard
Ron Olesiak
Violet Palmer

Team	W	L	PCT	GB	STRK
Oklahoma City	22	5	.815	-	W7
Denver	15	11	.577	6.5	W1
Minnesota	14	13	.519	8	L2
Portland	9	19	.321	13.5	L1
Utah	7	20	.259	15	W2

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