What if I told you that Karl-Anthony Towns and Jeff Teague combined to score just eight points, and Andrew Wiggins and Jimmy Butler combined to shoot just 17-of-39 from the field, including 0-of-8 from beyond the arc, but the Timberwolves still won by six points?
You wouldn’t have believed me, and that would be okay. Even after watching that game, it certainly didn’t feel like a contest the Wolves deserved to win.
But Jimmy Butler’s late-game heroics, coming even after he’d had a rough game by his standards, propelled the visiting Timberwolves to a victory.