The Minnesota Timberwolves went into Tuesday night’s Game 1 against the Golden State Warriors as the more well-rested team, heavily favored, and as Head Coach Chris Finch put it, “with great energy.”
Buddy Hield wore the wrong shorts. It stopped play. Yep, you read that right. Similar to yourself in the morning if you’ve had a few drinks the night before, Buddy Hield did something similar in Game 1 of the Western Conference semifinals and wore the wrong pants. That, along with a shot clock issue stopped play for a sizable amount of time early in the game and took a lot of pace out of the ball, muddying things up.