It was another playoff win for the San Antonio Spurs on Tuesday and another dominant performance for star Victor Wembanyama. 

The Spurs absolutely dominated the Minnesota Timberwolves in all four quarters on Tuesday on the way to a 126-97 win to improve to a 3-2 lead in the series. San Antonio outscored Minnesota throughout the game, capping off the performance with a 35 point fourth quarter where they outscored the Timberwolves by nine points.

It was clear that Wembanyama was back with a vengeance after being ejected from Game 4 after elbowing Naz Reid and being hit with a Flagrant-2 foul and the San Antonio star was determined to make his presence felt on the court.

Wembanyama scored a game-leading 27 points while shooting 9-16 from the field while adding 17 rebounds, five assists and three blocks.

With the performance, he became the third-youngest player in the NBA playoff history to record at least 25 points, 15 rebounds and five assists in a game, behind only Luka Doncic and Magic Johnson.

The Timberwolves once again had no answer for what Wembanyama was doing on the court as he dominated in the paint, at midrange and even mixed in two three pointers. His performance was bolstered by several other crucial Spurs, including Keldon Johnson, who was second in the game in scoring with 21 points off the bench. 

Anthony Edwards led the Timberwolves with 20 points while Jaden McDaniels and Julius Randle each followed with 17 points, but there was simply nothing that the Timberwolves could do to slow Wembanyama and the Spurs down.

The game already seemed over by the end of the first quarter, when the Spurs finished with a 34-30 lead and kept adding on from there. 

While Wembanyama's outstanding performance was already making things difficult for Minnesota, they didn't help themselves out from the field either. Minnesota shot just 39% from the field and 27% from three point range, some of their lowest shooting percentages of the season.

Such a poor performance when it comes to accuracy meant that no matter what Minnesota did to create shot opportunities, there simply wasn't enough volume to compensate for the way that the Timberwolves were missing shots. 

Now, Minnesota is in survival mode and it will tale everything the team has to try and stave off elimination and win the next two games of the series to advance to the next round of the playoffs. 

It was already obvious that containing Wembanyama was going to be a top priority in the series, but after a performance like Tuesday's, that fact is clearer than ever.