The San Antonio Spurs took the series 4-2 and the Minnesota Timberwolves' season has come to an end.
The San Antonio Spurs caught a wave in Game 5 and never got off of it and that energy culminated in a Game 6 blowout of the Minnesota Timberwolves 139-109, this time to end Minnesota's season.
Up to this point, the Timberwolves had made a triumphant effort, upsetting the Denver Nuggets in the opening series and even making the Spurs fight a time or two, but the Spurs' overall dominance proved to be too much for Minnesota in the end.
The Timberwolves did their job by containing Victor Wembanyama, holding to him to his worst game of the series by far, but that meant that the rest of the Spurs were willing and ready to take over the game themselves.
Stephon Castle Takes Over
Namely, Stephon Castle was ready to take over the game. Castle had one of his best shooting games of not just the playoffs, but the season.
He scored 32 points while shooting 11-16 from the field and 5-7 from three point range.
While all of the focus was on limiting Wembanyama on the inside, Castle rained down shots from the perimeter and acted as a spark plug to the Spurs offense.
On top of his hot hand, Castle added 11 rebounds and six assists to put together the most dominant non-Wembanyama performance from a Spurs player this postseason.
De’Aarox Fox followed with 21 points, then Wembanyama with 19. Wembanyama also added six rebounds, three assists and three blocks, only the second game this series where he had less than 10 boards in a game.
San Antonio roared ahead early, scoring 74 points in the first half, though the Timberwolves made that gap somewhat survivable with a 34-point second quarter of their own to head into the locker room trailing by a manageable 13 points, but the Spurs soon out ahh hope that Minnesota had to rest.
The Spurs exploded for 36-23 third quarter and then on it was all San Antonio through the end of the game.
A Hot Shooting Night For Spurs
Anthony Edwards led the Timberwolves with 24 points and Naz Reid added 18 more off the bench, but overall the Timberwolves suffered from another quiet shooting night, just 38% from the field and 35 from three point range, despite putting up 18 more field goal attempts than the Spurs.
San Antonio, on the other hand, had a fantastic shooting night, going 56% from the field and 47% from beyond the arc.
Castle led the in shooting, of course, but as a team the Spurs' 18 three pointers created an offensive onslaught that Minnesota simply couldn't match and as a result, the Timberwolves' season has come to a close and they'll have to watch the Western Conference Finals between the Spurs and Oklahoma City Thunder from the couch.