Kyle Anderson had to retain Rudy Gobert, angry with the referees during Minnesota-Denver. Twitter @NBAExtra
The French pivot from Minnesota did not appreciate a severe whistle against him on Wednesday evening during the NBA play-offs against Denver.
Between Rudy Gobert and Kyle Anderson, the hatchet is buried. If we doubted it, a sequence during game 2 of the first round of the NBA play-offs on Wednesday evening, between the Minnesota Timberwolves and the Denver Nuggets, proved it. About ten days earlier, Gobert had hit his American teammate during a timeout, during the last game of the regular season.
This Wednesday, Gobert was whistled for a severe foul as he struggled with Nikola Jokic for a rebound, and received a technical foul on top of that. Enough to infuriate the French pivot: he did not understand the reason for the technical fault, and the “normal” fault was his 5th, the last before the exclusion, when there were 8 minutes left to play and that his team, Minnesota, trailed by one point.
“We need you,” Anderson says to Gobert
Gobert turned to the referees to insult them, thus risking exclusion. Kyle Anderson rushed over to calm him down and put an arm on his shoulder. “We need you“, Repeated to him the precious replacement of the Timberwolves, 29 years old.
Gobert (19 pts, 8 rebounds, 4 assists) finished the game that Minnesota nevertheless lost, 122 to 113. Denver leads 2-0 in the series in the best of seven sets. The Timberwolves will receive during the next two meetings, on the night of Friday to Saturday (3:30 a.m.) then that of Sunday to Monday (3:30 a.m.).
