Anthony Edwards, Rudy Gobert, and Jaden McDaniels didn’t hold back after the Wolves’ Game 2 win in Denver, delivering a series of candid and hilarious postgame quotes.

And it might look like Minnesota flies in the face of that on nights like Monday, when an underachieving team cranks it up to 10 over the final three frames to knock off a perceived title contender in Denver to even its first-round series at a game apiece.

Just when the Timberwolves appeared dead, they rallied from a 19-point deficit and stunned the Nuggets with a 119-114 win to even the best-of-seven series at one game apiece — and now the series moves to Minneapolis for Games 3 and 4.

Jaden McDaniels took a personal shot at Nikola Jokic and the Nuggets after the Timberwolves’ Game 2 win on Monday night.

One thing better than a devastating two-man game is a lethal two-quarter performance. The Nuggets fueled easy Minnesota points in the first 12 minutes courtesy of turnovers. The fourth quarter wound up essentially even. But the second and third were when the game cracked open.

The remaining fixtures have no bearing on Wolves’ final destination. But they could make all the difference to the course of Edwards' reign

Donte DiVincenzo finished the game, fittingly, by choosing violence at both ends of the court. To seal the Timberwolves’ 119-114 victory in Game 2 of their first-round playoff series on Monday, April 20,