Despite a valiant effort from the Golden State Warriors without Stephen Curry, the Minnesota Timberwolves took a 2-1 series lead with a 102-97 Game 3 win on Saturday night in San Francisco. Jimmy Butler and Jonathan Kuminga were phenomenal for Golden State,

The Warriors know they will be underdogs in every game this series until Steph Curry returns, if he returns at all from his hamstring strain. They know two of the remaining four games will be in Minnesota, and the Timberwolves now need to win only twice more.

The Warriors took the first game of the series on the road, but the Timberwolves took advantage of Stephen Curry’s absence to get into the win column in the second. Curry left Game 1 with a hamstring injury and is expected to be out for at least a week.