Minnesota came back home with a 2-0 series lead and all the momentum.

The conversation surrounding the Western Conference semifinals was not if the Timberwolves would knock out the defending-champion Nuggets, but when.

Many believed the series wouldn’t make it back to Denver for a Game 5.

Not only is it going back, but it’s returning to the Mile High City in a 2-2 deadlock after the Nuggets won both games in Minnesota in convincing fashion.

Denver won Game 4 115-107 on Sunday. Game 5 is on Tuesday in Denver at 9:30 p.m.

Minnesota heads back to Denver in the same position the Nuggets were two games ago — staggering, with seemingly no answers.

Nikola Jokic has deciphered what Minnesota wants to do to him defensively. He finished Game 4 with 35 points, seven assists and seven rebounds. He controlled every facet of the game.

Anthony Edwards largely matched the presumptive MVP’s production, finishing with 44 points, but Minnesota had little else offensively.

Karl-Anthony Towns delivered his worst performance of the playoffs, finishing with 13 points on 5 for 18 shooting while committing a number of head-scratching plays.

But Towns didn’t commit the biggest head scratcher of all. That came at the end of the first half Sunday. The Wolves were outplayed over the first two quarters, but had trimmed the deficit to seven points in the final minute of the second.

Denver then scored, and Minnesota committed consecutive turnovers in the final 20 seconds. The last of which was an ill-advised, half-court pass attempt from Nickeil Alexander-Walker that was picked off by Jamal Murray with 1.6 seconds left.

Murray then wiggled around Jaden McDaniels and fired off a half-court heave that found the bottom of the net. Minnesota was outscored 8-0 in the final 20 seconds of the frame to trail by 15 at the break.

It never seriously threatened Denver’s advantage from there. Every mini-run featured a prompt response from the Nuggets, who have regained home-court advantage in what’s now a best-of-three series.

The Timberwolves were largely dominant at home all season. They squeezed the life out of Phoenix in Games 1 and 2 of the playoffs in Round 1. The Target Center crowd rocked at the outset of each contest on Friday and Sunday.

But the noise never bothered the Nuggets, nor did the Wolves. Minnesota’s suffocating defense has seemingly been alleviated by a couple of key Denver adjustments. The Nuggets raised their level of physicality to match Minnesota’s, which then turned the game into an execution contest.

Denver is difficult to beat in that arena.

Minnesota will now head back to the drawing board in search of new answers, because the previous ones are no longer applicable.