Anthony Edwards says the Minnesota Timberwolves have been quick on power of their loss to the Dallas Mavericks in Sport 1 of the Western Convention Finals on Wednesday.
Minnesota was coming off a taxing Sport 7 in opposition to the Denver Nuggets within the earlier spherical.
“I don’t know, I feel we simply got here out flat right now,” Edwards mentioned. “We discovered our power then we went again to being flat. I feel it was simply on us. All the things was on us right now. I didn’t get downhill as a lot. Simply stuff like that, we have been in all probability just a bit drained in all probability.”
Edwards’ feedback have been then criticised by Draymond Inexperienced, who’s doing TV with TNT throughout the playoffs.
Inexperienced perceived Edwards to be making excuses, which he went on to say was not the proper factor for a pacesetter of a staff to be doing.
“I’ve mentioned loads about Anthony Edwards interviews all playoffs lengthy, and that was certainly one of my least favourite interviews,” Inexperienced mentioned. “Saying ‘we’re drained, we didn’t know what to anticipate…’ The identical manner that these guys have adopted you up to now, they’ll observe that as effectively.”
It was a tricky taking pictures evening for Edwards, who completed with 19 factors on 6-16 from the sphere. He did a minimum of handle so as to add 11 rebounds and eight assists.
However just lately, scoring hasn’t come as naturally to him because it normally does, with sub-20 level performances in three of his previous 4 video games.
Edwards will get the possibility to make amends when Sport 2 suggestions off in Minnesota on Friday.
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