The Minnesota Timberwolves entered the season as a team looking to build on their dark horse Western Conference Finals run from last year, but are ending November just hoping to stay in the playoff hunt, and it’s safe to say franchise star Anthony Edwards isn’t happy about it.
Anthony Edwards blasts Timberwolves as ‘front runners’ with ‘agendas’ after latest loss
Anthony Edwards teed off on the Timberwolves following a loss that dropped them to 12th place in the Western Conference.
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Harrison Faigen has been covering the NBA (primarily the Lakers) since 2013, and is currently the Associate Director of Pro Basketball coverage for SB Nation.
Less than a week after exploding at Julius Randle and Rudy Gobert on the court for beefing with each other in the middle of a close game, the always-unfiltered Edwards teed off on his “trash” team (including himself in that assessment) after their 115-104 loss to the Sacramento Kings:
The loss to the Kings dropped the Timberwolves to just 8-10 overall, good for 12th place in the current Western Conference. But suffice to say it’s not just the record that has Edwards upset. As our own Ryan Eichten summarized over at Canis Hoopus, the Timberwolves continue to lose in increasingly agonizing ways. After a strong third quarter, Minnesota completely rolled over on Wednesday night:
The Kings would finish the game on a 29-6 run including scoring on ten straight possessions late in the game to secure a 115-104 victory over the Wolves, their fourth straight loss.
It’s not immediately clear how things get better for the Wolves. They aren’t dealing with any major injuries, but just seem to have far worse chemistry than they did in their magical season last year. Losing Karl-Anthony Towns in an offseason salary dump (that was nakedly designed to save ownership money) was always projected to hurt their offense, but it shouldn’t have made their defense collapse from first in the league to 12th.
Before tonight, one would have guessed that the Wolves would normalize a bit from these lows — and they still probably won’t remain this bad — but if Edwards calling out the whole team like this publicly doesn’t light a fire under them to turn things around, this could descend into a season from hell faster than you can say “front runners.” But not faster than Edwards can.
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