Anthony Edwards holds nothing back in frustrated rant on struggling Timberwolves: ‘We soft as hell’

The Minnesota Timberwolves are heading in a bad direction. It’s early, sure. Maybe they’ll turn this around and in a month we’ll all be singing a different tune. But right now, they’re spiraling and Anthony Edwards is not happy about it. 

After the Wolves lost their fourth straight game, and seventh in their last nine, on Wednesday, watching a 12-point lead with a little over seven minutes to play not just disintegrate, but actually turn into an 11-point loss courtesy of a 29-6 closing run by the Sacramento Kings, Edwards sounded off on his team. 

“We’ve been trying to figure this out for the whole year, man,” Edwards said of the Wolves’ defense, which has been significantly worse than last season’s elite unit. “We thought defense was our identity, and it’s not looking like that. Our identity right now, me and Mike (Conley) was talking about it, I think is we soft as hell as a team, internally. Not to the other team, but like internally we soft, like we can’t talk to each other. Just a bunch of little kids, just like we playing with a bunch of little kids. Like everybody, like the whole team, we just can’t talk to each other and we gotta figure it out, man, because we can’t go down this road.”

There was a lot more where that came from. 

“Sometimes it’s tough because like looking at everybody, and everybody got a different agenda,” Edwards said. “It’s like, what the f**k am I supposed to say? I’m trying to get better in that aspect to figure out what the hell to say to get everybody on the same agenda because everybody right now is on different agendas. And I think that’s one of the main culprits of why we’re losing, like everybody out there got their own agenda like I guess their imagination of what supposed to be going on and what’s really happening.”

But wait, there’s more. Edwards called the Wolves “frontrunners” and said the team has been “growing apart,” per Timberwolves reporter Chris Hine of the Star Tribune. NSFW warning!

Edwards also made sure to acknowledge the, shall we say, decided displeasure (NSFW) of the Wolves’ fans who got…

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Author : Brad Botkin

Publish date : 2024-11-28 06:41:00

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