NBA GameTime: Anthony Edwards scores 34, Timberwolves move into 1st in West with win over Grizzlies

NBA GameTime: Anthony Edwards scores 34, Timberwolves move into 1st in West with win over Grizzlies

Points in the game 25 in the second half he had a bit of a scare in his last game with you saw that went back in the locker room came back out went right back back the third no problem man he’s built different no Carl Anthony towns

Returning in this game too had 13 points uh did not play in their last game due to personal reasons but again Minnesota right there at the top of the West OKC battling you got the Denver Nuggets you got the LA Clippers when you look at this Minnesota team we talked again

About the Cleveland team and believing in Cleveland how about the Minnesota team do you believe in them I do believe in them the reason why is Jake McDaniels is starting to get more offensive minded we know he can slide his feet and he has some good size but what I like is Monte

Moris Nel Alexander Walker and Jordan mclocklin those three guys are going to have to take up a lot of the time for Mike connley you can’t have Mike connley playing 35 to 40 minutes from a first round second round in a Conference Finals they’re going to need those three

Guys to take up to take up some slack for him because they have a guy in Nas Reed that can come in and put up points at the power forward position or at the center spot had 19 in this game no that SM hit all the right points and last but

Not least I believe in that Superhero the Ant-Man I think he’s ready to turn that corner I don’t believe in 22 or 23 or 21 I think all the pieces are around him Catman and and go have figured out how to play together as big guys but

He’s ready guys he wants his name talked about with Jason Tatum you know Anthony Davis LeBron all the other young Stars Ant-Man said I’m ready guess what he has to be guys because if he doesn’t play like the Superstar we think could be Smitty no one’s going to take Minnesota

Serious but all the other things around him to Jaden McDaniel all those guys look like they’re ready but he has to lead the way if he’s playing like this right now I can’t wait to see what he does in the playoffs because players like him Superstars like him or

Ascending Superstars they take it to another level well 3D said it uh the reason why is 3D’s been around the game a long time the way he he didn’t play Bad last year but they didn’t win last year that’s a bad taste in his mouth and I know he’s worked the entire summer

They didn’t have slow-mo today slowmo is a guy that you can plug and play and you look at these standings this is not no fluke they’ve been in one two or three spot pretty much 90% of the team All Season yeah it might have been one week

They dropped the two and went right back up so it’s it’s all we always use that word narrative well Ken Rudy gobear and cat play together I don’t hear Too Many people talking about that this year like they did last year to Smitty’s Point Ant-Man didn’t have a great playoff but

He have a bad playoffs he kind of made you think like w I’m glad we got rid of them early y so all those things they’ve worked on and the role players have stepped up and you said it and I say it again Nas Reed can carry you for a game

Or two in the playoff with the way he plays that’s another guy on the bench you can depend on and you would think in the playoffs you know scoring numbers are going to go down a little bit well hold on depend on who it is though right

Certain teams still know how to figure out to take take advantage of stops and get out and run you’re not as back at deal and and take a lot of chances but you still get and get some fast break points well the identity of this team though was defense correct and they are

Very elite and very daunting and the playoffs is slow down possessions slow down and then half court you’re talking about beating the guards who anth Anthony Edwards have bought in defensively Jay McDaniels who we know can guard and Mike Collin can definitely keep people in front of you and if you

Beat those guys now you have Carl Anthony towns and Rudy Gober and like 3D said Nas Reed they have sides and Kyle Anderson is not small this is a big team n Alexander Walker for a guard is big they are a big team that can defend and

Yes in a half court they’re gonna have to have some guys like J McDaniels knocked down some Corner threes if they can do that and keep everybody honest for sure quickly just with there’s a lot of nayser with Rudy goar and in the playoffs specifically Rudy goar getting

Exposed you think that’s going to happen again no uh Jaden Daniels and car Anthony town are you guys going to shoot the ball way you’ve been shooting the ball season long cuz a Will get double team and and he’s willing to pass the ball guys got to make open shots on the

Weak side of the floor all right so Minnesota with the 110 101 Victory hey we happen he knocked down five threes in the last four minutes of that game including a 59f footer officially to beat the buzzer and the Mavericks just wild Not only was it wild but you know

You could tell he got hot I mean like unconsciously hot and this shot that we’re looking at now I mean he he shot that basketball he didn’t he didn’t throw it he followed through looked it all the way into the rim then side step

You know ran back I mean this this was a beautiful performance and it just you know Will Robinson who you know Great Scout for the Detroit Pistons one of my mentors you know always said you know shooting covers a multitude of sand and whatever was going on during the game

Because you can shoot the basketball it lets you get back into the game and that’s the excitement of the three-point line Cavaliers hit 20 three-pointers in that game and you saw Evan Mo they had that design that way they EV Moy gave it up to stru elbow in complete follow

Through he knew exactly what he was doing he’s probably still not shooting a very high percentage from 59 fet but as seek put it that’s a shot that’s not a heap yeah in today’s the NBA we see Dame L take a step across free throw line in

A game yeah the regulation game and let let him go so the players today practice those shots you know obviously you don’t think in a situation like that you’re going to actually make it but you do practice it into Z point he shot that ball these

Guys work on those things every day so they’re back at it tonight in Chicago streu’s hometown by the way is he put yourself in his shoes do you think he’s exhausted Sam is he running on adrenaline after a night like that how does it affect his night

Tonight well it kind of hurts in a way the fact that you had such a great moment in a great game in that fourth quarter that you got to turn around and do it again so you don’t get a chance to like live in it and sleep on it a little

Bit but at the end of the day man sometimes it’s best to just get on because it’s just one of 82 games you got to put it in that category and if you’re MRE you’re just hoping you’re getting hot at the right time this time

Of year this is when you want to play your best basketball because again that Playoff lineup roster coaches only going eight deep only going eight they ain’t going far past eight maybe nine yeah David and that’s only for two a minute or two injuries they’re only going eight

Deep so right now you got guys fighting to be one of those eight and and I would say for a guy like strs coming back to Chicago right and he he was Hot in Cleveland the night before he’s a streak shooter so I would not be surprised Sam

If he kept it going like he’s in the Rhythm he’s got a good good stroke going so you know going home to Chicago he may he may keep it going tonight played high school ball in Chicago and at depal before making it to the NBA tomorrow night on TNT it’s another double header

Coming vast knowledge at our disposal here with another edition of basketball stories I have basketball questions for the two of you okay all right Sam first uh Sam your favorite offensive move my favorite offensive move was jump hook my best friend Mark op taught me that move first move he taught me the

Baby JN hook he says bail you out if you posting up you can go to your jump hook over your left shoulder if you get an offensive rebound how you going to score in a crowd pump fake giving the jump hook so my favorite move first B got

Scored on Kobe Bryant I got to get him because he scored 81 points on my team was a jump hook in the lane I came from the lane from there dribbled in the lane pump faked him got him up in a for an and one jump hook nice what about you

Zeke I I didn’t I didn’t really have a favorite move um I I was I was creative with the basketball so I never came to the game like this is my move like like Alan Iverson had a move sure you know um Tim Hardaway you know had had to cross

Over you know I I would say guys like Kyrie Irving and myself like we don’t really have a move we just whatever you give us we going we we going to make something up size up a Defender and figure it out yeah I mean cuz you know

You you got all you got all the dribble moves so you you just get creat with it and it’s about your imagination more than coming down and saying this is my move sure so it’s you know I hate to say it but it’s it’s a higher level of of

Dribbling oh you see it all the time even amongst really good players say it’s only like him Kyrie and a few other things yeah that you can we’ve seen everybody else got a move they really good players even great players who have predetermined moves and they’re going to

Go to that particular thing yeah not even necessarily A Bad Thing it works come playoff time scy report we know your move and if you don’t have a counter to it we’re going to we’re going to take your take your best I’m going to take your best two moves away from you

Come playoff time the great ones got that third fourth and fifth move ain’t nothing you can do about on the other hand Kar had a definite favorite move and nobody could figure it out no yeah and I we got a lot of moves a lot of

Moves lot of moves all right uh favorite basketball shoes to play in oo my favorite basketball shoes to play in um you know what I I’mma have to go back to I had two can I have two you can have two you have as many as you want so I

Had the weapons and then I had the um those Adidas top 10 uhhuh way back in the day yeah those those were nice okay Sam I would probably say the Adidas top 10 back in the day because they gave them to us free yeah had a shoe deal I

Didn’t have no shoe deal I no deal whatever they put in front of my locker with Adidas hey I got them free so were there times as an NBA player you’d have to pay for your shoes no I was to say no no no no but guys had shoe deals where they

Were paid sure we all got free shoes at one time Zeke I remember one year I was some Converses I wore Nike I wore D they used to call me the tennis shoe pimp uh the loudest arena in your playing days Marcus Square Arena man

That little box of an arena I me I remember we playing the playoffs they was issuing earplugs to everybody even the players and we was like well how we going to hear lar screaming fore speech speee speee fore spee speee For [Applause] Like spe Jo for for h for for First Blood Your tower has been destroyed our base is under attack Defeat for for for for for fore fore for I must protect everyone I love I shall blood well just faster stronger and definitely prettier you have been defeated

NBA GameTime breaks Anthony Edwards scores 34, Timberwolves move into 1st in West with 110-101 win over Grizzlies