Anthony Edwards on Timberwolves WCF Loss: ‘We’ll be back next year’

Anthony Edwards on Timberwolves WCF Loss: ‘We’ll be back next year’

uh you guys clearly had a lot of confidence coming into the game and believe you get back in what did you see happen so early there that just brought a knockout punch and made it tough to come back uh LCA just that simple uh he had like three shots from the from the logo so pretty much nothing we can do about it how what’s your emotions as the season now comes to an end about what you accomplished and where it felt short uh I just said we’ll be back next year do you think that this is something that you just have to go through experience to kind of build on um unfortunately is going through a would a loss but I guess so what do you think of about hey bring Tow and what do you think about this Mavs group and and their potential of what they could accomplish in in the finals and what do you think you can take from what they did to stop you personally in this series and apply it to next year and Beyond nothing and when you kind of look back on on this series maybe early in the series what do you think this team could have done better especially on the offensive end of the floor to try and and counteract some of what Dallas was throwing at you uh we never clicked all together as a team in this series not you not even one game I think that was the main thing like no like um the last two series we was all clicking at one time making shots and stuff we wasn’t clicking at one time now kind of like those lines you’ve talked about all season through the playoffs the offensive talent that that you guys have on this team there was times through the regular season where the defense was there and and the offense wasn’t consistent what when you reflect on the series or on the season what what do you think is missing to make the offense more consistent um I think it’s all just making shots yeah I mean this series alone I don’t think we shot the ball particularly well from the three-point line and I think they hurt us they was able to sit in the gaps all series um make it tough on me and um their game plan worked cuz um we W making shots but we’ll be back next year man is there anything with with them saying as much as they can is there anything you can think of that you could have done better within that to take to find different ways to kind of get the offense going um no not at all I feel like was getting to the tee of the defense um creating good shots um and well creating the same shots that we was getting versus the other two teams that we played previously and um they just wasn’t falling for us and um you know it’s a lot of our guys first time being in this in this in this light so especially me it’s my first time um so we’ll be ready man we’ll be all right first time took a loss um congratulations to the Mavericks um and we’ll be back we’ll be all right this is the the last this the last time we’re going to get to talk to you before the offseason here so as you kind of maybe reflect on your season this year where did you make the biggest growth do you feel like in in your game over the course of the Season uh just being able to read the floor um um not get as mad when teams double me and put two on me CU I know my guys out there going to knock it down um and just trusting my teammates and obviously disappointing loss in this series but what do you take away from the successful postseason run that you guys had especially the momentum after the first two series um it’s a lot of things to take away um I think the main thing is our identity and um we hung our hats on defense I think we got a little uh away from that a little bit this series and um it showed um cuz we’re not the best offensive team we always um depend on our defense so um I think that’s the main thing we we we take away from this playoff run is that we’re a defensive team and we got to start there every night and your first real deep playoff run um how much did you enjoy um just what playoff basketball has to bring ah it’s fun man I love it I wish we could still play um I wish we was going back to Dallas for game six um but those guys came out and they competed at a high level um and like I said man big shout out to them but it’s super fun and I’m looking forward to being back right in this situation next year and you start the season against Dallas in Abu Dhabi when when you were at that point what did you envision for this season to look like versus what played out for reality um it’s crazy cuz slow-mo said when we was in Abu Dhabi that he felt like we was going to play this team in the Western Conference Finals like yeah he told me that an Abu Dhabi so it’s kind of crazy that we’ seen him and um but um they made some changes to their roster big time and um it helped him a lot and um and some of the young guys Miller and uh we didn’t see some of those players what do you got coming behind you with the younger guys we got a lot I mean um our our uh coaching have an organization um weight room guys they do a great job of preparing those guys so um this summer is going to be big for our young our young group I mean including me I’m still young um cuz we we got some players that’s that’s um haven’t been able to Showcase their talent we got a lot of players hey and what did you learn through this playoffs and and what do you think it will do for you this summer as you prepare to come back next year and go even further I mean you just know how you got to train cuz um like I said I’ve never played this deep into a basketball season um so now I know like okay in order for me to be able to be dominant in in the third round and if we get past the W com fin go to the finals I got to train like I’m I’m going to go to the playoffs so I can’t be um missing training days I can’t take days off I can’t you know what I mean I got to be ready so now I know what it takes I’ll be ready and I know it’s a quick uh pivot here but what are you looking forward to from the Olympics experience coming up um I don’t even want to talk I don’t know can’t cat I mean and as a leader of this team what do you say to the other players on your team about workouts this summer is it specific things you want them to work on or do you think they just improve on their own and you guys all come back for training camp uh I mean yeah they got their own trainers their own guys um yeah they just work on their game but I just told them like y’all know that we we we’re going to be right back in the same position next year here so y’all know how y’all need to train to get ready and um include myself like um you know cuz we trained this year as if we was going to just play 82 games maybe one one round of the playoffs we didn’t know we was going to go this far so we didn’t train like it this summer I know nobody did um especially myself so um I think this summer is going to be huge for for all of us cuz we know what type of team we got and we know what we capable of so we need to train like we know what we going to do what goes into training to play deep into the playoffs like you’re talking about right now um just a lot of things I think this summer I’m going to go back to how I trained um the year that I was um going to college I think that was the that was the I was in the best shape of My Life um in my freshman year of college um a lot of aird the bike stuff yeah a lot of stuff like that man that make me uncomfortable an at uh 22 years old your Olympics coming up getting this far in the playoffs the story of legendary company is on the course of being ridden when you get into this offseason the Olympics what’s your biggest motivation inspiration what keep keeps your fuel your drive to be in moments like this and to be as good as you have been um I think my brother man my brother just sent him he uh he works every day he he stay He makes music to about 5 6 o’clock in the morning when I wake up he still be up making music so him just you know working to to to get his out there and be the best that he can be it makes me get up every morning and want to be the best that I want to be um and you know just showcasing to the world I can do I think that’s that’s another thing that drives me awesome thanks Sam all right

Anthony Edwards’ full postgame press conference after the Timberwolves were eliminated by the Mavericks in the Western Conference Finals.

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