Anthony Edwards did not pull any punches after his Timberwolves suffered a 115-104 residence loss to the Kings on Wednesday night time — the crew’s fourth consecutive defeat and seventh within the final 9 video games.
In a profanity-laced tirade, Edwards referred to his Timberwolves teammates as “a bunch of children” and blasted their lack of effort on each ends of the ground.
“We thought protection was our id however it’s not wanting prefer it in any respect,” Edwards rued. “Our id proper now’s, I feel, is we’re comfortable as hell as a crew, internally. To not the opposite crew, however internally, we comfortable. We will not speak to one another. Only a bunch of little children. Identical to we enjoying with a bunch of little children. We simply cannot speak to one another. And we have to determine it out, as a result of we won’t go down this street.”
As Edwards alluded to, protection was the Timberwolves’ calling card last season after they completed first in most defensive metrics and rode these strengths to the Western Convention Finals. This season, although, Minnesota has fallen to twelfth in defensive effectivity, twenty fourth in paint factors allowed (51.6 per sport) and twenty first in fast-break factors allowed (16.4 per sport).
The shortcoming to get stops is why Minnesota has struggled to retain leads. This contains blowing a 12-point fourth-quarter lead on Wednesday, a day after an OT loss to the Rockets. Edwards known as his crew “front-runners” after Wednesday’s loss.
“We appear like front-runners for certain tonight,” Edwards mentioned. “We was down, no one needed to say nothing. We obtained up and all people was cheering and hyped. After which, once we obtained down once more, do not no one say nothing. That is the definition of a front-runner. We, as a crew, together with myself, all of us was front-runners tonight.”
Ouch. That is harsh. But it surely could possibly be the precise dressing down the Timberwolves have to return to profitable methods. They began the season 6-3 and have gone 2-7 since.
The Timberwolves (8-10) will attempt to get away of their hunch after they host the Clippers and Lakers on Friday and Monday, respectively.
