MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — In his 4 NBA seasons, Anthony Edwards was by no means afraid to talk his thoughts.
However the Minnesota Timberwolves star was notably candid in a crude clarification of his workforce’s current struggles following a 115-104 loss to the Sacramento Kings on Wednesday evening.
“I believe we’re additionally delicate as a workforce, internally,” Edwards mentioned. “Not in direction of the opposite workforce, however internally we’re delicate. We won’t discuss to one another. Only a bunch of little youngsters. It is like we’re enjoying with a bunch of little youngsters. Everybody, the entire workforce. We simply cannot discuss to one another. And now we have to search out out, as a result of we won’t go down that path.
Minnesota reached the 2024 Western Convention Finals. However the Timberwolves have misplaced 4 straight and 7 of 9 after beginning 6-3 this season. A formation which underwent a major reshuffle on the finish of the low season with the Commerce of Karl-Anthony Cities nonetheless appears disjointed at instances.
That features blowing a 12-point fourth-quarter lead in opposition to Sacramento a day after dropping 117-111 in additional time to Houston at dwelling.
“We positively appear like we are the favorites tonight,” Edwards mentioned Wednesday. “We have been damaged down, nobody needed to say something. We stood up and everybody was (clapping) and (excited). We return down and nobody says something. That is the definition of a favourite. As a workforce, together with myself, we have been all within the lead tonight.
“Proper now, everybody has totally different targets,” he added. “I believe that’s one of many major causes we misplaced.”
Edwards, who led the Timberwolves with 29 factors on 9-of-24 taking pictures, did not simply berate his teammates after the sport. Greater than as soon as he could possibly be seen demonstratively speaking within the group with Julius Randle, Rudy Gobert and others.
Randle and guard Donte DiVincenzo have been the highest gamers within the October commerce that despatched Karl-Anthony Cities to New York three weeks earlier than the beginning of the season. Each had rocky begins to their tenures within the Twin Cities.
Cities, for his or her half, have comfortably put in with the Knicks.
Edwards mentioned it is not simply in regards to the new guys.
“I’m speaking about the entire workforce,” Edwards mentioned. “Regardless of how many people there are, each 15 years we go into our personal shells and distance ourselves from one another. It is apparent. We will see it. I can see it, the workforce can see it, the coaches can see it.
The followers too, who expressed their collective dissatisfaction a number of instances on Wednesday night.
“The followers are booing us,” mentioned Edwards, whose workforce is 8-10 heading into Friday’s sport in opposition to the Los Angeles Clippers. “This (stuff) is loopy, man. We get booed in our area. That is so (fucking) disrespectful, it’s loopy.
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