Anthony Edwards on what went wrong in the loss to Orlando: “What coach say? Yeah, whatever he said. I don’t know. I wish I had an answer for you. I do got an answer, but I don’t want to say it.”
Antbiguous Edwards
CANT ^say Man.
Vagueposter Edwards
Send da subliminal message
Hell nawl can’t say this
For context they specifically asked what went wrong in the 2nd quarter.
He is Clearly referring to refs. It balanced out in the second half but we went a solid 20 minutes of game time without a free throw to put the game out of reach. 2nd quarter was something like 13-0 FTs, with Ant picking up 3 fouls and having to sit after like 3 minutes in the 2nd.
But it was absolutely not just the early reffing that lost us this game. Jaden and Donte went 0-15. Julius Randle constantly killed momentum. Guys didn’t play defense. Magic were hustling their ass off and deserved to win.
Not complicated. Just adding context to the question.
Wow. Pretty huge FT swing considering Ant alone shot 14 FTs and the totals ended up being identical.
13 in a row is pretty nuts.
I’m biased but the calls were super tacky as well, while Gobert was getting hit in the head routinely and our guys were getting bumped mid air when driving to the rim.
That being said, our shooting was so bad we couldn’t hit water if we fell out of a boat. Terrible wide open misses all game long. Move on to the next game and hopefully we shoot better and the refs are more consistent and less biased next game against the Lak-…
Gobert is always getting whacked. It’s a curse all 7 footers have, a guard can just kinda beat them up and not get called
The most infuriating part of the NBA is how bigs get officiated when guarded by smalls
I’m not gonna throw dirt on the Magic who played hard and picked up the W.
The reffing towards the Wolves is something to behold though, I wonder wtf we do to piss them off. With as much as Ant, Naz, Julius and Gobert be in the paint and driving I’m surprised they don’t call more fouls. Gobert seems to get the most though lol but he’s not good from the line this year.
The blown challenge that the announcers expected to be overturned, and then that same ref telling Naz not to talk to him for the rest of the game getting caught on the hotmic it was a weird vibe.
I wonder if the beginning delay of games piss the refs off. For some reason the wolves have drawn like 2-3 in the last couple weeks before tip off
Bro Ant and Gobert have been fined multiple times for trashing the refs and accusing them of cheating us.
You won’t remember Goberts money hand gesture 🤌🏼? Lmao
I mean we bring some of our on ourselves with how petty and undisciplined we can be. Twice this year we’ve been hit with a delay of game before the game even starts because we’re so slow to get on the court. On Thursday, McDaniels then got a 2nd delay of game for holding ball after a foul call on him and then tossing to the other end of the court.
Refs shouldn’t be holding stuff against undisciplined teams because they should be reffing the game in front of them, but their human. We’re always gonna get a worse whistle when we act like that over the course of multiple years.
I shit you not, since Finch went ape shit in the OKC game and made the refs look stupid, every game since has had either somewhat bad or downright horrible whistle for the Wolves. The league is retaliating for Finch making them look bad.
thanks for a good summary
I noticed in the 2nd the Magic were playing in another gear. And we were playing like we thought we were the better team. It did seem like the refs weren’t going to call anything going our way, even the challenge was bogus. I think we’d have lost either way, but I shut it off after the middle of the 3rd. I could see the writing on the wall. Side note; WTF does Julius Randle do for this team anymore
Also a few really questionable calls against Naz and a challenge that the announcers argued should be overturned. Then like 3 plays later Naz got another call and went to argue the call and the hot mic had the refs telling him not to talk to him anymore for the game or he was gonna give him a T.
Like you said it wasn’t the only reason we lost, but the team got all out of sync fighting the refs in the 2nd quarter.
Assuming everything plays out the same that stretch doesn’t matter, but it totally swung momentum. Especially with this team that gets obsessed with the officiating and loses focus. By my count we didn’t shoot a FT between 4:38 left in the 1st and 5:38 left in the 3rd and I do believe this game is at least close til the end with balanced officiating in the middle 1⁄3 of it
Similar vibes in the Blazers Rockets game yesterday. Huge stretch if terrible one way reff8, and but the end it had evened out and even a small stretch of bad reffing the other way. But damage was done
Now, Blazers had ample opportunity to win it in the end, but also made getting any rhythm and momentum take till later. Not blaming the loss on the refs, but they certainly were a factor
And it’s hard to explain to people who don’t watch the games and just point out foul and FT differentials for the whole game
Fantastic context
Any reason refs are so harsh on Minnesota? It seems like finch is bitching about refs every game
Wow I’m shocked that the wolves lost and immediately blamed the refs
For the sake of privacy let’s call him Marc D…
No that’s too obvious, let’s say M. Davis…
“I’m not gonna say which ref it was…. It was Marc Davis”
My theory has always been some teams are just bad at matinee games. Not an excuse just they will play like uncharacteristically trash in the afternoon lol.
The wolves are terrible in afternoon games, they’re like 1-6 this season in games starting before 5 pm
Good to see the record I was just telling my coworker how we always fucking lose after noon games, like we wake up late from partying and are hungover.
I remember an interview where Ant says he doesnt like Afternoon games because he usually naps in the afternoon. Probably the same for the other players
Ant and Rudy were the only ones who came out firing today, everyone else was incredibly flat
Oh, i though it was just games I watch them play. I swear they never win whenever I watch them this year.
That is 100% this team. Always been that way. Would love to see what our record in matinees is. Imagine it’s shocking
This is how I find out Orlando won? My friends are going to be annoying.
Ant seems to have great respect for ol’ Finchy. He really hasn’t said anything that shit talks his coach…ever? Has he?
He *loves* Finchy. If you can, find the video of them talking on the phone after Ant’s all star MVP. That’s all you need to see.
Pause, but….bro is jacked lol.
Ant really did win the genetic lottery. Being 6’4” with that kind of muscle mass, while burning the volume of calories associated with playing a sport that’s basically a sustained HIIT session, is crazy.
I seen the stat at the start of the 4th where Ant had 34 while the other starters had 27 or something along those lines. It was a wild shooting game.
Ant ready to start moving 🥷 like Bron does
dude how is he so jacked as a guard
Vibes continue to be through the roof with this team
Send da answer
it was because jaden, julius, donte all played like bums nothing else.
When your team mates can’t hit the ocean when stranded in the middle of it, you lose the game. It’s that simple.
Ant is trying to get the coach fired 💯
We also at the daylight savings time now fo realz
Bro looks like an action figure, holy shit
Man he has an amazing body. Is the W full of genetic freaks like the NBA too? Genuinely curious now.
I get his doesn’t want to answer the media but deferring to just your coach seems lazy asf idk, maybe it’s just me
Man I been on streak of downvote after downvote damn…. I may need to step away from Reddit for a min
Ant is great at media, he’s not really a deflector. Apparently just doesn’t want to get fined for commenting on the refs
You’re the star player take accountability
Edit; My bad everyone else sucked besides him
Bro had 34 on 18 shots. McDaniels and DiVincenzo went 0-15. If anyone should take accountability, it’s them lol
And it’s good on him as a leader not to say “the team played poorly” even if he’s frustrated
Looks like he’s the only one who played well, bit of an awkward time to bang that drum
You want him to shoot the ball for jaden mcdaniels and donte?
Tbf tonight that might’ve been an improvement
Why ? He had 34 with 4 stocks on good efficiency and no turnovers while two other starters went 0-15 combined.
Finch gonna get fired unless they win it all. The replacement won’t do as well unless maybe Malone, Edward’s probably request out in 2-3 yrs.
You’re playing a whole ass movie in your head.
This is what movies are made of tho.
Hire Taylor Jenkins. Malone is overrated
You want that so bad huh, nice wet dream
not Finch’s fault that Wolves traded a superstar package for Baguette Biyombo who gets played off the court every playoffs
Good one 👍