The Minnesota Timberwolves entered the season as a staff trying to construct on their darkish horse Western Convention Finals run from final yr, however are ending November simply hoping to remain within the playoff hunt, and it’s protected to say franchise star Anthony Edwards isn’t joyful about it.
Lower than per week after exploding at Julius Randle and Rudy Gobert on the courtroom for beefing with one another in the midst of an in depth sport, the always-unfiltered Edwards teed off on his “trash” staff (together with himself in that evaluation) after their 115-104 loss to the Sacramento Kings:
Ant had lots to say this night. Might be writing about it tonight. Says he feels just like the staff has been rising aside. That they’ll’t discuss to one another anymore. It’s everybody, he’s not singling out the newbies. Says everybody has their very own agendas proper now.
— Chris Hine (@ChristopherHine) November 28, 2024
Ant: “We received up and everyone cheering and fucking hype. We get down once more and don’t no person say nothing. That’s the definition of a frontrunner. We as a staff, together with myself, all of us was frontrunners tonight. It was some bullshit, for certain.”
— Chris Hine (@ChristopherHine) November 28, 2024
Anthony Edwards: “Nevertheless many people it’s, all 15, we go into our personal shell and we’re simply rising away from one another. It’s apparent. We are able to see it. I can see it, the staff can see it, the coaches can see it.”
— Chris Hine (@ChristopherHine) November 28, 2024
Anthony Edwards (2/2): ” …. Only a bunch of little youngsters. Identical to we taking part in with a bunch of little youngsters. Everyone, the entire staff. We simply can’t discuss to one another. And we’ve received to determine it out, as a result of we will’t go down this street.”
— Chris Hine (@ChristopherHine) November 28, 2024
Anthony Edwards: “The followers fuckin’ booing us. That shit is loopy, man. We’re getting booed in our residence area. That’s so fuckin’ disrespectful, it’s loopy.”
I form of perceive him. That is all irritating proper now. Nevertheless it feels just like the set off is a little bit fast.
— Jon Krawczynski (@JonKrawczynski) November 28, 2024
The loss to the Kings dropped the Timberwolves to only 8-10 general, good for twelfth place within the present Western Convention. However suffice to say it’s not simply the file that has Edwards upset. As our personal Ryan Eichten summarized over at Canis Hoopus, the Timberwolves proceed to lose in more and more agonizing methods. After a powerful third quarter, Minnesota utterly rolled over on Wednesday evening:
The Kings would end the sport on a 29-6 run together with scoring on ten straight possessions late within the sport to safe a 115-104 victory over the Wolves, their fourth straight loss.
It’s not instantly clear how issues get higher for the Wolves. They aren’t coping with any main accidents, however simply appear to have far worse chemistry than they did of their magical season final yr. Dropping Karl-Anthony Cities in an offseason wage dump (that was nakedly designed to avoid wasting possession cash) was all the time projected to harm their offense, nevertheless it shouldn’t have made their protection collapse from first within the league to twelfth.
Earlier than tonight, one would have guessed that the Wolves would normalize a bit from these lows — and so they nonetheless most likely gained’t stay this unhealthy — but when Edwards calling out the entire staff like this publicly doesn’t mild a fireplace beneath them to show issues round, this might descend right into a season from hell sooner than you may say “entrance runners.” However not sooner than Edwards can.