A Minnesota Timberwolves star participant heaped reward on Anthony Edwards’ management after the staff secured a superb win in Recreation 1 in opposition to the LA Lakers.
Anthony Edwards began the sport wanting not wanting so good as he had a foolish turnover early on, however made certain he saved his calm to complete with 22 factors, eight rebounds and 9 assists on the evening.
He had the second finest +/- within the Minnesota Timberwolves lineup, making his presence felt on each ends of the ground.
Jaden McDaniels and Naz Reid additionally stepped up for the staff as they added 25 and 23 factors respectively to assist take a 117-95 win in Recreation 1 of the NBA Playoffs in opposition to the LA Lakers.
After the sport, Reid gave his teammate Edwards enormous credit score for being a very good chief.
Edwards is taken into account to be some of the thrilling skills within the NBA and is commonly introduced up within the dialog to be the subsequent face of the league.
Since his arrival T-Wolves have been a unique franchise and Reid believes that is because of Edwards wanting his teammates to do effectively.
Talking on the celebrity guard, Reid mentioned: “I believe simply his management and the way he has been main us as younger as he’s, it’s loopy to me. You’d assume he’s 30. Simply how vocal he’s.
“He needs to win, you may inform and he needs his teammates to do effectively as effectively, so I believe simply him being the teammate that he’s simply falls down the road, simply falls down my palms and the youthful guys as effectively and so forth and so forth, simply inspiring one another daily, moments like as we speak is large.”
Lakers legend Magic Johnson admitted he was apprehensive for the Lakers because of the presence of Edwards.
The 23-year-old confirmed precisely why as he stuffed the stat sheet to assist Timberwolves get a win in Recreation 1.
Edwards knew his photographs weren’t falling effectively so he determined to turn into a facilitator and was capable of dish 9 dimes within the sport.
He did that by conceding only one turnover, which got here early within the first quarter.
The Timberwolves had 29 assists within the sport and made 44 discipline targets, whereas the Lakers had solely 15 on 33 discipline targets.
This means Chris Finch’s males weren’t making an attempt the everyday isolation ball by simply throwing all the pieces at Edwards and as a pacesetter he was good to grasp that will not work.
There’s nonetheless a whole lot of basketball left within the collection and the Lakers will attempt to be loads higher within the coming video games as they should as a result of failure in doing so may end in Edwards persevering with his stellar performances and main the Timberwolves to the subsequent spherical.
