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*** Official Anthony Edwards Chat ***

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Philo Beddoe wrote: Sat Feb 20, 2021 4:40 pm I think some of you are underestimating the amount of calories that a professional athletes needs.
It's not the calories, its the way some oily/greasy/fatty food will weigh you down and make you lethargic.
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jffl_commish wrote: Sat Feb 20, 2021 5:58 pm You son of a bitch! Do you realize what you've just done?

Jim Ross is an all-timer whether you like wrestling or not.
That was awesome!
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The pic from the baseline is so sick. I almost took down the pic of my daughter on my phone wallpaper and changed it to that.
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LordNu wrote: Sat Feb 20, 2021 7:57 pm
jffl_commish wrote: Sat Feb 20, 2021 5:58 pm You son of a bitch! Do you realize what you've just done?

Jim Ross is an all-timer whether you like wrestling or not.
That was awesome!
That’s gold right there.......gold!

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Edwards is so damn quick.

He has the potential to be so good.
UnFadeable21 wrote: Thu Aug 27, 2020 5:55 pm Edwards Negatives:

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flexbuffchest wrote: Fri Mar 12, 2021 7:31 am Edwards is so damn quick.

He has the potential to be so good.
If Finch was smart Kat would be #1 option on offense, Ant #2. (meaning drawing plays for this kid to have open lanes and for the ball to run through his hands)
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shoteh wrote: Fri Mar 12, 2021 5:19 pm
flexbuffchest wrote: Fri Mar 12, 2021 7:31 am Edwards is so damn quick.

He has the potential to be so good.
If Finch was smart Kat would be #1 option on offense, Ant #2. (meaning drawing plays for this kid to have open lanes and for the ball to run through his hands)
Wrong. Edwards is clearly #1. Towns a much better off ball player than a guy you play through. Also not as good or willing a passer as Edwards. He's also not a teen who was a football player most of his life. None of you should be surprised when he gets a Jordan/Lebron type role where he is the PG for multiple minutes and all the big ones.

I would trade Towns and a 1st before I'd trade Edwards. Screw that I never trade Edwards. He will become a stone killer. The moronic coaching he got here on the mandate clearly stunted his growth. Rewatch last nights game and think about that. And anyone wanting to give the idiot credit for taking him might want to remember that he took Culver and Edwards back to back years and wants them to shoot primarily 3's.
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UnFadeable21 wrote: Thu Aug 27, 2020 5:55 pm Edwards Negatives:

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So when do we turn on him?

2023? 2024?
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Beef Supreme wrote: Sun Mar 14, 2021 10:36 pm So when do we turn on him?

2023? 2024?
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j2j wrote: Sun Mar 14, 2021 10:39 pm
Beef Supreme wrote: Sun Mar 14, 2021 10:36 pm So when do we turn on him?

2023? 2024?
Tuesday
TRADE ANT FOR A BAG OF BASKETBALLS!!!!
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I predict Ant will miss Tuesdays game.
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I'd take him #1 overall just based on his personality
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Beef Supreme wrote: Sun Mar 14, 2021 10:40 pm
j2j wrote: Sun Mar 14, 2021 10:39 pm
Beef Supreme wrote: Sun Mar 14, 2021 10:36 pm So when do we turn on him?

2023? 2024?
Tuesday
TRADE ANT FOR A BAG OF BASKETBALLS!!!!
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He two footed jumped form the bottom of the circle. That's absurd.

Wiggins would have lost that dribble.
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Moses Scurry wrote: Mon Mar 15, 2021 8:41 am He two footed jumped form the bottom of the circle. That's absurd.

Wiggins would have lost that dribble.
No kidding. Wiggings stopped dunking after like his second season. Turned into a long 2 shooting pansy. Let's hope that doesnt happen to A1. Wiggins hated the attention, almost seemed embarrassed. A1 wants to bury the whole damn opposing team when he goes up.

Don't jump.
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j2j wrote: Mon Mar 15, 2021 8:56 am
Moses Scurry wrote: Mon Mar 15, 2021 8:41 am He two footed jumped form the bottom of the circle. That's absurd.

Wiggins would have lost that dribble.
No kidding. Wiggings stopped dunking after like his second season. Turned into a long 2 shooting pansy. Let's hope that doesnt happen to A1. Wiggins hated the attention, almost seemed embarrassed. A1 wants to bury the whole damn opposing team when he goes up.

Don't jump.
He's got great body control, really nice rotation on his shot unlike Wiggins knuckleball scuds, his left finish looks legit, can dribble well enough and built like a tank. Not much to hate physically or skill wise. As long as his head is right, should be a legit franchise piece.
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The no. 1 pick was thrown into the fire this season, as a rash of injuries made Minnesota the worst team in the NBA. He hasn’t been efficient, but he’s shown athleticism and talent worth building around.

Anthony Edwards Is Flashing the Potential the Timberwolves Need

By Jonathan Tjarks | Mar 15, 2021, 12:20pm EDT

Anthony Edwards probably won’t win Rookie of the Year. LaMelo Ball all but has the award locked up after leading the Hornets to the no. 6 seed in the East at the halfway point of the season. Edwards has been more up-and-down for the Wolves, who have the worst record in the NBA and recently fired their coach. But the no. 1 pick has shown flashes of why he went so high. There are times when he looks unstoppable. Edwards almost single-handedly lifted the Wolves to a 114-112 win over the Blazers on Sunday, scoring a career-high 34 points on 12-of-24 shooting.

The most impressive part of his game comes when he puts his head down and gets to the rim. He’s an incredible athlete with a rare combination of size (6-foot-4 and 225 pounds) and explosiveness. Edwards had one of the best dunks in recent memory in February, but this one was just as impressive because it happened in the closing moments of the fourth quarter against a playoff team. It should not be possible to dunk like this against a set defense during crunch time:



Edwards then closed out Portland with a barrage of 3s. His subpar 3-point percentage (31.5 percent on 6.4 attempts per game) understates his shooting ability because he takes so many difficult attempts. The more telling number is his excellent free throw shooting (80.2 percent on 2.6 attempts per game). The best version of Edwards combines powerful drives with the ability to knock down jumpers when the defense tries to keep him out of the paint. He settles for too many 3s right now, but his shot does look good when they go in:



That’s the balance that Edwards and the Wolves still have to figure out. He’s a long way from being efficient. He’s shooting 42.9 percent from 2-point range on 9.0 attempts per game, and his percentages at the rim (58.0 percent on 4.5 attempts per game) aren’t good for a player with his athleticism. Nor does he get to the line enough considering how often he shoots the ball. Put it all together and it’s easy to see why he has such bad advanced statistics. Edwards is dead last among 80 eligible rookies in win shares (minus-0.7) this season.

None of this should be a surprise considering how raw Edwards is. He reclassified and skipped his senior season of high school, making him one of the youngest players in the NBA. He’s in good company at the bottom of the win shares list, right behind two other highly touted 19-year-olds (Aleksej Pokusevski and Killian Hayes) who have also struggled to play efficiently in big roles in their respective offenses. Edwards is even further behind on the development curve because he focused more on football growing up. He’s playing on talent and instincts at this stage of his career.

Edwards wasn’t supposed to have to do this much. The Wolves’ plan was for him to grow into a larger role on a team built around Karl-Anthony Towns, D’Angelo Russell, and Malik Beasley. But those three have played four games together this season. The Wolves have had unbelievably bad luck with the timing of injuries to their best players. Russell, who has missed the last month after undergoing knee surgery, went down the game before Towns returned from a month-long absence after contracting COVID.

The result has been a disorganized team that has never had a consistent rotation or built much chemistry between its players. And that was before it fired its coach (Ryan Saunders) in the middle of the season and brought in an assistant from another team (Chris Finch) who is learning the strengths and weaknesses of his players on the fly.

Playing off Russell and Beasley would have been good for Edwards. Per Synergy Sports, he’s in the 56th percentile of players leaguewide as a spot-up shooter and in the 17th percentile when shooting off the dribble. Those two would have created easier shots for him and more driving lanes to the rim. Edwards faces crowds in those situations because Minnesota is no. 23 in the NBA in 3-point percentage (35.1). Its starting lineup against Portland had two non-shooters (Ricky Rubio and Jarred Vanderbilt) who the Blazers could leave open on the perimeter.

There are a lot of times when Edwards makes the right pass and doesn’t get rewarded for it:



He’s not a selfish player. Edwards has a positive ratio of assists (2.5 per game) to turnovers (1.9), and reads the floor fairly well. Don’t let some of the bad shots fool you. He has a good feel for the game. That would be more obvious if he weren’t playing on a depleted team that’s been practically forced to give him an unlimited green light.

A smaller role on offense would also help Edwards on defense, where he has all the physical tools to be elite but makes too many mistakes. The Wolves can’t afford to bench him for mental miscues and missed rotations because of how much they need him on the offensive end. They have no choice but to let him play through those and hope that he doesn’t develop bad habits.

LaMelo is the exception that proves the rule. Usually, when a team gives a lot of offensive responsibility to a young player, it loses a lot, which is what has happened in Minnesota. But the upside is that Edwards can benefit from his trial by fire and, hopefully, come out of it a better player.


It’s hard for a volume scorer like Edwards to transition to the NBA. For the first time in his life, Edwards can’t rely on his physical tools to bail him out of bad decisions. He has to learn how to balance shooting and passing, playing on and off the ball, and splitting his energy between offense and defense. That process can take years.

There are still a wide range of outcomes for Edwards’s career. He has the potential to be an All-NBA wing who can defend multiple positions, space the floor, create his own shot, and run the offense. But he could also end up as an inefficient scorer who never learns how to play within a team concept. Minnesota knew that when it drafted him. It took a swing for the fences and counted on being able to develop him. The most encouraging sign is that his teammates love him, which doesn’t always happen when a rookie takes a lot of shots on a bad team. It’s easy to see why in his press conferences, where his positivity and sense of humor have made him one of the better interviews in the league.

The challenge for the Wolves will be aligning the timetables of their best players. They have an interesting core of first- and second-year players, led by Edwards, Jaden McDaniels, and Naz Reid, who aren’t ready to contribute for a playoff-caliber team. The problem is their star (Towns) is 25 and in the second season of a five-year max extension. He has said all the right things about wanting to stay long term, but Minnesota has to start winning at some point. It already sacrificed some of its future by trading a future first-round pick to Golden State for Russell. That pick is top 3 protected this season. Losing it would be a huge blow to a team with the worst record in the NBA.

The hope is that Edwards can be the third- or fourth-best player on a more veteran team next season, and slowly develop into a no. 2 next to Towns. The question isn’t whether Edwards can be as good as LaMelo. It’s whether he can develop his nearly limitless potential before Towns gets restless. Edwards won’t be Towns’s current age until 2026. Minnesota is in a race against the clock to develop its star rookie and keep its franchise player in town.
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Poll on Hoopshype right now. KAT currently has 57% of the vote.

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You can get 80% of Edwards from someone like Beasley.

You get 50% of KAT with any reasonable replacement.

30% better. It's simple math.
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LordNu wrote: Sat Feb 20, 2021 7:57 pm
jffl_commish wrote: Sat Feb 20, 2021 5:58 pm You son of a bitch! Do you realize what you've just done?

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Eroder wrote: Mon Nov 27, 2023 5:13 pm That settles it. Hoop is right!
Eroder wrote: Wed Dec 13, 2023 12:59 pm Hoop is right again!!
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Hoop Dreams wrote: Mon Mar 15, 2021 11:59 am Poll on Hoopshype right now. KAT currently has 57% of the vote.

I mean...KAT is only to be here a few years max.

It's ANT by default
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Freaking love this kid... I was enamored by LaVine... forget that my love for Ant might be restraining order levels.
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Eroder wrote: Mon Nov 27, 2023 5:13 pm That settles it. Hoop is right!
Eroder wrote: Wed Dec 13, 2023 12:59 pm Hoop is right again!!
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Anthony Edwards -- the No. 1 overall pick in the 2020 NBA Draft -- had a career night vs. the Portland Trail Blazers on Sunday.A

The 19-year-old racked up 34 points and went 6-for-14 from beyond the arc.

"I still shot the ball pretty bad though," he told the media after the T-Wolves' win. "I was 6-for-14 from 3. That's pretty damn bad. I could have been 9-for-14. That would have been pretty good.

"It could be better. There's always room to grow."

When it was brought to his attention by a reporter that if he shoots 43 percent from deep "you'll be better than Steph [Curry]," Edwards showed major respect for the Warriors superstar.

"Nah, never be better than Steph," he said as he chuckled and shook his head.
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Hoop Dreams wrote: Tue Mar 16, 2021 12:31 pm
I'm shooting out so much ectoplasm that all the ghosts from Ghostbusters are jealous
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Eroder wrote: Mon Nov 27, 2023 5:13 pm That settles it. Hoop is right!
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