A Minnesota Timberwolves star participant heaped reward on Anthony Edwards’ management after the group secured a superb win in Sport 1 towards 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 night time.
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 group as they added 25 and 23 factors respectively to assist take a 117-95 win in Sport 1 of the NBA Playoffs towards the LA Lakers.
After the sport, Reid gave his teammate Edwards enormous credit score for being an excellent chief.
Edwards is taken into account to be one of the crucial thrilling abilities 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 distinct franchise and Reid believes that is because of Edwards wanting his teammates to do properly.
Talking on the famous person guard, Reid mentioned: “I feel 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’ll be able to inform and he needs his teammates to do properly as properly, so I feel simply him being the teammate that he’s simply falls down the road, simply falls down my fingers and the youthful guys as properly and so forth and so forth, simply inspiring one another day-to-day, moments like in the present day is large.”
Lakers legend Magic Johnson admitted he was frightened 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 Sport 1.
Edwards knew his pictures weren’t falling effectively so he determined to develop into a facilitator and was in a position to dish 9 dimes within the recreation.
He did that by conceding only one turnover, which got here early within the first quarter.
The Timberwolves had 29 assists within the recreation and made 44 discipline targets, whereas the Lakers had solely 15 on 33 discipline targets.
This means Chris Finch’s males weren’t attempting the standard isolation ball by simply throwing all the things at Edwards and as a frontrunner he was sensible to grasp that will not work.
There may be nonetheless loads of basketball left within the collection and the Lakers will try to be rather a lot higher within the coming video games as they must as a result of failure in doing so may lead to Edwards persevering with his stellar performances and main the Timberwolves to the subsequent spherical.