Yahoo Sports senior NBA reporter Vincent Goodwill is joined by JA Adande to discuss how the Timberwolves guard’s play against the Lakers is showing he’s ready to cement himself as one of the faces of the game’s future. Hear the full conversation on “Good Word with Goodwill” and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.
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We’re gonna talk about Minnesota coming back from multiple double-digit deficits in the second half against the Lakers.
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And walked that team down.
Anthony Edwards has put out Kevin Durant.
Nikola Jokic and now it’s gonna, it’s possibly gonna put out LeBron James and Lucaontic and could face Stephen Curry in the next round.
Like this is potentially Like, really what we’re talking about taking the torch from some of these guys, he gonna have all their skins on the wall, all of them.
He would have some pelts, you know, as as I call him, he’d have those pelts and so we could look back at Anthony Edwards is having a dirk 2011 run where you’re just taking out a Hall of Fame after Hall.
I asked Dirk one time.
I said, Do you have all those jerseys up on your wall from all the dudes you took out in 2011?
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He smiled.
He said, no.
I would if I had to run like that.
I’m putting all the jersey.
I’m putting the Kobe jersey.
Gasol, LeBron, wait, all their jersey you’d see hanging behind me on the Zoom call.
When I watched the 4th quarter of the game, JA LeBron and Luca were tired.
Understandably so, cause they did not miss a minute during the 2nd half.
You know who else didn’t miss a minute during the 2nd half?
Anthony Edwards, he didn’t rest either and they were down 10 to start the 4th quarter.
And you know, those, those critical minutes to start quarters where, you know, a 10 point lead can go down to 4, or it can go up to 16, and the total tenor of the game, like, like, follow me on this one, Jay.
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We tend to think of clutch as last second or 5 minutes or less and all type of stuff.
But if you’re making shots to keep your team in it, just to keep your spirit right, to me, that’s a different level of clutch that we don’t talk about.
And that’s what Anthony Edwards did, and he had just enough energy to put out two Hall of Famers who were having games.
Like Luca had a game, LeBron had a game, and just had the game.