{"id":701406,"date":"2026-04-06T13:51:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T13:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/701406\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T13:51:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T13:51:21","slug":"rudy-gobert-takes-blame-as-wolves-lose-to-lamelo-ball-hornets-with-anthony-edwards-out-injured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/701406\/","title":{"rendered":"Rudy Gobert Takes Blame as Wolves Lose to LaMelo Ball, Hornets with Anthony Edwards Out Injured"},"content":{"rendered":"

Minnesota Timberwolves star Rudy Gobert expressed frustration with his performance in Sunday’s 122-108 defeat to the Charlotte Hornets, which extended the team’s losing streak to three games.<\/p>\n

“I look at myself first, before the others, so I’ve got to be better,” Gobert said, per The Athletic’s Jon Krawczynski<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The three-time All-Star finished with a double-double (12 points and 10 rebounds) but had a role in allowing Charlotte to collect 16 offensive rebounds. The Hornets scored twice as many second-chance points (24) as the Wolves (12).<\/p>\n

“It feels like we’re a million miles away from the team that we can be and that we are,” coach Chris Finch said. “We’ve got to get that back with our connectedness and our spirit.”<\/p>\n

Finch also wanted to deflect some of the blame away from Gobert in terms of Charlotte’s effectiveness on the glass.<\/p>\n

“Too much of it’s on Rudy,” he said, per the Star Tribune’s Cassidy Hettesheimer<\/a>. “It was pretty physical down there, and you know, he was battling. \u2026 A lot of our perimeter players needed to get back in and rebound the ball.”<\/p>\n

Minnesota was without star guard Anthony Edwards, and forward Jaden McDaniels missed his fifth straight contest.<\/p>\n

“They are two of our best creators, best scorers, so of course it requires it to play us a little differently, but I think tonight, about the things we talked about, the things that we control,” Gobert said. “Rebounds, turnovers … no matter who is out there, I think we can do a better job.”<\/p>\n

Minnesota has a three-game cushion on the seventh-place Phoenix Suns with four left to play. The Timberwolves are pretty much assured of avoiding the play-in tournament.<\/p>\n

Still, the injuries to McDaniels and Edwards and the team’s recent performances aren’t providing a lot of encouragement ahead of the postseason.<\/p>\n

The Wolves have the 18-win Indiana Pacers ahead on Tuesday night. It could be a prime opportunity for Finch’s squad to rediscover its groove.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Minnesota Timberwolves star Rudy Gobert expressed frustration with his performance in Sunday’s 122-108 defeat to the Charlotte Hornets,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":701407,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3777],"tags":[7,684,473,3878,685,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-701406","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-charlotte-hornets","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-charlotte","10":"tag-charlotte-hornets","11":"tag-charlottehornets","12":"tag-hornets","13":"tag-nba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=701406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/701407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=701406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=701406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=701406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}