Anthony Edwards, Rudy Gobert, and Jaden McDaniels didn’t hold back after the Wolves’ Game 2 win in Denver, delivering a series of candid and hilarious postgame quotes.
Jaden McDaniels 100% gave the Denver Nuggets bulletin-board material when he said "they're all bad defenders," but he might be right — and there's nothing Denver can do about it.
How many times can a team that is as seasoned as Minnesota, with back-to-back deep playoff runs to the conference, shoot themselves in the foot against a disciplined, championship-pedigree team like the Denver Nuggets?
Just when the Timberwolves appeared dead, they rallied from a 19-point deficit and stunned the Nuggets with a 119-114 win to even the best-of-seven series at one game apiece — and now the series moves to Minneapolis for Games 3 and 4.
While Anthony Edwards and the rest of the Wolves are confident that they can even the series before returning to Minneapolis for Games 3 and 4, there is reason to be extremely concerned about their chances.
All gas, no breaks. That's the mentality for the Timberwolves and Nuggets as they prepare to face each other in the NBA playoffs for the third time in four years.
Locked into the No. 6 seed, the Minnesota Timberwolves still don't know who they'll face in the first round of the playoffs, which begin Saturday, April 18.
A woeful second half led to the Timberwolves losing at home to the Charlotte Hornets by a score of 122-108 on Sunday night at Target Center in Minneapolis.
If Minnesota sees Dosunmu as a starting point guard, they're going to have to pay him like one this summer. The 26-year-old will be an unrestricted free agent in July, and there's no question that he'll have a big market.
Home-court advantage would be nice, but health matters more than anything — and is finishing sixth more beneficial than the 4 or 5 due to the OKC factor?