Inside the NBA Reacts to Anthony Edwards' Comments After Game 1 Loss vs. Mavs

So how did Dallas win this by only batting for just 63, six for 25? They normally take third place in the regular season with most three attempts per

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and even in the postseason 35 or so they shoot 25 from three tonight. when they hit you or just because, you can do dunks, you can take contested shots but you can't do dunks between Lively and Gafford, they were able to get 20 points basically on dunks without testing, without rim protection and without resistance, you give 20 points away on those that you can shoot. 6 of 25 from three because you're shooting, you're shooting, you know, 10 from 11 basically from two, so you can, you can make up for it with that, you can't give away the dunks, yeah, 62 points in the paint, which is his high in the '62 postseason, but my God, it's easier said than done because if they're going to play that drop defense, they drop and then they have Luca coming at them full speed, you know, it's easy to say what's easy to stop, but no. , because when you don't, Luca gets his numbers, he still gets 30, but you even said he was an idiot on a couple of defensive plays, well, no, no, he was an idiot when they led to the basket, but I have to give them. guys, credit, man, they were timely, first of all, the ant didn't play very well, number one, he didn't play very well, they gassed him, they looked at him, but this was just these two guys just made a masterpiece in my opinion and Kyrie set the tone. the young man called him and said, Oh yeah, and when he got off to a good start, it all started because, you know, the interesting thing about it is that Luca was playing horrible, so Kyrie was the one who got them going and kept him going.

I play with Ely. things here and now, then Luca woke up down the stretch, let's listen to Anthony Edwards, he just said, Jaden, it seemed like you had a really good rhythm offensively, especially early tonight, what do you think was that remnant of the confidence that you built in the last two?

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s from the latest series or how do you feel? Yes, just shoot the ball with confidence. I mean working on my game every day and having confidence in it, so it's nothing different for me, just keep shooting and not worry about misses and You took a lot of Threes tonight, it's just that there's protection on the rim that's affecting your shot selection or how you saw your offense come together.

I mean, they're on the court, the big man isn't super. High like the last two series, um and we didn't really know what to expect. I mean, you know, he came out and was open a bunch of times and took the pictures and I'll take them the next time I live with it. Jaden, sorry. For me, Jaden, most of your offensive production came during the first three quarters and then also defensively, your numbers against Luca were much stronger in the first three quarters than the last. Did you see anything change on both sides of the ball for you in the fourth? no, I mean he just started making shots, I mean I was playing the same defense, he was just doing it with my hand in his face and then offensively he just missed the same thing, I mean I just missed the shots, I'm not worried, oh sh and you yesterday. about or today about just adjusting to a different team that Dallas plays so differently do you think it only takes one game to figure out a little bit different approach and how do you think you're going to bounce back from this one?

I don't know, I think we just came out, we came out flat today, I mean, and then we found our energy, then we went flat again, so I think it was all up to us today, um, I didn't go down. so much, um, yeah, stuff like that, we were a little tired, probably because you two, explain that to me, explain that to me. I've said a lot about Anthony Edward's interviews throughout the playoffs and that was one of my favorites, um, saying we're tired, we didn't know what to expect the same way those guys have followed you to this point, they'll follow you too and they were completely overcome by the pain we have all talked about. the point 62 to 38 but they shot 49 they shot 49 triples right here Gass, as if you had to go through that, this is the first one, he is 22 years old and he is a star, we all believe that he is the next face, he is the one they follow, but they have to be better in the paint, they shot 49 triples in the 25th and got the size advantage.

We all talked about how Dallas wasn't going to be able to compete with its size and you go out and shoot many three-pointers that give 62 points. in the paint and being outrebounded, that's a recipe for disaster, yeah, but Dallas did it especially at the beginning of the game, you know, you start the series on the road, you know, hostile, semi-hostile crowd, they kept it close, no matter what, they kept him close. his confidence Kyrie set the tone and then in the second half Luca took over, you know, when you play against a team, uh, when, when you're the home team, you have to write off a team very, very quickly, the fact that that you don't do it. the Dallas Mavericks anyway no lead is safe for Luuk and Caray, so the fact that they kept it close and then down the stretch Luca said he had to take control of the game and that's why they wanted to know that my criticisms of the Wolves It's always been they don't use their size, you know, if you're bigger than everyone else, you should just hit them, they don't hit people, uh, they should dominate the paint, they dominated them in the paint, um, and then when Anthony has a bad game.

It really shows that Coline Towns is a very good player, but he never uses his size to his advantage. He has a mismatch every night, every night, so whether he's posting up when they put a small guy on him or dominating on the offensive glass. which I think he should do every night because if you really watch the game, there are many times when he has a guard on him and they let the ant dance, all you have to do is start yelling mouse mouse mouse, that's what we used to do in the past, when you had a little guy on a big flop, we start yelling Mouse and you look up and it's got to be a little guy trying to protect a big guy, but like I said before this game, the Wolves .

I have some issues with those guys missing all those open threes because there's nothing you can do with Kyrie and Luca. These guys are already Hall of Famers, they have to do it. They are two of the best offensive players we have. that we've had in this game, they're two of the best we've had and if they get anything from their supporting cast, this team is going to be tough to beat, yeah, I'm not going to ask you to say what garrote means. but I would say this you want me to show you no, yes, I want to do it, yes, exactly on television, but I would say that this human nature is real, we have all played a difficult game seven, yes and I had to turn around and play the first game and the emotional energy and not the physical, the mental, emotional energy, Chuck, you said before the seventh game, it took you two days, you couldn't sleep and then you came back with only one or two days a day of emotionally resting them they were here I don't know if it wasn't physically I just think emotionally we'll see what happens in the second game human nature was real today yeah I don't agree with that I don't think it was there you know we call that an excuse we're trying to get to them, they've never heard it, but you know what I go back and say no excuses, no we're not saying, it's not excuses, what I say, but that's human nature and you say the second game.

We can't have human nature fighters, but has it happened to you, has it ever happened to you? Yes, but not here, not in this situation. I also don't think, I don't think it was that game one and, in fact, that's the point I was making. to do, I think number one, I think it's disrespectful to Kyrie and Luca, they just got their asses kicked, that's what they just did. Kyrie came out and said, "It's okay, you want me, you have me," so I think it's unfair to say that to Kyrie. and Luca, but also Shaq, your point is that you can have a disappointment down the road because the other teams have been resting and then they can come as said, but not at home, this place was jumping, here's the thing, although we still saying I've been resting, they played on Saturday, they played on Sunday, that's right, yeah, they played on Sunday, yeah, it was an extra day, like it's not like they've been sitting since Wednesday, that's why I said, Can I?

I've been to the other extreme. I'm not saying there are no excuses. I'm not saying it's going to be an excuse. We are going to lose the series, but we could say that we are not going to let it happen again. We'll see Friday for the second game. here they are going to let that fall coverage happen again oh and those bars right there by the way the man wants championships when when you talk to him like that we will take a little break come back with a new Shaon hey oh oh we have sh hey