"Anthony Edwards Is A Superstar" | Inside reacts to Timberwolves OT win vs. Nuggets | NBA on TNT

Inside the NBA presented by KIA, broadcast live from Studio J here in Atlanta. I got 12 27 here on the east coast, well let me check 12 30. Yeah the artist wanted overtime 12 27 and that was a crazy NBA playoff game you just watched. Here from Minnesota they told me it was crazy, let's see, let's jump right into it, what do you think? Oh yeah, yeah, because this is an amazing, outstanding package that we have here, I'll tell you which man has a 12-point lead with two minutes left. and 36 seconds left as a lock

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looked for their first sweep Anthony Edward said that's not going to happen Ernie they had Jamal Murray capping a streak of nine nothing

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they had been behind from the beginning no spoilers for the people Aaron Gordon Denver got a three-pointer leads, then Carl Anthony Towns, yeah, nice move right there, you know, don't settle for threes, get the little guy in at the half, Denver 52-48, okay, but Minnesota had a little run, Brother, I think Anthony had a race against him.

Anthony Edwards had 25. That's a tough look at the rainbow tied at 73 and then Edwards this is part of a 25-9 run by Minnesota and they took a 78-73 lead. They played the rest of the game without Kyle Anderson, who took a shot from his teammate Anthony Edwards right here and left with a left eye injury would not return, excuse me, Carl Anthony Towns and one of the leaders is double digits, the biggest Joker in the series with an old school response, give and take right there, Ant-Man and Here you go 96-84 with 235 to go and here comes the Run by Denver 12-compressed timeout , give up real quick, there's no way out, they were lucky to be losing one and then the cat catches Joker here and sends him to the line, he made two, he got the Joker's free throw leader 82 during the season, only the 58 percent during this series, that's incredible and he splits the free throws to tie the game, it's great defense here and we're going for the dime two. overtime, yeah, we're tied at 96.

Mike Conley, tell someone, tell me how this went, oh, they called luck, oh, and the cat fouled out. He couldn't let that go, but why, because the ball tipped over, wouldn't he get it anyway? Okay, the ball tipped over, I wasn't going to get that ball anyway, well, let's follow it every time, let's do that for Minnesota to go for something and nikhail Alexander Walker hit a couple of three balls. Edwards, this game is over, take the streak, well maybe not. what pass from Joker to Murray there and then kill him, kill him, kill him, makes it a one point game when you turn to the Georgia Bulldog Anthony Edwards running the world right now Ernie, damn Joker, yeah, 114 to 108, the Minnesotans Timberwolves stay alive Denver The Nuggets did not sweep, as they will return to Denver on Tuesday.

Yes, he tied the highest in the playoffs of his career, it looked like 28. But the Nuggets fall by six and here's their head coach Michael Malone Michael 18 to 12 in overtime. What do you think the difference was? No defense would play there, yeah, eventually, you know, we closed regulation 12-0 to force overtime, which is great to see, but you know, 18 points in five minutes, they shot 75 field goals and they have four or six out of three. and uh, in the first game of the series where we didn't win the paint battle, we didn't win the rebounding battle, so give them credit, you know, I didn't think we were going to go undefeated the entire postseason, so be curious to see. how we reacted uh, you know, going home for game five, how hard is that to swallow, given the 12-0 run to end the game and obviously, you know I had a chance to win it, yeah, I mean, obviously you know Nicola makes a free throw now instead of it being a tied game we're up you know there's a little more pressure on them they have to score uh and you know we played great defense on that last possession kcp on Edwards uh , you know not to let them score and walk away, but you know you're holding 16 points in the fourth quarter and 18 in five minutes, so again, that's the hardest thing to take about this game, when the game was on game.

We were not willing and unable to make the necessary stops. What was the difference in your opinion? rebound there was very little sense of urgency on the part of the Nuggets until the last two and a half minutes of regulation and suddenly here comes a 12-nothing streak, you go to overtime, you think you have a little juice in overtime and Turns out it wasn't, Jack, yeah, a lot happened with Denver tonight sweeping for the first time and you know the whole story and all that. things and they didn't come in with the right mentality, usually when you have three three to zero you know you can beat a team and a lot of times the home team will play hard for three quarters and then at the end, although they will be on the last segment of the needle , you know, go fishing, but Anthony Edwards said they're not going to sweep us, we're playing hard, it definitely kept him in the game and you know Denver made valiant efforts to come back, but I don't think they would have. the right mental attitude, like Phil Jackson's, always tells you when you don't have the right mental attitude going into the game, the basketball guys won't protect you, now they'll go home, they'll get beat up, they'll get mad, the series is over, yes and you.

I can see that Minnesota tried everything in Empire to get a game. I mean, you're 12. At 235. You like the game is over and he tried to do it again in overtime. They did everything they could, but they got back into the game. Shaq's point is that every NBA team has good players and if you don't go out there and give it your all, you're disrespecting the other team, like I always tell people, the only thing that separates these teams. It's a star or two stars, as each team really did. really good players, the difference is that they are the stars, you know, Shaq always talks about others, every team has others, but they don't have stars and Anthony Edwards, he won't be a star, he will be a

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, he said 41 36 and 34 in the last three games of this series, yeah, I don't know if Denver wouldn't say no.

They should have been punished by the basketball guards in terms of what they played. I thought you know they're going to be right, focus, but I thought they had enough focus to win the game not until the last two minutes, but I also think you know Anthony Edwards is a tough cover. I think so, concentrate, you know you shouldn't let him get the damn ball, but oh well. He doesn't need a kick. I think he's a guy that can get it because he's a guard, it's a little easier for him to get the ball than he can be a joker like you can deny jokic the ball. at certain times but you're not going to deny it you're not going to deny Murray or you're not going to deny it but I'm saying you thought Denver played with energy yes I did I think I don't think they played with great energy but I think they just They like that, they are trying to do that, but there is a difference, I think, but I don't think they entered the game, without a way out, without enough effort to win, I just think that was not the maximum effort of the Championship until the last five or six minutes if you can't turn it on because then you put Anthony Edwards in the game and that's what happened 114 108 in overtime, the first overtime game we've had in these playoffs. so far it's the one we came up with, they're like what I didn't like at all, how about I mean a 12 and nothing run to get to overtime and then come on that was a good game I guarantee that we made profits? the stats everything is up 10 points with two minutes left usually wins that game