If anyone still had doubts about Anthony Edwardsthere is no better scenario to take them off than see him shine against the NBA champion in a match Playoffs as a visitor.
Their Minnesota Timberwolves you they won 106-99 to Denver Nuggets in Colorado to make it 1-0 in this Western Conference second round series. And just as Minnesota’s defense cooked up the victory on one half of the court, Edwards secured it on the other.
Ant made a game of 43 points, 7 rebounds and 3 assists At 22 years old, this is his highest score in the Playoffs (16 games played), but he is in tune with this postseason in which he has scored 33 points or more in four of the five games he played. And Minnesota, after sweeping the Phoenix Suns, remains undefeated in the Playoffs.
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There may not be no other mid-range scorer like Edwards in the NBA right nowand Denver suffered a lot in that style.
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Ant He shot 1-4 from mid-range in the first half of the game (in which he also scored 25 points) and went 4-5 in the second half, in which Minnesota came back after trailing 64-60 at halftime.
In it clutch, the game was won between Rudy Gobert, for his defense; Edwards, with the complicated shots of him and Naz Reid, as the X Factor.
Gobert was very important despite scoring just six points and Reid finished with 16 in 23 minutes off the bench (and scored 10 of those points in a stretch of less than two minutes in the fourth quarter), to take the Timberwolves from 84-84 to 94-88. Edwards then scored eight more points in the final three minutes.
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On its way to the 2023 title, Denver barely lost one of the 11 games it played at home: It was the second of the Finals against the Miami Heat. He didn’t have to come back in any series. Now, the Nuggets will have to work against a Minnesota that is overflowing with confidence, and with an Edwards who feels like an MVP.
