Although the Timberwolves won a ticket to the seventh place in the West in the playoffs, but in the first round against the second place Grizzlies in the West, the Timberwolves still suffered their own inexperience losses, and in the case of 3 times with more than 10 points, they were unfortunately reversed by the Grizzlies, and after yesterday's 8-point defeat to the opponent, the Timberwolves also lost to the Grizzlies by an aggregate score of 2-4, encountering the first round of the game.
The first point scorer in the team, Edwards grabbed the limelight in the first playoff
Although the Timberwolves unfortunately suffered the first round of the trip, but in this playoff trip, the team Leader Edwards has an excellent performance, in these 6 games, only 20 years old, he fully demonstrated his newborn calf is not afraid of the tiger's momentum, can average 25.2 points, 4.2 rebounds, 3 assists, 1.2 steals and 1.2 blocks of all-around data, three shooting rates to 45.5%, 40.4% and 82.4%, of which one of the scores came to the first place in the team. Even higher than Downs (21.8 points per game) and Russell (12 points per game) who have had playoff experience. After scoring 36 points in the first game of the playoffs, Edwards scored another 30 points in the final game of the playoffs, bringing his first playoff trip to a perfect end.
Benefiting from his height and arm length advantage, Edwards completely locked up Morant on the defensive end
Not only the offensive end, but also on the defensive end, Edwards also has great achievements, 1 meter 96 tall him, the arm span came to 2 meters 06, it is also the advantage of this height and length of the arm (compared to the same position No. 2 position does have a certain advantage), so that he in this round of the series to defend Morant, occupy the absolute upper hand, according to relevant statistics, in these 6 playoff games, when Edwards against Morant, the latter a total of 26 shots only hit 10 goals, and accompanied by 12 mistakes, In yesterday's showdown with the Timberwolves, Edwards gave Morant a dismount in the first quarter, and in the process of a Morant breakthrough layup, Edwards has been stubbornly entangled with him, and when Morant wanted to stand up to himself to a layup, Edwards directly came to a ruthless hat, fanned the ball out of the field, and attracted a round of applause from the home fans.
Although the first round of the trip, but the Timberwolves harvest the future, Edwards really should be corrected
This round of the series, as the number one core of the Grizzlies, Morant averaged only 21.5 points per game, the three shooting rates were as low as 38.6%, 20% and 71.2%, his downturn on the offensive end, largely due to Edwards' strong defense, if it were not for Edwards' coming forward, there were excellent performances at both ends of the offensive and defensive ends, the Timberwolves wanted to rely on Russell and Towns, the two crotch all-stars, not to mention dragging the game into 6 games, can not be swept out by the other side, have to burn high incense to celebrate.
As the Timberwolves in the 2020 selection of the champion, Edwards at that time although the fame is not as good as the three goals, Wiseman, but it is this low profile, creating him in the past 2 years to seek steady progress, and gradually become a quasi-All-Star level of the guard, during the regular season, Edwards' data compared to last season's rookie year ushered in a certain improvement, Averaging 21.3 points, 4.8 rebounds and 3.8 assists per game, I thought that the first playoff trip of my career would play a bad performance, but I didn't think that his performance was even better than Downs and Russell, for the Timberwolves, it is really necessary to consider completely correcting Edwards next season, and let him Towns and Russell play him as an assistant.