Windhorst wasn’t impressed with either team after the Lakers’ Game 2 win over the Wolves 😳

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00:00I'm thinking about Oklahoma City, who has dismantled the Grizzlies so far,

00:05totally looking like the 68-win team that they were during the regular season.

00:09And I'm thinking, one of these two teams thinks that they can run through the West playing this way?

00:13No way.

00:14So I'll give them a pass that it was the first two games of the series,

00:18and it's going to be a long series.

00:20I just wasn't impressed either way.

00:22Luka has given Minnesota all kinds of problems over the last two years.

00:25If I was going to look into the future and say how this series is going to go,

00:29I don't see how Minnesota stops him, so I'd lean towards the Lakers.

00:33I think he probably carries them.

00:35But Ann Edwards hasn't been great these first two games.

00:38And what was alarming about last night's game is that he said he was confused

00:42by the defense the Lakers played on him.

00:44He said it was sort of a zone.

00:47You know, I'm not an X's and O's expert.

00:49I think the way the Lakers were playing against him is similar to the way they play against great scorers,

00:54where they just try to crowd the paint and dare the guy to kick and shoot threes.

00:59Maybe there was a new wrinkle that J.J. Reddick came up with that I didn't see,

01:03and I'll grant for that.

01:04I don't think Ann Edwards showed the aggression he needed to show,

01:08considering the stakes.

01:09And the big thing was he had no assists in this game.

01:13He hasn't had a no-assist game in three years.

01:16He had nine assists in game one.

01:17So this is really about Ann Edwards answering back with a great game or two

01:23when this series goes to Minneapolis.