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00:00Only 18 points, 5 of 13 from the floor, and a team worse, plus, minus for the T-Wolves in the opening game of the Western Conference Finals.
00:09Here's Anthony Edwards on OKC and how they performed in the second half, pulling away late.
00:16Is there anything about their style of play that is wearing over the course of a 48-minute game where, you know, maybe you can handle it in the first half, but they keep coming with that style, it gets tougher as the game goes on?
00:28No, not really. I just got to – I definitely got to shoot more. I only took 13 shots, but I'll say probably just get off the ball a little more, play without the ball.
00:41I think that would be the answer because playing on the ball, they're just going to double and sit in the gaps all day.
00:46So got to go watch some film and pick it apart. We'll figure it out.
00:50Did your ankle affect your shooting at all?
00:525 of 13 last night for the Ant-Man, 3 of 8 from beyond the arc.
00:58DRS, that's only five two-point field goals. Anthony Edwards is right.
01:02He probably has to be a little bit more aggressive offensively.
01:05Yeah, he certainly does, and it falls on him.
01:08You can't expect a series to go through with the Minnesota Timberwolves where Anthony Edwards is average and then knock off the one seed.
01:13You know who could probably be average and win? Top seeds here.
01:16Like SGA, I'm average. I'm going to score between 26 to 31 points here every single night.
01:21They're fine with that because they have other outside outlets that they can use.
01:24And they're the better overall team than the Minnesota Timberwolves, hence the 68 regular season wins.
01:28But for Anthony Edwards, if they want to win a championship, forget about this round, Ben.
01:32If they want to win a championship, he's got to go nuclear.
01:34He's got to be in the mid-30s every single game and provide that offensive firepower that they need.
01:39Julius Randall was great last 28 points, but also you need Anthony Edwards above 28 points to try to compete at that point.
01:45That was the only disheartening thing because Anthony Edwards will turn it around.
01:48He's a great player. He's going to have big games. I expect that.
01:51But I feel like you wasted a performance where if you told me again, Ben, we love to do this before the game.
01:55Hey, Donnie, Randall's going to be tremendous and almost drop 30 points in this game.
01:59I'd say, wow, they might not only win this, but sure enough, they're going to cover that seven and a half points.
02:03It's just the other players didn't even show up for game number one.
02:07That was the issue.
02:08And it'll get together.
02:09Julius Randall has to stay together.
02:11But those two bench players we talked about also, they got to step it up as well.
02:14Let's mention all three, DRS, because Nas Reed, atrocious, 0-7 from the floor, or from deep, I should say, as well.
02:23Nas Reed, 0-7 from three.
02:25Dante DiVincenzo, 3-12 from three-point range.
02:29Nikhil Alexander-Walker.
02:30By the way, Shea Gilgis, Alexander's cousin.
02:33That's a story to watch throughout this series.
02:352-9 from deep as well.
02:37Those three guys, your sharpshooters off the bench, they provide that second unit scoring 5 of 28 in total from three.
02:46That's about 18%.
02:48That cannot be for Minnesota to provide that offensive spark against a really good Oklahoma City defense.
02:55And also, Donnie, what's fascinating, we talked rest versus rust.
02:59It was OKC in the second half pulling away and winning by 30 points.
03:04In fact, we have seen three series in the Western Conference go to seven games.
03:09And the team that won in that seventh game also won immediately in the aftermath in the opening game of their following series.
03:16The Nuggets against OKC in the second round.
03:19Golden State even without Steph Curry in the second half on the road in Minnesota.
03:24OKC at home last night holding off Minnesota and expanding that lead in the final two quarters.
03:30The Nuggets against OKC in the second half on the road.