“You Gotta Stay Mentally Tough.” | Anthony Edwards Postgame Sound | 02.28.24

“You Gotta Stay Mentally Tough.” | Anthony Edwards Postgame Sound | 02.28.24

You were asking for JJJ for a while um kind of what was in your mind C I mean yeah that’s pretty much it we couldn’t guard them so I said might well try what what’s your approach when you’re giving up size to someone how do

You fight him and how do you make got to be physical um I think playing football helped me a lot like growing up as a kid so got to initiate the contact be the first one to hit and um after that just it’s a fight you know we in the ring you

Have familiarity with them with the world World Cup stu oh no he got he got a lot better since then yeah he he added a lot since we came back after the World Cup so he got game a lot of game and um was this a case of like that helping

Ignite you on the offensive end too or or I didn’t even I didn’t think it did I mean just even if I didn’t get it going offensively I was just trying to stop him cuz we couldn’t I mean we couldn’t guard him I mean yeah like 25 in a

Middle of the third you know so and I hate to see that so I mean I just Tred to put an end to it he said this was kind of a mental toughness game for you guys especially after the way you guys started uh what’s required to win a

Mental toughness game you got to stay mentally tough throughout all the ups and downs they went up like 10 or 14 or something like that right um we came back and then in the third they went up like 10 so I mean you just got to you

Know stay within the game and stay focused I think that’s the main thing when he say mentally tough we just got to stay focused cuz we get disengaged a lot especially myself so I think it was a big win for and sometimes I me you guys have had

Obviously many wins this year where you play really the team plays really well for all four quarters and then sometimes there’s been a handful of wins like this where it’s a bad quarter or two like how do you I mean I know a win’s a win at

The end of the day but but how are you think about that like after the fact of of a game if like if you guys didn’t playing wise yeah yeah I don’t have nothing to say I just want to win I don’t how we win I just want to win I

Mean I come from winning 20 games my rookie is so I don’t really care how we win I don’t care if we play the first three quarters if we win we win a game I’m happy I have nothing bad to say I mean little little stuff like we got to

Be better on the ball but other than as a whole I mean long as we yeah long as we win it seemed like it was really you know big actually the last two nights kind of when Monte and Nas checked into the game that’s where you guys really

Got going there um what are you feeling that those two are are bringing when they’re when they’re coming off the bench they just so unselfish um now hit like four threes in the first half cat catches the balls in the post he trying to scream for me I’m like bro they ain’t

Guarding you go shoot the ball he like I’m trying to get you open sack so just like you know little stuff like that Monte comes to me and was like bro hey I see you the back door and then the very next play I get a dump he hits me on the

Back door so they just unselfish players man you know so playing comforable with yeah for sure you were setting some screens too offensively you just trying to up that physicality on offense yeah I mean plus they wasn’t switching like they was like denying me all type of

Crazy so I know if I set a screen they didn’t want to switch they didn’t want to get a bad match up so I mean I was just trying to put my teammates in the right positiony aggressively tonight you like that um does that kind of match up or

Defensive scheme kind of help you guys for the playoffs when teams by trying to get the ball out of your hands um yeah I think so I mean because if you going to let me backo you all night then I’m just playing my game cuz I want to go dunk

The ball so I mean if you going to do that that’s fun for me in your career you would talk a lot more about like all defense and those kind of goals we see like nights like tonight like you have that capability what do you think has to

Happen in order for me to get that to get into that conversation um I think people got to watch more Minnesota Timol games as far as whoever the voters are um I think yeah they just got to watch the games um because this not like my

First time doing this like I have nights like this all the time where somebody get hot or the best player get hot and I go shut them down the rest of the game and you know nobody sees it but y’all and I think that goes into my votes of

All defensive the team but nobody sees it only y’all see it so I think they got to watch more games I think that’s the outcome would you like to take on those match ups even more it does seem like you’re like situational you especially the second half of the Season like I

Feel like I’m in my best shape now so I would love to take on more matchups I was going to say is that is that something where you have to balance it like with because you are doing so much offensively like in terms of your energy level throughout a game is that

Something you have to monitor yeah I mean it’s kind of easy to monitor because we got two of the best um defenders in the world with Jaden and Rudy so I mean it’s easy I tell J he go shut him down the first three quarters

And then you know if he get it going in the fourth I go get him but yeah it’s kind of easy to manage this is like in your experience even as an offensive player is somebody getting up into you like physicality is that the best way to

Really yeah CU I mean I like it but it’s not it’s it’s irritating you know so I know how it feels you know vice versa so yeah it’s definitely irritating CU I don’t like when people do it to me so I know people won’t like it for me but

There aren’t that many guys who can do it and still stay in front yeah it’s like a hand it’s like probably probably about to um Dylan Brooks L dork um who else does a great job as far as like getting getting getting into the ball yeah those two probably and was this the

Jaden like that you want to see hell yeah just bringing confident locking up blocking shots yeah that’s what we need him to do and you guys were down 11 in the third quarter and Clos that in 3 minutes does that tell you does that show you growth and when you in previous

League games you’ve dropped like this similarly yeah for sure and we did it as a team we didn’t do it like individually like you know how cat might get hot hit 3 43s or myself might get hot or Nas we didn’t do that tonight nobody got hot we

Did it as a team Swing Swing I get a back door dunk cat get a post Nas get open three Jaden gets open three um Mike hun so we did it as a team and I think that shows growth tonight awesome thanks guys thanate

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