Anthony Edwards, Mike Conley, Kyle Anderson React to Wolves Going Down 0-3 vs. Mavs

Anthony Edwards, Mike Conley, Kyle Anderson React to Wolves Going Down 0-3 vs. Mavs

pretty positive room trying to encourage everybody kind of what’s your what’s your mindset now as you try to now overcome a three def I mean we ain’t got nothing else to do that’s the only we can’t do nothing but be positive at this point we can’t be negative you know so try to get one win at a time the offense dried up for last five minutes uh we had good looks we had a couple good looks missed missed him um the ball got stuck a couple times in my hands you know um got to get off of it a little bit more but we’ll be all right and what is about you that doesn’t see a Skies falling when the sky appears to be falling um I never think the sky is falling um I don’t know I’m always positive always happy um been through the wor so the sky is Never Falling for me Mike and Kyle you guys got some offensive rhythm going together in that kind of two-man game in the fourth quarter what was working that there that can kind of extend over uh to game four um y’all can hear me um I thought we were just playing with a a good Pace like the ball wasn’t sticky uh kind of playing with that five mentality where you know two dribbles get off it hit the pocket that guy makes a play normally it was Kyle um finding guys and just moving without the ball and we play that way we’re we’re it’s a we’re a tough team to kind of gauge where to be at where to load up on who to load up on um so we just if we can move the ball like that continue to have that continuity on offense I think it’ll it’ll allow our offense just to have a little bit um more Effectiveness especially late game and when we we’re pressing for buckets KY let see tonight if you guys forced the fall out of K luas hands other guys were hitting shots early in the game and then you guard him straight up they were hitting shots late just how tough has it been to defend these guys especially in in this game are obviously really good shot makers and when you get uh Derek Jones and PJ Washington and you know a lot of those other guys playing as well as they did they’re tough to beat so um just got to figure out a way to slow both of them down and um you know luuka and Kyrie and you know as well as those other guys too you know they can’t all play well like that you know we have to pick and choose and uh that’s what we’re going to do game four yeah the dunk the dunk you had in the third quarter did you feel at that time it maybe kind of galvanized the team a little bit seems like it gave you guys a real shot in the arm at that time with way you were able to tie the game third I mean hell yeah I hope it did or at least I tried um you know yeah like schematically that Dallas’s defense has been really good for the last two and a half months like the way you’re talking about playing like getting up the ball you know just moving it is is that the best way to kind of render the way teams load up moot almost I think so I think that um you you play into their hands when you hold the ball when when you um you know dribble it out dribble out the clock you’re fighting against the shot clock I thought that was the issue we had a little bit tonight where we were you know looking up and we had 10 11 seconds on the clock and at that point you have to force something um instead of just being in action early playing with a little bit more um you know uh Force going down downhill and making plays which we’re capable of doing and I said the last couple games we we’re more than capable of making these adjustments and making these reads and just it’s just we got to want to do it we got to want to do it every single time against a defense like this who’s who’s you know very long athletic smart um and calculated in what they do like when you lose three games like in very close fashion like this as a veteran can that seep into the minds of a young team when it gets down to four minutes left and it’s a close game and you don’t have the positive reinforcement that we can beat this team when the game gets close to you see that um I mean I could say it’ be the opposite if you were winning those games you would feel confident when you look up and you look you know four minutes left and you’ve been winning the games you going to think positive thoughts um and I think I can’t speak for every person but I’m sure we’re looking up and say how we going to get how we going to win this one how we got to figure it out you know this is the moment of of the game where we got to be um tight and together and uh and figure it out obviously it’s on our minds um because for the majority of this series I feel like we’ve we’ve given ourselves a chance um we’ve given ourselves leads we’ve given ourselves opportunities and and we know what part of the game we need to be better at and the part that is going to win us the game is going to be that fourth quarter for the three of you um especially you know I I think in the first half maybe uh you’re struggling maybe to score the ball a little bit and I felt like cat was especially more aggressive than Aunt you were especially facilitating the ball around was there something you could take away from that third quarter to um for your offensive Rhythm or just what was working there um was I don’t think I was on the court so I might be for yall to um but no uh just um getting into our actions and and and getting good shots I we we didn’t shoot the ball as well as we would like to too um but in that and and that spurt um I think we were doing a good job of getting into our actions playing with Pace we obviously could play with a little more Pace but uh you know we were getting the shots we like um we just got to convert that’s that’s just what it comes down to sometimes the NBA game comes down to making or missing shots and uh you know we just got to make more shots and uh still work hard to get good shots you know what I’m saying when you guys were in your two-man game and you’re doing a lot of respacing is it harder to respace when they’re filling gaps and being a little bit tenser up there or is it easier to respace or is it just a different way even when we was respacing and we was getting to our spots we just wasn’t knocking the shots down so I mean at the end of the day they’re going to be in the gaps even more the more we miss we didn’t shoot the ball well from three ton night at all yeah I miss I didn’t make one no nobody shot well but um Jaden and Mike from three and um you know and if we keep shooting like that then they just going to keep being in the Gap so no matter how we reach space and get back out to the three-point line if we don’t knock them down they going to sit in the gaps all night and what that box score stands out to you see 30 to 7 31 to 17 um they had 31 free throws we had 17 do you think the physicality that was emphasized in the second half of the season they seem like the rest were allowing you guys to play a little more hands a little more with the body there was fou TR I think you guys went a penalty with maybe eight minutes is it inconsistency Mike you were in fou trouble what did you what did you see how how did you see I won’t say the game being caught not trying to get you in trouble but do you see did you did you feel it being a little different tonight man you trying ain’t you I promise I’m not no um now honestly a lot of my fouls were fouls I thought um but it’s it’s about consistency on both ends yeah yes that’s all we ask for at the end of the day um if I foul yeah I foul fou the jump shootter I did it I’ve done it two or three times this series call the hands on my mic fouled and just call it down there that’s all we as just consistency and if if they did a great job tonight we just asked for the same calls down there yep and it’s not unusual for teams have been throwing a lot of defensive attention at you all season and especially in in these playoffs why has this Series has that proven more difficult to overcome um like I said I mean we not knocking the shot like we’ve been knocking the shots down all all the whole playoffs um Denver series The Phoenix series we was making all the shots so it’s it’s harder to you know do what you do when we knocking them down but when we not knocking them down it’s it’s it’s easier to crowd the paint um I was getting to the RIM today and it was just like four people in there you know so they make they make it tough man they did a great job shout out to them you feel like you had the same burst in the fourth that you did in the third Y what do you guys have to do to get Carl going offensively in game four um I think Kat gotta uh just do a better job of getting back to maybe his old self um finding himself around the basket more uh Rim running you know taking advantage of mismatches um you know he’s obviously a really good player and he’s big time for us so um you know we need him to get going so it’s our job to you know put him in the right position um and then the threes will fall um but I think if he gets back to rim running or catching the ball on the Block and you know taking his time and going to finish they got nothing for him so uh you know you just got to find put him put him put him in the right you know situations about ant’s leadership um seemed really vocal after in the locker room but what does that to say about him that he’s fight trying to get you guys up no it says a lot you know he’s a guy that um not only is trying to get guys going um keeping guys positive but he’ll he’ll be on himself be the first one to say you know he he didn’t have it or didn’t bring it or didn’t you should have did this better or that better so um he’s holding himself accountable it’s something all of us can look up to and and look at ourselves in the mirror and hold ourselves accountable um to have him do that at 22 years old is impressive and uh you know we wouldn’t be in this position right now without without that kind of leadership thanks guys

Anthony Edwards, Mike Conley, and Kyle Anderson full postgame press conference after the Timberwolves Game 3 loss to the Mavericks.

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