The Wolves know they avoided the worst against the Wizards
As The wizards are at the bottom of the holeseriously, Wolves they managed to make a difference in the first half, leading by 25 points. Victory seemed to be won, easy. Except Rudy Gobert and his teammates ease up after halftime and see Washington claw back to within five points before finally tightening the screw and to finish the job.
Chris Finch’s men avoided the worst, namely defeat to the worst team in the league, but that does not make this success easy.
“yes and no”, answer Naz Reed when asked if he is satisfied with the victory. “It’s still an NBA team ahead. We don’t just want to compete against them, we have to maintain a pretty high standard for ourselves. We shouldn’t put ourselves in those situations.”
Symbolic of this half-fig, half-grape Wolves performance, Anthony Edwards finished with just 18 points on 6/20 shooting, including 1/8 on 3-pointers. First of all, in the second half, when his team was in trouble, the last scored only 4 points. He did not speak to reporters after the meeting…
“Honestly, we were lucky”admits Julius Randle, the author of 32 points in this victory. “Our activity, our aggressiveness, our motivation remained in the locker room at halftime. We have to do better, be more mature than that.”
2025-11-20 07:55:00
