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Anthony Edwards Says He's Frustrated by Defenses Doubling Him | Inside the NBA · Bleacher Report

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  Speaker 1: How hard is it to just staying gaged? Super hard?
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  Speaker 2: Superhard, super hard, super hard. I mean, because I'm wired
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  Speaker 2: to score the ball, but it's not fun because I
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  Speaker 2: don't want to look like I'm not trying or not
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  Speaker 2: as good as I am, because I am, but I
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  Speaker 2: can't show it Because'm getting double team. It's definitely frustrating,
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  Speaker 2: you know, to see these guys cooking us and I
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  Speaker 2: can't cook them because it is whatever they adjustments are.
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  Speaker 1: I can't wait to hear your thoughts on that because
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  Speaker 1: you see, yeah, Chuck rolling over. It is great with
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  Speaker 1: all those three pointers shot tonight, ninety six on the
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  Speaker 1: nine fifty eight percent of the one hundred.
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  Speaker 3: Three of all attempts one hundred three, that's crazy.
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  Speaker 1: What do you make of what Anthony Edward said about
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  Speaker 1: being double team?
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  Speaker 3: Well, when you're a great player, they're gonna double team you.
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  Speaker 3: But he's got off. He has not. In my opinion,
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  Speaker 3: he's regressed. He's become a just coach. Van Ganda said.
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  Speaker 3: He said a coach want him to be more aggressive. Man. Uh,
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  Speaker 3: he's selling for threes.
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  Speaker 4: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: He's not being a leader in my opinion, because they
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  Speaker 3: follow everything he does. When you're the best player. They
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  Speaker 3: gonna go to bad. They're gonna follow you, and they
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  Speaker 3: have no style. Right now, I'm not even sure what
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  Speaker 3: they're doing. They just get the ball to him. They
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  Speaker 3: just give a ball to Julius. It's really heard Nads
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  Speaker 3: read more than anybody. They're playing five on four, excuse me,
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  Speaker 3: four on five, and I think they need to go
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  Speaker 3: smaller and play faster. I would put I think Nods
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  Speaker 3: and Julius they gotta play together because Rudy he can't
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  Speaker 3: guard anybody that's not a knock. There's no big guys
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  Speaker 3: on the court anymore. So what good is a shot
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  Speaker 3: blocker if the guys are standing behind a three point line.
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  Speaker 3: So if he can make him play on the offensive end,
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  Speaker 3: why you got him out there for defense. We saw
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  Speaker 3: it in the finals, like, oh, they're gonna make him
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  Speaker 3: switch on Luca. So they got to me. I said,
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  Speaker 3: they gotta go small period.
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  Speaker 1: I've always had great mentors around me, and they would
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  Speaker 1: have told me. I don't want to hear it Pat Riddy,
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to hear it about double Phil Jackson,
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  Speaker 1: Dale Brown, Uncle Jerome, I don't want to hear it.
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  Speaker 1: Great players figure a way out his job is he
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  Speaker 1: holds the ball too long. So when you hold the
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  Speaker 1: ball too long, you allow the double to come. That's okay,
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  Speaker 1: get rid of it. Do the Steph Curry thing, follow
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  Speaker 1: it and get it back. And when you're going to
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  Speaker 1: take your shot, you got to make your shots up.
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  Speaker 1: He's setting them for threes. Take two threes. I learned
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  Speaker 1: this from de Scott and Glenn. Right, if I miss
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  Speaker 1: two threes, I'm not shooting another three until I go
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  Speaker 1: through the hole. Get a lab, go to the fruit
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  Speaker 1: of line and get my rhythm back. He needs to
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  Speaker 1: mix up these guys right now, they don't mix up.
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  Speaker 1: They either shooting three or die, and tonight he died.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I'll add on because I agree with what they're saying.
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  Speaker 4: My addition to that would be, as a great player,
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  Speaker 4: you also your job is to make others better. And
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  Speaker 4: so because you're making the basketball play and he is,
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  Speaker 4: he said one thing, he's wired to score, I would
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  Speaker 4: I would rethink that if I was him, I'm wired
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  Speaker 4: to make plays. And because he's going to have the
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  Speaker 4: basketball in his hand. Another to Kawhi Leonard line, Well, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: you know with the play the play is drawn for you,
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  Speaker 4: doesn't mean you have to shoot it right, And so
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  Speaker 4: I understand his analogy is being wired to score. But
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  Speaker 4: because he's becoming a three point shooter more, he's leading
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  Speaker 4: the NBA in threes made, so that means he's taking
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  Speaker 4: a lot. I wouldn't say that he hasn't never taken
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  Speaker 4: that many in his career.
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  Speaker 1: He's taking about three more game than he.
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  Speaker 3: Three more games.
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  Speaker 4: That's a lot. That's a lot of that's a lot
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  Speaker 4: of shots extra that typically he had been in the
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  Speaker 4: paint getting. But secondly, it's a simple basketball game. One
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  Speaker 4: guy guard you, you go buy him. Two guys are
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  Speaker 4: on you, You pass the ball, you're open, you shoot it.
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  Speaker 4: As simple as it sounds, sometimes it becomes very complicated
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  Speaker 4: for some people. And right now he's complicating the game.
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  Speaker 4: And he is a great enough play to have to
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  Speaker 4: draw two to kick to one. He is that great
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  Speaker 4: a player to do that.
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  Speaker 3: But I want to make one more point that goes
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  Speaker 3: back to my Rudy go Beart point. Rudy Gobert is
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  Speaker 3: not helping them offensively. That's why I think they need
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  Speaker 3: to go small. Pass the ball to Julius Rando or
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  Speaker 3: nas Reed, the Vincenzo who else they got out there.
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  Speaker 3: Like I said, Rudy is a terrific defender, but he
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  Speaker 3: doesn't make the team play on the other end. So
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  Speaker 3: after it's playing four against five. So because they don't
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  Speaker 3: have to worry about Rudy, that's why I think they
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  Speaker 3: should go small. That's the only adjustment I think they
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  Speaker 3: can make.
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  Speaker 1: Minnesota now seventeen and sixteen s team won fifty six
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  Speaker 1: games last year.
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  Speaker 3: They'd have to go thirty nine and ten the rest
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  Speaker 3: of the.
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  Speaker 1: Way to last year. Ration three minutes