This is a nicer version of what Jimmy Butler was trying to tell Karl-Anthony Towns.
When you are as talented as KAT, you shouldn’t easily be taken out of a game, you should exert dominance over all your opponents, and it is disrespectful when they put a little man on you one on one. You have to destroy him before the double team comes.
That is what Anthony Edwards was trying to say when he said this postgame via John Meyer.
Anthony Edwards discusses how KAT needs to deal with double teams. “You gotta go quick.” Don’t wait for the double to come. He used Embiid as an example of going quick. Ant said it was disrespectful that Utah defended Towns with Bojan Bogdanović + Karl needs to kill every night.
The T-Wolves were blown out by the Jazz, which led to the comments from Edwards.
Donovan Mitchell scored 36 points and the sharp-shooting Utah Jazz beat the Minnesota Timberwolves 136-104 Wednesday night for their fifth straight win.
Mitchell made 14 of 23 shots and Utah connected for 25 3-pointers, two shy of their season-high set last Friday against Boston.
Bojan Bogdanovic had 21 points and five rebounds, and Jordan Clarkson scored 18 points — all from deep — off the bench for Utah. The Jazz head to Philadelphia for the second game of a back-to-back Thursday.
“This was a good win for us,” Mitchell said. “This is a road trip I think we’re all trying to see where we’re at and continue to build. We’ve got a big one tomorrow.”
Karl-Anthony Towns led Minnesota with 22 points, while Anthony Edwards scored 18. The Timberwolves have lost four straight.
KAT has been in the league long enough that he should already know this and doesn’t need a second-year player to explain it to him, but as I was told once, it is ok to ignore the messenger, but not the message.
Flip the pages for Edwards’ full comments and some Twitter reactions.