In his first year and change in the NBA, 2020 No. 1 overall pick of the Minnesota Timberwolves Anthony Edwards has made an impression not only with his play but with his personality. Both were on display in a big way on Wednesday night against the Houston Rockets.
Edwards finished the night with 29 points, helping his team to a 124-106 season-opening victory. He made six three-pointers (attempted 12), something he only did twice during his entire rookie campaign. Two of those threes came back-to-back at the very end of the first half, part of a 40-point second quarter for the T-Wolves that gave them a 27-point lead entering halftime.
After the back-to-back threes, giving him 24 first-half points, Edwards looked toward the Houston bench and motioned to head coach Stephen Silas to call a timeout. When asked about the moment after the game, he said "yeah, I was telling the coach to call a damn timeout. You need a timeout. I'm hot."
COCKY.
Of course, Silas calling a TO with 21 seconds left in the first half, down 29 points, wouldn't have made much of a difference in this one. But it's the boldness of Edwards that counts here. We can't recall any player imploring the opposing coach to call a timeout because he was TOO hot. Edwards is a trailblazer when it comes to cockiness.
Here was his first of many ferocious dunks this season:
The fact he can make it rain from downtown too is flat-out terrifying. Minnesota might have themselves a great one in the former Georgia Bulldog. Between him, Karl-Anthony Towns, D'Angelo Russell and handful of other young pieces, the T-Wolves might not be the laughingstock they normally are in 2021.
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