Minnesota's defense has been elite (#1 ranked; -11.9 rDRTG)

[j3lademaster]

Ant needs all defense consideration. He has the defensive metrics to back it up while playing major minutes on the best defensive team.

[Xiao Yao You]

NBA on ESPN: “[I’ll be the best player in the NBA in] about two to three years.” 🗣️ Anthony Edwards with @malika_andrews on the future of his NBA career 🍿 pic.twitter.com/jtQEeFhNPa

[Xiao Yao You]

Jon Krawczynski: Anthony Edwards: “I see KAT being the MVP of the series, if we win it, because they’re going to put two and three on me. He’s the best player on the team. You put two and three on me and you leave best player on the team 1 on 1, that’s something we live for.” – via Twitter JonKrawczynski

[FireDavidKahn]

Rudy got DPOY locked up.

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Rudy Gobert looking like the lock for DPOY.

[Xiao Yao You]

Another blow for the trolls as Rudy makes history. Springfield awaits

[Xiao Yao You]

Gerald Bourguet: Kevin Durant on making Rudy Gobert and Karl-Anthony Towns work defensively: “Rudy’s gotten extremely better at guarding perimeters, guarding posts, guarding the rim. So you can’t just throw ‘em in actions expecting them to just give in. I think we’ll be strategic with what we do” pic.twitter.com/IWRB5XiODs

[SATAN]

[999Guy]

You know what, Kahn’s stanning is misguided but I just thought about something.


I’m getting caught up in new regular season team performances from Minny and OKC but Denver is definitely the best playoff team in the West. They have an ungodly all-time great player, a sidekick who really steps it up, and really good defensive formula for winning.


Edwards might have to be that guy in a series against them. That might be his big moment and chance to be perpetually overrated, if he could just have a yearly hot shooting series against Denver to win the West.

Gobert is clearly a far better and more important player…MOST times, but against Denver that might really be the formula.

The logic of Edwards carrying anything is still wrong and bad but it might play out to make it seem less dumb to casuals. Interesting playoff run coming up.

Alright. Edwards had his moment. Now it's Gobert time for the rest of the playoffs.

[Axe]