{"id":492714,"date":"2025-05-21T04:54:35","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T08:54:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=492714"},"modified":"2025-05-21T04:55:46","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T08:55:46","slug":"edwards-believes-wolves-will-bounce-back-after-game-1-loss","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/edwards-believes-wolves-will-bounce-back-after-game-1-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"Edwards believes Wolves will bounce back after Game 1 loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the Thunder outscoring the Timberwolves by 30 points in the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> half of the 114-88 Game 1 defeat to start the West Conference finals, Minnesota Timberwolves leader Anthony Edwards is not worried.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel fantastic,\u201d Anthony shared after notching only 5 points in the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> half, finishing the match with only 18 points.<\/p>\n<p>Edwards believes that his team will get back in the matchup by winning the next game: \u201cWithout a doubt, I must shoot more. I only shot 13 times. I need to play with the ball less because they double-teamed me. I will rewatch the match and I see what I can do differently to improve.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Wolves star revealed that the OKC\u2019s schemes dictated his approach in the opening match from the series. Minnesota went from notching 72 points in Game 5 of the conference \u00bd finals in closing out the Warriors to only 20 against the Thunder &#8211; the fewest paint points in a match for the organization since Game 1 of the 2004 conference finals vs. the Lakers.<\/p>\n<p>Donte DiVincenzo claimed that his team had good looks, but they missed it and must shot better in Game 2.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Anthony Edwards left the court before time expired and gave his jersey to a fan \ud83e\udd7a<\/p>\n<p>Thunder beat the Wolves in Game 1. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/09vZRXfEVw\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/09vZRXfEVw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NBA on ESPN (@ESPNNBA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ESPNNBA\/status\/1925029621495484541?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 21, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the Thunder outscoring the Timberwolves by 30 points in the 2nd half of the 114-88 Game 1 defeat to start the West [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":492717,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17160,17159,17837,16786],"news_category":[16706,16715,14084],"gn_keywords":[18339,18338,17840,1067],"acf":{"announce":"The Minnesota Star shared that he is optimistic about his team.","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/492714"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492714"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/492714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":492716,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/492714\/revisions\/492716"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492714"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=492714"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=492714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}