Is Anthony Edwards coming back soon

welcome in to the daily wills court side we're here live right now coming to you post game i got carly in the house with me as well we're gonna be going over a ton of things in the minnesota timberwolves joe ingles the mvp game the starter joe ingles is it gonna last going forward everything and more uh we got the tj big game with 33 points we're covering that anthony edwards maybe he's going to come back sooner than later he's gonna be before the playoffs and we got a lot more to talk about in today's episode carly i'm glad you're here and we get to talk about a fun game yes the timberwolves lost 120 132 but nonetheless the young guys get a crack at it they get to play and it looks fun out there like the vibes felt good pre-game nazaree and jayden mcdaniels are dabbing each other up jayden comes back i mean how are you feeling post game because i feel like usually does not feel like this on the post game yeah this was like the the most fun i've probably had watching us lose by 20 and i also had the thought in the beginning of the game of maybe the first half better than the second half but it was the thought of like oh this is what it's like to have your bench players play a team that is actually trying to win and you're like doing good like if the wolves have been on the flip side of that in so many moments it was like nice to see uh some of our guys pull through but yeah the the highlight is jayden coming back and looking like he never even was injured like i i wasn't expecting jayden to just look like jayden again and you know remind everybody why we went to two and four right that's what we went with jayden like yeah that's that's why that was the record because he is important to this team and so seeing him back look just it was i was surprised by jayden's return yeah i think so too like jayden coming back like i didn't see it coming um until earlier today when he gets up very questionable usually that happens like a player's probably coming back or they're trending in that direction but just coming back 18 points for jay mcdaniels and in the first quarter you know like eight points just aggressive he looked fresh um i'm nervous carly because you see anthony edwards return the other game and it didn't look great against the against the 76ers like the first game against the mavericks looked all right 76ers game he comes like he just he just wasn't himself you could tell that he was bothering him and so i was worried about jayden like what's he gonna be like a different body type he's taller he comes back he performs really good and he looks confident and looks fresh and that's something that i think jayden needed too so hopefully this last hopefully it's not like ant where the second game he's not feeling the best but no it's good to see jayden out there it gives you hope it's a timberwolves fan too because if mcdaniels can play and he can be what he is and you have anthony edwards at like 85 90 going into round one i feel like they have a shot against the denver nuggets we'll get into that later with denver and everything how about um joingles starting how do you feel about that tonight he has seven points he goes three from four i mean if i'm not doing math correctly that's a 75 shooting clip why are we playing joingles 35 minutes a night carly well look at that i mean it was like a dose of medicine that i feel like everybody needed like family's there it's like a and it you know a similar thing happened last year right and i remember like finch and players said that it was it brought people together just who doesn't love a moment like that and i know sometimes i think people wonder if um fans are sort of like infantilizing joe like overly cheering for him in a disrespectful way but i don't get that that's ever the vibe i think it's very much like supportive he's valued and that was that was a nice moment obviously it was awesome to see i remember that last year too with his family his kids pointing up tonight after he scored the layup uh for the box it's just an awesome moment and shout to chris finch for doing that in just the timberwolves organization as a whole um he's quite good honestly in the minutes he had i mean but um we gotta move on to our guy jaren jr the man of the night he was all over the place tonight he looks fantastic carly and right before i get your opinion on it we gotta cut to one quick ad read how's it going guys i've been with the daily wolves and this is brought to you by wolves realtor.com my go-to spot if i'm buying or selling into twin cities head over to wolves realtor.com and you're going to deal with my friend heather barker who's also a diehard timberwolves fan they have a watch party this friday april 10th at 8 p.m it's first the houston rockets this is a big game because guess what i think anthony edwards is coming back he's trending in that direction don't miss this they're doing a halftime raffle there's gonna be timberwolves merchandise and a grand prize to win 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injury with his foot it just wasn't himself i feel like now he's finally finding his um putting he looks healthy he looks explosive again you're starting to see why tj could be a piece moving forward for the timberwolves yeah yeah absolutely and in that you know not to like break or anything but i had two predictions for this year one was that tj was going to be the x factor and i know that didn't happen for the season but i wonder if it might be for the playoffs like i just like his power his ability to i mean he basically played like anthony upwards tonight you know he was shooting the three well he was driving the basket well i know we like talk a lot about him and how he needs to be able to figure out how to drive and shake hands and not just go to the one side but i he he's everything that you want in him today like even if it was a game that was meaningless that people weren't trying to win like that was really really nice to see well the magic were playing their players like all their guys were playing france vodner they had um uh how am i like desmond bain i was trying to get the guy traded for um random too i feel like desmond bain's body type is kind of like jalen clark i don't know i was watching that scene the matchup against each other tonight i was like it's kind of weird anyway um desmond bain but like the guys in general paul ventaro uh jalen sucks like he didn't just go up against anybody i mean even if it was on the bench of anthony black like these are good players orlando would have been a good team if they stayed healthy all year so for him to put up a performance like that not against like garbage time players i feel like that was it says a lot to chris finish the staff um i mean i wouldn't be surprised by saw tj being grown into a playoff game at some point again that's probably like you're trying to figure out what you need to do um because you're down this year it's kind of like we saw against the oklahoma city thunder last year when they threw him in but like you just never know and that's a player that can come in he can score in a hurry he can reach you 14 to flash an eye and he can put pressure on defense wake him up catch him off your heels i wish terrence jenna jr could finish with both hands right now i think his biggest liability he can only shoot like and drive i guess with his left hand and if you notice that every time he goes up for a layup doesn't matter what side of the basket he's approaching on he goes up for the left-hander and it gets blocked half the time and i feel like that's where i see tj's game like if you're going to play in the league forever and be not an elite shooter but like a slasher slash driver to the rim you have to be able to finish with both hands that's something like this offseason if i were about timberwolves his coach whatever like that's what i would address because tj like that's to me was holding him back from for sure being like you're guaranteed you're on a roster no matter what and you're playing you're getting guaranteed minutes because he has everything carly besides that somebody's asking too about anthony edwards i believe here uh oh no yeah what did and go down with anthony edwards has a knee inflammation right now it's a it's called runner's knee if you look it up on google it's like um what steph curry was doing with last year super painful carly's had it as well playing sports so she can probably um explain it as well in a second for you man but it's super painful because you don't exactly know when it gets better necessarily it's kind of on the player it's not really like something that a doctor can diagnose and so aunt is trying in the right direction carly do you want to elaborate real quick for people in here what you felt when you were going through this injury yeah it's it is one of those things unfortunately where it's just good old rest in ice and then you like test it out and then you think you're good and then like the pain's back and so it's sort of like touch and go um but the good thing is if you if ideally you rest it enough it shouldn't then be reoccurring it's almost like you just gotta rest it ice it pt the muscles to hold like your knee in place stronger and then you should be good to go but it's that rest time that is messy because it's not always enough sometimes 100 and like i feel like it's it's jaden's similar thing with like a knee issue is they're just tricky right just tricky you're explosive you're a bursty player um it's hard it's hard to tell and it's you know you can only do so much when it's at the end of the season the timbrelis has so much help to start here it's getting them all at once which is unfortunate but that's just somehow sometimes how it goes you have to push adversity and right now i guess minnesota has to do that um good news is anthony we're just trending in the right direction he's looking like he's gonna return friday uh nothing's confirmed yet but that is where um anything that i have heard or read that is where anthony and words is trending which is a good sign for timbrelis fans again right against the rockets look for an to potentially be back he is trending in that direction um we got another thing packaged tsj for yannis coming in you know what um that is something that if like a big trade were to go down for a star player i'm not gonna lie like those are sweeteners in any deal that would get a deal done i feel like where if you're going for yannis if you're going for any star player it's gonna be some type of you're gonna obviously have picks players for salary match and then you're going to have like sweeteners be young players that still have an upside on good contracts and then second round picks potentially being thrown in just like additional again this is just like a sweetener icing on the cake um and tj jaylin clark uh those are kind of guys i see as being potential guys you could put in a package kind of just like sweeten the deal give them like another upside in case something doesn't work out yes the team's trading for it doesn't know like they're taking a big risk too like but it's one of those things like front offices carly they look at that kind of stuff i think tj is somebody that could potentially be moved in that deal and i think teams would be interested in that as well um we got somebody else just saying hey what's up man i put that on the screen for you we have chris finch is he out um if we go out in round one carly if the timbrelis were to go out in round one what do you feel is appropriate like if you were the general manager what would you do in the situation and then realistically probably do you feel like chris finch is out or does he still have his job if you eliminate in round one yeah i tend to walk the line of i don't know what it's like to be a coach for an nba team and i tend to lean more in defense of chris finch so i will acknowledge my bias um you can't look at what this franchise has done to turn things around granted a lot of that has to do with hansley edwards but the past few years have credit you have to credit chris finch in that and is it yeah is it is the point where what went wrong this season how much of that is coaching of course he should be in those conversations and is it time to like try and reach the next level i don't know i don't know yeah i feel like with chris it's it's tough to completely tell right now because the team's struggling so much um a lot of players are hurt and then there's the other factor which is like we see the weird timeout situations once in a while chris finch we see right now kind of like certain i feel like certain losses in the season like they're inexcusable chris finch and then recently too with the players out just the vibes being so down like yes it's on the players to come together and be like not all rub off on each other and suddenly be a leader and step up too um or the guys that are out to like and to just pull them aside but at the same time like you could argue that chris finch is equally as responsible in the situation like if your team's struggling player like mike collie's not gonna pull them out or and or somebody's not gonna pull them out ultimately it comes down to the coach to pull the team out get them out of those bad vibes do whatever he's got to do carly to get them back to being happy vibes going back around the playoff atmosphere getting ready like it doesn't matter when you see teams like okc playing without their guys part of the year denver nuggets not being healthy pistons having issues like the pacers for a while were so great and they had guys out like that's what i'm looking for for the timberwolves is a team that when their guys are out the next guys step up and they're giving it their all i kind of felt like that tonight was like the vibe i finally felt with the wolves against the magic it's like we have all these guys out but the guys that played like they gave it their all like they didn't you know they it felt like it i mean baron day was awesome joe was great uh everyone out there tonight i thought bones had another good game again something we didn't talk about earlier but like bones is continuously having these great games and i just feel like that's something that we should take away from this game not that it's a loss the rest of the guys um it's great to get back get the feet under them hopefully anthony ever gets a little bit of cardio gets in a couple games before here before we end up here and then can you imagine carly like what would it be like on sunday if kevin garnett comes back jayden's healthy and anthony edwards just pretend he's for sure back on sunday like what should timberwolves fans and what would you feel like if that was the case i would ride that wave i mean how would you not like we have to and even if it's an early exit in the playoffs like it's it's the beginning of like i think good things to come and yeah come on like that's like talk about needing like something to revitalize i mean joe angles is great but like kg would be the one the spark plug like you know i think you should grab onto that with full optimism because why not i do i think you just have fun with it buy into it they've been bad for a bunch of years i mean you don't know when number five's on the court you don't really know what's gonna happen he's a killer and i mean until he proves me otherwise i'm gonna believe when they go in the playoffs i'm gonna believe um even if he's banged up i think he's i think the nuggets are a phenomenal team they're an elite team they're the number one offense team but they're not great defensively and i know anthony edwards this year should have been all nba um if it hadn't been for that rule but like he's a guy that does not fear the number nuggets jayden doesn't now it doesn't all these guys have had a lot of experience i think it's gonna be a really fun series um just to see what this does so we're lining in it too i always tell people whether or not they pass round one we get to see them be aggressive in the summer have fun with it go out and be involved in trade talk make a move make some roster shakeups have some fun get some new faces in the crowd like it'll be fun um to see what happens regardless of the outcome um i'm curious to see what happens with the coaching decision as well all those things and more um wolves they got a game friday carly against the houston rockets competitive team we'll see how they show up against that do they take things easy are they just playing guys a few minutes like and jayden or do they take it seriously i don't know and then sunday against kevin garnett and then we're on to potentially and most likely the denver nuggets in round one how do you feel before we got here carly about the matchup with the denver nuggets what is your opinion on the matchup i mean it's before when there was healthy buka and healthy austin rates on the leaguers i was almost preferring the nuggets and then when injuries occurred it was back to like oh crap no it's the nuggets but listen i know nuggets fans are riding high but i know they're secretly scared because despite the nuggets playing better this season being as good as they are they know that it's still a game whenever they play for wolves and it's a series also like even i've seen some people like well the nuggets like what is it the series we won with us and they were hurt when they played us the wolves have proven that that doesn't matter what happens in the regular season with the timbrels does not matter when it comes to the playoffs like i will be shocked if they sweep the wolves like i'm expecting some sort of series here and i think everyone should expect a series with the nuggets i think so too i think like when you look at denver why they would have any anybody would have any feeling that minnesota could win the series if they're like a nuggets fan if they're media with the nuggets if the players it's because they know minnesota a lot of players don't fear them doesn't it helps when our players are hurt for sure but they know like our guys don't fear them and that's scary as an opponent that you know someone doesn't doesn't respect you doesn't fear you isn't opposed to playing on the road in your arena which they've seen before it's one of those teams that have stolen it on the road they went to a game seven they did they came back in a series and like i feel like that is really scary you can get people's heads we'll see what happens with the nuggets going forward it's a different team they're an elite team i mean i think the nuggets are one of the best teams in the nba it'll be a fun series um just see how minnesota goes about you're gonna learn a lot of things you're gonna see how hurt how um how hurt actually i guess is not how serious is it i think it'll come out in a series you're gonna see things you're gonna have a lot of businesses you're gonna have to play in a series those different coverages rudy can rudy go bare be the same player as he was previously against the nuggets um because he hasn't been great against this season um but this team like you said carly they we were um against the suns and everyone picked the suns we were against the lakers people were picking the lakers this team finished the 60 last year and guess what they went to the western conference finals they're the 60 this year so like you just don't really know this team all year we talked about it i posted about it they don't really care about the regular season it shouldn't be that way i feel like they should care because it's the fact that they're seeding and maybe they're gonna regret it now that they all got hurt and all these things but like they wanted the playoffs to start all along they wanted to skip to the playoffs and avoid the regular season it was boring to them they've been at two wcfs let's see if they can put their money with their mouth is or we'll learn a lot about minnesota timberwolves and their moves going forward i think we're gonna wrap up the show there guys we appreciate everyone joining um things coming forward we have giveaways one's going right now you can find out a recent post scroll down a little bit we're giving out a custom one of one kevin garnett card to one lucky winner that'll wrap up tomorrow you're listening to this wherever you get your feed that'll wrap up on thursday uh 5 p.m central time we'll announce it on x and our instagram will be one winner on each one again you can find it on instagram you can find it on x on top of that we have a season hype video that is coming at right before the last time we'll be dropping the only thing that we can tease um tonight is that kevin garnett will be in the video and it will reflect on if you've been watching the timberwolves for a while you're gonna see some history of the minnesota timberwolves that's all i will tease um until next time guys appreciate everyone for joining thank you carly as well for always coming on until next time guys go