Timberwolves star Anthony Edwards’ Game 7 struggles proved potential for greatness according to Bill Simmons

The Minnesota Timberwolves had a historic 20-point comeback over the Denver Nuggets in Sunday’s Game 7 to earn a trip to the Western Conference finals after their 98-90 win on Sunday. Minnesota star Anthony Edwards had a statistically subdued game by his standards – 16 points on 6-24 shooting – but, as Bill Simmons points out in the latest edition of his podcast, he found other ways to affect the game.

“I just thought it was such a fascinating Edwards game. I mean my memory of this game 20 years from now will be, Ant, who is clearly gonna be a really special player barring injury. Like the s–t that he’s done in the playoffs now. We are now on the track for something truly, truly, truly, special and it’s games like this that form somebody’s career, it’s when you don’t have it, how do you figure out how else to impact the game and he did it.”

Edwards clearly didn’t have his best shooting night, but still managed to be effective for the Timberwolves. He had eight rebounds and seven assists while only committing one turnover in Game 7. Edwards also picked up a pair of steals in the game.

Continued Simmons, “You know, you and I have watched a lot of Edwards, I never felt like he lost his confidence, right? They never showed him where I was like ‘Oh, Ant’s rattled, ooh Ant doesn’t look like he has it,’ or ‘Ant’s got like darty eyes or anything,’ it just looked like he was like ‘I know what’s happening, I got to figure out how to solve this,’ but I never felt like he was rattled. It’s so unusual for a 22-year-old, it’s really, like, about as uncommon as it gets for the NBA in my opinion.”

The Timberwolves young star now has a chance on the biggest stage of his young career as he and his teammates advance to take on the Dallas Mavericks in the Western Conference Finals.

Edwards and Timberwolves stun Nuggets in Game 7