Anthony Edwards, Ayo Dosunmo & Naz Reid speak after the Wolves’ Game 4 win | NBA on ESPN

0:00 Aunt, uh, in the in the fourth quarter,

0:02 you guys were down eight, you scored five straight points.

0:05 Did you just kind of feel the game slipping away or kind of what was

0:09 your mindset during that that portion of the game to kind of reignite the team?

0:16 Um, today is Mother's Day and um,

0:19 so I just wanted to win for my mom and it was just that simple.

0:25 Was she on your mind all day today or Sure.

0:27 Yeah.

0:28 I couldn't lose this game for her.

0:29 For sure.

0:32 And what what have you learned and what have you learned over these years?

0:36 Uh how how have you grown as a person without your mother and your grandmother?

0:40 It's draft season and people remember the photo of you getting drafted.

0:43 How have you grown as a person since?

0:47 Uh I mean the older you get, the more mature you get.

0:50 But I think it's not just about me, it's the people around me.

0:53 Um the people around me, man, they're not just like yes man.

0:56 It's not a bunch of people that's just willing to do anything.

0:59 and you say, um, these people really want to see me succeed and, uh,

1:03 they don't let me take a day off.

1:04 Uh, they stay on me.

1:06 So, I appreciate everybody that's in my circle, but that's enough about me.

1:09 Let's ask about my team.

1:11 I can do that.

1:12 Uh, Nas, you you check into the game there at the end and you're next

1:15 to both Julius and Rudy doing seen that a little bit uh in in the postseason.

1:20 What What kind of goes through your mind or like

1:23 the group's mind when you guys go with that really big lineup?

1:27 I lie.

1:27 I ain't even noticed that.

1:28 I ain't going to front.

1:30 Um, I'm just hooing for real.

1:32 Just trying to make plays.

1:33 I do more than scoring.

1:35 So, I'm just, you know, trying to make plays whatever I whatever I could do,

1:38 whether it's passing, rebounding,

1:39 diving on the floor, uh, helping my teammates, you know,

1:43 get to the basket, screening, whatever I could do.

1:45 I ain't going to lie, I didn't I didn't even notice that.

1:48 And when they when they don't have Wyama

1:50 out there for the second half of the game,

1:52 what what changes about the way that you guys approach offense?

1:57 I don't know, honestly, man.

1:57 I think it was kind of harder um just because

2:02 I mean of course they're a really great team with him

2:04 on the floor but they play a lot slower when

2:05 he's on the floor cuz you know everything is evolved around

2:08 him when he's not on the floor everybody has played

2:11 it it's just like you know when every team is missing

2:13 their best player everybody plays free they get more shots more

2:16 confident so I think um it was a lot harder honestly

2:21 Nas in terms of uh in terms of taking the elbow

2:25 um were you surprised how How much did it impact you?

2:28 How much did it hurt?

2:29 And uh have you been hit like that before this game?

2:33 Pain is weakness leaving the body.

2:34 That's it.

2:39 And you want to talk about your teammates.

2:40 Finchy just talked about Nas's defense this whole series.

2:43 Can you talk about what he's contributed?

2:46 Yeah, man.

2:46 Um I tell Nas all the time if if if he's guarding at a high level,

2:51 we're a hard team to beat.

2:52 But it's not just his defense, it's his offense.

2:54 Like his three ball wasn't falling today.

2:55 And I told him, you know, play off the catch.

2:58 Like, they going to run you off the line

2:59 just cuz they know you're a great shooter.

3:00 And find other players, find your teammates, get to the rim,

3:04 crash the offensive glass, and he did all that.

3:05 He had a big time rebound at the end of the game to kind of seal the game.

3:08 Um, and yeah, he just been playing entire time, man.

3:12 He dive on the floor.

3:13 He do all the little things that other people don't want to do.

3:15 So, yeah, he know I love him.

3:16 That's my brother.

3:17 I know stylistically you said it kind of shifted,

3:20 you know, with that Wimbody out there,

3:21 but did you all feel it felt like late you got a lot of stuff at the rim.

3:25 Did you feel like the rim was a little bit more openly in the course?

3:29 Of course.

3:29 Um I mean everybody know the rim is going to be

3:31 a lot more open when he's not on the floor.

3:32 But um for them offensively, yeah,

3:35 they they play a lot more loose when he's not on the floor also.

3:38 But yeah, I mean he's 8 feet tall,

3:40 so he cover up the rim anytime he on the floor.

3:44 Um ha, you had a very good um energetic game in the within the third minute.

3:49 Um what what mindset do you have in the fourth quarter?

3:53 Who you talking to?

3:55 I'm sorry I didn't I didn't hear you.

3:56 Oh yeah, I was talking about um the last three minutes.

3:58 It was very energetic for you.

4:00 Um what was your mindset like you know towards that moment?

4:05 Um I just wanted to help impact the game any way I could.

4:08 Um, of course, you know, 3 for 12, I don't have the best offensive night,

4:12 but you know, you can't control the ball going in the hoop.

4:15 You can always control your your mindset, your attitude,

4:17 being there for my teammates the whole game.

4:19 And, um, down the stretch when my number was called,

4:22 I just wanted to be there and and help my team get the win.

4:26 Um, and this time of the year, it's all about getting the win.

4:30 And, um, I just wanted to help contribute um,

4:32 any way that I um, could down the stretch.

4:36 Um, it seemed for the second game in a row

4:38 that the Spurs kind of got hot in the third quarter.

4:40 What is it going to take for y'all as a unit to make adjustments to kind

4:42 of slow them down and shift the momentum back your way during the third quarter?

4:47 Gordon, uh, we we we got to come out,

4:49 the starting five got to come out, um, with a lot more energy.

4:53 Um, looking like we ready to play.

4:55 I think, uh, I was a big part of that in that third quarter.

4:59 I I was gassed a little bit,

5:00 so I came out like super low on energy just walking up and down the floor.

5:04 So, um, my teammates got to get on for that.

5:08 Um, yeah.

5:10 And, uh, 22 now going back to their house.

5:12 I mean, just walk me through where you guys

5:14 are at mentally now after a big win like this just to kind of take it back

5:17 to their place and try to wrestle this series lead back.

5:20 Uh, now it's just take it one game at a time.

5:23 Um, try to figure out how to try to figure out how to get a win.

5:28 That's the only thing that's on my mind right now.

5:30 Trying to figure out how to get a win.

5:32 Um, you know, they're going to have Wimby back.

5:34 He's going to come in with a lot of energy.

5:35 So, just, you know, watch watch them film together and try to figure it out.

5:40 And it was less than a week ago that no

5:41 one really thought or knew if you'd play in game one.

5:43 And now the last two nights or last two games,

5:45 you played 40 minutes or more, right?

5:47 What's this week been like just in terms

5:48 of preparation and getting your body ready?

5:51 Man, I've been doing a lot of stuff to get in shape.

5:54 Um, like I said, I got the best physical therapist

5:56 in the world when it comes to uh my body, David Han.

6:00 So, big shout out to him, man.

6:02 Um, yeah, he's u he's on a whole another level when it comes to that stuff, man.

6:06 So, yeah, he's the best.

6:07 I appreciate him.

6:08 I hope he never leaves me.

6:11 Are you back?

6:14 Wolves back.

6:18 I It's It was down three.

6:20 I think you're up three and the ball is in the air

6:23 and it feels like the whole game was riding on that catch.

6:26 What are you thinking while it's in the air

6:28 and then you it looked like you barely caught it?

6:30 like just what was that setting for you?

6:34 Yeah, I just wanted to u make a play.

6:36 I I understood, you know, the magnitude of the game and um that we we only

6:41 had one and a half seconds to to get it over.

6:43 So when the ball was in the air, um I just wanted to go up there and try

6:48 to come down with it because I knew that, you know,

6:50 pretty much that that could have been a huge part of winning, losing the game.

6:54 So I just wanted to go up there and get it.

6:56 That like a you played receiver or something before, right?

6:59 You saw it.

7:00 with how I look.

7:00 Be real.

7:03 I went I went up there and got that Rody White.

7:05 That's my boy.

7:07 Awesome.

7:07 Thanks,