First suppress and then add to the masterpiece! Edwards playoff performance suppresses SGA

Sports Weekly All-Media Reporter Li Hui

With an ankle injury, Edwards played another masterpiece of his personal playoff career. Facing the Warriors who are determined to defend their home court, Edwards scored 36 points in the game and won a three-pointer in the final quarter, helping the team overtake the total score and regaining the home advantage.

In this game, Edwards performed very poorly, making 3 of 8 shots in the first quarter, and missed all four shots in 7 minutes in the second quarter, including missing some layups close to each other. Throughout the first half, Edwards seemed unable to defend the Warriors, and it seemed that he would have a difficult night. However, in the third quarter, Edwards achieved a rebound in his personal performance. In this quarter, Edwards played all 12 minutes and scored 15 points on 6 of 10 shots. With the Warriors establishing a 7-point advantage at the end of the Warriors' quarter, Edwards quickly made a three-pointer to respond, laying the foundation for the team's reversal in the fourth quarter. In the final quarter, Edwards contributed another 13-pointer in a single quarter, including his three-pointer from the bottom corner on the left, completely killing the suspense of the game.

In the playoffs this season, Edwards averaged 26.6 points per game, and the 36 points he scored in this game is the second highest in a single game in the playoffs this season, second only to the fourth game against the Lakers series. He used his 43-point performance to help the Timberwolves get the match point. At every critical moment, Edwards can always stand up and become the number one star who dominates the Timberwolves' game.

As the older generation of players such as James, Edwards, Alexander and others are regarded as leaders of the new generation. Compared with the quasi-MVP Alexander, Edwards has not achieved much success in the regular season, but if we only look at the performance of the two people in the playoffs, Edwards will undoubtedly be better. Edwards can average 27.5 points per game in his playoff career. Last season, he helped the Timberwolves reach the Western Conference Finals and is expected to replicate such achievements this season. On the contrary, Alexander currently leads the Thunder to fall behind 1-2 in the total score, and the Thunder, the No. 1 in the Western Conference last season, also missed the Western Conference Finals. Judging from his single game performance, Edwards has scored 40 points many times in the playoffs, with a maximum score of 44 points. Although Alexander is relatively stable, his highest score in his playoff career is only 38 points. In the third game of the series against the Nuggets, he was completely lost in the fourth quarter and overtime, becoming the team's first sinner to lose.

Edwards, who has a flamboyant personality, may be born as the protagonist of the playoffs. So far last season, he has eliminated Durant, Jokic and James one after another. Now he is expected to lead the team to eliminate Curry's team--even though Curry missed many games due to injury, for an NBA player, the highest honor must undoubtedly be won in the playoffs. With a slightly inferior regular season, Edwards' performance in the playoffs suppressed Alexander is expected to lead him to come from the top in the selection of new generation leading figures.