{"id":493039,"date":"2026-04-16T08:12:32","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T06:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=493039"},"modified":"2026-04-16T08:12:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T06:12:32","slug":"anthony-edwards-sends-a-message-minnesota-timberwolves-ready-to-flip-the-switch-for-the-playoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/anthony-edwards-sends-a-message-minnesota-timberwolves-ready-to-flip-the-switch-for-the-playoffs\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Edwards sends a message: Minnesota Timberwolves ready to \u201cflip the switch\u201d for the playoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1773\" data-end=\"2040\">The <strong data-start=\"1777\" data-end=\"1803\">Minnesota Timberwolves<\/strong> are entering the playoffs determined to rediscover their best version. <strong data-start=\"1875\" data-end=\"1894\">Anthony Edwards<\/strong> said the team knows how good it can be, but now it must prove it consistently after a regular season that lost momentum over the last few months.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2042\" data-end=\"2396\">Part of that inspiration came from <strong data-start=\"2077\" data-end=\"2096\">Kevin Garnett\u2019s<\/strong> return to Target Center, a moment that clearly energized Edwards and the team. Edwards called Garnett \u201cthe greatest Timberwolf of all time,\u201d while coach <strong data-start=\"2250\" data-end=\"2265\">Chris Finch<\/strong> said Minnesota now has to \u201cflip the switch\u201d and bring back the continuity, connection and intensity needed for playoff basketball.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2398\" data-end=\"2705\">Edwards heads into the postseason after averaging <strong data-start=\"2448\" data-end=\"2472\">28.8 points per game<\/strong>, all while posting career highs in efficiency, despite being limited to 61 games because of knee pain. <strong data-start=\"2576\" data-end=\"2591\">Rudy Gobert<\/strong> also stressed that Minnesota must come out hungry against a strong opponent if it wants a real chance to advance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After an uneven regular season, the Minnesota Timberwolves star says the team must raise its level ahead of the playoff series against Denver<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":371773,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-493039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/02\/Minnesota-Timberwolves.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493039"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=493039"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=493039"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=493039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}