Minnesota Timberwolves head coach Chris Finch condoned his team's result after the loss to the Charlotte Hornets, calling it “an absolutely terrible performance by the defense and inexperienced basketball.”
It was a loss despite, and perhaps because of, the franchise-defining historic performance by TeaWolves star center Karl-Anthony Towns. record He scored 62 points in the match.
“Just because we score two, three or four points in a row, or we get baskets in a row, obviously we feed the hot hand, we look for the hot hand, but there are We have to get back to where we were at that point. We played the right way, so we have to get back to doing the right thing,” the coach told the media after the game.
He seemed to blame Towns and the rest of the team, saying, “There's a lot of ways to be immature, there's always a lot of ways to be immature, and there were a lot of immature performances here throughout the roster. I They completely disrespected the game and themselves and got exactly what they deserved.”
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Finch agreed with a reporter who accused Towns of “trying” to score points instead of trying to win games.
“This is what happens when you take this kind of approach,” Finch points out.
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Towns scored 44 points in the first half, but one of the best The first half total was the highest ever, but the second half cooled down significantly. The star scored just four points on 2-for-10 shooting in the fourth quarter. (Related: Sixers' Joel Embiid delivers absolutely historic performance with record-setting 70 points)
To his credit, the 7-footer admitted his transgressions and told the media, “There are no moral victories. We said that when we were 15-30 years old. But we're No. 1 in the West, we're one of the best teams in the NBA, and there's no time for any mental victories or rays of hope, 'It's a great night, but we just want It wasn't the finish I wanted,''' he said. According to NBA.com.
Teammate and star guard Anthony Edwards also confirmed the coach's comments, claiming: I knew it was. ”
“We weren't focused at all from the jump…I think everyone was trying to see him get 100 points. I knew that was the case.”
Anthony Edwards talked about the T-Wolves losing to the Hornets despite Karl-Anthony Towns scoring 62 points.
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