Welcome into the show today. Thank you for making this podcast a part of your day. If you're watching for the first time or the one thousandth time, hit that subscribe button so this podcast will show up in your feed Monday through Saturday. This podcast is one hundred percent honest, one hundred percent of the time, with a touch of sarcasm, regardless of how you feel. And we're still talking about the Aaron Rodgers saga and how it impacts the Vikings organization because yesterday the news broke that the Vikings would not currently sign Aaron Rodgers. Now, it did not rule out the possibility of the Vikings revisiting this conversation at a later time if they feel Jajee McCarthy is not ready yet or is still recovering from injury, and if Aaron Rodgers has not yet signed with these Steelers or Giants. So as of right now, the conversation is on hold, but it might not necessarily be over yet. And yesterday I went on my show and I said that the Vikings handled this situation very poorly, and I stand by that take because now McCarthy is going to go against the ghost of Aaron Rodgers and what I mean by that is, if McCarthy struggles at any point next season and the Vikings failed to win football games, every single Vikings fan is going to point to this point of this offseason and say, we could have had Aaron Rodgers. I know he's a little disastrous and distracting. I know he can be egotistical and a difficult guy to deal with, but he's Aaron Rodgers. He's a Hall of Fame forty one year old quarterback who still managed to put up twenty eight touchdowns and eleven interceptions last season for the worst NFL organization, the Jets. He still found a way to put up good numbers. And I think the Vikings handled their quarterback off season drama and speculation very poorly. And I believe that without necessarily doing it on purpose, the Minnesota Vikings have painted Jajon McCarthy in a bad light because they offered Donald a contract, they offered Daniel Jones a contract, They were in discussions for at least a week about signing Aaron Rodgers and putting him in the Vikings quarterback room. Why do you have these conversations, Why would you ever discuss bringing in Sam Darnald on a one year, fifteen million dollar deal. He was never gonna take that, But why did you offer it? Why did you discuss Aaron Rodgers potentially being a member of the Vikings organization? Why did you offer Daniel Jones a contract to come back to Minnesota. Now the Vikings are speaking on top of rioftops and saying that McCarthy's our guy. We always believed in him, We had no doubts about him moving forward. But if that's true, then why did you do your due diligence on Sam Darnold, Daniel Jones, and Aaron Rodgers. Why were these discussions ever taking place if you felt one one hundred percent certain that McCarthy was the guy, Because if that was the case, you could have easily signed Joe Flacco, or you could have signed Gardner Minshew or mac Jones and ended this whole ordeal of us. He's in speculation. But they didn't. And the Vikings are very conscious of how they are being perceived. They have people in the building that the Vikings perception is their job. They got to make sure it looks good and right now, what the Vikings are trying to do is have the perception be we love McCarthy. We always believed in McCarthy. That's why we're not bringing in Rogers. We're not doing it because McCarthy's our guy and we believe in him. But the truth of the matter is this. The Vikings offered Darnold, they offered Daniel Jones, and they had a week long conversation and discussion about the benefits and the cons of bringing in Aaron Rodgers to be one. And what you see now is everyone's back in the Vikings. I saw a couple of other people posts from different shows. The Vikings believe in McCarthy. He's their guy, and that's exactly what the Vikings want everybody to believe. But Kyle Brandt on Good Morning Football, I'm not gonna steal this dat and pretend it's my own said this this morning about quarterbacks in the same situation as McCarthy, meaning they sat their first year, they went into their second year and became the starter. There's been eleven of them recently. Only one of those quarterbacks that were in McCarthy's situation. Only one of the eleven made the playoffs his first season, starting in his second NFL season, So the odds are not good and that quarterback that did it was actually Dante Culpepper, but Drew Brees did it. There's other quarterbacks that took the same route that year, a backup didn't play your first year, came into second year or QB one and the amount of times that that quarterback made the playoffs was once one time out of eleven. And the Vikings the division is not getting any easier. And I bring this all up because right now, the perception is we love McCarthy, we always stood by McCarthy and there's really no other option besides McCarthy, when the truth is completely different. The truth was, we consider bringing Donald back, we consider bringing Daniel Jones back, and we considered bringing in Aaron Rodgers. But from the stand from the standpoint of Vikings fans, now, you think that you love JAJ McCarthy, You think that you know that he's the guy, but you don't love JJ McCarthy. You love the hope of McCarthy. You would turn on McCarthy so fast if he stinks next season that you would blame the Vikings organization for not signing Aaron Rodgers, which if he signed right now you have threatened to stop being a Vikings fan. That's how the fan mindset works. You think that you know that McCarthy is going to be good and that he's going to lead the Vikings of the playoffs with the Bears, Packers and Lions, but you don't know anything. You are living and believing the hope that McCarthy will step in with a Super Bowl roster ready to win, and you think that that's going to be enough, and you think he's gonna step in seamlessly because of the hope of McCarthy. But facts come into play here. The Bears are good, the Packers are good, the Lions are good. On only one time out of eleven have guys in McCarthy's situation made the playoffs. And if he stinks next season, wow, you are going to criticize McCarthy so fast and you're gonna say stuff like, oh, yeah, he was never asked to do much of Michigan. What were the Vikings thinking? This guy sucks. It's gonna take a one bad game, one bad game, and the Vikings fan base is gonna hammer the Vikings quarterback and Vikings organization for not bringing in a guy like Aaron Rodgers when he was available. It's gonna happen. I know what's gonna happen, because I know the way the fan mind works. Your fans. Right now, you think that McCarthy's gonna be the guy. You have much hope for McCarthy, But as soon as he steps on the football field, and if he plays poorly in the first few weeks of the season, you are going to immediately start questioning what the Vikings organization was thinking. And you're gonna go back to this time period of the NFL offseason and you are going to remember that the Vikings offered Sam Darnold, they offered Daniel Jones, and they considered offering Aaron Rodgers a contract, and you're gonna point to it and be like, oh, we should have signed those guys because McCarthy's not ready. We have the best wide receiver corp in the NFL five, we have a top five offensive line and a top five defensive line. Yet McCarthy is the one player holding the Vikings back from being a Super Bowl roster and being a Super Bowl contender. So what I believe is that the Vikings have put so much unfair pressure and their treatment of McCarthy this offseason may have been a little unfair because the fan base is going to come back to this timeline and say, you could have had somebody else if McCarthy stinks. If McCarthy stinks, the finger pointing is going to come back to mid March when you could have had Aaron Rodgers, or it's gonna come back to early March when he could have signed Sam Donald. So I just think you gotta be very, very careful right now because the Vikings are setting this perception of we love McCarthy. But the truth is, they discussed thoroughly the possibility of having three other quarterbacks in the building that would compete with McCarthy for the number one spot. Sure, their takeaway was McCarthy's the guy, but they offered Donald, they offered Daniel Jones, and they thought for a long time about signing Aaron Rodgers. So I don't think it's as easy as yeah, the Vikings believed in McCarthy. I don't think it's that easy, and I don't think it's that obvious. I don't think it's as clear and simple as McCarthy's our guy. We believed in him. Because there are a lot of moving parts in this whole ordeal, and based on the Vikings decision making based on how long they waited to end the Aaron Rodgers saga points to a lot of different things, like it shows a lot about the Vikings belief and McCarthy that they dragged this Aaron Rodgers speculation on for two weeks. It's all we've been talking about. So that's my take on McCarthy and the Vikings belief and future of McCarthy. The Timberwolves lost again last night. They lose to the Pacers when they're not playing their best players, and then they lose to oo the New Orleans Pelicans, who also stink this season. The Pelicans are nineteen and fifty one, the Timberwolves forty to thirty one right now, one game out of the sixth seed. Currently the eighth seed tied with the LA Clippers. These were two really, really bad losses because the Vikings were riding Vikings The Timberwolves were riding an eight game win streak going into these two games, and there were two clutch time games. They overlook opponents because here's what the Timberwolves do, and they do this all the time, and now they're trying starting to show their true colors again because you look at their eight wins. They beat Phoenix, they suck Philadelphia, they suck Charlotte, dastink, Miami is no good. San Antonio they're awful. Denver goodwin, Orlando, they suck Utah. They suck seven of their eight wins. During this eight game win streak, we're against krabby teams. And then you read the postgame comments by the players and it's all the same stuff. We're starting to believe in each other, we're getting used to playing with one another, we're just getting familiar with each other's tendencies, and we're just starting to soar. But you look at the schedule and who did you beat? You beat one good team out of eight? You mean nobody. You are who we thought you were. And then they start getting cocky and confident, we're just gonna roll through the rest of the league because we won eight in row, and we know each other's tendencies, and they start to fall for these lives that you're so good that we're just gonna roll through the rest of the league. Then they play a hungry Indiana bench and lose in overtime, and then they get owned by Zion Williamson and the New Orleans Pelicans. I lose one to nineteen to one fifteen. Anthony Edwards five of nineteen, four for ten from the free three point line twenty nine points, Julius Randalls seventeen points, Gobar ten points, Mike Conley sixteen points. Nasrid was terrible three for eleven two vercent from the three point line. I was listening to Pa coming home from Bible study this morning and he shared this fascinating statistic this morning on KFAN nine to noon. Jose Alvarado c J McCollum, and he mentioned two other guards as well, or at least one other guard. He combined four players from the Pelicans roster, and he combined the biggest players go Bear, Randall, McDaniels, and Noz Red on the Timberwolves roster, and he came away with the conclusion in fact, that the four guards on the Pelicans roster had more combined rebounds than the big players on the Timberwolves roster. Jose Alvarado had three rebounds, Ceja mccoum had six rebounds, Jeremiah Robinson Earl had seven rebounds, and Bruce Brown had seven rebounds. Jordan Hawkins had six rebounds. Jaden McDaniels zero rebounds, Julius Randall three rebounds, nos Reed had seven rebounds, and Gobart had nine. Those players combined for nineteen rebounds, and the players on the Pelicans roster, Yeah, six plus three is nine, plus seven is seventeen sixteen and plus six is twenty two. The Pelicans guards combined for twenty two rebounds, and the Viking Timberwolves back court combined for nineteen. Jaden McDaniels had five points. A complete no show. How does someone as tall as McDaniels, How does a rebound not just somehow fall into his lap? Accidentally? He played twenty four minutes and at zero offensive or defensive rebounds. And another point has been brought to my attention about the Timberwl situation, and it's Anthony Edwards who is obsessed with how many threes he can make this season. He's oh cocky about Oh, I've got sobody threes like he shoot the three point BALLID look at me to make the three at a career higher rate than at an excellent level. And when four to ten last night, it's forty percent. And of course you look at forty percent and you're gonna break miss six threes, it's six empty possessions, twenty nine points, fifteen first seventeen from the free throw line. Anthony Edwards this season is forty seventh out of fifty one NBA players with at least two hundred and thirty attempts inside the restricted area this year. Because Edwards is so obsessed with making threes, his ability to finish shots near the rim has completely gone to inefficiency. Anthony Edwards finished oh of seven at the rim in the half court and a loss to the Pelicans. His sixty one percent field goal percentage at the rim this season is the lowest mark of his career since his fifty nine point six percent rookie season. Anthony Edwards has gone from a guy that's one of the best attackers and finishers at the rim to a cocky three point shooter that loves to close out games because he wants to make a draining of three, and now he can't finish at the rim. His greatest skill set, getting to the rim, dunking on guys and finishing has gone completely out the window because he's fallen for the idea that you've got to be a three point shooter to win NBA games. To be the best player in the league. And sure having a three point shot is important for every NBA player and your ability to be different and have different areas of the floor that you can score. But my go to player that I'm gonna look at here is Shay Gilgis Alexander, the MVP of the NBA this year. He attempts five point eighty three point attempts per game and makes two of them. He is a thirty seven three point shooter, which is good enough. It's good enough to be dangerous. He makes two threes a game. He averages thirty three points a game, which tells me that his damage comes from the free throw line and the mid range game. Shaye Gilgis Alexander has brought back the mid range game to the NBA, and everyone wants to follow the recipe of Steph Curry. Oh look what Steph Curry can do. I'm gonna mimic my game after Steph Curry because of the way he can make threes. The problem is you can't shoot the ball like Steph Curry. Steph Curry is the most legendary NBA shooter of all time. So the fact that you're going to try to mimic your game after Steph Curry makes no sense. And Anthony Edwards has fallen for this three point trap idea where he's so obsessed with making and taking threes that his ability to attack and score at the rim has suffered, and it's got out the window because now his ability to do that is terrible. Forty seven out of fifty one players with two hundred and thirty attempts inside the restricted area this season. That is awful. And that's why you see the Timberwols struggling late in games because instead of going to the rim and trying to get fouled or dunking over somebody or finishing with a layup at the rim, Edwards wants to make a game winning three. And I think this goes all the way back to childhoods. When you're a child and you're in the gym or you're playing outside and you do five four three two one. Nobody pictures in their head going to the rim and making a layup or dunking on someone. You picture making a jump shot from the three point line or from the mid range game. And every game the Timberwolves get into a clutch time situation, there's Antie Edwards shooting another contested three. There's Anti Edwards trying to rely on his jump shot to win them games. And here's the problem. When you get into clutch time, when you get into high pressure moments, that's when your talent takes over and your skills take over. And Edwards, sure, he can make a bunch of threes in a game, but his greatest skill is not shooting the three. His greatest skill is getting to the rim and scoring, and he wants to shoot the three. And when you get into those high pressure, stake moments, then he struggles because he's trying to rely on something that he's not good at. He's trying to prove that, hey, I'm gonna jump shoot it too, look at me. That's not your game, that's not your strength. He's trying to prove to the rest of the NBA that he can score from the three point line on an elite level. And the truth of the matter is when he tries to do that, it actually hinders the Timberwol's ability to win games late because he wants to play hero ball. He wants to show everybody he's the man by making a three and not attacking the lane and using his greatest strength to score the ball and win games. So that's the Timberwolves problem right now. That's why they can't close games, and that's why they're going to be stuck in a playing situation and might miss the playoffs completely. So it's very clear and obvious what's going on, all right, everyone, Thank you for watching and making this podcast. For everybody, hit that subscribe button. This podcast is one honest, one percent time. Have a good day.

Welcome into the show today. Thank you for making this podcast a part of your day. If you're watching for the first time or the one thousandth time, hit that subscribe button so this podcast will show up in your feed Monday through Saturday. This podcast is one hundred percent honest, one hundred percent of the time, with a touch of sarcasm, regardless of how you feel. And we're still talking about the Aaron Rodgers saga and how it impacts the Vikings organization because yesterday the news broke that the Vikings would not currently sign Aaron Rodgers. Now, it did not rule out the possibility of the Vikings revisiting this conversation at a later time if they feel Jajee McCarthy is not ready yet or is still recovering from injury, and if Aaron Rodgers has not yet signed with these Steelers or Giants. So as of right now, the conversation is on hold, but it might not necessarily be over yet. And yesterday I went on my show and I said that the Vikings handled this situation very poorly, and I stand by that take because now McCarthy is going to go against the ghost of Aaron Rodgers and what I mean by that is, if McCarthy struggles at any point next season and the Vikings failed to win football games, every single Vikings fan is going to point to this point of this offseason and say, we could have had Aaron Rodgers. I know he's a little disastrous and distracting. I know he can be egotistical and a difficult guy to deal with, but he's Aaron Rodgers. He's a Hall of Fame forty one year old quarterback who still managed to put up twenty eight touchdowns and eleven interceptions last season for the worst NFL organization, the Jets. He still found a way to put up good numbers. And I think the Vikings handled their quarterback off season drama and speculation very poorly. And I believe that without necessarily doing it on purpose, the Minnesota Vikings have painted Jajon McCarthy in a bad light because they offered Donald a contract, they offered Daniel Jones a contract, They were in discussions for at least a week about signing Aaron Rodgers and putting him in the Vikings quarterback room. Why do you have these conversations, Why would you ever discuss bringing in Sam Darnald on a one year, fifteen million dollar deal. He was never gonna take that, But why did you offer it? Why did you discuss Aaron Rodgers potentially being a member of the Vikings organization? Why did you offer Daniel Jones a contract to come back to Minnesota. Now the Vikings are speaking on top of rioftops and saying that McCarthy's our guy. We always believed in him, We had no doubts about him moving forward. But if that's true, then why did you do your due diligence on Sam Darnold, Daniel Jones, and Aaron Rodgers. Why were these discussions ever taking place if you felt one one hundred percent certain that McCarthy was the guy, Because if that was the case, you could have easily signed Joe Flacco, or you could have signed Gardner Minshew or mac Jones and ended this whole ordeal of us. He's in speculation. But they didn't. And the Vikings are very conscious of how they are being perceived. They have people in the building that the Vikings perception is their job. They got to make sure it looks good and right now, what the Vikings are trying to do is have the perception be we love McCarthy. We always believed in McCarthy. That's why we're not bringing in Rogers. We're not doing it because McCarthy's our guy and we believe in him. But the truth of the matter is this. The Vikings offered Darnold, they offered Daniel Jones, and they had a week long conversation and discussion about the benefits and the cons of bringing in Aaron Rodgers to be one. And what you see now is everyone's back in the Vikings. I saw a couple of other people posts from different shows. The Vikings believe in McCarthy. He's their guy, and that's exactly what the Vikings want everybody to believe. But Kyle Brandt on Good Morning Football, I'm not gonna steal this dat and pretend it's my own said this this morning about quarterbacks in the same situation as McCarthy, meaning they sat their first year, they went into their second year and became the starter. There's been eleven of them recently. Only one of those quarterbacks that were in McCarthy's situation. Only one of the eleven made the playoffs his first season, starting in his second NFL season, So the odds are not good and that quarterback that did it was actually Dante Culpepper, but Drew Brees did it. There's other quarterbacks that took the same route that year, a backup didn't play your first year, came into second year or QB one and the amount of times that that quarterback made the playoffs was once one time out of eleven. And the Vikings the division is not getting any easier. And I bring this all up because right now, the perception is we love McCarthy, we always stood by McCarthy and there's really no other option besides McCarthy, when the truth is completely different. The truth was, we consider bringing Donald back, we consider bringing Daniel Jones back, and we considered bringing in Aaron Rodgers. But from the stand from the standpoint of Vikings fans, now, you think that you love JAJ McCarthy, You think that you know that he's the guy, but you don't love JJ McCarthy. You love the hope of McCarthy. You would turn on McCarthy so fast if he stinks next season that you would blame the Vikings organization for not signing Aaron Rodgers, which if he signed right now you have threatened to stop being a Vikings fan. That's how the fan mindset works. You think that you know that McCarthy is going to be good and that he's going to lead the Vikings of the playoffs with the Bears, Packers and Lions, but you don't know anything. You are living and believing the hope that McCarthy will step in with a Super Bowl roster ready to win, and you think that that's going to be enough, and you think he's gonna step in seamlessly because of the hope of McCarthy. But facts come into play here. The Bears are good, the Packers are good, the Lions are good. On only one time out of eleven have guys in McCarthy's situation made the playoffs. And if he stinks next season, wow, you are going to criticize McCarthy so fast and you're gonna say stuff like, oh, yeah, he was never asked to do much of Michigan. What were the Vikings thinking? This guy sucks. It's gonna take a one bad game, one bad game, and the Vikings fan base is gonna hammer the Vikings quarterback and Vikings organization for not bringing in a guy like Aaron Rodgers when he was available. It's gonna happen. I know what's gonna happen, because I know the way the fan mind works. Your fans. Right now, you think that McCarthy's gonna be the guy. You have much hope for McCarthy, But as soon as he steps on the football field, and if he plays poorly in the first few weeks of the season, you are going to immediately start questioning what the Vikings organization was thinking. And you're gonna go back to this time period of the NFL offseason and you are going to remember that the Vikings offered Sam Darnold, they offered Daniel Jones, and they considered offering Aaron Rodgers a contract, and you're gonna point to it and be like, oh, we should have signed those guys because McCarthy's not ready. We have the best wide receiver corp in the NFL five, we have a top five offensive line and a top five defensive line. Yet McCarthy is the one player holding the Vikings back from being a Super Bowl roster and being a Super Bowl contender. So what I believe is that the Vikings have put so much unfair pressure and their treatment of McCarthy this offseason may have been a little unfair because the fan base is going to come back to this timeline and say, you could have had somebody else if McCarthy stinks. If McCarthy stinks, the finger pointing is going to come back to mid March when you could have had Aaron Rodgers, or it's gonna come back to early March when he could have signed Sam Donald. So I just think you gotta be very, very careful right now because the Vikings are setting this perception of we love McCarthy. But the truth is, they discussed thoroughly the possibility of having three other quarterbacks in the building that would compete with McCarthy for the number one spot. Sure, their takeaway was McCarthy's the guy, but they offered Donald, they offered Daniel Jones, and they thought for a long time about signing Aaron Rodgers. So I don't think it's as easy as yeah, the Vikings believed in McCarthy. I don't think it's that easy, and I don't think it's that obvious. I don't think it's as clear and simple as McCarthy's our guy. We believed in him. Because there are a lot of moving parts in this whole ordeal, and based on the Vikings decision making based on how long they waited to end the Aaron Rodgers saga points to a lot of different things, like it shows a lot about the Vikings belief and McCarthy that they dragged this Aaron Rodgers speculation on for two weeks. It's all we've been talking about. So that's my take on McCarthy and the Vikings belief and future of McCarthy. The Timberwolves lost again last night. They lose to the Pacers when they're not playing their best players, and then they lose to oo the New Orleans Pelicans, who also stink this season. The Pelicans are nineteen and fifty one, the Timberwolves forty to thirty one right now, one game out of the sixth seed. Currently the eighth seed tied with the LA Clippers. These were two really, really bad losses because the Vikings were riding Vikings The Timberwolves were riding an eight game win streak going into these two games, and there were two clutch time games. They overlook opponents because here's what the Timberwolves do, and they do this all the time, and now they're trying starting to show their true colors again because you look at their eight wins. They beat Phoenix, they suck Philadelphia, they suck Charlotte, dastink, Miami is no good. San Antonio they're awful. Denver goodwin, Orlando, they suck Utah. They suck seven of their eight wins. During this eight game win streak, we're against krabby teams. And then you read the postgame comments by the players and it's all the same stuff. We're starting to believe in each other, we're getting used to playing with one another, we're just getting familiar with each other's tendencies, and we're just starting to soar. But you look at the schedule and who did you beat? You beat one good team out of eight? You mean nobody. You are who we thought you were. And then they start getting cocky and confident, we're just gonna roll through the rest of the league because we won eight in row, and we know each other's tendencies, and they start to fall for these lives that you're so good that we're just gonna roll through the rest of the league. Then they play a hungry Indiana bench and lose in overtime, and then they get owned by Zion Williamson and the New Orleans Pelicans. I lose one to nineteen to one fifteen. Anthony Edwards five of nineteen, four for ten from the free three point line twenty nine points, Julius Randalls seventeen points, Gobar ten points, Mike Conley sixteen points. Nasrid was terrible three for eleven two vercent from the three point line. I was listening to Pa coming home from Bible study this morning and he shared this fascinating statistic this morning on KFAN nine to noon. Jose Alvarado c J McCollum, and he mentioned two other guards as well, or at least one other guard. He combined four players from the Pelicans roster, and he combined the biggest players go Bear, Randall, McDaniels, and Noz Red on the Timberwolves roster, and he came away with the conclusion in fact, that the four guards on the Pelicans roster had more combined rebounds than the big players on the Timberwolves roster. Jose Alvarado had three rebounds, Ceja mccoum had six rebounds, Jeremiah Robinson Earl had seven rebounds, and Bruce Brown had seven rebounds. Jordan Hawkins had six rebounds. Jaden McDaniels zero rebounds, Julius Randall three rebounds, nos Reed had seven rebounds, and Gobart had nine. Those players combined for nineteen rebounds, and the players on the Pelicans roster, Yeah, six plus three is nine, plus seven is seventeen sixteen and plus six is twenty two. The Pelicans guards combined for twenty two rebounds, and the Viking Timberwolves back court combined for nineteen. Jaden McDaniels had five points. A complete no show. How does someone as tall as McDaniels, How does a rebound not just somehow fall into his lap? Accidentally? He played twenty four minutes and at zero offensive or defensive rebounds. And another point has been brought to my attention about the Timberwl situation, and it's Anthony Edwards who is obsessed with how many threes he can make this season. He's oh cocky about Oh, I've got sobody threes like he shoot the three point BALLID look at me to make the three at a career higher rate than at an excellent level. And when four to ten last night, it's forty percent. And of course you look at forty percent and you're gonna break miss six threes, it's six empty possessions, twenty nine points, fifteen first seventeen from the free throw line. Anthony Edwards this season is forty seventh out of fifty one NBA players with at least two hundred and thirty attempts inside the restricted area this year. Because Edwards is so obsessed with making threes, his ability to finish shots near the rim has completely gone to inefficiency. Anthony Edwards finished oh of seven at the rim in the half court and a loss to the Pelicans. His sixty one percent field goal percentage at the rim this season is the lowest mark of his career since his fifty nine point six percent rookie season. Anthony Edwards has gone from a guy that's one of the best attackers and finishers at the rim to a cocky three point shooter that loves to close out games because he wants to make a draining of three, and now he can't finish at the rim. His greatest skill set, getting to the rim, dunking on guys and finishing has gone completely out the window because he's fallen for the idea that you've got to be a three point shooter to win NBA games. To be the best player in the league. And sure having a three point shot is important for every NBA player and your ability to be different and have different areas of the floor that you can score. But my go to player that I'm gonna look at here is Shay Gilgis Alexander, the MVP of the NBA this year. He attempts five point eighty three point attempts per game and makes two of them. He is a thirty seven three point shooter, which is good enough. It's good enough to be dangerous. He makes two threes a game. He averages thirty three points a game, which tells me that his damage comes from the free throw line and the mid range game. Shaye Gilgis Alexander has brought back the mid range game to the NBA, and everyone wants to follow the recipe of Steph Curry. Oh look what Steph Curry can do. I'm gonna mimic my game after Steph Curry because of the way he can make threes. The problem is you can't shoot the ball like Steph Curry. Steph Curry is the most legendary NBA shooter of all time. So the fact that you're going to try to mimic your game after Steph Curry makes no sense. And Anthony Edwards has fallen for this three point trap idea where he's so obsessed with making and taking threes that his ability to attack and score at the rim has suffered, and it's got out the window because now his ability to do that is terrible. Forty seven out of fifty one players with two hundred and thirty attempts inside the restricted area this season. That is awful. And that's why you see the Timberwols struggling late in games because instead of going to the rim and trying to get fouled or dunking over somebody or finishing with a layup at the rim, Edwards wants to make a game winning three. And I think this goes all the way back to childhoods. When you're a child and you're in the gym or you're playing outside and you do five four three two one. Nobody pictures in their head going to the rim and making a layup or dunking on someone. You picture making a jump shot from the three point line or from the mid range game. And every game the Timberwolves get into a clutch time situation, there's Antie Edwards shooting another contested three. There's Anti Edwards trying to rely on his jump shot to win them games. And here's the problem. When you get into clutch time, when you get into high pressure moments, that's when your talent takes over and your skills take over. And Edwards, sure, he can make a bunch of threes in a game, but his greatest skill is not shooting the three. His greatest skill is getting to the rim and scoring, and he wants to shoot the three. And when you get into those high pressure, stake moments, then he struggles because he's trying to rely on something that he's not good at. He's trying to prove that, hey, I'm gonna jump shoot it too, look at me. That's not your game, that's not your strength. He's trying to prove to the rest of the NBA that he can score from the three point line on an elite level. And the truth of the matter is when he tries to do that, it actually hinders the Timberwol's ability to win games late because he wants to play hero ball. He wants to show everybody he's the man by making a three and not attacking the lane and using his greatest strength to score the ball and win games. So that's the Timberwolves problem right now. That's why they can't close games, and that's why they're going to be stuck in a playing situation and might miss the playoffs completely. So it's very clear and obvious what's going on, all right, everyone, Thank you for watching and making this podcast. For everybody, hit that subscribe button. This podcast is one honest, one percent time. Have a good day.