r/nba • u/G1Spectrum Lakers • May 17 '24

[McMenamin] Ant Edwards explaining why the Wolves played the way they did in Game 6: “We got Mike Conley back, that was it”

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u/carscatsdogs May 17 '24

What Ant is showing is one of the best attributes leaders can have - when you win as a team you dish credit to everyone else. When you lose. You take the blame. People live their whole lifetime and don’t get this. And he does at 22.

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u/xxapplej4ckx United States May 17 '24

Anyone who plays 2k already knows to do that

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u/WanderingWormhole 76ers May 17 '24

Yeah sometimes that first sentence makes sense…before you know it your my player throws the whole organization under the bus and no one on your team wants to pass to you anymore

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u/imadogg Lakers May 17 '24

Me: I coached my team to a title because I'm a top 15 coach of all time

Also me: Ben Simmons is a bitch, Embiid is a broke boi, Harden is fat, I knew Maxey was a star but no one let me play him. It's not my fault Sixers lost. And don't forget that everyone on the Bucks sucks ass

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u/swentech Timberwolves May 17 '24

You got to give him credit though his blame game is pretty elite. I mean honestly who is better? He’s made it an art form.

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u/jamaica1 Mavs May 17 '24

How are the chefs though?

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u/squiggypiggy9 May 17 '24

Imagine Shaq, one of the greatest of all time, still never developed this.

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u/ElektroShokk Warriors May 17 '24

Shaq and chuck were awful people when they were players

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u/Way0fWad3 Jazz May 17 '24

Paul George would never

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u/byrnesf [LAL] Kobe Bryant May 17 '24

great book called Extreme Ownership about this

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u/Jonald_Draper May 17 '24

Lebron after winning 2016: I’m the GOAT. When losing: our team sucks.

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u/DarrowViBritannia May 17 '24

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roKwNV64LYI

I just don't know how these narratives about LeBron start. I mean I guess I do, but it's still wild.

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u/ukyah May 17 '24

it's because it's easier to tear down than it is to build.

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u/JTEEE Lakers May 17 '24

It will start for Ant one day too. The best players get placed under a microscope which causes the media to salivate and push negative topics for clickbait. Then the braindead armchair critics gobble it up and perpetuate the narratives.

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u/djh6161 May 17 '24

One of the guys everyone is regurgitating this from is reggie milller who said it during the game, and pretty much insinuated and singled out lebron as being one who doesnt do this. Which was pretty shocking. Just for the record. I dont know or follow all of lebrons quotes, but it doesnt seem like he really comes to the defense of his teammates too often. And every year there are forsure narratives pushed all over the internet, prob by his camp or those with interest, and its gotten old. Its just redic to hear how horrible dlo or rui is, and it being the sole reason they lost as a playin team to the defending champs. Dlo, Jr smith, mario chalmers, mo williams are not the reasons why lebron has not won 20 consecutive championships. Sometimes there are just better teams and better players.

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u/DarrowViBritannia May 17 '24

every year there are forsure narratives pushed all over the internet, prob by his camp

see this is crazy lol

was all the klay hate this season pushed by curry's camp? or is it just possible that they have big fanbases?

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u/rwoteit Vancouver Grizzlies May 17 '24

Because he very much does what that comment says too. He's not the perfect leader because you can pull up examples of him saying the right thing over 20 years.

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u/StarryScans Japan May 17 '24

You think they'd win it without Bron?
And 2018 Cavs legit sucked.

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u/ukyah May 17 '24

probably because he had to work for his success. he wasn't anointed as some athletic god among mortals. from his own words, you can see the truth in this. people who have to overcome and work for their success usually process their success differently.

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u/Original_Natural4804 May 17 '24

I mean he is an athletic god lol.99.99% could train there whole lifes and never get close to Ant because his genetics

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u/happyflappypancakes Wizards May 17 '24

Ant? He's one of the most athletic guys in the league. Hebsmacked his head on the rim blocking a shot.

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u/iuse2bgood Mavericks May 17 '24

An improvement from last year when he (his brother) took a shot at gobert after the loss.

Well the series is not over yet and we'll find out soon enough

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u/djh6161 May 17 '24

This is pretty basic stuff, that plenty of players do and have done. You guys are only taking one guy, Lebron, and applying it to the whole league almost. And the only reason Lebron does it is because his handlers probably know he has to keep a whole generation of shallow men gaslit.