The Minnesota Timberwolves lost 113-103 to the Golden State Warriors on Saturday at Target Center and Anthony Edwards was not happy with the officiating in the game. Edwards spoke about the officiating for the entirety of his postgame press conference and did not mince words.
“They’re f***ing terrible,” Edwards said. “All of them, besides the woman. But the other two dudes, terrible. The reasons they call a foul, the reasons they don’t call a foul, that s*** was terrible. They don’t want to talk back to my coach, they don’t want to talk back to me. I said one thing to the ref and he gave me a tech.
“Mother****** told one of my teammates, ‘If I would have said, y’all calling a bad foul, he would have gave me a tech.’ N****s, they just sensitive and they’re terrible,” Edwards continued. “They never give us the benefit. They penalize me and (Julius Randle) for being stronger than our opponent every night. We don’t get no calls. So yeah, that’s how I feel about the officials every game that we play.”
Sean Wright, Sean Corbin, and Simone Jelks were the officials for this Timberwolves-Warriors game. Jelks avoided Edwards’ wrath but Wright and Corbin weren’t quite as fortunate.
“It’s just hard,” Edwards stated. “Everybody keeps saying, ‘Play through it, play through it.’ It’s easy to say that when you’re not dealing with it. That’s what’s frustrating.”
Edwards felt the Timberwolves had not gotten a good whistle all season but added it was particularly bad against the Warriors.
“Hell yeah it’s been consistent all year, but tonight was bad,” Edwards added. “They was getting ticky-tack fouls and we weren’t getting nothing. So that’s just how I feel about the officials. The two dudes, not the woman.”
Edwards also claimed that the bad officiating against him has led to him not quite being in attack mode as often as he has been in the past.
“I get penalized for being stronger than my opponent,” Edwards said. “So, they give them the benefit of the doubt. They bump me the way they bump everybody else, and I never get the call. I don’t know what gotta go down but something gotta happen cuz that s**** terrible.”
Anthony Edwards talked about the officiating for the entirety of his postgame media. Here's a piece of what he said. pic.twitter.com/Nehp43N3ex
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Edwards is certainly getting slapped with a fine for this rant. Some questionable calls did go against the Timberwolves in this contest in Minnesota, but the two-time All-Star did go a bit overboard here.
The Warriors were called for 23 fouls in this game compared to 18 for the Timberwolves. The home team also had a slight edge in free throw attempts (25 to 23), so this wasn’t a case of the visitors just getting all the calls.
What the Timberwolves could have done to get the win here was to start the game better, as they were down by as many as 21 points in the second quarter. It would have also helped if Edwards had played better. The two-time All-Star had 19 points (6-20 FG), seven rebounds, and five assists in the contest, and that’s simply not good enough.
The Timberwolves appeared to have turned the page after winning six of seven games, but they have now lost two in a row at home to drop to 14-13 on the season. They’ll be determined to get back to winning ways when they take on the Atlanta Hawks at State Farm Arena on Monday at 7:30 PM ET.
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