Anthony Edwards Rips Wolves as 'Front-Runners' After Loss, Calls Team 'Soft as Hell'

Minnesota Timberwolves guard Anthony Edwards didn't hold his feelings back after his team's 115-104 home loss to the Sacramento Kings on Wednesday.

Travis Singleton captured more of Edwards' comments, specifically what he meant by calling the Timberwolves "frontrunners" on Wednesday.

Based on Edwards' tone and remarks, he clearly wasn't unabatedly bashing his team. He told it like it was in the midst of a losing streak and even took ownership himself, using "we" to include himself in the criticism and calling himself a frontrunner on this night, too.

And in regards to what he meant, Edwards basically said the team allowed itself to get too high when things were going well and invited too much negative energy and emotion when things weren't.

Wednesday was a seesaw game that saw the Kings outscore the Timberwolves 38-24 in the second quarter for a 69-57 halftime edge. Minnesota fought back, though, by playing great defense en route to outscoring Sacramento 29-12 in the third. However, Sacramento then scored 34 to the Timberwolves' 18 in the fourth for the 11-point win.

It's a tough defeat for a Minnesota team that went 56-26 last year. That mark was good enough for the Western Conference's third seed. Minnesota upset the then-defending NBA champion Denver Nuggets in the second round before falling to the Dallas Mavericks in the Western Conference finals.

The Timberwolves had high hopes going into this season but made a seismic trade along the way, dealing longtime franchise cornerstone Karl-Anthony Towns to the New York Knicks for Julius Randle and Donte DiVincenzo.

For whatever reason, things haven't clicked in Minnesota, which is now 8-10 after a four-game losing streak. That's dropped the Timberwolves to 12th in the Western Conference.

We'll see if Edwards' motivational comments can wake the team up soon enough when Minnesota hosts the Los Angeles Clippers on Friday.