Anthony Edwards Calls Out Wolves' Lack of 'Championship Habits' After NBA Playoffs Loss to Spurs

Minnesota Timberwolves star Anthony Edwards said "the better team" won after conceding a 139-109 elimination blowout loss to the San Antonio Spurs in Game 6 of the second round.

"I just tip my hat to them. They were just the better team," Edwards said Friday night.

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Edwards added that the problems the Wolves dealt with during Friday's elimination loss dated back to the regular season.

"We had a hard time of processing stuff, and going out there and doing it," Edwards said. "We try to do stuff on our own, that's our problem."

When asked if that was a problem the Timberwolves needed to have begun addressing in the regular season, Edwards answered, "Yeah, I think you're supposed to build championship habits, or playoff habits, in the regular season... No, we didn't build the habits during the regular season."

After winning Game 1 by two points, the Wolves dropped four of their next five games to concede the series as the Spurs advanced to face the defending champion Oklahoma City Thunder in the Western Conference Finals.

That included blowout losses in Games 5 and 6, in which the Wolves were outscored by a total of 59 points.

"Certainly the margin of victories are a little tough to take," Wolves head coach Chris Finch said after Friday's elimination loss. "For the most part, I thought, guys fought. But we just couldn't complete plays on both ends of the floor."

Finch added, "I just feel like we kind of ran out bullets as this series went on."

This marks the third straight year in which the Timberwolves have been eliminated in a blowout, including losses to the Thunder and Dallas Mavericks in the last two conference finals.

This year the Wolves fell short of the conference finals after losing Donte DiVincenzo to a ruptured right Achilles tendon in Game 4 of their first-round series against the Denver Nuggets.

"We just need everything to be clicking at the right time, that's the main thing. I think missing Donte is big for us," Edwards said Friday night. "He spreads the floor like no other. A series like this, where they just double-team, I would love to have Donte in my slot, and just throwing it to him, and he'd shoot 20 threes."

The Wolves were ultimately outshot in the loss, with the Spurs converting on 56 percent of their attempts from the field compared to Minnesota's 38 percent.

Edwards led his team with 24 points, and the Wolves' defense managed to limit Wembanyama to 19 points but couldn't contain Stephon Castle in his 32-point, 11-rebound outing.