Anthony Edwards scored 32 points in Game 3 and still walked off the floor admitting he doesn’t have an answer. That’s the part that should scare every Wolves fan more than any scoreline.
Down 2-1 to the Spurs, Game 4 tonight at Target Center is as close to a must-win as you get without the season being literally over. And we warned you Wemby was going to be a problem — beating Denver in Round 1 was great, but this is a different animal entirely.
Victor Wembanyama put up 39 points, 15 rebounds, and 5 blocks on 72.2% shooting in Game 3. ESPN noted he joins Kareem, Shaq, and Hakeem as the only players in playoff history with 35/15/5 — and he’s the first one to ever do it at 70% from the field. Ever. That last part matters because Kareem and Shaq were dominant because of volume and physicality. Wemby is doing this while being geometrically unfair. There is no body on this roster built to contest a guy who, per Ant’s own postgame accounting, plays like he’s 7-foot-6 — shooting fadeaway spin moves that Hakeem personally taught him. He said as much after the game — “I had to resort to some things that Hakeem taught me in the fourth quarter. Many things, but especially that spin fadeaway over Gobert.” Over Gobert. The best shot-blocking center of his generation. Wemby went over him anyway.
"I had to resort to some things that Hakeem taught me."
Victor Wembanyama (39 PTS, 16 in Q4) credits Hakeem Olajuwon when speaking on the moves he made down the stretch to seal the deal in Game 3 👏
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The Wolves came back from 18-3 down to tie it 51-51 at halftime. That matters. This team didn’t fold. But Wemby personally handled 18 of San Antonio’s 29 fourth-quarter points — scoring or assisting on them — and there’s no scheme that fixes a 3-4 inch height mismatch on a guy who can also shoot threes.
Edwards said it himself postgame: “They got somebody who’s 7-6 on the floor. He takes up a lot of space. Just trying to figure out ways to find an open man around him because in the paint, he’s just everywhere.” That is not a game plan. That is a 24-year-old superstar telling you he is improvising against something he’s never seen before. Edwards is playing through this hurt, competing his ass off — 32 and 14 in a loss is not a bad night — but the gap between “competing hard” and “having a real counter” is where this series is being decided.
Then there’s the Chris Finch situation, which was genuinely bizarre. Finch got into it with referee Tony Brothers so badly that Brothers — the referee — had to be physically restrained by Bones Hyland and assistant coach Pablo Prigioni. Finch was not ejected. Brothers was the one who needed to be pulled away. That’s a sentence I did not expect to type this week. Finch’s explanation was that he’d called for three seconds earlier and Brothers ignored him, called it “completely unprofessional behavior.” Edwards, to his credit, was diplomatic: “Tony Brothers is Tony Brothers. We all love him.” Sure, Ant.
None of this is fatal. The Wolves won Game 1 even when Wemby set the all-time single-game playoff blocks record with 12. Home crowd tonight. Shots will fall. Naz Reid gave them 18 and 9 off the bench and is a real weapon in this series.
But Game 2 was a 38-point blowout — 133-95, the worst postseason loss in franchise history. You don’t get to wave that away.
Ant needs something he hasn’t shown yet. Not more points. A plan.
