Anthony Edwards just isn’t quick on confidence. An rising, swagger-soaked MVP candidate who simply led the Minnesota Timberwolves to their first convention finals look in 20 years, Edwards is ready to tackle a core position for the U.S. males’s Olympic group in Paris — and by core position, we imply, in his thoughts. Edwards believes he may be the alpha scorer on a roster that features LeBron James, Stephen Curry, Jayson Tatum, Joel Embiid and Kevin Durant.
“I am nonetheless the No. 1 choice,” Edwards informed reporters from Crew USA’s coaching camp in Las Vegas on Sunday. “Y’all would possibly have a look at it in another way, I do not have a look at it no totally different.”
Edwards was then requested what fulfilling the No. 1 position on a roster that features a number of the biggest gamers in historical past would possibly really seem like, and he went even additional.
“I simply go on the market and be myself,” Edwards mentioned. “Shoot my photographs, play protection and, . They’ve gotta slot in to mess around me. That is how I really feel.”
They’ve gotta slot in to mess around me.
Unbelievable.
Think about having the arrogance, at 22 years outdated with a grand whole of 4 NBA and 5 post-high-school seasons underneath your belt, to say, and not using a second’s hesitation, that LeBron and Curry are mainly going to Paris as your assist employees.
You may’t assist however love this man, as a result of he has each proper to be this brash. He simply knocked out Durant and Devin Booker, two Olympic teammates, within the playoffs and was by far and away one of the best participant on the courtroom. He is an electrical scorer and quickly growing creator who can dominate defensively as properly. He may be one of the best participant within the league in the future quickly. He legitimately believes that day has arrived.
That mentioned, we nonetheless do not even know what the beginning lineup might be in Paris, although Edwards will possible be in it. We might get our first have a look at a five-man beginning unit of Curry, Edwards, Tatum, LeBron and Embiid when the People tackle Canada in an exhibition tune-up Wednesday evening.
Regardless of who begins or performs what position, this U.S. group is completely stacked. And Edwards, once more, has each proper to consider he is one of the best of one of the best, even when that is most likely not true. But.
