Anthony Edwards’ Impact in Basketball: Leadership and Energy

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00:00Here's Finch, and this is the start of also, I told you he was crying today.

00:04Last night, it kind of felt like he was putting it on Ant at the beginning of the game last night.

00:11Here he is.

00:12You mentioned kind of the energy, the spirit starts with Ant.

00:15Is that something that you and he talk about maybe ahead of game two now?

00:19No, I mean, what is there to talk about?

00:21I mean, you're the leader of the team, and you've got to come out and set the tone, you know,

00:26in all ways that that happens.

00:28And if your shot's not going, like, you still have to carry the energy, you know?

00:35So, you know, I don't think there's, you know, if I've got to talk to guys about having the right energy

00:43coming into opening second-round game, then, you know, we're not on the same page.

00:51So I play with guys.

00:53I saw this guy today that I play with, and I haven't seen him in a long time, like six months.

00:58And he said to me something to the effect of, you know, I'm missing shots or whatever.

01:06And I said, listen, bro, you know this place.

01:08These guys are all superstars.

01:10So they don't, they're not interested in you missing shots or me missing shots or me even

01:17having a ball.

01:18When you don't have your shot going, you've got to do other things.

01:22I said to them, you've got to get rebounds.

01:23You've got to make passes.

01:25You've got to set screens.

01:26Or they don't want you here.

01:28You either do something else or you're not welcome.

01:32I play with dudes that are so good that if you don't do something else besides missed shots,

01:38go home.

01:39Just get in your car and go home.

01:41Because they're not going to have it.

01:42So you've got to do something else.

01:44And that, I mean, you could literally, so like if there's a day when I'm not hitting shots,

01:48man, I just become Dennis Rodman.

01:50I go stand under the basket.

01:52All I want is rebounds.

01:53I'll throw elbows, anything.

01:54Just get involved somehow, some way.

01:57And that's what he's talking about.

01:59Because Ann Edwards is too good to do nothing.

02:03And that's what he did last night.

02:05And you know a guy that never did nothing?

02:08Michael Jordan.

02:09He never did nothing.

02:11He always did a lot of everything.

02:13Even if he wasn't hitting shots, he'd sit there and get all the rebounds and make all the passes

02:19and make all the screens and make all the plays, steals, whatever it was.

02:23Do something else.

02:25Ann Edwards did nothing else except Mo.

02:27You know what I think of Mo.

02:30Don't get me started on Mo.

02:33That's never a good thing.

02:34Gotta always be up, no matter how it's going.

02:37Can't just all of a sudden shut it down and mail it in.

02:40That's not right.

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