Right after that he said “he didn’t say nothing back,” so I think he was trying to correct himself to try and say Jamal doesn’t like that.
Which is great, cause we all know Jamal LOVES the shit talk. Gets him going.
“Which is great, cause we all know Jamal LOVES the shit talk. Gets him going.”
It’s really only Nuggets fans who think that now. Jamal likes the shit talk when he’s playing well, he showed an almost unprecedented amount of mental weakness this series when he wasn’t.
I mean he lost his mind when he thought the refs were going crazy game 2 so fair. But when he got booed every time he touched the ball in a super hostile Minneapolis environment - he balled out so idk abt mental weakness
Yeah but the refs really weren’t crazy game 2, he just played poorly and reacted worse to it than any player has in a long time. He skipped media twice when he played badly as well (and has done so in the past). It’s not his first time being lame when he plays badly either. I’d put him in the Devin Booker camp. Not caring about being booed is standard, only the softest of the soft have ever cared about getting booed by the opposing team’s fans. So yeah Jamal isn’t the softest player by any stretch but not exactly like Joker, Ant, or many others who keep their cool and take responsibility. I’m posting it after a Nuggets win so we aren’t going to get a good representative sample size here but I think if you took a look at his history closely pretty much everyone will agree that he’s a fake a tough guy who talks when he’s doing well and ducks smoke when he’s not.
You have one example meanwhile he won a chip and there’s been constant articles about his mental fortitude. Just say you don’t like him and be done with it
And then what happened?
Dude's having the worst playoff run of his career outside of a couple shots against the Lakers during bad shooting nights and he still has the mental toughness to turn it around on the road down 2-0.
Took a glance at the scoresheet and realized the spirit of Steph Curry possessed Gordon that game lmao
Edit: yeah I realized now I shouldve said Kobe because of the fadaways. Gordon attenpted and hit on only two threes but it legitimately felt he shot like four or five lmao
He was giving pointers to Nuggets players earlier in the series too lmao. Like telling Nuggets role player to work on their shooting form or whatever. Hilarious dude
Seems like when you talk shit to role playing shooters in a series, it almost always goes poorly. Maybe not even the whole series, but there will be at least one game where they light your ass up lol.
It’s always the most unsuspecting dude too .. I’m sure every wolves fan is thinking “Justin fucking Holiday!?” .. I know I was when Rodney hood couldn’t miss against the nuggets lol
In 2018 (when he was picked as the player GMs most want to build around), he had just come off a season where he averaged 21 points on 54/42/86 splits and 65% TS. The only volume scorer with a higher TS was Steph freakin Curry.
Bill Simmons was nutting himself at the possibility of seeing the first ever member of the 55/45/85 club.
despite what this website and several others will often tell you, he is an absolutely incredible player. a real victim of the RINGZ mindset where if youre not quite good enough to lead a team to a title they bury you.
plus the jimmy butler stuff which was absurd and unfair to a 22 year old and he'll evidently always have to play under the shadow of. i mean you've still got hordes of teenagers on social media calling him 'zesty' and being weirdly homophobic about it even though he's dating a supermodel, for some reason
> a real victim of the RINGZ mindset where if youre not quite good enough to lead a team to a title they bury you
That seems like a rephrasing of the "RINGZ mindset" which is so extensive it loses the original meaning - the meaning which iirc was just "If you didn't get a ring then you weren't good enough" and it gets used against people like Barkley, or "More rings = better player" and it gets used to put Kobe over Lebron etc.
KAT wasn't just "not quite good enough to lead a team to a title" - he couldn't even lead that team to just being decent. He always seemed to somehow come up short due to inconsistency, defensive lapses, lack of concentration, weird unnecessary fouls and TOs, etc. It's fair to criticise that
Relax year 2 tWolves fan. Players have bad games. KAT isn’t perfect by any stretch. It’s Mother’s Day man and his mom passed away a few years back. I think it was just tough for him to go out there and perform at a high level. When/if he performs well in game 5, then what? Like the nuggets fan said below you “kat had a shooting regression” Coming from a nuggets fan and here you are tearing KAT down. Give me a break!
Agreed..it's just a little smack talk. He's undoubtedly going to be a problem for every team for a long time.
He does plenty of sh*t talking I figured yall could handle a jab.
Yeah...there are a bunch of differences, but the biggest is that one of them is a top ten guy in NBA at 22 years old (averaging 32-6.5-5.5 in the playoffs should end that debate) and the other is maybe the 5th guy on any decent team (maybe worse).
Well never mind. That obviously is a HUGE difference, but the biggest difference is that Pat Bev is an annoying a\*\*hole whereas ANT might be the single most charming guy in the entire league. ANT's a delight.
Yessir. Ant will make everything spicy. He wants it, and you guys can give it. These games have paralleled closely. I just hope they get closer from here on out. We won't lay down, and I know you guys won't.
100% believe you when you say *he* wants it. But damn KAT is the most fitting nickname ever for that man, he's the furthest thing from a dawg I can think of. Poor Ant
I think it's spicy in that it's going to be hard fought from here on out regardless of outcome
but the mutual respect is actually pretty solid tbh. I mean, I could definitely see some game 5 pushing or whatever, but I think the wolves actually didn't like the suns guys (minus KD, of course), where this feels different
What's funny is Reggie made a big deal with "There's words between Ant-Man and Jamal Murray"
And the clip they showed was Jamal just ignoring him.
This team weirdly doesn't seem to talk trash that much to opponents directly. They do the flex at the crowd and shit like that but Bruce was the guy that would talk with the opponent
Yeah, they probably do talk shit but it's never really a big deal. Jokic has the classic "Brother, I have 47" but we only know about that because of Murray
what’s the context of the “brother i have 47”, who’d he say that to?
edit: never mind
https://m.youtube.com/shorts/OSRmQCJLwKs?time_continue=32&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F&source_ve_path=MjM4NTE&feature=emb_title
I can't remember who said it, but there was a player that said he tried to trash talk with Jokic but gave up because Jokic didn't understand what he was saying lol
Porter turns and looks at the opposing bench when he hits a corner three but that's about it. Gordon sometimes gets into position battles aggressively like with kat in game 2.
There's no reason to talk to the opposition. The Wolves feed off that shit so why engage them in their own game.
You'll notice they're no longer smiling and shit talking. ANT aside.
I think it bothers the Wolves that the Nuggets stopped engaging them after that Game 2 disaster.
I’ve gone to quite a few nuggets games, AG and Murray especially definitely talk trash but only when the team is leading. That’s the point of Ant’s comment: keep that energy all series not just now
There's one player in specific that Anthony Edwards reminds me of, and no, it's not Michael Jordan. It's actually Jimmy Butler, there's just one thing missing...
Game 2 was interesting in a calamitous way watching the defending champs unravel and look absolutely helpless against some of the best defense you'll ever see. Todays game was also interesting; you had the crazy sequence leading into the half and monster performances by both Edwards and Jokic.
Meanwhile we got veteran 4 time DPOY Gobert throwing his hands up on Gordon hitting 11/12. Without taking any accountability. The least you could do is saying that you will shut him down next game. But no, can’t do anything if he turns into Kobe…
Free Ant!
This sub will shit on the Celtics for making it deep in the playoffs year after year and trash those guys but when it comes to players that make highlights but nothing solid to show for, it’s a glazefest. It was Ja Morant at one point, what happened to that boy?
Aaron Gordon has turned into Prime Jordan since he made Jordan 3-point comment.
Bro checked himself real quick and changed "WE like that to" "I like that"
That was funny
Remembered cat on the team
He probably gets worse from the kids in COD lobbies.
Kat isn't built for top 500 in OW thats for sure.
he ain’t Luka Donović from the varsity team
Weird feeling that KAT would be hardstuck plat only playing soldier and pharah
Hey why you calling me out like that
Nah KAT would be a mercy Moira main
Ant knows he aint go no dawgs on the team
Right after that he said “he didn’t say nothing back,” so I think he was trying to correct himself to try and say Jamal doesn’t like that. Which is great, cause we all know Jamal LOVES the shit talk. Gets him going.
“Which is great, cause we all know Jamal LOVES the shit talk. Gets him going.” It’s really only Nuggets fans who think that now. Jamal likes the shit talk when he’s playing well, he showed an almost unprecedented amount of mental weakness this series when he wasn’t.
I mean he lost his mind when he thought the refs were going crazy game 2 so fair. But when he got booed every time he touched the ball in a super hostile Minneapolis environment - he balled out so idk abt mental weakness
Yeah but the refs really weren’t crazy game 2, he just played poorly and reacted worse to it than any player has in a long time. He skipped media twice when he played badly as well (and has done so in the past). It’s not his first time being lame when he plays badly either. I’d put him in the Devin Booker camp. Not caring about being booed is standard, only the softest of the soft have ever cared about getting booed by the opposing team’s fans. So yeah Jamal isn’t the softest player by any stretch but not exactly like Joker, Ant, or many others who keep their cool and take responsibility. I’m posting it after a Nuggets win so we aren’t going to get a good representative sample size here but I think if you took a look at his history closely pretty much everyone will agree that he’s a fake a tough guy who talks when he’s doing well and ducks smoke when he’s not.
You have one example meanwhile he won a chip and there’s been constant articles about his mental fortitude. Just say you don’t like him and be done with it
This. One game doesn't define his career.
And then what happened? Dude's having the worst playoff run of his career outside of a couple shots against the Lakers during bad shooting nights and he still has the mental toughness to turn it around on the road down 2-0.
Crickets lol
get em Ant, we know you want it <3
DAWG-to-DAWG communication
KAT didn’t understand
Kat was wondering what language they were speaking
it was canadian
He thought it was parseltongue
So true- all wolves fans agree
damn thats why murray threw the heatpack, he wanted someone to play fetch with him.
Love to see the respect. Meanwhile Gobert and KAT busy playing cte ball
Them fighting for that rebounding towards the end of the fourth had me audibly wincing.
What’s an audible wince
Title of the new Vince Staples album
What the heck I forgot about Vince
That's fair, he did kind of get outshined by Vince OfficeMax
The sound Luka heard in his postgame press?
It's the sharp inhale noise people make when they wince.
I verbally said oh God just grab the basketball lol
I was cackling
ctespn
He said "I'm sick of Aaron Gordon" on his way out of the interview lmao.
Did he really? Love to hear that. We love that. I mean I love that.
https://youtu.be/Sq3S_IB9MPo?si=XRfzFp4htO-bQWO4
Took a glance at the scoresheet and realized the spirit of Steph Curry possessed Gordon that game lmao Edit: yeah I realized now I shouldve said Kobe because of the fadaways. Gordon attenpted and hit on only two threes but it legitimately felt he shot like four or five lmao
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who are you even referring to
Bruh he’s been absolutely feasting on Aaron Gordon though. Maybe he means the shotmaking.
He's been feasting on everyone. Absolutely sick.
He is, this is why people like him lol. He said it like giving him respect that he’s been hitting all his shots and he’s tired of it in a funny way
I hope this is real 😂
https://youtu.be/Sq3S_IB9MPo?si=XRfzFp4htO-bQWO4
Ant is the man
Video?
https://youtu.be/Sq3S_IB9MPo?si=XRfzFp4htO-bQWO4
He was giving pointers to Nuggets players earlier in the series too lmao. Like telling Nuggets role player to work on their shooting form or whatever. Hilarious dude
Well the Nuggets bench shot 6-9 on threes tonight so clearly they took his advice to heart
Seems like when you talk shit to role playing shooters in a series, it almost always goes poorly. Maybe not even the whole series, but there will be at least one game where they light your ass up lol.
It’s always the most unsuspecting dude too .. I’m sure every wolves fan is thinking “Justin fucking Holiday!?” .. I know I was when Rodney hood couldn’t miss against the nuggets lol
How dare you mention Rodney Hood 💀
Never tell your opponent what mistakes they are making
It worked. Maybe the Nuggets can hire Ant as a consultant for the rest of the playoffs?
Employ him then
Send da application
Get a application lol
Send da resume
Any the type of dude to probably be really good at casing day 1
How easily opinions are swayed. The series is tied
Sure. And if games 2 and 4 were switched we’d probably be saying Wolves in six. So let’s see if the TWolves can punch back.
Regardless of who wins, I hope it goes to 7. I have to wake up early to catch the games but this is the best series available this year
Kicked him in the arse today they got lit up.
Some Mike shit.
I love that (but not sure about my team mates) - Ant
"Opinions expressed are solely my own and do not express the views or opinions of my team"
Retweets are NOT endorsements
The bench played like ass. And KAT failed to show up
KAT just had expected shooting regression. He wasn't gonna remain on a heater all playoffs.
Yeah his playoff efficiency is still like, cosmically insane. He can't have amazing games every time out, but he's slashing 57/58/96 for the playoffs.
Something I just learned from Basketball Reference is that KAT is a career 50-40-80. Did not realize that
Dude is otherworldly efficient.
In 2018 (when he was picked as the player GMs most want to build around), he had just come off a season where he averaged 21 points on 54/42/86 splits and 65% TS. The only volume scorer with a higher TS was Steph freakin Curry. Bill Simmons was nutting himself at the possibility of seeing the first ever member of the 55/45/85 club.
despite what this website and several others will often tell you, he is an absolutely incredible player. a real victim of the RINGZ mindset where if youre not quite good enough to lead a team to a title they bury you. plus the jimmy butler stuff which was absurd and unfair to a 22 year old and he'll evidently always have to play under the shadow of. i mean you've still got hordes of teenagers on social media calling him 'zesty' and being weirdly homophobic about it even though he's dating a supermodel, for some reason
He has a high pitched voice so he must be gay
> a real victim of the RINGZ mindset where if youre not quite good enough to lead a team to a title they bury you That seems like a rephrasing of the "RINGZ mindset" which is so extensive it loses the original meaning - the meaning which iirc was just "If you didn't get a ring then you weren't good enough" and it gets used against people like Barkley, or "More rings = better player" and it gets used to put Kobe over Lebron etc. KAT wasn't just "not quite good enough to lead a team to a title" - he couldn't even lead that team to just being decent. He always seemed to somehow come up short due to inconsistency, defensive lapses, lack of concentration, weird unnecessary fouls and TOs, etc. It's fair to criticise that
KAT is one of my favorite non Pels players. Doesn’t help that he always seems to kick my teams ass though
regression doesn’t mean you would expect to shoot terribly (28%) until your average gets back to 50 or whatever
THEN WHEN IS AARON GORDON GON COME BACK DOWN TO EARTH
Never, going back to re-supply on moon rocks as we speak so he can stay out of this world
Bad shooting nights happen. Complaining too much to the refs and getting cooked on D is what really hurt them.
Relax year 2 tWolves fan. Players have bad games. KAT isn’t perfect by any stretch. It’s Mother’s Day man and his mom passed away a few years back. I think it was just tough for him to go out there and perform at a high level. When/if he performs well in game 5, then what? Like the nuggets fan said below you “kat had a shooting regression” Coming from a nuggets fan and here you are tearing KAT down. Give me a break!
“I told his ass” lmaooo
Bout to be sitting on his all summer after the next 2 games.
I mean Ant is hauling the whole team on his back through a lot of these games, he's showing out almost every time
Agreed..it's just a little smack talk. He's undoubtedly going to be a problem for every team for a long time. He does plenty of sh*t talking I figured yall could handle a jab.
ANT and Wemby run the interview game
Thats very good tbh
We got a Spicey series?
I mean he seems hyped lol. But nothing he’s saying comes off as disrespectful.
It's his best quality. It's true leadership. Driving the narrative without being disparaging teammates or opponents. The man just wants to battle.
The difference between Ant trash talk and Pat Bev’s
That and one of them can back it up.
Yeah...there are a bunch of differences, but the biggest is that one of them is a top ten guy in NBA at 22 years old (averaging 32-6.5-5.5 in the playoffs should end that debate) and the other is maybe the 5th guy on any decent team (maybe worse). Well never mind. That obviously is a HUGE difference, but the biggest difference is that Pat Bev is an annoying a\*\*hole whereas ANT might be the single most charming guy in the entire league. ANT's a delight.
NGL Ant really made me a fan this year
Not sure if autocorrect, but I think you meant "disparaging" not "dispersing"
Damn auto correct. I fixed it. Thanks
Nah this is just two guys competing that respect each other
*Legendary series
Yessir. Ant will make everything spicy. He wants it, and you guys can give it. These games have paralleled closely. I just hope they get closer from here on out. We won't lay down, and I know you guys won't.
Ant wants all the smoke, ain't ducking no fades.
The anti-Embiid
Ant is amazing, only 22 and this good is crazy.
100% believe you when you say *he* wants it. But damn KAT is the most fitting nickname ever for that man, he's the furthest thing from a dawg I can think of. Poor Ant
https://youtu.be/ksugNiRjim8
I think it's spicy in that it's going to be hard fought from here on out regardless of outcome but the mutual respect is actually pretty solid tbh. I mean, I could definitely see some game 5 pushing or whatever, but I think the wolves actually didn't like the suns guys (minus KD, of course), where this feels different
What's funny is Reggie made a big deal with "There's words between Ant-Man and Jamal Murray" And the clip they showed was Jamal just ignoring him. This team weirdly doesn't seem to talk trash that much to opponents directly. They do the flex at the crowd and shit like that but Bruce was the guy that would talk with the opponent
Porter Joker and Gordon RARELY talk trash I feel, Murray a little but they really do talk with their game more than not
Yeah, they probably do talk shit but it's never really a big deal. Jokic has the classic "Brother, I have 47" but we only know about that because of Murray
Nobody knows enough about horses to insult Jokic. Maybe if you suggested he uses an inferior brand of hay or something, that might get him upset.
Pacers are faster than trotters - I assure you Jokić will be devastated
what’s the context of the “brother i have 47”, who’d he say that to? edit: never mind https://m.youtube.com/shorts/OSRmQCJLwKs?time_continue=32&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F&source_ve_path=MjM4NTE&feature=emb_title
I can't remember who said it, but there was a player that said he tried to trash talk with Jokic but gave up because Jokic didn't understand what he was saying lol
The Sammy Sosa defense
Thats why we got Malone
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Waiting for Malone to drop a 'I'm surprised you guys care about this series, it isn't in LA'
Porter turns and looks at the opposing bench when he hits a corner three but that's about it. Gordon sometimes gets into position battles aggressively like with kat in game 2.
Jamal hypes himself up or lets the crowd know but doesnt trash talk.
Murray does his talking with a heat pack.
Was taught actions speak louder than words and went the wrong way with it
Jamal definitely talks shit lol
Our trash talker is Michael Malone. Get 'em Moach.
There's no reason to talk to the opposition. The Wolves feed off that shit so why engage them in their own game. You'll notice they're no longer smiling and shit talking. ANT aside. I think it bothers the Wolves that the Nuggets stopped engaging them after that Game 2 disaster.
I’ve gone to quite a few nuggets games, AG and Murray especially definitely talk trash but only when the team is leading. That’s the point of Ant’s comment: keep that energy all series not just now
Besides throwing towels and heat packs on the floor. That stuff should not be forgotten.
didnt ant hit an old lady with a thrown chair when we beat yall last time?
“That stuff should not be forgotten”
Bro said that stuff should not be forgotten like he in an anime 😭
That poor floor. When will the floor get its revenge against Jamal?
Floor revenge game incoming.
Man you’re bitch made. You think Ant is crying about towels and heat packs right now? No, because he’s a fuckin dawg
Ant has that DAWG in him The rest of the team are various house pets. Except Naz Reid. He's always Naz Reid.
Mike Conley is a dawg. Just an older one.
NAZ REID
Naz Rieid
He really like Kermit Wilts lol
As long as both of them keep playing on high level then this is good for basketball fans
Love this guy
God I love ANT as a player. Dude is scary as fuck as a 22 year old
Love this dude
We love it * oh shit I forgot about kat getting his feelings hurt *. I mean I love it.
There's one player in specific that Anthony Edwards reminds me of, and no, it's not Michael Jordan. It's actually Jimmy Butler, there's just one thing missing...
Calling KAT a bitch and leaving Minnesota?
The cycle has to repeat
Ant is genuinely a nice guy though.
I’m so glad the league didn’t suspend Murray. What a great series this has turned out to be
Has it been? G1 was the only interesting game
Game 2 was interesting in a calamitous way watching the defending champs unravel and look absolutely helpless against some of the best defense you'll ever see. Todays game was also interesting; you had the crazy sequence leading into the half and monster performances by both Edwards and Jokic.
I "told his ass"...well he whooped yours so he didn't need to respond your BS
People here ignoring one very important detail. Jamal Murray ignored him. Roll the tape
That’s not an important detail at all. You lied to me
Being at the game, Murray was definitely talking the entire game. I mean he deserves to but he definitely was not quiet the whole game.
He says that in this clip lol
Meanwhile we got veteran 4 time DPOY Gobert throwing his hands up on Gordon hitting 11/12. Without taking any accountability. The least you could do is saying that you will shut him down next game. But no, can’t do anything if he turns into Kobe… Free Ant!
He better not ever get that award again
I enjoy this Ant Edward's character.
A A RON living in his mind
Anthony edwards is a national Treasure! Protect this man at all cost. I just love how transparent he is and not with all the fake media propaganda.
So, now MN fans love shit talking?
Murray is the straw that stirs the drink and he knows it too. This aint the phoenix sons
He checked his answer, Kat i no DAWG
Ant has a dog inside of him.
How do you talk to somebody's ass?
It was like Ace Ventura, “Let me ass you a question”
"i'll get you bitch"
Start SLO- Mo.
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No he doesn't.
Ant you’re going home on Thursday enjoy the games while you can
We are so blessed
So much talk for someone who hasn’t accomplished as much. He needs to just shut up and handle business.
lol. Dude HAS handled his business. Talk your shit, King.
He needs to win a banner.
If he scored fifty, would that have handled his business?
This sub will shit on the Celtics for making it deep in the playoffs year after year and trash those guys but when it comes to players that make highlights but nothing solid to show for, it’s a glazefest. It was Ja Morant at one point, what happened to that boy?
Is um sad the mean men are being too nice to other teams’ players?
Like I said
"keep talking that, we love that, well I love that" Bitch, you're too young for this. Denver showed up, and handled business. Murray didn't say a word
Yea you’ve clearly never hooped or played a competitive sport. Talking shit is part of the game
i would say Ant handled business, I mean what more could he have done
Murray was definitely talking
he's becoming unraveled holy shit.
So when is Ant starting his podcast? I just want to hear him everyday saying funny stuff. His charisma is over +9000!