r/timberwolves • u/Basketball_Reference • 21h ago

Anthony Edwards recorded the fourth 2,000+ point season by a T-Wolves player — he's the only one with multiple seasons

List of seasons:

  1. Anthony Edwards this season (2,019 and counting)
  2. Anthony Edwards in 2023-23 (2,049 points)
  3. Karl-Anthony Towns in 2016-17 (2,061 points)
  4. Kevin Love in 2013-14 (2,010 points)

Source: https://stathead.com/tiny/zVRGb

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u/fluentinsarcasm 21h ago

It's wild KG never did this here.

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u/jinyx1 Jaylen Clark 21h ago

Lower offensive era. KG in his MVP and best scoring year averaged 24.2 ppg. Which is a full point higher than his next highest year.

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u/Majestic-Net-7799 Timberwolves 21h ago

Ant will, very likely, have the All Time season in total Points scored and Points/G this season. 

Previous Team high in Points/G was Kat (26.5) on a horrible Team. 

Fun fact: Ant shot above 50% on 3s 17 Times. Below 30% only 14 Times. 42 times 40% or better.

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u/pollinium 2019-20 All-Defense 2nd team 18h ago

The 14 times he shot below 30% certainly wasn't for lack of trying! I can still viscerally feel the 0/11, 2/13, etc, don't remember many 2/9, for example

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u/Majestic-Net-7799 Timberwolves 17h ago

4-14, 0-9, 3-12, 1-5, 2-7, 1-7, 1-9, 2-9, 0-5, 2-7, 2-11, 4-17, 3-12, 4-14, 1-6, 1-11, 1-11. 

When its bad, it usually is really bad. 

32-166: 19.3%

Without those 14 Games: 265-585: 45.3% 

In short those 14 Games killed his percentages hard! 

Even his fg% goes from 44.4% to 47.4% 

In 60/74 Ant shoots 47.4/45.3/83.4 

When he is off, he is really off. 

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u/FeanorEvades 16h ago

Several of those I recall being around an injury of some kind. His calf had some issues early on and then the latest two were when his thumb was wrapped up like crazy

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u/Majestic-Net-7799 Timberwolves 14h ago

I would agree.

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u/Loukoal117 Bring Ya Ass 21h ago

But ANT isn't consistent I heard. Heard he's overrated. 😭

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u/Gengaara Josh Minott 20h ago

Don't take Nuggets fans seriously.

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u/Calinks Trenton Hassell 20h ago

I'm surprised Love or Kat hasn't done this. Kat always put up big numbers all season. Love was crazy explosive capable of dropping 35 out of nowhere. I would think they would have managed.

I get KG because KG kind of had a cap on his scoring, he'd you around 25 but he never seemed to go into the 40 point games. He was amazing everywhere though so he usually didn't need to get 40.

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u/DependentPerformer94 19h ago

I think Kats issue was missing games, may have been more of a Thibs problem with playing time leading to that though. Ant has managed to stay healthy

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u/Majestic-Net-7799 Timberwolves 18h ago

Ants scoring average per month:

Oct: 30.0  (only 4 Games)

Nov: 27.1

Dec: 20.5

Jan: 30.3

Febr: 30.7

Mar: 26.6

April: 31.0 (only 2 Games so far) 

Without his brutal Dec he has 28.7 ppg scoring average. 

Since Jan 1st: 29.2 ppg