{"id":181082,"date":"2025-09-25T15:40:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T15:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/181082\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T15:40:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T15:40:11","slug":"zach-lowe-says-the-quiet-part-out-loud-about-anthony-edwards-hyped-improvement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/181082\/","title":{"rendered":"Zach Lowe says the quiet part out loud about Anthony Edwards’ hyped improvement"},"content":{"rendered":"

Minnesota Timberwolves star Anthony Edwards made waves earlier this week when Shams Charania reported that Edwards\u00a0is focused\u00a0on developing a post-up game.<\/a> However, Zach Lowe noted that this isn’t a new area of growth for Edwards.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“In the fall of 2022, three years ago, Anthony Edwards was in my most intriguing players column at ESPN, Lowe said. And he and I talked on the phone about developing a post-up game and how he was in the lab that summer.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

Edwards did shoot 48 percent on post-ups that season.\u00a0However,\u00a0per\u00a0\u00a0NBA.com, he shot just 25 post-ups. Ant followed this up with a career high of 53.1 percent on 49 post-ups in the 2023-24 season. Regardless, Edwards’ post-up and volume plummeted last season. He shot 26 total post-ups, hitting just 30.8 percent of them.\u00a0<\/p>\n

For Edwards to make his post-up improvement stick, he must consistently utilize this shot. Shai Gilgeous-Alexander showed the effectiveness of posting up as a guard, hitting 53.5 percent of his 71 posts up last season. Adding more of a mid-range and post-up game could help Edwards reach another level as a scorer.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Developing a post-up game would benefit Edwards but will it actually happen? <\/p>\n

A big part of Edwards’ decline as a post-up and mid-range scorer has been his rise to becoming an elite shooter.\u00a0Last season, Edwards made 320 3-pointers and attempted 811\u00a03s,\u00a0which\u00a0both led the NBA.\u00a0By all means, Edwards becoming an elite shooter <\/a>benefited the Wolves. However, to be a more well-rounded and less predictable scorer, sacrificing a couple of 3s in favor of some mid-range shots might be necessary.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Given that this is an offseason focus for Edwards, it’s fair to expect a slight decline in 3-point volume\u00a0with\u00a0a more steady mid-range and post-up\u00a0diet.\u00a0Nevertheless, the 24-year-old star will have to dedicate himself to attacking from the mid-range more consistently, which he didn’t do back in 2022.\u00a0<\/p>\n

At 6-foot-4, 225 pounds with elite athleticism, Edwards is more than equipped to become an efficient post-up player. Utilizing his physical gifts could open more opportunities for Edwards as both a scorer and playmaker.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Edwards averaged a career high of 27.6 points per game last year, and this number might not go up significantly. However, being a more effective post-up and mid-range scorer would make him harder to gameplan against, especially in playoff settings.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It remains to be seen if these improvements as a post-up threat will materialize for Edwards this time around, but it’s something Wolves fans will be keeping tabs on this season.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Minnesota Timberwolves star Anthony Edwards made waves earlier this week when Shams Charania reported that Edwards\u00a0is focused\u00a0on developing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181083,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-181082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}