Jon Krawczynski

That's a really admirable and noble thing.

But I think what they have tried to stress with him is that, hey.

you also got to look for your teammates as well.

And that will make us harder to guard in the aggregate.

So, you know, in the Suns game, it did not work out.

And, you know, you could definitely question it because Jaden McDaniels was having a rare off night.

He was shooting 48% from three coming into this game, 0 for 5 against the Suns.

So you like that he did trust Jaden in that situation.

But also I think what he saw is what he's seen a lot the last couple of weeks is –

that the Suns really did try to load up as much as they could on him and make someone else beat them.

And so the right play probably was to send it over to Jaden, who had a little bit cleaner look.

But the Suns, man, I give them credit.

Jordan Ott has them playing their tails off defensively.

hustling, you know, just they are a team that is playing better than the sum of their parts.

And the Wolves are a team that has, you know, not played up to the sum of its parts yet.

And so you just saw a team that was gritty and played the right way and concentrated on the right things and made it hard on Anthony Edwards at the end of the game because everyone knew with 40 points that he was going to be the one that tried to win that game.

You know, I one thing that surprised me this season so far about the West is I thought it was going to be.

one through 11, 12, like just a slobber knocker that way.

And we have seen some of those teams fall off in the bottom part of the conference.

And so I don't think it's as deep quite as I thought it was going to be.