Anthony Edwards has a correct mentality, but underlines the number of NBA stars

The NBA urged the players to take the weekend there more seriously and expected a new format of the Timberwolves of Minnesota, Anthony Edwards, I didn’t even take the court in San Francisco. It seems that consensus says that the NBA did not solve the problem.

Edwards took the last minute due to an injury to the groin, joining LeBron James of the Los Angeles Lakers as players who did not participate in the weekend festivities. The NBA has been urging players to take the weekend seriously after years of games that ended with very high scores, such as when the Conference was defeated at the Western Conference 211-186 last year.

Shaq’s OG won the All-Star inaugural tournament, but fans did not move away from seeing the event too excited.

From the perspective of a player, the stars game simply does not matter. For players like Edwards and James who are beaten, it makes no sense to participate in the game if it can cause a setback. For healthy players, it is not worth going out and risk injuries in a meaningless contest. Players do not give their best efforts for activities such as skills challenge. When Edwards competed in the skills challenge last year, he caused criticism for shooting left out during the event.

“I have never been a type of star game that you like to take seriously and go out and try to protect someone and stop,” Edwards He told Associated Press’ Tim Reynolds In the weekend this year. “I have never been that guy.

“I just have it for the Timberwolves season, more or less.”

The NBA had a different type of problem with the skills challenge this year when the teammates of the San Antonio Spurs, Chris Paul and Victor Wembanyama, came up with a lagoon to overcome the fastest event; Instead of shooting the shots, the rule is to make one or shoot three, Paul and Wembanyama simply threw the balls from the racks, reaching the three -shots requirement, to reduce time. The NBA was not too interested in its intelligent idea, and were disqualified from the event.

The NBA even rejected the TNT line journalist who tried to interview the duo after the challenge.

And then, when it came to meat and potatoes throughout the weekend, the real games in themselves, the event really seemed to be a failure. Some of the players felt that the tournament was a step in the right direction, but fans on social networks lamented the long commercial breaks and the limited basketball they really played. In the tournament format, the first team to score 40 points wins, and that turned out that the royal basketball was played on the court quite quickly.

“The games are a bit short,” said Jalen Brunson, the New York Knicks guard, The Associated Press. “I like the format. It’s something new, something unique. Maybe score 50, maybe … you never really know what to expect, but everything was fine.”

Fans do not particularly find the game of stars, or the weekend in general, more convincing. Even events that should still be exciting, such as the volley contest, do not attract recognizable names. The Magic Guard of Orlando Mac McClung, which is in a bidirectional contract and has played only five NBA games in his career, including one this season, won his third consecutive contest. McClung is incredible, without a doubt, but it is simply not the same as Zach Lavine and Aaron Gordon face face to face.

Frankly, most players have Edwards’s mentality about the weekend, and it is the right mentality. It is a secondary event that, although it should be fun, ultimately does not matter. The NBA will need to be more creative to make it a draw again.