2023-08-21 06:34:00
Last night Team USA played its last prep match before the World Cup. A fifth meeting resulted in a fifth victory, and even if the Germans almost put down the enemy, Steve Kerr and his staff can congratulate themselves on arriving at the CDM with some certainty. The biggest of the lot? Her name is Anthony Edwards.
He is Team USA’s best scorer in these preparation matches, and he is undeniably the leader of this atypical American team, but one that we will have to be very wary of. Brought to become the assumed franchise player of Wolves, ANT therefore warms up by being that of his selection, and last night the kid had decided to complete his work, to finish his warm-up in the best possible way. 34 pawns, 6 rebounds and 2 assists, a poster on Daniel Theis at the start of the match, a very positive aggressiveness, and thanks in particular to Tyrese Haliburton and Austin Reaves, real giga-luxe replacements, the Americans ended up defeating a German team which showed great things four days before the start of the World Cup and which still led by 16 pawns in the middle of the third quarter.
He is unquestionably our man, and you can see he gets it. And now the team and the fans know it too. – Steve Kerr, on Anthony Edwards
Team USA is advancing for its part quite hidden, still a lot of observers wondering how this team made up of odds and ends will be able to compete with elite collectives, but the talent present in the American roster might very well be enough to himself, especially when it comes to the Minnesota nugget. During the group stage the United States will face Greece, New Zealand and Jordan in Manila, before crossing in the next round with – probably – two teams among Lithuania, Montenegro and Mexico. By then? Anthony Edwards may have already made everyone agree, so be careful, Team USA may not be the expiatory victim everyone is talking regarding…
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