Dichotomy Of Interest: Wiggins Vs. Edwards.
Can Anthony Edwards Become what We Expected Andrew Wiggins To Be?
The Dc Animated Universe. Where This Story Will Begin. The Cheif Animation For DC Comics and Home To Some Of The Most glorified Works Of Animation Known To Man, Young Justice, Justice League, Superfriends, so On. Then A Notch Above Those, Is Batman The Animated Series; perhaps You Have heard Of It. The Thirteenth episode Of The Award-winning Animated Series entitled “Perchance for Dream.” Fits Our Beloved Protagonist Batman In The Shoe Of Bruce Wayne Fasten To Bed As He Awakes. A Mighty Long Night Delivery The Smackdown To The Bad Guys (He’s Pretty Good At that) Was Now In The Distance And A New Day was In Stall for Cape Crusader. This day Will Bring challenges, Unlike Those Bruce who Has Ever Faced. The Boy Billionaire Awakes To The Realization That He Is Engaged. He Has Responsibilities At Wayne Corporation; Faux Responsibilities But responsibilities. Bruce Has board Meetings And Other Stuff. Even More The Most Jarring revelation Of This apparent Dreamworld Wayne’s parents, Barbara And Thomas Are Alive. Yes, Alive. A Life With Is Parents Not Only Alive But Available Is all Bruce Has wanted. The Most Critical PowerPoint of The Batman’s Lore, The Death Of Bruce’s Parents, serve As impetuous for His transformation, Is Extinguished.
Bruce Discovers That Batman Exists. The Bat Galivanting Through Gotham Outside of His union With Wayne. Bruce seeks Him Out And Confronts Him. The Square Off With Batman. This episode marks the first time in the DCAU where Batman and Bruce Wayne come face-to-face. Bruce Presumes Batman A Fraud. Batman Interjects With Concerns About Bruce’s Mental Well Being. “I’ve figured it out: this is just a dream.” Bruce Uncover Batman’s Mask And Consequently The Truth. He’s Been Under The mind Control Device Of The Mad Hatter. The Hatter Convinced That Bruce Would Accept This Life With Gratitude And Batman would Bequeath Reality To He And The Other Villains Of Gotham. Bruce, Determined To Not Live A Lie, or Succumb To The Comforts of A Dream Leaps from The Tower, Presumably To His Death. Only To wake Up As Batman And Foil The Mad Hatter’s Ambitions.
“The persona of Bruce Wayne, who has never had to work for what he wants, is jealous of the personality of Batman, "whose every deed has great value." Thus, the two personalities fight each other in the bell tower for control of Bruce Wayne.”
There is a Mound Of Metaphysical Substance To Unearth From This Episode.
There Comes A Shattering Moment In A Man’s Life. He’s MAde “Something” Of Himself but Perhaps It’s Not What He Thought Or The Cost Of “becominG” was Greater Than He proposes. He Enters His Loft, Or His apartment Sized Dress Room and Consults the Visage Of His Countenance, His Face, his Likeness, As Did Wayne. only To Find An Urge of Strangling Contempt For What lies Across from Him In The Glaring Details In A Mirror. “And Still Not See What You’ve Become.”, To Quote The Great Sean Carter—comforted, But not Valued.
Perhaps true Of man when He Looks In The Mirror And Sees what He could Have Been. A Long Shadow Casting A Deep Void, An Abyss, To empty His Vault Treasures into As The Sun Sets Across His life.
It begs the question: What Experience if Any Raddles through A Man, what Strikes Him, As The Revelation Of What He Could Have been Comes To Light In Someone Else.
In The Awake Of Their Duel Friday Pass, Two Of The Defining faces Of The Last Half Decade Of Timberwolves Basketball, Andrew Wiggins and Anthony Edwards, Squared-off. Their Eras In Blue And green Diverging Even As Their Upper Echelon Abilities Holding Steadfast. The Two Talents Squared Up And Mounted Dazzling Performances That Garnered Rave Reviews On Both Ends Of the Spectrum.
Edwards Finished the Night A New career High In Tow. Another Magnanimous Stat line For Timberwolves Fans To Dissect In Search of The Marks, The Tell-Tale Signs That This Is The True Star They Have Been Yearning For. Like Bruce Wayne Expecting The Scowl Of Batman. “Could This Be Real?” If This Is True. Will The franchise Be Willing To Plummet To Their Doom One More To Time to Make This A Reality?
Edward’s Dream Night Almost Became A Nightmare for The Warriors. The Georgia Product Landed—He Never Seems Capable Of Achieving Landings When he Takes’ Of Towards the Rim-- Two Points And Possibly One Boast Short Of Fulfilling His Words To Steph Curry. “I’m Going for Fifty.” Curry, equable As Always, turned His Head, Nodding Agreeably. Get The Dub I Assumed To be The Thought That Trialed Along with His Mind.
To That Point, Edwards Had A Mere 40—After he Nailed A Three That Pushed The Lowly Wolves Into A frenzy Momentum. The Team Needed to Bridle Their Late Guide It Into A Control Charge And Drag The Warriors Beneath The Double figure Threshold Hold The Team With The Best record in The League Secured In their Glucth Most of The Third Quarter. The Three Pulled Them within Ten Against The Best Team In The League. Edwards became One Of the Only four NBA Players To Have three 40-point plus games before turning 21. Edwards Is 20. Of course, 40 Is A Feat Any Mortal Could Attest. Edwards Was Heat Checking, Exhausting His Will Over The Best Player of The Past Decade, Over The Best Team Of The “Past” Decade, And Another Once Promising Fellow Flexing A Stat line For T-Wolves Fans To Fawn Or Ruminate Over. Only Mortality Or The Patheonic Strength Of A Team looking To Build On Its Hot Start could CChallengeHim.
If The Two Time MVP Winner Steph Curry Had An Answer To Edwards Proclamation, it was a three-person. Curry Knock-In His Later In the Quarter. The Warriors Had Answer It was Halting Edward’s Dreams At 48. On A Night When He Got His way Most of The Way, It would End With Shattered Dreams. Edwards Got into The Lane, finished At The rim, Around The Rim, Under The edge. Contested Or Otherwise. It Seemed The defense Might As Well Waved the White flag On Defending Him. He Pulled Up, Spot up, He made the seven 3s.
In All This outpour was the Product of His Work. Grace With Otherworldly Athleticism And An Equally remarkable Penchant for Competition. This Offseason, Edwards retooled His Game
He Shot 77.6% From The Charity Stripe, The Most Meaning Percentage With Potential Scorers. Few If Any Non-Advance stats Are Accurate Indicators Of A Players Potential As Shooter If Not free Throw Percentage. This Summer, Edwards Took To the Line took countless free throws, 3-point shooting, and floaters to improve his shooting range and consistency. He also completed various drills that entailed going downhill and attacking the basket. In between those training sessions, Edwards went bowling with close friends and insisted he won most of those games.
“We’ve talked to him about that recently that good players go out and impose themselves on the basketball game, regardless of what teams are trying to do.”-Chris Finch
“Dynamic.” The T-Wolves Took The Lost. It Took 48 From Edwards Just To make The Game competitive. You Have To Love The Kids spirit Despite The Ominous Circumstances Unfolding. Down double Figures In Route To A Sixth Straight Loss. After the Game, Curry Levied his thoughts On Ant. “Impressive for sure.”.
“Gifted,” “Promising,” “Impressive.” There Are More Than Basketball Terminology. There Is An Infectious Spirit About The Kid. The Kind of Guy You “Cheer’ For Any Day.
Last season, Edwards Took Charge Of The Rookie Class. Topping All Other In points per game (19.3) and minutes played (32.1) while appearing in the entire 72-game season with the Minnesota Timberwolves. LaMelo Ball Wrangled The Honor Of Rookie Of The Year Away from Edwards. Dismissively, ant Brushed Off The Snub. “ I’m Trying To be MVP”
Through 11 games, Edwards appears on pace to surpass his averages in points per game (24.4), shooting percentage (42.7%), and 3-point shooting (33.7%), as well as rebounds (six) and assists (3.3). Measurable Growth. But MVP, Still A Stretch.
After Growing Some 2 Inches--Edward is Listed 6-foot-4, 225-pound, But He’s Clearly At Least 6’6, With Arms Dangling Alongside His Frame, As Extended Fixture--“Imposing” Is Another Descriptor That Could Soon Come To Define The Ant Man’s Play. “Consistency” hasn’t Come into Play For Him Yet. The next Outing Versus The Lakers Edwards Finish 4-11 for Nine Points. Most Recently, Versus The Suns, Edwards finished with Just nine points, Again (2-11 FG, 1-6 3Pt, 4-6 FT), 12 rebounds, six assists, three blocks, and one steal in 39 minutes. The T-Wolves Earned Another Lost. As With The city Point Proclamation, That MVP Award Could Be Hanging In Limbo For Some time. If Any Else Is Left To Grow For Edwards, It's Shadow And Whose falling Beneath Him. “Threatening” Is The Adjective.
The T-wolves Hosted 110 On A Top Rank Warriors Defense—They Surrendered 123 In the Process. The Muster 87 A few Nights Later Against The Clipper, who Are Ranked Second. When The T-Wolves’ Squared Shaped Offense, Can’t Round Into The Defined Hole of “Laughable,” It's either “Predictable” Or “Offensive.” T
He Offenses Two Primary Cogs Are Anthony Edwards And The Teams Leading Scorer Karl-Anthony Towns. Towns Had 17 Against The Warrior, Well Below His Season Average. Still, The Five Three Pointer The Big Man hit And The eclipsing performance of Anthony Edward Seemed To Assuage Town’s “Liabilities”—for Now. When Towns The Target Of dunk At And Above The Rim, His Presence And Play was An Afterthought. Towns Have Been Around Minnesota for As Long As hope Has. Formerly, One-Third Of One Of The Most Promising Young Cores In The League. One Of Three Top Ten Picks, The 2nd Number 1 Overall Pick, The Timberwolves Secured Between the Years of 2014-15. The Other Two Are Zach Lavine, Number Ten in 2014, who Eventually Became Jimmy Butler. The Other, The Infamous Andrew Wiggins, who Went Number One in 2014 To The Cavs Then Traded To The T-wolves.
Above All, The T-wolves Prioritized Towns. Lavine Was Traded And Later Blossomed Into An Allstar. Hindsight is 20/20, but Considering the Fruits Of The Jimmy Butler Trade, the Wolves Would Most likely Want To Have That One Back. The Chronicles Wiggins, A Topic Down The Line.
Back To Towns. The Wolves Opted To Build Around Their Other First Overall Pick. Kat, A Big Man from—what’s That School Called--New Jersey. A “Finesse” As He been Brandish. An Insult More Than A Style Choice. Towns is A Big, Soft Touch On His Shot, Light On His Feet, And Global Limitation Everywhere Else. No Matter those limitations, Towns Had And Still Has A Bounded but Capacious Scoring Ability. He’s Been the T-Wolves leader in Scoring For The Past Seven Years And Hasn’t Averaged Below 20 Points since His rookie Season. Towns is A Perennial Favorite As One Of The NBA Gms Favorite players to Build Around. And His Prime years, Prospectively, Are Now Just beginning.
Whatever The Intentions for Town, The Wolves Have Stepped On their Feet every Step Of The Way. Lavine was Out. The Wolves Made The Playoffs With Butler tow. He Co-Star Along Side The Youngins, Wiggins, And Towns. Facing The Rockets In The First Round, then Coach Tom Thibodaux opted To Utilized His Wings To Target The Rockets Vulnerable Defense. Towns Had A Forgettable Playoff Debut. The Wolves Expectedly Lost in 5. The Butler, Towns, Wiggins Dynamic Proved untenable, If Not Combustible. Butler Left.
In A Sudden Wiggins Was Traded In Yet Another “Ill-Fated” Move To Build Around Towns. D’Angelo Russell Arrived In Minneapolis And Its Been Back to mediocrity Since. Towns Entered the Prime of His Career this Season. He Is 26, Averaging 23.2 Points Per Game, On A Team That Is Not Only Losing Games And Its Direction And Worse, but The Whispers Are also echoing. Trade Towns, Build Around Edwards. No Matter The circumstances, No Player Wants To Hear “we don’t Want you Anymore,” Particularly When you Have Tried To Make It Work.
The Kid who Once “dismissed” Basketball was now “Threatening” To Unseat The Teams Best Player.
“I hope that takes my game to the next level,” Edwards said, Speaking Of His offseason Work. “I hope it helps me make my team (better) and take my team to the next level.”
Minnesota Is Known As The Twin Cities (Minnesota And St. Paul). The Two Cities Share Geographical Proximity, Social Mores, And Municipal Infrastructure. There Not quite Reflection Of each other, Architectural differences But The Inner Workings And Similarities Pronounced.
When Bruce Sought After Batman, There Was A Sense Of Deliberate Purpose On His Part. With The Intent of A Man Possessed, He raged Up The Bell Tower. Fervor and alacrity At His Hips. Becoming Batman Again Or Unearthing The Mystery As to why. Batman was More Than what He Wanted; It was A Existential Yearning. He “Had” To be Batman Again. By All Means “Batman” Was Rightfully His.
What Makes Tales Such As A “Penchant for DreamS” So Enthralling, Is One Of The Critical Components Of Story Telling, “desire.” An Audiences Loves A Character That “wants” Something And Wants It badly. It’s the Driven Force Behind Character Development. If There Is Anything else, An Audience Is Attracted To; It's When they want An appealing Character To be Or Do Something Badly for Them.
On The same Night, Opposite Anthony Edwards, Whose Desires For fifty Induced Timberwolves’ Fans Salivary Glands Into A whirlpool. Andrew Wiggins, looking Over from Another City In Some Sense, Looking Down As He Soared Over His Former Teammates. As If to Say, ‘I Could Have Been That All Along.’
“Up And Up He Went.”
Wiggins finished The Night with A Casual Season-high 35 Points, including Two Emphatic Dunks Over Karl Anthony Towns. The Warriors must Now Contend with the paradox That Arrested the T-Wolves For Four And Half Years. Casual, Not In the Sense That Thirty-Five Points This Was Par The Course for Wiggins. The warrior’s Small forward Had Not Scored More Than Twenty Or More in Four Straight Games Leading into His Face Of with His Former team. Casual In The sense that It Came Effortlessly. In That Sense, this was Par the Course. Andrew Wiggins.
The former Number 1 Overall Pick Traded Away From The Frigid, Woeful Atmosphere Of Minnesota, That Welcomed and waited On The Arrival Of The Otherworldly Latent Talent That Always seemed One season Away, One Good Coach Away, One Strong Summer Away.
Wiggins Entered the League With no less Hype Than Any other Prospect of His Pedigree. Compared to A volcano—Explosive at times, but seemingly Forgettable when Otherwise.
