Wolves’ Chris Finch compares Jonathan Kuminga to Anthony Edwards

Jonathan Kuminga scoring 30 credibility in a playoff bold adjoin a bang Minnesota aegis is apparently the aftermost affair any basketball fan had on their Bingo card, but so it goes for the above No. 7 all-embracing pick.

Kuminga has lit up the Wolves the aftermost two games, accouterment the Warriors with some much-needed abhorrent abstract while Steph Curry sits out with a hamstring injury. The 22-year-old has been so atomic that Timberwolves arch drillmaster Chris Finch compared him to Anthony Edwards.

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“He is a actual able scorer. He reminds me a little bit of Ant,” Finch said Monday on KFAN-FM 100.3.

“He’s got that scorer’s mentality that he’s activity to be able to get to his spots. He’s activity to appear decline on you. He’s activity to put his accept on you and hit you afore he finishes. I accord him abundant props, too, because he’s been out of the circling for absolutely a while, and for him to be able to appear into this alternation and be able to accord like that is a acclaim to him and his professionalism, blockage ready, and of advance his aptitude and skill.”

Kuminga denticulate 30 credibility on 11-of-18 cutting in Bold 3. In Bold 2, he accomplished with 18 point on 8-of-11 shooting. That’s a accumulated 19-of-29 cutting (65.5%), including 4-of-7 from three-point range.

Can Kuminga accumulate it up? He needs to if the Warriors appetite to account abundant credibility to adhere with the Wolves. Golden State has relied on aristocratic aegis and poor cutting from Minnesota to accumulate the alternation abutting after Curry, but with the Wolves able of accepting hot like Edwards and Julius Randle were in the additional bisected in Bold 3 the accouter is ample adjoin the Warriors unless Kuminga or addition abroad gives Jimmy Butler and Buddy Hield some advice in the scoring department.

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