Timberwolves’ Anthony Edwards gets candid in locker room after loss to Kings

“I’m supposed to chase somebody, I go under the screen. I’m supposed to black and swing, I don’t swing. It’s just little things like that that we just don’t do. It just comes from not following the game plan and listening to the coaches, man.”

This spiral began last week with a bad loss in Toronto that featured a postgame huddle. Those talks have continued this week. The Wolves had a tough talk at halftime on Wednesday, and they turned it around briefly in the second half. Conley (16 points) returned from a three-game absence with a sprained left toe and said he was the “founder” of the team airing concerns at halftime.

“I told the team we have to be able to talk,” Conley said. “We had to communicate and listen. Someone talks to you, doesn’t get angry or fight back. We’re all trying to win and we got that.”

Like Edwards, Conley said the Wolves have to come out of their own emotions when things aren’t going right individually.

“Believe me, we’ve talked through the last three losses as a team, as players,” Conley said. “And at the end of the day, man, it’s about us believing, believing again, believing in what we’re doing. It’s not about you in the big game. It’s not about whether you make shots, miss shots , if you turn it around. We have to live with each other’s mistakes and pick each other up. And that’s the message right now, you can’t be immature about it.”

As Conley walked out of the locker room, he assured reporters that the Wolves would be fine. The 37-year-old has seen and heard it all in his long career, but he may not have heard Edwards sound as confused and unsure as he did on Wednesday.