Anthony Edwards' scoring prowess was on full display in the Timberwolves' blowout of the Washington Wizards on Sunday.
Anthony Edwards has reached a new height in the 2025-26 season. In his sixth season and coming off his third straight All-Star selection, Edwards is hitting a new career high in points, averaging 29.4 per game, while still recording five rebounds and 3.7 assists per game.
Edwards is more efficient than ever while shooting from the both the field at large and from beyond the arc and the physicality that he brings to his game when he drives through the paint makes him a triple-threat of scoring that has been nearly impossible to stop.
It's that overwhelming scoring ability that has made Edwards seventh-best scorer in the league, less than a point per game behind Nikola Jokic, and why the offense that he leads is one of the best among all NBA teams.
For opposing teams, trying to game plan for Edwards becomes a nightmare as it becomes more and more evident when you look at the numbers and the tape that there is no shutting down, only hoping you can make things difficult enough for him that he slows down just a little bit from his usual pace.
"You're Not Stopping Him"
That's the problem that the Washington Wizards were faced with in their 141-115 loss to the Timberwolves on Sunday. Edwards recorded a game-leading 35 points, 15 more than the Wizards' leading scorer CJ McCollum, while shooting 14-21 and landing six three-pointers.
"You're not stopping him. He's getting 30 [points] a night. A bad night is 28, right? So, I just think it's about making it difficult. Making him shoot tough twos. Not let him get his threes off... Tonight he's scored at three levels like he's done all year and he got five over his average," McCollum said (via Joshua Valdez of Clutch Points).
A Well-Rounded Shooter
As much as the Wizards were aware of what a threat Edwards is, there was little they could do to stop him. Edwards is a threat at every spot on the court. His most obvious weapon is his three-ball as he attempts the 10th-most three pointers of any player in the league while making the ninth most, but his prowess doesn't stop there.
He can throw down dunks, muscle past defending guards and forwards and skillfully put up layups while on a drive or he can settle for staying inside the arc instead of outside of it to deliver midrange shots that ramp up the pace of the game and keep him scoring.
As McCollum put it, he can score at all three levels and isn't much, if anything, that most players in the league can do to stop him.