Timberwolves' Edwards after team booed in 2nd straight game: 'We look bad'

Minnesota Timberwolves guard Anthony Edwards thinks the team needs to find its identity after being booed during a 115-106 loss to the rebuilding San Antonio Spurs on Monday night.

"We're getting booed at home. It's crazy," Edwards said, according to Blue Wire's Dane Moore. "We gotta find ourselves ... It feels crazy. I be wanting to say something, but the fans are not wrong. We look bad. I definitely don't ever want to get booed again at my home."

The Timberwolves trailed the Spurs by 20 points during the first half and as many as 35 in the fourth quarter.

"They just outpunked us in every way possible," Timberwolves head coach Chris Finch said, according to The Athletic's Jon Krawczynski. "(The Spurs) outran us, outcompeted us, out-physicaled us. It was ugly and unacceptable."

With a 2-2 record thus far, Minnesota has dropped contests against the rebuilding Spurs and Utah Jazz, teams that shipped out star players to new destinations, including new center Rudy Gobert to the Timberwolves. The squad's only wins have come against another rebuilding opponent: the Oklahoma City Thunder.

"We knew they're a hard-playing team, and this is two hard-playing teams that have come in here and played the game the right way and made more efforts than us," Finch said. "Those aren't things that we certainly can tolerate."

The Timberwolves struggled to make 3-point shots, converting eight from beyond the arc. The Spurs forced 16 turnovers, scoring 23 points off their takeaways. San Antonio also scored in the paint at will, with 60 points coming from that area of the court.

Gobert, a former Defensive Player of the Year known for his shot-blocking abilities, struggled against San Antonio with 11 points and seven rebounds.

"Just gotta start the game with a little more intensity," Gobert said, according to Krawczynski. "Set the tone. Tough on me to talk to other guys to do things if I don't do them myself. So I just got to do them and then to be able to communicate."

The Timberwolves face the Spurs again on Wednesday at home at 8 p.m. ET.