The 2022-23 iteration of the Minnesota Timberwolves haven't been off to the best of starts. The Timberwolves dropped to 5-6 after their loss to the New York Knicks on Monday night, a game that wasn't as close as the 120-109 score line would suggest. They just haven't made the leap to the league's upper echelon they expected when they gave up a boatload of first-round picks for Rudy Gobert. And third-year guard Anthony Edwards has had enough of the Timberwolves' slow start.

After the Knicks loss, Edwards voiced out his frustrations over his team's apparent lack of effort. He went as far as to call them “soft” and that they need to bring more toughness and grit to avoid being treated by the league as mere pushovers.

“I feel like we try to bring energy. We just play soft, man. Like, every bump, we flying all over the place, including myself. Teams just coming in like, ‘We’re going to take their heart,’ and that’s what’s going on. We’re down 20 every game,” Edwards said, per Dane Moore.

It's good to see Edwards call himself out as well, as he has been inconsistent to begin the season, Against the Knicks, Ant put up just 16 points on 5-14 shooting from the field, and the Timberwolves will need him to emerge into an even bigger star with their future picks heavily invested in this team's current core.

Alas, there might be more problems in Minneapolis than they're letting on, especially when Anthony Edwards got caught napping for an entire offensive possession in their most recent win against the Houston Rockets. In addition, Ant also voiced his complaints about the paint being too packed, as he hasn't dunked in a game to that point, while franchise cornerstone Karl-Anthony Towns called Edwards out as well for his poor food choices.

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Still, it's too early to sound the alarms on the Timberwolves, with there being 71 games left for them to figure it out. But with the Western Conference being as cutthroat as ever, the Timberwolves cannot afford to slip up too much. Rudy Gobert's recent absence due to illness also does nothing to help their quest to build chemistry, making the road ahead an even steeper uphill climb.

Alas, talent has a way of figuring things out, and it should only be a matter of time before Anthony Edwards, Karl-Anthony Towns, and the rest of the the Timberwolves resemble the team that made the playoffs last year more closely.