THE ODD COUPLE – Chris Broussard & Martin Weiss discuss what to make of Anthony Edwards and what he brings to basketball. They also dive in-depth into the comparisons to Michael Jordan.
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Morant but J’s not playing this year he’s injured so I don’t know who would be more exciting of a player exciting than Anthony Edwards last night Martin uh in a game with Utah he had 32 points eight dimes seven boards to lead Minnesota to a victory over the Jazz
Remember they are playing Minnesota without not only Carl Anthony towns their second best player and a multiple time Allstar but also without Rudy gobear who may be on the verge of winning his fourth straight def not fourth straight but fourth Defensive Player of the Year award that would Ty Ben Wallace and D
Kimbe Matumbo for the most all time so they needed a win without their big guns or two or their three big guns and Anthony Edwards delivered and what everyone’s talking about is this dunk he had over John Collins and I’m telling you Martin every time Edwards goes up
For a dunk or a block he’s got the block of the year maybe the dunk of the year it it really I’m not even like I don’t feel like I’m exaggerating obviously it it’s not true but it looks like he’s jumping off a trampoline he is so
Explosive to the hoop it’s just crazy what’ you think of that dunk and and am I tripping no you’re absolutely not tripping but first of all I do have to take a minute and chastise one of the dunkers of our of my generation at least Blake Griffin because before Blake
Griffin people were grabbing the rim now with Blake after Blake Griffin kind of took the dunk contest by storm Lob City and all of that we got a whole bunch of guys who are throwing it down quite literally as opposed to dunking and hanging on the rim I’m convinced that
Anthony Edwards ended up dislocating that finger because he didn’t grab the rim and hang up there he hit he hit John Collins’s head that’s what I if he had grabbed on the rim the finger if he had grabbed on the rim he wouldn’t have hit his head out he was
Too far I I think it is I I feel like and Dwight Howard did this in the dunk contest remember we had the Superman cape on and like you said Blake Griffin did it over Timothy mgov and Kendrick Perkins which I think was his best dunk
I I gotta be honest Martin I think a lot of times just throwing it in is more impressive because you know how high you have to get up to throw the ball down into the rim without it bouncing off the back of the rim or something like that
Man I I love the dunk last night so you had an issue because he didn’t grab the rim I didn’t have an issue no I’m just being it’s just it’s just a point of clarification that we have now to me at least lowered the standard of what the
Dunk is at this point so this is lower no because look because when I was a kid when I was a kid nobody did it you were dunking on somebody hanging on the rim putting your chest nuts in somebody’s face and saying ah deal with me now
Right people you people still do that but when you leave from so far out and you can’t get to the rim if you’re high enough to throw it in I I’m impressed I’m impressed you sound like the old man get off my lawn now not me but you know
I’m sorry I’m sitting in Rob Parker’s chair so I guess it just rubbed off but no I’ll say this about Anthony Edwards and that dunk first of all I fully agree with you he’s one of the best tickets you can buy in the NBA right now in
Terms of putting on a show to me he and he’s really consistent night in night out now may he may come late to the game or you know out of the locker room he might miss get him there he might miss the second uh the second half tip but uh
But no in terms of just pure athleticism pure uh uh just and I kind of really like to see the adversity that he’s going through right now as a player without like you said his other All-Star City towns and Rudy goar who is playing at a defensive player of the year level
Right now to watch him put the team on his back to me has been really special and I know last off season we see this all the time when guys go play for Team USA right and then come back and they their game is elevated to a different
Level I think that’s what happened with Anthony Edwards this last year he played really well over the summer playing with Team USA and then after he came back to the NBA you see his game has Rosen risen to another level and I’m hoping that they do make some noise in the playoffs
Because I agree with you wholeheartedly and this is the best ticket you can buy in the NBA to go watch a show or let’s just say this the best young ticket you can buy in the NBA to go watch the show right because don’t get me wrong Steph
Curry still doing his thing LeBron still doing his thing high flyer exactly you can see he’s at the beginning of something great being only 22 years old and I I mean I love his game I love the way he plays and and it’s just evident that he’s
Going to go try this like just a few days ago or a few weeks ago at this point he tried to catch Anthony Davis you’re coming over Anthony Davis the top of Anthony Davis going after everybody and and it’s reminiscent of a guy that used to dunk
On everybody D kimbe Matumbo got him Alonzo Morning got him Patrick Ying got him Shaq got him and of course that would be none other than Michael Jordan and Anthony Edwards Martin is drawing comparisons to Michael Jordan Patrick Beverly has said it other people have
Said it and I reached out to the goat himself yes MJ today via text and he told me he does indeed see the similarities in his game and Anthony Edward’s game and I think the similar ities are these Martin now let me say this first there’s two kind of people
That get compared to Michael Jordan there’s those that people think could maybe be the goat and that’s LeBron right sure LeBron his game is nothing like Michael Jordan’s but he was compared to Mike because can he be better can he be as good Anthony Edwards the is the other type where
Stylistically they get compared to Michael Jordan I don’t think anybody as great as we think my Anthony Edward’s future could be none of us are thinking he’s going to be the goat or even in that conversation oh maybe a surprises but right now nobody’s thinking that and here’s the stylistic
Similarities I see one obviously the highflying elements of his game dunking on people aggressive two he loves to play defense Martin we saw that with Team USA we’ve seen that this year where the timber wolves are a top two defensive team in the league yes you
Have go bear but you also have Anthony Edwards getting after it on the perimeter three he loves to play he ain’t trying to load manage I remember talking to Michael Jordan a few years ago and we were talking about the possibility of them lowering the you
Know 82 games making it smaller he could not understand it was almost like he was offended how in the world could players want the G the 82 games lessened like he’s like man I want to play every night and you can see that by his record he
Played almost every night when he wasn’t hurt and Anthony Edwards is like that and Martin we saw that last night he dislocates his fingers you said goes into the locker room gets it popped back into the place and then taped and goes back out to the game to play a lot of
Guys in this day and age would have been like man I’m good you know we’ll get him another day I’m chilling and he went out there to play and he said I don’t want to load manage so all those are ways that and he’s charismatic and all that
That too but those are some similarities I do see with him and Michael Jordan and look Victor wiim Bama is gonna be the face of the NBA we I I think that’s clear but outside of him there gonna be other faces and I think one of them will
Be Anthony Edward what do you think of the MJ comparison I don’t I like it actually I you it’s something that you know it’s like you said it’s Blasphemous in a way to comp to really comp somebody to Michael Jordan or Tom Brady or something like that because it’s like
Right dude wait a second you can’t do it quite yet you got to see some wins you got to see some rings so on and so forth but if you’re just talking about style and play style and athletic ability I he’s right up there with Kawai in my
Mind in terms of guys who remind me of Michael Jordan when they play like well Kawai because for different reasons sure but it’s like Kawai with the mid-range all that but I mean I love his competitiveness and while you say Victor wanyama is going to be the face of the
NBA uh I I get where you’re coming from with that but I do wonder if we’ve seen a lot of uh uh foreign born players kind of take that mantle from here and there like joic or Giannis as as the best player in the league or you know the
Face of the league or so on it makes me wonder about American born players and where they are I think Anthony Edwards is our best shot at that one as as an American player but in terms of just his ability and his his competitiveness to me he is breathing life into a league
That that you know is still from the media side of things still really focused on the main of the main players of the past with Steph and LeBron Kevin Durant so forth and so on to me Anthony Edwards is the type of guy who can break through that conversation because again
When you go watch him play he’s attempting not necessarily completing but attempting something like this almost every night and what I don’t appreciate is there’s two dunks going on in this segment Anthony Edwards dunking over John Collins and you dunking on me talking about how you’re texting Michael
Jordan well it’s something for you to shoot for too and aspire to young man what do you think of the Anthony Edwards and Michael Jordan comparisons your thoughts let’s go to Alex and Scottdale you’re on The Odd Couple on Fox Sports Radio boys how we doing we great man how
Are you yeah I’m still recovering from the waste management uh out here but I’m doing good that was weeks ago Lee je Lise I’m old I’m 37 I got three kids I I can’t drink like I used to I need days to recover months to recover wow all right so let me start
With this why every time someone has a good game or a good season we want to compare him to the to the best player that’s ever lived any sport I I don’t understand the comparison because Anthony Edward is a great player but you’re talking about Michael Jordan okay
The closest person to Michael Jordan was Kobe Bryant and as a Suns fan I hate Kobe Bryant but that is the only guy in my opinion that you could sit there and compare to him um you know he I think you you’re right if people were saying
He he’s gonna be as good as Michael Jordan I don’t think anybody’s saying that I think what they’re saying is the way he plays the excitement he brings that’s what’s similar yeah it’s not a goat conversation it’s more just a what is he doing on the court day in day out
That’s it right and and we’re we’re looking for an exciting I mean think about all the best players yanis yic Steph LeBron Durant Jason Tatum uh uh imid Luca none of them play like Michael Jordan except Anthony Edwards right and so I think there’s some of that too
Let’s go to Kevin in Culver City you’re on The Odd Couple Fox Sports Radio God is good what’s up fellas all the time bro all the time I I’m so happy I finally had some validations from the great Chris rard I was in an NBA front office for about eight years scouting
Players and as a scout you just want to go by what your eyes tell you I’m in a prominent fantasy league with one of my boys Evan Davis he’s a big designer in New Jersey you might know him and I said Anthony Edwards reminds me of Michael
Jordan he said you’re crazy what I said Michael Jordan I picked him up off the waiver wiers a rookie because I saw a superstar now if you look at what he does the way he shoots the ball the way he’s athletic in midair the way he dunks
It’s Michael Jordan s the way he controls the ball with with his athleticism his handle his intensity the way he plays he gets 44 points right when towns goes out this guy’s got Superstar ritten all over him he’s got the work ethic he loves the game he
Competes you got to look at the compete when you Scout a player if he goes on this trajectory the way he’s going now he can be one of the greatest and I think he enjoys the game just like a Michael Jordan he likes playing basketball this team is on the rise and
Anthony Edwards He’s a two-way player too people forget that he can play defense too so Chris you are right on with that it’s not uh crazy to think it and if you look at the league in our faces he can be the face of the NBA even
More of a Victor because I think he’s got that Jordan bravado to him that you know half man half uh you know not human he just he has that ore to him the way he he carries himself when he gets on the court so I I think with with faces
Of the league they’re usually smaller players they’re not big men Magic Johnson Michael Jordan Kobe BL LeBron James and I think this guy has all of the tools to be that um he’s a phenomenal player and definitely a superstar in this league there you go there you go Jimmy in South Carolina
You’re on the ey couple you know all I want to know is why there’s no comparisons to Dominique Wilkins the way he flies that’s what I don’t understand I mean I I get the whole Michael Jordan thing and all that but I mean he’s high flying and
Dominique was doing that and can you maybe you know get into that a little bit yeah that’s that’s fair I actually think his style is kind of right in between as far as ding Martin is right in between Jordan and Nick he’s not quite as graceful as Jordan cuz Jordan
You know he’d be moving his legs and you know swinging the ball like sticking his he was just graceful yeah the movements of his body kind of like a Sean km you know Sean km just had these unorthodox movements that made it look better but
He has more I would say more power than Jordan when he dunks and that’s where he’s kind of right in between Nick and Jordan Nick was more of a power dunker Jordan was more graceful and I think he’s kind of right in between those two Martin I yeah I 100% agree because when
You think especially you think of Jordan also too you think of some of his finishes at The Rim right the switching hands and all that other just in the air where you think of Dominique he was hunting for souls he was trying to send you to the ground and that’s what
Anthony Edwards is trying to do out here like don’t get me wrong can does he have the ability in the body control to do some of that other stuff sure but right now now at 21 22 years old whoever old he is he’s hunting Souls he’s trying to
Send you down to the shadow realm and that’s where John Collins went hunting for Souls I like that I might steal that man I might you I’m saying go ahead I don’t know have you did you steal it from somebody no I came up with that you
Know honestly was looking at you and the guy said God is good that made me think about that’s what kind of triggered it in my brain
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That’s his damn seed!
Dominique did not jump as good off of one foot or from distance as he jumped vertically off two feet. Jordan could jump vertically and from the free throw line. He also could jump off one foot or two which Ant can do as well. But if you take a closer look at Ant's block he used his right hand/arm to push off his teammate McDaniels who was also jumping which enabled Ant to get up higher and his recent dunk he actually used his left hand/arm to push off the defender Collins to get up higher as well. Its similar to players jumping over people in a dunk contest using their off arm to push off the person they are jumping over to get up higher which allows them to jump over that person.
jordan wished he could dunk lik Ant
Edwards isn't compared to Dominique because none of his movements are really reminiscent of Dominique, they're completely different. Even in dunking, although Ant dunks with power, the way he does his dunks are different from Dominique. Just because two dunkers are both power dunkers doesn't mean they're alike. I mean, look at Shaq, dude was a real power dunker too, does anyone compare him to Dominique because of that?
Why does every player have to be compared to Jordan? First of all, he's not the GOAT. Second there are plenty of other great players who were/are athletic that Edwards can be compared to.
There plenty dunks that you guys forget about when people are getting fouled putting it down. It's been part of the game. Tired of non dunking people trying say what I dunk it is. 😂 When he was a kid players getting pushed in the air and they throw it down. It's in the rule book. Forcefully putting the ball through the basket is a dunk. Look up Keon Clark dunk when he got fouled.
If Rudy wins his 4th DPOY it just proves that the voters are just being lazy at this point
Ant is the next MJ . How he murdered John Collin’s omg . JC trying to find his soul till this day lol. It’s AE over morrant because he plays Defense just as good as his offense. I love that he hates everybody. He don’t want to be friends. He wants to bury you
Mike old & in the beginning stages of senile & all timers
The throw down takes way more commitment then a dunk because you have nothing to grab as a safety net.
The dunk was electrifying but lets not get outa control.
Jason Tatum is in the perfect spot to be the face of the NBA.
Been to the finals, and conference finals. Also plays for one of the most famous teams. Has his own shoes.
JT just needs to want it! He’s missing that IT factor and you can’t teach it.
The hand that's injured isn't the hand he dunked with, I think he hurt his hand when it hit the other player in the face
11:43 yappington yapson 😭😭😭
Anthony jordan
I called this after I saw his college game against Michigan state, my boy said I was crazy!!! It bring a smile to my face watching all these people later to the party!!!! O.A.N he about to start getting hated on real bad watch!!
Fox taking a L with this guy talking basketball
Ant gone be the goat
Ant is 22 and has gotten better every year… excited to see what he becomes at 26-29.
A European player would never be the face of the NBA. I've never seen a Luka duka jersey in these streets yet, and wemby is too awkward looking to be the face of the league lol
No way y’all actually believe this 😂😭😭😭😭
MJ has Chris And Rob on the payroll Comfirmed
Victor wembenyama will not Be the face dude your drunk
Chris lied
I swear Jordans shot gave birth to Ant's fadeaway because that shot is identical.
Edit: I don't think LeBron's defense was as good as Ant's is now this early in LeBron's career, nor as tough as him.
Someone needs to tell Broussard that hair dye is NOT working does he have no friends??
The fact that Chris Broussard already is saying the "ant will never be in the goat conversation" and the kid is only 22 years old is crazy to me, especially because mj played in the pre 2001 ruleset era where hedging wasn't allowed and his favorite move was the low block post up iso move which typically ended up being a 1v1 scenario due to no hedging… in today's era mj would see more double/trip teams then he had ever seen prior and that's fact not opinion.
Kobe was the closest thing to MJ ever in terms of their style of play etc!
Even from an excitement standpoint, Anthony Edwards is not like MJ. He does not have the layup package Jordan had.
The power bron and Jordan have when dunking is pretty crazy shits different from the rest
ANT MAN at 22 is 10x better then MJ at 22 that’s just facts. Why are you putting a cap on his potential. This podcast is literally just a hate show. To big up jordan that’s so lame
He dislocated his left hand, not his dunk hand MARTIN! This dude don’t know what he’s talking about lol
Brady is not Jordan Brady is the bill Russell of basketball not the best at anything best winner not player
Jordan, we know Butler and Edwards are yours
As much as many folks are hyped around AntMan – he also haters! This playoffs will be his time to shine like NO OTHER! The major difference now and then is that this is not the first rodeo for people 35 and above. So the media heads who are older than 35 are more analytical & critically biased with their takes vs in the past media heads who demonstrated the love of the game regardless of the analytics & opinions. Bring in new media personas who can bring back the same energy we use to enjoy so this new generation can experience the same excitement as in the 90s
He’s very similar still at 22/23 MJ was way better scorer, was faster and more athletic. Ant hasn’t even averaged 30 points ppg.
He likes his Yvette’s … and corvettes this guy lol
All those people who say Michael Jordan will be just an average player if he played in this era. Well look at Anthony Edwards. And I would say Jordan is a better player too.
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15 Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand;
2 By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.
3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;
4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:
Nah Chris it’s not more difficult to throw it in the hoop!!! Let’s stop trying to glorify these dudes 4:25
Exciting, I'll say Jalen Green
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Where is Kobe?? Why did Chris Broussand kept bringing up Lebron when comparing to Jordan??i thought kobe is the closest to MJ
Hmmmmmmm something is fishy…. I been saying this for 2 years on twitter that this guy reminds me of Jordan…… He competes like no other in the NBA…. You can see he wants to beat every team… This is old news TO ME…And I been saying he's the main guy on that team not KAT… You guys are SLOW…… From Your Boy Poorhouzzzzzzz
Wow. Never let this guy on the show again, that grabbing the rim vs throwing it in made no sense. And he obviously didn’t even see the dunk if he thinks he broke his finger by not grabbing the rim, his hand went right into Collin’s face… Rob is a clown but at least he’s an entertaining clown.