After the game, Nikola Jokic, who is expected to be named NBA MVP for the third time in his career on Wednesday, was just as lifeless at the podium as the Nuggets were after the game, when he was asked how he thought his team would respond in Game 3.

“I don’t know. We will see,” Jokic said, per Ryan Blackburn of Mile High Sports.

Jokic wasn’t the only member of the Nuggets organization who was visibly frustrated during and/or after the game. When Nuggets head coach Michael Malone stepped to the podium, he didn’t beat around the bush in regards to the mental state of his team.

“It was a very, very quiet locker room…I’m taking it as – our guys are disappointed in that performance…we got outcoached and outplayed,” Malone said, according to Brendan Vogt of DNVR.

Defense is what has brought Minnesota to this stage of the dance, but it’s Anthony Edwards who will be responsible if the Wolves continue to rampage through the NBA Playoffs. The 22-year-old budding superstar scored 27 points in Game 2 after a 43-point explosion in Game 1, and all throughout the game, he was letting the Nuggets know about it.

“Let me put it like this: When Ant is out there talking his s—, I know that we’re in for a good night,” Edwards’ teammate Karl-Anthony Towns, who scored 27 points himself in Game 2, said after the game, per ESPN’s Dave McMenamin. Two plays in particular were worth noting:

In the 1st half, Anthony Edwards dropped Reggie Jackson to his knees on the hardwood like Jackson was getting ready to pray inside of an old Catholic church…

… And then midway through the 4th quarter, Edwards hit the Michael Jordan shrug after burying a three in the face of Justin Holiday.

The Nuggets need to find an answer for Anthony Edwards, who is averaging 32.3 points per game during the NBA Playoffs, but they even more desperately, they need to solve their offensive woes as the series heads to Minnesota for Game 3 in front what will be a juiced-up Wolves home crowd.