Despite the Minnesota Timberwolves losing 114-88 to the Oklahoma City Thunder in Game 1 of the Western Conference finals, Anthony Edwards remains full of confidence.

The Timberwolves were outscored by 30 points in the second half on Tuesday, with Edwards managing just five of his 18 after halftime on 5-for-13 shooting.

"I feel great," he said, as quoted by ESPN. "I've definitely got to shoot more. I only took 13 f****** shots.

"Probably just need to get off the ball a little more, play without the ball. I think that will be the answer. Because playing on the ball, they're just going to double and sit in the gaps all day.

"So, got to go watch some film and pick it apart. We'll figure it out."

Julius Randle led the Timberwolves' scoring after finishing with 28 points, albeit with only eight coming after halftime and zero on 3s, having hit 5-for-6 in the first half.

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He believes they should go into Game 2 full of confidence, having shown what they can do in the first half of Game 1 by going in four points up with the score at 48-44.

"We proved that we can do it, but we got to make it happen, too," he said.

"We can't just be like, 'All right, we did it last series, we're going to do it again.' This is a great team.

"They've been playing great basketball all year. So, the good thing is we proved to ourselves that we can do it. But we have got to make it happen."

Timberwolves coach Chris Finch, meanwhile, was more critical of their performance, saying they did not do enough to get over the line.

"Sometimes, the passes were late," he said. "Sometimes we weren't quite shot-ready. Sometimes we need to turn them into other plays.

"But I did think we got a number of really good looks and couldn't connect when the game was turning against us."

Finch also took responsibility for Randle's inability to reproduce his first-half showing in the second.

"That's on me, I've got to get him the ball. I've got to get him more involved to start the second half," he said.