Chapter 448: Timberwolves Five Less and Chinese Derby
At night, the Timberwolves' training hall is still brightly lit.
"Yi, you're overly nervous right now."
Looking at Yi Jianlian, who was constantly playing iron on the training ground, Rudy Gay picked up the basketball on the ground and turned over to hit the iron with a beautiful backward jumper.
Yi:......
Al Jefferson: ......
Randy Foye: ......
Ilyasova: ......
The teammates around him were silent, and Rudy Gay was embarrassed.
"What kind of eyes are you looking at? This is not my real level! ”
"Since it's not Rudy's real level, it's nervous, and it seems that Rudy is not qualified to teach Yi a lesson."
"Randy, shut up!"
Rudy Gay blushed a little.
It's about to play supersonic, and it's about to show the results of his progress this year in front of Yes, how can you not be nervous?!
Let Lu Baye pretend to be 13 and die!
Lu Baye is so Dior this season, what's wrong with pretending to be a little bit?
What's more, just failed to pretend to be 13, and it is indeed not the real level of Lu Baye!
This season's Lu Baye is a super scorer with an average of more than 20 points per game!
You can't miss such a shot in the game.
Seeing Rudy Gay's anger at his own indignation, Randy Foye smiled as well.
This season, Guy has really improved a lot.
The average points per game increased by nearly 10 points, and the shooting percentage increased by nearly 5 percentage points.
Rudy Gay has averaged 17 shots per game so far this season, including 5 from the basket at 62 percent shooting, 7.5 from mid-range with 44 percent from beyond the arc, and 4.5 from beyond the three-point line with 1.7 shots from beyond the three-point line, shooting 38 percent.
So far this season, Rudy Gay is averaging 21.5 points per game on 47.6 percent shooting, arguably one of the most well-rounded scorers in the league to date.
Rudy Gay was also well-rounded in his scoring last season, but he shot just 56 percent from the basket, less than 40 percent from mid-range, and only 36 percent from beyond the three-point line.
Rudy Gay's all-round ability last season was nothing more than all-incomprehensible compared to the all-round ability he has now.
Al Jefferson's data this season is 21+11, and the shooting rate has reached 50%, but Al Jefferson still has no way to shake the position of Rudy Gay's team leader, which can be seen how good Rudy Gay's performance this season is.
In front of Yes, let Yes see his progress, this is not just Guy's words.
"You say, how are we going to play this game?"
Although Rudy Guy failed to pretend to be 13 in front of Yi Jianlian, he still succeeded in preventing the training of the mad Yi.
Yi's intensity of training has dropped after Thanksgiving, but he's still the hardest working one for the Timberwolves.
The Timberwolves love this big man who is talented, gentle, hardworking, and has a close relationship with Yes.
For Rudy Gay and the Timberwolves, Yi is a perfect second- or third-in-command.
Such a player is a treasure in any team.
This is even more true in the Timberwolves.
The Timberwolves' five-young combination of Rudy Gay, Al Jefferson, Yi and Randy Ferye, and Ilyasova now has the firepower of the whole of Minnesota extremely excited.
Since Garnett left the Timberwolves, Minnesota Timberwolves fans have been dead.
In order to express his dissatisfaction, he once cheered and applauded the away team frantically at home.
The scene of Timberwolves fans cheering and cheering for Yes at home was selected by the good media as one of the most shameful events in the NBA.
And this season, the enthusiasm of Timberwolves fans has been completely aroused.
In fact, since the second half of last season, the Timberwolves' young players have successfully grabbed power, and the Timberwolves players led by Rudy Gay have played wonderful and enthusiastic and energetic basketball, and the Timberwolves' popularity in Minnesota has begun to recover.
This season is just a continuation of this recovery.
Even this season's Timberwolves fans are looking forward to more than just a recovery.
In the history of the Timberwolves, there has never been a time when the Timberwolves have made them look forward to this.
All five players have been with the Timberwolves since the beginning of their careers, and all five have potential to be at a quasi-All-Star level or higher.
According to the media, this is the first time in the history of the NBA.
They are looking forward to the growth of the Timberwolves every day.
And the Timberwolves' growth rate has not disappointed them.
Now the Timberwolves' record is still very bad, and in the West this year, the Timberwolves' record is not ranked eighth.
It's hard not to finish eighth in the future, but they don't have any disappointment with the Timberwolves.
There are still too many surprises brought to them by the Timberwolves, such as the first consecutive loss of the season to the powerful and almost invincible Phoenix Suns.
They don't need to be a game like the Timberwolves beating the Suns every day right now.
One or two games like this are enough.
As long as there are two games like this, they can have enough enjoyment of the future of the Timberwolves and the Timberwolves.
Today Rudy Gay broke out to lead the team to win, tomorrow Al Jefferson broke out to lead the team to win, and the day after tomorrow it was YI to break out......
Every day they have enough excitement.
They also believe that one day, these five lads of the Timberwolves can all make it to the All-Star!
"Rudy, are you serious?"
"Do you think I'm joking right now?"
In order for Yes to feel our progress, let's take turns to play Yes in singles, what's the joke?
But looking at Rudy Gay's current expression, this guy really doesn't look like he's joking at all.
This made the Timberwolves next to Rudy Gay look at each other a little.
'Rudy, we've improved a lot this season, but I don't think we're going to be able to do that.
"Randy, I don't want you to think, I want me to feel!"
“……”
The eighth master is very domineering!
The teammates were all shocked by the domineering spirit of the eighth master!
"Okay, Randy, don't make trouble, that's all, listen to me, this issue doesn't need to be discussed, listen to me."
After Rudy Gay finished speaking, he smiled and picked up the basketball on the ground again, and then another beautiful turnaround jumper, this time it didn't make another clang, but a very beautiful hollow shot.
"Yes, today's game between the SuperSonics and the Timberwolves, we will broadcast the whole game, from the time you come to Minnesota to the end of the game!"
When Ye Si was still on the plane, Wang Han was already excited.
Yes can understand why she and CCTV are so excited.
Before the start of the Chinese derby between the SuperSonics and the Timberwolves, there had been several Chinese derbies on the stage.
Not to mention anything else, just the two Chinese derbies between the Timberwolves and the Wizards have caused great sensation and impact in China.
The regular season Chinese derby between the Rockets and the supersonic needs to wait a little longer, and before that, the Chinese derby between the supersonic and the Timberwolves is definitely a national concern in China.
Unlike Sun Yue, who is just a role player in the Wizards.
Yi Jianlian is in the Timberwolves, that is a core player in the absolute sense!
December 14, 2007, Timberwolves home target center.
Yes looked at the Timberwolves fans around him, a little surprised.
He hasn't seen what a Garnett-era Timberwolves fan was like since he entered the league.
But now, the atmosphere is really good.
"Yes, isn't that shocking! Wait a minute, there's something that will shock you even more! ”
“……”
Are we acquainted?
Ye Si looked at the big black hand on his shoulder, and Rudy Gay looked like I was very familiar with you, which made Rondo next to him a little unhappy.
Lu Laoba is very arrogant today!
Forgetting so quickly how last season was cut by the SuperSonics?
What Timberwolves have five less, isn't it just a group of young people who can't even enter the playoffs and can only brush up on data?
It's just a matter of brushing data, the second master brushed the assist king last season, and this season Du 15 has been brought by Yes to become the scoring champion.
You data that can't bring victory to the team, the second master is very disdainful!
Two players per team who average 20+ or more per game
A team of five players who average 10+ or more per game.
Such a team's record is actually the top three in the West.
Isn't this what a brush is?
Do you really think data is power?
Have you ever seen the stats of role players playing superstars?
I haven't seen it, so let's see you today!
Rondo glanced disdainfully at Durant.
The game between the SuperSonics and the Timberwolves is just an ordinary regular season game in the United States.
The scale of the game may not even be up to the previous SuperSonics and Thunder games.
The Timberwolves are now the bottom team in the West, and the Thunder are the top eight and top nine teams in the West, which is indeed not a level.
But in this civil war with the Timberwolves in the Northwest Division, Nelson Sr. and the SuperSonics still attach great importance to it.
The Timberwolves don't have a high record, but this team is very distinctive.
The Timberwolves have five few, and every player can attack, and the level of offense is very good.
This is a team that can beat the Suns at home.
Regardless of whether the Suns ran out of gas when they lost to the Timberwolves, even if they really ran out of oil, not every team can do this.
Amid the cheers of the fans in the stadium, the Timberwolves' starting five Tigers have walked onto the court.
Center Al Jefferson, forwards Yi Jianlian and Ilyasova, defenders Rudy Gay and Randy Foye.
This is the Timberwolves' starting lineup that has been set in stone this season.
The shortest in the lineup is Randy Foye at 1.93m, followed by Rudy Gay's at 2.03m.
The remaining three players, whether Yi Jianlian, Ilyasova or Al Jefferson, are all above 2.08 meters, of which Yi Jianlian has reached 2.13 meters.
Quite a tall lineup.
Coupled with the fact that the Timberwolves' roster has a very good offensive ability and good athleticism, combined with their height, the Timberwolves are known as the reverse Grizzlies in the league.
The Grizzlies are also tall and fast lineups, but the Grizzlies are biased towards defense and the Timberwolves are biased towards offense.
In order to deal with the Timberwolves' lineup, the SuperSonics lineup for this game is center Milicic, power forward Millsap, small forward Durant, scoring guard Yees, and playmaker Rondo.
"Coach Nelson Sr. sent Millsap in the starting lineup in this game!"
"We all know that the SuperSonics' usual starting power forward is David Lee, and they will only play Millsap when they have a very strong opponent at the No. 4 position!"
"Coach Nelson Sr. not only said in the pre-match interview that the UAE is now a very strong player, but he proved with his actual actions in the game that his praise for the UAE is not fake!"
After the starting lineups of the two sides were released, Mr. Zhang Lili in the sideline commentary seat was very excited.
Although Su Skirt didn't shout like Teacher Zhang Lili, the look on her face was equally proud.
It's this point of pride, a little bit of peculiarity.
Nelson Sr. does have a reason for easy to build a union in the starting lineup, but it is more because the Timberwolves have too many players to attack.
Durant is another defensive colander, the SuperSonics need more protection on the inside, and Milicic is not enough alone.
Ye Si, who is now standing on the court, naturally does not know that Su Skirt and Zhang Li can write a big book because of Millsap's starter.
At the start of the game, Yi Jianlian and Milicic jumped the ball.
In the cheers of the Timberwolves fans in the audience, Yi Jianlian beat Milicic to jump the ball successfully.
The Timberwolves' center is Al Jefferson, a traditional heavy center, and he is not as tall as Yi Jianlian.
So Yi Jianlian has always been the Timberwolves' jumper.
This season, Yi Jianlian's jump ball success rate is very high.
When the game started, Rudy Gay was very excited.
After half-time, he opened his hand to ask Randy Foye for the ball.
Seeing Rudy Guy like this, Randy Foye frowned slightly, and finally put the ball in Rudy Guy's hand.
"Yes, I've been waiting for this day for a long time!"
Watching Rudy Gay dribble excitedly in front of him, looking like he was going to play singles.
Ye Si was stunned.
That's what Rudy Gay said was going to shock him?
Singled him?
Rudy Gay has singles ability this season?
This is indeed a surprise.
Rudy Gay is pretty fancy on the dribble right now, and it's clear that he's not idle this summer.
Last season, Rudy Gay didn't have the strength to hold the ball in the NBA, he was very well-rounded, but the offense was not comprehensive, and he couldn't handle the ball.
"Yes, let me show you my newly developed Crossover!"
The excited Rudy Guy didn't wait for Yes to come over, and took the lead in attacking Yes.
It's just that......
Looking at Yes motionless on the court, and Guy still showing Crossover in front of Yes.
Randy Foye, who had just passed the ball to Guy, now has an urge to hit someone.
"Yes, why don't you fall!"
What about Nima!
What a trick!
Looking at Rudy Gay's scalp-tinging operation, Rondo couldn't wait to go up and kick this guy's ass.
Rudy Gay's crossover moves are showy, but the change of direction is not large, not deceptive, and not penetrating.
Yes stood there motionless and looked at Rudy Guy like this, giving the people around him the feeling that he was looking at ADHD stupid.
Even the Timberwolves fans who were still crazy and excited just now were suffocated.
That's not how Rudy usually attacks.
In the end, Rudy Gay may have been embarrassed by the show, and threw the pot to Yi Jianlian on the side when the 24-second offensive time of this attack was about to end.
Yi Jianlian faced Millsap's defense, and his open hand was an iron.
These guys are here to be funny, right?
Watching the five players of the Timberwolves who obviously have no single ability on TV frantically switch positions and play Yes, James's face is ugly.
These five guys are not at all so good when they face his knights!
A murderous horse!