Chapter 468: Minnesota Wolong and Phoenix Chicks

On October 1st, which happened to be the National Day in China, Yi Dun, Yi Jianlian and Sun Yue appeared at the Timberwolves' training venue.

Lefu has lined up with many players to wait for Yi Dun's arrival, and when he saw Yi Dun coming, he came up one by one to greet Yi Dun.

A team has a total of 15 players in the squad, of which only 12 are on the playing list, and the remaining three are on the injury list.

Of course, being on the injury list doesn't mean that they are really injured, or it may be that they are not strong enough to squeeze into the twelve-man list.

Now the three of Yi Dun occupy three places in the fifteen-man squad, and there are twelve players in the training field, Lefu introduced Yi Dun one by one, and he knows very well that Yi Dun does not know these players very well.

Originally, in Yi Dun's impression, the proportion of blacks in the NBA is extremely high, and it has to reach eighty percent, but the Timberwolves team seems to have a ratio of five to five whites and blacks.

Love, Rubio, Barria, and Pekovic, the original main players of the team, turned out to be all white.

Even Darko Milicic, who started in Pekovic's place after his injury, was a white man.

This is more unusual, there are very few teams in the NBA that have this kind of situation, from the inside to the outside of the white main team, Iten's search for either Adelman is racist, or owner Glen Taylor is racist......

Like some elderly rich whites, especially Taylor, who have climbed through the ranks of society, it seems that it is not inconceivable to discriminate against black people.

Yi Dun doesn't bother to care so much, whether his teammates are black or white, anyway, from now on, this team will be his Yi Dun's world.

"Eden, this is Nikola Pekovic, our starting center last season." Lefu first pointed to a white rough man beside him.

Pekovic's appearance is really rugged, with a big beard and a majestic body, it looks quite difficult to mess with, and it is no wonder that he can break out of the world on the inside.

Yi Dun smiled and nodded at the other party, "Hello, Nikla, nice to meet you." ”

Pekovic also greeted him with a friendly greeting, and he probably didn't know he was about to be on the bench right now, and if he had, he didn't know if he would be so friendly.

Some fans who like to read gossip news probably have some impressions of Pekovic, the center of Montenegro, the big white bear from Montenegro, whose family is engaged in big business, and is said to be the largest gangster organization in Montenegro......

Of course, this largest gangster organization is definitely not as exaggerated as fans think, after all, the Republic of Montenegro has a total population of five or six hundred thousand, which is roughly similar to the population size of some small counties in China, so no matter how big this organization is, where can it be, it may be the level of street runners in small counties......

Love then went on to introduce, "This is Derrick Williams, a very talented rookie player in our team, and we look forward to him delivering on his talent under your leadership. ”

Yi Dun looked at this Williams fixedly, and he was a rare Zhou Zheng, but this strength was really indescribable.

Speaking of which, the Timberwolves have had a good draft pick in the last three years, with the fifth pick getting Rubio in '09, the fourth pick getting Wesley Johnson from Melon Anthony in '10, and Derrick Williams with the second pick in the 11-year draft.

As a result, Rubio waited a full two years before landing in the NBA, and the latter two brothers have now used their performance to deeply prove that they are parallel goods.

After three years of high draft picks, he ended up with a very serious Rubio, which is really admirable for luck and selection ability.

If you count the former '03 star Darko Milicic and the '08 star Beasley, it's no wonder that Love says every day that all the players on their Timberwolves team are talented players.

No team can come up with this kind of high-pick lineup, and if the NBA Finals only look at draft picks, the Timberwolves can win 100 championships in a row.

By the way, now we have to add Yi Jianlian, who is the sixth pick......

But these people are indeed high, but they are more or less the worst of the rookies in the same grade.

Yi Dun couldn't figure out what these scouts or executives of the Timberwolves thought, it is rare for an ordinary team to get a parallel import, and they can make up so many sleeping dragons and phoenixes......

A small Timberwolves, a total of more than a dozen players, turned out to be six or seven Wolong and phoenix chicks, who can stand this.

Lefu also said that he hoped that Yi Dun could take these sleeping dragons and phoenix chicks to fulfill their talents, and Yi Dun felt a lot of pressure.

'This is Darko, from Serbia, who is a versatile player who can play a lot of positions. Lefu introduced Milicic to Yiden again, probably because he was afraid that Yidun had not heard of Milicic, so he introduced it very carefully.

Even if Eden is not very familiar with the NBA, he has heard of the name of the human-shaped victory cigar, but he did not know that Milicic is actually Serbian.

Eden is full of affection for Serbia as a country, and although there are not many Serbs on the stage of the world competition, as long as they meet him, he can make friends.

Speaking of which, this Milicic is actually a compatriot with Pekovic, after the disintegration of Yugoslavia in 1992, Serbia and Montenegro formed the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, which was renamed Serbia and Montenegro in 03, that is, Serbia and Montenegro.

Until 06, Montenegro held an independence referendum and became a separate country, needless to say, there is no doubt that there are shady methods of the United States.

So before '06, Milicic and Pekovic were serious compatriots, but not anymore, they belong to two countries.

Eden gave Milicic a hug directly, "It's a pleasure to meet you, I hope we can play side by side in the future and win the highest honor in this league." ”

Milicic's face was stunned, he didn't expect Yi Dun to be so enthusiastic about him, as if he had no contact with Yi Dun before.

Of course, he had heard of Yi Dun's name, and even admired Yi Dun's dominance in the sports world, but he knew very well that Yi Dun most likely did not know who he was.

Unexpectedly, after this meeting, Yi Dun was so enthusiastic about himself, and the degree of enthusiasm was far greater than that of Williams and Pekovic before.

Yi Jianlian and Sun Yue smiled behind Yi Dun, they had been in contact with Yi Dun for so long, they must have been able to guess what Yi Dun was thinking, and they all smiled kindly at Milicic at this time.

This made Milicic feel flattered, although he has played in the NBA for many years, but he has never been treated with such courtesy, even when he joined the Pistons as a leader, he has never enjoyed the treatment that the team should have.

Originally, he thought that after Yi Dun came with Yi Jianlian, he might have to continue to wander again, but looking at Yi Dun's attitude towards himself, it seemed that he could stay.

Over the years, Milicic has wandered many teams, from the Pistons, Magic, Grizzlies, Knicks to the current Timberwolves, and he naturally doesn't want to continue to wander.

Seeing that Eden seemed to like Milicic as a teammate, Lefu had a smile on his face, but he was actually most worried that Eden was too arrogant and completely ignored these "fringe" players, which would definitely lead to a weird atmosphere in the Timberwolves' locker room.

Eden is now mild-mannered, which bodes well for the Timberwolves in the locker room in the future.

The locker room atmosphere is harmonious, it can be said that a team has become the basic condition for Haoqiang, how many unbeatable super teams in history have disintegrated because of locker room contradictions, and now the Timberwolves have ushered in Eden, which just has the basic conditions to become a super team, and Lefu does not want to have a backyard fire.

"This is Beasley, our bulldog, he is the knife on the field and will definitely give the opponent the heaviest blow when it is crucial." Love introduced Beasley again.

In fact, to say that Beasley is a parallel import, this is not very accurate, Beasley's strength is there, but it is not self-discipline in life, plus there is no sense of teamwork.

Beasley's draft report clearly stated that the player was not a team and was not the kind of player who could fit into the team, but now it seems that this is not true at all.

Beasley has also been wandering around all these years, and finally wandered to the Timberwolves, a shelter for sleeping dragons and phoenixes.

Then Lefu introduced the main players of Rubio, Barria and other teams, as for those substitute players, Lefu just read the names one by one, after all, Lefu also knows very well that these marginal players may not see them tomorrow, there is no need to give them too much attention.

Yi Dun nodded one by one, if nothing else, these wizards will be his teammates in the next few years.

Thinking of this, Eden suddenly had an idea, the name of the Timberwolves team is really wrong, if it weren't for the Washington Wizards, they should be called the Minnesota Wizards, and I can't find any team with so many Wizards in the league several times.

"It's all here, right?" Coach Adelman walked briskly, looking at his pace, it was hard to believe that this was an old man who was about to enter his seventies, and it was estimated that he was also in good spirits on happy occasions, and his steps were much lighter.

"It seems that everyone already knows each other, so let's skip the introduction and get straight to the point."

"You know, I've been looking forward to this day, but I've been looking forward to it for a long time, and I'm finally looking forward to today's training camp!"

"Without further ado, split into two teams and play in-team training matches to see if you maintain your form this offseason." Adelman urged impatiently like a frizzy lad.

"Kevin, how should this team practice match be played?" Yi Dun asked Lefu next to him curiously, when he was in the Dongshan men's basketball team, he didn't play a training game, but he didn't play much, mainly because no teammates were willing to be abused by Yi Dun on the court.

"It's just an ordinary five-on-five, so let's do it, Yi Dun, you pick four teammates, I'll pick four teammates, let's try it first." Lefu said with a smile.

Yi Dun nodded, "Do you pick first or do I pick first?" ”

"Let's go first, we're a training match, not a finals, so there's no need to fight too intensely." When Lefu saw Yi Dun's serious appearance, he couldn't help but beat the drum in his heart, and remembered Yi Dun's dominance in the Olympic arena.

"Okay, then I'm welcome, UAE, Dasheng, Darko and Michael, I'll choose these four." EDUN made its choice quickly.

In addition to Yi Jianlian and Sun Yue, Yi Dun also chose Milicic and Beasley, there is nothing to say about Milicic, Yi Dun is actually very curious to say that Milicic is a big parallel product, what level of strength is he.

As for choosing Beasley, there is no other better choice at all, according to Yi Jianlian's previous introduction to himself, Beasley's style is very, extremely similar to Durant.

And these two are still extremely good friends, and they have known each other since they were young.

For Durant, Yi Dun was extremely impressed, and in that game against the Dream Ten team, if the opponent did not have Durant, Yi Dun felt that they even had a lot of hope of winning.

Now that it is said that Beasley's style is similar to Durant, Eden naturally wants to see what this Beasley is capable of.

Seeing that Yi Dun had finished selecting the four people, Lefu was not too surprised, at least he could guess that Yi Dun would definitely choose Yi Jianlian and Sun Yue, and even looking at the attitude when he introduced it just now, Yi Dun would not miss Milicic.

Seeing Eden's choice, Lefu breathed a sigh of relief, Eden did not choose any of the team's main players, even Beasley, who played as a substitute for the Timberwolves most of the time.

Soon, Love chose four of his teammates, Rubio, Barria, Pekovic and Derrick Williams.

"Hurry up, I can't wait, hurry up and start this game!" Adelman clapped his hands on the sidelines urging the game to begin.

The players from both sides walked onto the court, and Yi Dun turned his head to look at the players behind him, and couldn't help but be happy.

In fact, the four players I selected are extremely amazingly tall, at least much taller than the players in the same position.

According to Yi Dun's plan, Sun Yue will develop in the point guard position in the future, after all, Chinese magicians, if they don't play point guards, what kind of magicians are they in.

And Sun Yue's height in the NBA is 206 cm, and playing point guard with such a height is definitely a standout existence.

Beasley usually plays the small forward position, and the height of 204 is actually taller than most small forward players, not to mention that Beasley is essentially a shooting guard in this game.

As for Yi Jianlian and Milicic, both of them are seven feet tall.

Such a lineup height makes Yi Dun feel very down-to-earth, and it is estimated that it may be the reason why he is too short, so Yi Dun likes his teammates to be taller......

The embarrassing thing is that Yi Dun's height is not the shortest among the ten people on the field, and there is a player on Lefou's side who is even much shorter than Yi Dun.

José Barria is only 183 centimeters tall......

"Doot toot!" Adelman blew the whistle and he came to referee the match.

Yi Dun thought about it and walked directly onto the halfway line, and he decided to execute the opening jump ball himself.

Generally speaking, the jump ball is played by the center, but there is no hard and fast rule that the team must have a center player jump the ball.

The reason why there are no backcourt players to open the jump ball is, firstly, because it is difficult for them to jump past the center players, and secondly, they have a more important role in the jump game, such as doing a good job of defending when their own jump ball fails.

And Yi Dun didn't think he had the possibility of losing the jump ball, so he stepped up to the halfway line.

Adelman didn't say anything, now he and Yi Dun are in a run-in period, so no matter what unbelievable actions Yi Dun makes, he will only accept it silently, and if he can prove that Yi Dun's actions are wrong, he will come out to correct them.

Pekovic and Eden stood on either side of the halfway line, and Adelman walked between the two with a basketball in his hand, and with a whistle, the basketball in his hand was thrown into the air.

At the moment when the basketball reached its highest point, Adelman really felt a wind on his left, and it was Yi Dun standing on his left.

I saw Yi Dun jump up at the speed of light, give the racket to Sun Yue, just landed, and ran directly towards the front court.

There was no need for Yi Dun to shout, Sun Yue was also an old teammate who had cooperated with Yi Dun for a long time, seeing Yi Dun running near the free throw line, he threw the ball vigorously in the direction of the basket without saying a word.

Then came the horrific scene!

Derrick Williams was already waiting for Eden under the basket because he was in the position early, but he soon regretted his decision that he should not have been placed so early.

I saw that Yi Dun had no intention of reducing his speed at all, and rushed towards the basket at an extremely amazing speed, and as soon as his front foot crossed the free throw line, he immediately made a jumping action.

Then, under the blank gaze of everyone, Eden jumped directly over the head of Derrick Williams, and received the pass in mid-air and carried out an aerial relay.

Everyone rubbed their eyes, wondering if they were hallucinating, could such a scene really appear in reality?

Think about Carter's death buckle at the beginning, this kind of scene is indeed possible in reality, but Carter's death buckle can actually only be regarded as a riding buckle, and Carter used the opponent's body to take off a second time.

Eden was not, because Derek was frightened and lowered his center of gravity slightly, he didn't even touch a single hair of Derek, he just flew over Derek's head neatly, and also completed the air relay.

It's so dreamy, so dreamy that everyone has forgotten to applaud.

This is still a person?! Is this really something that humans can do?!

Derek Williams is going to cry, this game has just begun, and he has become a background board, but fortunately it is not a main game, if he is so dunked in the main game, then he will really be famous.

Maybe in the future, when fans mention the name Derrick Williams, they will forget that he is a parallel product, and only remember that he was flown over his head by Eden.

Derrick naturally knew that Yi Dun's strength was terrifying, but he never thought that it would be so terrifying, he was actually ready to play Yi Dun as a substitute, but after this dunk, he began to doubt it in his heart.

Is he really qualified to be a substitute for Eden?

Who qualifies as a substitute for this monster? I'm afraid I can't get Durant's level, right?

Adelman's eyes on the sidelines were about to pop out, and he won the seven-foot white bear Pekovic with the opening jump ball, which can be accepted by Adelman, after all, everyone knows that Eden has an excellent jump.

But the next leap and dunk, Adelman can't accept it, he has been coaching in the NBA for more than 20 years, what scene has he not seen? The dunk at the Jordan dunk contest, he saw it with his own eyes, Carter's death dunk, he also watched the live broadcast.

But the dunk of these two people, compared with Yi Dun's leap and violent dunk just now, seems to be a little unmentionable.

Love smacked his lips, and now he was extremely glad that he had pulled Eden to the Timberwolves and become his teammate, knowing that he was really not much taller than Derrick.

Eden can fly over Derek's head, so if he is his opponent, can he fly over his head to dunk in the main game? Loafou says it's a possibility.

Milicic was dumbfounded, as a "member" of the 03 platinum generation, he has seen too many players with strong bodies, but in front of Yi Dun, that can also be regarded as a strong body?

Beasley, who has always been a bird, almost threw up, he suspected that he had a hangover and hadn't woken up yet, and his back had begun to chill now, he didn't doubt it at all, if he was Derek just now, it would definitely be difficult to escape the same fate.

The scene seemed to be paused by a superpower, and everyone froze.

Yi Dun coughed lightly, "Ahem, fouled?" ”

"No ......"

"No......" Derek replied reflexively, reflexively.

Yi Dun waved his hand, "Shall you go on then?" It's your turn to serve. ”

This goal is naturally intentional by Yi Dun, although he has now joined the Timberwolves and has also obtained the position of the boss promised by the team, but there are many thorns in this team, and he must stand up.

And if it weren't for the fear of hurting Derek, Yi Dun would have been able to do more with violent aesthetics.

This is how Yi Dun stands up for himself, directly intimidating everyone with his strong strength.

Yi Jianlian and Sun Yue don't know what it's like in their hearts now, with such a monster, maybe the future will be very comfortable, right?

"Tee! Serve! ”

"Derek, what are you doing standing stupidly, hurry up and serve!" Adelman came to his senses and quickly urged Derek to serve.

Like a lost zombie, Derek walked to the edge line and passed the ball to Barria while he slowly ran towards the frontcourt.

Barria also plays the point guard position, after all, he is only 183 tall, and it is really reluctant to play a point guard, but his technical characteristics are actually a two-way guard, and the offensive desire is quite strong, which just makes up for Rubio's lack of offensive desire, so Adelman sometimes lets these two appear at the same time.

Adelman can't help it, if there is a better option, he will definitely not send this kind of backcourt combination, it is definitely to give the opponent points.

……

Eden took the initiative to meet Barria, and his main job was to defend the opponent's offensive knives from the outside.

The opponent's three outside players are Barria, Rubio and Derrick.

Is Rubio an offensive knife? Does Derek still have any desire to attack? So the only thing Eden can defend against is Barria.

This may be the shortest player Yi Dun has played against since he entered the industry, which makes Yi Dun feel extremely comfortable in his heart, and he didn't expect that he could one day have a height advantage on the court......

Baria saw Yi Dun rushing towards him like a wolf, the corners of his mouth twitched, and he wanted to quickly throw away the hot potato in his hand.

He has no advantage in height, and his speed is not as good as Yi Dun, he is simply inferior to Yi Dun, how can he escape Yi Dun's clutches?

Passed the ball directly to Rubio, and after receiving the ball, Rubio looked confused, like words? I know my nickname for Lu Yizhong all over the world, you pass the ball to me?

In desperation, Rubio couldn't throw it out anymore, so he took the initiative to find Derrick's block, and then made a three-point shot.

Sun Yue's opponent is Rubio, in fact, Sun Yue's pressure is extremely huge now.

Everyone knows that Rubio is an offensive scumbag, but what if Rubio suddenly has a shooting percentage such as 9 out of 10 shots when he is in the opposite position? So what should I do......

Fortunately, after Rubio shot the ball, he could clearly feel that he was not allowed to reach his grandmother's house, an air balloon that was so standard that it could no longer be standard.

didn't wait for Lefu and others to move to grab this rebound, Yi Dun, who was still facing Barria just now, had already picked up the rebound with that amazing bounce.

"Catch!" Yi Dun shouted, passed the ball to Sun Yue, and then he ran towards the front court again.

Lefu said in his heart that it was over, this game could not be played, if nothing else, Sun Yue would definitely throw the ball towards the basket again, and Yi Dun would definitely have another aerial relay.

Sure enough, just like the last offensive round, Sun Yue controlled the ball just past the midfield line and threw the ball again.

Unlike the previous round, this time there were no more defenders in front of Eden, and Derrick was now not even past halftime, and Eden easily completed the free throw line aerial relay dunk.

Two consecutive violent deductions with extremely difficult difficulties, the people who directly deducted them were restless, and all kinds of thoughts were born in their hearts.

Lefu now knows very well in his heart that there is no need to play this intra-team training game at all, and there is no training significance.

But even if this game is lost, Lefu is very happy in his heart, and with a teammate like Yi Dun, Lefu feels that this championship is definitely nine out of ten.

No, 100 percent to be precise, Lefu really can't think of any player in this league who can stop Eden's charge.

In addition to the excited Lefou, Rubio is now like a flower in his heart.

As a point guard player with little offensive ability, how can he show his value? Either you have to have a strong defensive ability, or you have to have strong organizational skills.

Rubio's defense isn't particularly good, mainly because he's a little too clean and not tough enough, so he has to prove his worth with great playmaking.

And what is the most intuitive embodiment of strong organizational ability? It's undoubtedly the number of assists.

Rubio feels that if he keeps partnering with Eden in the new season, he can average 20 assists per game in a single season!

At least 20 assists per game!

Sun Yue can casually throw the ball to the front court and get two assists in a row, is it possible that his passing ability is not as good as Sun Yue?

At that time, there may be a super point guard in the league who averages 5 points and 20 assists per game!

What will be your nickname then? Is it still Lu Yizhong? You should call yourself an assist monster!

……

"Doot toot!" Adelman blew the whistle directly, and the opening game was so exciting that his heart couldn't stand it.

The players on the field only played for 30 seconds, and they all went off the court.

Pekovic had a helpless look on his face, and he had yet to score in his own half......

"Eden, what do you want me to say?" Adelman smacked his lips, a smile on his face that could not be concealed.

"I don't think there's any point in continuing this game, and if it continues, I think the only point is for us to watch an unparalleled super dunk show."

"Let's all spread out and do our own shooting drills."

"Guys, you know exactly what kind of players we need for the new season right now."

"Shoot, shoot! We need players who can shoot! ”

"So give me a good practice, I don't want to wait until the new season starts and I can't find a sharpshooter in the team." Adelman yelled at the crowd.

Everyone dispersed with mixed emotions and began their own training.

Yi Dun didn't do anything special, found a venue, and practiced free throws alone.

When he played the Dream Ten team before, the opponent used shark slashing tactics to pit himself, which also made Yi Dun realize the importance of free throws, so the main training content of Yi Dun at the moment is to improve his free throw ability as much as possible.

Adelman looked at Yi Dun with great satisfaction, his original plan was to let Yi Dun practice free throws, after all, he also watched the game of the Dream Ten team.

But now he didn't need to speak, Yi Dun took the initiative to practice free throws, which reminded Adelman of Yao Ming, who used to play under him.

He couldn't figure it out, and it stands to reason that Yao Ming's free throws should be the bad one......