Chapter 450: Urban Legends of the NBA
The Timberwolves' collapse came a little bit faster.
The Timberwolves' offensive system, which can't find the core and everyone is the core, collapses when it collapses.
The core of the Timberwolves' interlocking offensive system is Yi Jianlian?
Yes Du thought it was incredible.
It's not just Yass who is incredible, but many NBA head coaches who are watching this game in front of the TV find it incredible.
The Timberwolves are a very special team in the NBA this season.
The overall strength of this team is not very strong, but it is visible to the naked eye that it is difficult to prevent!
There are many teams that have beaten the Timberwolves, but there has never been a team that has defended the Timberwolves.
Whether it's the invincible Suns or the invincible Rockets, there is no way to choke the Timberwolves.
What does this mean?
This means that as long as the Timberwolves' players grow up, this offensive system may be invincible in the world in the future!
Timberwolves head coach Randy Whitman is not a well-known head coach in the NBA, and most of his NBA coaching position was spent as an assistant to former Timberwolves and Pistons head coach Philip Sanders.
Whitman began as an assistant coach with the Timberwolves in 1994 and spent a total of 10 years with the Timberwolves until 2006.
He has been with Sanders for nine of the past ten years.
It can be said that Whitman has made a very big contribution to Sanders' reputation as a coach in the NBA, including Sanders' biggest reputation and cultivating Garnett.
Whitman's reputation in the NBA and his lack of performance as the Cavaliers' head coach during that period makes it easy to overlook his ability to develop young players.
In particular, the ability to cultivate young insiders.
In a business league like the NBA, everything about the head coach is based on results.
In the NBA, it's not hard to find a master of winning and losing.
Most managers are masters of winning and losing.
There aren't many head coaches who develop players like Whitman.
In particular, there are very few head coaches who have established a rookie interior as the core of the team!
"The core of this tactical system is actually Yi?!"
Watching the game on TV, Suns head coach D'Antoni and Rockets head coach Adelman had deep surprises written in their eyes.
Yi Jianlian's diamond generation full of Jordan magic this year is also a well-known rookie.
The potential is huge.
But no matter how big it is, it won't be set as a core right away.
In the history of the NBA, there are very few players who have been established as the core as soon as they enter the league, and Yes, James, etc. are very few.
And the Timberwolves are not the same as the supersonic knights, the Timberwolves have a lot of excellent potential young people.
But in the end, Whitman actually chose Yi Jianlian?!
I have to say that this man is really bold in cultivating new people.
That's a lot bolder than when Sanders traded Lightner to get Garnett right.
Whitman is very uncomfortable now, and the tactical system he has built has been broken.
When the Timberwolves drafted Yi Jianlian this year, he was very excited.
Just like the excitement that the Timberwolves drafted Garnett back then.
Now everyone is saying Garnett was raised by Sanders.
There is nothing wrong with that.
But people who say that never pay attention to the Timberwolves, who came after Sanders.
When Sanders entered the Timberwolves, he and Garnett were already in the Timberwolves.
There's no doubt that credit for him in the Timberwolves and in Garnett has been stolen by Sanders.
He doesn't really care so much about these credits.
After being appointed head coach by the Timberwolves, he didn't hesitate to support Guy and his young men in driving away veterans like Ricky Davis.
He didn't want to fight for the credit of the past, which no longer meant anything after Garnett left the Timberwolves.
Didn't Sanders himself leave the Timberwolves for the Pistons?
For him, he just wants to create another Garnett!
The appearance of Yi Jianlian made him see such hope.
As one of the people who groomed Garnett.
Of course, he knew that Yi Jianlian and Garnett's talents were not comparable.
Garnett has an incredible talent.
He could have achieved something even better.
But judging by Garnett's own personality and Sanders' misuse of Garnett, Garnett's achievements did not live up to his expectations of talent.
This has always been something that he regrets very much.
Because of such things, he once left the Timberwolves for a short time in the middle of the game.
He could understand that Sanders had his own considerations in using Garnett.
He also knew that with Garnett's character, Garnett would not be able to accept his position in the tactical system.
In his tactical system, which he has painstakingly studied for ten years, this all-powerful power forward on the offensive end needs to blur the core position.
It's not so much the core as an all-around auxiliary.
Just like the role of Yi Jianlian now.
When cooperating with Guy, Guy is the master, and Yi Jianlian is the auxiliary.
When cooperating with Al Jefferson, Al Jefferson is the main and Yi Jianlian is the auxiliary.
When cooperating with Randy Foye, Randy Foye is the main and Yi Jianlian is the auxiliary.
Even when cooperating with Ilyasova, Yi Jianlian was a restraining role.
It is precisely for this reason that Garnett may be the strongest core of this tactical system, but Yi Jianlian is definitely the most suitable and perfect core.
His versatility on the offensive end, his humility, his willingness to work to improve his game, and even the sacrifices he is willing to make for the sake of the team are a perfect fit for his system.
In the NBA, any player who can become the core of his tactical system is unlikely to be willing to play support!
Only Yi Jianlian is willing to take on such a role.
This is why he admires Yi Jianlian so much, and he can't wait for Yi Jianlian to grow stronger, so he can't wait to experiment with Yi Jianlian as the core to experiment with his tactical system.
The results of the experiment also made him very satisfied.
His offensive tactical system, because of the overall strength of the Timberwolves players, can not bring more wins to the team, but the performance of the Timberwolves players can already let him see the future of this tactical system.
Whitman has always known that his tactical system is not truly invincible.
It's just because people don't know the key to this tactical system that they find it incredible and difficult to crack.
Whitman has always known that it will be difficult for this tactical system not to be cracked before Yi Jianlian grows up.
This tactical system, which is not perfect enough because the core is not good enough, will definitely be cracked.
But Whitman really didn't expect it to come so quickly.
And the teams and people who cracked are still supersonic and Yes.
Whitman has always felt that even if anyone could crack the current tactical system, it would be Garnett of the Celtics and Duncan of the Spurs.
Because of the current position of NBA power forward, perhaps only these two can completely lock Yi Jianlian.
Can ...... now
Looking at the love apprentice who was struggling with Yes on the court, Whitman was helpless.
Coach Nelson Sr. underestimated his tactical abilities.
Yes's strength, he also underestimated.
Similarly, there are too many things that Yi Jianlian needs to improve.
Strength confrontation, offense with the ball, shooting stability......
Yi Jianlian wants to be truly undefensible, and his tactical system really needs to be undefensible, and there are really too many things that need to be done.
Whitman doesn't care that other people know that Yi Jianlian is the core of his tactical system.
This is his confidence in Yi Jianlian, and it is also his confidence in his tactical system.
When Yi Jianlian is really invincible, when his tactical system is really invincible, even if others know that Yi Jianlian is the core of this tactical system, what can they do?
Even if Yi Jianlian is not invincible now, others know that Yi Jianlian is the core of this tactical system, at best, it is more aimed at Yi Jianlian.
It's not that he is arrogant, with Yi Jianlian's current comprehensiveness on the offensive end, there are not many defensive players who can block Yi Jianlian.
In his tactical system, blocking a certain strong point of Yi Jianlian is equivalent to blocking a line of cooperation between Yi Jianlian and his teammates.
If you can't block all of Yi Jianlian's strong points, if you can't completely cut off the cooperation between Yi Jianlian and his teammates, as long as you leave a line so that Yi Jianlian can cooperate with your teammates, his tactical system can be activated.
Because all the lines that Yi Jianlian and his teammates cooperate with are auxiliary roles, the protagonist of the tactics is a teammate, and this teammate can contact other teammates.
"What a great idea!"
Although playing the No. 4 position with Yes cracked the Timberwolves' offensive system in this game.
But Nelson Sr. still has a lot of respect for the Timberwolves' tactical system.
Although he cracked the Timberwolves in this game, he did not crack the Timberwolves' tactics.
If it weren't for Yi Jianlian's current strength confrontation, he wouldn't be able to crush Yes.
He can't even crack the Timberwolves in this game.
This kind of tree-like linkage tactical system with Yi Jianlian as the core is simply unheard of.
No, it's not a tree-like tactical system, it's a spider-web tactical system!
Nelson Sr. is now looking forward to the future of this group of Timberwolves players on the court.
125-106, the final score of the game, the Seattle SuperSonics eventually defeated the Timberwolves by 19 points on the road.
The fourth quarter of this game was garbage time for the whole quarter.
From the point of view of American fans, the game was certainly quite ugly.
But for many professionals in American basketball, the game was a subversion of their tactical thinking.
Compound tactics are not uncommon in the NBA.
For example, the league's most famous dumping tactics are now available.
The dumping tactics system includes the combination of dumping tactics and breaking through the ball, etc.
But they really didn't think that the compound tactics could be compounded so much.
After beating the Timberwolves at the target center, the SuperSonics also won 12 games.
The SuperSonics now have a 22-2 record, still ranked third in the league and tied for first in the league.
For the American media at the scene, they focused on the supersonic record.
After the SuperSonics defeated the Western Timberwolves, they continued to keep the Rockets and Suns in the loop.
But for many Chinese fans in the audience, they didn't pay attention to what supersonic continued to put pressure on the Rockets and Suns.
After the game, they all focused on the alignment of Yes and Yi Jianlian.
This game is not the first Chinese derby in the NBA.
But this game was definitely the first time in the NBA that two Chinese players had been facing each other for such a long time.
This is definitely an epoch-making game for Chinese basketball.
This can be seen from the reasonable guidance of the sideline commentator Xi Zhang and the crazy shouts of Su Skirt.
Although from the end of the second quarter to the third quarter, Ye Si unilaterally beat Yi Jianlian, but what can this be?
"On the highest stage of basketball, we finally saw such a desperate direct collision between two Chinese players!"
"Every moment of Ye Si and Yi Jianlian's confrontation will be recorded in the history of Chinese basketball!"
Zhang had always thought that seeing two Chinese players on the NBA court for a long time was a game between the Rockets and the Timberwolves, or the Wizards and the SuperSonics.
I really didn't expect it to be the Timberwolves and the Hypersonics.
And the game between the Timberwolves and the SuperSonics that has gone down in the history of Chinese basketball, whether it is Yi Jianlian or Yes, the data is quite good.
Yes finished with 22 points, eight rebounds and 11 assists on 7-of-12 shooting in the game.
Yi Jianlian's statistics in this game were 22 points and 7 rebounds on 9-of-19 shooting.
Yi Jianlian's data in the third quarter was very bleak, but the data in the whole game was still very good.
When Director Zhang was crazy, Su Skirt on one side could be sure that the data of these two people in this game could definitely become the focus of all sports news in China.
"Yes, I'm going to blow you up next time!"
“……”
At the end of the game, Rudy Guys hurriedly ran to Yes and yelled 'angry and unwilling', looking like a defeated villain.
Yes knew it was all Rudy Gay's pretending.
The purpose, of course, was to get his attention.
But he didn't look at Rudy Gay.
Ye Si's eyes were on Yi Jianlian's body the whole time.
Ye Si always knew that Yi Jianlian was doing well with the Timberwolves.
But I really didn't know it was so good.
The Timberwolves' tactical core......
This is the status of him and Yao Ming in their respective teams.
Being stared at like this by Ye Si, Yi Jianlian was a little cramped.
He was going to want to play well in this game.
I didn't expect it to be blocked directly in the end.
Brother Ye must be very disappointed in me now, right?
As a big forward, now he can't even play a guard like Brother Ye.
Yi Jianlian's heart is very chaotic now.
"It was a good game, work hard."
After Ye Si took a deep look at Yi Jianlian's body, he took off his jersey and handed it over to Yi Jianlian, who was still in a daze.
Looking at the supersonic No. 9 jersey in his hand and looking at the departing back, Yi Jianlian's head was a little cloudy.
And his Timberwolves teammates are also a little blindsided now.
"Hua Q, Yes's jersey was actually given to Yi!"
It wasn't until Rudy Gay's throat woke them up.
To get a Yes jersey is to get Yes recognition!
This is one of the eight metropolitan legends of the NBA.
I, recognized?
The jersey is very light, but Yi Jianlian has a feeling of being heavy like a mountain.