Many people ridicule Van Gundy for how inflexible and how poor the tactical arrangement is, but in fact, in Van Gundy's coaching career, there is one thing that many coaches can't match, Van Gundy is the best coach in the entire league in the first quarter, which the majority of fans can see perfectly from the future Rockets (if you are old enough). www.biquge.info Van Gundy's team, the first quarter is definitely championship-level, not only because of the state of the players, but also because Van Gundy knows that his technical and tactical level is quite average, so he will make a lot of adequate preparation before each game, and can perfectly control the rhythm of the game at the beginning of the game, but unfortunately, this is not football, and the Knicks are not the Rossoneri. But one thing is irrefutable, the Knicks under Van Gundy's state in the first quarter were really championship-level.

KG thinks he is the best proof of this.

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From the jump ball, the Timberwolves were suppressed by the Knicks.

The Timberwolves' center is Slovenian player, Rasu Nestrovic. He only entered the league last year, so he couldn't catch up with the league shutdown that he couldn't do for many years, only played two games, and played a total of thirty minutes in total, scoring a total of eight points, eight rebounds and one assist, this season the Timberwolves failed to get any good reinforcements, plus there is a Garnett on the inside to use, so he simply developed it internally and put this Slovenian young man into the starting center position, although he can only be regarded as a pseudo-center in terms of playing time, But being a starter is already the biggest affirmation for him.

It's just that this scene, this handsome-looking Slovenian young man is about to cry, and Van Gundy sees him as a breakthrough.

Obviously they are all seven feet tall, they are both nearly 240 pounds, and they are all the same in the regular season in the first season, but why is the second season so different? Rasu's heart was so broken. At this time, Johnson used his muscular body to run over Rasu's body and went straight to the basket.

The Knicks' arrangement was very targeted. Because Garnett is too good in helping to defend and help defend ability, the Knicks must cross the mountain of Garnett if they want to score, and the person who is directly opposite Garnett by the Knicks is Johnson, who has good offensive ability, so Van Gundy spent a long time arranging a set of tactics, through the involvement of the Knicks' outside double guns, so that Johnson and Mo Xi can get the offensive space inside.

The offense just now is that Sprewell and Houston are running through cross-covering on the outside, forcing Garnett to leave the center of the defense and start to migrate in the direction of these two shooters.

At this time, Johnson pulled out directly to the high position, Mo Xi pushed Lasu away on the bottom line, and took two steps out, Ward quickly handed the ball to Johnson, Johnson quickly passed to Mo Xi, as early as when Ward passed the ball, Garnett began to move, the ball just arrived in Mo Xi's hands, Garnett arrived like a shadow, but at the beginning Mo Xi was not the end point of the attack, he stuck Garnett and passed directly to the middle.

Johnson also moved at the same time as Garnett moved to pounce on Mercy, he received a pass from Mercy, faced the center of the Timberwolves' defense, and directly pressed the opponent with his strong body to complete the layup.

Garnett's ability to help defend is one of the best in the league, but Van Gundy can't do anything else, it's definitely the turn of defense to be a unique master, in his opinion, the Timberwolves don't have a qualified defensive system at all, and completely rely on the player's single defense ability and Garnett's outstanding defense ability. It's a good thing to be good defensively, but if you do help defend three people at the same time, or more, it will only cause problems for your teammates, and the Timberwolves generally don't have a strong defense, so it doesn't seem to have so many problems, but if it's a defensive team like the Knicks, the Heat or the Spurs, it will overwhelm your teammates and cause more misplacement. Van Gundy seized on this to open the Timberwolves' defense.

On the offensive end, the Timberwolves received 10,000 points of damage.

The Knicks' defense has always been known for being tough, and the Timberwolves' point guard Trill Brandon is very unknown, but only those who have competed with the gang back then will know who it is, and that year, when the Bulls and the Bucks were in battle, he was one of them. After being defeated by the Bulls, the competitive level of the entire Cleveland has dropped significantly, and as a point guard, Brandon is the first to bear the brunt, and in the face of the Knicks' tough defense, he actually retreated a little.

Brandon used his dribbling to force Ward to make a small gap, which was enough space for a good point guard, but Brandon just took a step inside, and a big man was killed in the diagonal stab, directly knocking Brandon to the ground.

"Drop~"

Undisputedly, the referee gave Johnson a foul and got used to walking up to Garnett and pulling him away before he could talk to him.

The Timberwolves have a lot of playmaking points, Garnett and Brandon's bench Bobby Jackson are both good passers, but the Timberwolves don't have many finishers, only Garnett, Wally Szczebiak and Joe Smith are full of shots. Once Brandon can't organize properly, then Garnett will inevitably take over the banner of organizing the offense, and the Timberwolves' scoring point on the court is very clear, Wally Szebiak, this player from Madrid, who is too tall to play football. As it happens, this is an outside shooter-type player that the Knicks are extremely good at dealing with.

The Timberwolves re-attacked, and sure enough, as Van Gundy arranged, when Brandon couldn't organize the offense well, Garnett came to the top of the arc to receive the ball and direct his teammates to run. In the end, the Timberwolves still gave the ball to Szebiak, who forced a missed shot when he ran out of time. And the Timberwolves can't make that big impact on the frontcourt rebounds when Garnett is on the side.

The Knicks went on offense again, this time with the same offensive routine, except that the people involved became the inside.

Ward handed the ball to Mo Xi who asked for the ball in the low post, and after Mo Xi caught the ball, Johnson took Garnett to the top of Mo Xi, on this side, including Ward, the Knicks have three people, which is considered the strong side of the Knicks, but the two strongest firepower points on the outside of the Knicks are one in ambush in the bottom corner of the other side, and the other is also at a 45° position on the other side.

Mo Xi began to single Rasu.

Garnett's eyes narrowed, Mo Xi's low-post offensive skills are really good, now with a strong body, the defender can't make a fuss from the body, and being able to defend Mo Xi's inside line alone is indeed rare, which is also the reason why Garnett said before the game, but obviously, Lasu is definitely not the person who can defend Mo Xi alone, so Garnett is ready to step forward at any time, at this moment, he has to wait, wait for the best time.

Mo Xi increased the strength of his back to propulsion, although the weight of the two was about the same, but in terms of strength, Mo Xi was obviously superior. Mo Xi knocked away from Lasu in one step, half-turned, and lifted the ball to his waist.

At this moment, Garnett strode forward, blocking the passing path between Mo Xi and Johnson while shrouding Mo Xi directly, at this time Mo Xi held the ball in a very delicate place, unable to lift, but unable to put down.

But Mo Xi didn't want to make a move, his purpose was to attract Garnett to come over to wrap the clip, and when he saw Garnett coming, he held the ball with both hands, protected the ball steadily, and then pushed the ball out directly with a force of his wrist.

At this time, Sprewell and Houston also began to run, Sprewell ran diagonally upward, and Houston followed Sprewell's route further, and the two made a clever block. Sprewell received the ball and passed it directly to Houston outside the three-point line, because by this time, Garnett had moved quickly in front of him, but Sprewell had already moved the ball away.

Houston hit a three-point shot under the watchful eye of a belated defender.

KG's muscles began to twitch on his face, and after a few balls, he vaguely guessed the Knicks' tactical thinking, but the pride engraved in his bones made him stick to his style of play.

After the opening five minutes, the Timberwolves' decline was unmistakable, and the 11-4 score difference was not big, but it made the Timberwolves uncomfortable.