At nearly 8 p.m., the players' entrance ceremony began.

The Timberwolves started first with five starters, and the order of appearance was:

Center: Mark Madsen.

Shooting guard: Trenton Hassel.

Defender: Sam Cassel.

Small forward: Latril Sprewell.

Power forward: Kevin Garnett.

Cassel, Spreville, and Garnett form a luxurious triumvirate that can be described as invincible.

However, the contracts of these three guys with Szczebiak almost occupy the vast majority of the team's salary space, which are 28 million (Garnett), 13.5 million (Sprewell), 8 million (Szczebiak), and 5.06 million (Kassel).

So their role players look very out of the flow.

Who is Madsen? Who is Hassel? I guess everyone doesn't know.

That's right, in fact, Ye Feng doesn't know.

Two guys with a combined annual salary of only $1.3 million, who knows?

Instead, they were on the bench, with two strong substitutes, Hoiberg and Olovokandi.

Olovo Kandi was the league's No. 1 parallel player before Kwame Brown, but the parallel commodity averaged 12.3 points, 9.1 rebounds, 1.3 assists and 2.2 blocks per game last season.

(Lord Belle's vision is really fine.) As a retired Lakers superstar, Elgin Baylor has contributed to the Lakers all his life. Before retiring, he was a superstar who gave everything for the Lakers. After retiring, he went to the Los Angeles Clippers and pit the city team out of Xiang, which is to ensure the Lakers' dominance in Los Angeles.

The choice of Olovocandi was the handiwork of Lord Belle.

True love is invincible! ）

If he is considered a parallel import, is Kwame going to jump off the building, and should Bennett hang himself?

In any case, this team is still looking at the strength of the three-headed monster.

"Wolf King" Garnett, the top three power forwards in NBA history.

No way, the first bastard who likes to touch people's hair, secretly played center for 19 years in the name of power forward, and he just convinced everyone in the league, and Garnett had to obey.

As for the second, this is a battle between "Wolf King" Garnett and "Old Driver" Nowitzki, and it is difficult to say who is better.

But in terms of data alone, Garnett beat Duncan and Nowitzki. This year, he averaged 24.2 points, 13.9 rebounds, 5 assists, 1.5 steals and 2.2 blocks per game, which was simply brutal.

And this is not Garnett's peak stats, his cutting 22 + 11 + 5 + 1.5 + 1.5 is the norm, and it is not news at all. This is something that Duncan and the old driver will never be able to do.

In 2003, Nowitzki was still slowly developing, but Garnett was already a top power forward.

Chris Webber is injured, and the only big forwards in the league who can dominate the game are Garnett, Duncan and O'Neal Jr.

And then there's "Mad Man" Sprewell.

If he hadn't choked the coach's neck, he could well have become a superstar, the premier swingman at the guard.

But he pinched, so ......

Finally, there is Kassel, who is extremely ugly, bald, and has a serious protrusion in the back of his head, so he gets nicknames "alien" and "ET".

This is a little less interesting than the wolf king and the madman, but the perennial data of 19+3+6+1 is also a rare strong point guard in the league.

On the Cavaliers' side, Boozer is out.

The five starters were Meme, Ilgoskas, Darius, Davis, and James.

Ye Feng sat on the sidelines, looking at Garnett and James, and couldn't help but feel a little trendy.

Only he knows that it won't be long before these two people will start a six-year life-and-death struggle in the east.

Honk~

The game begins.

Garnett wins over Ilgoskas on a jump ball, and Kassel dribbles forward.

Once in the frontcourt, it was handed over directly to Garnett on the right side of the reasonable collision zone.

This is a very similar thing between Garnett and Duncan, both of them like to catch the ball on either side of the reasonable collision zone, but Duncan likes to play with the face frame (of course, both the face frame and the basket are super tough. It's just that I was injured in the first few years of entering the league, so I paid more attention to back play later, and the face frame was reduced. Garnett likes to play with the basket on his back.

In the first goal, Meme defends Garnett.

Garnett put his back on Meme and turned left, not squeezing Meme. Turn right, but it still doesn't move.

After a slight pause, Garnett simply stopped squeezing, and turned his back to pull up a step-back jumper.

Meme pounced, but how could the speed match the nimble Garnett?

Swish!

The ball went in, 2:0, and the wolf king's back turned jump shot was really incomprehensible.

The official height is 211 cm (the actual visual measurement is 216 cm, and the false report is because Garnett didn't want to play center when he first entered the league. ), with an arm span of 226 centimeters and a vertical bounce of 90 centimeters.

That's right, Kobe Bryant's vertical jump is about 96 centimeters, which is almost the same as Garnett. But Kobe Bryant is a scoring guard, and you Garnett is a power forward, which is terrifying.

With such a physical talent, and playing with you to step back jumpers, the defenders only have despair.

Offensive and defensive transitions.

On the Cavaliers' side is the James organization, and the "madman" is responsible for marking James one-on-one.

Speaking of which, Sprewell is not only strong offensively, but also defensively.

Facing the 33-year-old veteran, James felt very uncomfortable.

Outside the three-point line, the madman directly put James to shoot. Inside the three-point line, the madman fought with James hand-to-hand.

Obviously, the Timberwolves have done a detailed study of James, which is aimed at James' long-range shooting problem.

James stood outside the three-point line, hesitated for a long time, still didn't make a shot, and finally chose to enter the three-point line and fight the madman hand-to-hand.

After a brutal hand-to-hand fight, the younger and stronger James emerged victorious and made it to the paint.

Then he saw Garnett, who was obscuring the sun.

Then, James' shot was sent to the fifth row of the audience by Garnett.

As a historic power forward, Garnett's offensive ability may be a little worse than Duncan's, but purely compared to defense, the two are between the two.

The two of them are at the historical level of supplemental defense and co-defense awareness, and they are the defensive core of their respective teams.

If you want to talk about the difference, Duncan's defense is more like the No. 5 position, which can guard the basket and withstand the heavy interior, and the defensive range is roughly the entire three-second zone.

Garnett, on the other hand, is a standard No. 4 defender who doesn't rely on weight, but on explosiveness and flexibility. Garnett can't withstand the heavy interior, but his defensive range is within the entire three-point line.

This is also an unsolved mystery in the NBA, the lighter Duncan (113 kg) looks like a big center, standard floor flow, playing O'Neal, Big Ben is no problem at all; Garnett (116 kilograms), who weighs more, is like a bamboo pole, a flying stream.

(Duncan is perfect both offensively and defensively, and Garnett is slightly better defensively than offensively, because he can't be an inside killer in his lifetime.) ）

In any case, in this offense and defense, Garnett showed his dominance on both ends of the offensive and defensive ends, which made the Cavaliers a little uncomfortable.

PS1: Duncan used to be called Duke's flying demon, and I know a lot of people must want to say that to me. But that was once and again.

(End of chapter)