After Wang Lei took over the position of head coach of the Kings, he has a very thorough study of the popular style of play in the league now, and he found that although the joint defense also exists in the league now, the use of joint defense and hand-to-man defense is extremely rigid, and few teams will use a sudden change in the defensive mode, basically before the start of each offense, the defending side has determined its own defensive strategy, and then firmly executes.

Therefore, when Wang Lei is training these young people of the Kings team, he pays special attention to their ability to read the game, especially in defense, all players must use their brains, pay attention to the opponent's running position and the running position of their teammates, and then judge their defensive strategy according to the specific form.

This sounds very difficult, it requires a lot of ability from the players, and of course it is not easy to do, which requires a long run-in and a certain tacit understanding of the whole team.

However, Wang Lei is pleased that his vision is not wrong, and among the seemingly ordinary players he has selected, there are players who are very suitable for this defensive strategy, and Toby Sevig, who started the game, is such an extremely smart defensive player.

Toby Cervig was the last one selected by the Dallas Mavericks in the first round of the 2018 draft, and then he stayed with the Mavericks for a year, and then he was traded to the Boston Celtics in the East, of course, Toby was used as an add-on to the Celtics, in the Celtics Toby had a lot of opportunities to perform, his offense was terrible, except for the second offense under the basket, the mid-range shot was barely gone, and his physical fitness was mediocre, but he quickly learned how to defend with the Celtics, After all, the head coach of the Celtics at the time was Richard Foreman, the league's first defensive man in the early 90s.

However, Richard Forman was swept away by the Celtics at the end of last season, and he was not able to make the Celtics into the playoffs, so Toby Sevig was traded to the Kings by Wang Lei.

Toby Savich was keenly aware of the Timberwolves' offensive intentions, so he immediately took two steps to make the Kings' defensive formation instantly change and become more similar to a joint defense, so as to easily cut off the pass of Timberwolves point guard Wickcell.

The rest of the Kings players immediately launched a counterattack at this time, and although the Timberwolves players had some defenders, their retreat speed could not keep up with the Kings' counterattack speed.

Turgun was the first to receive Toby's pass, and instead of dribbling the ball inside, he shot directly from the three-point line, which is very unreasonable for most teams in the league right now, but the Kings players know how powerful the Oriental's three-point is.

The basketball slid through a beautiful arc and went straight to the net, and the Kings took a five-0 lead less than a minute into the game, completely knocking out the ill-prepared Timberwolves.

Although it was only two offenses, the performance of the Kings team has already made the Kings fans who were not much loud on the sidelines cheer, and as a fan, especially the home team fans, there is nothing more exciting than leading the opponent or even crushing the opponent.

After a bad start, the Timberwolves finally paid attention to the game, although it was only a preseason, mainly to warm up the players, but if it was defeated by the Kings, who were not optimistic or even ridiculed by many media before the game, it would also be a heavy blow to the Timberwolves, who had ambitions for this season, so their players and coaching staff began to pay attention to the game.

The Timberwolves' next offense finally had an effect, and the core of the team, Carter Basel, played two and one against Sallich, who was a head taller than him, and I have to say that Sallich's confrontation ability was indeed a little lacking, and he couldn't even delay his teammates to wrap up Carter Basel.

However, although the Timberwolves recovered the three-pointer, the Kings' offense began to really show its power.

The offensive tempo of the whole team is more than a step faster than that of the Timberwolves, this speed is not just fast in action, but fast in all directions, passing blocks, fast running, almost no one in the Kings stops the ball, the ball is always in motion, which makes the Timberwolves defense have no clue at all.

If the first two fast-break counterattacks were something that the Timberwolves didn't pay attention to, then the Kings' third offense completely scared the Timberwolves, they had never seen such an offensive method, the interior did not stand up, and the whole team ran wildly around the high post Elvin Butler, and then the gap appeared, Salish received a pass from Turgun and calmly hit a three-point shot.

The entire Kings offense made four passes and took less than eight seconds to attack, a dizzying offense that was truly terrifying.

The players and coaching staff of the Timberwolves did not expect that the Kings, which used to specialize in interior offense, would change so dramatically after just one summer, nor did they expect that the head coach from the East would use such an offensive routine.

The Kings began to rely on their own offensive and defensive system to suppress the Timberwolves, and although the Timberwolves can maintain a certain efficiency in offense, they have no way to do anything about the Kings defensively, and they have never touched a team like the Kings before.

Just over halfway through the first quarter, the Kings built a 10-point lead, and the Timberwolves scored 12 points at this point.

The head coach of the Timberwolves had to quickly call a timeout, although it was only a preseason, but looking at the current situation of the Kings, the other party obviously had no intention of stopping, and he didn't want to become a laughing stock in the first game.

After the timeout, although the Timberwolves strengthened the rotation of the defense, but this time the Kings seized the opportunity, and the players who attacked the Kings several times in a row were handled very well, not only Blair singled the Timberwolves in the low post to make a kill, but also rookie Elvin bullied the Timberwolves point guard Wickell in the high post.

At the end of the first quarter, the Kings directly beat the Timberwolves, and they led the Timberwolves by 18 points at 39-21, which was only one quarter of the game.

The Timberwolves, who were originally proud of the jungle, looked even more stupid than the Huskies in front of the current Kings team, not to mention limiting the Kings' offense, they didn't even have the ability to keep up with the Kings' offensive speed.

The Kings players have thoroughly agreed with Wang Lei's tactics after this section of the game, and this kind of running style of play is indeed too refreshing, which is very in line with the appetite and character of young players.