After a four-hour break with his teammates, Osborne took the bus to the Timberwolves' home arena. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Larry Brown was satisfied to see that the Pistons players were resting well, so he explained the situation of the Timberwolves to the Pistons players.

"The Timberwolves still look strong, but except for Kevin Garnett, the Timberwolves' scoring firepower has become lower, Wallis Zebiak, Sam Kassel, and Sprewell's firepower is not as fierce as it used to be, and the state has declined greatly, especially Szebiak, a player who still has obvious defects.

So in addition to Kevin Garnett is still stable, the situation of the Timberwolves is precarious, once Kevin Garnett can't transform, the Timberwolves will still be the same, unable to break through the experienced and calm Spurs and the rising Suns and Mavericks. ”

Hearing Larry Brown's explanation, Osborne was very worried, this is not Osborne's hypocrisy, worrying about the ancients, but he knows that if Kevin Garnett can't make a breakthrough here, he will run to the Eastern Celtics in a few years to form a super triumvirate with Paul Pierce and Ray Allen, and several guys can quickly integrate together, and easily defeated the Los Angeles Lakers in the first year of the newspaper to win the championship that year. The Celtics are a proper Big Four, with such a big problem in the East, and the declining Pistons are certainly not their opponents.

Even if Osborne has the strength of Michael Jordan, he can only fall into the sand, after all, such a combination is as powerless as Jordan met the Bad Boy Army Pistons back then.

So Osborne hopes that Kevin Garnett can make a breakthrough in the West, at least break through the Western Conference Finals to the Finals, so that Kevin Garnett thinks that the Timberwolves still have hope, as long as they become strong enough, anyway, Osborne feels that dealing with the Timberwolves with only one wolf king is easier than dealing with the old perverts of the Spurs, and the winning rate is also greater.

Larry Brown said these things in order to enhance the confidence of his teammates, and everyone can see it, after all, the Timberwolves are members of the Western Conference Finals last season, and they are the strongest opponent since the start of this season, it is always right to be careful, but Larry Brown's worries seem to be unnecessary, Osborne knows that as long as the rest of the Timberwolves score to death, the Timberwolves will fall behind, and there is not much to do about Kevin Garnett's Pistons, but for the rest of the Timberwolves players, The Pistons still have an advantage, and basically the Pistons players are comprehensively suppressed.

At the beginning of the game, Kevin Garnett took the lead and used his all-around performance to tell the Pistons that the Timberwolves were not to be messed with, and Kevin Garnett contributed 7 points, 4 rebounds, 2 assists and 1 block in just five minutes on the court.

Osborne didn't expect Kevin Garnett's firepower to be so fierce, beating Rasheed Wallace to a little ignorant of the east, west, north and south, and Richard Hamilton was also defended by Kevin Garnett many times to the point of being unable to score, and rewarded Ben Wallace with a big hat, Osborne saw that he had to shoot outside to hit the Timberwolves, he didn't want to touch Kevin Garnett's moldy head at this time.

Larry Brown didn't expect Kevin Garnett to defend half of the Pistons alone, if it weren't for Chauncey Billups on the outside, Osborne, the two super outside lines withstood the Timberwolves' offense, the Pistons would have suffered.

This is not the end, Kevin Garnett has continuously blown up Rasheed Wallace, dunked on his head many times, and also caused Rasheed Wallace and Ben Wallace to foul, and the entire first quarter of the Pistons was blown up by Kevin Garnett alone.

In the first quarter, Kevin Garnett got 13 points, 9 rebounds, 4 assists, 3 blocks and 1 steal, which is really too versatile, such a player deserves the title of MVP in the regular season.

Kevin Garnett showed his strength as a regular season MVP as soon as he shot, and single-handedly suppressed the Pistons, Larry Brown saw the situation of the Pistons and quickly called a timeout, Osborne saw Kevin Garnett's first-quarter performance, and instantly felt that his strength still had room to rise, although Osborne could deliberately brush up a good data, but he didn't want to be a player whose data had nothing to do with winning or losing.

Larry Brown gathered the players and began to lay out the tactics, "You have all seen Kevin Garnett's strength and destructiveness just now, if you don't stop him, this game will be unpredictable, so you still have to think about how to limit him." "Everybody is a well-informed player, and I've seen similar players like Kevin Garnett, but none of them are as good as Kevin Garnett.

So the players didn't say anything, but Osborne spoke, "Coach, I think we can try to do the opposite, since we can't guard Kevin Garnett, then why are we obsessed with defending him, isn't the game just about who scores more?" In that case, then we can also give them a big fight. ”

Coach Larry Brown also suddenly thought at this time, yes, why is it very defensive against Kevin Garnett, as long as he can score more points than them, didn't the Pistons in the eighties and nineties deal with Michael Jordan like this? It's just that you Jordan has to score more points, he just needs the Pistons to win.

Thinking of this, Larry Brown arranged: "After a while, the outside players should be ready to shoot threes, and everyone else should go to Osborne and Richard Hamilton, and the interior players should not do too many unnecessary fouls on Kevin Garnett, just make a show, he likes to score, just let him win, just pinch other positions, I believe in you, you can't even defend other players." ”

Osborne replied: "Coach, you underestimate us too much, although my defense is not very good, but Chauncey, Richard, Big Ben, Rashid, Tayxiaan, they are masters of defense, they can't score points against the Lakers known as F4, you can not have confidence in my defense, you can't have confidence in them." ”

Osborne's self-deprecating words also mobilized everyone's emotions instantly, and then everyone began to happily go on the court again, and being able to defend the invincible Lakers in the Finals is one of the greatest achievements of their lives.

As soon as the second quarter came up, Kevin Garnett still started his own individual performance, his idea was very simple, since the Pistons couldn't prevent it, then he tried to use his own play to lay the foundation for the Timberwolves to win, but he also found that the Pistons also began to carry out three-point counterattacks, although the shooting rate was not high at first, but as long as they kept shooting like this, the Pistons would sooner or later surpass the Timberwolves.

But there's no way around it, who doesn't have a great three-point shooter for the Timberwolves. (To be continued.) )