Chapter 241: It's not Michael, it's beyond Jordan
Timberwolves' speed is limited?
This is the intuitive feeling of almost all Timberwolves fans or viewers in front of the TV, and now the whole world knows that the speed of the Timberwolves is their biggest magic weapon, the offensive speed is fast, the ball is fast, the players move and run fast, and even some experts have been saying that the Timberwolves are like a high-speed train, and the other teams in the NBA are just a group of slow city buses, and even some teams are still a group of classic cars, in the current NBA is not like a comprehensive acceleration after 2007, Now the entire NBA is still insisting on the most traditional way of playing basketball, and the offensive core of most teams is still the big center, which makes the pace of the game in the NBA world not fast, and the Timberwolves' speed is like a clear spring sweeping the NBA, not that no one has been fast in the NBA before, such as the old Nelson of the Mavericks, but the old Nelson has never let people see that fast basketball can have the hope of winning the championship, and Zhuang Fei now brings this hope.
It can be said that Zhuang Fei's Timberwolves have actually been breaking some of the traditional laws and rules of the NBA, it can be said that the Timberwolves are doing epoch-making things, for such a timberwolves, no one in the NBA is not studying them, competitors like the Lakers, Trail Blazers, and Spurs are studying them, hoping to find out their weaknesses, and then win with one hit, and some fish belly like the Wizards, Raptors and other fish belly are also studying the Timberwolves, they don't have a strong big man, they hope to be able to copy the path of the Timberwolves. Whether it is to limit the Timberwolves or to learn from the Timberwolves, the team has issued a sigh after studying the Timberwolves for a long time.
There is only one Timberwolves. Others can't learn at all, of course, in the end, no team said that they could find a way to limit the speed of the Timberwolves, and the last time the team slowed down the Timberwolves was back in the Western Conference semifinals last season, when the Spurs successfully limited the speed of the Timberwolves, but the Timberwolves at that time were only under Zhuang Fei for less than a year, and that was when the Spurs were also the strongest, and since then, no team in the league has been able to slow down the Timberwolves, Even the Spurs, who beat the Timberwolves to a mess last season, lost by 40 points in the first game against the Timberwolves this season, and in fact the Spurs can't hold the Timberwolves down.
There are even many people who think that the current Timberwolves are no longer inferior to the Lakers' 'showtime' era in terms of offensive power, although this may sound like an exaggeration. But there is no doubt that this is also a kind of helplessness for the Timberwolves' offense, the Timberwolves have brought up this trend is no longer as questioned and ridiculed as the old Nelson before, and now it is more of an envy and jealousy of the Timberwolves, and all people are used to the Timberwolves now. Accustomed to the Timberwolves' galloping, when a team can block the Timberwolves' offensive speed, almost everyone is exclaiming, as if something incredible has happened.
"Hehe, this kind of defensive delay is very novel" Zhuang Fei watched on the court Rashid Wallace standing in front of Garnett, and Pippen standing in front of Pierce, Stoudemire was sticking to Nash and then quickly retreated, and then stuck and then retreated, so that Nash couldn't speed up, and finally Jackson came out to answer for Nash. When the Timberwolves burst into the frontcourt, they found that a lot of time had been consumed, and after seeing the Timberwolves advance to the frontcourt, the Trail Blazers immediately gave up pressing, and the positional defense was very fast, and the Timberwolves were forced to switch to the positional offense and defense at this time, and it was difficult for any team that had already stood in a defensive position to break through, this is a fact, even the Timberwolves are the same, the Timberwolves' offense likes to play the time difference between offense and defense transitions, which is also the essence of the run-and-gun tactics. …,
The Trail Blazers' approach is actually similar to last season's peak Spurs' approach to the Timberwolves. But the results are all the same, they are all ready to fight with the Timberwolves, and the Trail Blazers players do have this ability to slow down the Timberwolves.
"But do you think you'll be able to beat the Timberwolves?" Zhuang Fei glanced at the smiling Dunleavy on the Trail Blazers bench from the sidelines. The Timberwolves now have enough player depth to tackle something like this, and the Timberwolves can handle more than those three on the ball right now. Ginobili was still sitting on the bench, although Ginobili was a lot worse than Nash. But he can also launch an attack for the Timberwolves, but Zhuang Fei is not replaced by Ginobili at this time.
"Now let me show you the offensive and defensive capabilities of the Timberwolves" Zhuang Fei looked at the court again, and the smile on the corner of his mouth became colder and colder.
"Hey, Nash gave the ball directly to Pierce on the right free throw line extension, is this going to let Pierce go straight to Pippen?" Michaels was a little surprised when he looked at the Timberwolves' offense, the Timberwolves are rare to play alone, in fact, before this game, many people were looking forward to Jordan's successor vs. Jordan's good brother, but they didn't expect such a scene to appear so soon.
Pierce felt the oppression of Pippen's belt, the man behind him made him very uncomfortable, of course Pierce knew that Pippen's defensive ability was extremely strong, this is one of the best outside defenders in the league in the past ten years, but Pierce now feels not nervous, but excited, Pippen's hands and feet are flexible and long, plus Pippen's height has completely covered Pierce, and Pippen is not very disadvantaged in terms of Pierce's best strength, it is obvious that in the eyes of many people, it is unrealistic to let Pierce play Pippen alone, Even many Timberwolves fans in the stadium began to pray for Pierce, and for a while the target center became extremely quiet, and now everyone is waiting for the outcome of this heads-up.
"Hmph, there have been more and more young people who like to break ground on my head recently, do you really think I'm old?" Pippen snorted coldly in his heart, leaving the Bulls to go to the Rockets last season was one of the biggest turning points in his life, he originally wanted to go to the Rockets and Olajuwon, Barkley to form a new Big Three, who knew that the Rockets team had no intention of reusing him at all, especially the team's head coach Tang Shuai. Tang Shuai is still stubbornly handing the ball to Olajuwon to play inside. And he Pippen is just a fixed-point three-point shooter, which is the tactic that Tang Shuai relies on to become famous, but this is definitely not what he wants, and in the end the three eventually parted ways and sprayed each other in the media with Barkley's bastard, and finally his reputation was all stinky, and those so-called experts began to say that they were old and useless. Some of the little cubs, who are neither big nor small, have also begun to break ground on their heads.
"I'm going to use you now, aren't you Michael's successor, I want to see if your strength is really that strong" Pippen sneered in his heart, and his body against Pierce was tighter.
Pierce could feel the change in Pippen. Pippen began to invade him, but at this time Pierce did not intend to force his actions, still quietly leaning on Pippen's side, Pippen's long hand brought great interference to Pierce who dribbled from time to time. This made Pierce's dribbling cautious.
"Hmph, why is it still there? There is not much time left" Pippen glanced at Pierce in front of him with contempt, and his heart was extremely comfortable. Even Pippen lost no time in glancing at Jordan in the commentary seat, and even thought in his heart that he would teach this so-called Jordan successor a good lesson today.
"Oh, if you want to rely on me, the next step is a step-back jumper" Although Pippen's attention is a little distracted, more than ten years of NBA experience still allows him to concentrate on two things, and he notices it as soon as Pierce moves, and Pierce's movements make him extremely familiar, leaning on. Turning around and then pulling up for a step-back jumper, the signature move of his old comrade-in-arms Jordan, Pippen had more than enough ways to knock the ball off before the kid jumped. …,
"What?!" Pippen was suddenly shocked, Pierce's movements were all going according to his plan, Pierce did turn around, and he was ready to shoot the moment he turned around, Pippen was going to break the ball at the moment when Pierce was shooting and bounced up, but when Pippen found the right time to put his hand on the basketball, he actually found that his big hand was empty, and Pierce turned and slipped away directly from his right side.
At this time, all the players of the Trail Blazers and Timberwolves are pulling away. Everyone is quietly waiting for the result of this time, and it is obvious that the Trail Blazers players were surprised by Pippen's easy out-of-position, but at this time, Pierce, who got rid of Pippen's defense, had cut into the basket from 45 degrees, and at this time there was only Sabonis, a big center.
Pierce singled out Sabonis, and anyone with a modicum of common sense knows that such a heads-up is too bad for a big center like Sabonis. Sabonis is not Garnett and O'Or.
Looking at Pierce, who was hurrying towards him, Sabonis didn't know whether to advance or retreat for a while. In the end, Sabonis gritted his teeth and met Pierce, he can only delay Pierce as much as possible, and finally can only hope that Rasheed Wallace, who is near the bottom left corner, can come back in time to help defend, Sabonis knows that his delay is limited, but when he actually sticks to Pierce, he realizes how naïve his idea is.
"Wow, again!" Michaels, the ABC commentator, looked at Pierce's speeding back and almost stood up from his chair and shouted, while Jordan next to him shook his head with a wry smile, but the appreciation for Pierce in his eyes was still extremely strong.
Pierce barely hesitated in the face of Sabonis who was catching him, and turned his back again at a distance one step in front of Sabonis and broke through, his movements were extremely coherent, without a trace of jerky, and it could even be said that it was smooth, which was also the reason why Sabonis stood motionless, Pierce seemed to suddenly disappear in front of him, he didn't even touch Pierce's clothes, so how could he delay the other party? For a while, the corner of the big center forward, who was already in his thirties, only a wry smile remained on his lips, and this time he and Pippen were both defeated.
"Today's young people are so amazing," Sabonis sighed softly, and just as he shook his head slightly, the fans at the scene let out a burst of exclamation, and Sabonis looked back and was stunned.
"Hiss~" Sabonis looked at Pierce's back in disbelief, Pierce was hanging on the basket with one arm at this time, the basketball had rolled off the court, and Pierce's legs were now riding on Rashid Wallace's waist, and Rashid Wallace was staring at Pierce with burning eyes, seeing that expression seemed to have swallowed Pierce.
"This? This is really exciting, Rasheed Wallace's return defense speed is already extremely fast, he has blocked in front of Pierce, but Pierce is like not seeing him, still jumping high to the basket, obviously Rasheed Wallace didn't expect Pierce to be so direct and strong dunk, he didn't jump up at all, he could only watch Pierce fly dunk with one arm, it's so exciting, Pierce's jump timing is just right "This time ABC's commentator Michaels didn't sit anymore, but stood up directly, It's not very common for a game to start with such a great picture.
"This kid is now picking difficult ones" Zhuang Fei looked at Pierce on the field and shook his head with a smile, Pierce's showy temperament has not changed, although under Zhuang Fei's orders, he has begun to pay attention to offensive efficiency, but it is obvious that as long as there is an opportunity to perform, he will never let go. This also made Zhuang Fei love and hate.
"Michael, listen, what are the Timberwolves fans shouting? They're actually shouting 'It's not Michael, surpass Jordan'! Michaels was also shocked after hearing the shouts of the Timberwolves fans at the scene, this is too chaotic, the real Michael Jordan is sitting here, and some Timberwolves fans close to the commentary seat are dancing to Jordan and Michaels.
"Hehe, you don't have to remind me so loudly, I heard it" Jordan smiled helplessly, Pierce is indeed worthy of such an honor for this ball alone, but Jordan's heart is still a little complicated, of course he is not because of these irrational shouts from the fans.
"Maybe I can come back and continue to play with these kids" Jordan looked at Pierce's figure with fixed eyes, and the passion that had been extinguished in his heart was somewhat revived, he didn't just think of Pierce at this time, but also Kobe Bryant of the Lakers, Carter of the Grizzlies, Maddy of the Celtics, and even Iverson who had already challenged him.
"Maybe I'll be defeated by them now" In the end, Jordan still suppressed the craze in his heart, and he couldn't help but feel a trace of regret in his heart again. And Jordan looked at Pippen's slightly lonely figure on the court and felt some sympathy. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to (.) to vote for recommendation, monthly pass, your support is my biggest motivation. )