Chapter 91: Disappointment
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"What do you think of the image of this Chinese"
Two middle-aged men in black in the stands at the target center were pointing to the Timberwolves' bench and saying something, and these two men didn't look like fans, scouts or NBA staff.
"It's not bad, the figure, the body shape, the face is good, I didn't expect him to be the head coach of the NBA at such a young age"
"Haha, you don't think NBA coaches are all Don Nelson like that, right?"
Being complained about like this, the other man in black was not annoyed, just smiled slightly, and then said: "I am very satisfied with his image, in this case, let's do it according to the plan you made."
The Timberwolves called their team's first timeout of the game when the game was only more than 4 minutes played, and the timeout ended, and the game started again.
The Kings' two interior players still mentioned high post after the timeout, Chris Webber got the ball at the free throw line, and standing in his overall interference was actually Stephen Jackson, the Timberwolves' shooting guard, and the Timberwolves' power forward Rashad Lewis was eyeing Divac.
Chris Webber looked at Jackson, his heart sank, Garnett still didn't come out, didn't Garnett and the Timberwolves know that they had a mid-range basket? actually only let one scoring guard mark people, but Chris Webber was still very calm, did not force it, but quickly handed the ball to McBibby who ran past him, and then McBiby brought the ball to the top of the three-point line arc, Nash, who had been following McBibby closely, saw that McBiby went outside the three-point line, and immediately gave up McBibby, but went to mark the King's scoring guard Wahad. McBeebby was almost completely empty.
This made McBibby very depressed, whether to shoot or not to shoot this ball, when he was suspended just now, the head coach's instructions were to draw Garnett out of the interior and the Timberwolves' defense from the three-point line, but the Timberwolves were determined not to do so, Webb took the ball at the free throw line and pretended to attack, Garnett was unmoved, the Timberwolves just used Jackson to interfere, and Bibby took the ball himself, as long as he was in the three-point line, Nash would follow him closely, and out of the three-point line, he wanted to lead Nash out, but he didn't come out at all.
It's too crowded at the three-point line right now, which is very difficult for the Kings, who make a living off the ball.
McBibby's heart was down, and the starting hand was a three-point shot, and Jackson of the Timberwolves only symbolized that he let go of Webb and raised his hand to jump.
Boom, in the face of this almost completely empty opportunity, McBibby actually didn't shoot.
It was the Kings' first three-pointer of the game, and then it went wide of the basket.
"The tactic was successful," D'Antoni said to Zhuang Fei with an excited face, and Zhuang Fei just nodded slightly. McBiby was a little hesitant, but it was clear that he wasn't very confident in his three-point range right now.
On the Kings bench, Adelman frowned, the Timberwolves were determined to shrink their heads, and they didn't come out if they gave up the three-point line, which made many of the Kings' tactics impossible to play at all, but when he saw the Kings players on the court, Adelman had a headache, if the three-point line couldn't give the Timberwolves a little face, it was estimated that the Timberwolves would be more unscrupulous and shrunk at people, especially that Kevin Garnett, who was too annoying.
Adelman looked to the side of the bench and shouted to one of the young players, "Peja, you go up and replace Chris", and before Peja could react, Adelman continued to shout to the other Kings player, "Vernon, you go up and replace Wahad"
Vernon Maxwell, who is 34 years old this year, is a former key man for the Rockets, and has performed very well in the Kings this season, because Adelman doesn't like Wahad and Chris Williams very much, so he and Peja have had a lot of opportunities to play this season, and he and Peja have not lived up to Adelman's trust, the two can contribute 20 points per game combined, which can be said to be a very efficient bench combination, and the three points of the two of them are much more reliable than Wahad and Chris Williams.
"Hmph, aren't you going to come out, I'll shoot you with three points" Adelman looked at the Timberwolves' bench and thought viciously.
"Zhuang, the Kings have changed, do we need to adjust" D'Antoni noticed the dynamics of the Kings' bench and suggested to Zhuang Fei next to him.
Zhuang Fei shook his head and said, "Wait"
Now the Timberwolves are the active side, the king is the party seeking change, Zhuang Fei wants to see if the king can really throw the Timberwolves away, if the king's outside line is really open, forcing the Timberwolves to expand, then the king's inside will naturally also open, and then the Timberwolves will become a sieve inside and outside.
D'Antoni will naturally see this, so he wants Zhuang Fei to adjust at this time, but Zhuang Fei is different from what he thought, even if the king really throws it, Zhuang Fei still has no idea of expanding, he wants to know if the king can rely on other means to solve the Timberwolves after choking the king's pass.
The current king does have a big problem, compared to their peak, Peja and Bibi are still too weak, especially the three-point shot, Peja's three-point shot is still very bad after Peja comes on the court, but Maxwell, a veteran, feels very good and makes a few shots, but the Timberwolves still can't choke the basket, which makes Adelman shake his head vigorously on the bench.
The Kings' current three-point shot can't kill anyone, let alone kill a league powerhouse like the Timberwolves, even if it is an average team in other leagues, I'm afraid it won't work. This situation limits the function of Kings Princeton, just like running and shooting can't block and pick, if this Princeton can't play passing, then the usefulness is more than half.
"A team's inside and outside need to complement each other, if the Kings have a stronger ability to shoot three-pointers, then we will be very difficult, in fact, any team is the same, inside and outside need to be combined, Garnett mentioned the center position, which is also this purpose, Garnett playing center can strengthen the team's interior offensive ability, so that the opponent's defense can be squeezed, and then the opponent can not be fully expanded, which will create a lot of opportunities for the Timberwolves outside players" The Timberwolves have choked the lifeblood of the Kings, which makes D'Antoni a lot easier. Now the king is nowhere near as strong as the Timberwolves.
"If McBibby and Peja's three-point shots are practiced, this king will indeed be very scary," Zhuang Fei nodded. Now the king has begun to use individual singles on the court, Chris Webber killed the inside single Garnett, Weber's personal singles skills are very rich, in fact, before, when the king's three-point shot failed to open, Adelman wanted to use Webber and Bibby's blocking, but Webber's mid-range hand in this game was not good, and Bibby also felt bad, so the king could only retreat to let Webb attack inside, although Weber was very skilled, but it was also difficult to eat Garnett.
In the end, the Timberwolves who played at home in this game defeated the Kings 105-96, the Kings made 5 of 17 three-pointers in this game, McBibby made 1 of 7 three-pointers, and Maxwell made 3 of 4, and Chris Webber's 7-of-20 shooting percentage in this game was not very high, but Divac shot 8 of 8 in this game, and his mid-range stability was much higher than Webb's, and he was facing Lewis most of the time, and it was difficult for Lewis to make trouble for him, but fortunately he didn't shoot much. On the Timberwolves side, Garnett scored 24 points and 10 rebounds on 12-of-21 shooting in this game, and the interior of both teams was basically no damage. Pierce, who had been playing Sè lately, scored just 18 points on 7-of-19 shooting, which he didn't feel very good in this game, while Nash scored 25 points on 11-of-18 shooting and also handed out 16 assists, which earned him the best player of the game, and this game was also the fourth time he had 25+15 stats this season, the first three of which were obtained when using the Magic star card.
"Tsk, Zhuang, our team actually had a total of 36 assists in this game, in the end we are Princeton or the Kings are Princeton" After the game, D'Antoni was a little disdainful of the King's Princeton, in his opinion, that Princeton was much worse than his running and bombing.
Zhuang Fei shook his head lightly, noncommittal, but today's king did make him a little disappointed, originally he had prepared a lot of traps for the king, but this king couldn't even avoid his first trap. It seems that it will take a year or two for the king to rise in the west. In fact, Zhuang Fei just saw the strength of the other team, although this king is far from the peak, but the strength is not bad, the Timberwolves can strangle them so easily, it is because the Timberwolves have grown to a height, no wonder the king.
Zhuang Fei was a little disappointed in this game, but Timberwolves fans were very happy, and the team won ten consecutive games, setting a record in team history. But just after this game, something very unexpected happened to him.