The Bucks are the team that has risen in the last two years.

Last year, they met the Hawks who were third in the East in the first round, and they lost after seven battles.

The Bucks didn't make much of a move in the offseason, but signed Salmons to a five-year contract and a multi-year contract with forward Rally Sanders. After that, he cleaned up the redundant forward line, and used the second-round pick and Darnell 0 Jackson to acquire Brockman from the Kings.

It's the same minor repair as the Timberwolves, but the strength should not be underestimated.

Yi Jianlian was a rare guest in Minnesota, and Zheng Ke was extremely happy, and met with him the day before and invited him to taste Minnesota's local specialties.

Yi Jianlian mixed well with the Bucks, not up to the level of an All-Star, but being a starter was more than enough. Last season was his third season with the Bucks, averaging 16.4 points and 8.3 rebounds per game, shooting 40 percent from three-point range, and even a classic game against the Knicks, which once attracted the attention of Shenzhou Dadi.

Entering the fourth year of the alliance, Yi Jianlian is no longer as thin as he was back then, and he looks muscular all over his body, much stronger than when he first came. He is now a veteran of the Bucks, and when Reed was almost abolished, the Bucks did not have many veteran players, which also made Yi Jianlian's status in the Bucks team a lot higher.

After chatting for a long time, the two drove to the target center for training, and when they got off the car, they were also sought after by the media, many of them from China.

Zheng Ke calmly faced the media. After dealing with a few problems, he left first and went to the training center

Last season, the Timberwolves were blacked out in the first round of the West, which was extremely humiliating.

The fans say they don't blame anyone. There will always be a pimple in the heart. Time washes away everything, and after a few months of precipitation, what people want to see is a brand new timberwolf, and what they want to see is a timberwolf that is like a monolith.

Therefore, the Timberwolves' home opener, ticket sales were extremely hot!

Those who didn't come to the Targeting Center didn't know what the Timberwolves meant in Minnesota. That's right, it means honor and hope. The rise of the Timberwolves has made basketball popular in this land, and children like to imitate the words and deeds of their idols, and adults are even crazier.

Even if it's not the playoffs. There was no uniform distribution of white T-shirts, and most of the fans here still wore the Timberwolves' classic blue jersey, and as far as the eye could see, it was all blue.

"It's bad luck. The first game is going to come all the way to challenge the Timberwolves. Jennings at the entrance of the player's tunnel. Looking at the crazy look of the fans, he muttered.

"The Timberwolves are difficult to play, Zheng Ke already averaged more than 30 points per game last year, and he is still in the rising period of professional player growth. Bucks starting small forward Delfino shook his head and said slowly.

"Humph!" Salmons was a little unconvinced, and sneered: "How strong can it be?" No matter how strong you are, you won't be killed by the Spurs in the first round. And a summer down. Who knows if he has improved or regressed, but I often see reports that he has traveled wherever he goes. ”

"Anyway. It's going to be a fight soon, and we still can't take it lightly. Jennings is young, but he has the demeanor of a star in the house, and after he spoke, everyone was so stunned that they stopped talking and stood at the entrance of the players' tunnel quietly waiting for the DJ to appear.

After the tedious appearance ceremony, the starters of both sides stood on the field.

Timberwolves starters: Billups, Afflalo, Zheng, Love, and Pekovic. Bucks starters: Jennings, Salmons, Delfino, Yi Jianlian and Bogut.

On paper, the Bucks have a bleak star. The Timberwolves are much better in comparison, and in Zheng Ke's system view, it can be seen that the ability value of the Timberwolves players is obviously much higher than that of the Bucks.

The Timberwolves have 83 Billups, 78 Afflalo, 97 Zheng, 86 Love, and 75 Pekovic. The Bucks' highest Jennings is only 81, the rest of Bogut has 79, Yi Jianlian is 78, Salmons is 77, and Delfino is only 74, and the ability value is quite average.

The black referee walked into the center circle with the ball, signaled to both sides, and began to prepare to throw the ball.

The jump ball is a pain in the heart of the Timberwolves, after Pekovic served as the team's starting center, the success rate of the jump ball was the lowest in the league.

The Bucks organized the first wave of offense.

"Here we go!"

Zheng Ke's eyes flashed with excitement, he has been waiting for too long, it has been a full 5 months since he was knocked out by the Spurs in May. For five months, he didn't want to return to the game all the time, and now that the regular season finally started, he felt every cell in his body tremble, it was a cry of desire to fight

Jennings stood with the ball outside the three-point line, and suddenly, there was a look of surprise on his face.

"What? It turned out to be a joint defense? ”

After observing the Timberwolves' defense, Jennings came to this astonishing conclusion. You must know that the Timberwolves have always been one of the strongest representatives of the NBA's man-to-man defense, but now they actually use joint defense?

Having played in Europe, Jennings is no stranger to joint defense, and it only took him a second to see that the Timberwolves were the most basic set of 2-1-2 zone defense.

"Is it aimed at the Bucks' weak interior offense?" Jennings' head spun rapidly, and he stood at the top of the arc and beckoned Bogut to come out and do the pick-and-roll.

The best tactics to break the defense are to play blocking and three-point shooting tactics, which is something that every basketball player knows.

Jennings and Bogut were mediocre in their pick-and-rolls, and after he got past Billups, he found the Timberwolves' goofy big man standing outside the paint zone. It's like watching him shoot.

"Damn, I really thought I was a blacksmith!"

Jennings scolded in his heart, and when he pulled it up, it was a pull-up jumper. Wait for him to vote. Pekovic stretched out his long arm and stepped forward to interfere.

"Bang!"

The basketball bounced, and Zheng Ke, who rushed in, snatched the first rebound of the Timberwolves' new season.

Jennings' face darkened and he shook his hand. Just started the game, and there was still some stiffness in the hand, and the ball was thrown in the direction of the hoop, and the most smashed on the right side of the hoop.

"Attack!"

Zheng Kegang here grabbed the rebound. Like a bandit leader, he shouted at his little brother and rushed forward.

Delfino is the Bucks player who defends Zheng Ke. The player was born in Argentina in 1982 and is also a product of the 03 golden generation. In '04, he helped Argentina win the Olympic gold medal. Along with Ginobili and Scola have been called Argentina's "golden generation". His three-point shot is quite accurate, but playing the position of small forward, he is obviously lacking in strength. Especially after competing with Zheng Ke. It's simply not a heavyweight.

Zheng Ke dribbled and ran wildly, and in the blink of an eye, he led the Timberwolves to rush through the half court violently, at this time the Bucks retreated extremely chaotically, Jennings, Yi Jianlian and Salmons could not find their place.

Confusion comes with opportunities.

Zheng Ke, who dribbled the ball, attracted most of the attention, he controlled the ball steadily, and suddenly flicked the ball with both hands, and the basketball flew to the basket like a cannonball.

"What?"

Jennings, who retreated, was obviously not tall enough at this time. The basketball roared over his head.

"Hey!"

The white figure stretched out his swarthy arms and grabbed the flying basketball. With a huge inertia, it buckled on the hoop with a "bang".

"Good pass!"

"Buckle well"

Zheng Ke laughed and celebrated with Aflaro's chest.

The first shot of the new season for the Timberwolves was an exciting fast-break air catch, and the fans who had also been holding back for a few months suddenly roared, as if they wanted to vent the pain of not being able to watch the game for several months.

"This fast break" Thibodeau, although he already knew that the Timberwolves were very strong in fast attack, but he didn't expect that it would speed up a little faster in the game, from Zheng Ke grabbing the rebound to Afflalo's empty dunk on the bottom line, less than 4 seconds have passed, which can be called a smooth attack.

"These little guys are suffocating." The raunchy Thomas Mo rubbed his beard, smiled at Thiboduha, and said: "Tom, Pekovic is really not suitable to play the starter, I think you should consider Jordan Jr. to play the starter, he has made rapid progress under my tutelage." ”

Three black lines appeared on the door of Thibodeau's head, and he said speechlessly: "Why are you still thinking about this?" I'm going to try whoever starts and everybody has a chance to show themselves, whether it's new or old. If Jordan Jr. is really suitable to cooperate with Zheng Ke and them in the starter, I will be happy to let him play. And in the future, can you not always mix personal feelings into your work? You almost don't have a word on your face right now that I like little Jordan. ”

"Okay, okay. You have always been the most businesslike," Thomas spread his hands, his expression funny.

The whispers on the sidelines of the two men did not attract the attention of the players or fans, because the Timberwolves on the court played a perfect rush wave after the start of the game, directly stopping the Bucks 10-0.

"Hey, this Delfino still wants to pull it out on your head, obviously looking for abuse." Billups patted Zheng Ke on the shoulder, his face was excited, and the last two words "looking for abuse" were actually pronounced in Chinese.

"Alright, Chauncey!" Zheng Ke's eyes narrowed with a smile, and he grinned: "The level of Chinese has skyrocketed!" ”

"It's just a little bit," Billups laughed, "I'm the fastest player in the Timberwolves to learn Chinese." ”

Since Zheng Ke became king of the Timberwolves, Chinese has also become increasingly popular in the Minnesota area. In particular, NBA stars such as Billups also tattooed mysterious ancient Chinese characters on their bodies, making this Chinese culture spread quickly in the NBA. Everyone in the Timberwolves can speak a simple Chinese sentence or two, and the Timberwolves players come from all over the world, Europe, Africa, America, Asia, and the whole world is really speaking Chinese (to be continued......