Chapter 14 opens

The preseason officially began a week after the team's training camp, and the Grizzlies' preseason did not leave the United States, and the distant Catalonia always missed the Grizzlies.

Their first opponent in the preseason is another fish belly in the West, the Minnesota Timberwolves, the Grizzlies' bad brother.

The Grizzlies left the airport and stayed at their designated hotel in Minnesota, and all the players began to recharge their batteries for tomorrow's game against the Timberwolves, and no one wanted to burn their energy after a long journey. After all, that game involves the start of the season and the substitution arrangement, and no one wants to be put on the waiting list at the beginning of a season. Everyone stayed quietly in their rooms, trying to get used to the jet lag as soon as possible.

After Li Feng put down his luggage, he simply packed up and found the waiter to ask where the hotel's gym was located.

This is the homework he assigned to himself, he is used to doing strength training every day, he doesn't want to be lazy and relax because of the fatigue of the journey, that kind of inertia will gradually breed, and Li Feng feels that this body must be fierce to him to be obedient.

When Li Feng came to the gym, it turned out that he was not so diligent alone.

The team's number one star Zach Randolph and rising star OJ Mayo are also already doing their own training, the three of them look at each other and smile, and do not say too much, sometimes people don't need to say too much, actions are actually more effective than anything else.

Looking at Li Feng, who had been doing bench press exercises, Mayo also had his own evaluation in his heart.

"A hard-working guy, Georgetown's inside line is not ordinary, Patrick Ewing, Deacon Bemutombo, this guy is almost the same."

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The Minnesota Timberwolves were founded in 1987 and entered the NBA in 1989. Minnesota was once the home of the Los Angeles Lakers, so fans had high expectations for the Timberwolves from the start. However, the reality can't help but disappoint them, and the team has failed to make the NBA playoffs for many seasons in a row. Although the team has changed managers and recruited rookie players several times, it is still difficult to change the fate of the team to the bottom. The most important decision they made was to draft Kevin Garnett in 1995, but the talented high school student never managed to lead the team to the top before leaving in 2007 to join the Celtics and the Timberwolves began to rebuild.

The current Timberwolves, the core is the 20+10 fierce El Jefferson who was exchanged for Garnett, Jefferson is a player with both body and skills, and is the key to the Timberwolves' victory.

Jefferson's partner is the "brush" Lefu selected by the Grizzlies last year, Lefu does have strength, but it is not unfounded to say that Lefu is a "brush", and the Timberwolves have a situation where their players' defenders' backcourt rebounds were snatched by Lefu in the game......

The outside of the Timberwolves are all young players, the small forward is the 05 second-round rookie who played in Boston, the scoring guard is Florida graduate MOP Cory Brewer, and the point guard is this year's No. 6 rookie Jonny Flynn.

As night fell, the lights were on, and the Timberwolves' home target center attendance was still good, after all, it was a preseason game and the ticket price was cheap.

After warming up at the arena, the entire Grizzlies sat quietly in the locker room and waited for head coach Lane Hollins to name the five.

Although it was only a playoff game, no one was willing to throw in the towel, and Hollins' voice rang out in the locker room.

"Today's game must not be played as a preseason, on the contrary, we must treat this game as a playoffs, and it is the seventh game of the playoffs to play, only by playing our strength, playing our skills, we can soar, we can enter the playoffs, enter the Western Conference finals and even the finals! Do you know the road? ”…,

"Understood!"

There was a roar of rage in the locker room.

"Okay, I'll announce the list, Mark Gasol, Zach Randolph, Rudy Gay, O.J. Mayo, and McConley."

With the exception of Randolph, who just arrived in the summer, the Grizzlies continued their first lineup from last season, and after Lane Nell Hollins counted five men, he began to lay out his own tactics.

didn't hear his name, although he was a little disappointed, but Li Feng knew that as a rookie, he still needed to wait for his own opportunity, so he listened carefully to the head coach's tactical arrangements from beginning to end.

It's a completely unfamiliar arena, and no one can give him any advice, it's more up to him to figure it out on his own.

failed to become, and it did not dampen Li Feng's determination, but aroused Li Feng's ferocity.

The match was just as everyone expected, kicking off directly in the confrontation between Mayo and Brewer, with both guys ignoring the inside line and going into a pin-to-to-needle state.

After a season of depression and decadence, Mayo has long been depressed like a beast trapped in a cage for a long time.

From the start of the game, he was already in a bloodthirsty and frightening state of play.

The Timberwolves' defense simply can't afford to withstand this level of impact. That black lightning bolt pierced through the opponent's defenses. A strong body and accurate shooting are fatal blows.

Mayo wants to show everyone that what Derrick Rose can do, he can do.

Brewer didn't choose to face Mayo's frantic attack. Instead, he used his steady three-point shooting and bug-like small throws to keep the score tight.

In the battle for the inside line. The Timberwolves' two big men are always floating near the three-point line waiting for an opportunity, which makes Gasol and Randolph of the Grizzlies almost helpless.

The footwork and the difference between the ground and the Grizzlies left the Grizzlies awkwardly hovering between the three-second zone and the three-point line, unable to advance or retreat. I could only watch the opponent shoot three points wantonly.

The game fell into a stalemate because of the imbalance on the inside. The Grizzlies, who had not fully recovered from their holiday status, had to rely on Mayo's solo charge and Guy's shooting to maintain a slight lead.

Lane Nell Hollins doesn't want to be so passive in his first game of preseason. The subsequent redeployment of troops still failed to solve the problem of the opponent's two tall pitchers.

It's not just Love's three-point accuracy, but Eljefferson can't ignore it, after all, what the Grizzlies lack the most is the ability to protect inside, otherwise they wouldn't have swallowed Randolph's big contract.

Weak interior ability has become the biggest helplessness in the hearts of Mayo and Guy, Marc Gasol has a good defensive attitude but can't prevent the retreating Lefou, although Randolph is not Portland's rotten tofu, but he has not been able to limit Jefferson, the Grizzlies lack a strong interior support, Linenell Hollins looked at the form on the court and fell into a strange situation without an interior line as last season, he frowned, looking at the players on his bench thinking about countermeasures, when his eyes swept back and forth, His attention was drawn to the Chinese rookie at the end of the bench who was playing "perverted" in his heart.