Wudao, who had just come to the target center arena, didn't even rest, just changed into training clothes non-stop, entered the field and began to warm up.

The number given to him by the team is No. 2, and the jersey that will be given to Marik Healy in the future is now given to Martial Arts.

Speaking of the No. 2 jersey of the Timberwolves, there are actually a lot of stories, and Marrick Healy, who got this jersey in the future, has been in the Timberwolves since he entered the Timberwolves in 1998 until the end of his life.

During his two years with the Timberwolves, Malik Healy was able to contribute an average of 8.1 points and 11.3 points per game, and although the 203cm tall point guard was not very meritorious, his performance on the court was always remarkable, and he was a qualified NBA player.

It was only in 2000 that Garnett, who had just attended Garnett's 24th birthday party, was in a car accident on his way back to his apartment and unfortunately died.

And this jersey is also the first jersey in the Timberwolves' brief team history to be retired, and so far, the only one.

Garnett, the king of the wolves, did not let the Timberwolves retire his jersey, but his jersey was retired in the Green Army~

When Wu Dao got this No. 2 jersey, he wanted to refuse at first, although he was not a superstitious person, but he was still a little secretive about this kind of thing after experiencing crossing.

Originally, Wu Dao wanted the No. 23 jersey, but in Philip Saunders' strange eyes, Wu Dao still gave up, and without 23, he wanted to choose 24.

It's a pity.

The No. 24 jersey he wanted is still worn on the All-Star bench, the team's "real" boss Tom Gugliotta.

He's a rookie and an All-Star bench to grab a jersey?

After all, he couldn't choose his favorite number, so he accepted the No. 2 shirt.

After all, the misfortune that happened on the No. 2 shirt was in the future.

Now it's still unknown whether Marik Healy will be able to come to the Timberwolves.

What Takedo doesn't know is that the reason why the team will give him the No. 2 jersey is also to hope that he can play Garnett with peace of mind, and if Takemi's growth goes well, the team doesn't mind straightening him out and becoming the team's "2" leader.

While the players were warming up, Philip Sanders was handing out materials to the Timberwolves executives sitting in the sideline bench.

This information is a scouting report on martial arts.

For more than a year, the Timberwolves have been paying close attention to the growth of martial arts in the high school league, but in order not to make the team's intentions too obvious, their way to learn about martial arts is basically through scouting and through local sports news in Virginia.

Wu Dao led Oak Hill High School to win the state championship in high school, and he himself was able to bang an average of 40+ scoring data per game, and the Timberwolves executives were actually quite satisfied with the data taken out by Wu Dao, but correspondingly, under this kind of terrifying data, Wu Dao's low draft expectations are worth everyone's attention.

The scouting report that was distributed to everyone at this time is the reason why the martial arts draft is expected to be so low.

"Let's take a look, here's his scouting report before the draft, I think you've all seen it before."

"I chose to trust Coach Philip Saunders' judgment and brought him to the team."

"But whether this choice is the right one, I think through this game, you can see the general idea."

"If this scouting report is not distorted, then our Timberwolves may really become the biggest joke of this draft."

CEO Kevin McHale spoke to the Timberwolves management on the sidelines after getting the scouting report. As he spoke, he himself flipped through the scouting report.

Ignoring all the previous physical test data of martial arts, Kevin McHale directly turned to the scout's evaluation of martial arts, looked at the text on it, raised his head and looked at the martial arts that were warming up in the field, and there was inevitably some worry between his eyebrows.

[Offensive skills are comprehensive, he can complete the ball attack from any position on the court, but unreasonable offensive selection will be his most fatal weakness. Although they can often play excellent scoring statistics in games, they need a lot of ball control to support them. 】

[I don't like to pass the ball, and basically will not provide a certain degree of assistance to teammates who miss defense, although I can be very good at one-on-one defensive tasks, but I can't become a vital part of the team's joint defense. 】

[Afraid of confrontation, with excellent height and arm span, but the best offensive means is mid-to-long-distance projection, and may be able to do anything in high school, but this kind of playing habit may be difficult to adapt to high-level games. 】

Scouts still have a lot of comments on martial arts, which shows that martial arts, a top high school player, has indeed attracted the attention of many teams at one time.

But in the end, it was this scouting report that finally discouraged these teams.

It seems that there are a lot of positive comments in it, but in essence, this scouting report almost pointed at Takemi's nose and scolded him as a "lone wolf", "brush", "soft egg", and "lazy defense".

When these labels hit a high school student who participated in the draft, where is the so-called draft prospect of martial arts, and being predicted to be selected in the second round with a low pick has already given martial arts an average of 40+ per game a face

When the Timberwolves management learned about this draft report, they really muttered in their hearts, but team owner Glenn Taylor overrode the public opinion and finalized the decision to take the No. 4 pick to change the martial arts.

This allowed the martial arts to come to the Timberwolves smoothly.

In management, owner Glenn Taylor and coach Philip Saunders are the most "loyal" supporters of martial arts.

One was captured by a martial arts game and became a fan, while the other was personally led by martial arts as a coach for a period of time and scoffed at this scouting report.

And Philip Sanders has seen the video of the martial arts match.

Although the martial arts in the video are indeed a little lazy, they look like they lack interest. But Philip Saunders understands why Wudao has such a performance, his laziness is because the opponent is too weak.

The warm-up time passed very quickly.

Soon, the referee's whistle sounded in the middle of the field.

Although it is a training game, the Timberwolves have been preparing for this training game for a long time, and even the referees are professional NBA referees, in order to simulate the real NBA game.

The players in the field seemed to know the situation of the team for a long time, and after the warm-up, four players wearing white jerseys, as well as Garnett and other players wearing green jerseys, stood in the center circle one after another.

Takeshi looked back at the court, and at the signal of Philip Saunders, he stood with several players from the white team.

The members of the Green team can be regarded as the main force of the team, Kevin Garnett, Tom Gugliotta, Sam Mitchell in the front, Stephen Marbury and Anthony Peeler in the backline.

The teammates on the martial arts side have a lot to say, the team's only two "big centers", a white man with a height of 211cm and a weight of 107kg, Cherokee Parks, and a teammate is the only two "big centers", a black man with a height of 213cm and a weight of 125kg, Stanley Roberts.

The two on the back line are Chris Kyle, who is 196cm tall and weighs 92kg, and Terry Burt, a super veteran who is 191cm tall and weighs 88kg.

The forward teammates of the martial arts can be said to be the Sleeping Dragon and Phoenix Chicks.

Cherokee Parks, the white center is very saying, in this day and age, all the centers that can be named are basically heavier than him, faster than him, a center can ride on his head and and pee, Duke University is a well-known softie.

Stanley Roberts, this guy was fortunately born in the last generation of this "big center", otherwise, he can't play in the NBA, not to mention his rough skills, and he doesn't move quickly, he is a "squatting" type super traditional big center.

To say martial arts, Battle can seamlessly replace this black brother, and he is still better than this guy in terms of technology, and he can also be stronger in terms of strength.

This guy is actually the inside meat shield of the Timberwolves, in this era, if the team does not have a few meat shields, it will be a role that is pinched on the court, after all, the Timberwolves are a team with the main goal of impacting the playoffs, and such players are also very needed.

Compared with the Wolong and Phoenix Chicks on the inside, the outside teammates of the martial arts are relatively pleasing to the eye.

Although Chris Kyle is a second-round pick and is only worth $900,000, as a guard, except for being a little mediocre, there is nothing too wrong

And Terry Burt, a two-time All-Star, was a thigh when he was young, but now he is 35 years old, he is really at the end of his career, he still has residual ability and experience, but in the face of young Marbury, he can play a few quarters, only God knows

Wu Dao has played high school games all these years, and he has not paid attention to the NBA at all, and these teammates of the Timberwolves, he has more or less learned about them in advance.

looked around, looked at the opposite side of the rising star again, and the all-star substitute, and looked back at the group of sleeping dragons and phoenix chicks on his side, and couldn't help but get a little big.

"It's easy to play when your teammates are weak."

Martial Arts stood beside Tom Gugliotta and comforted himself in his heart.

With the referee's whistle, the basketball was thrown high into the air.

After all, Stanley Roberts has a height advantage, and the explosiveness of the center is also quite good, and the basketball is directly moved to the backcourt.

Seeing that his teammates got the offensive ball, Wu Dao shook a shot and rushed directly through Tom Gugliotta to the frontcourt. Obviously, Tom Gugliotta didn't expect that this was just the beginning, and the martial arts were shaking and accelerating, as if he was planning to attack quickly.

Quickly following Takemichi into the frontcourt, Tom Gugliotta pressed behind Takemichi to prevent those behind from having a chance to pass the ball.

And Budo rushed a few steps across the halfway line, and then he ran back, quickly past Tom Gugliotta, and then asked for the ball from Chris Kyle, who was holding the ball.

"Energetic rookie!"

"But you're a tall striker, what's the use of catching the ball in a place like this?"

Takemichi was only a meter or two from the halfway line at this time, and although Chris Kyle felt that the rookie was a fool, he still passed the ball out and sent it to Takemichi's hands.

The basketball started, Wu Dao turned around, dribbled the ball towards the three-point line, and Tom Gugliotta also slowly slid back with the approach of Wu Dao.

Chris Kyle saw that Martial Arts seemed to be about to fight, and wanted to come up and make a block, but under the wave of Martial Arts, he retreated again.

Kidding aside, this practice match is a great opportunity for martial arts to establish its position.

Since it's Tom Gugliotta who defends himself, let's take this All-Star bench first!

Otherwise, God knows how many years he will be on the bench!

Kobe Bryant played for two years before he was corrected, but that was in the Purple Lakers!

Wu Dao came to this timberwolves, not to play as a substitute.

All the distractions in his heart were abandoned, and when Wu Dao was still about two meters away from the three-point line, Tom Gugliotta no longer retreated, and saw the moment when the basketball rebounded into Wu Dao's hand, and immediately grabbed forward and reached out to the basketball.

In the face of Tom Gugliotta's steal, Wu Dao only turned sideways slightly, the left ball protector was against Tom Gugliotta's chest, and the basketball was grabbed with his right hand and lifted it backwards, and he dodged Tom Gugliotta's steal lightly.

At this time, Tom Gugliotta's fingertips were still about twenty or thirty centimeters away from the basketball.

Tom Gugliotta's position is already at a disadvantage, coupled with the gap between his arm span and martial arts, these twenty or thirty centimeters are like a trench for Tom Gugliotta.

When Tom Gugliotta's center of gravity did not pull back, Wu Dao accelerated at a wrong step, and the moment the basketball fell, he had already crossed Tom Gugliotta and approached the three-point line.

When chasing up, Wu Dao's loose crotch dribbled, and after resetting his footsteps, he accelerated to the right side again, and accelerated twice with one stab, and Wu Dao directly crossed the three-point line and invaded to the middle distance.

Another emergency stop, Wu Dao blew the ball sideways in the horn position almost three meters away from the basket, and after giving Tom Gugliotta a little physical confrontation, he quickly closed the ball, turned over sideways and leaned back to shoot directly.

The whole series of actions of Martial Arts is relaxed, and there is no tension at all in the face of Tom Gugliotta, an all-star substitute.

The basketball flew out of Martial Dao's fingertips, and even if Tom Gugliotta who was chasing him jumped with all his might, his fingertips would only reach Martial Dao's wrist position at most, not to mention that he was already out of position under Martial Dao's physical confrontation, even if he followed Martial Dao's movements throughout the whole process, and leaned back in Martial Dao's sideways, it was impossible to have any impact on his shooting.

The basketball flew over Tom Gugliotta's head and hollowed into the net with a crunch.

When the basketball entered the net, Wu Dao looked indifferent, and quickly turned around and retreated.

However, the Timberwolves management, who saw Wu Dao easily scoring the ball, were already looking at each other for a while, and they couldn't believe what was happening in front of them at all.

The technical characteristics of martial arts, they are actually very clear.

But what surprised everyone in the management the most was Takemi's calmness in the face of Tom Gugliotta.

Scoring in front of Tom Gugliotta seems to be like eating and drinking water for Martial Arts, and such calmness is a reflection of the absolute difference in strength.

And from the perspective of the management watching the game from the sidelines, when the martial arts stepped back and jumped just now, that head seemed to be a flat basket?!

Such a discovery made the management and other players watching the game feel a little frightened.

In the middle of the court, Wu Dao, who had returned to his own half, tasted Tom Gugliotta's defensive strength just now, and found that the defense of the All-Star bench was like this.

Wu Dao looked at Garnett and the others who were advancing with the ball, and a bright smile appeared on his face.

"Timberwolves."

"Your Emperor is here!"

(End of chapter)