Obviously, the provocation from the rookie has already made Anthony Mason Jr. quickly get into the groove.

As an old bird, as a veteran who has played with many superstars in the league and played against him, Anthony Mason Jr. has absolutely no way to tolerate a high school player who has just entered the league to provoke himself like this.

In this day and age, professional players are themselves tinted glasses for high school rookies.

What's more, Wu Dao is not only a high school rookie, but also a yellow high school rookie, and an arrogant yellow high school rookie.

It can be said that in the eyes of little Anthony Mason, the current martial arts body is already stacked with various debuffs, which makes him look unpleasant anywhere.

Hornets' offensive rounds.

The Hornets, an Eastern Conference team, finished sixth in the East with 54 wins and 28 losses in the '96-97 season. It is only two or three games away from the higher-ranked Pistons, Hawks, and Knicks wins.

And compared with last season, the team's main players have not changed much, and the overall strength of the team is still very strong.

On the offensive end, the Hornets who got the ball began to enter the frontcourt, and the offensive formation was also rolled out.

The Hornets' offense revolves around Glenn Rice.

Glenn Rice not only has excellent vision on the court, but also has a lot of offensive offensive methods, and a good three-point shot, this guy even surpassed Miller in the mid-90s and won the All-Star Three-Point Contest.

In the '96-97 season, he averaged 5.6 three-pointers per game and shot a terrifying 47 percent from the field.

When David Wesley brought the ball up front, he quickly gave it to Glenn Rice, who was playing one-on-one with Tom on the left.

The latter took the ball, lifted it a little and then quickly dropped it on his left side and accelerated past Tom Gugliotta's right.

In the blink of an eye, he has already entered the middle distance.

At the same time, the Hornets' two forward players, Anthony Mason Jr. and Tony Farmar, also took advantage of the trend to cut inside.

In the blink of an eye, under the Timberwolves' basket, there were already strong men.

Tom's pursuit was fast, but when he stuck to Glenn Rice, he saw the latter close the ball, took the initiative to find a counterpoint, and then took two big steps into the paint area, jumped back, grabbed the ball with one hand and threw it.

A drifting shot from a near-hoop position, the basketball hits the board on the side, and springs directly into the basket.

Excellent air balance, and can still maintain a beautiful shooting posture after confrontation.

It can only be said that Glen Rice is worthy of being one of the NBA's shooting textbooks, and he is worthy of being able to beat Jordan and Malone in the All-Star Game to win the All-Star MVP.

After the opponent easily scored the ball, Wu Dao couldn't help but look at Glenn Rice a few more times.

He now had some information about Glenn Rice in his mind.

Wu Dao vaguely remembers that this player was also teammates with rookie Yao for a while.

It's just that that period was the end of his career, and the team boss at that time was Steve Francis, and as for Glenn Rice, he was the team boss.

Wu Dao's perception of this substitute veteran has never been very strong, he only knows that the rookie Yao brought him sneakers, and he rubbed Yao Ming's back when he went to the shower with Yao Ming.

Oh, by the way, he once "warned" the rookie Yao: "If someone guards you, you will elbow him, otherwise I won't pass the ball to you." ”

The Hornets offense is smooth, and the Timberwolves are not to be outdone.

In the face of David Wesley's defense, Marbury finally found an opportunity to surprise after a series of forward changes, directly from the middle into the paint area, and sent an open catch to Garnett on the inside after attracting the bag.

The latter jumped up, grabbed the ball with one hand in the air, and smashed it into the net. In front of Garnett, Tony Famar, who couldn't catch back, was directly pushed back two steps before he could stand firm.

"Huh?!"

"Is someone defending me?"

Garnett slammed the dunk to the ground, tilted his neck, looked at the camera on the bottom line, completely ignored Tony Famar in front of him, and muttered to himself, looking like no one was in his eyes.

After saying that, Garnett looked at Tony Famar with a fake look and asked a little strangely, "Were you defending me just now?" ”

With that, Garnett grinned at Tony Farmar and turned to defend himself.

The Timberwolves began to retreat, and although Tony Famar was choked with fire in his heart because of Garnett's taunts, on the offensive end, his anger could not be vented.

The current head coach of the Hornets is Dave Cowens, who was once an assistant to Spurs head coach Bob Hill, who is a protégé of Larry Brown.

Dave Cowens is actually the head coach of the Spurs.

Although the personality of the head coaches of this "school" is different, there is one thing that everyone is very similar, that is, the emphasis on team basketball.

Dave Cowens doesn't have as much of an obsession with team basketball as Popovich, but he coaches teams that prioritize the ball.

He will never allow the players of his team to play balloons, and he will never allow players other than a few players to play difficult balls and tackle balls.

The Hornets' offensive pivot was Glenn Rice, and David Wesley, who dribbled into the frontcourt, immediately hit the ball close to the top of the arc and then started to run.

In this attack, Glenn Rice seduced Tom with a tentative step after taking the ball, but Tom was not fooled, and the two were deadlocked for a few seconds, and the Hornets' running rotation began to show results.

Anthony Mason Jr., who was originally going to cut inside to seek opportunities, saw that his teammates did not start, and immediately changed direction, rushed towards Glenn Rice, and helped hang up a pick-and-roll.

"Change the guard!"

Martial Arts shouted at Tom in the middle of the pursuit, and Tom heard Martial Arts' voice and glanced at it.

With Anthony Mason Jr. in place, he also has no intention of squeezing and dismantling the pursuit.

Just symbolically reached out to Glenn Rice.

With two steps sideways by blocking and dismantling, Glenn Rice had just had the intention of closing the ball and projecting, and Wu Dao's big hand directly covered his face.

"This kid"

Martial arts are fast and have excellent reach.

Glenn Rice straightened up, and after closing the ball, he decisively gave up the idea of pulling three points, leaned over directly, accelerated and rushed, and his body was directly on Wu Dao's body.

"Bang !!"

A powerful force came from his chest, and Wu Dao held his breath and pressed hard with his body, but he was still pressed back by the other party's power by half a step.

It's not that the strength of the martial arts is not strong enough, in fact, in the sports battle, Glenn Rice has the blessing of speed, and the martial arts only retreat half a step under the disadvantage of the defense, which already shows the strength of the martial arts.

However, this half-step also made Glenn Rice smell an opportunity.

Stop, combo jumper.

At the moment when Glen Rice's basketball was raised above his head, Wu Dao quickly pounced and sealed his right hand directly.

"Da!" A soft sound sounded, and the fingertips of the martial arts were directly on the basketball, and after the basketball flew up dozens of centimeters, it began to fall rapidly.

"Attack!"

Before the basketball could be started, Takedo was already shouting at his teammates, and as the basketball fell, Takedo jumped up again and racketed the ball to the frontcourt.

At this time, Marbury was already approaching the halfway line, and he was about to cross the midfield.

Basketball started, Marbury quickly pushed back, and the front court played against David Wesley, just a simple disguise, Marbury crossed the pursuing opponent, entered the basket and sent the ball to the basket.

“ohhhhh！！！！”

One by one.

The audience in the target center arena suddenly burst into cheers.

Yesterday's game Martial Arts just trained the Warriors' madman, and today's game successfully blocked the Hornets' star Glenn Rice, and Martial Arts' outstanding performance was recognized by everyone.

"Good! Well guarded! ”

On the side of the court, Philip Saunders saw the defense of this round of martial arts, got up and clapped his hands, and shouted encouragement.

His expectations for Takedo have always been high, he doesn't want Takedo to be just an attack-focused scorer, he wants Takedo to grow into a superstar who can play both offense and defense.

There is no doubt about Takedo's ability and performance on the offensive end, and he is also very strong in single defense, but in Philip's opinion, Takedo still has a big problem when it comes to cooperating with teammates in defense.

There is a clear gap between the awareness of supplementing and switching defense compared with the top players, Philip feels that this is a problem with the Asian basketball development system, and Coach Smith of Oak Hill is obviously focusing on the offensive talent of Wudao and ignoring his shortcomings.

Because of this, Philip Saunders wants Takemichi to devote more energy to defending when he puts Takemichi on the court.

The Timberwolves' starting lineup is actually considering letting Wu Dao run in with his teammates more on the defensive end.

Because if you simply consider offensive firepower, relying on Tom, Garnett and Marbury, you can completely penetrate the opponent's defense.

For the team as a whole, the practical use of Martial Arts' offensive ability is most beneficial to the team when leading the bench at the end of the second quarter and the beginning of the third quarter.

For example, the current lineup of the Timberwolves is obviously overflowing with offensive firepower, and a single ball is not enough for the players to score.

In the next few rounds, Marbury was "rain and dew" on the offensive end, focusing on Tom and Garnett.

Marbury's idea is very simple, because the martial arts score in yesterday's game was too high, although many of them were empty opportunities caused by tactics, but in the consciousness of Garnett and Tom, it was the martial arts that made more moves to allow him to score so many points.

Although Garnett and Tom didn't talk to him about Marbury, Marbury didn't play in the league on his first day, and he still had this brain.

Therefore, in today's game, if there is no obvious big vacancy on Takemi's side, Marbury doesn't want to give Takemichi too many opportunities to hold the ball.

What's more. The martial arts side is indeed in some trouble right now.

Most of his energy in martial arts is focused on getting rid of the entanglement of Anthony Mason Jr. The other party seems to be on a strong relationship with the martial arts, as long as the martial arts pass the middle line during the Timberwolves' offensive period, this black brother will be entangled.

And Anthony Mason Jr. doesn't seem to be worried about his lack of physical fitness at all, no matter which side the martial arts run, he follows it.

With no teammates to cover off the ball, Takemichi had to rely on a lot of running to get rid of Anthony Mason Jr.'s defense.

As the game progressed, the Timberwolves' offense continued to play smoothly, but the audience also noticed the entanglement of Takeshi and Anthony Mason Jr.

Little Anthony Mason is like a dog skin plaster, obviously out of breath by Martial Dao, but Martial Arts still has no way to shake the other party away.

Wu Dao, who couldn't get the ball, wanted to grab the rebound, but Anthony Mason Jr. would rather not grab the board himself and give Wu Dao a card position.

And when little Anthony was fighting against the martial arts inside, he was more unscrupulous, and his body movements were very large.

For little Anthony Mason, the martial arts are not used to it, the other party does not let himself play comfortably, and the martial arts will definitely not let the other party play comfortably.

When the Hornets attacked, Takeshi also stared at Anthony Mason Jr., and didn't let the opponent have a chance to catch the ball at all.

Martial Arts' arm span is excellent, and he has a lot of pressure when he is close to the defense, and Anthony Mason Jr.'s offensive order is not so high, and the Hornets will naturally scare Takemi's defense when they choose to pass the ball, and they will not pass the ball to Anthony Mason Jr.

At the end of the first quarter, the score between the Hornets and the Timberwolves came to 26:29, and the Timberwolves led the opponent by 3 points.

The Timberwolves had a huge advantage in the opening game, and Glen Rice stabilized the situation with two consecutive three-pointers.

And as the game progressed, Garnett's shot hit the iron several times.

Fortunately, Tom and Marbury played steadily, so that the Timberwolves' offense maintained excellent efficiency.

And Wu Dao, in addition to getting 6 points, 2 boards, 3 assists, 1 steal and 2 blocks, he didn't score any more points, not only that, but he also gave the opponent's lower abdomen a dark elbow because of the excessive range of action in the entanglement with the New York beast, and was blown a foul by the referee.

The martial arts of the home game are still like this, not to mention Anthony Mason Jr., who has already received three fouls after the first quarter.

Do you understand the gold content of the home whistle!?

Break periods.

The Timberwolves' rest area was quiet, and several bench players would peek at the martial arts who was sitting on the position, with a calm face and a small sip of water.

Garnett also uncharacteristically did not provoke Takedo during the break, and did not show off to Takedo that he scored more points than Takedo in the first quarter.

Everyone felt that Wu Dao was in a bad mood right now, and he and the Hornet's little Anthony Mason were obviously really hot.

At this time, they really didn't want to affect the mood of the martial arts.

I don't know when the Timberwolves players have been thinking about whether a rookie is in a good or bad mood.

And the mood of martial arts will also directly affect the atmosphere of the rest area.

"Martial arts, do you want to take a break?"

Philip Saunders glanced at Martial Dao with a calm face and asked out loud.

His reason told him that at this time, he should replace Martial Arts so that the players on both sides could calm down, which was also to protect Martial Arts, and he didn't want Martial Arts to get hurt.

In Philip Saunders' opinion, martial arts, who has just entered the league and has played a few games, should not be able to stand the current intensity.

The intensity of the practice match and the intensity of the current game are completely two levels.

In terms of confrontation alone, little Anthony is stronger than Garnett at his age, and more importantly, when facing martial arts, little Anthony dares to make moves more than Garnett.

"Rest?"

"What a joke!"

"That guy won't be able to carry it right away."

"I've got to run him to death first!"

In the face of Coach Philip Saunders' inquiry, Wu Dao didn't want to blurt out directly.

The surrounding players all looked at each other.

Sure enough, the rookie's mood today was really bad, he was really beaten up by the other party, and his attitude towards the coach was so tough.

“OK~”

"No problem."

Philip Saunders obviously sensed that there was something wrong with Wu Dao's mood today, and when he heard the answer, he spread his hands and said obediently.

(End of chapter)