As the game progressed, the battle between the Timberwolves and the Jazz gradually entered the white-hot stage.

The intensity of the game between the two teams was very high, and the two sides also got into the game very quickly.

The martial arts side is also "seeking benevolence", and the Jazz's players have taken their defense of the martial arts to another level after hearing that the martial arts want to "feel their defensive intensity".

In addition to having a dedicated team member Brian Russell to keep an eye on martial arts, Carl Malone also put more attention into martial arts.

When the ball is in the hands of the martial arts, Karl Malone tends to give up the near basket point, leave the one-acre three-pointer under the basket, and elevate to the mid-range on the side of the paint.

His positioning, to a large extent, is not to defend Garnett, but to defend the martial arts after breaking through Brian Russell and reaching the mid-range position.

The Timberwolves' players have noticed some adjustments in Malone's defensive focus, and in three consecutive offensive rounds, Marbury has not continued to choose to rely on Wudao's individual ability to solve problems.

He hit an attack of his own, tried his touch, and after breaking through Howard Easley's defense, Marbury made a low-efficiency jumper at the top of the arc and the basketball landed smoothly.

Howard Easley is a 2-round pick in '94, and there are some gaps in starting point and talent compared to Marbury, and in the face of Howard Easley's defense, Marbury plays quite comfortably.

After successfully forming an attack, Marbury did not die on his own, relying on his own scoring threat, Marbury played a burst of points in the next two attacks, assisting Garnett to score points and assisting Tom to score points.

The Timberwolves' offense went well, and Marbury had no intention of relying on martial arts.

He could see that the Jazz side could be said to be strictly guarding the martial arts, and when the martial arts were running, that Brian Russell was sticking to the martial arts, and at the same time, the small movements in his hands were constantly interfering with the martial arts.

At the same time, Malone is also eyeing martial arts, in this situation, if the Timberwolves still put the burden of offense on the martial arts alone like in the previous games, then the martial arts may be facing the Jazz's "muscle forest".

Marbury has watched the Jazz play and knows how they will deal with a team with a single offense. Marbury doesn't want to increase the risk of injury by taking on too much offensive pressure in a high-intensity game.

The Timberwolves are now the boss of the martial arts, but Marbury doesn't want to be a leg pendant for a certain player.

He has to play his own style on the pitch, play his own value, and use his organizational skills to lead the team to victory.

The Jazz's defensive center of gravity has been adjusted, and the offensive center of gravity on the Timberwolves' side has also been spontaneously adjusted.

Marbury started to hold the ball longer, and Garnett had more finishing chances.

At the end of the first quarter, the Timberwolves trailed the Jazz by one point at 28-29.

There were not so many times that Wu Dao took the ball to attack in this quarter, although he scored a few difficult goals, but after the Jazz side increased his defense, Wu Dao also hit the iron twice, and then saw that his teammates played smoothly, and took the initiative to reduce the number of shots and began to share the ball.

9 points in a single quarter, with a shooting rate of 57%, Wudao's performance is still efficient, but unlike the explosive performance of previous games, today's game with Jazz, Wudao is obviously suppressed.

This is not only reflected in the scoring statistics and shooting percentage, but also from the court.

The number of martial arts single quarters is less than the previous game, not to mention, almost all the shots in martial arts do not have an "esay ball", and every shot is against the defense of one or two people, which is very difficult.

Not to mention that professional players can see that Wudao is playing a little hard today, even some viewers who have watched the Timberwolves game are also aware of this.

In the previous games, Wu Dao didn't play as hard as today, and he scored a lot of simple balls in his usual games.

This difference also illustrates the defensive quality of the Jazz team.

The Jazz defense put a lot of energy into Budo, which also gave the rest of the team room to play in today's game.

Tom played with ease against Jeff Hornacek, who was much smaller than his own tonnage, and although the opponent was fast, he was always able to play Tom on the offensive end.

But these two players have a little bit of "mutual restraint".

Jeff Hornacek was able to train Tom with his quick style of play, and Tom was able to train Jeff Hornacek with his big ass.

On the Jazz side, Ma Long, who can sweep the defense, focuses on Wu Dao and Garnett, and can't spare any energy to care about Tom, which also makes Tom play well on the offensive end.

Also performing well is Marbury, he has a good hand today, with a high shooting percentage, and Garnett also frequently covers Marbury after noticing this, making Marbury more comfortable.

The trio's efforts on the offensive end allowed the Timberwolves to score nearly 30 points in the first quarter.

But even so, the Timberwolves are still one point behind the Jazz.

The Jazz not only limited the play of martial arts on the defensive end, but they also suppressed the ferocious firepower of the Timberwolves on the offensive end.

The Jazz's outside line has Jeff Hornacek against Tom's classic small and big.

Although Tom tried to shrink the defensive line, he gave up after being poured two three-pointers, and the result of the defense was to be constantly teased and trained.

In order to deal with such a situation, Garnett, who is very mobile, will inevitably wipe Tom's ass, but in this way, it also gives Malone many opportunities.

Jeff Hornacek not only has excellent attacking power, but also has strong assist ability, and after Garnett comes up to help defend, he can always find a relatively open Malone and give Malone an assist.

Originally, in the face of Jazz's offensive method, Wu Dao, as a No. 3 position, needed to enter the interior line to help his teammates defend. But in this game, Takedo didn't have much to help defend, and he was already riveted with Jazz's Brian Russell.

Brian Russell likes to make small moves, and Wu Dao is not used to him, although they were off the ball a lot of the time in the first quarter, but there were a lot of muscle collisions.

Although Wu Dao has just become an adult, he has good physical talent, can hang meat, weighs more than Brian Russell, and although his upper body strength is not as good as that of Brian Russell, his lower body strength is still above Brian Russell. The "muscle confrontation" with the other party is not false.

The movements of both of them were quite restrained, just some "small fights", and there were no overly obvious foul moves.

At the end of the first quarter, during the break, Coach Philip also changed to the rotation lineup after praising and encouraging the players.

After the start of the second quarter, Coach Philip also sat next to Wu Dao and asked with some concern:

"How did you feel about today's game?"

"Tired of playing against Brian Russell?"

Philip asked knowingly, and the smell of gunpowder between Wudao and Brian Russell can even be seen by ordinary fans.

And in just twelve minutes of the game, the jersey at the neckline of the front chest of the martial arts has been wet with sweat. This situation is still relatively rare in previous games.

After the first quarter of the game before, Wudao's jersey was a little "wet" at best.

Wu Dao sweated so much in today's game, which shows how tired he is.

The speed at which playing basketball consumes physical energy is completely different from the speed at which "boxing" consumes physical energy.

"It's fine!"

"My physical exertion should not be as great as his, I can feel that he can't resist that kind of defense for long."

Close defense is a very physically exhausting thing, not to mention that Brian Russell has to face a martial arts with both speed and strength.

Budo also runs a lot when he is not on the ball, and it is not easy for Brian Russell to follow Budo without falling behind.

He needs to put in more physical effort than martial arts to achieve this, and Brian Russell's defense is actually a one-man version of full-court pressing.

"Your teammates played really well, and you handled the ball sensibly in the first quarter."

"Well done."

"Still. You can't just keep pestering Brian Russell, it's just a role player who consumes you, and you spend too much energy on him, how do you score? ”

Philip reminded, but hearing his words, Wu Dao was speechless.

He's entangled with Brian Russell, is that his problem?

Is it he who wants to get tangled with Brian Russell? Not. There are some reasons for this, but the main problem is not Coach Philippe.

So far, the Timberwolves have not formulated any offensive tactics specifically for martial arts, and that kind of basic blocking and dismantling cover cannot be discussed as a tactic at all.

If the Timberwolves had a special catch-and-shoot tactic around Wudao, Wudao would not need to spend so much physical energy to intersperse runs.

In many cases, a simple alternating running block can solve the problem.

Although the Jazz are a team with excellent defense, the only outside player on the entire team who can put some pressure on the martial arts is Brian Russell.

The source of his tiredness is not that the Jazz have an excellent tactical system, nor is it because of how strong Brian Russell, who is opposed to martial arts.

It's simply because the Timberwolves' offensive and tactical system is not sound.

However, this is completely understandable, because after Wu Dao joined the Timberwolves, the Timberwolves gave him a training plan to let him play as a substitute for a year, first adapt to the intensity of the NBA league, and then put Wu Dao in the starting position.

And even if Takeshi is promoted to the starter, Takedo is the team's third or even fourth scoring point.

The coaching staff simply wouldn't have formulated any special techniques and tactics for Wu Dao, a high school student who had just joined the team.

To be able to get other players to cooperate with you and pass the ball to you is already good enough for you as a rookie.

The management of the Timberwolves never imagined that Wu Dao would conquer all his teammates in such a short time after entering the team and become the absolute core of the team on the offensive end.

"There's no way to spend energy on Brian Russell."

"If you want to get rid of him with pure running, you have to use a lot of energy."

"It's not an easy thing to get the ball under his defense, unless it's two or three meters outside the three-point line."

Wu Dao didn't directly complain about the inaction of the coaching staff, but only nodded vaguely to Coach Philip.

Sure enough, hearing the words of martial arts, Coach Philip looked slightly stunned, as if he had suddenly thought of something, and then patted his head a little suddenly, and said with some annoyance:

"Oh, you played so well in the previous games that I forgot about it."

"Well, when I have time, I have to rehearse."

Coach Philip muttered to himself, seeing Garnett and Marbury and others looking at each other with puzzled expressions, Coach Philip explained with a smile:

"After that, I'm going to develop a couple of specific catch-and-catch tactics for the outside players."

"Wu Dao is not a nobody now, after such a long time of playing, the NBA team has some preliminary understanding of him."

"In the next games, I am afraid that more and more teams will focus on the offensive point of martial arts."

"For this reason, it is necessary to develop a few sets of catch-and-catch tactics around the outside players."

"If you can't get the ball, no matter how strong your singles ability is, it's useless."

Philip's words made several other players look abrupt.

Speaking of which, they Timberwolves used to fight each other, and the cooperation between each other was a simple blocking, dismantling, and breaking.

There's nothing complicated at all.

Their technical and tactical difficulty can be regarded as "basic" in the entire league.

The team is used to losing, and they are used to losing, and suddenly people realize that their Timberwolves have a high probability of making the playoffs this year, and if the player's form can be maintained, it is not a dream to hit the championship.

While a few people were chatting on the sidelines, Chris Kyle on the Timberwolves' side led the Timberwolves' bench lineup to play with the Jazz.

The Jazz are a veteran powerhouse, and the overall level of the bench is also much higher than that of the Timberwolves.

Not long after the start of the second half, the difference was stretched to 6 points.

Coach Philip couldn't sit still, and then put Tom back on the court, hoping that he and Chris could lead the team to a transition.

But as soon as the Timberwolves made a substitution, the Jazz immediately made a change, and Malone returned to the court after a three-minute break at the start of the second quarter.

Malone is a self-disciplined person, although he is not young, but his physical condition highlights a "tough", and the Jazz also hope to take this opportunity to expand the score.

After Malone came on the court, the Timberwolves conceded one after another, and the difference widened to 10 points.

At this point, Philip couldn't sit still and sent the starters back to the court early four minutes into the second half, which the Jazz didn't do.

After the Timberwolves players entered the court, the Jazz only replaced Jeff Hornacek, a starter, and came up to play outside offense.

Brian Russell, who is eyeing martial arts, is still resting off the court.

And Brian Russell sat on the sidelines, watching the martial arts back on the court playing, with a big smile on his face.

(End of chapter)