Minnesota fans were disappointed with the loss against the Wizards, but that sentiment disappeared without a trace with the Timberwolves' home win over the Seattle SuperSonics three days later.

Before the Timberwolves, the Seattle SuperSonics were a 15-5 superpowerhouse that finished second in the West.

Gary Payton, Detreve Schramf, Vin Baker, Jose Hawkins, Dalle Ellis and others have all been All-Star caliber players.

This year's Seattle SuperSonics can be described as a star-studded "galactic battleship", but even so, the Seattle SuperSonics ultimately lost to the Timberwolves 104-107.

In this game, Wu Dao still got 32 points, 9 boards, 6 assists and 1 steal under the strict defense of the opponent, and Wu Dao only used 18 shots to complete these points.

In this game, Garnett and Marbury both scored close to 20 points, and their performances on the court were quite good, laying a solid foundation for the team's victory.

Chris Kyle also had a great performance today, scoring his season-high 18 points.

Ben Wallace still didn't make a sound on the offensive end, but his performance on the defensive end has improved a little compared to the previous game.

After entering the Timberwolves, out of the desire to take care of martial arts, the Timberwolves would give him more than ten minutes of playing time every game after getting Ben Wallace to show themselves.

And in the Timberwolves, Ben Wallace seems to have found his position, putting all his mind on defense, guarding, and strategy.

Ben Wallace's defensive talent is already excellent, not to mention the defensive aspect, which eats the player's attitude, which also makes the already focused Wallace improve quickly on the defensive end.

What's more, in the Timberwolves, Garnett is also a player who is quite good defensively, and watching Garnett play off the court, Ben Wallace can often learn something from Garnett's defensive actions.

Coach Philip is not a fool, he has never been a foolish coach who only looks at the players attacking.

During this period of play, Philip was not confused by the spicy statistics handed over by Wallace, he saw the value of this player from Wallace's game, and Philip knew that what their Timberwolves are lacking now is not a scorer.

It's a defensive player like Wallace who is willing to honestly do the dirty work that doesn't reflect the data.

Philip knows that Ben Wallace, if done right, could be an indispensable piece of their Timberwolves' championship puzzle.

The victory against the Seattle SuperSonics gave the Timberwolves the No. 1 spot in the West in a real sense.

Whether it's record or hard power, the Timberwolves have gone from being a belly team to a championship-seeded team.

It wasn't long before Minnesota fans rejoiced that the Timberwolves faced the Knicks, led by Gorilla Ewing, in New York on December 11.

In this game, Wu Dao scored 44 points, and under Wu Dao's strong offensive performance, the Timberwolves actually lost this game 100:107 away.

The reason for the loss is also simple.

Because of this game, Ewing was 12-of-23 from the field and 10-of-14 from the free-throw line, and had 34 points and 12 rebounds. And the Knicks' other interior line, Charles Oakley, who had won the best defensive team in the 93-94 season, also scored 12 points and 11 rebounds.

Corresponding to the Knicks' interior data, the white center on the Timberwolves' side, Cheloki Parkes, played 10 minutes, 0 points, 3 rebounds and 3 fouls, and Ben Wallace played two and a half quarters and 26 minutes, scoring 2 points, 4 boards, 4 assists and 4 fouls.

Garnett, on the other hand, played 40 minutes, made 6 of 16 shots, 3 of 4 free throws, and scored 15 points, 5 rebounds, 4 assists and 5 fouls.

Needless to say, just looking at the data of the interior players on the Timberwolves' side, compared with the Knicks' interior players, what is the reason for the loss, it is already clear at a glance.

Unlike the Wizards who won the Timberwolves before, the Wizards used skills and tactics to open the Timberwolves' defensive gate Garnett, and then defeated the Timberwolves from the inside, and the Knicks didn't mean to move Garnett at all, Gorilla Ewing used his sophisticated skills, thick muscles, and solid to teach the Timberwolves' interior a lesson.

Cherokee Parkes was directly blown up by Ewing in the first quarter, after Wallace came on the court, Garnett and Wallace took turns to defend Ewing, and they were both pressed to the ground by the "King of New York" and rubbed wildly, even the Knicks' Charles Oakley, Garnett, who can defend on the defensive end, is miserable.

Garnett's scoring, which is basically scored from mid-range shooting, does not pose a threat to the Knicks' basket at all.

On the Wudo side, he is a projection-based outside player, except for the fast attack, he will choose to attack the basket, most of the time, he is also projection-oriented.

The reason is simple, his several offensive baskets were pulled down by Ewing or Charles Oakleyson, and this is the home court of the Knicks, and there are a few fouls from opponents, and the referee doesn't see it at all.

The efficiency of attacking the basket was too low, and Takeshi was forced to shoot more, although his mid-to-long-range was the Timberwolves' superweapon.

But in this era, no matter what team you are, you can't just go on the perimeter, especially when rebounding is not guaranteed.

Losing to the Knicks, Wu Dao slashed 40+, and soon appeared in some good media newspapers, although Wu Dao is just a newcomer, but his fame is not small, especially after kicking over Malone and being "named and criticized" by Jordan.

And this time the loss, Jordan's previous evaluation of martial arts, once again "rolled" in front of the public.

Some Jordan fans even hold Jordan's criticism of martial arts as the bible, and when facing Timberwolves fans and martial arts fans, they will always use Jordan's words to satirize.

Martial arts can often hear people discussing this matter during breaks, and sometimes in interviews before and after the game, reporters will also mention this matter, hoping that martial arts can respond positively.

On the night of the loss to the Knicks, a New York reporter asked Wu Dao with a smile: "What do you think of Jordan's evaluation of you." ”

In this regard, Wu Dao didn't say much, but replied with a flat expression: "On the basketball court, speak with results." ”

Although it is not very sharp, the reporters are quite satisfied with the answer of the martial arts. When he turned his hair, the newspaper began to use the words of martial arts as the headline, and began to frantically compare the records of the Bulls and Timberwolves from the beginning of the season to the present.

At the same time, the media in New York also secretly satirized Jordan, looking like it was not a big deal to see the excitement.

The basketball media, everyone in the industry knows Jordan's temper, and he will definitely not put up with this kind of thing.

Sure enough, after the martial arts' remarks were distorted by the media, they became "super newcomers challenge the god of basketball." ”

Minnesota fans naturally support their own players, but in this day and age, how many people are not Jordan fans? Even in Minnesota, there are quite a lot of people who support Jordan, and they may not support the Bulls, but they may support Jordan.

The Bulls are nothing without Jordan.

And Jordan is without the Bulls, he is still the god of basketball, and his personal IP has done very loudly.

The chaos of the media environment has more or less affected the Timberwolves' game, and the most direct impact is that whenever there is a game in the martial arts, there are always fans who don't know the "ingredients" to insult the martial arts.

On December 11, during a game against the Suns led by supernova Jason Kidd (No. 2 pick in the first round in 1994), he was at the Timberwolves' home target center arena.

Every time Wu Dao misses a ball, there will be a burst of laughter from the fans in a corner.

In this case, Martial Arts is really the first time he has encountered it, and every time he throws a ball he misses, he will be ridiculed, even in the worst away game, Martial Arts has never encountered it.

In such a competitive environment.

Wu Dao also involuntarily added more of his own shots, and the game with the Suns, in the face of Antonio McDyce's full defense, Wu Dao or sudden or shot, crazy shots 36 times hit 25 of them, including 7 of 11 three-pointers, 7 of 7 free throws, and scored 64 points in a single game, leading the Timberwolves to completely crush the Suns 112:101.

The average height of the Sun is not as good as that of the Timberwolves, and Wu Dao plays very freely in the face of a team like the Sun, and his violent scoring state, the Sun has no limit at all, and no player in their team can contain Wu Dao's hot hand.

A violent fight against the sun also allowed fans to really see the martial arts when they scored furiously, and what surprised them was not that martial arts could suddenly rise from an average of 20+ shots per game to 36 times, nearly doubled, to the surprise of fans, martial arts physical fitness can maintain such a high number of shots at the same time, it can still have such a terrifying public rate.

The three-point shooting rate of more than 6 percent is shocking just by looking at the data.

It's hard to imagine how desperate the sun must have been when facing martial arts.

At the same time as the Timberwolves beat the Suns, the Bulls led by Jordan also crushed the rookie Raptors, who had played 2-19 since the beginning of the season, 97-70 on the same day.

Winning the bottom team in the East may not have anything to brag about, but it is still a big win and a valuable win for Bulls fans.

But although the Bulls fans are happy, Jordan's fans are a little unhappy.

In this game with the Raptors, Jordan played 27 minutes, made 4 of 16, scored 11 points in the game, and his shooting rate was as low as 25%.

As soon as the data of the two games came out, the fans of the Timberwolves seemed to be the New Year, and the fans of Jordan

Fueled by the media, fans on both sides are also arguing.

When Jordan was interviewed after the game, another reporter who didn't have long eyes talked about this stubble, and under Jordan's "pupil of death", the reporter who asked the question was also forced to "read the fun" and shut his mouth.

Of course, in front of media friends, how could Jordan be so rude? After the reporter who asked the question shut up, Jordan still replied leisurely:

"Against the Raptors, we have a win."

"Our Bulls won by nearly 30 points against the Raptors, and as I said before, the main task for a player is to help the team win."

"As long as the team wins, I don't care about individual stats."

"I don't need to use marginal honors like scoring champions and MVPs to solidify my position."

"My goal is simple, it's the championship!"

"I hope to be able to win another championship with my teammates."

"My goal is not to compete with a young man who is strong and who is weak, and to compare a rookie who has never played in the playoffs with me is insulting me!"

"My goal is to win a second triple in a row!"

In front of the media, Jordan can always easily maintain his dignity, his honor is too hard, no matter how strong the fans of martial arts blow martial arts, no matter what kind of performance martial arts they have on the field, he has no honor in his hands, it is impossible to overpower Jordan.

Sure enough, as Jordan said this, the topic couldn't go on.

However, at this time, Wu Dao didn't have time to pay attention to what "interesting words" Jordan said at the press conference.

After the home game with the Suns, the Timberwolves will welcome a new challenger, the Los Angeles Lakers, on December 16th!

This is a rematch between the Timberwolves and the Lakers, who are now 17-5 and have the same record as the Seattle SuperSonics, and are also one of the strongest teams in the West.

In the face of the Lakers, the Timberwolves took it very seriously.

It was only when the Lakers' players arrived that the Timberwolves players knew that the Lakers' interior trump card in today's game, the big shark O'Neal, was actually absent.

As for the reason for the absence.

Not. The big shark suffered a little bit of injury, had a small operation, and needed to rest for a "little" time, not only was he absent from the game with the Timberwolves, but the Lakers will not appear on the court for nearly 10 games in the future, for nearly a month and a half.

In the stadium, with the screaming sound of the buzzer, the players of both sides also walked into the stadium one after another.

Wu Dao entered the court and took his position, but his eyes involuntarily glanced at the rest area of the Lakers. There, Kobe Bryant sat with his teammates, looking at the martial arts on the court with an unhappy face, and noticed the martial arts gaze, Kobe Bryant's face barely squeezed out a smile.

His unhappiness is not aimed at martial arts, but at their coach, but it is undeniable that the reason for his unhappiness is not unrelated to martial arts.

He entered the league a year later, and has become the leader of a team, and has even become a topic of conversation in the league.

It's like a posture of discussing martial arts and Jordan together.

But Kobe, who is also a high school rookie, can only sit on the bench, let alone become the boss of the team, not even a starter, how can this strong sense of disparity make Kobe feel better?

What's more, Kobe Bryant is the kind of player with a lot of self-esteem.

In strong contrast with Kobe Bryant, O'Neal was wearing a suit and chatting happily with his teammates.

Rest, rest on a "weekday", what could be more refreshing than that?!

O'Neill was clearly in a good mood and his attention was not at all on the upcoming game.

O'Neal's laughter when chatting with his teammates sounded quite harsh to Kobe.

Human relationships are like this, and it's hard to expect others to be able to relate to your mood at this time.

Obviously, O'Neal has no way of knowing Kobe's mood.