Chapter 639: Cohesion!
Nash's presence could bring more change to the Suns.
Although Nash only hit a ball, Takeshi can see the offensive potential of this team from the Suns' offensive rotation just now.
The Suns and the Timberwolves are very different from the Bulls.
Whether it's the Timberwolves or the Jordan-led Bulls, there is an obvious offensive finishing core in the team. Whoever gets the ball into their hands at the critical moment, and how they play when they get the ball, there are traces of this kind of thing.
But the Suns are different, just looking at the Suns' lineup on paper, you have no way to know who their offensive core is, or to use the word "endpoint" to describe it, it will be more specific.
It's hard to name who the big boss of the team is from the performance of the players.
It is true that the team runs on Kidd, but it is precisely because the team runs on organizational guards like Kidd and Nash that this Suns will seem a little out of place in a league like today.
Other people's teams are all stars, just your Suns play fast-break conversion and play team basketball?
In the Timberwolves' offensive round, Nash's play on the offensive end can indeed bring a lot of help to the team, but on the defensive end.
Nash's physical condition is actually better than the vast majority of "small guards" in this era, but physical condition also depends on who he compares with.
Compared to the Timberwolves' Chris Kyle, Nash's physical condition is still at a disadvantage.
At the top of the arc, when Chris Kyle approached the three-point line with the ball, he could clearly feel that the defensive pressure from Nash was much less than that of the opponent just now.
The most prominent thing is that Nash's defense is more "deep", Nash is standing inside the three-point line when he is in position, compared to the previous Rex Chapman, Nash gave Chris a considerable degree of freedom outside the three-point line.
This kind of defense, if it is against the kind of opponent who has the ability to score three, will suffer a big loss.
Chris Kyle is able to shoot three-pointers, since Budao entered the Timberwolves, Chris Kyle has seen the potential of Budo early, and usually focuses on strengthening his passing ability and outside projection ability when training.
With a ball-holding core like Takeshi in the team, he is biased towards the No. 2 position, and he is working in the direction of the traditional No. 1 position.
In the past few months, his training has also had some effect, but there are fewer opportunities to cooperate with martial arts in the ring, although the coaches of the coaching staff have noticed a change in Chris's training focus.
But in the actual game, Chris Kyle will be subconsciously used as a No. 2 position.
This is also due to the team's lineup configuration, and the coaching staff is not to blame.
You can't just put Marbury on the bench every game, right?
Coach Philip's approach to coaching hasn't completely changed.
The team's outside players all play with the ball, but he thinks it's a good thing, when someone is not in good shape, other players can be the first to top, and he doesn't think about whether a ball is enough for so many players to "score".
That is, the martial arts are strong enough, and after joining the team, they successfully suppressed Marbury and Tom. If it were a player with less hard strength at hand, the ball problem in the Timberwolves would have "detonated" the Timberwolves team a long time ago.
Chris Kyle, who holds the ball at the top of the arc, doesn't mean to play his own face against a defense like Nash, he guards the ball and watches the movement of his teammates.
Chris actually thought that Wu Dao would try his best to run away to catch the ball, but what he didn't expect was that Wu Dao actually quickly ran to Chris's position when Chris was approaching the top of the arc and made a block for Chris.
Wu Dao's height can even reach 211cm after wearing shoes, and Wu Dao's figure is also very strong, making a block on Nash's side, and blocking Nash strongly.
Although Chris was surprised in his heart, he is an NBA player after all, and his quality is still there.
Nash was stuck by the martial arts, and Kidd saw Chris accelerate to break through, and after a moment's hesitation, he still chose to pursue and follow.
Chris had a look of abruptness on his face after noticing Kidd's pursuit, and flipped his wrist back as he dribbled, quickly hoisting the ball back to the outside of the martial arts.
Wu Dao's height bounced much higher than Nash, and after receiving the basketball easily, he dropped the ball strongly, and his body quickly hit Nash's body.
The huge force instantly bombarded Nash's body, and Nash, who was unstable on his feet, stumbled and was actually pushed out of nearly two meters, and then his feet were unstable and he sat on the floor.
On the martial arts side, after giving Nash "100 million points" to the physical confrontation, he did not break through with the ball at all, but retreated to the three-point line, and then made a three-point jumper.
Wu Dao's entire action is not very fast, but in the eyes of others, it is very comfortable.
The projection rhythm can be described in perfect terms.
"Whew!!"
As the basketball plunged into the nets, the arena in the target center was suddenly overwhelmed by the cheers of the audience.
These players who are tall, can shoot suddenly, and fight the Suns in martial arts, who are all out of place.
Kidd is very daring to make moves when defending, and can more or less put some pressure on the martial arts, but Nash's defense is completely different, and it is much easier to deal with Nash than against Kidd!
Amid the cheers of the fans, the game between the Timberwolves and the Suns gradually entered a white-hot stage.
The Suns' offense played quite smoothly under the leadership of Nash, and except for Kidd, the other players of the Suns played to varying degrees.
As the game became more and more intense, the two teams also made some substitutions at the end of the game, allowing the more physical main substitutes to come on the game.
Wu Dao stayed on the court for the entire second quarter, and although Nash was able to provide exquisite assists to other teammates from time to time, it was a pity that Kidd had no chance to score under Wu Dao's strict defense.
The limited few shots were also interfered with by the defense of the martial arts, and the basketball collapsed out of the basket.
Although the Suns' offense is smooth, it is a pity that the Timberwolves can play an efficient offense even if they don't have playmakers like Kidd and Nash who can connect the entire team with exquisite passes.
Takeshi completely took over the game in the second quarter, and although the Suns guarded Takemichi tightly, as long as the basketball could come to Takemichi's hands, he always had a way to get the ball into the Suns' basket.
Even though he was completely cornered by the Sun's pinching on a few occasions, Takemichi relied on his excellent height and bounce to be able to pass the basketball to other teammates through the cracks.
The effect of the sun on the martial arts bag is actually not ideal.
At 36:24, after the second quarter, the difference between the two teams was further widened, and Wudao scored 22 points in a single quarter, directly destroying the Suns' defensive system.
The efficient offense watched the Minnesota fans scream.
Suns head coach Danny Ainge started out standing on the sidelines yelling at the players on the court, directing the players to defend and land.
But as Wudao scored more and more, Danny Angie also lost his heart and returned to the bench to watch the game in the field without saying a word.
Unlike the lively atmosphere of the stadium, there was a dead silence on the Suns' bench, and this game has become a complete torture for them.
In the third quarter, after playing two consecutive quarters of martial arts and still staying on the court, Philip did not make a substitution decision after following martial arts' advice.
Wu Dao felt that his physical fitness was quite abundant, and at this time, he did not need to rest.
He intends to completely crush the Suns in the third quarter.
It's just that something different from what Martial Arts expected was that the Suns seemed to have completely let go of the other players of the Timberwolves in the third quarter of the game.
But whenever Martial Arts catches the ball, the 1/4 zone where he is will be full of Suns players.
The illegal defense that the acting capital plans to play is all big for a while, and the worst thing is that the sun is all substitutes in this section.
In such a defensive situation, Takeshi also attacked the basket by chance, but when he went to the basket, he was pulled down from the air by three players of the Suns.
Although Wu Dao still sent the ball into the basket before falling, this "murderous" scene still made Coach Philip's eyelids jump when he saw it.
After Takemichi finished the free throw, he nervously replaced Takedo from the field.
If the Suns' bench players succeed in "exchanging one for one" with martial arts, Philip doesn't know where to cry.
The game between the Suns and the Timberwolves will soon enter garbage time, although Takemichi was substituted, but Marbury was replaced, with Mitchell, the Timberwolves' offense is still stronger than the Suns.
thought that this game could be spent so "plainly", but what everyone didn't expect was that in the final quarter, the Timberwolves and the Suns players clashed on the court.
The reason is that the Suns' backup Mark Bryant (206cm/111kg, 21st pick in the first round in 1988 Trail Blazers) seems to have tasted the sweetness of "tough" defense, and when Wallace tried to dunk, he slapped Wallace in the face and hit the door.
Wallace, who was holding back the fire because he was almost injured in the martial arts, got up without saying a word, and directly waved his fist to greet him.
The two quickly scuffled together, and the Timberwolves' benches were all sitting on the sidelines, but Wu Dao, who saw this scene, not only did not call the substitutes to pull the rack, but threw the towel in his hand and shouted:
"Pretend to be the most hanging, him!"
As soon as the words fell, many of the Timberwolves' bench players rushed up directly under the guidance of Wu Dao, quickly rushed into the court, and surrounded Mark Bryant for a wave of crazy output.
The referees' reaction was actually very fast, and after pulling the two people apart, they were forced to expel Wallace, who took the initiative, under the pressure of the media.
The game became a "full martial arts" broadcast live in the United States, and I have to say that the Minnesota fans who watched the game on the spot were really worth the ticket price, not only watching the NBA game, but also watching a boxing game by the way.
After this farce ended, the game between the Timberwolves and the Suns also returned to a "normal" rhythm.
Although the Suns took advantage of the fact that the main Timberwolves were not chasing points frantically in the final quarter, the accumulated disadvantages were too great to be overturned at all.
In the end, the Timberwolves defeated the Suns 104-88 to win the game.
The Timberwolves and Suns sparring incident quickly made headlines in the media. It's not that NBA players fight for anything special, it's normal for players to fight in this day and age.
Of course, the league will never tolerate this kind of vicious incident, if it weren't for the fact that Wallace was slapped by Mark Bryant before he made a move, and even had a nosebleed, the punishment for him taking the initiative to hit someone would definitely be much more severe.
But even so, Wallace was still banned for 5 games and fined 20,000 dollars.
And Mark Bryant, who "beat each other" with him, was only banned for three games and fined 10,000 knives.
And it was not Wallace who took the initiative to make the headlines on the front page of the media, but the martial arts who roared on the sidelines.
But there were too many media present, and Wu Dao's reaction after seeing the players clashing with their opponents was also recorded by major media.
After the game, although the league did not punish the Timberwolves and other players of the Suns, the behavior of the martial arts was also condemned by some media.
Especially in the West, the media in Los Angeles criticized the most fiercely, and even pounced on the league and asked the league to ban martial arts
At the same time, the matter of the knee hit Ma Long in the martial arts competition last year was reversed again.
Fans in other places scolded martial arts, but Minnesota fans didn't care about it at all. Instead, they prefer the current Timberwolves.
Unity, ferocity, this has become synonymous with the Timberwolves.
The fight did not make local fans disgusted with the Timberwolves, but it made the Timberwolves more popular.
For the players, what the outside world is like is not really important.
What kind of voice inside is what matters.
Team owner Glenn Taylor was not unhappy when he heard the news, generously helped Wallace pay the fine, and invited the players to his estate for dinner after the team won the game.
During the dinner, Glenn Taylor even praised Wallace and praised his bloodiness, which was a disguised encouragement that also gave Coach Philip a big headache.
And the players are happy, the team wins, the fights are won, and for them, there's nothing more pleasing than that.
"You're doing a great job!"
"Although I don't know if you did it after thinking about it, or did it subconsciously."
"But in terms of results, it's very good."
"The cohesion of the team, after today, will be very different!"
"It's a good thing you didn't try to persuade you, otherwise, you and your teammates would have an invisible crack!"
On the lawn outside the manor, Martial Arts couldn't stand the smell of those people smoking cigars, so he came outside to breathe, and when he was alone, the boss Glenn Taylor came to Martial Arts with champagne in one hand and red wine in the other.
As he spoke, he handed the champagne to Takemichi.
Martial arts don't drink alcohol, but champagne is more like a drink.
"I'm sorry for causing problems to the team."
The mentality of martial arts is very positive, no matter whether the result is good or bad for the team, fighting is always not a good thing.
"Hehehe, you kid."
"I'm very optimistic about you, the Timberwolves are your biggest backing!"
"Go ahead and win a championship for this city!"
Glenn Taylor is a man of feelings, and although a businessman is a businessman, he has more friendship with ordinary businessmen.
Garnett, who was at the end of his prime, went to another team to compete for the championship, and then gave Garnett a big contract to come back for retirement, and Glenn Taylor did quite well in some aspects.
"Of course, I will!"
(End of chapter)
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