Chapter 117: The Timberwolves rookie is a big hit
Without a doubt, Gobert became the MVP of this game.
Although Giannis Antetokounmpo also scored 18 points and 11 assists this time, Giannis Antetokounmpo obviously recognized his position in this game, that is, to become an organizational point.
According to what Su Chen said to him, this is not to lower his tactical status, but to connect the team will be a test of whether he can become a leader.
Giannis Antetokounmpo was stunned by Su Chen's painting, and he immediately believed it when he first joined the alliance.
After all, the other party is the championship coach who just won the championship, and he is also the general manager of this Timberwolves team, which can be described as a high authority.
Can you still fool him?
So when it comes to green leaves, Giannis Antetokounmpo is also very hard-working.
But as a result, Gobert stole the limelight.
After the game, the home host also found Gobert for an interview.
When Goebel picked up the microphone, the surrounding audience was greeted with cheers and applause, making the host have to wait for a while.
For Timberwolves fans, this record of 16 consecutive wins in the opening game has made the small city of Minnesota show its face in front of the world.
And history will remember that there is a team called the Minnesota Timberwolves that is the frontrunner of this record.
Besides, playing so well as a rookie is also a particularly exciting thing for Timberwolves fans.
And the Timberwolves have an inside complex.
For the current generation of Timberwolves fans, the Garnett era is unforgettable, and this complex makes the management extremely interested in the cultivation of Love.
When Love was sent away, many Timberwolves fans felt gloomy, but now a new light has emerged.
The 28+20 Gobert makes people see a rising star on the inside.
Gobert played well, and during the interview, he was also watered.
Su Chen couldn't help but smile slightly when he saw the treatment Gobert received.
That's right, that's the effect.
Gobert's trading value is visible to the naked eye on the rise.
For those cheering Timberwolves fans, Su Chen felt nothing guilty about trading Gobert away.
What Goebel is showing now is an illusion, a bubble that bursts at the touch of a button.
When the team that got the trade to Gobert found out that the average point guard couldn't feed Gobert at all, these Timberwolves fans would know what level Gobert really was.
And his selling point defense will also become more and more popular in the face of small ball play, and the weaknesses that cannot be replaced will be exposed.
It's not for nothing that Mitchell Gobert's Jazz didn't go far in the playoffs.
One season after the Jazz broke up, the Jazz players were playing great numbers in the regular season at a time when other teams were playing good numbers, making people feel like they were a lump of stars.
But in fact, it is the first round of tours, and scattering is the first round of tours.
Getting together as a core player is a first-round tour, and spreading out is also a first-round tour, in fact, I have to say that these cores are somewhat problematic.
The regular season is as fierce as a tiger, and the shortcomings of the playoffs are fully revealed.
Now Gobert's salary is very low, and it is certainly worth it.
But if the current Gobert can be exchanged for an instant All-Star, it must be exchanged!
At his peak, Gobert can't prove himself in the playoffs, let alone his current rookie, Gobert.
The main opponent in the West this year is still the Warriors he raised.
In the face of a three-point team like the Warriors, Gobert went up to the scope, and the Splash Brothers would shoot him clearly.
The other main opponent, Spurs, has also completed the replacement of the old and the new.
Leonard's rapid rise has already shown his strength on the offensive end, and Gobert is also a toy against Leonard.
If you can't rush out of the west, you don't have to think about the finals opponent.
Besides, although the Heat seem to be a frame-rushing team, everyone can shoot three-pointers.
Gobert's defense is misalignment, and if he doesn't prevent it, he misses three points everywhere.
Su Chen is going to perform with the Timberwolves this season, and it will be difficult for Gobert to play against the two main Western Conference opponents.
Needless to say, the opponents in the finals are for the time being.
Why keep him?
Su Chen didn't feel that he was ruthless, not to mention that the essence of the NBA is a business league and a huge business field.
Even if Gobert is traded out and Gobert's team is acquired, it can develop a player who is at least DPOY in the regular season.
If you don't understand it, Su Chen's recent game is equivalent to Gobert's manual, which is equivalent to after-sales service.
Su Chen also gave an interview after the game, and when asked about Gobert, Su Chen did not hesitate to brag.
"He's a very good big man, he's got a lot of defense, and even if the opponent rushes in, he gets protected by Gobert."
"He's very athletic, and Gobert is tough enough to put in the balls that should go in."
"And his rebounds reassure us, he's got 20 rebounds, what more can I say?"
When talking about Gobert, Su Chen did not hesitate to praise himself.
Just talking about it, it always feels like something is wrong.
It's as if Su Chen is a salesman who sells products, constantly introducing Goebel's advantages.
But everyone only felt that they were thinking too much, and it was normal for the coach to praise the players who performed well after the game.
There is always no way to face such a rising interior star, and the Timberwolves really want to sell it.
Next.
The Timberwolves' 16-game winning streak is undoubtedly something that attracts attention.
And what's even more surprising is that on this record-setting night, Gobert also played a career night.
The key opponent is not the weak team, but the Pacers, who were able to tie seven with the Heat last season.
Gobert was against Hibbert, who almost led the Pacers to overturn the Heat's Hibbert last season, which made Gobert's stats look golden.
Even the matter of Su Chen asking Gobert to quietly go up and swipe the data for two minutes has been ignored.
Because even if you don't brush those two minutes of data, Gobert's data is already luxurious.
What the news media needs is traffic, and on the night of the 16-game winning streak, Gobert's 28+20 is enough to attract attention.
There's no need to report on some of the things that don't.
"Victory over the Pacers, the Timberwolves won sixteen in a row, where is the ceiling of this young team? 》
"Su Chen: I will lead this team to the playoffs, and this is just the beginning. 》
"After the game, Su Chen; Gobert's talent is unimaginable, and he will be the top interior player in the league in the future! 》
《28+20! Gobert Counterpoint Hibbert Complete Analysis! 》
"The Timberwolves started first in the league, and this young team may have their first playoff journey. 》
"Talented! Gobert 28+20 highlights. 》
There's no doubt that the Timberwolves are now the talk of the league.
When it came time to make a trade in the offseason, the Timberwolves became the laughing stock of the league.
But now no one dares to laugh at the Timberwolves!
Today, the players of the Timberwolves have also attracted the attention of many team management.
If it is placed in an ordinary rebuilding team, they have no idea of trading, after all, people rebuilding teams have more time to practice slowly.
But Su Chen is different!
Now everyone knows that Su Chen and the Timberwolves signed a gambling agreement.
can't enter the playoffs, and Su Chen won't get a penny this season.
Su Chen's current mentality should be very eager for quick success, he is different from ordinary general managers, he is first an ambitious coach and then a general manager.
In other words, Su Chen is more like a professional coach and an amateur general manager.
Everything he does in the position of general manager is to facilitate him to build a lineup that suits him.
The Timberwolves don't look at the current sixteen consecutive wins, but the management in the industry is very fine, and they can see that the Timberwolves are not a regular strength at all.
In many games, in order to impact the winning streak, Su Chen's rotation was once reduced to a seven-man rotation.
They watched the Timberwolves game footage, and they could feel that the players were tired on the court.
That is, now is not the playoffs, others don't want to match the intensity with them, and if others match the intensity with him in the playoffs, the Timberwolves will not have such a good record at all.
Nor is it a team that didn't have an all-out sprint in the regular season.
But that's usually after the All-Star break, and those teams near the door of the playoffs will start the mode of going all-out to the playoffs.
This kind of all-out sprint is still quite a big drain on the team.
Why is it so hard to have black eight black sevens?
On the one hand, there is the original strength gap, and on the other hand, the first and second in the regular season can be adjusted for the playoffs after securing their positions in the back.
The seventh and eighth in the regular season are the mode of starting to sprint with all their strength after the All-Star break, and they are already tired by the time they rush to the playoffs.
The gap in their own strength and the fact that the other party is still waiting for work, so the number of black seven and black eight is really very small.
This is also the reason why many team management judges that the Timberwolves' record is not the real level.
Iguodala was directly injured for a week under such a high-intensity and exhausting campaign, and the Timberwolves can't keep rushing like this.
So don't look at the current Timberwolves are temporarily ranked first in the league, but with the current situation of the Timberwolves, it is really not certain whether they can enter the playoffs.
This also made many league management begin to pay attention to the Timberwolves rookies.
The other side.
Golden State.
Lacob also saw the news, no way, he didn't want to pay attention to it.
After all, the first place on the team's record list is the Timberwolves.
"If only Gobert Giannis and McCollum were Warriors players."
Lacob watched the news and sulked a little.
Regarding Su Chen's departure, it should have been a one-sided one, and there should be no conflict between the two, but Su Chen's use of premium chips and his snatching of Iguodala in the offseason made him still mind.
Although Lacob is the owner, he likes to meddle in the team's affairs and is also a secret general manager.
Iguodala is the person he fancies, and Iguodala's performance last season is not worth so much bargaining chips at all.
The Warriors' offer to Iguodala is about to be agreed by the Nuggets.
The Warriors could have gotten Iguodala in a near-robbery manner with little to no leverage.
But Su Chen ran out to disrupt the situation and directly let the Nuggets sit on the ground and raise the price, but Su Chen really added a rubio to the Nuggets for nothing.
This has always made Lacob feel that Su Chen used his rights in the Timberwolves to retaliate against him because he held a grudge against him for not giving management rights.
The Warriors' record is not too good now.
Although Brewer was also cheap and did not make the Warriors pay any bargaining chips, Brewer's performance still disappointed the Warriors.
Especially watching Iguodala play in the second spring of the Timberwolves, which made Lacob even more angry.
However, this also made Lacob a little suspicious that he was really wrong not to give power to Su Chen.
Su Chen's deal was basically robbed on the surface, especially the deal between Love and Lore Deng and Butler.
In Lacob's view, if Butler can't make it, then the deal is a big loss.
Even if Butler played out, Su Chen traded in the offseason, and the overall reputation was not very good.
But trading aside, Su Chen's draft level is really good.
Not to mention the three super rookies of McCollum and Gobert Giannis, the Timberwolves can play a sixteen-game winning streak, and they must not be talked about as core players.
Even Muscala, who was drafted in the second round, Covington and Curry Jr., who were drafted in the second round, all played at a level higher than their draft picks.
If he was willing to give Su Chen the right at the beginning, the Warriors now have a very scary lineup.
There is Gobert on the inside, Giannis on power forward, Iguodala on small forward, Thompson on guard, and Curry on point guard.
At the same time, McCollum can also play the sixth man to make up for the Warriors' bench firepower when the Splash Brothers are not on the floor.
"Why didn't Stephen say earlier that his brother was so powerful."
Thinking that he didn't even catch little Curry, Lacob was even more angry.
Although Curry Jr. didn't perform as well as other first-round rookies, he was undrafted and didn't have to pay any chips at all.
Signing a rotation-caliber player with a base salary is simply worth it.
The other side.
Dennis Lindsay was also chatting with Su Chen.
"Early this morning, a lot of teams came to ask for our rookies."
Dennis Lindsay said to Su Chen with a smile.
Originally, he was not very optimistic about rookie trades, because rookie trades are actually relatively low in value, unless they are the top three picks who are full of talent.
But the kind of obviously talented player, the value of the top three picks is not low, and there are few teams that do not train and trade directly.
And now the rookies of the Timberwolves have the popularity of the top three picks, so that a lot of team management called early in the morning to ask for the price.
"Don't give them an offer yet, but don't refuse either, give them a sense of hesitation."
Su Chen took a sip of coffee and said with a soft smile.
"Su, you're right, let's ignore them first, let's also feel the feeling of watching others compete for the price of the Nuggets."
Dennis Lindsay laughed, and his face was also a little proud.
At the beginning, he was angry with the Nuggets, but now that his role has changed, he has become a pinching treasure and waiting for others to compete.
It's a cool feeling.
(End of chapter)