The ball was won by Gobert in the first quarter, and the Timberwolves opened the second quarter.

The Timberwolves didn't play Butler and Giannis Antetokounmpo, and it was Josh who was on offense at this time.

For the use of Josh, in the last game, Su Chen did not find a place for him.

After Su Chen's thinking, it was decided to let Josh play with the ball, break through and organize the team.

Now Josh is still in his peak form, and last season, Josh was still able to contribute an average of 17+8 data per game.

He has the ability to carry the ball.

And if he wasn't allowed to hold the ball, his mid-range shooting and three-point shooting would be extremely unstable.

For a player like Josh who is not embarrassed to position, there is no projection ability, and in the small-ball era it is a time to expose his shortcomings.

Josh was out of action at the age of 30, partly because of his declining athleticism, and partly because no team wanted to use him as a tactical core.

After leaving the Pistons, the two teams that Josh went to were the Clippers and the Rockets.

It was in these two teams that Josh completely lost his value and became a no-ball to play.

One is Paul's team and the other is Harden's team, how can these two teams let Josh hold the ball to develop a strategy?

However, for the Timberwolves, when the pure bench lineup, Middleton has not been able to provoke the beam.

Josh's state is still at his peak, and Su Chen still thinks it is quite appropriate to formulate tactics for Josh.

Moreover, with Giannis Antetokounmpo, the core of the interior who does not shoot, Josh's tactical design does not even need to change much.

Josh is also organized.

This ball, the Timberwolves played a hand-to-hand tactic.

This is a relatively simple tactic, and Josh can execute the tactic, but not too complex the tactic.

Su Chen has always compared Josh to Kyle Anderson, who is a version of Kyle Anderson with improved athleticism but reduced ball quotient.

However, this kind of player whose ball quotient is not too high, Su Chen can also use it.

The ball played a hand-to-hand cover with Middleton, and Reggie Williams knew that he couldn't switch defenses, so he still forced Josh to run.

Because if you have to change the defense, McCollum will face Josh directly, and it will become a big fight.

Reggie Williams was chasing behind, and Josh just rushed inside with the ball, relying on his physical fitness.

Now that the rules have been broken, Reggie Williams doesn't dare to reach out, and it's a 2+1 to reach out when he is already out of position.

Timberwolves 30:18 Thunder.

The Timberwolves' firepower continues.

Thunder offensive round.

McCollum was eager to take revenge on the Timberwolves and asked for the ball directly to Fisher for a single.

Fisher frowned, a rookie asked for the ball at him, and he was naturally a little unhappy.

However, considering the feud between McCollum and the Timberwolves, Fisher hesitated and gave McCollum anyway.

Defending McCollum is Beverley.

Beverley and McCollum were teammates before, and Beverley himself knows better about McCollum's offensive routine.

Speaking of which, the time he has to play is when the team sends away McCollum and Curry Jr.

McCollum wants to prove that the team made the wrong choice to trade him.

Beverley wants to prove that the team made the right move to trade McCollum to correct him.

These two people are extremely serious, gambling on the dignity of the battle.

McCollum dribbled for an opportunity, but he was also waiting for Beverley to make a steal, after all, he played on the same team as Beverley.

He knew Beverley liked to bet on wave-style steals.

But Beverley also seemed to know that McCollum understood him, so even if McCollum was dribbling on the spot, Beverley didn't surprise him.

After a few dribbles, McCollum saw that Beverley didn't come up at all, and McCollum didn't have the patience to continue to wait for a sudden breakthrough with a change of direction directly with the ball.

McCollum is a bit of an underdog to Irving right now, and he's very good at finding opportunities with dribbling.

But McCollum didn't manage to break through Beverley, who saw through his ball-handling breakthrough and went straight to the shot.

That made McCollum almost concede the goal, but thankfully he was on his toes.

McCollum picked the ball back, but the attacking time had been drained a lot.

McCollum regrouped, dribbled again, and found a breakaway opportunity.

This time, McCollum's breakthrough was not a straight one, but a sudden pullback in the middle distance.

However, when the ball bounced back into his hand, it was interfered with by Beverley, which made McCollum not hold the ball steadily.

Offensive time was approaching, and McCollum made a feint to shoot and was going to tap Beverley and make a shot.

But this time it was pointed, and it was stabbed down by Beverly again.

McCollum hurriedly picked up the ball and tried to shoot again.

Drip!

It's time to attack in 24 seconds.

McCollum didn't make the shot either, the ball was still in his hand.

McCollum took the ball and gave it to the referee very helplessly.

Beverley, on the other hand, put his arms down in a pose showing off his muscular strength, while letting out a roar in the direction of McCollum.

As if provoking McCollum.

Of course, McCollum found Beverley who provoked him, but after being continuously defended, McCollum could only pretend not to see Beverly's provocation.

In the next round.

The Timberwolves offense was methodical, although Josh had two turnovers when he split the ball.

But overall, the bench lineup had Josh's playmaking and break-through containment, and played an offensive pull.

Although Josh can't understand the complicated tactics, he has a good passing vision, and the complicated tactics are run by Middleton.

He just needs to pay attention to Middleton's position, as well as the Thunder's open space because of his offense.

For Josh, it doesn't run with CPU overload.

The relatively complicated tactics also ran, and Josh can also handle it, which is Su Chen's ideal effect on the bench lineup.

As for the defensive end.

McCollum really wanted to prove himself, but Beverley did a very good job of restricting McCollum.

Don't look at it, this is Beverley's second season in the league, but now Beverley is 25 years old, almost 26 years old.

Even in the years when he wasn't playing in the NBA, Beverley was honing his defensive skills.

On the contrary, McCollum is a pure first-year rookie.

When Beverley was teammates with McCollum, he was also watching McCollum's ball.

Especially when McCollum clamored to kick the Timberwolves out of the playoffs, Beverley had already made up his mind to give this guy a little color.

McCollum was under a lot of pressure against Beverley's mad dog-style defense.

Especially Beverley, because of his familiarity with him, his offensive line and timing, he played very uncomfortable against Beverley.

The Thunder spent such a big price on Ibaka, mainly in exchange for Gobert.

Curry Jr. is an addition, but McCollum is not that important to the Thunder.

Cultivating an interior like Gobert who doesn't need the ball doesn't have much impact on the Thunder's playoff goals.

But to develop a rookie like McCollum who needs the ball, the Thunder don't have the intention of spending too much effort to cultivate.

This team is still Dewey's team, and there is also a Reggie Jackson who also wants the ball.

The Thunder's ball was not enough.

After McCollum missed three times against Beverley, Fisher didn't give the ball away.

Originally, the three balls were given to Fisher to save face, because this was the rookie's grudge game.

But those three balls can't be said to be McCollum's feel problem.

The first ball was prevented by Beverley to the point that he couldn't shoot directly, and the next two balls were also under Beverley's defense and were forced to shoot with high difficulty.

What else is this fighting?

Fisher organized his own team to play tactics.

McCollum also regretted a little, he should have asked Gobert to block and pick-and-roll, but was provoked by Beverley.

You have to score it under Beverley's defense.

Now that Fisher doesn't give him the ball, he reacts and should find Gobert to play the pick-and-roll.

The Thunder's substitute dug directly for half a quarter.

Durant and Westbrook were forced to return early, and after chasing two balls, the Timberwolves were back in the main line.

Under the high-intensity defense of the Timberwolves, Ershao did not take advantage of anything.

Half-time.

Timberwolves 65:50 Thunder.

It's hard to imagine that the Thunder, who have Durant and Westbrook, were beaten like this in the face of the rebuilding Timberwolves.

After halftime.

In the second half of the game, the Thunder didn't make any big changes.

Scott Brooks wasn't originally good at making these changes.

At the same time, Su Chen has studied the Thunder so much, a regular season Scott Brooks doesn't want to expose too many things.

He originally belonged, there was something, but not much.

If the other teams learned how Su Chen cracked his tricks, then even if they won this game, they would still win and lose.

With Scott Brooks' inaction, the suspense of this game is slowly lost.

The game is over.

Timberwolves 125:108 Thunder.

The Timberwolves won a big win at home.

After winning the Thunder, the Timberwolves' record has also become: 26-7.

At the same time, because of the direct win against the Thunder, in the fight for the second place in the West, it is equivalent to two games in one game.

The Timberwolves are back in second place in the West.

(End of chapter)