Honk!

Looking at the 10-3 score on the court, Rivers couldn't sit still and immediately called a timeout.

Rivers was a little panicked at this time.

As a chicken soup type coach, although his level of presence is there, it is not stable.

After the pre-game plan didn't work, Rivers' adjustments were a bit messy.

Rivers' tactical system relies not only on the star players in the team, but also on the assistant coaching team.

But after being swept away by the Clippers, he didn't take the assistant coach away from the Clippers, but used the Timberwolves' assistant coaching team.

The Timberwolves' assistant team sounds like a great team, after all, it is a championship assistant team, but in fact, only the Timberwolves themselves know.

Su Chen's dependence on the assistant coach team is very low, basically assigning tasks and letting the assistant coach help the players train.

At least the offensive and defensive tactical systems were all built by Su Chen himself.

It's just that the outside world doesn't think so.

What the outside world thinks is that the success of the Timberwolves does not depend on Su Chen alone, but on the entire coaching team.

That's what Rivers thinks too.

He felt that no matter how good Su Chen was, he wouldn't really rely on himself, bringing the Timberwolves from an out-of-playoff team to the height of a championship.

The coach that Su Chen took away from the Timberwolves is that Milosevic.

This coach Rivers understands that although he is the chief assistant coach, he is actually just a training assistant coach and is not related to the Timberwolves' offensive and defensive tactical system at all.

Rivers feels that in the Timberwolves' still teaching assistant team, there may be people with great talent.

Su Chen won the championship by relying on that person, what Su Chen can do, he can also do!

But throughout the season, Rivers reluctantly found that the Timberwolves' assistant coaching team was quite mediocre.

It's not even as good as he did it himself.

There is no team of assistant coaches to help him, and the Timberwolves' star is not so reliable.

Although Butler is offensive and defensive, in terms of pure offense, it is not a top-level ball carrying efficiency, and it is not so efficient.

Giannis Antetokounmpo, who Rivers was expecting, directly played a regressive season, which was even more unreliable.

Last season's FMVP Iguodala was just focused on playing support, and he was not as good as Butler in carrying the ball.

"It's one way to use three-pointers against Jokic's defense, but the Timberwolves are the least suitable team in the playoffs to use three-point offense, right?"

Kenny Smith said helplessly.

"There were a lot of rounds when Jokic was just dropping, but the Timberwolves didn't shoot those three-pointers."

Barkley commented.

The commentators also know what the Clippers' weaknesses are.

Jokic has shown freewheeling dominance on the offensive end, scoring when he wants and scoring when he wants.

Jokic relies on his huge size and full power, allowing him to show an unrivaled performance on the offensive end.

On the other hand, his large size allows him to do whatever he wants on the offensive end, but on the defensive end, he can't always ask an athlete of this size to switch to the perimeter.

Jokic's rim is acceptable, but he can hardly switch defenses, which is also a disadvantage brought about by Jokic's strengths.

However, the Clippers' rotation is too fast, and it is still difficult for ordinary teams to punish Jokic with three-pointers.

Just like the Timberwolves now.

Obviously not good at three-pointers, but I want to use three-pointers to target, so that the whole team can't play.

"Even if you want to punish the Clippers with a three-pointer, you should go to Middleton."

Johnson said at this time.

Although Middleton has not yet reached the level of an elite scorer this season, he is already above the level of the scorer.

But Rivers just doesn't.

However, this is not strange to Su Chen on the other side.

Rivers can do in the 76ers, obviously the team lacks defense, but he doesn't give Milton Thybulle too many plays.

It's normal to make things like Middleton that teams need three-pointers but aren't good at three-pointers.

Honk!

At this time, the suspension ends.

Originally, it was expected that Rivers would let Middleton, who had a better three-point game, play.

But after the timeout, it was found that the Timberwolves' lineup even replaced Iguodala, who was the best three-pointer on the court, and replaced Josh Smith.

Josh Smith's three-pointer is simply outrageous.

It's too much of a Rivers.

The game continues.

Rivers let Josh Smith play purely because he felt that Jokic's offense couldn't stop it, so he let Josh Smith defend Jokic.

However, when Josh came on the court, he was less effective defensively than Giannis Antetokounmpo.

And with Josh and Giannis Antetokounmpo, two guys with a three-point difference, the Timberwolves' offense is even more difficult.

For the remainder of the first quarter, Rivers called another timeout to make adjustments.

But with Rivers' ability to adjust, in the face of the current situation, there is obviously no way.

End of the first session.

Clippers 32:19 Timberwolves.

The score in a single quarter did not even exceed 20 points, so you can imagine how poor the Timberwolves' offense was.

On the contrary, the Clippers' offense is very fluid.

Rivers is a mess of Jokic's defense, one will defend one-on-one, one will help and one will pack.

Maybe Rivers is trying to disrupt Jokic's offensive rhythm with these chaotic and complex defensive methods.

But Jokic's ball quotient is very good at dealing with situations like this, whether it's scoring on his own or finding gaps to pass the ball.

On the contrary, it is because of the frequent defensive changes that make the Timberwolves' defense a mess.

Even Su Chen, who was on the opposite side, couldn't help but shake his head when he saw the Timberwolves' defense.

Why did the Timberwolves win the championship last season?

It's actually defense.

The Timberwolves' offense is not strong even with the blessing of his system, but the defense is the first echelon in the league.

But in the face of Jokic's core style of play, the Timberwolves' defense was chaotic.

In the next game, Rivers still didn't make any effective adjustments.

The score difference between the two sides has been maintained at about 20 points.

The Clippers are all about playing one hand offense.

The Timberwolves finally fought back in waves, and the Clippers will be able to catch up immediately.

Jokic's point, with the skill of [Low Heavy Weapon], already has some flavor of peak Jokic.

While Giannis Antetokounmpo is also an MVP-caliber player, it looks like he has played one more season than Jokic.

But now one is a real rookie, and the other is close to peak loading.

The conversation between the two MVPs, Jokic entered the peak state early, leaving Giannis Antetokounmpo unable to defend at all.

Lillard and George are in their prime, and they are close to their prime, both athletically and athletically.

Although these two people face high-intensity defense, it is difficult to assume the role of the core of the team, or the ceiling with them as the core is not high.

But now that Jokic has attracted the center of gravity defensively, the talent of these two on the offensive end has been explosively displayed.

Lillard is like getting a Curry experience card, whether it is with Jokic's cover blocking, or attracting the defense after running without the ball to catch the three-point shot, he is very efficient.

When the team was a little stagnant, George was cold at this time and made a few dry pulls outside the three-point line and carried excessive ball possession.

George's three-pointers with the ball weren't accurate, but it was a situation where the opposing team was targeting defense, and with Jokic and Lillard attracting a lot of defense, his offense was much easier.

can be regarded as being able to carry this part of the ball.

At the same time, on the bench, there is also Rondo with the substitute to sort out the offense in an orderly manner.

This is still very different from the chaotic battle of the Timberwolves bench.

This allowed the two teams to maintain a score difference of more than 20 points until the final few minutes of the quarter.

"The Timberwolves just lost like that, and it looks a little bit different from what they were doing before the game."

Johnson said helplessly.

Originally, the battle between these two teams was still very attractive, after all, for the coaches of both sides, the opposing team is the former club.

This game should be a lot more intense.

But judging from the performance of the game on the court, the Clippers have even been playing with the Timberwolves with spare energy.

It's really playing.

As long as the Timberwolves chase hard, the Clippers will also make efforts at the same time, so that the Timberwolves will not be able to catch up.

"Is this the defending champion team, it doesn't look as much as the Spurs are putting pressure on the Clippers."

Barkley laughed.

At least from the current perception, the Timberwolves are indeed not as strong as the Spurs show.

"It's hard to imagine a team that was invincible all the way last season to become like this, just because of the absence of Lore Deng and a change of manager?"

Kenny Smith shook his head.

Lore Deng is actually just a 3-and-D player with a little bit of ball-handling, and the All-Star fringe level, even if there is a weakening, it is not so much weakened.

Looking at it this way, after the two sides exchanged coaches, there was a big gap.

"Jokic is so smart to play, it's just a pleasure to watch him play!"

O'Neal has long expressed his appreciation for Jokic.

Because O'Neal has always felt that he is a technical center like Jokic.

As the game entered garbage time, both sides also changed their main players.

Honk!

The game is over.

Clippers 115:93 Timberwolves.

This much-talked-about game ended with a big win for the Clippers.

At the same time, the big score between the two sides became: Clippers 1-0 Timberwolves.

Although it is only a one-game lead, after watching this game, the Clippers' dominance is simply not at the same level as the Timberwolves.

The Timberwolves went from a championship team to an ordinary playoff team in one season.

This made people appreciate Su Chen's super ability again.

And tonight is also Jokic's proof battle!

Whether it is from Jokic's appearance before the game to the C position.

Or from the first quarter, Jokic's supercore style of play was formulated.

Jokic turned these balls and tactical positions into points and assists.

Jokic had a super triple-double of 32 points, 15 rebounds and 13 assists in this game, which is outrageous for a rookie.

This made some Lillard and George fans have to accept this statistic.

Jokic really seems to be a better fit to be the boss of this team.

And Lillard and George also seem to be really more suitable to be deputy than team bosses.

Fans of George and Lillard actually know what the shortcomings of their favorite stars are.

But with Jokic, their shortcomings were covered and they played in their most comfortable state.

Victory can mask a lot of problems.

Now the Clippers players don't think about who is the boss of the team, everyone is cheering for the victory.

Looking at the scene of the Clippers cheering, Butler looked at the other side and had mixed feelings.

He remembers them last season.

"Is it just because of the gap in coaches?"

Butler was clearly a little unwilling.

And the other Timberwolves players are in a similar mood at this time.

Rivers glanced at Su Chen's position hatefully, and then walked out of the players' tunnel.

Next.

The news about the battle between the Timberwolves and the Clippers has successfully become a hot search in the news.

The Warriors' victory over the Rockets was more lackluster.

A Rockets team led by Harden wants to compete with the Splash Brothers, which is almost meaningless.

The victory or defeat of the Warriors and the Rockets is not so suspenseful in the first place.

Judging by the past results.

The Clippers are the up-and-coming superteam, the Timberwolves are the defending champions, and the two teams swap coaches.

This was supposed to be a series with the least suspense.

But judging from the G1 game, the gap between the Timberwolves and the Clippers is even bigger than the gap between the Rockets and the Warriors.

"The Clippers beat the Timberwolves, Su Chen proves that he is the best coach!" 》

"The defending champions are out of the game, and the Timberwolves are worse than last season, and Rivers has doubts about his level. 》

"The Timberwolves' Decline, Su Chen or Luol Deng? 》

For the media, it is to output the traffic with the wind.

The Timberwolves lost like this, and it was still a small team, so naturally they wanted to be as black as they wanted.

And the Clippers are too strong now, and as a big ball market, there will naturally be no shortage of traffic.

Whether it is the big ball market of the Clippers themselves or Su Chen's fame, the Clippers are generally praised by the media.

Especially Jokic, the superstar who has risen in a big ball market like the Clippers, and his popularity and value have risen.

That is, Jokic is an inside line, and Jokic is an outside line with a strong style of play, so the current Jokic will be directly full of popularity.

Even if it's just an insider, it's now being given some messy titles by the media.

What a big dream in the new era, the league's future No. 1 center, interior magician or something.

Jokic's popularity is so high that the league has even moved their minds to Jokic and wants to praise the new captain of the Clippers.

But right now, the league doesn't really plan to praise Jokic.

In other words, even if you want to win it, you can't hold it now.

Even if Jokic is now the boss of the Clippers, Jokic is not the kind of playful after all, and his personality is not so flamboyant.

The league's way to pick up stars is simple, and that's to give superstars a whistle.

Now the center of gravity of the league is actually still on Curry, a super powerhouse in the small-ball era who has won the FMVP.

And after Curry, there is also James, the top of the old era, which must be the first to be considered by the league.

(End of chapter)