Forward to the basket

How long will it take to slip from the top spot in the West to the bottom two in the West?If you ask diehard Minnesota fans that question, they'll tell you with a downcast face that it only takes two seasons.

It really only takes two seasons. At the beginning of the 03-04 season, no one believed that the Timberwolves could occupy the top spot in the West. Similarly, no one believed that Garnett could survive the first round of the playoffs. nightmare.

But those guys did it, especially they killed the famous Sacramento Kings in the seventh game. The score of [-] to [-] was enough for them to create the team's playoff history!

It was also the happiest season Minnesota fans can remember, enjoying every win.

They rushed to the Western Conference Finals. Although they fell at the feet of the Lakers in the end, everyone may think that the guys from the Timberwolves will definitely be able to make a comeback next season and overthrow the Lakers' dominance.

Especially when the Lakers were beaten by the Pistons in the Finals, that light seemed to be right around the corner.

Moreover, O'Neal decided to give up the Lakers' trip to Miami, and f4 was also dismantled. It seemed that the biggest opponent of the Timberwolves had automatically disintegrated, including fans and management, who believed that their opportunity had come.

But Sanders failed to continue his magic, and the Timberwolves, who started with a lot of problems, began to collapse.

Their regular season results have shrunk by at least 40.00%!Even if Kevin McHale came up, he couldn't save the team's decline. In the 04-05 season, they didn't even pass the threshold of the playoffs.

When everyone thought the future was bright, the Timberwolves did something to destroy the Great Wall.

This is still the case in the 05-06 season, and not only the team's poor record, but all the players who helped the team reach the Western Conference Finals have almost gone. The only one left is Garnett himself.

Cassell and Sprewell left due to salary issues, which is understandable. Maybe you can say that Sprewell is an old guy who is a big mouth for the Lions, but the incompetence of the Timberwolves management is also one of the reasons.

If they could finalize the details of the contract in advance, or make a backup plan earlier, maybe all of this would not have developed to such a degree. Unfortunately, there will never be regret medicine in this world.

Two of the three-headed monsters have left. If they can rely on those salary spaces to absorb some active players, the Timberwolves will not be in the bottom two in the West last season.

But their deal only changed Szczerbiak and Ogwakandi, and the recruited Ricky Davis and Mark Blunt couldn't provide Garnett with much help.

The tactical system that was built with great difficulty at the beginning was basically abolished after the disintegration of the three-headed monster.

And in this season's draft, the Timberwolves' management also very stupidly traded Brandon Roy to the Trail Blazers. They just got the ownership of Randy Foye.

The performance of these two rookies in the previous 20-odd games does not need to be judged too much by others. Without Rondo and Chen Feng, Roy can definitely dominate the rookie list this season.

Foye is actually not bad, but compared with Roy, he is not a little immature, and he can't bear the burden on Garnett's shoulders. No matter how you look at it now, this is a loss-making business.

Coach Dwayne Casey now only brings the team 8 wins and 14 losses. Although this guy also played four consecutive victories at the beginning of the game, the next is a wave of six consecutive losses.

Every winning streak they have is followed by a longer losing streak, and that's all Dwayne Casey has to offer, and Minnesota fans are pretty much starting to despair about this season.

In fact, it's not just them who are desperate. Kevin Garnett is probably the most desperate person, especially when he is alone on the court scoring points, but no one can help him.

Often the Timberwolves have only one offensive mode, that is, Garnett holds the ball and plays alone, and the rest of the team open up the space. As for whether they can play or not, it is not their concern at all.

Anyway, if he scored, it was Garnett's own data. If he couldn't score, they, bystanders, have no responsibility. After all, they are not the core of the team, they are just a group of passers-by.

"With a superhuman annual salary, you should carry the team forward!" At this time, no one will comfort Garnett. In his eyes, high school students with sky-high contracts must be worthy of those salaries and cannot complain.

Those unscrupulous reporters were waiting for Garnett to complain, get angry, or even abuse him. If this guy showed that kind of emotion, even if it was a sign, the reporters would amplify it infinitely.

Maybe in the eyes of those unscrupulous guys, Garnett is just a showman who earns a high salary but can't lead the team forward, or a pure stat machine.

In fact, Garnett has been in the NBA for so long. He has seen all kinds of situations, and there are times worse than this. It's just that it may be the first time he feels that life in Minnesota is so difficult.

The combination with Marbury and Gugliotta at the beginning, not to mention sweeping the West, at least made Zhu Qiang tremble with fear, but in the end it was because of his high salary that Marbury left here desperately.

Similarly, the departure of Cassell and Sprewell, in the eyes of many people, was also due to Gatney's high salary. If this guy didn't have the maximum salary, maybe the Timberwolves would have been the NBA champion long ago.

Although this guy has done a lot for the team, everyone is probably looking at his checkbook now.

You can never change someone's opinion, not even Joe's, so no matter how hard Garnett plays on the court, his life in Minnesota has become more and more difficult.

From the day Iverson left the 76ers, the news about Garnett's imminent departure has never been a secret in Minnesota. Although no one knows the exact time, it will definitely happen.

Even McHale did not firmly say that Garnett would not leave, and the puppet coach Dwayne Casey would not say anything, and the reaction of the fans was also not very strong.

When all this began to fade away, Garnett also knew that he might really have to go.

Maybe you have stayed in one place for too long, so long that people have gradually begun to get tired of your existence. This is what Garnett has to deal with now.

No one cares how much this guy has rewritten the history of the Timberwolves. Now all they can remember is the big contract of more than [-] million US dollars, not those brilliant statistics.

Garnett didn't know what his future would be like, but when he saw his former teammate Sprewell and his old opponent Webber in Boston, there was a kind of absurd black humor fermenting.

He's battled Webber more than once, but that guy isn't the gorgeous soul he was with the Sacramento Kings, and he, one day, might leave the Timberwolves.

And when Sprewell saw Garnett, he also opened his arms and hugged him, but at the beginning he fought against the enemy side by side, but now he is an opponent, which made Garnett a little dazed.

And Szczerbiak, the Timberwolves second-in-command who often needs Garnett to open up shots for him, is now very calm in front of the bench in Boston.

As for Ogwokandi, that is already in the past tense, but when facing these acquaintances and opponents, Garnett doesn't know how to describe his current mood.

Sour?Still depressed?It is estimated that only he himself can understand what he is feeling at the moment...

But Garnett knows that Boston is no longer a team that was at the bottom of the league like the Timberwolves last season. They are recovering and rising strongly, while the Timberwolves are still hovering at the bottom.

It's really a low point, a low point where there is no hope at all, even for a tough guy like Garnett.

When facing such a predicament of the Timberwolves, he can only guarantee that he will fight every game, but he cannot guarantee that the team will win.

This is a very desperate state. It is estimated that Pierce can definitely understand Garnett's loneliness at this moment.

Just like him, Garnett is now carrying a hopeless team forward in a physically and mentally exhausted situation. Although there are nearly [-] games left in the game, hope has long been extinguished .

Envious?Perhaps, at least when Garnett saw the gangsters in Boston, he at least hoped to have a few teammates like that by his side to help him share the pressure.

It's a pity, now that Garnett looks back, except for Dwayne Casey's silent expression, the rest of the guys are more numb.

Only Ricky Davis and Mark Blunt, who came from the Celtics, were going to counterattack their old owners, and the rest of them were obviously trying to be perfunctory.

The Timberwolves, who have lost five games in a row, obviously don't mind losing again at the North Shore Garden Arena.

Anyway, everyone knows that their goal is to be bad, so it's better to be completely bad. Even Dwayne Casey himself said helplessly before the game, "The team's current state has not recovered."

Has played more than 20 games in the regular season and has not recovered yet?Maybe when this season is over, Casey will still use this sentence to deal with reporters' interviews. Of course, the premise is that he can always be the coach.

Looking at No. 99 who was preparing for activities not far away, Garnett seemed to see the momentum he had when he first entered the NBA, the ubiquitous explosive power, as if he could injure his opponent at any time.

"Maybe I can't save this team, but I hope that before leaving, I can try my best to beat every opponent, boy, Boston may win this game, but I will never lose to you!"

While tidying up his wristbands, the wolf king, who silently licked his wounds, stood alone by the side of the field...

This may be a game with no chance of winning for the Timberwolves, but for Garnett, he will do his best to defeat every opponent standing in front of him.

When 21 meets 99, the field may be full of sparks...

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