NBA villain

Chapter 102 First in the West
The Timberwolves are in full swing, and after a painful period at the beginning of the season, they only lost 12 games in December, and their record jumped to No. 2 in the Western Conference.

The three-headed monster began to exert its power. The 35-year-old Cassell and the 34-year-old Sprewell surrounded the 28-year-old Garnett. This year was Garnett's ninth season in the Timberwolves.

The combination of veterans is less risky than the combination of young players. With a super giant and two All-Star players, the Timberwolves finally showed their sharpest fangs. Garnett probably waited long enough for this day Yes, as a lifelong opponent, Duncan has won the championship twice.

So the strength of the Timberwolves is terrifying, at least for today's Heat, it is not at the same level at all.Before the game, no one was optimistic that the Heat would beat the Timberwolves in an away game.

"I just went through an overtime with the Bucks yesterday. It would be strange to win this game." Odom thought that he might have to face Kevin Garnett, and he felt a little guilty.

"The key is that Caron hasn't made it to this game, and his knees are sore." Yang Di spread his hands, and also felt that the probability of winning this game was very small.

The players all think this way, and the coach is even more dull. In such a game, the mentality is relaxed first. It doesn't matter if you lose, you can win if you win.

So when the game started, Yang Di and others relaxed and did warm-up exercises.

Many fans came to watch in the Target Center arena. Because of the consecutive victories of the Timberwolves these days, this team has gradually attracted the attention of the public.

Yang Di didn't know anyone in the Timberwolves. After the warm-up was over, he returned to the bench and sat on the bench. At this time, the lights in the arena were turned off, and the Timberwolves began their appearance ceremony.

The passionate appearance of Garnett, Sprewell and Cassel stimulated the fans, and the cheers of the fans were particularly enthusiastic. Although they are not young, their style is still very strong.

The Timberwolves also started Trenton Hassell and Alvin Johnson, who had the same name as the great Lakers point guard "Magic" but was actually a black Louisiana center, Good at defense and rebounding.

Alston entered the starting lineup for the Heat, then Wade and Eddie Jones were flanked, and Odom and Grant formed the inside line.

At the beginning of the game, the Heat showed a weak state. For example, Odom lost his position at the basket, was grabbed by Garnett and then dunked the basket and scored two plus one. For example, Eddie Jones hit two consecutive three-pointers from the open At the front of the basket, a lot of opportunities were wasted, only relying on Wade's four free throws to score 4 points, and fell behind 4 to 11 in the opening game.

"Even if you lose, you can't give up the points!" Stan Van Gundy thought to himself, and called a timeout to adjust the state of the Heat players.

Then, Cassel made a layup and easily made a small pull in front of Grant, a 35-year-old veteran!

Odom missed a jumper, the Timberwolves were attacking, and Sprewell hit the Heat inside.

The ball was accidentally cut by Eddie Jones, and then the basketball hit his leg and went out of the baseline. The Heat finally successfully defended once, and it was entirely due to personal defense.

Van Gundy felt a little bad. If this continues, the Heat will have to spend less than one quarter.

He glanced at the bench. Yang Di was sitting upright, looking forward, neither humble nor overbearing, with the demeanor of a general.

Van Gundy nodded in satisfaction, thinking that Yang Di has matured a lot recently, why not try him instead?Anyway, in terms of physical strength, this guy should be relatively well preserved. He went out for a morning run early in the morning, didn't he?
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Yang Di appeared on the stage, "Axi, it's so cold."

He regretted not exercising well during the warm-up just now. Did the air conditioner be turned off in the Target Center?Is it necessary to save like this?
At this time, the first quarter was just over halfway, and the Timberwolves led the Heat by 15 points 8 to 7.

"Hey, change defense, buddy!" Odom ran over and secretly pulled Yang Di and said, "The number 21 is handed over to you, you know." Then he looked like I liked you, wait Yang Di responded and ran away.

Yang Di was very speechless, but in fact, Van Gundy had already asked him to defend Garnett before going on the court. He would switch defenses regardless of whether Odom said it or not.

He tightened his pants, and then walked to the frontcourt. After halftime, Alston had already had the ball for halftime.

At the 45-degree position of the three-point line, Wade singled out Sprewell. Sprewell is 1 meters tall, and he is also a fierce man who has been in the best defensive team. Although he is a bit old now, his physical function cannot be seen. No matter how much regress is made, the enthusiasm of the defensive end has always been very high.

It was not easy for Wade to break through him. After two cross-legged steps, he turned to the left.

The two confronted and went inside. Wade broke through halfway and distributed the ball to Eddie Jones on the other side. At this time, Yang Di ran out to serve as a pick and roll for Eddie Jones. After Eddie Jones single-blocked the screen With the shot, Yang Di was too far away from the basket and gave up the fight for offensive rebounds.

Garnett jumped up and grabbed the rebound, and the Heat quickly retreated.

After halftime, Cassel asked Garnett to come out to catch the ball, and Garnett in the high position took the ball to support him.

As a representative of the top power forwards in history, Garnett has unprecedented comprehensiveness in the position of power forwards. Especially this season, so far, not only has he scored 25+ points, but also averaged nearly 14 rebounds per game. Defensively 1.5 steals and 2.4 blocks.

The most embarrassing thing for the defenders is that, as a power forward, Garnett averaged nearly 6 assists per game. In fact, since the 99 season, Garnett has maintained a comprehensive data of 20+10+5.

High position support is already the most common tactic of the Timberwolves.

Yang Di crossed his legs and locked on Garnett's back. Because of Garnett's comprehensive range within the three-point line, he did not dare to make empty shots.

At this time, Sprewell on the right ran over to catch the ball, and made movements with both hands to catch the ball.

I saw Garnett grabbing the ball with both hands and drawing a big circle, and then suddenly took a big step with his right foot. On one side of his body, he actually broke through to the right with the ball.

The two actually just made a pretend cooperation, Garnett's breakthrough was too sudden!
The stride was too big, Yang Di stretched out his hand to block, Garnett swung his arm over, the two bounced off after touching each other, the body dived, and the speed increased to a higher level, faster than ordinary small forwards!
At this time, Yang Di was defending with his back to the basket, and it was too late to adjust his footsteps. He watched Garnett break through his defense.

Yang Di retreated behind Garnett, and Garnett jumped up in the paint area with one step. The jumping speed and jumping height were amazing. Yang Di took off in vain to chase the cap, but found that he couldn't reach it.

"boom!"

Garnett swung his feet to the back of the basket with strength, then hung the basket with his arms, turned around and fell down, glaring at Yang Di, who had also landed at this time, the spout was a trash talk .

"Rookie, your defense is terrible."

Yang Di was so angry that his chest was about to explode. Who the hell is this?Immediately, he responded without showing any weakness: "I am a rookie, and you are a veteran and have not seen you win the championship! What's the big deal?"

"Say it again!" Garnett hates people talking about winning the championship the most. The 28-year-old is indeed in the most embarrassing situation. The superstars at the same level have already won the championship, and if they don't win the championship at the peak, are they going to hold together like Karl Malone and Gary Payton when they get old?

So Yang Di poked his sore foot all at once, making him fly into a rage.

Yang Di snorted, ignored him, and ran forward.

Then Garnett's trash talk box was completely opened by Yang Di. After halftime, Odom voluntarily gave up on the original defense, and went to Yang Di to spout wildly. Yang Di replied with three sentences, but every time he poked him sorely , making him even angrier.

Odom was very happy. Garnett let go of him to defend Yang Di, and instantly felt that the whole world was clean, the air was so beautiful, and the lights were so gorgeous...

(End of this chapter)