In the basketball world, starting from the 99 World Youth Championship

Chapter 277 The playoffs start well
The best rookie, the best head coach, and the best general manager, these three awards belong to the Grizzlies, and the MVP should also be awarded. Although Iverson played his peak, he still had no choice but to meet A hanger, that is an existence that he will never be able to catch up with.

The opponent of the Grizzlies in the first round is the Timberwolves. The opponent's record is 47-35, and they have less point guards like Billups than in the historical space. Victorious.

Originally, if the yin-yang contract case did not break out, the Timberwolves might be able to go a little further, but unfortunately there is no such thing. At 4:21 pm on April 05st, the first matchup between the two sides in the playoffs officially started.

The Timberwolves still sent a lineup of Trier Brandon, Anthony Peeler, Dean Garrett, Garnett, and Wallis Zebiak, and the Grizzlies still had five regular season players unchanged. Nate didn't dare to come up and spout trash talk, the words bullying and fearing the hard had already been written on his face.

Philip Sanders' defensive tactics against Zhang Tian are single defense, not double-teaming. He let Anthony Peeler go to the third position, and Wallis Zebiak is in the second position. Although the former's height is a problem, at least Being able to compete with Zhang Tian in terms of tonnage and strength, coupled with Garnett's supplementary defense, it will take a lot of effort for Zhang Tian to toss around in the Timberwolves' double-team.

Faced with double-teaming, Zhang Tian chose the same as Philip Sanders thought—passing the ball, but instead of going inside as Philip Sanders thought, he passed it outside, and the person who caught the ball was Mike Bibby. The White Devil got the ball, did not dribble, turned around and passed Trier Brandon, came to the left waist of the inside line, shot directly from the middle distance, and the ball was scored. The Grizzlies played like this this season. They don't play the kind of show where five people touch the ball all over the court, and whoever has the opportunity takes the shot.

Bibby scored two points in the opening game. The [-] No. [-] player played in the playoffs for the first time, and he seemed very excited.Trier Brandon is a point guard with good physical fitness. His weakness and shortcoming is defense, so Bibby likes to play against this kind of opponent the most. He is not afraid of scoring against the opponent, but he is afraid of Kidd. If I don’t score, you don’t need to score either. If I score, you still can’t score.Fortunately, there are only two point guards in the league who play like this. Stockton is old. Otherwise, it would be really difficult to fight against the No. [-] position in the Western Conference playoffs.

On the Timberwolves side, Trier Brandon quickly pushed forward and threw the ball to Garnett who was at the top of the arc. Garnett held the ball and began to look for his teammates. Fortson opened in front of him. Opening his hands and swaying non-stop, Harder handed the ball to Dean Garrett. He singled Yao Ming inside. As a result, under Yao Ming's delay, the ball missed and the rebound was caught by Fortson. He made a long pass to find Zhang Tian, ​​the latter finished scoring.

The Timberwolves trailed [-]-[-] at the start, and Sanders did not call a timeout. In the next round, Trier Brandon used his personal ability to break through Bibby, Zhang Tian came to the flank of Wallis Zebiak, and Eddie Jones bullied each other together. As for defending Trier Brandon, there is no need at all. The current Timberwolves point guard, under the ravages of injuries, can only score by layups. What substantial benefits for the Timberwolves.

Trier Brandon didn't pass the ball, he chose to shoot himself, and the ball hit the iron, the rebound was protected by Garnett, Garnett left a small hook, the ball went out of the basket, but Garnett relied on good The rebound sense got the rebound again. This time he rushed to the rebound and dunked the ball. The Timberwolves broke the scoring drought, but Garnett did not beat his chest to celebrate. The Auto Arena, because of the chest-thumping celebration, was almost beaten. This arena is really the scariest arena in the league.So keep it low-key.

Zhang Tian began to control the rhythm of the game. Taking advantage of Garnett's entanglement with Fortson on the outside, he jumped directly from the middle distance. After a period of gliding, he put the ball into the net.

On the defensive end, Zhang Tian still didn't care about Anthony Piller. He focused all his attention on Wallis Zebiak. This guy didn't fight Three-Tailed Fox, and his hatred value was still very high.

Philip Sanders was hesitant on the sidelines. He wanted to change to the second handsome guy in the league, but if he went down, the Timberwolves would not have a point for outside three-pointers, and other people's three-pointers were not as terrifying as him.At present, teams in the league have begun to pay attention to this technology, including the Timberwolves. Sanders very much hopes that Garnett can also practice three-pointers, but Harder refused. If it is an outside talent, he is a tough guy and an insider.

So if Garnett also practices outside three-pointers, then the impact on the entire battle situation will be unprecedented.It's a pity that Garnett didn't listen to the coach.

He feels that his current development is very good, he is versatile, and he can help the team very well.

But this is just Garnett's wishful thinking. After experiencing the yin and yang contract, Glen Taylor lost dozens of pounds.He regretted giving Garnett such a big contract. Without that huge contract, the Timberwolves would not be what they are now.

And that contract, I was obviously cheated by Garnett and his agent, the other party was not worth that much money at all, he just opened his mouth like a lion, but the other party took it seriously. It was lard, or it wasn't his money at all, and he didn't feel any distress or guilt when he spent it.

In the end, the Timberwolves were not upset in the away game. With the outside core blocked, Garnett shouldered the burden of scoring, but scoring has never been his strong point. His strength is all-around, so Garnett scored all The game's highest score of 35 points was still lost in the away game. Zhang Tian scored 24 points, 7 rebounds, 6 assists, and 3 steals.

Garnett is on the third team this season and defends the second team. He can bring the currently unwatchable Timberwolves into the playoff sequence, which already shows his ability to lead the team, but he did not win the finals No matter how brilliant the process is in the middle of the victory, it is also an idiot.

So on the second day, the major news and media did not exaggerate this matter, but other games were interesting, such as the defending champion Pacers, led by Isiah, directly from the first in the league, It became the eighth in the Eastern Conference. If the record of 41-41 comes to the Western Conference, there is a high probability that they will not be able to enter the playoffs.

(End of this chapter)