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Chapter 22 Wolf King Al Jefferson

"Hi, rookie, welcome to the NBA!" After warming up, Yan Hua, who was jumping the ball on behalf of the King, had just walked into the middle circle when he saw a black and strong man with a beard coming from the opposite side. After the circle, Yan Hua was sent the cordial greetings that most veteran players in the NBA would send to rookies.

"Thank you." I don't know if it was intentional or because his English is not very good, Yan Hua didn't seem to hear the teasing in Al Jefferson's words, but instead smiled and said thank you to Al Jefferson, which made Al Jefferson Al Jefferson was a little confused about the situation.

Al Jefferson is the boss of the Timberwolves. He can play both the center and power forward positions. However, after coming to the Timberwolves, Al Jefferson has been playing at the 5th position. Ferson averaged 21 points and 11 rebounds per game last season. He was the only 4 players who averaged 20+10 per game that season. However, due to the poor record of the team, Al- Jefferson was not selected for the All-Star and the best team last season, which made Al Jefferson feel uneasy all the time, thinking that he had been treated unfairly, and after the start of the new season, the Timberwolves were labeled by the outside media After being the favorite to sign the No. [-] pick, Al Jefferson became even more angry. He tried his best to prove himself in the new season. The game is undoubtedly a good opportunity for the Timberwolves to get off to a good start.

It’s funny to say that, whether it’s the Kings or the Timberwolves, they would kill them without acknowledging their identity. In the team meeting, the goals that the Kings and Timberwolves set for themselves this season were also to fight against each other. Entering this season's playoffs, as for today's game, the Kings and Timberwolves both regard each other as meat on their own chopping boards, and want to use a big victory to get their new season off to a good start.

Al Jefferson, who is 2 meters tall with shoes on, is significantly shorter than Yan Hua. However, when jumping the ball, Al Jefferson defeated Yan Hua without any suspense. Although he was not tall enough , but I can jump high, and compared to Al Jefferson, who has been jumping the opening ball for several years, Yan Hua is still a real rookie, and Yan Hua is obviously inexperienced in choosing the timing of the jump.

"Boy, you're going to be miserable today." After the jump ball was successful, Al Jefferson looked at Yan Hua who was retreating with ill intentions. Statistics, no matter how badly he abused him, it is not something to show off, but it is still very good to use him as a flag for the Timberwolves' new season.

After making up his mind, Al Jefferson trotted all the way to the right side of the paint area, leaned against Yan Hua to occupy his position, and then moved towards his own point guard Sebastian Telfair who was in possession of the ball. Reach out for the ball.

After receiving a pass from Sebastian Telfair, Al Jefferson leaned against Yan Hua with his back, ready to play the rookie who looked a little thin in the back, but in the back After pushing back twice, Al Jefferson discovered that this little guy is not weak, and he seems to be very experienced in defending back singles. He pushed twice in a row, but he failed to enter his own The best shooting range.

Al Jefferson, who is known as the "low-post offensive kaleidoscope", will not give up this offensive opportunity because his post-up attack is blocked. Therefore, after two consecutive post-up singles failed to get the ideal opportunity, Al-Jefferson Just using his excellent footsteps to sway left and right, after feeling the body of the player defending him behind him began to move, Al Jefferson quickly turned halfway to the left side of his body, and used the jumper hook to throw the basketball in his hand to up the basket.

"Little guy, this is the beginning, I will leave you a very good memory, enjoy this game." Although at the same time Al Jefferson turned around, Yan Hua posted it again, and stretched out Out of his long and slender arms trying to interfere with Al Jefferson's shooting, but Al Jefferson hit the hook very easily, and after hitting the first goal of the game , Al Jefferson challenged Meng Xu.

"Good defense." Al Jefferson turned around and hit a hook, but Reggie Toyes on the sidelines didn't mean to blame Yan Hua. Instead, he clapped his hands at Yan Hua and gave him To encourage.

"Sure enough." Although Yan Hua ended in failure in his first defense after the opening, this failure also verified that the description of Al Jefferson in the system is accurate. The introduction to Al Jefferson is correct, so in the subsequent defense, Yan Hua can take advantage of Al Jefferson's weakness and make targeted defenses.

"Nice, Al, blow up this little rookie." After Al Jefferson scored the first goal in the opening game, a group of drinking fountain administrators on the Timberwolves bench gave the boss a lot of face, directly They rushed to the sidelines waving towels, shouting and shouting their "praise" and "loyalty" to Al Jefferson.

Yan Hua, who was running to the front court, heard the howling ghosts and wolves on the sidelines, and ignored them. Instead, he frowned and continued to run to the front court. As a rookie, although he was arranged by the head coach to start the game, But Yan Hua also knows that he will basically not get any chance to attack today, because there is no place for Yan Hua in the king's current offensive tactics, so it is impossible for Yan Hua to use a beautiful attack to counter them. They shut up.

After arriving in the frontcourt, Yan Hua was entangled with Al Jefferson about three meters away from the basket, although Yan Hua knew that even if he occupied Al Jefferson's defense Given an excellent position, it is impossible for him to receive a pass from his teammates, so Yan Hua's entanglement with Al Jefferson is completely preparing for the next offensive rebound.

Sure enough, as Yan Hua expected, the king's outsiders would rather pass the basketball back and forth on the outside than pass the basketball inside and hand it over to themselves or Drew Gooden. Fortunately, Kevin Martin's The off-ball movement is quite good. After several consecutive transfers of the ball, Kevin Martin completely got rid of Randy Foye who was defending himself, and made an open shot from the three-point line.

"The ball is too short." Yan Hua, who was used to Kevin Martin's shots in training, looked at the obviously low arc this time, and Yan Hua knew that Kevin Martin would never make this shot. , so Yan Hua is already judging the placement of the offensive rebound.

"Left? Or right?" Seeing that the basketball thrown by Kevin Martin was about to touch the basket, Yan Hua couldn't care less, so he could only choose to be fooled: "I chose the left. "

"It turned out to be right." While Yan Hua was starting towards the left side of the basket, the basketball that hit the front of the basket bounced in the direction where Yan Hua started.

When the other players on the court were judging where the rebound would land, Yan Hua, who had been prepared for a long time, caught the basketball that rebounded into the air before everyone else landed. He grabbed the basketball with one hand and smashed it towards the hoop.

(End of this chapter)