Bishop of the Abyss

Chapter 8 8. The Power of the Wolf King
On October 10, the Timberwolves will be a guest at Golden State and challenge the Warriors away.

At the same time, this is also the second game after the head coach Luke landed in the NBA. It is worth mentioning that Luke's current NBA coaching winning percentage remains at 100%, ranking first in NBA history.

Even with Luke's [-]-[-] coaching record...

This season, the Warriors are not considered a strong Western Conference, let alone the favorites to win the championship, even if the Warriors currently have "Big Beard" Davis, "Slam Dunk King" Richardson, as well as Dunleavy Jr. and Troy Murphy.

But the Warriors' defense is too bad, and this cannot be solved by getting Baron Davis in the offseason.

And the current head coach of the Warriors is Montgomery, an unknown in the NBA, but a legend at the top of the pyramid in the NCAA.

Montgomery is the basketball godfather of NCAA Stanford University, and his entire coaching career has been perfect.

I am afraid that among the entire NCAA coaching group, the only one who can stabilize Montgomery is Old K.

However, coaching a college team is completely different from coaching an NBA team. At least when Montgomery announced in a high-profile manner that he will take over the Warriors coach this season, the outside world has always been full of doubts about Montgomery.

Even local Golden State fans don't have much hope, after all, the Warriors only played a team record of 37 wins and 45 losses last season.

Even if Montgomery has superb skills, fans don't believe that Montgomery can make this Warriors a whole new look.

So since Montgomery took office, he has been enduring exclusion and being questioned.

Especially when Montgomery has a great reputation in the NCAA, this makes many people want to see Montgomery's jokes, because people are like this, they are mediocre, but they still don't see others as good.

In fact, in the normal historical trajectory, Montgomery's coaching career was indeed very unsuccessful.

The reason for the failure, in addition to Montgomery's lack of control over the Warriors, was mainly because Montgomery's coaching philosophy was too advanced.

Yes, Montgomery is a coach who likes to let players shoot a lot, which is in great conflict with the league's offensive philosophy today.

At present, most teams in the league firmly believe that the closer the distance to the basket, the higher the shooting rate, so all teams try their best to hit the ball to the basket, even the "running and bombing master" D'Antoni No exception.

Although D'Antoni's bombardment tactics are fast and fast, the final finishing area is still under the basket.

But Montgomery's projection concept seems a bit out of tune with others today, which has always made Montgomery questionable, and was even labeled as the top ten worst head coaches in the NBA at the time.

However, as the league gradually entered the small ball era, more and more people began to line up to apologize to Montgomery.

It can only be said that Montgomery took over the coach in an era that did not belong to him, but in his era Montgomery did not have the energy to come back to coach.

As the first batch of tactical reformers of offensive concepts, Montgomery undoubtedly failed, because he only focused on offense and not defense.

But having said that, Montgomery has been able to stick to his coaching style in this period until he was finally kicked out by the NBA.

As a coach pioneer who wanted to overthrow the age of giants, the name Montgomery should be remembered by more people.

Before the game started, Luke called Kevin Garnett aside alone, and then said to him with a serious face: "Troy is a soft guy, I hope you can cut 30 on his head in this game." points or 40 points."

"I know you have this ability, and now Kevin (McHale) is actively contacting Carl. If Carl can join, he will become your most powerful helper in winning the championship."

"This season will also be your most hopeful year to win the championship. Because the OK combination disintegrated, the overall strength of the Western Conference is also declining. This kind of opportunity does not come every year."

"So you should know what to do on the field."

Garnett was a little impatient when he heard the first half of Luke's words, but at the end, Garnett was obviously interested.

"Lu, you and I are the same kind of people. I hope you can chatter less in normal times, but I like these words very much today."

"Don't worry, I will let the other side experience the feeling of being dominated." Looking at Troy Murphy who is about to play, Garnett said jokingly.

After the game started, the Timberwolves got the ball first. The Timberwolves' starting lineup for this game is: Kassel, Madman, Szczerbiak, Garnett, and Eddie Griffin.

The Warriors are: Baron Davis, Richardson, Dunleavy, Murphy, and Arnal Foyer.

From the lineup, it is not difficult to see how bad the Warriors' defense is.

Leaving aside the defensive efficiency of Baron Davis and Richardson, Dunleavy and Murphy are notorious defensive loopholes in the league.

Among them, Troy Murphy is one of the earlier batches of space-oriented insiders in the league, and his career three-point shooting percentage can reach about 39%.

But in this day and age, big players pull outside to shoot, which is seen as a kind of softball behavior.

Therefore, Troy Murphy's career has always been dubbed a softie. Even though Murphy is a seriously underestimated rebounding monster, he has won double-doubles in five seasons in his career.

But the poor lateral speed on the defensive end and the large number of three-pointers on the offensive end have made Murphy labeled as a soft guy, and it seems somewhat out of place with those black, hard, muscular men.

Of course, it's mainly because Murphy is white and didn't find the right way.

Most of Garnett's shots throughout his career were also mid-range, but no one ever said Garnett was a softie, and some even called Garnett "the league's first tough guy."

So sometimes a person's aura can completely cover up his offensive methods.

As soon as the game started, the Timberwolves were still playing horns, and the "alien" Cassel launched the offense. Garnett and Griffin lifted one up and cut down the other, and then Kassel decided the ball. to whom.

And Garnett has a lot of means on the offensive end, and he also has the league's top high-level support, which can also ensure that when the first wave of horns can't play the rhythm, Garnett can also initiate the second organization.

At least as long as all the Timberwolves players are in position, the team will definitely not stagnate on the offensive end.

Using the double screen formed by the pick-and-roll, Cassell found the opportunity to directly stick to Baron Davis and kill inside.

While Davis immediately straightened his body and followed Cassell's pace, Cassell directly returned the ball to Garnett with a back pass.

After receiving the pass, Garnett didn't hesitate at all, facing Murphy, he made a gesture to make a mid-range pull.

Seeing Kevin Garnett's raising his hand, Murphy jumped up to interfere, but Garnett's ball was a fake!

Picking up Murphy with a feint, Garnett took the ball and headed towards the inside, and then completed a brutal dunk in front of Foyer who came to defend! !

The impact brought by this dunk directly knocked the 250-pound Foyer out of the baseline, and after landing, Garnett raised his head to the sky and roared, tearing his jersey while showing a fierce look at Foyer. expression.

Even this scene can't help but wince Foyer, who after all has been a typical sidekick his entire career.

In a career-high season, he averaged 5.9 points per game.

In addition to the 250-pound body fat, Foyer has no ability to compare with "Wolf King" Garnett.

So in the case of being dunked at the beginning of the game, Foyer was really scared of Garnett in front of him.

In the next few rounds, the Warriors played relatively simple. On the offensive end, Baron Davis and Richardson let go.

Then Dunleavy and Murphy pulled to the two sides respectively, and they could raise their hands to shoot after receiving the ball. As for center Foyer, he tried his best to fight for rebounds.

However, due to Garnett's excellent defensive awareness and lateral speed on the defensive end, this made the Warriors' offense very uncomfortable.

Whether it is Baron Davis or Richardson, it is difficult for both of them to cross Garnett and break into the paint.

Even though Murphy has pulled Garnett out, Garnett can always rush out to help defend in unexpected positions, which made Baron Davis sluggish throughout the first quarter and could only float outside the three-point line Going to shoot threes.

On the other hand, the Timberwolves played well on the offensive end.

The Warriors' defensive efficiency is already at the bottom of the league, and the Timberwolves' offensive threat has soared this season, which also allowed the Timberwolves to defeat the Warriors' defense in only half a quarter.

With Garnett's excellent personal performance in the first quarter and his impeccable performance on both offensive and defensive ends, at the end of the first quarter, the Timberwolves led the Warriors by 11 points to end the game.

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