Bishop of the Abyss

Chapter 97 97. Minnesota not only has the wolf king, but also the whip of God!

As the Timberwolves defeated the Heat in the G4 game, the total score of the series was rewritten to 3:1. At present, the Timberwolves have successfully held the match point and are only one step away from winning the championship.

After all, as of now, no team in NBA history has ever been able to complete a comeback after falling behind 1:3 in the finals.

Although records are meant to be broken, the Heat faced the Timberwolves in this year's finals. Not only did the stars perform poorly, but the role players had little room to play.

In addition to the Heat coach Stan Van Gundy's poor use of role players, the main reason is that the Timberwolves' defense is too strong.

In other words, the overall defense of this Timberwolves surpasses that of the Spurs, and it is the most powerful team in the league today.

The defensive weakness of the Timberwolves is that the back line is relatively empty. There is no player on the back line who can completely lock the opponent's star one-on-one.

Even Salmons, who has the strongest defensive ability on the back line, is just a rookie. He has just started to get on the right track under Luke, and he is far from the "old bastard" like Bruce Bowen of the Spurs.

Trenton Hassell, the only one with excellent defensive ability who can barely deal with Wade in one-on-one, is also unable to play due to suspension. Therefore, in terms of individual defensive ability, the Timberwolves are indeed inferior to the Spurs, Pistons and Pacers. Several teams.

However, the overall defense of the Timberwolves is particularly good, especially the assist defense speed and fill rotation are the top in history.

This also allows the Timberwolves to attack a certain star unscrupulously on the defensive end, and makes it difficult for the opponent to have too obvious open opportunities.

Of course, the Timberwolves can build today's defense, in addition to the great contribution of assistant coach Raymond, the head star Garnett is the defensive axis of this Timberwolves.

Compared with other top stars in the league, Garnett's offensive ability is indeed not outstanding, but Garnett's defensive ability is superior to other stars. In terms of his overall ability, Garnett is definitely the best superstar in today's league. One of the giants!

Especially after successfully winning the MVP in this year's regular season, Garnett, who is currently the regular season MVP, has far surpassed Duncan in fame.

There is no way, Duncan is too low-key in the league. Even if his personal strength is top in the league, there are many people who can overwhelm Duncan in terms of popularity. The All-Star voting is proof of this.

With the Timberwolves currently holding the match point 3:1 and about to win the 04-05 season championship trophy, Garnett's influence in Minnesota has been unprecedented, even more appealing than Kobe in Los Angeles force.

It is foreseeable that once the Timberwolves successfully win the championship trophy this year, Garnett will not only be a god in terms of personal honor for a season, but also explode in popularity and word of mouth!

Even if you look at the entire league, Kevin Garnett's personal influence is currently one of the best. Even LeBron James, who the league intends to promote, can only lean back and temporarily hand over the center stage to Garnett to perform.

In addition, the success of the Timberwolves has also made the name of Luke completely popular in the basketball world. Before Luke entered the fans' vision, it was mainly because of field fights and some negative news.

Even though Luke, as the head coach, is very popular in today's league, most people pay attention to Luke only because Luke is a cruel guy who often instigates players to conflict with other people on the field
However, people have always questioned Luke's coaching ability. After all, Luke is too young, and at the age of 35, he is simply called a young coach in the coaching industry.

Due to the confusion brought about by age, this makes fans choose to subconsciously underestimate Luke's coaching ability, thinking that Luke can lead the Timberwolves to such a record. The main reason is to pick the peaches of the former head coach Old Sanders.

No way, although the Timberwolves last season were not as explosive as this season, after all, they also played the first and second record in the Western Conference.

The heritage preserved by the Timberwolves is far beyond people's imagination, which also makes Luke's coaching reputation more difficult.

Even if Luke leads the team to a better record than the old Sanders, the doubts that can be tolerated are far more than when the old Sanders coached the Timberwolves.

However, with the end of the regular season, Luke led the team all the way through the playoffs, and the fans' perception of Luke was forced to refresh again and again.

Against the Rockets in the first round of the playoffs, Luke's blockade of big centers Yao Ming and Tracy McGrady was unscrupulous, limiting the overall efficiency of the two very poorly, which also allowed the Timberwolves to easily complete the promotion with a big score of 4:1. The whole process was not muddled at all.

Not to mention the second round of the playoffs against the Supersonics. The infinite switch defense developed by the Timberwolves directly destroyed the Supersonics' perimeter system, and there was no suspense in the 4:0 easy sweep.

Against the Spurs in the Western Conference Finals and against the Heat in the Finals, Luke used his wisdom to refresh the fans' perception of him in each round of the series.

In each round of the series, Luke has a way to block the opponent's offense, making the opponent's offense far below his season average, and using defense to destroy the opponent time and time again.

The key is that the Timberwolves, whose defensive ability can be called terrifying, are also amazing on the offensive end. The double shot from outside the three-point line not only did not make the Timberwolves' efficiency bleak, but also allowed this team to play a top-six offense in the league. efficiency.

Especially after entering the playoffs, the Timberwolves not only showed no mercy, but became more and more stable on both offensive and defensive ends, as if responding to outside doubts with practical actions.

Originally, the outside world has been questioning that this Timberwolves team is likely to be a dragon in the regular season and a worm in the playoffs. The reason is that because Luke has no experience in the playoffs, he may show flaws in real tough battles.

But now when the Timberwolves hold the match point 3:1 in the finals and the Heat have no power to fight back, these doubts from the outside world are gradually disappearing, and the praise for Luke is picking up wave after wave.

Looking at the entire league, Luke's influence may not be as shocking as the past and present, but in the city of Minnesota, the word Luke represents "God"!
If the awakening of "Wolf King" Garnett is the treasure of the entire Minnesota, and Garnett is the hero of the city of Minnesota, then Luke, who is the whip master, is the god of this Timberwolves.

Luke brought not only rebirth, blood and hope to the Timberwolves, but at the same time Luke also instilled soul into this team.

Twisting his players into a single rope and fighting hard, killing many favorites to win the championship this season in a row and ascending to the throne, Luke deserves the title of "The Whip of God in Minnesota"!
Before, Minnesota fans always liked to use "Godfather in Black" to describe this rookie bishop who has just entered the NBA league. I believe that after tomorrow, there is a high probability that Luke will be called one more, and that is the famous "Champion Coach"!
(End of this chapter)