New Century Basketball Frenzy

Chapter 277 Against Timberwolves

After the regular break, the Los Angeles Lakers immediately returned to regular season training and games.Although a wave of away games has established their leading position in the Western Conference, the Golden State Warriors and San Antonio Spurs are still strong after all, and they quickly caught up...

And in the case of one game less, the Lakers are only one game ahead of the two teams, which means that as long as they lose, their top spot in the league will have to be handed over.

Of course, Zhang Yi and others hope to bring the winning streak to the match against the Golden State Warriors or the San Antonio Spurs.But the games against both teams are at the end of December, a Christmas game, and a Lunar New Year game.

Who knows how this season's schedule is formulated, it seems to have guessed at once that the Western Conference will become a tripartite force for these three teams in the new season.

So the goal of the Los Angeles Lakers is not to accept the upset, and then strive for the biggest winning streak.Since being reduced to a fish belly, the last time he won more than ten consecutive victories even dates back to the era when James Jr. was at his peak.

Los Angeles fans have been looking forward to the miracle for too long, and the legend of the 33-game winning streak is still written on this stadium.It's just that things are different, and now leading the Lakers has changed from black?white people?It was replaced by the yellow-skinned boy from the east!

Zhang Yi's performance in the new season is definitely in line with everyone's expectations for him, because he led the team to a wave of winning streak, and averaged 28 points, 9 rebounds, 7 assists, 3 blocks and 5 steals per game. Best, and best of the month in the West!
This is already the highest recognition that can be obtained for a rookie.Of course, this year's rookies are also regarded as monsters, because in addition to Zhang Yi, the Eastern Conference's Best of the Week was also taken away once by this year's No. [-] pick Varanda and Tanhualang Sean.

Although the best of the month is still "robbed" Thomas, everyone knows that the players of the golden generation don't seem to have a rookie wall.These people are rising rapidly, as if vowing to change the alliance into a new era!
Next up for the Los Angeles Lakers is a flight to Minnesota against last year's No. [-] Timberwolves in the Western Conference.Although this team is one of the few teams in the league with thin championship genes, it has been sticking to the NBA, which can explain the Minnesota people's love for basketball.

Their luck has been really bad. In order to get the current head star Barnes, they paid a first-round pick this year.

Because this was already a deal three years ago, who would have thought that the quality of this year's rookies would be so good.The manager of the Timberwolves can only admit that he is unlucky.

And what makes them even more uncomfortable is that although they made the playoffs last season, they were still ruthlessly swept by the San Antonio Spurs.Star small forward Barnes completely lost on the offensive end also gave the team a big hidden danger.

In the preseason, the Timberwolves coach also intends to let Barnes play to regain his state.But wayward, he ignored the instructions, and even declared that he didn't need to regain his feeling through the game.After all, he is a star in charge, even the coach can only change his face.

But after the start of the new season, Barnes still averaged more than 25 shots per game, and the player's usage rate was at the forefront of the league.His shooting percentage is still lost in the 40% or so.And that's not even his 50-point shooting.The regular attack frame even includes less than [-]% of layups, which is completely sorry for the name of the core.

So in order to continue to hit the playoffs, instead of listening to the boss's wishes, the coach can only start looking for deals.The biggest problem now is that Barnes has to be able to sell his worth before he can trade.

In this game against the Lakers, Barnes is facing off against the super rookie Zhang Yi, so it is just a good opportunity to let everyone know that he has not changed his mind.

In order to allow him to perform well, the team also changed their tactics especially in this game.In the past, it was more singles after handing the ball to Barnes. Success or failure depends entirely on his performance in this game.But now, the coach has refined the team's tactics.

It allowed Barnes to increase his off-ball running, and by the way, he also raised the team's center forward, allowing the two to start playing off-ball screens.All purpose is to hope that he can hit a higher shooting percentage in the game.

In this era of solidified small forward strength rankings, there is still a market for players like Barnes who can shoot and defend to a certain extent.It's just that the recent performance is too watery.

The Timberwolves coach is naive enough to think this guy will be as hot as he was when he was traded a few years ago.Of course, if Zhang Yi can be guarded against and score efficiently, it is not impossible to get good chips.

Flying to Minnesota, Zhang Yi and others also visited the memorial hall here after training.Although the team history of the Timberwolves is much darker than that of the Lakers and Spurs, after all, in their best era, Garnett brought them to the finals.

Although this team also stole a championship in the last ten years, there is really nothing to say about that civilian team.

No matter what is interesting, there is also a sculpture of a gay man in a prominent position in the memorial hall. According to the introduction, he was a die-hard fan of Garnett back then, although he was expelled because of his first rape.But when KG came home at the end of his career, he was specially invited back.

It is legendary enough for a fan to get himself into a memorial hall full of famous people.The Timberwolves are a very interesting NBA team.

Before the game started, when Zhang Yi was warming up in their half.I found that the opponent's eyes were not very kind, and it was not the usual feeling of winning.

"Could they be looking for trouble?" Robert, who has more experience in the field, quietly said to Zhang Yi.Because that look is definitely not the kind that wants to come and say hello.

"I don't know, I don't remember where I provoked them." Zhang Yi thought about it and couldn't find any faults with the Timberwolves.

In fact, this was just an order from Barnes, the boss of the team in advance. If you want to overwhelm your opponent, you must first show your momentum.In his opinion, people of the yellow race should be timid...

Of course the coach of the Timberwolves didn't know about this matter, otherwise he would definitely reprimand these idiots.Provoking the opponent's core for no reason is like wading across the river without knowing the water level, which is no different from courting death.

Before the game started, when someone passed the ball to Zhang Yi but flew directly into the Timberwolves half, he was going to pick it up, but Barnes obviously kicked it away on purpose, and then laughed at the other teammates.

Although neither of them spoke, the way Zhang Yi looked at him changed. "Has the bully bullied him?" Zhang Yi sneered coldly. He knew that Barnes also played small forward.
(End of this chapter)