The godfather of basketball started from conquering the NBA

After Roy and jr were suspended at the same time, the originally strong backcourt combination was suddenly stretched.

Xu Xiao reactivated the "Old Deer King" Michael Reed. Although he was given a health card, Reed is 33 after all. Even if he is healthy, he will not be as brave as before.

In addition, he is not good at defense. In a team like the Timberwolves that has strict requirements on defense, it is obvious that there is not much time left for Reed.

But Reid is also completely satisfied. He thought he was going to bid farewell to basketball, but he didn't expect to have a second spring in the Timberwolves. Points and 9.6% three-point shooting.

In these five games, Jimmy Butler seized the opportunity. Although the offense was still in a mess, his active defense and fighting won the trust of Xu Xiao.

Knowing Jimmy Butler's future achievements, Xu Xiao decided to directly use the star card for Jimmy Butler, Don Marshall's star card.

Butler's biggest shortcoming in the future is shooting, especially three-pointers, with a perennial hit rate of 12 to [-], and this Marshall is a famous three-point fortress in the NBA. He has even scored [-] three-pointers in a single game. Performance, once an NBA record was maintained for many years.

In this way, even if Josh leaves the team in the future, Jimmy can stand up well. Although there is a gap in physical talent, Jimmy has a lot of room for improvement in the future, and he is also a person who can lead the team to the finals.

After everything was ready, the Timberwolves were on the right track again. Although the Timberwolves will more or less receive some unfair penalties in the games in the future, it is not harmful.

After all, Stern still has to face now, and the regular season will not start blatantly.

The Timberwolves also successfully entered the playoffs as the second place in the Western Conference.

Their opponent in the first round is the Memphis Grizzlies, known as the "Western Meat Grinder".

The backcourt combination of Canli + Tony Allen can be called a nightmare in the western backcourt, and Gasol Jr. and Zach Randolph are also very difficult opponents in the inside line.

They are on the bench, and there are players like Eric Gordon who can fight hard.

If it weren't for Rudy Gay's injury, the Grizzlies would definitely not be able to reach the seventh place in the West this year.

In the first game, under the blessing of the referee, the Grizzlies had an upset away game and defeated the Timberwolves 89-84. Xu Xiaoqi yelled at this game.

Just looking at the data, I thought that the Grizzlies' defense limited the Timberwolves' offense, but after watching the game, I realized how dirty this game is.

The Grizzlies got 38 free throw opportunities in the game, that is to say, their shooting percentage was not high, and they only made 25 free throws, while the Timberwolves only had 17 free throws in the game.

Both sides are working hard, but for the Timberwolves, Oden and Ibaka were both sent off for 43 fouls by the team. Even Jordan can't save them.

However, Xu Xiao did not complain blindly after this match, but had a new countermeasure.

In the next match, Xu Xiao formed a very strange lineup.

The three on the outside remained unchanged, but the two towers on the inside were played, allowing Yao Ming and Oden to start at the same time.

Yao Ming went to match Randolph.

Although Dayao has lost weight now, his lower body strength is still strong.

Back then, the Spurs used a Splitter to stop Randolph with a single defense. Since Splitter can do it, Yao Ming, who is taller than him, can do the same.

You must know that although Randolph is also a low-post master at this time, he is not a fast-moving inside lane like Al Jefferson, so there is no speed disadvantage for Yao Ming to match up.

"Huh? The Timberwolves have a strange lineup today. We saw Yao Ming entered the starting roster, put Ibaka on the bench, and used the twin towers of Oden and Yao Ming. This is a lineup that has never been seen before. , a situation that has not appeared in the entire regular season, and we don't know what kind of performance this combination will bring us."

Before the game, Yang Yi began his analysis of the wonderful lineup of the Timberwolves.

And the Timberwolves' home commentary is also confused, what lineup is this?

"We know that the Timberwolves' style has always been to push the wheel and grasp the transition, but now they have adopted a lineup that doesn't match their own style. I don't know if this is the Timberwolves. Face-slapping behavior, I still don't want to speculate on his decision any more."

Reggie Miller said humorously before the game.

As the game began, the Timberwolves took the lead in grabbing the ball, and Westbrook and Josh just picked and rolled to the basket.

The Grizzlies immediately shrunk. Westbrook looked at the black and white bears on the inside, and had no desire to challenge at all. Oden, who directly scored the bottom line, was not ambiguous. Raising his hand was a three-pointer. Now Oden's bottom line Three-pointers have become a regular tactic for the Timberwolves.

The Grizzlies know the meaning of your going to Yao Ming, so they didn't forcefully attack the inside line at the first time, but initiated it through the pick-and-roll, trying to use speed to hit the height.

Kang Li and Randolph played a pick-and-roll, and Yao Ming didn't guard against it at all. Then Kang Li was not polite, and directly raised his hand and hit a three-pointer. Both sides started the game with a three-pointer.

Josh looked at Xu Xiao, Xu Xiao just signaled him to be calm, he wanted to take a look at Kang Li's state today and the Grizzly's countermeasures.

Obviously, this three-pointer was not enough to change Xu Xiao's defensive strategy. In the next round, Josh made a mid-range singles shot by Guy, and the score came to 5-6.

Kang Li saw that the Timberwolves' defensive formation had not changed, and still called Randolph to pick and roll. At this time, Roy directly gave up defending Tony Allen and turned to pounce on Kang Li for a three-pointer.

Kang Li is the only guard with a reliable three-pointer in the Grizzlies, and it is understandable to choose to defend.

With Roy's interference, Westbrook also successfully bypassed the pick-and-roll, and this time the Grizzlies' offense stalled again.

Conley can only pass the ball to Tony Allen, who has no shooting ability, and the latter dribbles to find his partner to respond, but this time is enough for the Timberwolves to rotate.

The attack ultimately came to nothing.

In the next round, Conley still took the initiative to find a pick-and-roll, this time he chose to break through Dayao.

Use speed to pass Dayao. Although Dayao is in a relatively late position in the pick-and-roll defense, if a small guard like Conley tries hard enough to pass Dayao, it is still very easy.

But at the moment when Conley started, the Timberwolves' inside line had already been defended, and Oden quickly approached the basket. Conley also noticed the Timberwolves' defensive rotation during the breakthrough.

I immediately made a calculation in my heart, this breakthrough can't directly attack the frame, otherwise these two behemoths are not kidding, they have to go to the bottom line and bring out the defense, so that I have more choices.

In this way, I can play 1-on-1 with Dayao on the bottom line, or choose the big and small insiders.

I have to say that Conley's golf quotient is indeed high, and he made a judgment almost instantly.

But when Conley just came out of the bottom line, there was darkness in front of him, and Josh had already stood in front of him.

In the narrow area of ​​the bottom line, surrounded by Josh and Yao Ming, Conley's eyes went dark.

Off the court, Xu Xiao smiled triumphantly. The biggest reliance on Yao's daring to play against the twin towers was Josh's almost abnormal speed, which allowed him to quickly defend against Yao and make up for Yao's disadvantage in movement.

This is still borrowed from the combination of future letters and Daluo.

The Grizzlies also wanted to find a breakthrough from the outside, but Gay wasted too many opportunities by hitting the iron with three-pointers from the outside.

The two towers of the Timberwolves not only restrain the Grizzlies' black and white bears on the defensive end, but also do a job with ease on the offensive end.

Compared with the combination of Duncan and Splitter, Yao Ming and Oden's shooting is more reliable, so on the offensive end, the Timberwolves have enough space.

So the Timberwolves played a 12-5 spurt in the opening game, which forced the Grizzlies to call a timeout early.

After the timeout ended, the Grizzlies replaced Eric Gordon in an attempt to strengthen the outside offense, but Xu Xiao was also prepared, replacing Ibaka and Dayao.

Continue to let Oden go to Randolph.

Xu Xiao knew that no matter how the Grizzlies changed their outside lines, the core point of their final offense would start from the inside. As long as Randolph was restrained, the Grizzlies' offensive tactics would be reduced by half.

In order to relieve the pressure on the inside, the Grizzlies looked for opportunities on the outside too much and wasted a lot of opportunities.

This made the Grizzlies' offense fall into a trap.

In the second quarter, the Grizzlies woke up like a dream, and the ball was handed over to Gasol Jr. to handle it.

But Randolph still couldn't let go of this point. In this game, it was either Yao Ming or Oden.

Yao Ming is tall, Oden can jump, and neither Randolph can handle it.

At this time, the Grizzlies were already 17 points behind, but the Timberwolves still didn't want to give them a chance. It seemed that they wanted to exchange the anger they received from the Grizzlies and the referee in the first game.

After jr Smith came on the court, he didn't care who the defender was, he just threw the ball with him, and if he didn't score, it's up to God

At halftime, the Grizzlies were 28 points behind 49 to 21.

In the second half, the Grizzlies directly took away Tony Allen and switched to Gordon as the starter, just to break the twin towers of the Timberwolves.

Although Gordon scored a few three-pointers in the second half, it was still not enough to change the situation, because Gordon is not the "second brother" of the Rockets. Gordon still focuses on breakthroughs in this period, but this is still It is the most accurate of the Grizzlies team.

And without Tony Allen's defense, Josh was also liberated on the offensive end. Josh, who had been stared down by Tony Allen before, could finally take the ball to organize.

Although Rudy Gay has similar physical conditions as Josh, his golf quotient and skills are far behind. After all, Josh has Paul in his body.

下半场约什轻松砍下18分7助攻，全场22分0篮板跟11次助攻，帮助森林狼大胜灰熊。

After this game, the Grizzlies have never found a mode that can deal with the Timberwolves twin towers. The Timberwolves can find loopholes every time, and the defense they are proud of no longer exists under the powerful offensive firepower of the Timberwolves.

In the end, they were swept by the Timberwolves 4-1, and the next opponent of the Timberwolves was the winner of the Lakers and the Nuggets.

If nothing else, the opponent should be the old acquaintance Lakers.

Although the Nuggets have made reinforcements this season and introduced All-Star power forward David West to raise the ball's defense and inside strength to another level, the Lakers have a strong team background after all.

And it's Bynum's peak again. This Nuggets can bring trouble to the Lakers, but if he wants to beat him in a series, he still needs a star leader who can stand up at a critical moment.