NBA: This Center Is So Stable

The game was played, and the game was played.

Chapter 255 Six fouls out, the roots of the Timberwolves!

Madison Garden Conference Room.

After returning to New York, the Knicks coaching staff did not rush to prepare for the finals.

Instead, they organized a viewing of the game, and the audience was the Timberwolves and the Lakers who were playing in the Western Conference Finals.

According to the series score of 3:2, there is no doubt that the Lakers are the dominant party.

Naturally, they became the focus of defense in the conference room today.

As long as the Lakers win today’s G6, the finals spot will be finalized.

In this case, there is not much time left for the Knicks to prepare.

So taking advantage of the time gap between the first game, the Knicks coaching staff specially arranged this “safety education class”.

“Shaq is very strong, he will give the Timberwolves a headache inside.”

“Just like he has been doing, after entering the league, the Big Shark has been gaining muscle and weight. It is hard to imagine that this guy was a guard in the past. Look at his current flesh. Even if he is put in WWE, he is definitely a heavyweight guest.”

“If there is a gap between Garnett and O’Neal, it is definitely the dominance under the basket. Everyone can see… Garnett lost his advantage in this game. O’Neal only needs to keep attacking the basket to easily score.”

D’Antoni pointed to the live broadcast on the TV screen and was gradually explaining the technical characteristics of the star players of the two teams to the players.

After a series of misses in the first half, Garnett changed his mind after returning in the second half, gave up the unstable shooting range, and turned to attacking the basket.

But what the Wolf King did not expect was that this was exactly what the Zen Master planned.

The Lakers, who were well prepared, chose to shrink their defense, especially O’Neal who sat directly under the basket, like an immovable king standing tall in the Lakers’ restricted area.

In addition, the Zen Master also arranged for the “Iron Elbow” Karl Malone to assist. Under the double-teaming of two All-Star-level inside players, the “Wolf King” in the second half not only failed to reverse the decline, but also made frequent mistakes.

In the third quarter, he contributed 3 turnovers in a single quarter, and in fact, two of them were directly converted into points by the Lakers.

From the high-level data, Garnett’s role on the court is even worse than that of the Timberwolves’ role players.

This made Sanders look worried.

The situation of lagging behind and the poor performance of the core players was almost equivalent to sentencing the Timberwolves to death.

Just when Sanders wanted to save the team, the Timberwolves finally sent back some good news on the court.

During the time when Garnett was off the court, under the leadership of the “madman” and the “alien”, the Timberwolves played a 7:0 counterattack.

The effect of the two-man teamwork rekindled Sanders’ hope. Taking advantage of this momentum, he quickly encouraged Garnett: “Kevin, your responsibilities in the next game have changed!”

“Now the team does not need you to focus all your energy on the offensive end and carry the team’s offensive banner. There is no doubt that the Lakers are in very good shape tonight, especially Shaq. I need you to defend him, not to fight him!”

In fact, overall, the “Wolf King” performed quite well in this game today. Except for a lot of mistakes, the offense maintained an efficiency of 6 of 15 shots and scored 15 points.

It was just that when Sanders assigned the new task, Garnett’s eyes were a little dim.

Originally, he expected to be the thigh and carry the team into the finals, but it was not until the series really started that the Wolf King realized the gap between him and O’Neal.

Now, because the team needs to win, he has changed his position in the game, which directly made Garnett feel a little disappointed.

But in the end, Garnett chose to compromise!

Compared with personal data and being criticized by the world, the Wolf King, who has not seen the O’Brien Cup for almost ten years in the NBA, is willing to make sacrifices.

In the third quarter, with the combined efforts of the madman and the alien, the Timberwolves once tied the score and even surpassed by one point.

This once made Philip Saunders excited.

His shouts on the sidelines were even better than the cheers in the Staples Center.

But the Lakers are the Lakers after all!

Whether it is the Zen Master’s on-the-spot adjustment ability, or the personal strength of Kobe and O’Neal, and a group of All-Star-level rotation teams.

This Lakers burst out with huge energy in the final quarter.

Especially in the new arrangement for Saunders, the Zen Master is almost

He came up with a countermeasure without thinking.

Since the Timberwolves adjusted the functionality of the Wolf King, the Zen Master simply changed the game strategy and increased the Lakers’ restricted area offense.

Like defense?

Then defend it all at once!

Kobe kept increasing the number of breakthroughs through O’Neal’s screen and played against Garnett in a mismatch.

In a sense, the Wolf King of this period could play from the 1st position to the 5th position, and he was familiar with all the techniques.

But he was facing No. 8 Kobe!

A young Kobe who put all his talents on breakthroughs. No matter whether Garnett or the Big Shark stood in the restricted area, he would still break through.

Peter Pan threw himself into the air again and again, and ended the confrontation with the Wolf King. Some of them were blocked, some were blocked… But Kobe never forgot the mission given by the Zen Master.

Make a foul!

Even though he was as tough as a dog and his hit rate was less than 20%, the paranoid man remained consistent and attacked the Timberwolves’ restricted area again and again until the whistle blew.

In addition to Kobe, the Big Shark also contributed his strength.

Although he is no longer the same as he used to be, O’Neal still proved that he is still the most dominant center in the league, and his overwhelming power showed his terrifying power.

For this reason, the exhausted Wolf King could only commit fouls to stop the Lakers’ offensive pace.

Of course, this arrangement of the Zen Master also has advantages and disadvantages.

As they continued to attack the inside line, the Lakers’ overall offensive efficiency also declined significantly. For a time, until the sixth minute of the final quarter, the score between the two teams was still deadlocked.

But as time went on, his physical strength declined, and the visible fatigue of the Wolf King made him commit his sixth foul of the game with 5 minutes left in the game.

When the referee blew the whistle for the sixth foul, Sanders lost control and rushed directly to the referee.

Seeing that the other side ignored him, he rushed to the technical table to ask for an explanation.

He even received a technical foul from the coaching bench.

Can you say Sanders is not sober?

Quite the opposite!

He knows better than anyone that this Timberwolves team cannot do without Garnett.

Just like the video of the game between the Pistons and the Knicks he watched yesterday, the Pistons can be said to have basically lost their competitiveness after Big Ben left the court.

And the Wolf King is far better to the Timberwolves than Big Ben is to the Pistons.

Kevin Garnett is the root of this team!

(End of this chapter)