The King of the NBA

"Wait and pay attention to the defense of Ning Yi."

Coach Cheeks frowned, already aware of the problem.

Originally, the Timberwolves were played by Rubio. Rubio has a good overall view and sufficient passing skills, but his personal scoring ability is weak, so it is not very useful to contain the defense. The Pistons previously let go of Rubio and let him play. Shoot from the outside, and then free up extra manpower to defend Love and seal Love.

When Adelman replaced Rubio with Barea, the situation changed.

The organization has become Ning Yi, but Barea is like a No. 2 position. He has three-point ability, but the threat on the outside is bigger than Rubio. It is impossible for the Pistons to let him play like Rubio. outside line.

In addition, Ning Yi also has excellent scoring ability, such as the previous cooperation between him and Love, Love made a cover for him, and Monroe of the Pistons had to rush to the upper line, and the low position formed a dislocation. And Ning Yi also has this excellent overall view, passing vision, and passing skills. He immediately gave the ball to Love, giving Love a chance to play singles.

It can be said that the key point of the Timberwolves being able to overtake the score is Ning Yi. He can score and you can't let it go, but once you go up to defend, he can pass the ball just right.

Ning Yi is not Rubio, and he has much more restraint on defense.

"Wait a little while to expand the line of defense and defend the outside line." Cheeks said: "Give up the early defense of Love, adjust the defensive strategy, and defend Ning Yi." He said, looking at Drummond , Monroe, "I'll leave the inside to you two."

"yes."

"Understood." Drummond and Monroe responded.

Cheeks also carried out a personnel rotation, replacing Singler with Pope, allowing Pope to play the 2nd position, Josh Smith to play the 3rd position to defend Ning Yi, and the other positions remained unchanged.

After a moment, the pause ends.

When the players returned to the court, Cheeks' face changed again, and the Timberwolves also changed players, replacing Barea and Pekovic with Mbah a Moute and Dion.

"What the hell is Adelman doing? With such a substitution, among the five players on the Timberwolves field, the height favorite is Martin, but Martin is also 201 centimeters tall, and none of the five players is shorter than two meters." Cheeks muttered in his heart. , looking at Ning Yi, frowning even tighter, "Could it be that Ning Yi is playing No. 1, are you kidding?"

This is really not a joke, Adelman just let Ning Yi play the 1st position.

Ning Yi has excellent outside shooting, broad vision, excellent overall view, excellent organizational awareness and passing skills. He has everything a point guard should have. Why can't he play the No. 1 position?

As long as there is a vacancy at position 3? That's not a problem. The most important thing the Timberwolves lack is small forwards. Except for Ning Yi, Brewer, Budinger, Shabatz, Mbah a Moute, and Cunningham can all play small forwards.

In the auditorium, the fans were also a little confused by the Timberwolves lineup, but they soon became happy, because although they couldn't understand the lineup arrangement, the effect was surprisingly good.

The Timberwolves lineup is very tall, and falling into positional battles took advantage of it, which made the Pistons play a bit depressed, and their shooting percentage was greatly affected.

Conversely, when the Timberwolves attacked, Ning Yi did an excellent job as a point guard. On the premise of using himself to attract the defense, he continued to send quick passes for his teammates. The teammates also competed, and almost made all the goals that could be scored.

This wave of impact was big enough, but within a few minutes, the Timberwolves beat the Pistons 13:4, rewriting the score to 26:15, leading the Pistons by as much as 11 points.

Coach Cheeks called a timeout again.

"The difference is already 11 points."

"I didn't expect this lineup to be so powerful. The Pistons have no resistance."

"Ning passed several beautiful balls, and I feel that his organization is better than Rubio's."

In the audience, people were discussing.

Some people saw it more thoroughly and said: "In terms of organizational ability, Ning is not necessarily better than Rubio, but Ning's scoring ability is much better than Rubio, so it is more troublesome for the opponent to deal with. Rubio is weak. He is not stable in shooting, and he may not even make a shot if he is allowed to shoot from the outside."

This is a fact. The difference between Ning Yi and Rubio is that his offense is more lethal. A person who can score and pass the ball is the most terrifying!

Coach Cheeks looked ugly, and made some adjustments, replacing the starting players one after another.

For the Timberwolves, Adelman also replaced Ning Yi and Love, while Martin remained on the field. With the addition of several substitute players, the team entered the regular rotation stage.

In the last two or three minutes of the first quarter, the Pistons still couldn't take advantage of it, and their bench depth was not as good as the Timberwolves to a certain extent.

When the first quarter ended, the Timberwolves led by 13 points.

Entering the second quarter, the Timberwolves continued to take the lead. Ning Yi didn't play much in the second quarter, and Love didn't play much. After all, the team was already leading by more than ten points, and they had to rest if they should be allowed to rest.

It wasn't until the last four minutes of the second quarter that Ning Yi teamed up with Love to play.

Adelman is consciously cultivating the tacit understanding between Ning Yi and Love. Now that Love is back, it is one thing to let Love get back to the state before the injury as soon as possible. The other thing is to make Ning Yi and Love compatible. Yi was put on the starting lineup after Love was injured. Now the starting lineup has changed. Love has to adapt, and Ning Yi has to adapt.

In these four minutes, Le Fu's state has fluctuated and is not so stable. After all, he just returned from injury. Not only does it take time to integrate with Ning Yi, but also needs to adapt to the cooperation with other teammates.

Ning Yi, on the other hand, played exceptionally well.

At this time, Rubio was also on the field, Ning Yi no longer took on the organizational tasks, and Martin was not there, he and Love became the two major scoring points for the Timberwolves. Love was unstable, and Ning Yi naturally had to stand up.

What frustrates the Pistons is that Ning Yi didn't make many mid-range shots today. He almost threw three-pointers from the outside. Quickly scored 9 points.

After these three-pointers, the Pistons were about to faint again.

For the Timberwolves, Adelman smiled happily. Love has adapted fairly well. Although his state is not stable enough, it is still normal. Before the playoffs, he will definitely be able to return to his state before the injury. And Ning Yi seems to have improved a lot. Adelman knows Ning Yi very well. If he doesn't have enough self-confidence, Ning Yi can't shoot so many three-pointers.

"Love, Martin, and Ning. With the three as the skeleton, our team will become even stronger. Even in the playoffs, we may not be able to compete." Adelman burst into pride, "Just wait. , The playoffs are when we will explode."