The opening three-pointer in basketball

Timberwolves training facility.

Bai Yi came to the arena early today as usual, about an hour earlier than his teammates.

He needs to do more warm-up training and shooting training.

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

The colored paper exploded, colorful and flying.

"Bai, congratulations on your first place in the MVP rankings."

"Bai, you are really great, congratulations."

"Bai, lead us to compete for the championship."

A group of teammates jumped out and congratulated Bai Yi one after another.

Bai Yi was also a little surprised. He didn't expect his teammates to celebrate him.

The regular season MVP can be said to be the most important honor in the league.

Not even the championship or finals MVP can compare to the regular season MVP.

If you win the championship, it only proves that you are lucky, have good strength, and finally won the championship.

But you may not be among the top 50 players in the league.

But you won the regular season MVP, which means that you were the best and most outstanding player in the 82 games of the regular season.

The regular season mvp must be among the top 50 in the league.

This is the meaning of regular season mvp. No one can refuse this ease. As long as you win the mvp, you will be the best player in the league this season and can leave your name in history.

In fact, other scoring champions, assist champions, and steal champions are not as valuable as the regular season MVP.

This is why his teammates didn't celebrate Bai Yi before, but this time everyone came over.

It is because this honor is indeed the most valuable and valuable achievement in the NBA.

When Bai Yi wins the MVP, he can pat his chest and say that he is one of the top 50 superstars in league history.

After the fun, Bai Yi came to the team's general manager's office and met Connelly and Adelman.

Connelly is undoubtedly the most popular agent in the league this season.

For the past seven or eight years, Connelly has been a well-known idiot in the league.

Not to mention the media, even the fans look down on him.

Everyone thinks that he is just thinking about making money all day long, has no understanding of NBA operations, and has the worst vision in the league.

The Timberwolves have won the No. 1 pick for several years in a row. Under such circumstances, they were unable to select a cornerstone player.

You can't choose Durant, you can choose Harden, you can choose Westbrook, you can choose Curry, or you can choose Rose.

As a result, these cornerstone players completely missed out on the Timberwolves.

No one thought highly of Connelly at that time.

Last season, the season before last, in the two seasons combined, the Timberwolves only won a total of 32 games.

O'Neal often joked that he had played basketball for 20 years, and his worst season was more than 32 wins.

Under such circumstances, Connelly was rated as the worst general manager in the league by the media many times in a row.

Under such circumstances, one can imagine the pressure on Connelly.

He is even ready to retire and return home this season.

He has no hope that he can apply for other teams. His resume is so bad that no team dares to hire him.

Under such circumstances, Connelly lived through one difficult ambition after another.

Until last summer, he faced huge pressure and chose Baiyi from Asia with a do-or-die mentality.

This choice is undoubtedly very risky.

But now it seems that he has made the best choice since the Timberwolves or the club was founded.

The Timberwolves were only created in the 1990s.

Their greatest honor is Kevin Garnett. The Wolf King won the MVP in the Timberwolves and led the Timberwolves to the Western Conference Finals, where they finally lost to the Lakers.

And now that Bai Yi has only had one season, he has hope of winning the mvp.

Now it depends on whether they can reach the Western Conference finals. If they can reach the Western Conference finals, they will become gods in one season and reach the strongest level of the club in more than 20 years in one season.

Connelly came to Bai Yi this time to discuss this matter.

"Bai, are you confident of reaching the Western Conference Finals?"

"some."

Bai Yi replied with two short words.

Connelly opened his eyes wide, trying to see if Bai Yi was bragging or if he was really confident.

Beautiful Chinese people are used to bragging and they never admit defeat.

If you ask him if he can surpass Bill Gates, he will pat his chest and swear that it is no problem.

This is their culture.

As a veteran, Connelly still has this ability.

Then he couldn't help but look at Adelman and found that the old man was also quite calm.

The Timberwolves were still rubbish with a total of 32 wins in the first two seasons. Did they change so much in just one season?

Connelly is still somewhat unacceptable, mainly because his previous record was really bad.

Adelman couldn't help but explain: "Man, look now, our opponents in the first round are either the Mavericks or the Jazz. The Mavericks are too old and too slow. The Jazz have no special features. As long as Bai is not injured, we can beat them easily."

them."

The Mavericks just won the league championship last season, but they committed suicide in the summer and sent away the team's inside backbone Chandler.

You must know that Chandler is definitely one of the top five centers in the league. He can defend the basket by himself, but such a good player was sent away.

Without Chandler, Nowitzki was already slow on the defensive end, and the current Mavericks defensive end is very bad.

Their inside line is not as good as that of the Timberwolves. In terms of points allowed per game in the league, the Mavericks rank 25th and fifth from the bottom.

The Timberwolves met the Mavericks four times this season and won completely.

This is Adelman's confidence.

As for the Jazz, they only reorganized this season, have no characteristics, and are not worthy of the Timberwolves' attention.

Connelly was excited when he heard this, but in the end he suppressed his excitement and said, "What about the second round?"

"The opponents in the second round are either the Lakers or the Grizzlies. They are not difficult to deal with."

The Lakers are too old. The Timberwolves have played the Lakers many times. If it weren't for the help of the referees, the Lakers would not have had any chance.

The Grizzlies are too slow and have poor scoring ability.

The Grizzlies are good in every aspect, the players are young, the team is defensive, and they have a double presence at the basket.

But their scoring ability is not good.

Allen, Gay and others have unstable scoring abilities.

They can only rely on Kawhi and Randolph to score two points in the paint. This is inefficient in scoring, and more importantly, it consumes too much.

Kawhi and Randolph are big centers, so this will tire them out.

So Adelman is not afraid of the Grizzlies either.

When Connelly heard this, he couldn't help but be convinced.

From this point of view, the Timberwolves have a great chance of entering the Western Conference Finals.

Adelman continued: "Of course there is a premise here. We cannot lose the next game and cannot give the Spurs a chance."

If the Timberwolves are overtaken by the Spurs at the last moment and fall to second place in the Western Conference standings, the opponents they will encounter will be completely different.

The first round is either the Nuggets or the Clippers.

And there is a high probability that the Thunder will be selected in the second round.