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Chapter 113 15 consecutive victories, Timberwolves' choice
Su Chen didn't care about what the outside world said.

Instead, he intensified the use of the main force, and at the same time, he also concentrated on using every skill and item to design the most efficient tactics.

I have to say that in the Timberwolves' previous schedule, except for a few that are more difficult to chew, there are more teams outside the playoffs.

First met the Wizards.

The Wizards had a record of 2 wins and 7 losses before the game against the Timberwolves. Bill Wall's backcourt combination has just begun to run in, and this is their second season.

The Wizards only won 29 wins last season, although this season's Wizards have the ability to make the playoffs.

But now they obviously haven't found a way to win. The team is playing quite chaotically, without a clear tactical core.

The Wizards' ability to enter the playoffs this season also relied on their strength in the later stage to make it in. In front of them, they were in a mess.

Timberwolves 106:100 Wizards.

However, the Timberwolves did not kill the Wizards with a big score, and the win is still relatively hanging.

McCollum's efficiency is still not high.

Although McCollum is the winner of the Most Improved Player and has a strong immediate combat power, he is still a rookie after all.

This game is still high-scoring and inefficient. The data of 22 points on 27 shots cannot be said to be strong.

It's purely because the Timberwolves are doing better defensively, and the Wizards Bill and Wall haven't found their own positioning yet.

After winning the Wizards, the Timberwolves rushed to Detroit without stopping.

In this Motor City, the Timberwolves will challenge the Pistons.

Today's Pistons are a bit of a mess.

Their confusion is not a problem in the locker room, but the team's goals are not clear.

They haven't figured it out yet, whether they are a bad team or a team competing for the playoffs.

The outside combination of Jennings and Pope who want to compete for the playoffs is difficult to become a playoff-level backcourt combination. At the same time, the second-year Drummond has begun to show his talent this season. The Pistons also intend to train Drummond. Germany.

At the same time, they also have Monroe on the inside, and Billups, the former civilian FMVP, on the bench.

For this Pistons, they have no shortage of talents, but they can't knead these talents into a ball.

In comparison, the Timberwolves are much clearer.

Even if it is to brush the data, it is clear who to play around, and at the same time, the establishment of the defensive system is very mature.

The existence of simulated glasses allows them to implement some complex defensive systems without running in at all.

In terms of defensive rotation, it is rare that the defense is too slow or the two defend the same person.

After thousands of simulations, this Timberwolves defensive rotation is very fast.

Compared with the last game against the Wizards, the Timberwolves played much easier this time.

Pistons 95:111 Timberwolves.

The Timberwolves easily defeated the Pistons.

At the same time, the three of them, Gomeku, also reached their stable data per game.

After playing the Pistons, the Timberwolves returned home.

Back at home, the Timberwolves faced the Nets, which had built a luxurious warship this season.

Well, the old luxury warship.

From the attendance rate, we can see what the Nets are doing this season.

This season's Nets, Lopez played 17 games, Kirilenko 45 games, Garnett 54 games, Deron 64 games, Terry 35 games.

Pierce and Joe Johnson, who have played 70+ games, are both considered to have a very high attendance rate in the Nets.

Before playing against the Timberwolves, the Nets only achieved three wins.

Pierce and Garnett played in this game, one scored 8 points and the other scored 6 points.

Neither man's combined score was as much as Joe Johnson alone, even though Joe Johnson only scored 15 points.

As for the other aging giants, they didn't play in this game.

The Nets, with such a bad performance, naturally couldn't win this game.

Timberwolves 111:80 Nets.

The Timberwolves have achieved a relatively large victory recently.

The young Timberwolves are obviously more aggressive, and the old men of the Nets basically have to end after playing for about [-] minutes.

Antetokounmpo's playing time alone is almost comparable to the combined playing time of Pierce and Garnett.

The Timberwolves will continue to defend the home court next.

At home, we ushered in a challenge from a strong enemy, the Houston Rockets.

This rocket is still very strong.

But this time the Rockets rested one outside line.

The person on this rotation is actually Harden!
So this rocket became led by Jamilin and Happy Beast.

Su Chen used to watch Jamelin's games often. He felt that Jamelin played the best time in his career, except for Lin Madness in the Knicks.

Jamie Lin, who plays the role of sixth man in the Hornets, should be the best position of his career.

Although he could only get a career-low average of 11 points per game that season, he actually averaged two or three points more per game as a starter, and his turnover rate soared directly.

He has not been very accurate in three-pointers throughout his career. His most threatening is his breakthrough, but his breakthrough is basically aimed at drawing fouls rather than attracting double-teams to pass to open teammates.

I don't know why the Rockets and the Nets like to promise him a starter so much. In his first season from the Knicks to the Rockets, he even played all 82 starts.

Jamie Lin would be an excellent sixth man if he played the sixth man role.

But if Jamilin serves as the team's starting point guard, it will be less efficient for the entire team.

Su Chen has seen Jamelin's ball and knows Jamelin's style of play throughout his career, so he directly arranged for Butler to bite him in this game.

At the same time, seize the weakness of Jamelin's high ball turnovers. Once Jamelin breaks through, Antetokounmpo, who is in charge of sweeping, will immediately go to help defend.

Whenever Antetokounmpo assisted in the defense, Butler would stop his movements and reduce Jamelin's frame-rushing efficiency by relying on size interference.

With the advantage of size, it is also difficult for Jamelin to draw fouls.

Howard is not fed by Harden, and it is useless to rely on Jamilin. His tactical position in the Rockets is already blue-collar.

But Chandler - Parsons can also pose some threats.

At this time, Chandler Parsons has not yet evolved into money - what's worse, he is still fighting for his own money.

Antetokounmpo
Without Harden's Rockets, the Timberwolves still did not take too much effort to win.

Timberwolves 98:86 Rockets.

The statistics of this game are all good.

But Iguodala sprained his foot when he collided with Parsons on the opposite side during a defense.

I checked after the game, it was just a normal ankle sprain, and I needed to rest for a week.

This incident was just a small episode, but it also reflected a problem.

With such high-intensity playing time and defensive intensity, for the players, the load is basically running.

This incident can be regarded as a reminder to Su Chen.

This is just the beginning of the season. If this continues, the players' bodies will be even more loaded.

Now there is no team in the league. In order to achieve a record, players are forced to fight like this.

"However, there are still five games. The remaining people will bring up another one and continue to persevere."

After seeing Iguodala's situation, Su Chen still didn't change his plan.

After winning the Rockets, the Timberwolves have achieved a record of 15 wins and 0 losses, starting with [-] consecutive victories!
If it is only to increase the value of trading chips, then it is enough now.

Fifteen consecutive victories can already prove a lot.

But if you want to be picky, there are many consecutive victories in the past, and none of them were played by McCollum Gobert as the core.

Five more games would be appropriate.

This is because of the team, and Su Chen also has his own selfish intention, which is to enhance his own strength.

If it's just for the team's championship, he doesn't have to leave the Warriors during the offseason.

Although the Warriors boss does not give him decision-making power, but he strives for the right to opinion, it should not be a big problem.

For the sake of winning the championship, Lacob will listen to his opinion more or less.

Just for the team championship, stay in the Warriors with the original team, and Iguodala was originally in the Warriors' reinforcement plan.

It can be said that the defending champion is not difficult.

But his personal interests have diminished.

Because in the lottery rules, in the same team for two consecutive seasons, the conditions for getting rewards can be said to be harsh.

In the same team, if you want to draw a lottery in the second season, you must first have a [-]-game winning streak in the regular season.

What is the concept of thirty consecutive victories.

In history, there is only one team that has won more than [-] consecutive victories, which basically crushed the strength of the entire league. It is not a matter of fighting or not.

Even when the Heat's Big Three were at their peak and in their best form, they only won 27 consecutive victories.

It is not easy to win a [-]-game winning streak.

If this is still tolerable, then the second series in the playoffs must win against a strong S-level team before the lottery can be drawn.

Not even the top A-level teams.

There are only two or three teams that can be rated as S-level in the entire league. If they don't win [-] consecutive victories, even if they win the championship, they will only have two or three chances to draw in a season.

There will also be some B-level and C-level gadgets in the lottery. If all the draws are useless, it will be a waste of time for a season.

Coming to the Timberwolves team, wanting rights is only one aspect.

Su Chen's main goal is to change to a new team and get more chances for the lottery.

Now there are still five games away from the chance to win the lottery for [-] consecutive victories.

Su Chen really didn't want to give up.

When the team disbanded, Su Chen was also in the locker room and announced the goal.

"We are going to create a record of [-] consecutive victories in the opening game. We will become the first in the history of this record. You will all be remembered in this moment."

In the locker room, Su Chen also encouraged the team.

Nowadays, most of the Timberwolves' players are young people, each of them is full of vigor. Not only did no one complain when they heard Su Chen's goal, but many people responded to it.

And some players realize that this is an opportunity.

Su Chen had used a seven-person rotation before, and an eight-person rotation, and fewer people in the rotation meant that everyone would have a lot of opportunities.

Iguodala's position is now vacant, and for others, this is simply a very good opportunity.

Especially for the Timberwolves who lost the second round of the draft, many people want to seize this opportunity.

What happened to the Timberwolves small ball market?
Even in a small place like Minnesota, they can still attract the attention of the entire league after winning [-] consecutive victories.

With this exposure, to put it vulgarly, if not for the team then for their own contract.

Many people raised their arms and clenched their fists in response to Su Chen's words.

Seeing this response, Su Chen was very satisfied.

Because the next game may be the second most difficult opponent to deal with, the Indiana Pacers!

This team, which fought hard with the Heat to the tiebreaker last season, will be the opponent of the Timberwolves in the next game.

In the absence of Iguodala in the Timberwolves, it is now necessary for the Timberwolves to stand up and fight for the next game.

And Su Chen didn't know if it was a coincidence.

In the game where he needed 20 consecutive victories in the lottery, the opponent was the Heat (I was also surprised when I checked the Timberwolves' schedule this season. It's such a coincidence that the Heat are really the No. [-] opponents of the Timberwolves!).

That's why it is said that the Pacers are the second most difficult opponent in Su Chen's lottery, because the most difficult is the Heat.

The Heat last season were the championship in the original timeline.

Due to his appearance, Lao Zhan lost a champion for no reason.

Now this season, Lao Zhan happened to appear in the No. 20 game in order to prevent Su Chen from drawing a lottery.

"But even against the Heat, it's not without a chance, and Iguodala can come back in that game."

Su Chen is still not ready to give up, even if the No. 20 opponent is the Heat's Big Three.

Iguodala is the FMVP who defended against James. Now that Iguodala is in his own hands, the defensive strategy against James can also follow the pattern of consuming James in turn.

Iguodala was only injured for a week, and there is still some time before that game, and Iguodala can even rest and gather strength to come back in that game.

The news of the Timberwolves' [-]-game winning streak immediately detonated social media.

"The Timberwolves won 15 consecutive victories, tying the Rockets' opening winning streak in the 1993-1994 season. "

"The Timberwolves are aggressive. Facing the powerful Pacers in the East, can they break this record that has been dusty for many years?" "

"Is honor or the team's record in the playoffs important?"Behind Iguodala's injury is Su Chen's endless short rotation! "

"Should the Timberwolves still fight for 16 consecutive victories? Today's team is very tired! "

"Timberwolves official news, McCollum takes a break for the next game. "

The news is overwhelming.

Everyone is very concerned about the next plan of the Timberwolves, and the fans are still looking forward to breaking the record.

However, it also raised many doubts.

In the history of the Rockets, there was no such a high-intensity fight for the record, and in the Eagles game, they did not force the players to slow down.

However, the Timberwolves have also rested McCollum now, and it seems that they are planning to stop for a while.

In fact they don't know.

The reason why Su Chen rested McCollum was a signal that he wanted to fight for victory.

McCollum is actually not a positive improvement for the team on the court, and is a relatively inefficient scorer.

Instead of letting him play bad stats and lose his value, it is better to simply rest him and let all the defensive wolves fight for the next game.

(End of this chapter)