NBA: Duncan feels uneasy coaching Warriors

Chapter 137 Return to the second place in the West!

Gobert won the ball in the first quarter by jumping, and the Timberwolves had the ball at the beginning of the second quarter.

The Timberwolves didn't play Butler and Giannis-Antetokounmpo. At this time, it was Josh who was holding the ball offensively.

Regarding the use of Josh, in the last game, Su Chen didn't find a place for him.

After Su Chen's thinking, he still decided to let Josh play the ball, break through and organize the team.

It is still in Josh's peak state. Last season, Josh could still contribute an average of 17+8 per game.

He has the ability to handle the ball.

And if he is not allowed to hold the ball, his mid-range shots and three-pointers are extremely unstable.

For a player like Josh who is awkwardly positioned and has no shooting ability, it is time to expose his shortcomings in the small ball era.

Josh has no ball to play at the age of 30. On the one hand, it is because of the decline in his own athletic ability, and on the other hand, no team is willing to use him as the core of tactics.

After leaving the Pistons, the two teams Josh went to were the Clippers and Rockets.

That is to say, in these two teams, Josh completely lost his worth and became no ball to play.

One is Paul's team and the other is Harden's team. How can these two teams let Josh hold the ball to formulate tactics?

But for the Timberwolves, Middleton is still unable to provoke the mainstay when it is purely a substitute lineup.

Josh's condition is still at its peak, Su Chen still thinks it's quite appropriate to formulate tactics for Josh.

What's more, with Giannis Antetokounmpo, the core who doesn't shoot and play inside, Josh's tactical design doesn't even need to change too much.

Josh is also organized.

For this ball, the Timberwolves played a hand-to-hand tactic.

This is a relatively simple tactic, and Josh can execute it, but he can't execute a tactic that is too complicated.

Su Chen has always compared Josh with Kyle Anderson. Josh is a version of Kyle Anderson with improved athletic ability but reduced golf quotient.

But this kind of player with a low golf quotient can also be used by Su Chen.

The ball played a hand-to-hand screen with Middleton. Reggie Williams knew he couldn't switch defenses, so he still forced to run with Josh.

Because if you want to switch defenses, McCollum will face Josh directly and become a big fight.

Reggie Williams chased after him, and Josh just rushed in with the ball, relying on his physical fitness to force him.

Now that the rules have been changed, Reggie Williams doesn't dare to stretch out his hand anymore. It is 2+1 to stretch out his hand when he is already out of position.

Timberwolves 30:18 Thunder.

The firepower of the Timberwolves continues.

Thunder offensive round.

McCollum was eager to avenge the Timberwolves, and directly asked Fisher for the ball to play singles.

Fisher frowned. He was naturally a little unhappy when a rookie asked him for the ball.

However, considering the grievances between McCollum and the Timberwolves, Fisher hesitated and gave it to McCollum.

It was Beverly who defended McCollum.

Beverly and McCollum were teammates before, and Beverly himself knows better about McCollum's offensive routines.

Speaking of which, he can have the current playing time because the team sent McCollum and Curry away.

McCollum wanted to prove that the team was wrong to trade him.

Beverly wanted to prove that it was the right choice for the team to trade McCollum to strengthen him.

The two of them faced each other with incomparable seriousness, fighting with dignity.

McCollum dribbled the ball to look for opportunities, and at the same time was waiting for Beverly to steal. After all, he played with Beverly on the same team.

He knew Beverley liked to gamble on wave-style steals.

But Beverly also seemed to know that McCollum knew him, so even if McCollum was dribbling in place, Beverly didn't make a surprise attack.

After a few dribbles, McCollum saw that Beverly didn't come up at all, and McCollum didn't have the patience to continue waiting and directly held the ball and made a sudden breakthrough.

McCollum is now a bit of a shadow of Irving, and he is very good at finding opportunities by dribbling.

But McCollum failed to break through Beverly. Beverly saw through his breakthrough route with the ball and went straight to it.

This made McCollum almost lose the ball, but fortunately he was vigilant.

McCollum got the ball back, but the shot clock had been eaten up a lot.

McCollum rallied, dribbled the ball again, and found a drive opportunity.

This time McCollum's breakthrough was not a direct breakthrough, but a sudden pull back in the middle distance.

But when the ball bounced back to his hand, Beverly interfered for a while, which made McCollum not hold the ball firmly.

The shot clock was about to come, and McCollum faked a fake shot, intending to tap Beverley and then shot.

But with just this click, Beverly stabbed him down again.

McCollum hurriedly picked up the ball and wanted to make another shot.

drop!
The 24-second shot clock is up.

McCollum also failed to make a successful shot, and the ball was still in his hands.

McCollum held the ball and handed it to the referee very helplessly.

Beverly, with his arms down, posed in a muscular pose while roaring in McCollum's direction.

As if provoking McCollum.

Of course McCollum found Beverly who was provoking him, but being defended consecutively, McCollum could only pretend that he didn't see Beverly's provocation.

In the next round.

The Timberwolves' offense was methodical, although Josh made two turnovers when he distributed the ball.

But in general, the bench lineup was restrained by Josh's organization and breakthrough, and played an offensive pull.

Although Josh doesn't understand too complicated tactics, he has a good passing vision, and Middleton will run complicated tactics.

He only needs to pay attention to Middleton's position, as well as the vacancy created by the Thunder because of his offense.

For Josh, the CPU is not overloaded.

The relatively complicated tactics are also gone, and Josh can also handle them. This is Su Chen's ideal effect on the bench lineup.

As for the defensive end.

McCollum wanted to prove himself very much, but Beverly did a very good job of restricting McCollum.

Don't look at this is Beverly's second season in the league, but now Beverly is 25 years old and is almost 26 years old.

Even in the years without playing in the NBA, Beverley is honing his defensive skills.

On the contrary, McCollum is still a pure first-year rookie.

When Beverley was teammates with McCollum, he was also observing McCollum's ball path.

Especially when McCollum clamored to kick the Timberwolves out of the playoffs, Beverly had already made up his mind to give this guy some color.

McCollum felt a lot of pressure facing Beverly's mad dog defense.

Especially because Beverly is familiar with him, he is very familiar with his offensive line and timing, and he played very uncomfortable against Beverly.

The Thunder spent such a large price on Ibaka, mainly for Gobert.

Little Curry is an addition, but for the Thunder, McCollum is not that important.

Cultivating an insider like Gobert who doesn't need the ball will not have much impact on the Thunder's playoff goals.

But to train a rookie like McCollum who needs the ball, the Thunder doesn't mean to spend too much effort on training.

This team is still Dewey's second junior team, and Reggie Jackson also wants the ball.

The Thunder's balls were never enough.

After McCollum missed three times against Beverley, Fisher stopped giving the ball.

Originally, the three balls were given to Fisher to save face, because this is a grievance game for this rookie.

But none of those three balls can be said to be a problem with McCollum's touch.

The first ball was so blocked by Beverly that he couldn't shoot it directly. The next two balls were also defended by Beverly and forced to shoot with difficulty.

What is this fight?

Fisher organized the team to play tactics by himself.

McCollum also had some regrets. He should have asked Gobert to play the pick-and-roll, but he was provoked by Beverly.

Just have to get in under Beverly's defense.

Now that Fisher didn't give him the ball, he realized that he should ask Gobert to play the pick-and-roll.

The Thunder's substitute directly dug a hole for half a quarter.

Durant and Westbrook were forced to return early, and after chasing two balls, the Timberwolves also returned to the main force.

Under the high-intensity defense of the Timberwolves, the second young master did not take advantage of it.

Halftime is over.

Timberwolves 65:50 Thunder.

It's hard to imagine that the Thunder, with Durant and Westbrook, were beaten like this in the face of the rebuilt Timberwolves.

After the halftime break.

In the second half of the game, the Thunder did not make any major changes.

Scott Brooks wasn't good at making those changes, either.

At the same time, Su Chen has studied so much about the Thunder, Scott Brooks doesn't want to reveal too much in a regular season.

He already belonged, something, but not much.

If other teams have learned how Su Chen can crack his tricks, then even if they win this game, they will also win and lose.

With the inaction of Scott Brooks, the game slowly lost its suspense.

The game is over.

Timberwolves 125:108 Thunder.

The Timberwolves won a big victory at home.

After winning the Thunder, the Timberwolves' record has also become: 26 wins and 7 losses.

At the same time, because they directly won the Thunder, in the battle for the second place in the Western Conference, one game is equal to two games.

The Timberwolves once again returned to the second place in the West.

(End of this chapter)