The convulsion superstar of basketball

Chapter 222 221. Ask Su Jiu for Advice

February 1.

The Magic, which is now gaining momentum, also started a new round of away trip today.

As the first game of the Western Conference road trip, the Magic will face the Minnesota Timberwolves.

Since the team sent away the wolf king Garnett last season, the Timberwolves have entered a long rebuilding phase.

Although the Timberwolves have improved a lot this season, while having good talents in the team, it seems that the fans have seen hope.

Especially among the bargaining chips in the deal with Garnett, the growth of Al Jefferson and Ryan Gomez is definitely visible to the naked eye.

Among them, Al Jefferson was able to contribute 36.9 points, 23.6 rebounds and 11.1 assists per game when he averaged 1.3 minutes per game this season.

While securing the throne of the new Wolf King, he is also currently the player with the highest scoring average among all center players in the league.

The main reason why such a data can be said to be very good, but it is still not recognized by people is that, in addition to Al Jefferson's strong offense and weak defense, it is also because Jefferson's data can be said to have a lot of moisture.

To put it bluntly, it is a proper data brush.

Although the Timberwolves have averaged five players in double figures per game so far this season, the team is currently in a rebuilding phase.

The management doesn't have too many requirements for the team's record. To put it more bluntly, it is to let new players practice leveling, so as to hoard some talents.

This also led to Al Jefferson's shooting ratio being very high. Although he was able to hit this data, it also means that he definitely has some talent in offense.

However, when facing some tough defensive centers, Al Jefferson's offensive efficiency can be said to be very low.

And when facing some weaker center players, or garbage time, then Al Jefferson can be said to be a heavy punch.

So this is the main reason why Al Jefferson's performance is so explosive this season, but it is still difficult to lead the team to win, and it is also unable to win the recognition of the fans.

But the good news is that although Al Jefferson has some water in the data, his personal ability on the offensive end is absolutely beyond doubt.

Even if the reconstruction is not based on him in the future, he can definitely be said to be a good offensive player.

And in addition to Al Jefferson, Ryan Gomez, another chip player who traded Garnett, has also surprised people with his growth this season.

This season, Ryan Gomez is also able to contribute 31 points, 13.5 rebounds and 4.8 assists in an average of 2.1 minutes per game.

Although so far, the team has not been able to see the shadow of becoming a star in him, but Gomez has used his strength to prove to people that he is definitely not a parallel importer.

After all, Gomez was only selected with the 05th overall pick in the second round of the 20 NBA Draft. It can be said that everyone is happy to be able to play to this point.

But even though these two players have brought a lot of surprises to the Timberwolves management, I am afraid that the biggest surprise is Kevin Love, who was selected with the fifth overall pick in the first round of this year's draft.

As the No. 25.3 pick in the first round, Love averaged only 11.6 minutes per game this season, but he was still able to contribute a quasi-double-double of 9.4 points and [-] rebounds.

And as a big player with more than two meters, Love not only has a good rebounding ability, but also has a shooting percentage of 34.2% from beyond the three-point line this season.

Therefore, Love's outstanding performance also made the Timberwolves' management feel overjoyed.

Although the current Love is far from being able to compare with the three monsters in this draft, Derrick Rose, Su Jiu and Mayo.

But what you need to know is that as a rookie player, Love can play quasi-double-double data next to a data brush like Al Jefferson, which is enough to represent Love's development potential in the future.

However, even though the current Timberwolves seem to have hoarded a lot of potential, the performance of young players has been recognized by the management.

But facing the current No. [-] Magic team in the league, today's Timberwolves can be said to be completely unsatisfactory.

In particular, Al Jefferson, who currently claims to be the No. [-] center in the West, played a very ugly game when he faced the defense of Warcraft Howard in this game.

This also led to just at the end of halftime, the Magic ended with:

67:46

Leading the Timberwolves by 21 points.

And halftime allowed the Magic to score a terrifying 67 points, which is enough to represent how poor the current Timberwolves defense is.

Because whether it's Al Jefferson on the inside or Kevin Love, both of them have relatively poor defensive capabilities on the inside.

As for the outside line, there is no need to say more, because the player on the outside line is called Randy Foye.

Already leading the Timberwolves by 21 points at halftime, this also allowed Van Gundy to replace more substitute players for training in the second half, and take the main players off the court to rest.

In the end, after the whole game was over, even though Su Jiu was like a blacksmith incarnate, he only made 12 of 2 shots in the game, and played his worst battle this season.

But the Magic still use:

109:91

An 18-point away win over the Minnesota Timberwolves.

Su Jiu's performance in this game was simply too eye-catching.

在出场的23分钟里，苏久个人11投仅2中，三分线外6中0，罚球5中3的拿下了7分3篮板以及4次助攻的数据。

This poor shooting percentage can be said to have played Su Jiu's worst battle this season.

However, relying on the team's crushing advantage, the Magic finally defeated the Timberwolves without any pressure.

This result also made Su Jiu let out a long breath in his heart.

Although his performance in this game was a bit bad, at least he didn't hold back the team at the critical moment. In Su Jiu's opinion, this was a blessing in misfortune.

Apart from Su Jiu, Warcraft Howard taught Al Jefferson a good lesson in this game.

全场比赛霍华德一共只出场了24分钟，但是个人在篮下就12投8中，罚球6中3的高效砍下了19分11篮板以及2次封盖的数据。

All of these two blocks were accurately given to Al Jefferson, who was facing him.

And with Howard's excellent offensive end, Jefferson, who was even more defensive, only made 19 of 6 shots in the game, and he was able to hand over a low-efficiency data of 14 points and 7 rebounds.

After defeating the Timberwolves, it also allowed the Magic to increase their winning streak to five in a row without Lewis.

However, although the team won the game in the end, the Magic players did not have much joy.

After all, defeating a rebuilding underdog like the Timberwolves is not something worth celebrating at all.

Because this is completely a matter of course in the eyes of the fans and the team.

It's just that as the Magic won once and won five consecutive victories in the season, this scene also made Lewis feel a black line during his recovery.

This period of time can be described as a bit difficult for Lewis.

Originally, just after Lewis was absent, the team lost to the Eastern rookie Knicks in an upset. This also made many fans deeply aware of the importance of Lewis to the team.

However, with Su Jiu's efforts to turn the tide and defeat the Cavaliers, and then the entire team won four consecutive victories in the next season like a broken bamboo, which also made Lewis feel a little bit pained.

"Damn it, is it because my contract is too big, you guys agreed to play me together?!"

So in this game, while the Magic easily defeated the Timberwolves and hit a wave of five consecutive victories in the season, Lewis' whole face can be said to be black on top of black.

This also led to when Lewis opened his social media again, there were always some under his comments:

"Rashad, the team needs you, I hope you can return to the team as soon as possible!!"

"Rashad, I will pray for you off the court. I hope you can recover soon and help the team face difficulties."

"Rashad, we need you!!"

Similar to this kind of encouraging message.

However, with this period of time, the magic team's temperament of being invincible and god-blocking has spread.

The comments on Lewis' social media also changed the direction of the wave in an instant.

"I suspect that the management's brain must have been flooded at the time. They actually signed a 6-year 1.18 million US dollar contract with Rashad in the summer?! Now it seems that this is simply a poisonous contract!!"

"Facts have proved that the team can still win without Rashad, so his contract is really poisonous, completely locking up the team's reinforcement space!!"

"I agree with the above, and hope that the team can trade in the middle of the season to trade out Rashad's poison contract so that more reinforcements can be made."

"Trading?! It's easy to sign a contract, but if you want to trade it out, hehe, it's a dream!!"

Lewis: "????"

Looking at the instant change of direction on his social media, Lewis felt so depressed that he wanted to vomit blood.

"Fuck, that's not what you said when the Magic team signed me!!"

Lying on the hospital bed, seeing these increasingly outrageous unfavorable comments, Lewis was gnashing his teeth with anger.

However, when Lewis was so angry that he vomited blood, he suddenly remembered that Su Jiu also encountered a wave of cyber attacks two days ago.

Thinking of this, Lewis immediately picked up the phone and called Su Jiu, wanting to ask if there is any way to deal with it.

After the call was connected, the two probably only communicated for less than a minute.

After hanging up the phone, Lewis fell into silence for an instant, as if wondering whether Su Jiu's method was feasible.

However, as more and more spoof trolls started the rhythm in the background, Lewis seemed to have made up his mind.

In the end, when Lewis took out the laptop tremblingly, he silently switched to the trumpet...

Moreover, it is far more than just a trumpet...

(End of this chapter)