Grab Curry at the start

Chapter 149 The Only Choice
When the playoffs are in full swing, all the awards in the regular season also belong.

The Timberwolves have gained something, but because the players are very young, they still suffer a bit.

The MVP competition in the regular season is definitely not their business. This honor was won by James, who led the team to the best record in the regular season, without any suspense.

But Curry is definitely the best rookie, and the best rookie for a while.

He also has a three-team All-NBA team, which is regarded as the player who has gained the most from the Timberwolves.

Because of their youth and seniority, Timberwolves' players are not strong enough in the eyes of so-called professionals, so Curry is the only one in the best team.

But the best rookie team, Matthews and DeRozan are also on the list.

Among them, Matthews lost the selection and went directly to the strong team to start. It is also a first-team, and DeRozan is the second team.

Love, one of the tactical cores, had no results. He was only a little bit lost in the award of the most improved player.

Originally, Love would win this honor next year, but Zhang Sixin accelerated his progress, and his stats will not skyrocket next season, so he can only compete for the honor of rebounding champion.

Of course, Zhang Sixin's best coach can't escape, he has created a miracle.

Thunder coach Brooks can only go back a little bit, but fortunately this honor cannot be re-elected.

The Timberwolves were the fastest team to win the second round, and then the Magic also swept the Eagles, only to be behind them because they started a day late.

The gap between the Eagles and the Magic is even greater than outsiders imagined.

The Eagles were defended by the Magic so that they could not score 80 points in two games. The Eagles' team boss Joe Johnson was defended as the strongest blacksmith in the team.

The Magic are good defensively, but not to that extent.

If Joe Johnson was an insider, it would be normal for him to be done by Howard. Howard is really at his peak now.

But it's hard to say that he also played like this on the perimeter. The Magic's defensive system relies on Howard. Their perimeter defense, especially the solo defense, is not that strong.

If the single player Joe showed his true strength, it would definitely not look like this.

The abnormality of the whole series can only show that Joe Johnson is really not the material to be the boss of the team.

The Magic swept their opponents in the same two series as the Timberwolves, but they are all bullying soft persimmons, and the gold content may not be as high as the Timberwolves.

When it comes to their respective division finals, they will all encounter difficulties that they could not have imagined before.

Especially the Magic, they lack the real level of confrontation.

After all, another set of matchups, the Cavaliers vs. Celtics, was much more intense than theirs.

For the Cavaliers, there are a little more people playing than last season, but they are a bit out of tune, and their strength should be about the same.

On the Celtics side, the Big Three are one year older, but Rondo has grown for another year, and his strength is not much different from the year he won the championship.

In fact, the Celtics, who have a strong defense, restrained the Cavaliers a bit. The two teams did not meet last season, and the Cavaliers had a chance to enter the Eastern Conference Finals.

James is afraid of a team with a strong defense inside. Howard last season, Duncan he met in the finals, and Garnett in front of him. The 34-year-old Garnett did not maintain his strength like Duncan, but because the team still has Perkins, so the stars with strong breakthroughs will be suppressed. In the last round of playoffs, Wade was forced to shoot three-pointers from the outside.

Whether the Cavaliers win or not depends on James' outside shooting percentage.

In the first game, James felt good, and the Cavaliers got off to a good start. Then James encountered trouble outside, and the Cavaliers were immediately pressed to death.

No way, the Cavaliers rely on James so much, and so do their tactical arrangements. If they encounter a team capable of targeting them, they will be targeted to death.

The second point of the Cavaliers is still a little weaker.

And now O'Neal, it is really difficult to break out in the interior, who let the Celtics also have a meat shield center.

The two games the Cavaliers won were two games in which James exploded from the perimeter, just like the one won by his good brother Wade.

Because outside shooting was originally James' weak link, he couldn't break out in four games, so the Cavaliers just lost, and the Celtics, who were weakened by the Big Three and turned into a team style of play, did it.

As for the Cavaliers who defend very well, the team's personal defensive ability is not good in some positions, and the inside defense is not strong. In the playoffs, it is impossible to play the defensive strength of the regular season.

The playoffs are the time to test a team. When the strength rises, the fake offensive team will show up, and the fake defensive team is the same.

Because in the playoffs, the weak links of the team will be infinitely targeted by opponents.

In the west, the final opponent of the Timberwolves is the strongest Lakers this season. The Suns did not create miracles.

With the healthy Stoudemire and the 36-year-old Nash, this super combination has shown its final light.

And their new aid Richardson is also very adaptable to the team's style, and they have come to the present.

In fact, when Nash first arrived in the Suns, the Suns lineup was strong.

Young All-Star Stoudemire, All-Star Marion in his prime, and Joe Johnson.

It's a pity that the Suns let go of Joe Johnson and dismantled this super lineup, otherwise they might have succeeded in reaching the top.

Then the strength and luck of the Suns were a little bit worse, so they couldn't make it to the West.

This season, the Suns have played more holistically, with a higher three-point shooting percentage, but the star strength is a little bit worse.

Facing the Lakers, it was difficult for them to take advantage of it. They fell behind 0:2 in the start.

Back at home, they relied on Stoudemire's super performance and a little luck to get back the situation.

It's a pity that Kobe continued to go berserk, and in the end the Suns still failed to make another victory.

The Lakers actually have weak links this season, but Kobe is too strong to help.

The Timberwolves will face the Lakers more difficult than the Suns.

Because the Timberwolves are afraid of teams with good insiders or superstars, the Lakers have both.

Kobe and the Twin Towers will be difficult for the Timberwolves to overcome now.

Even if the Timberwolves learn from the Suns to play faster, they don't have Nash's master of organization.

The Timberwolves have not been able to speed up in an all-round way, and it is also because the team does not have such conditions. Curry and Love cannot support the team's high-speed offense and defense throughout the game.

The Timberwolves won two games in the regular season, which seems to be easier than dealing with the sweeping Spurs.

But in fact, the Spurs were able to sweep them because the Timberwolves lacked personnel, and the Timberwolves won two games against the Lakers, one because the Lakers took it lightly, and the other because Bynum was injured.

In the two games where the two sides faced off, the Timberwolves actually lost.

Among the top eight teams in the Western Conference, the only ones they really bullied in the regular season were the Nuggets.

But no matter whether there is a gap in team strength or not, when they meet in the playoffs, the only choice for the Timberwolves is to go all out.

In the Western Conference finals, they are here.

(End of this chapter)