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Chapter 384
Timberwolves' second back-to-back away game, the first opponent is the weak chicken king.

To tell the truth, the king really has no future.

There is nothing wrong with cultivating young players, but the level of the head coach must not be too bad. Young players must develop good habits. If they did not develop good habits when they first entered the league, they may have to be abolished if they have talents.

After many teams have become a habit of being bad, they won many high-ranking picks and cannot rise. It is because the team culture is already rotten, and talented players come to the end. The Kings are a bit like this now.

However, if they really select talented players, they can change the team by relying on their personal ability during their rookie period, and they can actually succeed.

But there are too few such players, and the vision of many teams is honestly not very good.

In fact, the Kings still try to let Cousins ​​and Evans play as much as possible, and the other outside lines that don't pass the ball very much can be stuffed on the bench.

The tactics may not be very good, but the goal is still relatively clear.

It's a pity that Evans seems to be really unable to practice now. It is a pity that the King asked Evans to fight against taller players, resulting in a decline in physical fitness after the injury.

In fact, it also proves that Evans does not have such a strong talent, and the King is a bit counterproductive.

On Cousins' side, it seems that he is getting stronger and stronger, and the data is better.

But he definitely has problems with defense, and there are actually some problems with his offensive options.

When Cousins ​​was at his peak, many people thought he was the No. [-] center forward, but Zhang Sixin never thought so.

Cousins ​​​​is a very comprehensive player in the interior. He can do everything, but in fact he has not achieved the top level. In some respects, he is similar to Love, but Cousins ​​​​adds points to the offense.

However, there are too many strong players in offense, so he is not as distinctive as Love, although it can be said to be more comprehensive.

In the first quarter, Cousins ​​felt pretty good in all kinds of singles, but his defense was a bit weak, and his offense was gone in the second quarter. As a big man inside, he felt the same as outside, not stable enough.

Of course, the Timberwolves took the lead smoothly. If the Kings hadn't scored a lot of points from the bench, they probably wouldn't be able to stand it in the first half.

It can only be said that the Kings players still have the scoring ability, but because of poor defense, and they don't know who should play the main role at critical moments, making it difficult to win.

The Timberwolves also settled the game in a wave in the third quarter, so the game became a casual game where all of them could play and score.

Casual games are for the score. In fact, they still play very seriously after coming off the bench, because they want to show their performance to Zhang Sixin.

And players like Thomas Jr. and Butler on the bench don't know what it means to show mercy.

But this back-to-back away game is not so easy. The Timberwolves are going to play the Clippers, the Western powerhouse.

Although the Clippers are only a second-rate team in the West, they still have All-Stars and their stars are relatively famous. It is no problem to be called a strong team in the West.

They also recruited in the summer and got two players who won the best sixth man, Crawford and Odom.

Odom is actually in a semi-waste state, but Crawford is still very powerful.

In addition, there are veterans like Hill, and their strongest lineup from last season has also been retained.

Leading by Paul and Griffin, there are good big men like Jordan Jr., and experienced veterans like Butler and Billups.

However, the veteran of the team still has potential injuries.

However, the most fundamental problem of the Clippers is still not resolved. Their core players are still not strong enough on the offensive end.

Both Paul and Griffin are relatively comprehensive players, but their pure offense is a bit weak.

Crawford is an offensive player, but it is impossible for the Clippers to completely hand over the ball to a sixth man at a critical moment. Moreover, players of this type are indeed better than ordinary players in scoring, but they are still not enough to face real star players in the playoffs.

So the Clippers' lineup looks pretty good, but it's really only second-rate in the West.

Their current record is not good, of course, it is better than the Lakers who hold the Big Four and can't even make it to the top eight in the Western Conference.

The Lakers are about to become a joke now. Although many people think they are just running in, Zhang Sixin knows that their Big Four is really just a joke.

From this point of view, the Clippers are still developing steadily.

It's just that Paul will find that in the Clippers, the exposure rate is slightly higher, and his teammates are more famous. If he plays in the playoffs, there is actually no essential difference from being in the Hornets.

The Clippers are actually pretty good on both ends of the offense and defense, a bit improved from last season, but neither is top-notch.

After the start of the game, both sides played as a team and did not let the stars play too many singles.

It's just that the offensive efficiency of the Clippers is really unmatched.

For the Clippers, this is a sad thing.

In fact, the Clippers are quite satisfactory on both ends of the offense and defense. They did it very seriously, but did not make special arrangements for the characteristics of the Timberwolves.

Maybe they, as the second echelon in the West, don't have an intuitive understanding of the strength of the Timberwolves.

Last season, they probably didn't regard defeating the Timberwolves as their biggest goal.

Therefore, when the main players faced off, the Timberwolves gradually gained the lead.

However, the Clippers pulled back a game when they rotated the lineup and caught up with the score.

Not Crawford, Zhang Sixin's arrangement is relatively tight against Crawford.

It's Matt Barnes, the role player's good performance is hard to predict for the Timberwolves.

In fact, under normal circumstances, role players are also difficult to play. Not only is the ability of role players relatively ordinary, but also because the Timberwolves are confident in their own defense. Under their team defense, it is really difficult for ordinary players to play.

But when the general NBA players are in good condition, they are actually very difficult to deal with, so sometimes accidents occur.

Then in the second quarter, Paul also played well. The two teams played back and forth in the first half.

Paul's offensive end is not strong enough, but he is still at the All-Star level. He can play good games in many cases, even when facing a relatively tight defense.

It's just that in the last few minutes of the game when the star needs to take over the game, it is difficult for Paul to do well.

Because a large part of his usual threat comes from his excellent organizational skills. At the last moment, when he had to score by himself, half of his weapons were lost, and his weakness in height was naturally more obvious. There was no way around this.

In the first half of the game, the two sides had found out.

During the intermission, the coaching staff of both sides will use their own magic skills, and the second half will be a more intense duel.

Of course, there will be some teams who just rest at halftime, and they will naturally not be discussed by strong teams.

(End of this chapter)