Grab Curry at the start

Chapter 399 Ticket King
In the game between the Timberwolves and the Nets, the Timberwolves finally began to gradually control the situation in the third quarter.

In fact, in the first half, Lopez's touch was too good, which affected Milicic's defense.

Milicic still has a weakness in this kind of inside line. If he defends out, his deterrence will be greatly reduced, so he can only move around the penalty area more often, while Lopez has the ability to shoot mid-range.

When Lopez feels good, it is difficult for Milicic to limit himself, but if the Timberwolves help defend in other positions, it will give Deron and Joe Johnson some opportunities.

In fact, Love can break through directly at the fifth position, but then Joe Johnson and Deron may break in, especially Deron, Curry can't stand it alone.

Fortunately, Lopez's physical strength is not very good. After the intensity increased in the third quarter, the Timberwolves did not make extra efforts, and his role in this point was weakening.

In this case, Milicic can feel at ease to help defend in the interior, and Deron has also been affected. The Nets only have Joe Johnson's less efficient singles.

On the Timberwolves side, Curry and Paul George began to show off.

Even Deron is hard to limit Curry. After all, Deron's defensive awareness is average, and Wallace is a defensive line that relies on his body. The defense is the same. Although he is not very old, his strength has dropped after injury. In the third quarter, the defensive end can no longer withstand Paul George.

In this way, the Timberwolves can pick and play easily, and DeRozan doesn't have to face Joe Johnson.

In the third quarter, the Timberwolves tied the score.

After entering the rotation, the Timberwolves' bench lineup performed better than the opponent, and they finally took the lead.

In these few games, all members of the team are healthy, but the advantage is established slowly, and it is not really settled until the end of the quarter.

It seems a bit embarrassing, but for the team to be stronger in the playoffs, it is completely acceptable to make some adjustments now.

After all, the Timberwolves' current system is still the most secure with Curry and Love as the core of their tactics.

After the Timberwolves took the lead, the Nets struggled a bit.

Their offensive power is still a bit low, and it is difficult to exert force when chasing points.

So they finally chose a lineup of one big and four small, with Watson staying on the field and Wallace going to the fourth position.

This is actually possible. If Wallace is not bad at the peak, but now, the Nets replace the strongest blue-collar of the Nets, and their rebounds are all gone.

Evans can start as a short blue-collar because of his rebounding ability, and Lopez is actually not very good at rebounding.

With the loss of a matchup player with good rebound awareness and many small moves, Love's rebounding began to be fully suppressed.

The Nets are more or less aware of this problem, but they have no choice, and Evans has no offensive ability.

But the Nets still had Deron and Lopez pick-and-roll in the end, while Joe Johnson was looking for singles opportunities on the weak side.

It's just that there is another outside line that can shoot, which can open up some space.

It's a pity that Watson is very average as a pitcher, and his failure to score is still a breakthrough point on the defensive end.

Joe Johnson's singles also failed, but it was Love who grabbed the offensive rebound and scored. Seeing that the Timberwolves played steadily and led to more than 5 points, the Nets were honestly struggling.

It is impossible for them to change the defensive lineup now, so they can only look forward to solving the problem on the offensive end.

As the minutes ticked down, they started to try more threes, which seems to be a natural part of losing for so many teams.

But it wasn't until the last minute that Deron hit a three-pointer, and it was already too late.

The Timberwolves have led by 10 points. In the following time, the Timberwolves controlled the rhythm and won the victory steadily.

Next, they will play back-to-back away games, and there are only 1 games left in January.

And at this time, the new All-Star starter is about to come out.

Curry has been the FMVP for two consecutive years, and the Timberwolves are the first in the league. He finally narrowly defeated Kobe and became the new All-Star vote leader.

Originally, the outside world had high expectations for the Lakers this season, and Kobe's popularity also exploded.

But with the Lakers playing in a mess, Kobe still couldn't beat Curry in the end.

It turns out that Kobe was able to become the top voter in history, probably because there was no opponent on the back line, and fans of James and Durant may have some conflicts.

In addition to Curry, Paul George also became the All-Star starter with the second striker in the West.

Love's comeback was too late, and DeRozan was not as popular as Curry and Kobe, and neither became a member of the starting lineup.

And Howard came to the West, even if the Lakers' record is not good, last season's vote leader is still worthy of a starter.

There are no centers in the East, which gives Garnett an advantage.

In fact, this year's All-Star voting changed the rules. There was no center position, and it became two backcourt players and three frontcourt players. However, many fans still habitually consider the inside line, so Howard is fine.

The Timberwolves only have two players to start this time, and the league must consider it when choosing a substitute lineup.

Zhang Sixin actually had expectations, but it was still a pity that in the end the league only allowed DeRozan to be selected instead of Love, who had been absent for so long.

The head coach cannot be re-elected, and Zhang Sixin will not coach the All-Stars this time.

On January 1, the Timberwolves played away against the Wizards.

The Wizards are still a weak team this season, but they have found another young man worthy of training, and that is Bill.

It's just that the Wizards' two talented young men, Wall and Bill, don't seem to have good health problems, and there will always be some minor injuries.

A star who can really play in the league, in addition to having physical skills, you also need to be patient.

But the Wizards can't pick them. It's not easy for a small ball market like them to choose two good players.

Although the current Wizards are very weak, they play a relatively team on both offensive and defensive ends, that is, the players' offensive power is not so strong.

However, they had a good touch in this game, and they got up against the Timberwolves at the beginning.

It's not that a certain player is soaring, but that they all feel pretty good overall.

Zhang Sixin didn't let the players work too hard at the beginning. In the back-to-back away games against the weak chickens, he must let the main players rest a little more.

Thus, the two sides fought for three quarters.

It was not until the final quarter that Zhang Sixin tightened up the team, suppressed the opponent with the strongest lineup, and won the game.

In fact, they brought up the status of the Wizards a bit in this game. Fortunately, they are strong enough to forcefully control the field successfully.

Otherwise, it will be a model of a strong team capsized in the gutter, careless at first, and unable to recover when the time comes.

After winning the Wizards, the team rushed to Charlotte non-stop, which was another good opportunity to sharpen the bench players.

(End of this chapter)