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Chapter 320 The Eighth Exploding Timberwolves Twin Towers!
In addition, although the Celtics lead by two more games than the Pistons behind them, the Pistons also played two games less than the Celtics.

If the Pistons win the next two games, the Celtics will actually have no record advantage!

So this also led to the Celtics, before the arrival of Chris Webber, they have been afraid to rest the core lineup at will.

But after all, he is a 30-year-old player, long-term high-intensity confrontation and competition!

The consumption of these core players of the Celtics is still very high.

Such consumption in the regular season may not have much impact, but in the playoffs, when the teams start to compete with each other, the core players of the Celtics who have been exhausted in advance are very important. It might roll over.

In the history of the NBA, there should not be too many situations where the main players in the regular season consume too much and the weak win the playoffs!

Well now, the arrival of Webber has finally made the four core players of the Celtics relax a bit, and Rivers can also start some individual rest and rotation.

Among them, players like Garnett Iverson, who are old in themselves and averaged more than 40 minutes per game, were arranged by Rivers for a rotation in the first place!

As it turns out, Chris Webber is 35 years old though!

It may be difficult for him to perform extremely well and brilliantly throughout the season!
But once in a while on top of a game or two, playing some brilliant game performance, Chris Webber can still do it.

After all, Chris Webber, who played for the Pistons last season, averaged about 20 minutes per game on the bench, and he was able to average 9+7 per game!

In addition, as the Celtics, which were recognized as at least a championship-level team at the beginning of the season, the league also took care of the Celtics relatively in arranging the schedule.

This has led to the fact that the Celtics' schedule after the All-Star Game generally does not have any particularly strong opponents (referring to fewer opponents at the championship level!).

Even until the end of the regular season, in the remaining games of the Celtics, there are only two opponents in the championship-level team!
One is a game against the Pistons, and the other is a game against the Spurs!
Therefore, although the Celtics took a rest, the overall record performance did not drop much from before the rest.

Similarly, the Eagles are among the teams enjoying this treatment in the schedule.

Even the Eagles are even better than the Celtics in the game schedule because of their outstanding performance in the preseason.

After the All-Star Game, the Eagles will have an extremely easy schedule in the next month. First, there will be few back-to-back games. Secondly, more than 70% of the Eagles' opponents in the next month will be non-playoff-level teams.

Moreover, until the end of the regular season, the Eagles and the current championship-level teams in the league have no games at all!
This is actually an important reason why the Eagles dared to start the rotation plan immediately after the All-Star Game.

At the same time, it is precisely because of the convenience of the schedule that the Eagles' winning rate has reached about [-]% even when Xu Lang, the absolute core of the team, is resting.

After all, the Eagles players who have gradually grown up are not vegetarians, especially Marc Gasol and Darko Milicic, a pair of inside twin towers, who have perfectly assumed the responsibility in these few games without Xu Lang. Played the important role of both offensive and defensive ends of the Eagles!

And after Xu Lang returned to the game after taking a rest for more than a week, the Eagles started the winning mode!

Even for the other core players of the Eagles, when at least two players are rested in each game, the Eagles' record is also in a state of complete victory.

From this aspect of the comparison, we can see once again Xu Lang's role in the current Eagles team!

It's just that, after all, there are core players taking turns, which makes the Eagles' game dominance drop a lot.

In the more than a dozen games that led to the Eagles' rotation, it was rare for the Eagles during the 20-game winning streak to be able to play three quarters of the game against most teams in the NBA!
Even when the number of core players has a large number of rotations, when the Eagles face some opponents, even Xu Lang can win by hitting various key goals at the last moment!
For example, another game where Darko Milicic and Szczerbiak, as well as the second substitute, Uncle Mu and Theo Ratliff, are all rested, and the Eagles are in an away game against the Magic!

The Magic almost relied on Howard's double [-] performance to complete the comeback!

That is to say, when the game came to the last point, Xu Lang suddenly made a mid-range shot and a counter-attack layup with a steal, which helped the Eagles finally win the game!
Of course, although the Eagles had some bumps and bumps during the past month's rotation period, they were finally safe and sound, ending the month-long player rotation period.

More importantly, after nearly a month of rest, the physical condition of all Eagles players has returned from exhaustion to normal. At the same time, the Eagles also ushered in their fourth ten-game winning streak this season.

The opponent of the Hawks' fourth ten-game winning streak is the Timberwolves, which fans had great expectations for this season!
To be honest, the Timberwolves lost their leading player, the mighty wolf king Kevin Garnett, during this offseason.

But it also gained a lot of good chips, such as Zach Randolph, who once again played 25 plus 10 in the Timberwolves this season.

Another example is Greg Oden, the No. 08 overall pick in 07, who performed poorly in the early stages of the season due to adjustments in game habits, but after entering [-], his game status quickly recovered.

At the beginning of the season, Greg Oden's performance in the game was extremely unstable because he was constantly adjusting his game habits.

The performance of personal data is also fluctuating.

Sometimes Greg Oden can play 20+10 top rookie insiders in a single game, but sometimes Greg Oden can only have 5+5 bad data in a single game.

And most of the time, Greg Oden is in a state with poor game statistics.

This also led to Greg Oden's average performance per game at the beginning of the season, which was far lower than people's expectations for him.

Especially when compared with Curry and Russell Westbrook, Greg Oden's performance is a bit stretched.

Even, there is no need to compare with Curry and Russell Westbrook. Compared with Durant, Sun Yue, etc., who are behind Oden in the draft, Oden's average statistics are not too impressive Can do it.

Therefore, before 08, Oden's data performance and best rookie ranking were extremely low.

Fortunately, after the time entered 08, after half a season of adjustments, Greg Oden, who has gradually gotten used to the new way of playing, has begun to stabilize his personal performance, and his personal data has also improved to a relatively good level. .

If you only look at Greg Oden's average data per game after 08, Greg Oden can actually achieve an average of 15+10 per game!

Moreover, although Greg Oden's scoring and rebounding statistics were not very stable at the beginning of the season, Greg Oden's performance has been stable at a high level and is in a state of steady improvement in one statistic of.

And this data is Oden's average block data per game.

So far this season, Greg Oden has averaged 2.3 blocked shots per game, ranking fifth in the league's blocked shots list this season.

Such average block data, combined with Greg Oden's scoring and rebounding data after 08, although his personal performance still did not meet people's expectations for him before the start of the season, that is, 20+10+ 2 data performance.

But it can already be ranked in the top five of all rookies this year.

And with the continuous rise of Oden, the Timberwolves also began to slowly get together the inside twin towers of one offense and one defense!
In fact, after the end of the All-Star Weekend, the Timberwolves' offensive and defensive inside twin towers began to increase with the degree of running-in, and they can put a lot of pressure on most of the basic teams in the Western Conference playoffs!
As for Zach Randolph, in fact, he is quite satisfied with his state in the Timberwolves. There is a perfect Gregg who can wipe his defensive butt at any time, and can do a lot of dirty work very well. Auden!

There is no great record pressure, and there are no other players competing with him for the team boss!

And what's even better is that Greg Oden, who the team focuses on training, will not occupy Zach Randolph's possession of the ball too much on the offensive end without a high enough autonomous offensive ability.

This makes Zach Randolph, who has changed three teams in a row in the past more than a year, quite like the team environment and team configuration of the Timberwolves.

If it wasn't for the fact that Minnesota was too cold, Zach Randolph would even have wanted to play in the Timberwolves until he retired!

After all, Zach Randolph is the absolute boss of the Timberwolves and the new wolf king of the Timberwolves this season, compared to the fact that the Eagles need to be Xu Lang's younger brother.

At the same time, compared to the Celtics who not only have to bear Paul Pierce's eyes, but also have to bear the unreasonable demands of the Celtics' somewhat demanding wealthy fans for the team's record, Zach Randolph can be in the Timberwolves. Completely relax, without any pressure of all kinds of brushing data.

Then, Zach Randolph, who was very comfortable in the Timberwolves and happy physically and mentally, gave the Eagles an unexpected hammer in this game.

To be honest, the Eagles didn't pay much attention to this game.

After all, after nearly a month of rest, this game is a game where the Eagles return to the full lineup.

Without the debuff of exhaustion, the full main lineup is back, and the opponent is still the Timberwolves, the second-to-last team in the Western Conference.

No one in the Eagles thinks that this game needs any pressure to win or lose!

But the NBA is sometimes like this. Before any game starts, no one dares to say that they can win the game [-]%, and this game is the same.

Just when everyone thought that the Eagles would clock out in three quarters again in this game, the Timberwolves were in the leading position at the end of the first quarter, which surprised everyone.

"My grass (is a kind of plant), this fat man. Is it so top?"

Seeing Zach Randolph whose overall strength rating has reached 92, Xu Lang was a little surprised in his heart.

In fact, before the game started, Xu Lang had already noticed that Zach Randolph's strength had risen to the level of 92.

But because the Timberwolves have always had the inherent impression of the league's underdogs, and Zach Randolph's recognized image of the league's data brush!

As a result, Xu Lang didn't think that even if Zach Randolph's strength reached 92, he would be able to cause too much trouble for the Eagles in this game.

As a result, at the end of the first quarter, Zach Randolph scored 11 points, four rebounds, two assists, one block, and one steal in a single quarter against Darko Milicic.

And if it's just that Zach Randolph suddenly exceeded the expectations of all Eagles players and played extremely high offensive efficiency.

It is actually impossible for the Eagles to be behind. After all, as a championship-level team, the Eagles' offensive firepower is obviously stronger than Zach Randolph's personal offensive performance!
But unable to stand this game, the Timberwolves are fully fired.

In addition to Zach Randolph scoring 11 points in the first quarter, the Timberwolves also had Greg Oden scoring six points in the first quarter and Randy Foye scoring nine points in the first quarter. Shad McCants scored six points in the first quarter.

And these four players alone have allowed the Timberwolves to score 32 points in the first quarter.

Therefore, although the Eagles scored 35 points in a single quarter in the first quarter, at the end of the first quarter, the Eagles were still two points behind the Timberwolves.

And when Xu Lang saw that among the 13 players of the Timberwolves in this game, eight players were in excellent game state, and when the other players were at least in a normal state, he had to sigh, the Eagles' game The luck of the game is indeed not very good!

"Uh, in fact, before this game, I have always had two things to watch about this game. After all, the difference in strength between the two teams is too great."

"But now I think we can discuss these two points of view.

The first is the competition between Greg Oden and Marc Gasol for the No. 07 rookie center in the [-] class of rookies. "

"Secondly, Zach Randolph, an all-star power forward player who was sold off immediately after staying with the Eagles for less than a month, what kind of energy can he explode after returning to the Phelps Ball Tank Hall ?”

"Before this game, these two discussions or these two points of view were more like two jokes, but looking at it now, it seems that Greg Oden and Zach Landiff not only want to combine these two Treat this as a joke!"

In fact, as the commentators in the commentary booth said, for this game, Greg Oden and Zach Randolph have made great preparations in advance.

Zach Randolph is to prove that the Eagles made a wrong decision to sell him back then.

And Greg Oden hopes to step on Marc Gasol through this game and tell all the rookies in the 07 class that he is coming back.

In fact, the performance of the two in the first quarter of the game proved that the preparation and adjustment they had spent so much energy before was meaningful.

And in the case of playing so well in the first quarter, the game state of the two can even be said to be the game state of all Timberwolves players, but it continued into the second quarter.

Then, the Eagles, who had already adjusted their game intensity in the second quarter and stepped up their defense, failed to complete the lead in the score.

At the end of the halftime game, the Timberwolves still bit the scores of the two teams at a tie.

And it's not over yet. In the third quarter, when the Eagles played a 10:3 spurt under the leadership of Xu Lang, the Timberwolves were not defeated immediately.

This made the Timberwolves' performance in this game very poor!
And the Timberwolves have been biting the score gap between the two teams without double digits.

In the second half of the third quarter, relying on Greg Oden's two consecutive successful defenses, he took advantage of the situation and played a wave of 8:2 spurts.

Then, the Timberwolves took advantage of the momentum and narrowed the gap between the two teams to one point in one go.

Seeing that the gap between the two teams was about to be evened out, and even the Timberwolves were about to complete the overtake, Xu Lang stood up.

Two consecutive mid-range jumpers were hit, plus a counter-attack dunk by Randy Foye after the frontal defense completed the steal, which directly widened the gap between the two teams to more than five points.

At the same time, Xu Lang's personal counterattack also caused the Timberwolves' original offensive momentum to be suppressed immediately.

Finally, at the end of the third quarter, although the Timberwolves were trying their best to bite the scores of the two teams, the Eagles still took a seven-point lead.

Of course, this is already remarkable. After all, as the second-to-last team in the West, facing the team with the best record in the league, it was able to lose only seven points at the end of the three quarters.

And in the game scene, the two teams played back and forth, and the Timberwolves even occasionally gained the upper hand, which has given many fans and audience a huge surprise!

It's just obvious that the Timberwolves are still somewhat behind the Eagles in terms of strength.