Slam Dunk: My Study Abroad Career in Northern Hunan

Nash's appearance can bring more changes to the Suns.

Although Nash only hit one ball, Wu Dao can see the offensive potential of this team from the Suns' offensive rotation just now.

The Suns and Timberwolves are very different from teams like the Bulls.

Whether it is the Timberwolves or the Bulls led by Jordan, there is an obvious offensive finishing core in the team. There are traces of who will have the ball in his hands at critical moments, and how he will play when he gets the ball.

But the Suns are different. Just looking at the Suns' paper lineup, you have no way of knowing who their offensive core is. In other words, using the word "end point" to describe it will be more specific.

Who is the leader of the team? It's difficult to name him directly from the players' data performance.

It's true that the team relies on Kidd to run, but precisely because the team relies on organizational guards like Kidd and Nash, this Suns team seems a little out of place in today's league.

Other teams are targeting stars, but your Suns are the only ones who play fast break transitions and team basketball?
In the Timberwolves' offensive round, Nash's appearance on the offensive end can indeed bring a lot of help to the team, but what about the defensive end?
Nash's physical condition is actually better than most "little guards" in this era, but physical condition also depends on who he is compared with.

Compared to the Timberwolves' Chris Kyle, Nash's physical condition is still at a disadvantage.

At the top of the arc, when Chris Kyle dribbled the ball close to the three-point line, he could clearly feel that the defensive pressure from Nash was much smaller than the opponent just now.

The most prominent feature is that Nash's defensive positioning is relatively "deep". When Nash is positioning, he stands inside the three-point line. Compared with the previous Rex Chapman, Nash It gives Chriss a fair amount of freedom from beyond the arc.

This kind of defense will suffer a lot if it is against an opponent with three-point ability.

Chris Kyle can shoot three-pointers. Since Wu Dao entered the Timberwolves, Chris Kyle has seen Wu Dao's potential early on and usually focuses on strengthening his passing and outside shooting abilities during training.

With a ball-carrying core like Budo in the team, he prefers the No. 2 position and is working towards the traditional No. position.

Over the past few months, his training has been somewhat effective, but he has had fewer opportunities to cooperate with martial arts on the field. Although the coaches on the coaching staff have noticed changes in Chris' training focus.

But in actual games, Chris Kyle is still subconsciously used as a No. 2 position.

This is also caused by the team's lineup configuration, not the coaching staff.

You can't put Marbury on the bench every game, right?
In fact, Coach Philip's coaching ideas have not completely changed.

The team's outside players all play with the ball, but he thinks this is a good thing. When someone is in poor condition, other players can jump on it immediately, without considering whether one ball is enough for so many players to "point".

That is to say, the martial arts is strong enough, and he successfully suppressed people like Marbury and Tom after joining the team. If there were a player with less strength at hand, the problem of ball rights in the Timberwolves would have "exploded" the Timberwolves team.

Chris Kyle, who was holding the ball at the top of the arc, had no intention of taking advantage of him when faced with a defense like Nash. He protected the ball and observed the movements of his teammates.

Chris actually thought that Wu Dao would find a way to catch the ball in the air, but what he didn't expect was that when Chris was approaching the top of the arc, Wu Dao actually quickly ran to Chris' position and set up a pick-and-roll for Chris. .

Wu Dao's height can even reach 211cm after wearing shoes, and Wu Dao is also very strong. He made a pick-and-roll beside Nash and blocked Nash solidly.

Although Chris was surprised, he was an NBA player after all, and his quality was still there. While the martial arts pick-and-roll was in position, Chris Kyle also quickly broke through.

Nash was stuck in the martial arts, and Kidd saw Chris speeding up to break through. After a moment of hesitation, he chose to pursue and follow up.

After noticing Kidd's pursuit, Chris showed a look of surprise on his face. When dribbling, he flipped his wrist back and quickly lobbed the ball back to Wu Dao on the outside.

Wu Dao's height was much higher than that of Nash. He caught the basketball easily and then dropped the ball with force, and his body quickly pressed against Nash's body.

A huge force instantly hit Nash's body. Nash, who was standing unsteadily, stumbled and was actually pushed out nearly two meters. Then his feet became unsteady and he sat down on the floor.

On the martial arts side, after giving Nash "100 million points" of physical confrontation, he did not dribble the ball and rush forward at all. Instead, he stepped back to outside the three-point line, and then shot a three-point jumper.

The entire martial arts attack is not very fast, but in the eyes of others, it is very comfortable.

The shooting rhythm can be described as perfect.

"Shhh!!"

As the basketball plunged into the net, the Target Center Arena was suddenly overwhelmed by the cheers of the audience.

These players who are tall, can burst and shoot, and are martial arts players who beat the Suns will be out of position against anyone.

Kidd dares to make moves when defending, and can put some pressure on martial arts, but Nash's defense is completely different. It is much easier to deal with Nash than to deal with Kidd!
In the cheers of the fans, the game between the Timberwolves and the Suns gradually entered a fierce stage.

The Suns' offense, driven by Nash, was quite smooth. Except for Kidd, other Suns players performed to varying degrees.

As the game became more and more intense, the two teams also made some substitution adjustments at the end, allowing the main players with more physical strength to come on the bench.

Wu Dao stayed on the court throughout the second quarter. Although Nash was often able to provide exquisite assists to other teammates, it was a pity that Kidd also had no chance to score under Wu Dao's strict defense.

The few limited shots he took were also interfered by Wu Dao's defense, and the basketball crashed out of the basket.

Although the Suns' offense is smooth, it is a pity that the Timberwolves can still play an efficient offense even if they don't have point guards like Kidd and Nash who can connect the entire team with exquisite passes.

Wu Dao completely took over the game in the second quarter. Although the Suns guarded Wu Dao tightly, as long as the basketball could smoothly come into Wu Dao's hands, he would always have a way to send the ball into the Suns' basket.

Even though he was completely cornered by the Suns several times, Wu Dao relied on his excellent height and jumping to pass the basketball to other teammates through gaps in the crowd.

The effect of Taiyang on martial arts double-teaming is actually not ideal.

At 36:24, at the end of the second quarter, the point difference between the two teams widened further. Martial Arts scored 22 points in a single quarter, directly destroying the Suns' defensive system.

The efficient offense made Minnesota fans scream in surprise.

Suns head coach Danny Ainge stood on the sidelines at the beginning, yelling at the players on the court and instructing the players on their defense and positioning.

But as Wu Dao scored more and more points, Danny Ainge lost his temper and returned to the bench to watch the game without saying a word.

Unlike the lively atmosphere on the court, there was a dead silence on the Suns' bench. This game had become a complete torture for them.

In the third quarter, Wu Dao remained on the court after playing two consecutive quarters. Philip did not make a substitution decision after following Wu Dao's advice.

Martial arts consciously have enough physical energy, and at this time, there is no need to rest.

He plans to completely defeat the Suns in the third quarter.

But what was different from what Wu Dao expected was that the Suns seemed to completely let go of the other Timberwolves players in the third quarter.

Whenever Wu Dao catches the ball, the 1/4 area where he is located will be filled with Suns players. The illegal defense that I was planning to perform and the martial arts that I saw were all confusing, and the terrible thing is that all the Suns in this quarter were substitutes.

Under such a defensive situation, Wu Dao also had a chance to attack the basket. However, when he was going for a layup, he was pulled out of the air by three Suns players.

Although Wu Dao still sent the ball into the basket before falling, this "murderous" scene still made Coach Philip's eyes jump when he saw it.

After Wu Dao completed the free throw, Wu Dao nervously replaced Wu Dao from the court.

If the Suns' substitute players were to successfully "exchange one" with Wu Dao, Philip wouldn't even know where to cry.

The game between the Suns and the Timberwolves will soon enter garbage time. Although Wu Dao was replaced, Marbury was replaced. With Mitchell, the Timberwolves' offense was still stronger than the Suns.

I thought this game could be played in such a "smooth" way, but what no one expected was that in the final quarter, players from the Timberwolves and Suns clashed on the court.

The reason was that Suns substitute Mark Bryant (206cm/111kg, 1988st overall pick of the Trail Blazers in the first round of 21) seemed to have tasted the sweetness of "tough" defense, and slapped Wallace when he tried to dunk. Laishi's face was in the middle of the face.

Wallace, who was suffocating because he was almost injured in martial arts, got up and without saying a word, he directly greeted him with a fist.

The two people soon got into a fight. The Timberwolves' substitutes were sitting on the sidelines. Seeing this scene, Wu Dao not only did not ask the substitutes to start a fight, but instead threw away the towel in his hand and shouted:

"The one who pretends to be the most awesome, fuck him!"

As soon as the words fell, many of the Timberwolves' substitute players swarmed forward under the guidance of Wu Dao, quickly rushed into the court, surrounded Mark Bryant and performed a wave of crazy output.

The referees reacted very quickly. After pulling the two parties apart, under the pressure of the media present, they directly expelled Wallace who took the initiative.

The game turned into a "full martial arts show" broadcast live across the United States. It has to be said that the Minnesota fans watching the game live were really worth their money. Not only did they watch an NBA game, but they also watched a boxing match.

After this farce ended, the game between the Timberwolves and the Suns returned to a "normal" rhythm.

Although the Suns took advantage of the absence of the Timberwolves' main players to chase points in the final quarter, the accumulated disadvantage was too great to overturn.

In the end, the Timberwolves defeated the Suns 104:88 and won the game.

The fight between the Timberwolves and the Suns quickly made headlines in the media. It's not that NBA players fighting is something special. In this era, players fighting is really a normal thing.

Of course, the league would never tolerate such a vicious incident. If it weren't for the fact that Wallace was slapped hard by Mark Bryant before taking action, and even had a nosebleed, it would have taken the initiative to attack him. For beating someone, the punishment is definitely much more severe.

But even so, Wallace was still suspended for 5 games and fined $2.

Mark Bryant, who "fighted" with him, was only suspended for three games and fined $10,000.

The person who made the headlines in the media was not Wallace who took the initiative, but Wu Dao who roared from the sidelines.

But there were too many media present, and Wu Dao's reaction after seeing the conflict between the team members and their opponents was also recorded by the major media.

After the game, although the league did not punish the Timberwolves and other Suns players, the martial arts behavior was also denounced by some media.

Especially the media in Los Angeles, which is also in the West, criticized the most fiercely, and even instigated the league to impose a suspension on martial arts.
At the same time, Wu Dao’s knee-knee attack on Ma Long during last year’s game was revealed again.

Fans in other places scolded Wu Dao fiercely, but fans in Minnesota didn't care at all. On the contrary, they like the current Timberwolves more.

Unity and fierceness have become synonymous with the Timberwolves.

The fight not only did not make local fans hate the Timberwolves, but actually made the Timberwolves more famous.

For players, it doesn't actually matter what the outside world sounds like.

What the internal sound is like is what matters most.

Team owner Glen Taylor was not unhappy after hearing the news. He generously helped Wallace pay the fine and invited the players to his manor after the team won the game. Eat inside.

During the dinner, Glen Taylor even praised Wallace and praised his bloody spirit. This kind of disguised encouragement also gave coach Philip a big headache.

The players were also very happy. The team won the game and the fight. For them, nothing is more joyful than this.

"You did very well!"

"Although I don't know if you did it after thinking about it or if you did it subconsciously."

“But in terms of results, it’s pretty good.”

"The cohesion of the team will be very different after today!"

"Luckily you didn't try to break up the fight, otherwise, there would have been invisible cracks between you and your teammates!"

On the lawn outside the manor, Budao couldn't stand the smell of those people smoking cigars, so he came outside to get some air. When he was alone, the boss Glenn Taylor came to Budao with champagne in one hand and red wine in the other.

As he spoke, he handed the champagne to Martial Arts.

Martial arts do not drink alcohol, but champagne is more like a drink.

"I'm sorry for causing trouble to the team."

Wu Dao's mentality is very correct. No matter whether the result is good or bad for the team, fighting can never be a good thing.

"Hehehe, you kid."

"I'm very optimistic about you, and the Timberwolves are your biggest supporter!"

"Go ahead and do it and win a championship for this city!"

Glenn Taylor is a sentimental person. Although a businessman is a businessman, he has more friendship with ordinary businessmen.

Garnett, who was at the end of his prime, went to another team to compete for the championship, and then gave Garnett a big contract to come back and retire. Glen Taylor did a pretty good job in some aspects.

"Of course I will!"

(End of this chapter)