The substitute players of both sides started a fierce rookie pecking game in garbage time.
Garnett faced Earvin Johnson, and Sam Perkins' inside combination was still suppressed. Perkins has rich experience in the game, and he is a space-based inside man who relies on jump shots. He knows how to limit this kind of inside combination.
players.
Perkins always has a very good sense of distance when guarding Garnett. He can interfere with shooting, and can also stay close to Garnett when he breaks through with the ball. Garnett and his teammates also have a hard time playing pick-and-roll cuts and catching the ball. Irvin
Will help defend at the basket.
Garnett suffered a lot in confrontations and couldn't squeeze away from any opponent. How could he score against two players? He distributed the ball to his teammates again and again, and their shooting percentages were not high.
The worst thing is that Garnett didn't feel good in this game and his shots didn't hit the target. In the third quarter, he made 0 of 3 shots from the field and didn't score a point. His score in this game continued to be zero.
The Sonics entered the final quarter with a 39-point lead in the away game. Timberwolves fans turned into Jacky Cheung at this moment: "I have already seen a tragedy unfolding..."
In order to prevent the team from losing at home, coach Bill Blair sent in starters Christian Laettner, Tom Gugliotta, and Isaiah Leder in the final quarter.
At the "critical moment", the soon-to-be-dismissed coach believes more in the "ace" he holds. What he does is in the interests of the Timberwolves, allowing players who may be traded to play to improve their statistics, making it easier to send them away in the mid-term.
What Bill is not sure about is whether he will still be the head coach of the Timberwolves in the middle of the season.
The SuperSonics substitutes Kevin Edwards and Vincent Askew also wanted to improve their statistics. The two teams' brushers unexpectedly fought fiercely in the final quarter. Also desperate was blue-collar forward Bo Outlaw, who was rare.
I got a chance to play and wanted to prove myself.
Booutero has no ambitions and doesn't think he can get a big contract in his life. He is playing in a contract year and must work hard, otherwise he doubts that he will have no ball to play after the end of this season.
Earvin Johnson is also in a contract year. He is a blue-collar guy with poor offensive ability. When the team leads by a big score, he also goes all out on the defensive end.
Snow is also a defensive player, and the SuperSonics lineup showed amazing efforts, and the shooting percentage of the Timberwolves' trident they defended dropped a bit.
In the end, the SuperSonics defeated the underdog 120-86 by 34 points in two consecutive games.
As soon as the whistle sounded, Yang Jian heard the system prompt tone.
"The host has witnessed history. Star player Kevin Garnett failed to score a point for the first time in an NBA game and gained 1 attribute point."
"Oh my god, is it so amazing?" Yang Jian was stunned for a moment, thinking that Garnett didn't score. He didn't take many shots, and his jumpers were all irons, and he couldn't enter the penalty area at all.
Yang Jian knew why Garnett was so tough, because this guy was too quiet today. He howled a few times with all his strength, and he still had to make one or two jump shots. He didn't know how to add buffs to himself. Although he didn't score or block shots.
, it’s a bit embarrassing to howl...
"This is the first time he scored zero points in a single game. In other words, there are other times in the parallel world where this guy scored zero points." Yang Jian really didn't know about this unpopular record.
Garnett is a hard-working player on the court. As long as he is on the court, he will work hard to score. Theoretically, even if he is overly targeted, he will not score zero points.
However, in a parallel world, Garnett scored zero points in a total of 13 games in his career, mainly in the early and final seasons of his career. He had three zero points in his rookie season and eight in the last season of his career.
Zero points.
This happens easily when players come off the bench. Kobe also had 15 zero-point games, more than Garnett.
Yang Jian continued to add points to his mental attributes, with a total of 31. He felt that he was becoming more and more energetic, and his thoughts on playing on the court were becoming clearer and clearer. His assist data had steadily improved, with more than 5 in many games, and he had 31 assists in his rookie season.
The average number of assists will definitely not be ugly.
At the beginning of the season, he was a little worried that he had too few assists, averaging less than two per game, and was evaluated by the media as having a single role and not being able to drive his teammates. He wanted to try to avoid negative reviews, because it was related to whether he could win his next contract.
How big is the signature?
When his teammates want to take more shots, he should try his best to provide assists and play like today.
He feels that there is no need to increase the technical attributes of basketball, so he should practice slowly. He relies on top-level physical fitness, and he can play with 90 skills with ordinary skills of 56. Players with ordinary physical fitness will vomit blood.
No matter how fancy your moves are, you still have to shoot in the end? I can run two steps on the court, catch the ball and throw it away, and my scoring efficiency is higher than yours.
Just asking are you angry? It’s useless to be angry. Players with top physical fitness can do whatever they want.
Yang Jian knows that Garnett can still provide attribute points in the future, which is his lucky star.
The magical skill of the iron-blooded jump shot made Yang Jian become the league's top scorer. Combined with running without the ball, his mid-range shooting percentage has been maintained at around 50%. This is a level that only Nowitzki has at his peak. Duran
Both Te and Garnett are close.
After the game, Yang Jian attended the press conference as usual and was asked questions by a group of reporters.
The reporter asked him to express his feelings, and he learned that the Sonics' 12-game winning streak had tied the previous winning streak in team history.
Yang Jian smiled and said: "To be honest, I have no special feelings. The 12-game winning streak is a record in team history. This record is not difficult to break. We are the best team now. Unless something unexpected happens, the winning streak will continue.
We are setting new records every game."
The reporter asked: "You and Garnett were rookies who entered the NBA at the same time. He was the fifth pick but you were not selected. Now your performance is much better than him. How do you feel about this?"
"Garnett and I are not in the same position. We don't have the same chemistry during the game. It's not appropriate to play together. Draft picks don't mean everything, but rookies who rank high must have something special."
The reporter asked: "Then how do you evaluate Garnett?"
"I am very optimistic about his future. We have played against each other in the summer league, and I was very impressed by him at the time. He has excellent jump shooting ability and one of the best mobility in the paint. As long as he gains weight appropriately, maintains flexibility, and becomes familiar with
After the NBA's game rhythm, he will definitely become an All-Star."
All the reporters were stunned. They were waiting to hear Yang Jian say bad things about his opponent. At least Yang Jian should not take Garnett seriously. When he evaluated Damon Stoudemire of the Raptors, he implicitly
With a trace of disdain.
Garnett didn't score a single point in this game and only had 4 rebounds and 2 assists. Yang Jian actually said he was optimistic about him?
Another male reporter asked: "Are you sure Garnett will become a star instead of a parallel import? He didn't score a point today."
"I'm sure, because I think he has a lot of similarities with Sean. Although he is not as tough as Sean and can't enter the penalty area for dunks at any time, he is very mobile and can shoot and can play a tactical role on both offense and defense.
Effect. If Sean could only dunk and lack jump shooting ability, our offense would not be as difficult to defend as it is now."
Yang Jian praised Garnett and also praised Kemp. Kemp is now much better than Garnett, but he has not won the regular season MVP. In a parallel world, Garnett has won the regular season MVP.
Of course, it's hard to say whether Garnett in this world can win the MVP, because the competition in the Western Conference is more intense. As long as Yang Jian's future teammates are not too bad, he can suppress Garnett for many years in the Western Conference, and maybe the entire
career.
The two have the same birthday and entered the NBA at the same time. Their careers are likely to completely overlap. Garnett is also a famous iron man in the league. He played a total of 21 seasons before retiring.
For Garnett, this is definitely not good news. The chance of him and Yang Jian teaming up is infinitely close to zero. Unless he has a chance to do so at the end of his career, his total career contract amount ranks first in NBA history. Generally speaking,
The team can't afford his super contract.
Yang Jian exchanged compliments with his teammates again, ending this away trip.
It was a tough schedule, but he didn't feel any hardship, mainly because it was too easy to win the last two games. The bottom team was just a loser, and the Sonics could practice tactics and train substitute players during the game.
Chapter completed!