Zhang Yi is now the Timberwolves' biggest headache. If Barnes' defense can go up to another level, the team will not barely squeeze into the playoffs and be swept out.

The stars Minnesota is looking forward to are always not as good as superstars but have superstar diseases! Barnes came to sign a maximum salary when he transferred to the interview. He said arrogantly that his offense is worth the price. When talking about his criticized defense, he just said that he could use attacks to defeat his opponents.

If Barnes can really show his performance around Curry, he is right to say this, after all, his shooting percentage and scoring explosive power are indeed the top in the league.

It's a pity that his active offense has not been developed. Although he can beat some defensive players with his own lateral movement speed. But this is not a breakthrough move. The players who defended the outside of the league quickly got used to his movements. As long as they were stuck close to the interference before taking action, Barnes' shooting rate fell immediately.

Especially in the past two years, the league has not been too strict about shooting fouls, and Barnes's shot is a bit of a 38-style. Although it is very fast, the defender can often steal the ball during the time he takes the ball.

Of course, this must be done by veterans with enough experience. The Timberwolves coach naively believes that Zhang Yi would not notice this shortcoming when defending Barnes one-on-one.

For this ball, because Barnes had a position behind the bottom line, he saw him raise his hand to ask for the ball, and of course the point guard sent it over.

Although the Timberwolves have now changed to the regular starting lineup, the end of this game has not changed. You can play Barnes and hand the ball to him.

Moreover, before this game, the potential trading targets proposed by the Timberwolves will also pay attention to it. Although Barnes' performance has been getting worse recently, he is still young after all, and he still has enough time and opportunity to improve himself.

The scorer gene is something that many teams in the league lack. As long as he can score a high shooting percentage and goals in this game, Barnes still has a market.

When he got the ball, he wanted to catch the ball and shoot immediately. But he didn't expect that Zhang Yi's defense was very fast, which was completely beyond Barnes' preparation...

If it is normal, the shooter moves to the bottom corner to make up for defense, and he will split the ball out as soon as possible. Because it is too dangerous to stand at this point, if you are accidentally double-teamed and then die.

But Barnes doesn't care about so much, he is too confident about his attack speed. There are indeed few people who can attack without reaching the highest point like him. Moreover, the speed is already fast, so it is too difficult to find the rhythm of blocking.

But he had already taken action in front of Zhang Yi three times, each time he had a small distance push before raising his hand.

Although Zhang Yi is a rookie, he has more experience than many players who have played in the league for several years. Because when defending Wang Long, the coach will set more important scenarios for Zhang Yi.

Now there is also the time to defend the outside line. Zhang Yi faced Wang Long's changing shooting posture countless times, and Barnes happened to be like this, so after repeated confirmation, he was confident in defending this time...

When the opponent's ball was lifted, Zhang Yi immediately decisively took the ball! The incident happened too suddenly, and Barnes had no chance to react.

With a bang, the basketball was taken off his hand. And Barnes was about to lean over to save the ball, but of course he was not as good as Zhang Yi who had prepared for it.

The Lakers completed the steal again, which was the third turnover within a few minutes of the first quarter. The two steals were beaten into a counterattack, and this time was of course no exception.

It's just that because the other Timberwolves are experienced veterans, they immediately launched a counter-attack on the spot after this situation, and did not give Zhang Yi a chance to pass quickly.

Robert rushed through the half in vain, and in the end the basketball was left to Oscar to stabilize the situation.

Seeing that the Lakers' offense was stopped, Barnes sighed because he also understood that if he didn't play well in this game, he might be kicked out of the team by the Timberwolves.

But he was still too naive, and his ideas were almost the opposite of reality. If he didn't fight well, the Timberwolves could not clean him up. On the contrary, if he performed very well in this game, he would still have a chance to trade.

Seeing the scene turned like this, the Timberwolves' head coach looked ugly. Because now he can only sigh that he was obsessed with it back then, so he regarded Barnes as the core of the team building.

Although many teams have high-paying and low-energy players, it is rare for Barnes to be able to play but can't play.

The team and players' chances of mutual assistance were simply broken by Zhang Yi. Moreover, seeing the Lakers players' energy looks, it is probably not realistic to wait for them to enter the regular rotation before allowing Barnes to make a wave of data.

After Oscar took the ball, Zhang Yi and others passed halfway through the game. They played the Princeton tactic with Walli as the center. This is also their favorite tactic in positional battles.

The Timberwolves' lineup is almost a shooter with four defensive players. It relies entirely on one person's offense to drive others. Although their offensive efficiency is slightly worse, they are still very strong when it comes to limiting their opponent's scoring defensive efficiency.

However, the Lakers' Princeton tactics are very restrained by the Timberwolves' assisted defense. In addition, Barnes, a player who is not a colander, is not likely to be very restricted by the opponent's offense.

When Zhang Yi bypassed Walli's cover and rushed to the basket, the ball handler immediately hit the ball to Robert on the outside. The Timberwolves' defense was hit by this, and then a cooperation between inside and outside was torn apart.

When Robert was about to take action and attracted two assisted blocks, he immediately made a fake shot and sent it to Zhang Yi who was passing the ball, who shook the defenseman and made a layup.

The Lakers' offense can be fast or positional battles, because even if the players are mainly new players, these people have very good tactical execution.

In addition, the main players have been tested by NCAA tactics and have already played an extraordinary tacit understanding, so their offense can be extremely smooth in every goal.

In the match with Zhang Yi, Barnes's face as a star Xiaoqian was ravaged and shattered by the ball and ruthless yan shot.

Looking back on his provocation to Zhang Yi before the game, Barnes is really regretful now. Because it is hard to say that if he did not deliberately anger his opponent, he would not have been targeted infinitely in the game.
Chapter completed!