"Ding, Caron Butler's shooting ability in the 202-03 season... has been triggered!"

"Ding, Sean Bathir's stealing ability in the 01-02 season... has been triggered!"

...

Cassal didn't take the Raptors seriously.

Judging from the performance of the two teams at the beginning of the game, this Timberwolves is worthy of being the team that was able to reach the Western Conference Finals last season. The Raptors are indeed not enough for them to play. They performed a suppressive performance from the beginning of the first quarter.

It quickly took the lead 7-2.

"Swish!"

When the first quarter reached 7 minutes and 45 seconds, the Timberwolves even made a 5-0 climax, widening the gap to more than 10 points.

In the 2004-05 season, where there were few offensive rounds, this score difference was already comparable to the score difference of about 15 points ten years later.

This score difference is really not small!

The guy who made the mid-range shot to 10 points was "Alien" Casar. He hit the shot with Li Yuan. He couldn't tell from his expression that there was any difficulty. When he retreated, he looked at Li Yuan and laughed: "Welcome to NBA, rookie!"

"beep!"

Mitchell had to call a timeout, otherwise, the Raptors would probably lose this game with a very large score difference, which is not a good thing for the confidence of these young players.

"Guys, I think I need you to make some changes. You should play more proactively. Being behind in points is not a big deal, but you have to be in the same state as the game two days ago..."

But Mitchell called the timeout and didn't know where to improve it. From his perspective, the Raptors had too many problems with this game, which made his mind look like a ball of paste at the moment. In front of him, there seemed to be a completely messy ball of threads. He searched for a long time but couldn't find the thread.

Mitchell's lack of ability to change the lineup on the spot was exposed at this moment.

Of course, this is a problem that many new head coaches have. Inadequate experience makes them unable to come up with an effective method when facing the team's large-scale defeat, but can only shout slogans on the sidelines.

Li Yuan patiently listened to what Mitchell said, and then when he was about to play, he elbowed him against Chris Bosh next to him: "Don't relax! I'm still by your side now, don't worry about not being able to deal with Kevin Garnett, you're a little too careful!"

Mitchell couldn't tell what the team wanted to improve, but Li Yuan knew very well that it was not because he was better than Mitchell in situation analysis, but because Mitchell made a common mistake made by a new head coach: there must be more problems he can see on the sidelines, which also made him want to change most of the problems more than to focus on one of them.

Li Yuan is different. He knows what the cooperation between him and Chris Bosh felt when he won the first two games. He didn't have this feeling in this game, and it must be that someone had something wrong with him and Chris Bosh.

Li Yuan has made 1 of 2 shots so far. The Timberwolves coaching staff completely copied the tricks that Jerry Sloan had dealt with him in the last game, which greatly reduced his mobile phone. This made him only actively look for Chris Posh as in the previous game, allowing him to put pressure on the offensive end like in the last game.

Judging from the current situation, the Raptors' game tonight seemed to have deviated from the right path from here, so that before the first quarter was over, they were already 10 points behind.

Chris Bosh has made 2 of 7 shots so far, and his performance is much different from the previous two games.

But in Li Yuan's opinion, Chris Bosh's performance in this game was not only because of his own strength, but more importantly because he was too nervous and faced with similar styles, but his abilities were much better than him in all aspects. Chris Bosh played a little bit restrained tonight.

Li Yuan didn't think that Chris Bosh could only perform like this when he met Kevin Garnett, because he was still too psychologically burdened.

Thinking about this, Li Yuan blamed him. He habitually handed the ball to Chris Bosh according to the ideas of the previous two games. He never expected that this guy would be suppressed like this when he met Kevin Garnett.

But next, he has to share some pressure for Chris Bosh!

...

The game starts again.

The Timberwolves are also a "pseudo-joint defense" strategy similar to regional defense. As long as Li Yuan enters this area with the ball, he will encounter double-teams. This is Jerry Sloan's defensive strategy for him in the last game, and was also used by the Timberwolves in this game.

Before the timeout, this move achieved very good results, so after the timeout, the Timberwolves continued to stick to such a defensive strategy.

For Li Yuan, this kind of defense method of keeping the ball in the area cannot be solved by him alone, so he still has to pass the ball obediently.

But generally this kind of "pseudo-joint defense" must be composed of three players, which means that the Timberwolves will miss people in two positions in a short period of time. Li Yuan's previous choice was passed to the missing teammate of the fourth position, namely Chris Bosh. However, from the current situation, this is a trap, and the opponent is waiting for him to pass the ball to Chris Bosh!

This time, he passed the ball to Morris.

However, it was different from the previous few times when he passed the ball to Chris Bosh. This time, as soon as he passed the ball, Li Yuan began to actively run.

Casar kept up with his pace, but was separated by Iguodala at the first time.

After Morris took the ball, he kept looking at Li Yuan. When he saw him running out of the open position, he immediately handed the ball to him. Li Yuan was in a very good open position when he got the ball, but he did not shoot, but rushed straight to the basket.

Casar finally got rid of Iguodala's entanglement and could not keep up with Li Yuan's breakthrough at all. Garnett had no choice but to make up for it as soon as possible.

He is one of the best defenders in the league right now.

Li Yuan jumped up and was covered by his entire cage.

"Bang!"

However, the first time Li Yuan attracted Kevin Garnett to jump up, he turned around in the air and leaked the ball behind him from Kevin Garnett who was close to him.

There is unmarked Chris Bosh.

Chris Bosh, who held the ball, instantly got up and dunked, and expressed all the depression in his heart with a loud shout.

This game really made him feel bad!

"Good job, keep detained, don't worry, man, I'm behind you!"

Li Yuan returned to the defense and waited for Bosh to high-fives with him, and spoke up to affirm his goal.

This is the reason why he didn't choose to take action just now. He had to activate Chris Bosh first, and then he could relieve the pressure on his side through his pressure.

Otherwise, if Chris Bosh is still limited to his shooting, if Chris Bosh is still restricted tonight, then he will probably explain tonight.

So whether this goal is from the perspective of restoring Chris Bosh's self-confidence or from the situation of this game, he must first help Chris Bosh regain his self-confidence.
Chapter completed!