(Second update)

On December 20, 1994, at 8 o'clock in the evening, the Los Angeles Forum Stadium was full. Although the Lakers' record has been average in recent times, in terms of the overall record of the season, the record of 13 wins and 10 losses is definitely excellent for the Lakers today. More importantly, today's game between the Lakers and the Timberwolves is a battle of revenge for Lakers fans.

During the preseason, the Timberwolves and the Lakers were called one of the weakest teams in the NBA, especially the Lakers were considered the weakest team in the preseason. It was either because of other reasons or because the Timberwolves stepped on the Lakers and stepped on the Lakers.

Although the predictions of the Lakers before the start of the season have basically been slapped back by Lin Han and the Lakers in the face, in the preseason, the Lakers even lost the Timberwolves, which is not that a problem for Lakers fans. At that time, Lakers fans did not expect the Lakers' record this season, so even if the Lakers really lost the game and lost, they would not boo the team at home.

But the Lakers even lost the Timberwolves, and it seemed as if they were shameless. In the end, the Lakers fans who were just watching coldly could not help but boo the team directly.

This year's eight-game losing streak in the preseason is a very tragic history for the Lakers. Although this game is not so important to the Lakers in terms of record ranking, it is quite important in other aspects. Moreover, before the game, the Timberwolves, who still ranked in the last few places in the league this season, threatened to use the game against the Lakers to end their losing streak!

Such remarks are quite exciting to Lakers fans. So, before the game, Lakers fans regarded this game as a game that must be won!

"Although the Lakers' stadium looks a little simple, the atmosphere on the scene is pretty good."

In the stands of the Forum Arena, when the Timberwolves players appeared, Lin Han, as the Lakers' player, was the head of the Lakers. When he was playing, the cheers from the entire Forum Arena also reached the biggest decibels. At this time, Lin Han's family kept waving their arms to Lin Han on the field, especially Lin Han's younger sister. After seeing Lin Han come out, his face turned red with excitement.

On the contrary, Ling Meng, who has been quarreling with Lin Wei for a while, looks quite calm at this time. Lin Han explained that the girl who smuggled from the Celestial Empire seemed to be watching the game on the spot.

However, Lin Wei, who was sitting on his side, curled her lips a little when she said Ling Meng's words. Humph, this little bitch is pretending. And she must be pretending!

Of course, Lin Han, who was on the court at this time, naturally would not know what was happening in the stands. In fact, when he appeared, when the players from both sides walked onto the court, the Timberwolves' outside player Ledel came to Lin Han.

For Lin Han, Isaiah Laidel was almost extremely bitter and revenge. This Timberwolves player who was able to beat Lin Han on the offensive end was one of the most outstanding young players in the NBA last season, and Lin Han claimed to be the strongest four rookies outside. The four small super swingers' identity made him the true destiny of the Timberwolves for a long time.

But in the end, as a rookie young player, when Lin Han had a conflict with Drexler and big players such as Pippen, Ledel actually became a hot spot for Pippen and Drexler. As a young man and a rookie, it would be fine if he didn't help Lin Han in the confrontation between the new and old, but he was very mentally retarded and stood on the side of Pippen and others to fight Lin Han, and was eventually defeated by Lin Han, which also made him a question mark with such an extremely bright young outside line!

In this season, among the four small super swingers last season, Lin Han, who ranked first in the league this season, has been ranked second in the league in scoring, fourth in assists, second in steals, and first in rebounds with 14 rebounds per game, and ranked first in blocks with 4.3 blocks per game. Although these data will definitely drop by the end of the season, there is no doubt that the head of the four small swingers that year was already one of the best players in the league. At least in terms of data, no one can beat Lin Han!

Hardaway, who ranks second among the four small swingers, still maintained the upward momentum last season this season. As a swinger, his average of 23 points, 6 rebounds and 7 assists per game has made him one of the top stars in the league now. In the previous All-Star vote, Hardaway has already started the defender in the Eastern Conference.

As for the other one, Mashburn, although the Mavericks' record this season is still average, Mashburn scored 50 points in a single game against Pippen, and has averaged a terrifying 25 points per game so far this season. He is currently ranked sixth in the scoring rankings after Jordan, and Lin Han and other five players. In the All-Star voting, he is also ranked fourth in the forward position after Malone. It seems that he may also be able to enter the All-Star this season. If this guy really enters the All-Star, then he really has to move towards the path of a quasi-superstar!

The four little swingers, Lin Han is already rushing to the top player in the league, thinking of becoming the king of football after defeating Jordan, while Hardaway is already rushing to the position of the league superstar. As long as he enters the All-Star starter this year, he will gain more honors in the regular season and go further in the playoffs, he will be able to become the superstar. As for Mashburn, the small forward is also preparing to charge towards the position of the quasi-superstar. It can be said that among the four little swingers, except for him, the player who is dragging his legs, other players are walking a smooth road.

And what about him? The Timberwolves' record this season is only a little better than the Clippers, and they are still second to last in the West. In terms of data, he only averaged just over 20 points per game, not even 21 points, and it doesn't make any progress in data. He seems to be a little stagnant in terms of strength and ability. Compared with the other three of the four super swingers, Ledel has been left far away!

Lin Han’s very famous sentence last season. We are no longer in the same level. This sentence tortures Ledel almost every day and night, because not only he and Lin Han are no longer players of the same level. Judging from the current development, even he, Hardaway and Marshburn do not seem to be the same level players.

Therefore, at the beginning of the season, no matter how amazing the Mavericks, Pistons, Lakers and Kings are, in the eyes of most experts, these teams will sooner or later fall to the bottom. This is the current reality of NBA!

And this reality also directly made Laider, who was silly when he saw Lin Han, now has the courage to stand in front of Lin Han, roar directly!

The Timberwolves' starting players in this game were center Laitner, power forward Lux, small forward Ledel, shooting guard Doug West, and point guard Garland. A typical bottom team configuration, all the players of the team do not have first-class defensive ability, even if the team has a double tower configuration, the defense of the double tower is weak and does not have enough deterrent power at the basket.

Even if such an inside player can score, it will be a blowout in the league now. Even such a bad inside player combination can make the Timberwolves and the Lakers challenge. From this, we can see how weak the Lakers' inside player is in the eyes of these people.

Especially in recent times, after Rodman was criticized for his belief that he had become a waste to support his elderly care, the Lakers' inside line was considered to have completely collapsed.

Therefore, even insiders like the Timberwolves dare to say that they would step on the Lakers before the start of this game. However, when the game started, when the team's starting center Antonio Harvey defeated Sean Lux of the Timberwolves while jumping the ball, Ledel, who wanted to defeat Lin Han with the overall strength of the team, was a little confused in this game.

Because in his opinion, the Lakers are definitely at a disadvantage as soon as they come on the court. This team cannot be compared with the Timberwolves in terms of jumping balls or other aspects. After all, this is also the source of confidence that he dares to fight against Lin Han!

And when Harvey's rare jump ball was successful, when Lin Han held the ball and pushed forward. When the Timberwolves' two big men could not keep up, as the player who matched Lin Han in this game, Ledel was almost directly crushed by Lin Han and killed to the basket and completed a one-stop dunk at the basket!

The Timberwolves' weak defense is so weak that it makes the Magicians on the sidelines feel a little unbelievable. He is even now doubting that the team has really lost this team in the preseason?

At this time, the Magician was wondering whether the team had lost to the Timberwolves in the preseason. The Lakers fans on the side of the court, after seeing Lin Han crushing Ledel to complete the score, the atmosphere in the entire forum stadium was ignited. Looking at Lin Han who was enjoying the cheers of thousands of people, Ledel's face was completely astonished at this time!

If the Timberwolves cannot defend the Lakers on the offensive end, then for them, they can also find the field on the defensive end. After all, the biggest advantage of the inside teams compared to the outside teams is still on the offensive end. The inside teams on the offensive end are absolutely advantageous.

With Letterner's comprehensive ability, no player on the Lakers can stop Letterner, Rodman? This guy has long been a useless person!

So, when the Timberwolves were attacking, after receiving Garland's pass in the middle, facing Lin Han's defense, he was not prepared to force Lin Han, and he actually hanged the basketball in his hand to the Timberwolves white center Laytner who was preparing to force Rodman!

As a white insider, Letterner's style of play is a little soft and his athletic ability is not very good. However, as the number one player of NCAA back then and a member of the Mengyi team, although he was ridiculed and humiliated by Jordan and other bigwigs in the Mengyi team, no matter that, Letterner is a player of the Mengyi team, and he still has strength. At least he can average 16+7 per game per season. Although such data is difficult to enter the All-Star or Qual-All-Star level now, with his height, there should be no problem to beat Rodman, a media expert's use of his height.

But what surprised Leitner and Leidel or other Timberwolves players was that Leitner did not push him away after pushing Rodman at the basket for a long time. Rodman's close-fitting defense is his best move. Recently, because he was taught a lesson by Olajuwon and David Robinson and others, especially after his top defense was useless to Olajuwon and David Robinson, he even doubted his defensive characteristics.

Although Rodman has not fully recovered and has some problems both physically and psychologically, since being accepted by Lin Han, Rodman has changed a little bit. At least when he was on the court, he no longer has the feeling that other Lakers players have nothing to do with him. If he can't defend, he can't defend. Whether the Lakers lose or not has nothing to do with him.

For most players who have not integrated into the team, this mentality is normal. Rodman was like this when he was with the Spurs. The Spurs' win or loss is related to him. If Rodman really tries his best to defend, **Vicci doesn't have so much material to cut a shameful video of Rodman.

Of course, it is basically impossible for Rodman to sacrifice a lot of things for Lin Han like other Lakers players. Overall, Rodman is almost the same as Dominic Wilkins. After paying Lin Han to the Marina, his professional qualities are back, and this is actually enough for the Lakers and Lin Han.

Before this, Lin Han had never thought about asking this guy to sacrifice anything for him!

Leitner is very good and has a comprehensive offensive skill, but he is not Olajuwon or David Robinson after all. He is just a white man and his footwork and ball holding are not that good. After being stubbornly held back by Rodman, he forced two steps inside and couldn't push Rodman at all. The Timberwolves center could only endure the huge force passed from Rodman, and used his height advantage to prepare for a side hook!

At this time, when Leitner was just jumping and preparing to hook, the ball was shot before he could finish it and was suffocated by Lin Han on the side!

"Your attack is too slow!"

"Dennis. Beautiful in defense. Remember this feeling!"

When Lin Han completed this block and slapped the ball directly to the outside line, he fell from the air and still gave Rodman a thumbs up. After just looking at Lin Han and Rodman, Letterner looked at Ledel, who was still dull behind Lin Han at this time. Letterner was very unhappy!

He really didn't expect that Lidel could not even stand it, and Lin Han had such a good opportunity to return to the basket to assist in defense!

At this moment, Eddie Jones, who successfully competed for the block and rebound with Garland, broke away from Garland's defense and rushed towards the Timberwolves' halftime, the entire Timberwolves' halftime was empty. When Eddie Jones successfully dunked amid the cheers of Lakers fans throughout the game, the score of the game had become 4-0. The Timberwolves, who wanted to defeat the Lakers in this game, had already felt the huge pressure from the Lakers!

Especially for Ledel, the development of this game after the start was really beyond his expectations!

In this case, when the Timberwolves attacked again, when Leidel was about to pass the ball to look for Leitner, the restless young forward was cut off by Lin Han when passing the ball!

Lin Han's ability to cut off the ball is almost the best in the league, and Leidel is not a master-level passer player. In addition, he is still distracted when facing Lin Han's pass, which is almost a death-seeking!

After Lin Han completed the steal and completed the fast break and dunk, the game only took less than a minute, and the Lakers were already leading 6-0 at home!

"I just knew, how could the Timberwolves be the Lakers' opponent!"

"We lost the preseason just carelessly. Now that we have finished the game, the Timberwolves are nothing, nothing!"

"That's right, although we are indeed a little afraid of the strong inside team, are the Timberwolves considered strong inside teams? Hahaha!"

When the Lakers directly fooled the Timberwolves less than a minute after the game started, when the Lakers directly started the full and half defense against the Timberwolves under such a lineup, the Timberwolves almost took some effort to dribble through half the game!

Because this team's point guard Garland is a very ordinary point guard and has never played in the NBA last season. As for everyone besides Garland, even the strongest outside line, Laidel has average ball control ability. In this case, when the Lakers Timberwolves, who have stronger athletic ability comes to press the whole game, even the Timberwolves head coach Bill Brass on the sidelines was shocked.

This is not how unexpected the Lakers' pressing is. In fact, many teams have used this tactic against the Timberwolves this season. How could the Timberwolves not be used for the shortcomings of such obvious ones?

The key is that the Lakers, who were in a mess in the preseason, were almost messy in both offense and defense. Although they still had no tactical system on the offensive end, the cooperation between players became obviously normal, and this was even more so on the defensive end. When Lin Han and Rodman were able to coordinate while pressing, instead of Lin Han defending, the other one was watching coldly, the harm caused by Lin Han and Rodman to the opponent's offensive line was absolutely incalculable!

After losing Grant, the Bulls also lacked an inside pillar, but why can this team be so much better than the Lakers in terms of record?

In addition to Jordan and Pippen's tacit understanding and the Bulls have a complete tactical system, the more important point is that Jordan and Pippen's oppressive defense can make most inside teams unable to play their inside advantages at all, because inside players can't even get the ball in the inside, just like the Jazz pressing the Rockets in the Western Conference Finals last season that Olajuwon couldn't get the ball!

Now, when Rodman began to integrate into the team on the defensive end, when Lin Han and Rodman kept pressing wildly against the opponent's ball-holding players, it is probably difficult for a casual inside team in the league to defeat the Lakers!

Therefore, as this game progressed, even Lakers players who had a lot of opinions about Rodman and even disliked Rodman very much, after seeing Rodman finally working hard on the court and having the game effect after collaborating with Lin Han, these Lakers players were silent directly.

Although the Timberwolves is very weak, the Lakers' defense against the inside team on the defensive end in this game is definitely the best of the season!

Even in the game against the Jazz, Malone made so many irons, but it was just Lin Han’s personal excellent defense and had nothing to do with the team’s coordination. Now it is completely different!

So, when the game ended, when the Lakers defeated the Timberwolves by 30 points at their home court, facing the entire boiling forum arena, the players on the Lakers and the head coach Magicians on the sidelines were very happy. As the starter, Lin Han did not play in the fourth quarter. After the game ended, Lin Han was already applauding the Lakers substitutes on the sidelines.

It can be seen that Lin Han is very satisfied with this game. Before the battle with Jordan and the Bulls, the team was able to complete a certain degree of sublimation, which is very important!

"Denis, it's done well"

Finally, after looking at the somewhat silent Lakers inside beside him, Lin Han directly opened his hands, and Rodman chose to hug Lin Han after hesitating for a moment.

Although the Lakers player who saw this scene looked a little complicated at this time, he did not speak out to mock Rodman.

As for the Magician and Adelman, Hubby Brown and even Jerry West in the stands, they smiled and nodded when they saw this scene.

"It seems that Rodman's body has recovered almost, and his spirit is much better than before. The team is finally on the right track!"

Especially Jerry West, as the head of this team, the Lakers are in very good condition now.

"It's up to you to see if Petri can invite that old man here now."

Thinking of the old man from Princeton University, Jerry West also shook his head with a wry smile. In the American basketball world, there are not many people who can give him a headache. That old man full of artistic cells is definitely one.

After defeating the Timberwolves at home on December 20, the Lakers defeated the Kings 106-97 at their home court. In this game, Lin Han once again scored 20 doubles, 28 points and 21 rebounds. Although the average triple-double average is gone, it seems that Lin Han's road to rebounding king this season is getting smoother and smoother!
Chapter completed!