Chapter 14 The curtain begins

The preseason officially started one week after the team's training. The Grizzlies' preseason did not leave the United States. The distant Catalonia always missed the bottom of the Grizzlies.

Their first preseason opponent is another bottom in the West, the Grizzlies' bad brother, the Minnesota Timberwolves.

The Grizzlies who left the airport stayed at a designated hotel in Minnesota. All the players began to concentrate on waiting for tomorrow's game against the Timberwolves. No one was willing to spend their energy after a long journey. After all, that game involved the arrangements at the beginning of the season and the substitute. No one was willing to be placed on the list of activations at the beginning of the season. Everyone stayed quietly in their room, trying to adapt to the difficulties caused by the jet lag as soon as possible.

After putting down his luggage, Li Feng simply packed up and found the waiter to ask about the location of the hotel gym.

This is the homework he assigned to himself. He is used to doing strength training every day. He does not want to be lazy and relax because of fatigue on the journey. That kind of laziness will gradually grow. Moreover, Li Feng felt that this body must be fierce to him to be obedient.

When Li Feng came to the gym, he found out that he was not so diligent.

The team's top star Zach Randolph and the rising star OJ Mayo are already doing their own training. The three of them smiled at each other and did not say too much. Sometimes people don't need to say too much, and actions are actually more effective than anything else.

Looking at Li Feng who has been doing bench press exercises, Mayo also had his own comment in his heart.

"A hardworking guy, Georgetown's inside players are very ordinary, Patrick Ewing, Deakinbe Mutombo, this guy is almost the same."

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The Minnesota Timberwolves was built in 1987 and entered the NBA in 1989. Minnesota was the base of the Los Angeles Lakers, so fans were full of expectations for the Timberwolves from the beginning. However, reality couldn't help but disappoint them. The team failed to enter the NBA playoffs for many consecutive seasons. Although the team has changed coaches and recruited rookie players several times, it is still difficult to change the team's fate of becoming the bottom. The most important decision they made was to choose Kevin Garnett in 1995, but the talented high school student never led the team to the top. In 2007, he finally left sadly, joined the Celtics, and the Timberwolves began to rebuild.

The core of the Timberwolves is the 20+10 strong player El Jefferson exchanged for Garnett. Jefferson is a player with both physical and technical skills, and is the key to the Timberwolves winning.

Jefferson's partner is Love, the "brush" selected by the Grizzlies last year. Love is indeed capable, but it is not unfounded to say that Love is a "brush". In the Timberwolves' game, the backcourt rebound obtained by his player's defender was snatched by Love...

The Timberwolves are all young players on the outside, the small forward is the second round rookie Ryan Gomez who played in Boston, the shooting guard is MOP Cory Brewer, who graduated from the University of Florida, and the point guard is the No. 6 rookie Jonny Flynn this year.

As night falls and lights begin, the Timberwolves' home target center attendance is still good. After all, this is a preseason game and the ticket price is cheap.

After warming up at the stadium, the entire Grizzlies stayed quietly in the locker room and waited for head coach Ryannell Hollins to point out the names of the five people.

Although he knew it was just a playoff game, no one was willing to give in, and Hollins' voice rang in the locker room.

"In today's game, we must not treat him as a preseason. On the contrary, we must treat this game as a playoffs, and it is the seventh game of the playoffs. Only by playing our strength and skills can we make great progress, enter the playoffs, enter the Western Conference Finals and even the finals! Do you know?"

"clear!"

A roar came from the locker room.

"Okay, let me announce the list, Marc Gasol, Zach Randolph, Rudy Guy, OJ Mayo, McConley."

In addition to Randolph, who just came to the summer, the Grizzlies continued their first lineup last season. After Ryannell Hollins called out the names of five people, they began to arrange their own tactics.

Although he didn't hear his name, Li Feng was a little disappointed, but he knew that as a rookie, he still needed to wait for his own opportunity, so he was listening carefully to the head coach's arrangements about tactics from beginning to end.

This is a completely unfamiliar arena. No one can give him any advice, but he has to rely on himself to explore.

Failure to be able to become does not hit Li Feng's determination, but instead arouses Li Feng's fierceness.

The game was as expected by everyone, and it kicked off directly in the confrontation between Mayo and Brewer. Both guys ignored the inside and entered a state of being pointed at the top of the team.

After an extremely depressed and decadent season, Mayo has long been like a beast trapped in a long cage.

He has entered a bloodthirsty state since the start of the game.

The Timberwolves' defense line could not withstand this level of impact. The black lightning flashed through the heart and teared the opponent's defense line. The strong body and accurate shooting brought a fatal blow.

Mayo wants to tell everyone that Derek Ross can do what he can do.

Brewer did not choose to face Mayo's crazy attack. Instead, he used his stable three-pointers and bug-like small shots to keep his score tightly.

In the inside competition, the two big Timberwolves were always floating near the three-point line and waiting for a chance to take action, which left Gasol and Randolph of the Grizzlies almost helpless.

The move of the footsteps made the two big men in the Grizzlies wandered awkwardly between the three-second zone and the three-point line and could not move forward or retreat. They could only watch the other party shoot three-pointers wantonly.

The game fell into a stalemate due to the imbalance in the inside. The Grizzlies players who had not yet fully recovered from the holiday state could only rely on Mayo's charge alone and Guy's shots to maintain a weak lead.

Ryannell Hollins doesn't want him to be so passive in the first game of the preseason. The subsequent dispatch of troops to condemn the generals still failed to solve the problem of the opponent's two tall pitchers.

Not only Love's three-point accuracy, El Jefferson cannot ignore it. After all, the Grizzlies lack the most is the ability to protect themselves from the inside, otherwise they would not have swallowed Randolph's big contract.

The weak inside ability has become the greatest helplessness in Mayo and Guy's hearts. Mark Gasol has a good defensive attitude but cannot prevent the retreat from Love. Although Randolph is not the tofu in Portland, he cannot limit Jefferson. The Grizzlies' inside lacks support from a strong insider. Ryannell Hollins looked at the form on the court and fell into a strange game without inside as last season. He frowned and watched the players on his bench thinking about countermeasures. When his eyes swept back and forth, his attention was attracted by the "perverted" Chinese rookie at the end of the bench.

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