This timberwolve deserves more respect from everyone

The league's focus throughout the offseason was on the West.

The injuries and dispersion of several strong teams in the eastern region made people feel disappointed, forcing broadcasters to outrageously position the opening game as a civil war between four Western teams.

The focus of the West is on the Lakers and the Warriors. One is writing Gong Xinshui every day around James' contract, and the other is watching Kumingga's pull with the team. But until the training camp began, these two teams had a lot of flaws. How many people believe it?

As for the championship group, you either play the thunder and look invincible. Anyway, the defending champions every year are invincible at this time.

Either Chu dug up Durant's Rockets, or Chu finally found a few more Nuggets who helped Teacher Yo.

It seems that next year's Western Conference champion is decided by these three teams.

But few people mention Timberwolves.

They have reached the Western Conference Finals in the past two years, and the last time they achieved this was the Five-Star Warriors in 2019.

In the past two years of playoffs, they have successively eliminated many good players such as Jendoku, Jokic, Davis, Butler, Doncic, etc.

They only won four rounds of series (23 years of victory over the Suns, Nuggets, and 24 years of victory over the Lakers and Warriors), but they are very valuable.

This was done when they encountered the core (Downs) leaving the team.

If any of the above-mentioned Internet celebrity teams or old stars do this, they will be blown away by their respective fans.

And they did a good job this offseason, convinced Randall to complete a three-year salary cut of 100 million yuan, and kept Nazel Reed for 5 years and 125 million yuan. This is seriously underestimated. At least they can be the main player in 80% of the league's teams, ensuring the stability of the basic market.

The only loss was to let the defensive strongman Alexander Walker go, but also give young people like Dillingham, Shannon, and Leonard Miller a chance.

The long-term core of this team is Edwards and McDaniels, but at present, the inside group composed of Gobert + Reed + Randall is also the team's core competitiveness.

They defeated the defending champion Nuggets in seven draws, crushed the old Jamdoku, and fought with the Western Conference champion Mavericks and the Thunder in the past two years. They have long been a mature team that has completed the tempering and tempering.

And yesterday's preseason, facing the Nuggets who played almost all the main players, the Timberwolves, who lacked Huazi, Conley and Randall, actually beat their opponents 126-116 away, showing their strong strength that seems to be able to "reverse the upper".

And they didn't win the goal by "water dispenser manager battle" on both sides in the second half.

In the first half, facing the Nuggets' starting five Tigers led by Jokic, they still suppressed 40-28 in the first quarter and 72-63 in the first half.

This does not mean that the Timberwolves' hard strength this season is far better than the Nuggets, but at least in season preparation, this Timberwolves is much earlier than their old opponents.

Finally, I still have to talk about Huazi.

He and Tatum are the most superstar appearance among the young American stars.

Although Tatum has won the championship as the team's boss, he has entered the league's recognized "five masters" before being injured. But perhaps because he is in a group like the Celtics that has long emphasized the team, his starlight and character have been influenced and concealed to a certain extent.

Even though he won the championship, he did not give him the fmvp in the end, and he ended up with the embarrassment like Curry in 2015.

And Huazi is the kind of "old-school" star who has the vitality as wild weeds. As long as you see him standing on the court, you are destined to understand that this team belongs entirely to him and holds everything on your shoulders.

He is the No. 1 pick in 2020. He has only played for five seasons so far, but he has led the Timberwolves, who was previously weak and once the bottom of the Western Conference, to play in four playoffs and two Western Conference Finals.

You must know that being as strong as KG, you have only done it once.

Although he is unrestrained and talented on the field, he still has a bottom line and a sense of proportion. Although he is regarded by many people as being unspoken, he will not be like Morant who will not change his skills and will eventually be abandoned by the league.

Of course, what attracts him the most is the old-fashioned style of being a rival to the world like Kobe and AI more than ten years ago, in order to inspire their own fighting spirit and speak with the ball.

When he first entered the league, he was also a young man who relied on his talent and instinct to play.

But he was not as obsessed with data like many of his peers, ignoring winning or losing, and brought the team into the playoffs the next year. Then he had six games in the first round with Morant. Although he lost, both teams gave people hope for the future.

At the subordinates of Finch, he became a qualified defender while constantly improving his personal offensive arsenal, and in any situation he did not become a shortcoming on the team's defensive end. Among the younger generation of stars in the league, he, Tatum and Alexander have truly achieved comprehensive offense and defense.

He can bring something new to fans, media and even opponents almost every year. In the second year of his career (21-22 season), he is already a stable 20+ attacker.

22-23 season he became a qualified star who can make positive contributions in both offense and defense in high-level data.

23-24 season he has a more stable mid-range and breakthrough end.

Last season, he made his three-pointer to hit No. 1 in the league.

Although he is arrogant, his inner self-confidence is not low-quality.

He likes to speak, but his purpose is to motivate himself and to fill every bragging.

He has just turned 24 years old, and no one still regards him as a young man, but a real superstar in the league.

He and the Timberwolves deserve more respect.