The King of the NBA

Soon, the 2014-2015 season nba preseason will come.

At this time, almost a month has passed since the Spanish Men's Basketball World Cup. Ning Yi's foot injury has fully recovered and he has returned to the team to participate in training.

Although he recovered from his injury, the Timberwolves adhered to a conservative strategy and made a relatively safe comeback plan for Ning Yi, as well as a timetable.

On October 8, the Timberwolves ushered in their first preseason game of the 2014-2015 season against the Pacers.

The results of the preseason will not affect the regular season rankings, and its purpose is only to run the lineup, train players, practice tactics, and enhance communication between players and coaches.

The preseason itself is a process for each team to adjust from the offseason and adapt to the upcoming regular season.

Of course, the preseason is much more important than the summer league. During the summer league, many players in a team will not participate at all, but in the preseason, almost all the players in the team will participate, including the core players.

It's just that these core players often don't have much playing time. Their task is to find their feelings, find their status, adjust themselves, and practice tactics to cultivate a tacit understanding with new players.

Most of the time in the preseason is for those newly joined free agents, as well as rookies and young players.

One summer has passed, and the lineups of many teams have changed. There are free agents, new players who have been traded, rookies this year, and young players in the second and third grades.

These guys all need a stage, a stage more formal than summer league, to showcase themselves.

It can be said that the preseason is very important to these people, and it will even determine whether they will sit on the bench or become regular rotation players in the regular season.

If you perform poorly in the preseason, you may not have much playing time in the regular season; if you perform well and get the approval of the coaching staff, then congratulations, you may become a regular rotation player in the regular season , so that you have enough opportunities to perform well, get more playing time, and a more important role status.

Timberwolves VS Pacers.

Ning Yi still started the game and received warm cheers from the fans.

After not playing a game for a month, Ning Yi was also a little excited, and fired from outside the three-point line when he came up, but before he found the feeling, the ball bounced out of the basket.

"No hurry, take your time."

Afterwards, Ning Yi was not in a hurry to score, and began to revitalize the whole team.

This summer Ning Yi has made great progress, not only in scoring ability, but also in passing ability and rebounding ability. These have all improved a lot, almost all of which have been improved by one or two levels.

"The ball." Ning Yi ran back to get the ball, and then broke through directly. After attracting the defense, he passed the ball behind his head and gave it to Love outside the three-point line. Love raised his knife and hit a three-pointer.

"It's beautiful." Le Fu and Ning Yi clapped their hands and said with a smile.

Ning Yi nodded, and he was also very happy.

Tens of seconds later, Ning Yi once again sent an assist for his teammates. After a breakthrough, he threw the ball into the air. Dieng understood it, and the flying body was an alley-oop dunk.

When Pekovic left, Dion became the starting center.

After sending out two assists in a row, Ning Yi finally scored. He received a pass from Rubio outside the three-point line and made a three-pointer.

After playing for four minutes in the first quarter, the Timberwolves had the advantage. They played very flexibly and played more points, especially the two points of Ning Yi and Love, which caused the Pacers a headache. Love is still improving, he is very lethal in the low post, and he can also pull the outside to shoot three-pointers, and his passing is also good, especially in cooperation with Ning Yi, Love passes, Ning Yi cuts, Ning Yi Yi passed the ball and Love lobbed the ball. The seemingly simple cooperation was extremely lethal.

Needless to say, Ning Yi has not played for more than a month, and he is very excited. He is very active on the offensive end, breaking through, passing, and rebounding.

In just four minutes, Ning Yi had already scored 5 points, plus 3 assists and 1 rebound.

"Well, that's how it's played, that's the rhythm." Adelman was overjoyed to see it. When the ball was dead, he called a timeout and replaced Ning Yi, Love, and Martin. Among the five starters, only Leaving Rubio and Dion on top.

This is a preseason game, so Ning Yi and Love don't need to play for too long.

At the end of the timeout, the Timberwolves have Dieng, Jokic, Shabatz, Turner, and Rubio on their side. Jokic is a power forward, but his role can be regarded as a center, and he can cooperate with Dieng to form a twin tower .

With this lineup, the effect is also good. Jokic has adapted to the Timberwolves system, and Adelman has given him enough trust to play very well.

And Shabaci, he has made a lot of progress this summer. Although he can't compare with Ning Yi's progress speed, it is not bad for a second-year student.

On the contrary, Evan Turner, the guard who was traded from the 76ers, still couldn't let go. He couldn't adapt to the atmosphere and rhythm of the Timberwolves, and he didn't play very well.

This is not surprising. After all, he was the starter in the 76ers, but he became a substitute in the Timberwolves. It takes time for anyone to adjust himself.

"Generally speaking, it's not bad." Adelman nodded, looked away, sat down beside Ning Yi, and asked, "Ning, how do you feel after playing for a few minutes? Your injury is okay."

"No problem, it's completely fine." Ning Yi smiled.

Hearing what Ning Yi said, Adelman was relieved, but he still told Ning Yi to take his time and not to rush. After all, he was injured for a month and it took time to adapt.

Ning Yi nodded obediently.

At this time, the score on the field has become 26:17, and the Timberwolves lead by 9 points.

The Pacers called a timeout.

Adelman also took advantage of this time to replace Rubio and Dion with Whiteside and Clarkson. He spread out the tactical board, drew a few tactics, and said: "Whiteside, your task is to Inside defense and rebound protection, remember one thing, after blocking, you must go inside. Jokic, you have outside shooting and passing ability, so you have to mention the free throw line and support your teammates. If you have If there is an opportunity, you can play by yourself, if there is no opportunity, you must pay attention to the position of your teammates and send the ball to your teammates in time."

"Clarkson, your task is to advance the ball to the frontcourt, hand it over to Jokic, and then move around, looking for opportunities for outside three-point shots, understand?" Adelman asked.

"Understood." Clarkson nodded.

Adelman has already talked with Clarkson, clarified Clarkson's position.

Not only Clarkson, Jokic, Whiteside, including Dion, Shabatz, Turner, Jack and others, Adelman has talked with them one by one and clarified their positioning.

The entire Timberwolves can decide how to play, only Ning Yi and Love!