super point guard

Chapter 160 Competition
After entering the visiting team's locker room, Minnesota Timberwolves head coach Rick Adelman had a gloomy face and said nothing.In the first half of the game, his Minnesota Timberwolves trailed the Indiana Pacers by four points 43:47 on the road. The team's roller coaster state and performance clearly made Coach Adelman very dissatisfied.Coach Adelman watched his players sit in their chairs, and then he spoke.

"Guys," Coach Adelman said dryly, "what do you think of your performance?"

No one answered Coach Adelman's questions.

Kevin Love lowered his head and drank the water without saying a word.

Ricky Rubio also bowed his head, not daring to answer Coach Adelman.

"What the hell game are you playing!" Coach Adelman finally got angry. "Your performance is like a roller coaster. How can you play the game with such performance? Look at your performance in the first half. The defense at the time was simply too soft. Where did the hard work in training go? With your state, don’t even think about making the playoffs!”

Kevin Love silently put the water bottle on the ground, but still did not raise his head.

"I hope you can do your defense well in the second half," coach Adelman said. "Only if we do a good job of defense, our offense will be better! Our main problem in the first half was that we didn't have enough defense. Persistence, the flexibility of the defense is not good enough, which will also affect our offense. We can still lead only because our offense is slightly better than the opponent. For a while, we were still pressed by the opponent! Therefore, I Hopefully you guys understand what you had in the first half and fix it in the second half."

The players all nodded.

The second half of the game is about to begin.

Promise to stand on the sidelines with his teammates, listening to coach Larry Brown lay out tactics.

"In the second half we had to double-team Kevin Love in the paint, even if the rest of the Minnesota Timberwolves scored." Coach Larry Brown said.

By this time the Minnesota Timberwolves players had already returned to the field and were practicing in the other half.Xu Nuo looked at Ricky Rubio on the other side of the court and began to wonder how on earth he was supposed to really beat Ricky Rubio.

At the beginning of the second half, coach Larry Brown adjusted the starting lineup, allowing Paul George to serve as the starting shooting guard, and did not continue to send two point guards.In fact, for the current Indiana Pacers, the strength of the backcourt players is almost the same, no matter who is sent, there is no problem.

At this time the second half of the game began.

It starts with the Indiana Pacers attacking, Promise dribbling near the top of the arc, facing Ricky Rubio, and he makes a gesture.

He clenched his fists quickly, then parted quickly.

This is one of the secret signs of the Indiana Pacers' offense.

Clenching his fists and then separating means that the team's shooting guard picks and rolls. Paul George quickly retreats to the outside of the three-point line after covering for Xu Nuo, attracting his defenders to his side, just to give Xu Nuo a pull. Create a gap that can be easily broken through.After Nuo crossed over Ricky Rubio and drew a cover from Darko Milicic, Nuo flicked his wrist and passed the ball to missed center Roy Hibbert. · Hibbert scored an easy dunk.

Coach Larry Brown sat on the sidelines and nodded slightly when he saw the success of the tactics.

The tactical core of the Minnesota Timberwolves offense is Kevin Love. When Ricky Rubio passed the ball to Kevin Love, Danny Granger and David West quickly responded to Kevin Love. Love formed a double-team, but Kevin Love, with quick eyes and quick hands, passed the ball to Michael Beasley with a flick of his wrist, and Michael Beasley rushed into the Indiana Pacers restricted area and jumped high A powerful Tomahawk dunk!After landing, Michael Beasley roared to the sky in a rare way!

The Minnesota Timberwolves' bench players jumped to their feet almost simultaneously, while the home team fans booed. "This ball will definitely be among the top ten goals of the day!" Field commentator Jeff Van Gundy said on the sidelines of the court.

The players of the Indiana Pacers were not frightened by Michael Beasley's strong dunk. After all, this is a very common thing in the NBA. Ranger made a mistake in the next attack, and Michael Beasley picked up the ball and ran to the frontcourt.With another dunk, Michael Beasley scored four straight points and ravaged the Indiana Pacers' rim in a row.

"It's disgusting!" Xu Nuo looked at Michael Beasley and said fiercely. Now the Indiana Pacers are only two points ahead of the Minnesota Timberwolves.

"Don't worry." Danny Granger patted Xu Nuo on the shoulder and said.

Danny Granger said so, but there was a murderous look in his eyes.When Coach Larry Brown saw Danny Granger's murderous eyes on the field, he knew that his disciple was about to explode!

And Danny Granger broke out, then this game will be very dramatic.

When Xu dribbled the ball across the center line of the court, Danny Granger had already reached out for the ball, and Xu Nuo had to hand the ball to Danny Granger.Danny Granger received the ball and pulled it up directly to make a long three-pointer from the outside.

But this one was not hit.

Danny Granger frowned slightly.

Minnesota Timberwolves power forward Kevin Love grabbed the rebound and tossed it to Michael Beasley running downfield in what looked like another easy fast-break score.However, at this moment, Danny Granger suddenly jumped high and interrupted Kevin Love's pass in the air.

The fans in Conseco Arena all stood up.

After stealing a pass from Kevin Love, Danny Granger dribbles past Kevin Love for an easy layup.

Minnesota Timberwolves head coach Adelman stood up from the bench, but he did not request a timeout.

Ricky Rubio missed a shot, and David West jumped high to receive the rebound, promised to catch the ball and scored a one-stop layup, scoring his first point of the second half.After that, Kevin Love missed a shot under double-teaming, and the Indiana Pacers once again took the rebound.

Xu promised to dribble the ball to the frontcourt and made another gesture.

He made a zip movement.

This is also an offensive signal for the Indiana Pacers.

Zip, meaning the other four players on the Indiana Pacers pulled to the other side of the court, clearing the field for Danny Granger to single.

The Indiana Pacers did just that.

Danny Granger received the promised pass, and all eyes were on Danny Granger for a while.

Danny Granger held the ball tightly and stared at Michael Beasley, trying to overwhelm him.Then, Danny Granger started dribbling the ball slowly.

"The attack is on!" Michael Beasley said to himself.

Sure enough, Danny Granger suddenly accelerated his dribbling rhythm and broke through to the right. Michael Beasley hurriedly followed up. side breakthrough.Just when Michael Beasley hurriedly changed the defensive direction, Danny Granger made a sudden stop, threw away Michael Beasley, and then raised the ball to shoot.

Luke Ridnour on the side hurried up to cover the defense, but Danny Granger suddenly stopped. This shot fake shook both Luke Ridnour and Michael Beasley.Immediately afterwards, Danny Granger turned around and shot close to Michael Beasley, the ball scored, and the referee's whistle blew.

A goal is scored and a penalty is added!
The Indiana Pacers bench was elated.

Michael Beasley looked at Danny Granger and shook his head helplessly.

And Luke Ridnor lowered his head even more, without saying a word.

Danny Granger made a free throw and completed a three-pointer. The Indiana Pacers led by nine points 56:4:7.

Minnesota Timberwolves head coach Rick Adelman stood on the sidelines and shouted at his disciples, asking his players to step up their offense.

But haste makes waste. Michael Beasley singled Danny Granger with the ball, promised to break Michael Beasley's dribble quickly, and then assisted Paul George to score an alley-oop dunk. At 58:47, the Indiana Pacers had an eleven-point lead.

Coach Adelman couldn't sit still and called a long timeout.

Coach Adelman changed his strategy and began to shift his focus to defense, requiring the Minnesota Timberwolves players to play steadily and do a good job defensively.

The result of this is: the Indiana Pacers did not score a goal for 3 minutes, while the Minnesota Timberwolves chased after the victory and scored eight points in one breath.However, Danny Granger made a long three-pointer from the outside and stabilized the situation on the court.

But even so, Coach Larry Brown got up and called a timeout.For the current Indiana Pacers, defense is the most important thing.

So, after being blocked by the opponent for 3 minutes without scoring, the Indiana Pacers also kept the Minnesota Timberwolves scoreless for 3 minutes.At the end of the third quarter, the Indiana Pacers led the Minnesota Timberwolves by eight points 70-62.Although Xu Nuo scored only two points in the third quarter, he sent out three assists in a single quarter. After three quarters, Xu Nuo had already scored [-] points and [-] assists.

(End of this chapter)