one-handed ball

Chapter 144 Invalidation
For the 76ers, the Timberwolves are indeed a formidable opponent. When Zheng Ke was in pain when he was defended by Iguodala, Billups could always stand up. He is an underestimated outside attacker!Cheeks thought so.

At the end of the first quarter, the Timberwolves and the 76ers were evenly matched, and the Timberwolves led 23 to 22 by 1 point.

In the second quarter, the 76ers sent out Reggie Evans, Speights, Louis Williams, Andre Miller and Willie Green.

The Timberwolves are present, Lowry, Channing Frye, Kevin Love, Randy Foye, Mike Miller.

The old Miller of the 76ers is indeed a famous iron man. He didn't play for a few minutes in the first quarter and retained a lot of energy. An obvious dual point guard lineup is a lot of pressure for the Timberwolves.

After the start of the second quarter, the 76ers' tactics were very clear, relying on the impact and shooting ability of Williams, Miller and Green, and mainly attacking the outside.And Evans, who was replaced inside, is a guy with almost zero offensive ability. His magic weapon for survival in the NBA is to rely on rebounding. This guy has rebounding ability.

Although the Timberwolves seem to have five different heights, all five of them actually have a one-handed three-pointer ability. In contrast, Love and Lowry's three-pointers are relatively poor among the five.However, the two of them recently accepted the suggestion of the team boss Zheng Ke, and started to practice three-pointers, and their shooting percentages were a little bit.

The substitute players on both sides are very energetic, and there is a lot of talk about attacking each other. Lowry's recent performance has surprised Whitman.

Now in the Timberwolves team, Lowry has gradually surpassed Telfair and is meant to be the point guard in the team's second team. Compared with Telfair, Lowry is younger, more impactful, and physically The quality is not comparable to the thin Telfair, and more importantly, Lowry's defense is better.This immediately caught the heart of the team's head coach. Compared with Telfair's defensive loopholes, Lowry is obviously more in line with Whitman's mind.

So recently Telfair wants to be distressed. He was the starting point guard for so long last season, and he is about to become a marginal figure. This kind of gap is not something ordinary people can bear.

The players on both sides played a bit fast, the situation on the court was a bit chaotic, and the play was a bit like bombardment. Lowry and Foye in the Timberwolves were both good ball-handling and breakthrough players. The two took turns to control the offense, bringing the rhythm of the entire game up.According to Whitman's instructions, find more open opportunities by shelling.

Miller on the 76ers' side is not unaware of the change in rhythm, but he feels that the Timberwolves have few players in the rotation. If two of them are exhausted, the 76ers will win the game.

Both sides had their own ghosts, so the situation on the field became like this.However, the difference has not changed much.

In the second half of the second quarter, the Timberwolves replaced the main force, and the 76ers replaced Miller, who had been playing for a long time, and let Louis Williams, who was unable to perform, act as the point guard.At the same time, the 76ers replaced Iguodala on the field. Judging from this posture, Iguodala and Zheng Ke are going to fight to the end.

Cheeks has a good plan. The Timberwolves without Zheng Ke are like a toothless tiger. Although Billups is powerful, he is not as threatening as Zheng Ke, let alone Andre, who averages 17+7 per game. - Miller is not much worse than Chauncey.

Billups and Zheng Ke had a good understanding. After a pick-and-roll from the outside, Zheng Ke fell to the low post. The man who defended him became Louis Williams who was originally defending Billups. Williams has outstanding scoring ability. But his body is thin and thin, not to mention that he was only 1.8 meters tall. Zheng Ke himself singled him out, and he couldn't reach Zheng Ke's ball with his hands. He could only grit his teeth and push back desperately.

Iguodala saw that Zheng Ke had already approached the penalty area with two arches, and he let go of Billups to double-team Zheng Ke.It's better to let Billups shoot three-pointers than to bully people like Zheng Ke.

Zheng Ke has been staring at Iguodala's movement, seeing him coming to double-team, he quickly stopped dribbling the ball behind his back, and even jumped to the front of the basket with the ball, and then without waiting for anyone's reaction, he pulled out and left. rise.Williams had just been knocked out by Zheng Ke, and his head was still dizzy. Seeing Zheng Ke jumping away, he had no energy left to defend.

When Zheng Ke was unguarded, he leaned back a little and threw the ball into the basket.

This was the easiest time for Zheng Ke to score in the first half of the positional battle. He and Billups looked at each other and suddenly felt that this move was very good. Both of them meant to try again later.

After 30 seconds, Zheng Ke came out again to do a pick-and-roll for Billups.But this time Williams was prepared, and Zheng Ke was not particularly strong, and the effect of the pick-and-roll was not good, and no dislocation was formed.This time Billups simply forced Williams once.

Older players have this advantage. They seldom make a breakthrough in the game, but it is unexpected for you to do this suddenly, especially Louis Williams.

He didn't expect Chauncey to break through with great vigor at his age, one step stuck him behind, causing him to miss the initiative, and then it was the moment when Billups performed, a skillful small throw to the bone ended this offense .

In the second half of the second quarter, Zheng Ke also hit a three-pointer. In the first half, he scored 11 points. The score was not low, but the shooting percentage was only 13 of 4 shots. Fortunately, the Timberwolves led 48-44 4 points, otherwise Zheng Ke would die of guilt.

However, many media who feel that Zheng Ke’s name is not worthy of the name have already taken up their pen and ink, and are ready to criticize Zheng Ke. In the first half, especially at the beginning, Zheng Ke’s poor performance against Iguodala was eye-catching. Here, the flustered look is not like the high-spirited look a few days ago.They thought about the content and decided to hack Zheng Ke. Whoever made him so popular recently, even if he hacked his article, it can still attract attention.

During the intermission, Zheng Ke was stopped by Miller's sister who was interviewed by ESPN. Although Zheng Ke's shooting rate was not very good, his statistics were already the best among the Timberwolves. Lupus, but scored 9 points, not to mention Zheng Ke also made a few good passes and grabbed a few more rebounds than Chauncey.

"You don't seem to feel as hot today as you did in Denver last time. Can you tell us why?" Sister Miller spoke fluent English, but the questions she asked were quite pointed.

Zheng Ke thinks this question is very difficult to answer. If the truth is told, Iguodala is better than Anthony in defense, but he can't say that. Although he is not afraid of Anthony, even the two of them were a little unhappy in the last game, but this is not true. It is in line with his usual standards of conduct, so Zheng Ke thought for a while, and then replied with a smile:
"I was a little out of shape at the beginning of the game today. There are always ups and downs in a season. It is impossible for me to score more than 50 points every game like the last game." Zheng Ke replied, while sneaking at Miller's sister, I thought to myself what was going on with this woman today, didn't all the questions in the middle of the game were good things to say, how to ask such a question, it is really a pot that is not open.

The second half began and the players returned to the field.

It should be said that the two teams have their own talents. Cheeks did not expect that Zheng Ke was not defeated by Iguodala, but Iguodala was really defeated by Zheng Ke. In the second half of the second quarter, Zheng Ke Ke used all his strength to defend Iguodala, and in an instant the 76ers lost a stable output of 18 points per game.

The third quarter is usually the most critical quarter of the game in the NBA, and it is also the quarter where many miracles are born.Many superstars played hard in the first half, broke out in the third quarter, and then took away their opponents in a wave. It is normal for superstars to score ten or so points in the third quarter.They are usually unwilling to drag the game to the fourth quarter, because in the fourth quarter, the two teams have red eyes, and many weak teams will explode their energy at this time, and they may capsize in the gutter.

Zheng Ke advertised himself as a superstar, but he also learned the temper that exploded in the third quarter. At the beginning of the third quarter, he started to hold the ball with one hand.

But today his touch has been thrown to the South Pole by Iguodala's defense. Even after turning on the one-handed ball, he still missed his shots. He made two shots outside the three-point line and came out of the frame. It was 76. Ren took advantage of Zheng Ke's failure to score, and brought the score closer by two points.

"Don't worry!" Billups ran over to comfort Zheng Ke, saying, "Let's take our time and play steadily. Don't rush to shoot three-pointers. Let Love attack one inside."

Zheng Ke nodded with a wry smile. He didn't expect that the exclusive skills would fail one day.But immediately he became open-minded, if the exclusive skills were invincible, then he would not be able to get the gold medal in the summer, and he would have been overturned by James and Kobe's personal exclusive skills.Thinking about it this way, failure seems to make sense.
(End of this chapter)