one-handed ball

Chapter 202 Home Field Advantage
The 09 playoffs are still in full swing, and there are rare bursts of cheers in the Rose Garden Arena today.

"duo~"

The referee's whistle sounded again, "Timberwolves thug No. 11 fouled!"

"I buy Karma!" Anderson hugged his head, showing an expression of disbelief. Only 3 minutes after the first quarter, he received his second foul.

"It's okay, just go down and have a good rest!" Zheng Ke grabbed Anderson's neck and ravaged his long hair.

Amid the applause and cheers of the audience, Anderson walked down the field with a depressed face.

Whitman frowned. Anderson was caught in a foul crisis, which surprised him. You must know that in the Trail Blazers, Pulzbila was not the main player. In the first few games, Anderson had very few fouls, at least compared to Love. In other words, Anderson has fewer fouls.

Channing Frye replaces Anderson.

Billups turned his head to look at Zheng Ke, with a look of worry in his eyes. He has been in the league for so many years, and he smelled an unusual smell from the referee's penalty scale.

Zheng Ke made a gesture to let him play singles for the next ball, and he decided to use singles to suppress the Blazers' high momentum.

此刻森林狼8比11落后了3分，但是开赛到现在森林狼已经领到3次犯规和2次失误。

Billups received it. After he pushed the ball across the half court, he commanded his teammates to run and let Zheng Ke fall to the low position. At this moment, only Zheng Ke and Batum were left on the right half of the Blazers half.

Zheng Ke gets the ball with his back. He is more and more fond of post-ups now. It is easy and has a high hit rate. The key point is that when he plays back-ups like this, his ability to break double-teams is much stronger.

Seeing that Zheng Ke was going to play Batum with his back again, boos immediately rang out at the scene, and the fans made various ways to interfere with Zheng Ke.But in fact, they were sweating for Batum.In this round of the series, they finally understood Zheng Ke's back-up singles. He didn't have meticulous footwork, but with his large back and precise mid-range shots, the Blazers' forwards complained. The Blazers lost to the Timberwolves. Most of them lost to Zheng Ke's move.

"Team him, double-team him!" McMillan made a trumpet shape with his hands around his mouth, yelling hoarsely towards the field, and he didn't know who he called to double-team Zheng Ke.

Aldridge raised his hands and moved quickly to double-team Zheng Ke.

Aldridge double-teamed from the right side of Zheng Ke. Zheng Ke didn't mean to pass the ball. After leaning his back against Batum, he collected the ball with both hands, with his left foot as the axis and his right foot on the ground. He completed a fadeaway jumper from the baseline action.

"Shh!"

Zheng Ke proudly raised his hand in the air, and Batum was hit hard by him. It seemed to outsiders that he was defending well, but in fact, he caused very little interference to Zheng Ke.

10:11.

Anderson's end still has a certain impact on the Timberwolves. Love alone can't protect all the backcourt rebounds of the Timberwolves. In the next few offenses, the Blazers always took the initiative on the basketball court by virtue of their rebounding advantage. .

Under Whitman's signal, Zheng Ke, Billups, and Afflalo all began to pay attention to protecting the backcourt rebounds. The super scoring ability in the room can not be displayed.

Battle between the two teams!
This is not the specialty of the Timberwolves. The Timberwolves, who have super mobility, Zheng Ke, don't like to fall into the position to attack, but because of Anderson's fate, they are forced to switch to the position to attack the team.

The Blazers took the initiative.

After the first quarter, the Trail Blazers led 23 to 19 by 4 points. The point difference was not big, but allowing the always aggressive Timberwolves to only score 19 points was enough to prove the Blazers' advantage on the court.

It was a really suffocating game. After Zheng Ke returned to the bench, he was still very angry. He grabbed the paper cup extended by the staff, took a big sip of water, and then fell to the ground.

Zheng Ke himself performed well in the first quarter, scoring 7 points and 4 rebounds, but the team as a whole was in trouble, which made him feel very uncomfortable.

"It's okay, everyone, don't panic. Although we encountered a little difficulty, we lead 3-0 in total. Everyone must be calm. Now the pressure should be on the Blazers side. We just need to play our style and play well. If it is more reasonable, it will be able to regain the initiative.”

Whitman boosted morale loudly, and his familiar words penetrated into Zheng Ke's ears. For some reason, Zheng Ke felt restless in his heart, and he took a few deep breaths to calm down.

The Trail Blazers' bench was jubilant. Everyone chose to forget that this was a game of their last stand. What they have to do now is to play their own momentum. Roy said loudly: "We can't let our fans Disappointed, look around, this is our stadium, here are the fans who support us, we can't let these fans who came to support us leave disappointed!"

"That's right." McMillan took the words and said: "Boys, you did a good job in the first quarter. What we have to do now is to maintain this state, keep the ball rotation, do a good job of defense, and play aggressive!"

No one would have expected such a scene. After the main force in the first quarter, the substitutes in the second quarter were still in no condition. On the contrary, the bench lineup led by Fernandez finally broke out and beat the Timberwolves' bench to the ground.

In the past half of the second quarter, the Trail Blazers had 39 points, while the Timberwolves had only 25 points. The substitutes only scored 6 points after they came on the court. Even with Billups on the court, the Timberwolves still did the same.

The substitutes walked off the basketball court dejectedly, but at this time, Zheng Ke looked calm, and he and the substitutes clapped hands one by one: "Good job, brothers."

Zheng Ke's playing made the remaining Timberwolves players on the field feel confident, and they became much calmer when handling the ball.

"I'm here for the first time!"

Zheng Ke signaled, Randy Foye gave the ball to Zheng Ke, he stopped the ball outside the three-point line, and the teammates around him pulled away the Blazers players.

The Timberwolves consisted of Billups, Randy Foye, Zheng Ke, Love and Anderson.Although Afflalo's three-pointers are also very accurate, Randy Foye, who takes more shots, gives people the feeling that the three-pointers are more accurate. With him and Billups standing on both sides of Zheng Ke, the Blazers players also Don't dare to let it go too far.

"Left or right?" Zheng Ke was thinking about the direction of the breakthrough in his mind, but his eyes were observing the surroundings, so as to ensure that he could react immediately when others came to double-team.

Zheng Ke did a simple crotch dribble and approached Batum little by little.

"Left!" Batum's eyes burst into bright colors. For the first time, he saw Zheng Ke's breakthrough completely clearly, made the most accurate judgment, and blocked the road ahead of time.

I went, Zheng Ke couldn't hold back, and hit Batum's body with his shoulder. The huge force penetrated Batum's body, knocking him to the ground and flying him backwards.

"duo~"

"The Timberwolves hit someone on the 17th, an offensive foul!" The referee was relentless, caught Zheng Ke's pigtail, and grabbed it desperately and would not let it go.

Zheng Ke had nothing to say. This time, the change of direction was a little easier, allowing Batum to make a correct judgment and block the direction ahead of time. He patted the ball with both hands, and then dropped the ball with one hand.

Batum completed a successful defense. The French Pippen got up, opened his mouth, and let out a roar. After so many games, he finally completed it once!
The audience in the Rose Garden gave the young man a lot of face and gave him warm applause immediately.

Just like Zheng Ke's offense was fruitless, the Blazers played the most beautiful first half in this round of the series. At the halftime break, they even led 52 to 38 by 14 points.Among them, Roy and Aldridge averaged 13 points in the half, Zheng Ke scored 15 points in the half for the Timberwolves, and Billups scored 7 points the highest among the others.

The Timberwolves decided to change their formation in the second half. Anderson was troubled by fouls. He played a total of 5 minutes in the first half and was still burdened with 3 fouls. If there was another foul in the third quarter, he would still have to rest.Whitman made an impromptu decision to play a lineup of one big and four small.

Love, Smith, Zheng Ke, Efflalo and Billups formed the starting lineup for the second half.

But this lineup failed to achieve the desired effect. Although the offense has picked up, but in terms of defense, Smith can't prevent the 2-meter Aldridge at all. The two teams became a mutual explosion in the third quarter.

At the end of the three quarters, the Blazers led the Timberwolves by 81 points 68 to 13.

(End of this chapter)