Timberwolves head coach Philip Sanders doesn't have a smile on his face, and even though his team is still ahead, there is always a feeling of unease that makes him uneasy.

If you say which team is the most studied among the 29 teams in the NBA, Sanders can tell the other party without hesitation that it is the supersonics!

Even more than studying the Timberwolves!

From the first game of the season against the SuperSonics, he will always remember the game in which they lost by a full 13 points 121-108, and he will always remember the media writing the sentence 'The SuperSonics won the game with sharp strokes' after the game.

What he still remembers is the supersonic infinite change of defense, and he thought of countless offensive routines before finally finding an effective way to attack.

Beat Lu Fei!

At the moment, it seems that the effect is not bad, Kassel has done the task excellently, and Kassel has maintained a good shooting rate whether it is a strong breakthrough or a big man who plays the opponent after covering.

But a slight departure from the plan, the SuperSonics don't seem to be letting up their defense against Garnett.

The originally expected picture of Garnett beating Lu Fei in a dislocation did not appear.

The team has only one point in the attack at the moment, can this one point of attack keep the lead?

In the second quarter of the game, the two sides had a tacit understanding and replaced the bench players on the court, Ray Allen led the second team to play for a few minutes and was also replaced, although the supersonic of the full bench lineup played well, but the defensive end could not stop Cassel from still having a hot hand, Cassel only rested for two minutes in this quarter, scored 11 points in a single quarter, and led the Timberwolves to expand the difference to 10.

When he returned to the locker room at halftime, McMillan was not too frustrated, but encouraged everyone with a smile: "Everyone played well, the third quarter is the point where we won the game!" ”

The players were stunned, they actually played average in the first half, mainly because the cold touch at the beginning affected the offense, but there were not too many mistakes on the defensive end.

"They rely on Kassel's scoring right now, but Cassel can't play the whole game, and the third quarter is going to go down for a while, and if we find our rhythm in this time, we can definitely turn the tide in one fell swoop...... In the second half, I asked you to attack with all your strength and completely crush the opponent......"

The crowd cheered up and shouted in unison: "Understood! ”

At the beginning of the third quarter, Sanders felt the difference in supersonic offensive firepower, Lu Fei still continued to break through Kassel's defense with the help of cover as in the first half, Kassel was tired and his physical strength obviously felt that he couldn't keep up with Lu Fei, Cassel needed the assistance of his teammates if he couldn't prevent this, but as soon as he helped defend, he would miss the corresponding supersonic player.

Worst!

Every player on the floor with the SuperSonics had a basket, so he saw Ray Allen and Oku frequently firing from the outside to make the Timberwolves' outside line panic.

By the time Sanders replaced Cassell to rest, the SuperSonics changed tactics again, and Rasheed Wallace kept pushing high and pulling Garnett out of the interior completely, and then the other players rushed into the Timberwolves' restricted area again and again.

Garnett didn't come out or make up for it, and Rashid set up a battery on the outside.

After several waves of attacks, the supersonic unexpectedly tied the score.

Sanders called a timeout with a grim face.

"How do you defend against each other's 10s? Resist him, don't let him break through, don't let him kill inside, defend! Do you want me to teach you again? The difficulty of creating a breakthrough for him, and his breakthrough caused us to make up for how many places, and how much to make up, how much to miss, understand? ”

Cassel lowered his head on the side and kept silent, even he couldn't limit Lu Fei's breakthrough, let alone his substitute, plus Lu Fei was too accurate today, and he couldn't shoot without defense, this guy broke through when he posted it, who could catch it like a loach?

And also...... His hand gently rubbed his calf, his age was here, after two high-intensity hits, he felt that his calf was a little sore, he was 33 years old, can he compare with the young man in his early twenties?

Sanders had already walked over to Garnett, who was gulping water: "Kevin, don't get entangled with Wallace under the basket anymore, go up and block the dismantling, and after you go down, you get stuck in a good position and force the opposite No. 10, the opponent will hit him if you defend you alone, and you will pass it out when the opponent strikes you......"

What worries Sanders the most now is that the SuperSonics won't give Garnett a chance to play alone at all, and if it comes out, will anyone else be able to guarantee a shooting percentage?

His eyes fell on Cassel, who felt hot in this game, and perhaps he could only hope that Cassel could keep his hand all the time......

It's just that this one can keep the feel, but what about the next one?

The SuperSonics missed the basket with shots from Lu Fei and Oku on the next two offenses, but McMillan was not worried at all, as he could see that the number of chances his players had increased, indicating that the Timberwolves' defensive intensity was starting to decline.

"The defense has dropped, can your offense work?" The corners of McMillan's mouth curled slightly.

Because now the Timberwolves are slowly biasing the defense to the outside, so there are a lot of opportunities on the inside, Ray Allen and Oku blocked and rushed into the inside, Garnett returned to the defense, Ray Allen did not hesitate to throw the ball to the hands of Rasheed Wallace, who was waiting in the high post, Wallace hit it easily.

……

Garnett finally found an opportunity to play Lu Fei, but was caught in the middle of Oku's attack, and he tried to find his center-forward teammate Michael Olowokandi, only to find that there was no chance to pass the ball at all.

Gritted his teeth, rolled over and made a jumper, and hit.

He couldn't help but secretly celebrate that luck was really good.

……

Ray Allen slipped the ball to Rasheed Wallace under the opponent's bag and passed the ball to Rasheed Wallace under the basket, Wallace did not shoot under Garnett's interference, and just when several people wanted to win the rebound, Lu Fei cut in from the outside at high speed and took the rebound off the heads of several people.

Half of that rebound was due to Rashid Wallace, who stuck Garnett.

Lu Fei, who took off the rebound, threw the ball to Lei Allen, who was standing again at the zero degree angle on the left side, and there was no one in front of Lei Allen.

Ray Allen stretched his long arm lightly, flicked his wrist, and hit!

……

The supersonic offensive firepower came as fast as the tide, compared to the Timberwolves, who relied entirely on Kassel's shooting and Garnett's piecemeal mid-range, and although they never gave up, the game was stretched to a 16-point margin in the first half of the fourth quarter.

It was also the highest margin of the game.

Lu Fei easily shot the ball passed by Ray Allen, and before he knew it, his score had reached 37 points, which obviously set a new high for him in the playoffs.

The whistle blew for the end of the race, and SuperSonics won G1 at 114:98.

The highest score in the game was not Lu Fei, but the Timberwolves' Cassel, who shot 15 of 25, including 7 of 11 three-pointers, and scored a game-high 40 points with a super high shooting rate.

It's just that the faltering pace after the game makes fans worry about whether he can still play in the next game?

And even if Kassel plays like this, won't the Timberwolves still lose?

The arena was silent.

Lu Fei sighed.

Is it useful to score so many points, in addition to exhausting yourself as a dog? When I think about it, I also scored 37 points, well, it's still useful......