In the last few minutes of the third quarter, the Lakers' bench players performed quite well on the court, playing a few very beautiful combinations, but the Timberwolves were actually not far behind, and their bench players quickly brought back the momentum on the court, and the score was close to 15 points, but at this time their bench players were suddenly accurate outside the three-point line.

The Timberwolves shoot three points, then things become different, before the Timberwolves actually had a lot of opportunities on the outside, but they didn't grasp it, after all, three points are the fastest way to score points, first prevent the opponent from attacking, and then chase and shoot a three-point, inside and outside there is a gap of five or even six points.

Although our Lakers' bench players are still able to maintain a certain shooting percentage on the offensive end, they are still unable to shoot outside three-point shots, and the Timberwolves' bench players have an excellent awareness of protecting defensive rebounds, which does not give our Lakers a good chance to attack.

When Shaq is on the court, he can still grab some second-offense rebounds, but it is still a bit difficult for him to make the current Lakers' backup center grab so many offensive rebounds on the interior like Shaq.

The Timberwolves took advantage of good rebounding protection and quickly launched a couple of pretty good counter-attacks, which were often either direct hits to the interior to kill or looking for three-point shooting opportunities.

Unexpectedly, the Timberwolves scored as many as 11 consecutive points in the last two or three minutes of the third quarter, including three three-pointers and two free throws, and our Lakers scored six points in those three minutes, which reduced the Timberwolves' deficit from 13 points to just 7 points.

As a result, the Lakers' lead was in the single digits after the third quarter, and it looked like the Timberwolves were still unwilling to give up their efforts.

Maybe the head coach of the Timberwolves has the idea of releasing the water appropriately, but these players, especially the bench players, are quite tenacious and have not given up the opportunity to fight our Lakers to the end.

Speaking of which, we have been able to play a total of two games against the Timberwolves this season, one at home and the other on the road, and for the fans here, this season is the only time to see these two giants on their home court.

No matter what the situation of these two teams is now, for fans, the matchup between these two teams has a sense of fate, full of fans' feelings and memories, not simply a game between each other, but a nostalgia for the glory of the past, and expectations for a new future.

The fans of these two teams are undoubtedly lucky, to be able to be fans of such a great two teams, can give them great psychological satisfaction, whether it is the Los Angeles Lakers or the Timberwolves, they each represent different temperaments, but there is one thing, that is, a kind of self-defeating, dominating the world of domineering exists, looking at the championship flags floating over the home of the two teams and those retired jersey numbers, witnessing the greatness of these two teams.

After the end of the third quarter, head coach Silver Fox Harris was a little annoyed, because the score that had just opened was chased back by the Timberwolves at this time, but at the beginning of the fourth quarter, he must not be able to replace the main players, at least let the main players rest for about three minutes, otherwise it is difficult to ensure that the away back-to-back physical fitness is still enough to have enough physical fitness and shooting rate at the last moment.

I sat on the sidelines and watched the crowd, and finally saw Jessica in the crowd, and saw that a big stone in her heart suddenly fell, and it seemed that she had nothing to do, so I was relieved, and then I was going to play this last quarter well and bring Jessica with a victory.

After the start of the fourth quarter, our Lakers took the lead in serving, and now it is our Lakers' turn to stabilize the offensive rhythm and strive to find the best offensive opportunities, head coach Silver Fox Harris has asked the team not to play too fast, try to consume 24 seconds of offensive time, and then just drag the starter on the court.

Head coach Silver Fox Harris is actually the right choice to use such a tactic at this time, after all, the Timberwolves are still in a backward state at this time, and their bench players are playing well, so the court is still in the middle of the game, and they have already made several three-point shots before, so they must also change their strategy on the defensive end.

The Timberwolves probably also want to chase back the score in one go, so seeing that our Lakers players on the court are pressing the rhythm, they are also starting to get a little impatient, and want to use more proactive defense to steal our Lakers' dribble.

However, sometimes on the basketball court, the more impatient the more unable to achieve good results, mistakes are often related to the impatience of players, and this kind of steal is actually a gambling defense many times, and our Lakers team has made such mistakes before.

At this point, it was finally the Timberwolves' turn to make that mistake, and I found that they had a lot of opportunities on the defensive end because of steals and early packs, and the Lakers players on the court also noticed this, especially Eddie Jones, who played well in this game, and now it's finally time for him to make a difference.

In fact, Eddie Jones' individual singles and individual dribbling ability are still good, after all, he is a quasi-All-Star level player, and it is really a bit of a waste to let him play as a substitute to be honest, but I think he can compete for the league's best sixth man after the end of this season.

The team really needs a bench sixth man like him who can lead the team's bench through a very critical period of competition.

In fact, Eddie Jones has played quite well in the last few games off the bench, at least he can really help the team on the offensive end.

Eddie Jones found a gap for the Celtics on the defensive end, and held the ball directly past two Timberwolves defenders, who had previously focused on Eddie Jones' ball, and did not have much mental preparation for Eddie Jones' feints, and Eddie Jones' feints were fast.

If you weren't familiar with him, it would have been easy to eat Eddie Jones's feints.

Relying on realistic feints, Eddie Jones easily broke through to the restricted area, and the Timberwolves center player in the box wanted to come over to block him at this time, but Eddie Jones had already thrown the ball high and flew towards the basket in an extremely high arc.

With such a flight arc, no one can cover it at all, and the center of the Timberwolves can only helplessly watch the basketball fall into the basket in the air with an extremely high arc.

Eddie Jones had a beautiful shot that earned us a round of applause from the Lakers bench and stabilized the momentum on the court a bit.

The Timberwolves have been unable to open up the situation, and the other players on the court are inevitably starting to get a little impatient, and the more impatient they are, the better it will be for our Lakers.

However, Eddie Jones' good touch did not last long, the defensive intensity of the Timberwolves has come up at this time, don't look at them as just some bench players, but after all, the enthusiasm on the defensive end is excellent, and Eddie Jones is not able to easily break through the opponent's defense every time.

When Eddie Jones was about to use his dribbling and change of direction to break through the Timberwolves' forward defense, the Timberwolves guard suddenly rushed out of nowhere, and directly snatched the ball in Eddie Jones' hand with a flying pounce, and then passed directly to the Timberwolves player who had already played a fast break at this time.

The Timberwolves player has a bit of a good sense of fast break, when the guard just pounced, the player who played the fast break was ready to start, at this time he had completely shaken off our Lakers defender, and after receiving a long-distance pass from the guard, he directly completed this very easy dunk with a dunk.

The atmosphere of the North Shore Garden Arena has once again become warm, and it can be said that the audience in this venue is still quite powerful, and every time the Timberwolves players play exquisite cooperation or wonderful goals, then there will be very fierce applause to motivate and cheer for the Timberwolves players at home.

Time flies very fast, almost three minutes have passed after the start of the fourth quarter, and the two sides are still playing inextricably on the court at this time, because the difference between the two sides is still about five points, and the Timberwolves have not been able to recover much, so our Lakers head coach Silver Fox Harris is also sitting firmly on the Diaoyutai at this time, and there is no rush to call a timeout and substitutions. However, he is not able to appear wiser in every game, and he cannot completely control the game at his own pace like an old coach like Popovich.

The Lakers starters on the bench off the court, watching the bench players on the court play at this time, all have the urge to return to the court to play, it seems that the previous fatigue has disappeared at this moment, among which Shaq seems to be the most excited, at this time he returned to his usual appearance, standing off the court and shouting, waving his arms, I don't know what he is talking about, because my attention is not listening to him.

Finally, with seven and a half minutes left in the fourth quarter, head coach Silver Fox Harris called a timeout, at which time the Timberwolves used two consecutive fast-break counterattacks to temporarily pull the score back to only one point, and it was almost time to replace the main player on the court.

To be honest, although our Lakers bench players were not able to fully resist the Celtics' bench chasing points in the few minutes from the end of the third quarter to the beginning of the fourth quarter, they actually performed very well, and I think the appearance of Byron Scott in this game is a bit of an old player's example.

The next game will be handed over to our Lakers starters who have recovered a lot of physical fitness, originally the strongest lineup of our Lakers team will generally be replaced by Eddie Jones at the last moment, but Eddie Jones has been playing for so long, he should also be rested, if the score has not been opened in the last two or three minutes, he may be replaced on the court to form the strongest five-man lineup of our Lakers team, and then go to completely defeat the Celtics.

At the timeout, head coach Silver Fox Harris repeatedly emphasized defense, of course, we also realized that if we want to beat this Timberwolves team, we can't rely on tenacious defense, anyway, it has entered the final moments of the game at this time, and there is no need to paddle on the defensive end in order to save energy, and the bench players have bought us such a long rest time, just to allow us to play our due power in this last moment.

I know that, of course, and when the timeout ended, the mentality of our Lakers starters was completely renewed, and they were much more positive on both the offensive and defensive ends.

The Celtics also replaced their starters at this time, and their starters also rested for a long time, but the individual ability of their starters is indeed much worse than ours, and the most critical point is that many players in their team are rookies in recent years, and the experience of the game is not very much, and the ability to make key shots is also a little lacking, so if it is played to the last moment, it must be our Lakers side that can occupy a big advantage.

After I got on the court, I desperately cooperated with Shaq in a high position, and Shaq at this time was also unusually coordinated with my offense, taking the initiative to come over and block with me, and then quickly going down by myself, at this time our cooperation was very exquisite, basically I would pass the ball at the first opportunity, and the ball would not stay too much in my hands.

In fact, the Timberwolves' defense speed is too fast, whether I hold the ball for too long, or Shaq is too slow to receive the ball, it is a very bad thing for our offense, so I accelerated my dribbling and passing rhythm, Shaq also accelerated his inward cutting speed, in fact, he can indeed achieve a fairly fast speed, as long as he is not lazy, there are really few people who can really prevent Shaq's inward cut.

The average player will retreat for a long distance when he is pushed by Shaq, and such a terrifying Shaq must be pushed and squeezed by several people to be able to barely push him away from the penalty area a little bit.

At this time, where are so many players in the Timberwolves who can react, Shaq is directly a quick down, and then after receiving my air pass, he jumped high, and his head was already close to the position of the basket after he jumped, and then the long arm suddenly exceeded the length of a full arm of the basket, and smashed the ball directly into the basket from the air.

I knew that Shaq could jump that high, so the passes were basically the kind of heights that only he could catch.

Shaq has such a terrifying bounce at such a heavy weight, the most important point is that he can jump so high on the spot, and the speed of the bounce is also very amazing, his arms are as thick as other people's thighs, and his thighs are as thick as someone's waist, terrifying muscle strength and amazing motor reaction nerves, making Shaq a terrifying existence that surpasses normal people.

It is estimated that it is difficult to find an interior player in history with such a terrifying dynamic and static talent, and if you think about it carefully, it may be that Chamberlain and Zhang Dashuai, the emperor of basketball, can be slightly compared with him.

But I have to say that maybe Chamberlain is really not worse than Shaq in terms of athleticism, that is, the weight is a little worse than Shaq, you must know that Chamberlain's high jump, sprint, long-distance running, and long jump are all top-notch, and even the level that can directly participate in the Olympics, which Shaq can't do.

And Chamberlain's strength is also extremely terrifying, the weight of the bench press is no worse than Shak, and it may not be as strong as Shaq in terms of explosiveness, but Chamberlain should not be bad Shaq in terms of absolute strength, and secondly, the height and arm span are basically the same, even the shoulder width Chamberlain is not bad Shak, and even in the arm length, Chamberlain has a slight advantage.

Chamberlain is no worse than Shaq in terms of dynamic athleticism, Chamberlain is no worse than Shaq in static strength, and in terms of technique, Chamberlain's free throw and Shak's free throw shooting percentage are on the same level.

The league even issued a special rule that does not allow free throw line dunks to be used as free throws, which only restricts Chamberlain alone, because in that era, Chamberlain was the only person who could jump from the free throw line to dunk to make free throws.

And in terms of blocking, defense and passing, Chamberlain is also stronger than Shaq, Chamberlain was even elected as the league's assist king for a season, as long as he wants, he can become an extremely well-rounded player, and he can even block Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's two shots in a row, you must know that Skyhook has been covered a total of a few times in his career, and Chamberlain was already late in his career at that time, which is enough to see Chamberlain's horror.

Of course, many people may think that Shack's visual impact is a little stronger, so they think that Shack's interior dominance is stronger than Chamberlain, which is true, Shack's finishing ability after taking the ball in the penalty area is indeed stronger than Chamberlain, Chamberlain's means and shooting rate to complete the offense under the basket are actually not as good as Shak, and even the small hook and footsteps under the basket are not as good as Shak.

But Chamberlain is much more comprehensive than Shaq, both offensive and defensive and rebounding are stronger than Shaq, especially rebounding, the terrifying data of averaging more than 20 rebounds per game in his career far exceeds that of others, in fact, Shaq can also grab more rebounds, but Shaq's shortcoming is laziness.

And the most important point is that Shaq's physical fitness is much worse than Chamberlain, the season with the most playing time, Chamberlain averaged 48.5 minutes per game, averaged 50 points and 25 rebounds per game, this data is absolutely unprecedented, no matter how you think about it, there will never be an interior player who can win such data in the future.

After all, with the change of times, basketball games have become more and more important to three-point shots, so that interior players will gradually be marginalized in the future, especially in the offensive tactical position will be replaced by guards and forward players, so it is naturally impossible for them to achieve such terrifying statistics.

Shaq is already the strongest interior giant in the modern NBA, especially in terms of interior dominance, it is also the strongest in NBA history, Chamberlain, Skyhook Abdul-Jabbar, and Big Dream Olajuwon do not have Shaq's interior dominance, and they can easily dunk with a few defensive players, which only Shaq can do.

Because of the internal and external connection between Shaq and me, the momentum of our Lakers team on the court was directly beaten, but the enthusiasm of the Celtics home fans suddenly seemed to be poured with cold water, and after the sound went down, the momentum on the court was already biased towards our Lakers.

We also started to work on the defensive end, first of all, Shaq finally began to defend out, before he would shrink as long as he blocked and dismantled, and now he will judge whether to shrink or change the defense according to the situation, in short, Shaq's defense is motivated.

When Shaq's enthusiasm for the game is up, the enthusiasm of the other players of the Lakers team will naturally increase, and we have added more physical confrontation on the defensive end, although Boston's home whistle is still there in this game, but in general, the whistle is relatively loose, and the two sides are more encouraged to have physical confrontation.

The game atmosphere in this era encourages physical confrontation, and the general referee will not blow it at all, and I was a little unaccustomed to this at the beginning, in fact, Kobe's 18-year-old body is still a little thin, especially when the season has just begun, I have suffered a lot because my body is too thin.