Chapter 15: Crushing Wesley. Johnson

10-year hot rookie Wesley. Johnson came on, and the fans at the target center burst into cheers, and everyone was looking forward to Johnson's performance. Tyrek sat on the bench and watched Johnson step onto the court, thinking of the agreement with the team's general manager, Petri, and watching the game couldn't help but be more focused.

The Timberwolves trailed by double digits at the beginning of the game, and Coach Rambis sent Toliver, who has outside ability, to replace Milicic, putting Love at the No. 5 position, and at the same time, Johnson, who was more physically fit, replaced Ellington at the No. 2 position to strengthen the outside press.

Back in the game, Ridno dribbled the ball across the half court, Love came out from the inside to do a block, Ridno moved sideways with the ball, Garcia stepped forward to change defense, Ridno transferred the ball to Beasley, Beasley took a step inside and stopped the jump shot! Hit!

"Beasley! This goal is beautiful! A rising star with excellent offensive ability, the current No. 1 firepower point of the Timberwolves team, although he played for the Heat last season, his performance in the playoffs was not satisfactory, but his individual talent is absolutely outstanding! "Jim. Peterson commented from the sidelines.

The Kings attacked, Hyde held the ball in the front court and passed to Garcia on the wing, and Johnson marked Garcia. Johnson is the same height as Garcia is 2.01 meters, but he weighs nearly ten kilograms heavier than Garcia, although he looks lean but full of strength, and today is also Johnson's first regular season, he is full of desire and aggression in defense, and Garcia, who wanted to shake Johnson and shoot directly from the middle distance, had to pass the ball out.

"Smack!" Garcia just wanted to pass the ball, but the ball was directly knocked out by Johnson! The Timberwolves fight back quickly! Johnson dribbled the ball alone and attacked quickly, Hyde saw that the ball was broken and immediately returned to defense, Johnson one-on-one Hyde! Leaning on Hyde to force a layup! Wipe board hits! Whistle blows! Hyde hitter foul, 2+1!

"Good shot! Wesley's wonderful steal made it 2+1! Domineering! Benz roared excitedly, and the audience boiled again!

Johnson's goal boosted the team's morale, and in the next game, the Timberwolves went from strength to strength, and the Kings' offensive ability dropped greatly after the departure of Tyrek and Cousins, and by the end of the first quarter, the Timberwolves had narrowed the gap to five points, and the Sacramento Kings ended the first quarter with a 28-23 lead.

At the end of the first quarter, with a 120-second break, everyone sat on the bench to prepare for the next quarter of the game, Tyrek got up and walked to Coach Westfale, and said solemnly: "Coach, I will defend Johnson in the next quarter!" ”

"Tyrek, you want to defend against Johnson?"

"Johnson's second and third positions are swinging, he should be the main second position in this game, their No. 1 position Ridno can't defend me at all, I think he should also defend me on the defensive end, I want to blow him up at both ends of the offensive and defensive ends!" Tyrek said confidently.

"Okay, I'll let you go against Johnson in the second quarter and curb their offensive momentum!"

At the beginning of the second quarter, Tyrek and Cousins returned to the court and formed the King's on-court lineup with Cosby, Udri, and Thompson. Telfil, Johnson, Corey. Brewer, Beasley, Nicola. Pekovic.

The Kings still used Cousins as the main point of attack in the first few offenses of the second quarter, but Cousins, who was still calling for wind and rain in the first quarter, is now playing extremely hard. Pekovic, who has been tempered in Europe for many years and landed in the NBA this season, is taller and heavier than Cousins, although Pekovic's defensive level is average, but this is only Cousins' first regular season game after all, and his lack of experience makes him have no effective way to take Pekovic on offense, and the offense is limited so that Cousins is a little hot-headed, and he forced his shot several times regardless of the situation on the court, allowing the Timberwolves to make the score 34-34.

"Dave, look, I didn't expect Pekovic to give people a bright feeling, he contributed to the equalizer, I think he is stronger than Howard, I think it's hard to find someone stronger than him in the league now......" The score was equalized, and Peterson on the sidelines couldn't help but sigh.

Coach Westawild saw Cousins in a tough fight and immediately replaced him with Durham Porter, and the team's main focus shifted to Tyreck. Tyrek held the ball in the frontcourt to organize the offense, and sure enough, the Timberwolves were defended by Johnson Tyreck.

"Jim, your favorite Wesley has faced off against last season's rookie of the year, Terek. Evans! ”

"Evans is really amazingly talented, and the fourth 20+5+5 rookie in history speaks for itself, but I'm sure Wesley can contain him!"

As soon as Peterson finished speaking, he saw Tyrek change direction, swayed in the opposite direction, and passed Johnson in one step, Johnson did not keep up with Tyreco's footsteps at all, Tyrek killed directly to the inside, and Tyremic's Bowler on the inside line resisted Pekovic to create space for Tyreek, Tyrek went straight to the basket and made a backhand layup, and hit it steadily!

After succeeding, Tyrek stared at Johnson behind him, and said provocatively with a disgusted expression: "Hey! Rookie! You papier-mΓ’chΓ© defense, I can get past you in one step! Actually the fourth in line like me? Too weak! ”

When he ran back to his half-court defense, Terek sighed endlessly in his heart, he has actually begun to provoke the opponent now, and the strength really makes people's waists hard, this is self-confidence!

The ball is converted, the Timberwolves attack, Telfil controls the ball, Johnson takes the initiative to ask him for the ball, Telfil passes the ball to Johnson, Johnson signals his teammates to open up space, and he wants to single Tyrek to defend himself.

"Dave, look, Wesley is going to single Evans, as the No. 4 show, he really doesn't admit defeat, he just beat one by Evans, and now he wants to beat him back and get back to the field!"

Tyrek stared at Johnson who wanted to single-handedly fight himself in front of him, bowed down and made a defensive posture, Johnson tried to shake people, Tyrek didn't shake at all, stared at Johnson's pace, relied on his excellent arm span, and wrapped Johnson like kraft candy, Johnson saw that he couldn't get rid of Tyreck's defense, and directly pulled out a forced jump shot! Tyrek knew that since Johnson wanted to play himself, he would definitely complete this attack by himself, and he saw Johnson's hand lifting, and he quickly slapped the ball away from Johnson's hand!

After the ball in Johnson's hand was slapped off by Tyrek, Tyrek directly counterattacked with the ball, and the two teams switched offense and defense! Johnson is a young man after all, and he doesn't give up, chasing after Tyrek and trying to chase after him, how could Tyrek give him such an opportunity, and his hands are heavily slammed! After Tyrek jumped, Johnson jumped on Tyrek's side at the same time, trying to get rid of Tyrek from behind, but the two were directly knocked out of the air by Tyrek at the same time as their bodies collided, and landed unsteadily and fell to the ground!

Tyrek grabbed the frame with both hands, jumped to the ground, and fell to the ground towards Wesley, who fell to the baseline. Johnson and the Timberwolves fans at the target center behind him roared, announcing that he was the protagonist of the target center at this moment!