"It's beautiful!" On the way back to defense, Bryant high-fived Jeremy Lin and Hougist in celebration.

"That's a must! Passing the ball is our job! Jeremy Lin laughed.

Rubio made a mistake to figure out that the Lakers were indeed switching to a joint defense, so he learned his lesson and began to organize offense on the wing. But the defense on both flanks was also strengthened, and Rubio almost broke off the ball when Haugist at the top of the arc came over to help when he broke through with Downs.

A frightened Rubio exited the three-point line to stabilize the ball. Then quickly transferred the ball to Wiggins in the bottom corner. The 3-2 defense was weak in the corner and he hopes Wiggins can open a break here. Wiggins lived up to his trust, taking advantage of the lack of timely communication between Jeremy Lin and Yi Jianlian on the wing, and flew into the interior like no one to prepare for a dunk.

At this time, Haugist, who was at the top of the arc, suddenly accelerated from the middle and quickly shrank back to the inside line, jumped high like a god descending from heaven and directly pinned Wiggins' imperative dunk to the rebound. There was a sudden mess under the basket, several inside players crowded together to compete for rebounds, and finally the ball fell into the hands of Downs, Downs carried Yi Jianlian and was about to get up and dunk with both hands, but Hougist unexpectedly took off from behind Yi Jianlian and sent out the volleyball cap again. The ball flew directly behind Towns and smashed into Garnett, who couldn't react and the ball bounced off the sideline and the ball was back in the hands of the Lakers.

The audience at the scene fell into a frenzy, the player called Hougist has not stopped subverting the fans' perception with his explosive performance since he came to prominence in high school, from a standard outside player to a player who is now the height of an inside player but still maintains an outside style, this style of play requires strong talent to support, there are few players of the same type in the league, but each is elite, and it seems that Hoggist will not be an exception.

Hoggist has twice in a row in this round with a wonderful cap at the top five ball level to cover the two strongest players of the Timberwolves, one inside and one outside, this kind of performance requires height and continuous jumping ability, both are indispensable, this is originally a patent only those excellent interior players have, few outside players can do it, but Hougist today has broken the boundary between inside and outside players, it is difficult to think of a word to accurately describe the ability of Hoggist, but it is good to think of a word to summarize, that is, all-round.

“Oh my Gosh！ It's really worth it! Just these two covers, my 200 knives are not in vain! A white guy in the front row of the first level of the stands exclaimed.

The friend who came with him was also immersed in Haugist's wonderful performance, but when he heard his exclamation, he turned his head to look at him in surprise, "Bender, how much do you think you bought this ticket?" $200? You actually lied to me and said that you bought it from a scalper for 500 dollars, and you said that you would pay for your own tickets, and you actually earned your ticket money from me, and you earned another 100! You're too dark, aren't you? ”

"Alex, listen to me, I bought my vote on draft night, and there were still tickets left at the original price, and you wanted to watch the opening game after watching the strong performance of Haugist in the Summer League, and the ticket price had already risen so much at that time! Don't believe it, ask other people how much they bought! The fan named Bender explained awkwardly.

The fan named Alex just wanted to ask the people around him, and a black uncle in the front row turned his head with a sad face and scolded: "You two poor ghosts, don't quarrel over so many hundred dollars, my ticket was bought from a resale website for 2,000 dollars the day before yesterday, although I look at today's game and think it's worth the ticket price, but after listening to your discussion, why do I feel my heart dripping blood?" ”

Alex listened to the black uncle's words and thought about it carefully, and his heart was much more balanced, so he took out his mobile phone and said: "I have to see if there are any season tickets or tickets for the next games, with the explosive performance of Hougist, I think I can definitely enter the playoffs!" ”

The black uncle nodded, "I also have to see if there are any remaining tickets for the key shows, and when the time comes, I will buy it and earn back my 2,000 dollars!" ”

At this time, Wiggins and Towns, who were continuously blocked on the court, were a little depressed, and Garnett came up to hug the two and comforted: "Hougist's running around on the defensive end to make up for holes is also a great drain on his physical strength, don't be discouraged, the five of us can pass the ball more on the offensive end, let him run tired, and two or three rounds can drag him down!" ”

But Hoggist stood behind them at some point, and when Garnett finished speaking, he answered directly: "Are you discussing how to consume my physical strength?" ”

Hougist appeared coldly and startled the three of them, and the three of them suddenly had an embarrassing feeling of being caught and raped in bed. Hoggist smiled and continued: "I'm not LeBron, the Lakers are not the Heat of the year, the way you think won't work, and I can kindly tell you that my weaknesses are obvious and easy to target, but you didn't find the right ones, and even if you find my weaknesses, no one in your team can do targeted defense, so you better accept the loss in this game!" ”

After saying that, Hoggist walked straight to the frontcourt, leaving Garnett and Wiggins to look at each other and ask Downs, "Are you all so arrogant this year's rookies?" ”

Downs said frustratedly: "Others may say that it is arrogant, but I think Hougist is just stating the facts, from the first time I played with him I deeply felt the despair, he is really too difficult to deal with, before I thought he was just training harder than us, so he reached the level of the NBA in advance, as long as we train hard and wait for our body to mature we can catch up with him, but now it seems that I am still too naïve, my improvement has been great, But Hougist doesn't seem to be stopping either, and to be honest, I don't know where his ceiling is now. ”

"Even if you lose today, don't lose faith and don't let other people's success affect your life! There's still a long season to go and you just too have time to improve yourself! We have two games to play against the Lakers, so there's always a chance to beat him. Garnett reassured.

"You also think we don't have a chance in this game?" Although Garnett's intention was to comfort Downs, Downs only drew negative emotions from it.

"This ...... How do you think that? I'm encouraging you! Looks like you're in need of some positive energy! Garnett clapped his hands and said. You must know that Garnett would never be so amiable in the face of the rookies who did not perform well on the team back then, in other words, Garnett would have run back to the locker room crying when he heard Downs say this.

Jeremy Lin received the serve and dribbled it to the front court, and Rubio reminded: "The opposite offensive routine changes, everyone pay attention." ”

Garnett, Towns and Wiggins hurriedly returned to the defensive position, and this time Haugist played the role of Wiggins on the offensive end of the Lakers, ambushing himself in the bottom right corner. Turner and Yi Jianlian sank in the low post on both sides, Jeremy Lin deliberately avoided Hougist's position, came to the left wing, and hoisted the ball to Yi Jianlian, who singled Downs with his back, while Turner and Towns fought for position under the basket to grab the rebound.

Yi Jianlian turned his back to Garnett and forcibly turned around and walked to the bottom line to wipe it under the basket, Garnett did not lose his position, and blocked Yi Jianlian behind the rebound, Yi Jianlian did not have an angle, so he passed inside and gave the ball to Turner through Downs. Turner didn't seem to hold the ball steady, his hand movements were very flustered, and Hougie Stepmill, who was defending in the bottom corner of the weak side, shrank in and tried to cut the ball, but Unexpectedly, Turner instantly held the ball steady and threw it to Hougist, who handed it over. Hoggist catcher hit a three-pointer. Then he triumphantly twisted his ass and ran back to the half court with three fingers.

"See, Hurley has switched to playing without the ball, which means that his physical strength is not good, and it was just a bluff just now. Tayxiaan, don't help defending, Carl can defend against Turner! All you have to do is stare at Hurley and consume him for a while! Garnett commanded.

The Timberwolves' offense continued to revolve around two bottom corners, and this time Wiggins no longer tried to rush inside, but shot directly on the three-point line to chase points, and this tactical change had a noticeable effect, Wiggins easily hit the shot before Yi Jianlian pounced, and the Lakers had no intention of changing their defensive strategy.

On the offensive end, the Lakers are still 45 degrees to the inside, insisting on playing inside-out, although the two teams are evenly matched inside, but Turner is a heavy center style of play, and his back play consumes a lot of Downs' physical strength, in order to ensure Downs' physical strength, Prince also had to start shrinking the defense, while Wiggins rotated to supplement Hoggist, so that the Wolves' tactics of cutting off Hoggist's contact with other players were completely dismantled.

With four minutes left in the third quarter, Haugist received another pass from Turner in the bottom corner and went straight to Kobe Bryant on the wing without stopping, while Wiggins was on his way to pounce. Bryant received a pass and hit an easy jumper to score his 20th point of the game. The score came to 87-66, and the Lakers also led by 21 points.

Michelle saw that Garnett's tactics had fallen apart, and he couldn't help but ask for a timeout. When everyone returned to the bench, Michelle asked Garnett with a frown: "We acted too late, if we had locked up his teammates from the first ball, maybe we would have had a chance of success, it seems that this tactic ultimately failed." ”

"21 points, 7 three-pointers, there is still a quarter and a half to go, if you don't give up, there is still chasing, only we can save ourselves, 21 points behind is not a failure, from the moment you give up hope is the real failure!" Garnett said firmly.

This is a true portrayal of the heart of a player who has stuck to it for 21 seasons, and without such a strong belief, I think he would not have persevered until now. At Garnett's insistence, the Timberwolves replaced Rubio with LaVine with the ball, and Prince with Shabazz, responding with a strong offensive and defensive lineup, intending to fight to the last bullet.

The Lakers seemed to be moved by Garnett's perseverance, and in this timeout, they actually replaced all the main lineups except for Hoggist, and replaced them with Reeds, Nick. Young, Randle, and Buss are also a weak offensive and defensive second lineup, while Hoggist and Randle have become the highest point on the court like the Lakers, and they have to play small ball fast.

Garnett was taken aback, it seems that there is really no problem with Hoggist's physical strength, this lineup, whether it is the small ball speed up or the defense of the positional battle, will consume the physical strength of the interior players, if Hoggist is really tired, the coach will definitely not discharge such a lineup.

Sure enough, the Timberwolves attacked the frontcourt, and Hoggist actually took the initiative to defend Towns on the inside. LaVine hoisted the ball to Downs, who went straight to backing Haugist. Although Hougist's strength is outstanding among point guards, he still sacrifices some of the improvement space in order to ensure flexibility and speed, so it is still very difficult to really withstand Downs, but Hoggist plays a trick and lowers the center of gravity very low, so that even if Towns can push him to the basket, it will not make him stagger. Downs pushed his back to the basket, and seeing that the referee's fifth finger was about to stick out, Downs decisively collected the ball and turned over to dunk Haugist.

Downs' back hit Hougist's center of gravity itself was very low, and Downs leaned on him to roll over also made him unable to jump smoothly, Downs had full confidence that the ball could be a bad breath on the top of Hougist's head. But unexpectedly, when Downs pressed Haugist and was about to jump, but his toes were not off the ground, Hougist decisively slapped his right hand and pulled his weight back to the ground. The crisp sound of thugs resounded in the sky, and Hoggist also took the initiative to raise his hand to admit the foul.

Although he caused a foul on Hoggist, he failed to abuse the basket hard, which made Downs somewhat unhappy, he glared at Hougist, and then walked to the free throw line. However, the referee's gesture was to signal the Timberwolves to serve the baseline ball.

"What? He fouled the thug! Shouldn't it be a free throw? Downs asked, wide-eyed.

"It's a foul, you haven't made a shot yet, the number of fouls hasn't arrived, so the offensive time is back to 14 seconds, and the Timberwolves have the ball." The bottom line referee patiently explained.

"Are you TM blind? I've just collected the ball and I'm ready to jump! The unhappy Downs vented his entire frustration on the referee. Garnett had already walked to the bottom line and was ready to kick off, and when he heard Downs's first sentence of questioning the referee's penalty, he knew that his emotions were out of control, and he hurriedly came up to try to pull Downs, but unfortunately it was still a step too late, and when he came up to cover Downs's mouth, Downs's anger had already blurted out.

It just so happened that this baseline referee was the one who had a conflict with Hoggist before, and he was also very surprised, why is this year's rookie more tempered than the other, and the champion and the top eye actually take turns to challenge my authority in the same game? I gave the champion T, can I still get used to you? Thinking of this, the baseline referee did not hesitate to raise his hands and make a T to Downs.