Chapter 286: The Price of Arrogance
If Wiggins could have seen Roy look like this nine months later, he wouldn't have dared to make that kind of wild talk before the game, but it's too late for him.
A bloody massacre is destined to be unavoidable.
What does Roy look like in Wiggins' eyes? His height and reach have grown longer (from 196 cm to 201 cm with shoes, and from 212 cm to 217 cm), and his weight and muscle density have made a qualitative leap from the first meeting (from 80 kg to 90 kg, and his body fat percentage has dropped from 5.7% to 5%). If nothing else, just looking at this height, weight and arm span, Roy is already on par with Wiggins.
What exactly did Roy go through? How did he manage to grow so quickly? Wiggins was puzzled.
As soon as he saw the reborn Roy, Wiggins lost in momentum first. I have to admit that Roy's deterrent power to Wiggins is too powerful, this is definitely not the polite Roy in Wiggins's impression, he is now more like a transformed Super Saiyan.
But that's far from all Roy's growth.
Roy has made a comprehensive leap in strength from the outside in. If Wiggins had a "scouting tool" as well, he would have seen more shocking things.
For example, Roy's comprehensive ability has made great progress (his comprehensive ability has increased from 62+3 to 76+7), for example, Roy now has five extremely strong basketball skills.
Unfortunately, Wiggins was just a mortal, and all he could see was a taller, stronger, and angrier Roy. Wiggins originally thought that this was just a difficult Roy to deal with, but he didn't expect that he was about to encounter an omnipotent and unparalleled Roy.
Roy didn't want to make the Timberwolves players and fans feel good from the first second, and he changed his usual slow-organized guard play, and from the first second, Roy attacked the Timberwolves' defense.
You rarely see a Roy like this, when facing Wiggins' top defense, Roy did not choose to play tactics or shoot, he chose to grit his teeth and squeeze his body under the basket to make kills; And when the opponent was replaced by LaVine, Roy compared the three-point shot and bounce with him as if he was angry; In the end, even Downs couldn't look at running out of the penalty area to help defend Roy, and Roy's choice at this time was a one-on-one repeated breakthrough sprint at the expense of physical strength.
Seeing the above scene, who do you think of? That's right, isn't that Russell Westbrook's style of play?
Only the "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" with unlimited physical strength would play that kind of unreasonable and violent basketball.
But today Roy is going to be a "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" through the world, and he has to be willful.
Roy's sudden assault caught the Timberwolves off guard, not a team known for their defense, and last season they conceded 106 points per game, ranking seventh in the league. Wiggins, who played against Roy, averaged 35.1 minutes per game, and could only contribute 1.0 steals and 0.6 blocks, so it can be said that Wiggins' defensive efficiency is far less than his defensive ability, and in other words, Wiggins's defensive attitude and ball quotient are very poor, he didn't make good use of his natural defensive ability at all, he wasted his talent, so he didn't solve Roy at all.
In the face of such a fragile Wiggins and such a powerless Timberwolves, Roy's solo fight was like a fish in water, and he scored 3 goals in a row after the opening, directly bursting out of the "hot hand" state, and then his offense was really like the Yellow River flooding out of control.
Breaking through the dunk, pulling out three-pointers, and not forgetting to make a pull-up layup when the hand was smooth, the Timberwolves had no one to limit Roy's offense. The fast Andrew Wiggins can't, he lacks defensive awareness; Zach LaVine, who has an amazing jump, can't carry Roy's strength at all; Karl-Anthony Towns, who has a great height and reach, was no slouch either, and he was fooled by Roy's terrifying momentum and irregular attacking style.
Roy's attack was like entering a no-man's land, and he was like Lu Bu, the great killer of the Peerless Mode, who was on a rampage and killing all sides.
In the first quarter, Roy scored 15 points on 6-of-7 shooting and 3-of-3 from three-point range; He only had a three-minute break in the second quarter to ravage the opposing bench again, and as a result, he scored 14 points on 5-of-8 shooting, and Roy scored a staggering 29 points in the entire first half, but that was just the beginning.
At halftime, the shouting of the Timberwolves fans had disappeared for the most part, and the shocking score gap on the court (Timberwolves 51-68 Knicks) made them really unable to scream.
And just when the Timberwolves fans were already a little deflated, Roy launched another frenzied individual attack.
Today, Roy's physical strength seems to be like he doesn't need money, and his teammates are also very powerful, they took the initiative to be green leaves, and did their best to create opportunities for Roy.
Noah's pick-and-roll, Porzingis' response, Rose's ball-sharing, and Crowder, Farid, and Brown take turns sharing defensive duties for him. With the support of his teammates, the only thing Roy has to do is to attack with all his might, score points with all his might, and kill his opponents with all his might.
There's nothing cooler than chopping melons and vegetables at the opponent's home stadium and beating the fans into silence.
Jordan, Kobe Bryant and James all experienced such cool things back then, and today it is Roy's turn.
In the second half, Roy was even more unable to restrain himself, he could even force a breakthrough to score in the face of a double bag, and now Roy is no longer an ordinary star, he is possessed by the king of the ball at the moment.
"Oh, Roy scored."
"Oh, Roy scored again."
"Oh, Roy can't stop."
Throughout the third quarter, Brin and Fred's exclamations never stopped, and they counted Roy's scores from 30+ to 40+, and finally to 50+.
In the third quarter, Roy played the full 12 minutes, contributed a jaw-dropping 25 points on 10-of-14 shooting, and scored 54 points in the third quarter, breaking his own record for the highest score.
At this time, the Minnesota Timberwolves, who were playing at home, trailed by a full 20 points at 79-99, and they all played like this, do they want to continue?
Roy's answer is yes, although he has hit this part, but Roy still feels that it is not enough to relieve his anger, even if he runs out of physical strength today, he has to have a good time, not to mention that he still has a good thing of "physical strength bursting bag"?
Today, I'm going to let Minneapolis fans see what I'm capable of and how I can see, and let them see if I'm worthy of the $1.5 billion contract.
In the fourth quarter, Roy still only rested for just 2 minutes before returning to the battlefield, and when the opponent was already emaciated, Roy sacrificed a "physical strength bursting bag".
O, the "Strength Burst Bag" opened, and Roy only felt a warm current spread throughout his body in an instant, and his fatigue and pain were all eliminated at once.
This is the "Stamina Pack"? It's amazing, isn't it? Roy couldn't describe the feeling, and the comfort was probably only known to those who had used it.
Roy's stamina was really bursting, and now he had an easier time crushing his opponents. The "Stamina Pack" is a hundred times more effective than any "Red Bull", "Yellow Cow", and "Green Cow".
"Roy is still attacking the Timberwolves' interior, oh my God, I read that right, he's been playing 32 minutes in this game, he's only rested for five minutes in the first three quarters, and he's only rested for two minutes in the fourth quarter before he played, is he going to challenge the league's scoring record?"
"Mike, don't you say I forgot, the league's youngest current Mr. 50 points belongs to Roy, and the youngest Mr. 60 and Mr. 70 belong to the legendary scoring guard David Thompson of the former Denver Nuggets, who set the record at 21 years and 272 days. In other words, if Roy can score 60 points or even 70 points today, he can break David Thompson's 38-year-old super record. ”
"Walter, you're right, but I have to add that if Roy can score 62 or more points today, then he will replace his old teammate Anthony as the league's most active scorer. So, do you guess Roy knows that he could break so many records? And if the big picture is decided, will Coach Jeff (Hornacek) replace Roy? ”
"Hahaha, Mike, you are too worried, do you think that if Roy does not take the initiative to ask for the game today, Coach Hornacek will replace him? Obviously, Roy's goal today is not to win, he is to come to Minneapolis to make history. ”
Walter Frazier, a generation of Knicks legend, has long seen through Roy's mind, whether it is stimulated or for some other purpose, Roy's extreme playing style today can't help but make people a little scared, and the scoring maniac temperament that only Jordan and Kobe have seems to have been infected to Roy all of a sudden.
In the fourth quarter, even though the Knicks had led by more than 20 points, Coach Hornacek had no intention of replacing Roy, even though Roy had played 32 minutes of the game, but his physical strength seemed to be coming out in a steady stream.
Roy is completely insane, his physical strength is like a bottomless pit, and his scoring stats are still climbing.
56 points, 57 points, 58 points, 61 points!
Roy was still slashing points like crazy, in front of nearly 20,000 Timberwolves fans, Roy pushed his score to 60 points step by step, and at this moment, the basketball in his hand was like a butcher's knife, dismembering the poor Timberwolves.
"Roy has broken the record for the youngest Mr. 60 points!" Mike Brin's excited voice signalled Roy's first feat of the day, but with six minutes left in the fourth quarter, Roy had more time to break more records.
Roy really didn't mean to stop, he was still wreaking havoc on the Timberwolves' defense, and through the crazy celebration of his teammates, he had learned that he had broken the record for the youngest Mr. 60 points, so what could stop him from going further?
Wiggins would have been desperate for a long time, and if it weren't for the fact that head coach Tom Thibodeau couldn't save face and wanted to resist a few times, he would have wanted to go down a long time ago.
And the home fans of the Timberwolves don't have such a good patience, seeing their home team being beaten, disabled, and beaten to slag, and Roy, who was the most ridiculed by our side, swollen his face again, they finally couldn't help it.
The fans began to split, and some fans chose to leave the stadium early, out of sight; Some fans booed the Timberwolves players to vent their frustration; Other fans turned against Roy and cheered for Roy's score.
It's such a magical scene.
When Roy made a move, some people were desperate, some cheered, some were furious, and even the photographers on the scene didn't bother to take pictures of the Timberwolves players, who were trying to capture the various expressions of the fans.
The TV broadcasters are more anxious than the players on the court, and they have already played the news on the screen several times in a row that Roy has become the youngest Mr. 60 points in NBA history and the highest active scorer, and they also released the record information of David Thompson, the youngest Mr. 70 points, what they want to say is self-evident.
It seems that everyone is waiting for Roy to break the record and make history.
What was Roy's response?
67 points, when Roy hit his 11th three-pointer of the game, his score came to 67 points, just three points shy of breaking the record, and there were still two minutes left in the game.
There are only 2 minutes left in garbage time, and in addition to Roy, the Timberwolves and Knicks have already switched to a full bench lineup, and the meaning of everyone's existence in the last 2 minutes seems to be to witness Roy's final miracle.
That's right, records are meant to be broken, and no one can stop Roy.
When Roy made a dashing hand, then turned his head and clenched his fists confidently, history had already been rewritten by him.
70 points! Roy rewrote three all-time records in one fell swoop......