"How? Corey, that's not your level. ”

Adelman's face was ugly, and Kobe's sudden outburst completely wiped out the Timberwolves' original advantage.

And, more importantly, he can feel that Brewer's confidence has been crushed by Kobe's ruthless Cui.

"Coach, I'm ......" Brewer looked embarrassed, grinned, and whispered in response.

However, Adelman did not give Brewer a chance to speak, and he reached out to the bench: "Shabazz, you replace Cory, I hope you can do something unexpected on defense." ”

When Muhammad, who had been sitting for a long time, heard this, he was immediately overjoyed and immediately stood up from his seat.

Finally gave him a chance to play, you know, in the time that has passed, he has only been on the court for more than 2 minutes.

"You defend Kobe Bryant, make eye contact with him, and try to make him attack as much as possible." Adelman reassured that Bryant's speed and explosiveness have been significantly worse this season after an Achilles tendon injury, which has prevented him from making as aggressive breakouts and pullup jumpers in the faceframe offense as he did before the injury.

Muhammad immediately nodded and defended Kobe, who had studied well before the game: "Okay, head, I know what to do." I'll do my best to defend him. ”

******

"It's Shabazz, he wants to guard against Kobe? I wonder if he can surprise people a little? ”

Chu Xuan couldn't help but feel weird when he saw the player standing face to face with Kobe, how could Adelman choose to let Muhammad defend Kobe?

You know, although this guy is strong, his defensive ability is not particularly good. The important thing is that his offensive level is very low, so putting him against Kobe Bryant is definitely a blast.

When Chu Xuan turned his head to look at Adelman, the former head coach of the Rockets was also looking at Chu Xuan.

Adelman's face was gloomy, and his eyes were quite unkind when he looked at Chu Xuan. However, what made Adelman speechless was that Chu Xuan suddenly grinned at him.

This kind of scene fell into Adelman's eyes, and suddenly his second monk couldn't figure his head, and his head was instantly in a state of fragmentation.

What the hell is this guy up again. Adelman came back to his senses, and his heart suddenly became vigilant.

At this moment, only to hear the fans at the scene erupt in excitement, Chu Xuan and Adelman suddenly turned their heads to look at the field.

Chu Xuan was stunned for a moment, Kobe Bryant was actually cut off by Mohammed.

Adelman, on the other hand, was overjoyed, his eyes narrowed.

With a bang, Muhammad dunked with both hands, and the whole person hung from the basket. And due to the huge inertia, the basket was deformed the moment he pulled it, and it creaked during the recovery process.

"Well done, Shabazz."

Adelman waved his arms excitedly, and Shabazz's defense sent him inside Adelman's heart.

*****

In the NBA as a league, role player outbursts are often unsustainable. Especially when they play against star players, it is not possible to maintain efficiency all the time.

And for Muhammad, his occasional stunning performance against Kobe Bryant really had to make the target center celebrate. However, he also has to bear the wrath from Kobe Bryant because of this.

The entire third quarter was Kobe's personal performance moment, shooting three-pointers, back-hitting, breaking, throwing, Kobe Bryant was omnipotent, ruthlessly destroying the Timberwolves players' mental defense.

With 18 points in a single quarter, this is Bryant's final performance in a single quarter.

And Shabazz Mohammed's performance against Kobe Bryant is also remarkable, and he began to enter the media's sight.

However, for head coach Adelman, he finally understood the reason for Chu Xuan's smile. It turned out that from beginning to end, Chu Xuan's plan was to let Kobe Bryant use his personal offense to crush the Timberwolves' forward defense alone, so as to achieve a brutal effect. Thus destroying the fighting spirit of the Timberwolves, and then having the effect of winning.

Judging from the contest in the third quarter, Adelman won by only three minutes. Looking at the score of 89-79, it can be said that his three-minute advantage did not have any effect at all.

A 10-point difference is not small for the Timberwolves. Because judging from the game, they don't have players who can fill this gap in a short period of time, even if it is Lefou, it is difficult to do it.

So, before the start of the fourth quarter, Adelman thought about what to do.

In the end, Adelman arranged for his players to increase their defensive efforts and play as successfully as possible. With this arrangement, it can be said that Adelman has given up their bench advantage in the front line.

"Do you want to do that?" When the players came on, Adelman was still a little hesitant.

However, when he looked at Chu Xuan, who always had a harmless expression on his face, his heart was a little irritable, this young man was really too difficult to handle.

"Forget it, that's it." Adelman waved his hand and motioned for his players to come on the pitch with a slightly irritated gesture.

When the game started, the fans also cheered up and waited for the start of the game attentively. Obviously, considering the 10-point difference, the first few minutes of this game are undoubtedly the most interesting.

Can the Timberwolves stop the bleeding and not let the game go to waste?

This answer is satisfactory to Timberwolves fans, and with the efforts of Lefu and others, the Timberwolves successfully stopped the bleeding. After fighting 6 battles, the score was finally tied.

The two sides are back on the same starting line, and the game is the time to fight the stars and tactics.

Since Kobe Bryant was not particularly tired in this game, Chu Xuan's tactics must have revolved around Kobe.

Adelman, on the other hand, is trying to keep the threat of Love as much as possible, so as to reduce the pressure on the forward line to run without the ball and cut in order to achieve the goal of scoring.

In this case, the two sides go back and forth, and the game becomes extremely exciting.

Soon, the game entered the final 1 minute, and the Timberwolves backup point guard JJ Barria hit a three-pointer to bring the score to 108:109, and the Lakers trailed by one point with 53 seconds left.

"The opponent's three-pointer is amazing, but we can do it better than they can do it, let them see how the three-point shot is shot." Chu Xuan's smile was like a spring breeze, instantly dissipating the pressure in the player's heart.

And Kobe Bryant and his gang surrounded Chu Xuan and listened carefully.

"Hehe, this guy is really good at pretending to be B, he thinks he doesn't know who he wants to arrange." Adelman smiled contemptuously, as if he had seen through all of Chu Xuan's thoughts.

However, just 20 seconds later, Adelman's face became extremely ugly as if he had been slapped in the face.

The Lakers actually hit a three-pointer. It was a scoring effort using an extremely sophisticated multi-V pick-and-roll tactic, and the scorer was Kobe Bryant, who was "ignored" by Adelman.

It's not that Adelman miscalculated, but judging from the games coached by Chu Xuan, at the critical moment of the game, he took the initiative to use Kobe Bryant very rarely.

Therefore, Adelman will not feel that Kobe Bryant will not be the last initiator of this offense.

However, the answer really made Adelman's chest feel stuffy, and he suddenly felt that compared to Chu Xuan, his IQ seemed to be a little insufficient.

After Bryant hit a key three-pointer, the Lakers led the Timberwolves by two points at 111-109.

When it was the Timberwolves' turn to attack, Barria suddenly distributed the ball to Love, who made a strong basket and made Green's foul.

And the free throws, Lefu made two free throws and two hits, and the two sides returned to the unified starting line again.

The Lakers had only 11.9 seconds left in the clock.

There is no doubt that this tactic is very likely to be executed by Kobe.

And with the lesson of not long ago, Adelman naturally focused on arranging the defense of Kobe.

However, what made Adelman frustrated again was that Gasol took the role of Kobe Bryant, and he used a mid-range shot to kill the Timberwolves.

Yes, that's the end of the game.

Gasol's stunner, the Timberwolves lost by 2 points, and failed to successfully stop the Lakers, allowing it to complete 26 wins.

Soon, the Man of the Match and stats were in.

Love had 29 points and 13 rebounds, Rubio had 4 points, 4 assists and 4 turnovers, and Mohammed had 12 points. Kobe Bryant had 26 points, 8 boards, 8 assists and 2 steals, Gasol had 20 points, 2 rebounds and 2 assists, and Nash had 0 points, 2 rebounds and 13 assists.

******

"You must not talk trash with Kobe, this is a truth I understand today." Speaking at the press conference, Brewer said: "I always felt that I could get him, I tried to get him the way I did, but it made him play so well, it was my mistake and I took the responsibility for the loss. ”

Brewer said this, and people couldn't help but think that he was a real guy.

Therefore, no one blames him too much, after all, he has really worked hard.

'It wasn't just Corey's responsibility to lose, our last two defendings in the last minute can only be described as terrible, it was an unacceptable failure. We will summarize it well and look for shortcomings. Adelman was also quite unhappy, he wanted to suppress Chu Xuan's limelight, but unfortunately, he couldn't do it.

As for Love, he was praised for his performance, not only did he put up luxurious stats this time, but he also managed to gain the upper hand in the battle with the Lakers inside.

Obviously, he should be the protagonist of this press conference.

However, he didn't show up, and he refused to speak up for the post-match interview, so the rumors that had been suppressed were stirred up again.

"The Timberwolves lose again, Lefu is lonely, luxury data is difficult to save, and his departure has entered the countdown? There are reports that the Lakers will be one of his potential next home, after all, his performance in this game is very convincing. ”

The news from ESPN has attracted a lot of attention and heated discussions.

When Chu Xuan, who was celebrating the victory, heard this rumor, he immediately burst into laughter with extreme disdain. It is possible that Love will leave in the future, after all, the Timberwolves' record in recent years has been so bad. But did he come to the Lakers? It's almost non-existent. (To be continued.) )