On the Lakers' offense, Tang Shuai went to the front court to call Gasol for a block, and quickly broke through to the basket after dismantling the ball. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Because the other members of the Lakers team scored in the previous few rounds, the speed of the other players to assist in this ball was significantly slower, or hesitated.

Tang Shuai saw the opportunity and made a three-step layup directly.

Downs showed talent at this time, using his arm span to interfere with Tang Shuai's layup from behind.

Tang Shuai's shot hit a pop-up frame on the basket, but after the shot, he quickly jumped, and the North Carolina Flying Eagle rebounding package was activated, and he grabbed the offensive rebound and made a direct backhand layup.

Downs was a little slower than Tang Shuai, watching him make up for the ball.

This ball not only scored points, but also "brushed" a frontcourt rebound by the way.

The difference was again 6 points.

Looking back, Downs was not far behind, Rubio split the ball, and he faced Gasol with a beautiful squeezing layup to score again.

When Tang Shuai came over to pick up and dismantle a beautiful three-point shot, Dons turned around and carried Noll to make up the ball to the basket and played a wonderful 2+1.

After more than half of the third quarter, because the other players were in a state of state, both sides did not dare to easily wrap up, and the game unconsciously became a confrontation between Tang Shuai and Downs, two super sophomores. Tide.

This confrontation continued until about three minutes of the third quarter, when the two men were substituted together.

The score was 80-72, and the Timberwolves still maintained the point difference.

Substitutes, this situation has not changed much, and it is still an extremely fierce competition between you and me.

Originally, the Lakers' bench group was a master of chaos, but under Thibodeau's defensive system, there were no good opportunities, and the Timberwolves' bench had Pekovic and Mohammed, two masters of grabbing points, and they were also thriving.

When the game entered the fourth quarter and more than three minutes passed, the Lakers' bench group not only failed to close the score, but was stretched to 12 points by the Timberwolves.

Billups saw that the momentum was not right, and changed all the main players two minutes early.

The main force came back, Tang Shuai broke through and encountered the bag and gave the ball to Batum on the right wing, and Deng's mid-range jumper hit a goal.

Thibodeau was also quick to react, and after the Lakers just scored a goal, he also changed all the main players on the court.

Both sides entered the final round in advance.

As soon as he came up, Towns forced Gasol in the low post, and the ball eventually jumped to the basket with the help of Knoll's defense, but Aldridge grabbed an offensive rebound and scored a rebound.

Coincidentally, after Tang Shuai arrived in the frontcourt, he borrowed Noel's blocking and dismantling to pull out the iron, but Noll strode forward and directly put the ball into the basket.

Coming back, Wiggins hit Batum's strong shot, and Towns picked up an offensive rebound and missed it under Gasol's interference, but he reacted quickly and grabbed a second offensive rebound to score again.

grabbed two offensive rebounds in one attack, and Downs's strength showed weakness, which also attracted extremely excited cheers from the audience.

"Don is playing well, but Carl is hot right now, he's the next Tim Duncan in the league, he's amazing!" Benz couldn't help but exclaim after seeing Downs' performance.

However, as soon as he said this, after Tang Shuai arrived in the front court, a beautiful footstep shook, directly connecting the defense of Rubio, Wiggins and Downs, and finally carried Aldridge to hit the ball into the basket, and caused the latter's beater to foul.

An equally wonderful 2+1.

"Shh~~"

When Tang Shuai made free throws, the fans at the scene thought of his previous experience of being cut against the Spurs and Bulls, and let out a flood of boos to interfere with Tang Shuai's shooting.

But it didn't actually work, and after Tang Shuai hit a solid free throw, the Lakers closed the score to 9 points.

After the free throw was hit, Tang Shuai pressed his fist violently, and Downs's performance exceeded everyone's expectations, including him, but he would not give up easily, and he would definitely not give up until the last second.

"Show your tenacity and defend this ball!" When he retreated to the half, Tang Shuai shouted loudly to his teammates.

His shouting worked, and after LaVine's layup, Knoll managed to jam Towns and prevent him from grabbing any more offensive rebounds.

The Lakers played a counterattack ball, and Tang Shuai gave the ball to Gasol who followed up in the fast break, and Gasol directly stretched out his long arm and dunked the ball into the basket through LaVine.

The difference has been narrowed to 8 points again!

With less than five minutes left in the game, the battle between the two sides became extremely fierce.

The Timberwolves' offense, Towns' shot hit the iron, but Aldridge's shot after grabbing the offensive rebound won the foul.

After two free throws and one hit, the margin came to 9 points again.

In the Lakers' offensive round, Tang Shuai showed a big heart moment, and when his teammates, and even himself, were prevented from death, he got rid of Rubio in the last 1 second of the 24-second offense, and won a little space for himself to shoot outside the three-point line.

And it was this space that allowed him to successfully throw the ball, and he hit it!

The difference was chased to 6 points again!

Thibodeau was on the sidelines by this time, and his assistant coach Jeff Stein was already sweating all over his palms.

Towns is still playing quite well, and the Timberwolves have been scoring, but the difference between the two sides is getting smaller and smaller.

In the last minute of the game, relying on the active scrambling of the whole team, the Lakers chased the difference to only 3 points.

Timberwolves' offensive round.

The Lakers' players are holding on to their defenders, and as long as they defend this ball and score one more round, the Lakers can achieve a 15-point comeback at halftime.

The Timberwolves played Wiggins, who took advantage of Aldridge's pick-and-roll to the basket from the outside, and a beautiful pull-out to gain space for himself.

"Bang!"

The ball was a little less lucky, and the shot popped out of the basket.

But at this moment, Towns grabbed the offensive rebound, and then threw his hand to Rubio on the outside to regroup.

There was a cheer at the scene, although the ball failed to score, but after Downs grabbed the offensive rebound, it was equivalent to consuming more than 20 seconds of offensive time in vain.

Wiggins played again, and he was quite resolute in this ball, and when he met Noll under the basket, he didn't care about it, and he went straight to it.

Knoll was quite smart at this time, the defender's hand did not press down, and Wiggins did not have a good chance to shoot, so he could only throw the ball up.

Under the basket, Downs and Gasol jumped to the gunboard.

But just then, the referee's whistle sounded.

The referee awarded Knoll a defensive foul.

As soon as the penalty came out, Knoll was stunned, and the fans were also stunned, but soon there was a round of applause.

"What, my foul?" Noll looked puzzled, and Tang Shuai also walked to the referee's side at this time.

It was Gasol and Downs who were scrambling for the basket just now, so why can't it be Noll's turn, right? If you know that this foul counts, it is Knoll's fifth foul.

But soon, what made them even more speechless was that it turned out to be a shooting foul!

The whistle was late, and it was Knoll who had just been fouled on Wiggins' shot!

"What?!" Knoll was clearly out of action, his defense was so clean that he didn't even get his last shot.

The referee chose to ignore it, and Noll jumped up in a hurry, and the scene was suddenly booed.

Tang Shuai saw that the referee was about to raise his hand, so he hurriedly grabbed Noel and kept telling him to relax.

This is on the home court of the Timberwolves, and it is not impossible for the referee to miss the whistle, and if there is another technical foul, it will really outweigh the loss.

Gasol also came over at this time, and with the persuasion of the two people, Noor's emotions were finally controlled.

2 free throws from Wiggins.

At this time, the Timberwolves were leading by 3 points, and these two free throws were 5 points, and there were only 30 seconds before the end of the game.

The scene quickly fell silent and Wiggins went to the free-throw line.

Wiggins has shot around 80 percent from the free-throw line this season, which is pretty consistent.

First throw, shot.

"Huh!"

Steady hits.

The hearts of the Lakers players tightened.

Second penalty, shot.

"Bang!"

The basketball smashed into the hoop, and Downs and Knoll jumped up at once, but the ball did not go out of the hoop, and then fell back in.

The second penalty, too!

The Timberwolves, with a five-point lead!

Billups called a timeout, with 32 seconds left in the game, and the Lakers had to score three points and then foul if they wanted to win.

"The Lakers were really tenacious, they did pretty much everything they could, with little and just time." Webb was impressed by the Lakers' performance in the second half and couldn't help but sigh during the timeout.

After the timeout, the Lakers offense, Gasol sent the ball to the sideline.

Batum receives the ball from the outside.

This ball was supposed to be Tang Shuai's next step to catch the ball, but the Timberwolves' defense was too close, and Tang Shuai ran past Batum twice without receiving the ball.

Billups frowned.

More than half of the offensive time passed, and Batum saw that he had no chance, so he could only rush to the basket and grab a time difference to score a layup.

The Timberwolves were defending 3-pointers and putting 2 points at this time, and they didn't try too much to stop Batum.

The Timberwolves sent the ball, and Batum then hugged Rubio directly after receiving the ball.

With 18 seconds left in the game, the Timberwolves still had a three-point lead when Rubio made two free throws.

Compared with Wiggins, Rubio's free throws are obviously more accurate, and choosing to commit it to him at this time is somewhat helpless, because in the last two minutes, you can't deliberately foul a player without the ball, and committing a technical foul is two free throws and one throw.

The fans at the scene already had excited looks on their faces, and their hands were ready to raise their hands at any time to celebrate, although theoretically, the Lakers still had a chance, but time was really running out.

Rubio went to the free-throw line, and there was silence.

He took a deep breath, glanced at the basket, and shot a free throw.

The basketball arcs through the air and falls towards the hoop.

"Bang!"

What everyone didn't expect was that Rubio, who had a free throw shooting rate of nearly 82%, missed the first free throw!

The scene was in an uproar.

The look of the Lakers generals was shocked, and the opportunity came so suddenly! (To be continued.) )