The timeout was over and the players were back on the pitch.

The defensive tactics of the two sides are still man-to-man, the rocket played to Yao Ming, Yao Ming dribbled and attracted the opponent to come forward to wrap up, and handed it to Alston on the outside line, Alston missed a three-point jumper.

Matt Bullard laughed: "We've been seeing Hayes on TV every day lately saying 'it's five guys'. Just now, he was there alone, and Adidas was going to be unhappy. Now there's finally a second man shooting, although it didn't go in. ”

Drexler said: "The Rockets still use Hayes to defend Garnett. Garnett also passed the ball...... Although it was difficult for Hayes to cover him, Garnett couldn't squeeze into the three-second zone, and he couldn't play his back-to-back kung fu, and it was also very uncomfortable. ”

Battier and Maddy hit jump shots one after another, but the Timberwolves could only rely on Garnett, and the score between the two teams quickly stretched.

Garnett's teammates couldn't help him much.

Mike James broke through sharply, but the timing of his shot was poor, and he was replaced with Troy Hudson, a guy who has no offensive ability.

Trenton Hassell is a scoring guard who can't score, and the Timberwolves really don't have the talent to use him. Maddie can take him as long as she defends with the Soul Destroying Eye.

Mark Blunt is physically strong, but his style of play is not very tough, and he also has a hand-shot shot with an average shooting percentage. He could not pose a threat to Yao Ming in the attack.

The Rockets only have Hayes struggling against Garnett.

However, the Rockets can't make substitutions to defend, Garnett is one of Yao Ming's guest stars in the league, and Battier is good at guarding swing people and can't do anything about Garnett. Novak defensively sucks, and Mutombo doesn't have to think about it, he can't keep up with Garnett at all, even when he's younger.

Originally, the Rockets also had Juwan Howard, and the thought of this Jeff Van Gundy made me angry.

Howard injured his finger against the Mavericks, and the team doctor still says he can't play. Kirk Snyder can't get on that with a broken wrist, what about Howard? I stabbed a finger. Could it be that the injury of his middle finger and the inability to make a "Falk squid" gesture to his opponent are the reason why he cannot play? Jeff Van Gundy began to actively look for opportunities to advise the higher-ups, and the two team doctors looked to be as Hayes had to get out of the way.

At the beginning of the second quarter, "Wolf King" Garnett came off the break and replaced Eddie Griffin. The Rockets also replaced Yao Ming and Hayes at the end of the break, and sent Mutombo and Novak.

Eddie Griffin grabbed a frontcourt rebound and jumped again to get a dunk from Novak, which also caused him to foul and hit a three-pointer.

Immediately after Battier's pass error, he was stealed by Trenton Hassel, and assisted Ricky Davis to shoot a three-pointer to overtake the score, and the Rockets called a timeout.

Jeff Van Gundy first said to Novak: "When you defend, be focused, you have the height, you have to be tough. ”

Novak nodded vigorously, but Van Gundy's words are absolutely in vain, some people are soft, if anyone says hard they can get hard, there is no need for viagra in this world.

The Rockets moved on Bunch Wells and Spanoulis to make a splash on the interior when Garnett was off the court.

Drexler said: "Garnett went out at the break, and the Timberwolves instead caught up with the score. Without Hayes, the Rockets' interior defense is too porous. Eddie Griffin has great physical qualities and could well become a superstar if he can put his mind to basketball. ”

Matt Bullard laughed, "yes." When he was first drafted by the Rockets, he was called the future 'Drexler' by the Rockets management of the Houston Rockets. It's a pity that he didn't become you and took the route of Wen Baker. ”

Eddie Griffin has great jumping, agility and his three-point shooting from the outside. is a very well-rounded newcomer, and at that time the Rockets were also the focus of training, and he formed a short-lived Rocket trident with Yao Ming and Steve Francis, and he was also invincible. He used to be a genius and a fool. The genius is that he is extremely talented in basketball, and the stupid thing is that he lives a depraved life: women, alcohol, drugs. Don't be fooled by his melancholy eyes like Tony Leung, he's really a villain.

After the game restarted, the Timberwolves' offense was a mess, and it was just a coincidence that they chased six points in a row. Who is the Timberwolves who scores the most points, rebounds, assists, blocks the most, steals the most, and plays the most minutes? The answer is all Kevin Garnett. He did all the work alone in the Timberwolves. Without the "wolf king", the timber wolf will not be able to make the climate.

Spanoulis has found his place with the Rockets, and that's pick-and-roll play. All of his skills are average, only this one is outstanding, and at the World Championships, he can even use his feet to leave Wade behind. He can either go to the basket himself or choose to share the ball.

After a four-minute break, Hayes was back on the field.

In order to curry favor with the team's stars, Spanoulis gave all the points after the breakaway to Hayes. Hayes hit one with a hook and twice went to the basket to draw the opposing post player to cover the ball and distribute the ball to Mutombo. Mutombo had a second spring, finishing the offense with a dunk every time.

The Rockets audience cheered and applauded.

Drexler leaned back and laughed and shouted: "It's going to kill someone, just use Mutombo for defense, and let him dunk when attacking, trying to exhaust him?" ”

Matt Bullard laughed: "You have to study the psychology of the players, Hayes is clearly premeditated, can passing on other people have a contemptuous effect?" The oldest person is going to play the top five, how can the Timberwolves chase points? ”

Under the strong disdain of the Rockets, the Timberwolves coach couldn't bear it anymore and replaced Garnett, who had not rested for a few minutes, and replaced the interior "colander" Mark Blunt.

"It's cool to watch you when I'm not around. That's it, brat. Garnett walked over to Hayes as he came on the pitch and sarcastically said.

Hayes sighed and said, "Kevin, seriously...... I feel sorry for you. You're one of my favorite players and would love to make friends with you, and if we were two of us, we'd definitely win the championship." Look like you're getting irritated by these garbage teammates right now, alas. ”

As if to verify Hayes' real name, Mike James took a moment outside the three-point line and faced Spanoulris's three-pointer shot, the ball was deflected, and Mutombo got the rebound.

Seeing this extremely unreasonable goal, Garnett did not spit in Hayes' ear and blow in the return defense for the first time.

Hayes followed him, shook his head, and said earnestly, "See? This is the point guard you can't even control yourself. If I were him, I'd pass the ball to you......"

As he spoke, Spanoulis broke through again under Mutombo's block, easily scoring two points, and the Timberwolves were empty inside.

Garnett was silent, he had been playing for the Timberwolves for 10 years, and he dedicated his most glorious recent life, his youth, to the Timberwolves. He even volunteered to take a pay cut in order to find better players for the team, but how many qualified helpers did the Timberwolves find him? The most watery champion in history, Olavocandi, the aging Kassel, and the madman Sprewell who needs to "support his family", they have also been strong, but it was too short-lived, he stayed here, is there tomorrow?

The basketball was in Garnett's hands. Garnett faced Hayes' interference, turned and jumped, and the shot was missed. Mutombo got the rebound again, and the other four people on the court from the Timberwolves didn't look like they were grabbing rebounds at all.

The ball was touched off the sideline by a Timberwolves player, and the Timberwolves replaced Trenton Hassel with rookie Randy Foye.

Bunch Wells received the ball, used his body to eat Randy Foye, who had just come on the court, and turned around for a jumper after hitting the three-second zone, Griffin made up for the defense, and a volleyball-like big hat directly covered the ball.

The newcomer Randy Foye has the advantage of speed and quickly goes down when he receives the basketball, and he is joined by Mike James. Randy Foye could have passed the basketball to the empty Mike James to grab a three-pointer, but he was just a rookie, too little experience, and too eager to show himself, and he chose to go it alone in the face of Spanoulis who was chasing back, but he played too quickly, and the fast-break layup was also missed, and Battier picked up the rebound in place.

"Dude. Your teammates should check out the Adidas commercial. You may be better than me, you can easily beat me, I don't care. But if the Timberwolves want to win the Rockets, it is absolutely impossible. Hayes continued to tease Garnett. In the first verse, the nagging people began to turn against the guest. If he hadn't been reborn, the ad would have been made by Garnett, who had no teammates to support him.

"If you don't want to die, you'd better shut up." Garnett said coldly.

After a while, the unassuming Randy Foye received a wonderful pass from Garnett and missed another jumper.

"If I were the leader of the Timberwolves, I would never be stupid enough to trade Brandon Roy for Randy Foye. Do they think on their knees? Brandon Roy has star potential. Foye? Hahaha......" Hayes burst into a burst of Stephen Chow-style laughter.

Garnett bared two rows of white teeth and looked at Hayes viciously.

"Okay, bro, I'm sorry, I was wrong. I'm leaving...... Don't keep up. Hayes said, striding to the outside to catch the ball.

Garnett hurriedly followed. If you don't defend, you can't keep up. Hayes didn't pause after receiving the ball, his eyes looked to the left, and he flicked the ball out with both hands to the right. There was a big gap under the basket, and the people under the basket didn't know where to go, and Bunch Wells, who had just been caught by the big hat, burst his hands with both hands and let out a vicious breath.

The Timberwolves' defense was ineffective, trailing by 15 points, and the head coach called a timeout.

Garnett sat down on the bench without saying a word, and before he left the court, he seemed to see a glimmer of pity in Hayes's eyes. This look was more lethal than any trash talk and drove him crazy.

If I can have good teammates, I don't need to be dominant, I just need to have brains, as long as I play reasonably. Garnett's mind flashed back to Ray Allen, Paul Pearce, and Chuck Hayes, who had stimulated him for a while......

He didn't want to admit that Hayes's words did make his heart move. If the two of them were on the same team, maybe they could really win the championship.

"Chuck, this is a good defense? What do you and Garnett say, you basically haven't stopped talking. Jeff Van Gundy asked with a smile. The team was ahead of him, and he was in a good mood.

Hayes laughed, "It's nothing, I just told him I want him to come to the Rockets and win the championship with us." His teammates suck. ”

"Your ideas and suggestions are good, we only need to pay him a salary of 20 million." Jeff Van Gundy laughed. Garnett is hard to get to the Rockets.

At this time, Drexler was saying the same thing. "Garnett's teammates are so bad, pity the superstar. Let's take a look at the stats of the other four starters. So far, only Ricky Davis has scored 7 points. Mike James had four points and the other two didn't score. ”

Matt Bullard laughed: "Even if Ricky Davis scores a lot, he's not a good helper. Just think of his homemade triple. ”

When it comes to Ricky Davis, the first thing that comes to mind is not being a foil for Carter and Francis in the 2000 slam dunk contest, but his first inglorious "triple-double".

On March 16, 2003, 6.1 seconds before the end of the game between the Cavaliers and the Jazz, the Cavaliers sent a sideline ball near the halfcourt, and Davis received the ball from Jones from the top of the Jazz's Stevenson in the backcourt. People on and off the court were stunned by Davis's move, which deliberately missed the shot to grab his 10th rebound and bring his technical stats to a "triple-double." How can such a player who fights for stats be a good team player?

At the time, Stevenson publicly expressed his displeasure, "It's clearly an insult to me, I hope he was joking, but that's even worse, it's rubbish." ”

The Rockets replaced all their main forces.

The Timberwolves role players continued to put on a clumsy performance, unreasonably forced jump shots, and brutality against defenders, which was not uncommon and filled the entire game. Ricky Davis and Mike James made a few random shots, but they didn't matter. People in each of their positions don't seem to know what they're supposed to do. Defenders are not like defenders, and forwards are not like strikers.

Garnett is still strong and well-rounded on both ends of the floor, and Hayes can't completely limit him.

However, Garnett didn't play as passionately as he did in the first quarter. He completed an empty dunk in the third quarter, but he didn't let the audience see the usual roar in the sky, but silently ran back to his half court to defend.

This is a detail that few people notice.

The Timberwolves can cause any problems for the Rockets, trailing all the way to the end. 92-78, six Rockets players scored in double figures, and the Rockets won the longest six-game winning streak since the start of the season.

After the game, Garnett and Hayes were both present at the press conference, and the atmosphere between the two teams was very friendly after the game.

Statistically, Garnett's 27 points, 14 rebounds and 6 assists completely overwhelmed Hayes' 16 points, 6 rebounds and 4 assists.

However, when asked by reporters about Garnett's matchup with Hayes in this game, Garnett said: "I lost to Hayes in this game. He's an amazing player who plays reasonable team basketball and puts the Rockets on the right track. I just played good stats and everyone saw the end and we lost again. As long as you lose, the luxurious data doesn't mean anything. The role of a leader is supposed to be to lead the team to victory, and I didn't do that. ”

The reporter interviewed Hayes again. "Mr. Hayes, you and Mr. Garnett have played against each other a lot in this game, especially in the first few minutes, you both played at a good level, are you happy with the game?"

Hayes smiled: "Win, of course satisfied!" I want to thank my teammates for believing in me and giving me the opportunity to prove myself. However, again, the game is five people. ”

Technically, the two had their own strengths in this game, Garnett had a slight advantage, but Hayes didn't need to attack strongly, and the Rockets won the Timberwolves.

Garnett had only one thing to defeat Hayes, and that was his teammates. Because Hayes has the support of his teammates, Yao Ming, Maddy, and even Spanoolis can make the Timberwolves defense-tight.

Garnett's trash talk is just a verbal provocation to hit Hayes, who can be used as a joke in addition to being noisy; What Hayes said was true, like a silent arrow stuck in Garnett's heart. He had to care......

After this game, Garnett has been disheartened with both the season and the Timberwolves.

The "Wolf King" is ready to leave.

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