In the end, the 76ers completed a 103-94 double kill against the Timberwolves at home, continuing to refresh their recent good record, and the Timberwolves players embarked on their way home in a sea of mourning.

"Ding!"

Ding Wei, who had just finished the post-game interview, was about to hurry back to the locker room to take a hot shower, but Wiggins, who came out of nowhere, suddenly stopped him, ** was draped with a towel on his swarthy body at random, revealing his strong six-pack abs, and the sweat-soaked jersey was carried on his hand like a rag: "Your jersey." He pointed to Ding Wei.

Ding Wei was a little surprised, he didn't expect that the first time he exchanged jerseys would be with this young boy who looked more modest no matter what country's aesthetic standards were measured, he originally thought that this guy was being teased by him a lot, and he was hiding where to sulk, but he didn't expect him to behave quite generously in this regard. He was not pretentious, and immediately took off his jersey and handed it over.

"Your jersey seems to be heavier than mine." Wiggins took the jersey in his hand and flipped it, but suddenly the sentence came to him, "It looks like you're really working harder than me." ”

Ding Wei waterfall sweat, I didn't expect this kid to be stupid enough on the field, and he had to continue to rise off the field, and he didn't know how to pick up this stubble for a while, so he had to stand there and laugh twice.

Unexpectedly, he smiled like this, but Wiggins nodded seriously as if he was affirmed: "It seems that I will work harder in the future, and I will definitely win the next time I fight." ”

"Actually, I didn't win you today, we won you."

"You're right, I'll put it another way, we're going to win the next time we meet, and I'm the same."

"Me too." Ding Wei raised his fist and shook it at him.

"Hehe," Wiggins said to Ding Wei with a smile while learning Ding Wei's movements, "Your biceps are not as big as mine!" ”

"Damn......" Ding Wei frowned and muttered in Chinese, he didn't expect to be despised here, this kid's thinking circuit is too different from ordinary people.

"Okay, goodbye then!"

"How far is it...... "Ding Wei continued to Chinese and waved his hand to signal him to leave quickly.

Reporters on the sidelines quickly captured the interaction between Ding Wei and Wiggins, and with a "click" of the shutter, the two waved to each other and the picture was frozen in the camera. When the photo appeared on the front page of ESPN's official website a few years later, it was accompanied by the caption: "Rivals and friends for life have been sympathetic to each other since the first time we met. ”

"Why don't you say that the mandarin ducks hug each other?" When he saw this photo, Ding Wei immediately complained on the message board of the website.

……

With the end of the game, the 76ers' January devil's schedule has finally come to an end, they played a full 18 games in 31 days, including 5 back-to-backs, the schedule was so tight and difficult that everyone who went through it was unbearable, but they finally survived and achieved an impressive record of 11-7, which made everyone who had flattened them before stunned.

Even more jaw-dropping is the Atlanta Hawks, who won all 16 games in January, extending their winning streak to 18 games this season and overtaking the Cleveland Cavaliers to secure the top spot in the East.

"It's a lot of pressure......" In the restaurant of a hotel near the Phillips Arena in Atlanta, Ding Wei and the five-member group were sitting around with a glass of juice in their hands and looking at the golden ceiling lights in a daze.

"How sure do you think we can win today?" Nolens Knoll put down the cup in his hand and put his chin on his chin in his hands, as if asking his teammates and himself.

The teammates shook their heads, not so much that they didn't know how to answer, but that they had mentally included this game in the "impossible to win" range.

Seeing that Knoll's face sank a little because of the reaction of his teammates, Tony Roten was busy speaking first, as a point guard, his ability to analyze the situation is still relatively outstanding, and he also spent a lot of spare time watching the opponent's video during the injury period: "I have watched all of their 16 consecutive wins, frankly I don't think we have a big chance of winning against them, if you just compare the position and the position, they may not be much better than us, But they're playing more overall and more efficiently, and on the inside, Horford and Millsap may not be as athletic and talented as Nolens and Thierry Henry, but there's a lot of things about them that you can't learn in the short term, like they both average more than three assists per game, and I'm sure you all know what that means. ”

Whether the average assists per game can exceed 3 can be said to be an important data to measure the ability of interior tactics, for example, once the Lakers' second leader, and now the "sister-in-law" Pau Gasol who has rejuvenated his second spring in the Bulls, his average assists per game in his entire career have reached 3.2, the Lakers can win two championships in the post-"OK" era, and his high and low positions are indispensable for his needle threading, and the same example can be his teammate Joakim Noah, his younger brother Marc Gasol, Not to mention the heart and soul of the Spurs, No. 21 rookie Tim Duncan.

They may be the best three-point shooter in the league except for the Warriors, and the difference between them and the Warriors is that the vast majority of the Warriors' three-point shots come from the Splash Brothers, but the Hawks, so to speak, all of them shoot threes. Among the team's 15-man roster, 7 of them averaged more than 2 three-point shots per game, and 8 of them shot more than 35% from the field. ”

"So much?!" Hollis Thompson's eyes widened in surprise, and while a few glances at the Hawks' game footage would have shown that the team did shoot a lot of threes, the stream of impressions was clearly less convincing and shocking than the stats cited by Tony Rotten.

"Their top three-point scorer this season is Korver, who makes about six three-point shots per game."

"That's right, the three-point maniac." Robert Covington is still impressed by Korver's performance in the last game on 4-of-7 three-pointers under his defense, obviously his physical fitness is so good that he doesn't know where it is, but he can't cover his shot, and he can't even interfere with him a little, and he gritted his teeth when he mentioned it.

"So do you know what his three-point shooting percentage has been so far this season?"

"47% or 48%? It's already amazing, it can't be more, if I have such a high shot, I can reach 38% I am already very satisfied," Henry Simms, a big man who can shoot threes, has always been proud of the technique he has mastered, "It's a pity that the boss can't let me shoot so many times, I think if I can shoot as accurately as he does, the boss will definitely open up to me." ”

"Of course, because you can't do it in your lifetime," Tony Roten rolled his eyes and mocked his whimsy, "and by the end of the last game, he was shooting 53.7 percent from three-point range." ”

The sound of cold air was heard in the empty dining room.

"And have you noticed, the two stats that I just mentioned, in fact, are the same thing, a team where everybody can pass the ball and everybody shoots threes, how should we defend? If we don't solve this problem well, then this game, there is basically no hope. ”

After Tony Rotten finished speaking, he picked up the juice glass and sucked it into the straw, and the others were silently fiddling with the cutlery and toothpick boxes on the table, and the situation fell into a cold field again for a while.

"Do we really have no chance?" While Roten's analysis is almost impeccable, Knoll is still looking to his teammates for answers.

"Ding?" Thompson poked Ding Wei, who had been nesting in the corner and looking at his phone.

"Nolens, do you want to hear the truth? Or rather, why are you asking this question? Ding Wei threw his phone aside, and while Roten was talking, he had already browsed all the viewing posts of major basketball forums, and the prediction about this game was needless to say one-sided, and the voice in support of the 76ers was so weak in a rebuttal and ridicule.

“……”

"I know what you all think, none of you, including Norlens, think that we have a chance to win this game, Nolens, don't worry, if your idea is really that strong, will you ask everyone?"

Knoll continued to be silent, and it was clear that Ding Wei's rhetorical question hit him in the heart that was not strong.

"You're just unwilling, of course it's right to be unwilling, the question is for what. We've lost this game now? Not really. Are they stronger than us? Maybe, but that's not a reason for us to be reluctant and I'd be happy if we could still talk about it here after the game is over, but it's not started yet, so I'm disappointed. ”

"Yes, they're the first in the East right now, but at the start of the season, they had a 1-3 record. Tony just talked about a lot of statistics, but I don't know if you noticed that of the 39 games they won, nearly half of the games they won were under 10 points, and a significant number of them were won by only 3 points, what does this mean? ”

"Shows that they have a lot of lore ability......" Henry Sims muttered.

"At the same time, it also shows that their strength is not strong enough to end the game in the first three quarters," Ding Wei did not refute Henry Simms's words, in fact, the Eagles' killing ability is exactly what they want to fear, "so as long as we can drag the game into the fourth quarter, our hope of winning will be greatly increased, and this hope, the opponent will not give it to us, we need to fight for it ourselves." ”

Hollis Thompson clenched his teeth as he stared at the floor beneath his feet.

"Maybe you think that our strength is really inferior to our opponents, maybe even our own fans will not be optimistic about us, maybe there are too many laws and curses in the NBA, but whether it is laws or curses, one day they will be broken, so why don't we be the ones who break them?"

Tony Roten held the cup in his hand and thought for himself.

"When I first came into this team, a lot of people thought that I would be swept away after 10 days of my contract, and then I was here 10 days later, and they thought that in another 10 days I would be out of this team, and I'm still here. Yes, I'm an undrafted player, a temporary worker, a rookie who doesn't know anything, but I'm also an NBA player. ”

Robert Covington leaned forward with his hands in his hands, the tempered glass table top creaking under his thick fingers.

"In the same way, we are also an NBA team, no matter how strong they are, they are also opponents at the same level as us, how can they be first in the East? We are not unwinnable in the league. As long as the game is not over, we have a chance to win, believe it or not, I believe it anyway. ”

“……”