Chapter 240: For the first time in history
"Huh!"
Zheng Ke's eyes were full of determination, ignoring the group of Rockets fans behind the basketball hoop who were shaking their clothes and using all kinds of strange shapes to interfere with him, and steadily put the ball into the basket.
The Timberwolves have a 10-point lead at 91-81!
The Timberwolves took a 10-point lead with just over three minutes left in the game! It's definitely a margin that makes the Rockets collapse.
Many Rockets fans at the scene showed disappointed looks on their faces, and even some female fans still had tears rolling in their eyes.
There was a dead silence on the Rockets bench, Yao Ming gasped for breath, sat on the bench with his head down, he felt that every muscle in his body was aching, and his heart was already running at twice the speed. He was really tired, and in order to defend the Timberwolves' fast-break counterattack, the Rockets had obviously fallen into the rhythm of the Timberwolves, which was extremely physically draining on him.
"Rockets are like lambs to the slaughter right now, and what are we?" Zheng Kexing got up, stretched out his hand and asked everyone to fold their palms together, and roared loudly.
"Timberwolves!"
"What are we going to do?"
"Eat it!"
"Boom" The Timberwolves players laughed and scattered, with uncontrollable smiles on their faces.
The Timberwolves five-man re-entered the stage, Zheng Ke walked in the middle, Billups, Afflalo, Love, and Anderson lined up on either side of him, and the five-person straight line was captured by the cameraman. He was so excited that he even thought of the name of the photo: Timberwolves Five Tigers.
Zheng Ke held his knees and looked down as Brooks pushed through the half like Hot Wheels.
"Looks like we're going to pick up the pace."
He stared at Brooks. With a move in his heart, he felt that Brooks would definitely make a quick shot at this ball, so it seemed that he could
Brooks expertly dribbles under his crotch. Swapping the ball to his right hand, without waiting for his teammates to fall into place, he made a wrong step, and the strength of his calf muscles exploded, and he instantly turned to the basket to kill.
"叱~"
The sneakers come into close contact with the floor, making a screeching friction sound.
Brooks used his extremely low center of gravity and slightly superior pace to get away from Billups' defense. He caught a gap in the Timberwolves' defensive formation and shuttled in and out.
Brooks held the basketball with one hand and used a layup position similar to Chang'e's running to the moon.
A dark shadow emerged from above Brooks' head.
Brooks didn't know it. However, the players on the field, the coaches on the sidelines, and the fans in the stands all exclaimed: "Be careful, Aaron! ”
"Smack!"
The basketball just got out of Brooks' hands. Zheng Ke's big yellow hand stretched out. Like a predator that has been dormant for a long time, sticking out its sharpest fangs at this moment.
A shocking nailboard cap!
The rebounding ball was grabbed by Billups in the back, and the old guy turned around in a dashing way and began to run desperately to the frontcourt.
The Rockets didn't have time to regret and passively retreated with the Timberwolves, Yao Ming stepped out of his two heavy thighs and ran to the front court with a "knock knock".
Billups stopped when he got to the frontcourt, and after he deceived the Rockets players into running through half court, he was not in a hurry to attack. I fell back near the middle circle and started to have a moment. Every time you start to kill time.
The Rockets players vomited blood tiredly, but Billups was leisurely on the outside, and he was completely in control of the tempo of the whole court.
Time passed minute by minute, and at the moment of 24 seconds, Zheng Kedou came out to take Billups's point of the ball, and shot a three-point shot directly from the outside!
No.
Although it didn't score, the clock was 24 seconds away, and there were just over two minutes left before the end of the game, and the Rockets were in danger.
No one wants to fail, and Plato said that the secret of success is to persevere until the last minute.
The Rockets, who have the quality of a good professional player, naturally understand this truth, and they still do their best on the court, even if Yao Ming's legs are heavy like lead, even if Maddie's waist muscles are dull pain
"They are respectable opponents!" Zheng Ke said in an interview with the media after the game: "I know Da Yao. He is the No. 1 center in the NBA today, and his offensive power is comparable to that of any center in history. But the Timberwolves' style restrained him a bit, and our counterattack held back too much of the Rockets' energy, thanks to the Rockets. ”
The Timberwolves made it to the Finals.
For the first time in history, the Timberwolves entered the Finals, which was a magnitude 10 earthquake, and no one expected that the Timberwolves, who left Garnett, would complete the transformation in less than 2 years, and this change would completely change the landscape of the league and have a great impact.
Barkley was the first to send a congratulatory message: "I have long known that he can do it." "Nuclear Weapons" ZK is a top small forward, Chauncey Billups is also a top five strength at the point guard position, plus defensive titan Aaron Afflalo, rebounding machine Kevin Love, interior beast "Birdman" Anderson, bench "Little Steel Cannon" Lowry, shooter Mike Miller, Corey Brewer, Randy Foye, etc. ”
Not to mention the series in which the Timberwolves completed the comeback after falling behind 1-3, the Timberwolves' first Finals appearance in history alone was enough to drive Minnesota fans crazy.
"What Garnett couldn't even do!" This is the most popular phrase in Minnesota after the game.
Of course, some people praise it, and some people are black.
Not everyone thinks the Timberwolves deserve to reach the Finals, and some experts wrote in their columns: "The Timberwolves' ability to enter the Finals is accidental, whether it is the Trail Blazers, Lakers or Rockets, they all have their own shortcomings. For example, the Trail Blazers and Lakers' weak wing defense, and the Lakers' and Rockets' poor retreat. The Rockets were clearly physically exhausted in the latter part of the series, and the Lakers were even more unjustly defeated. All in all, the Timberwolves are more fortunate than strong enough to reach the Finals, so I am optimistic that the Magic, who have successfully dealt with LeBron, can lift the O'Brien Cup. ”
Whether it's strength or luck, the Timberwolves who entered the Finals are a particularly unreal thing. It's awakened so quickly, and while it's not the first time in history that this has happened, it's still a bit hard to accept in modern times.
At this moment, people remembered and talked about whether the Timberwolves could win the championship. And Zheng Ke, who is only 20 years young, has made many fans in the west feel a little cool, they have traveled through time and space, as if they have seen the scene of a river of blood and corpses in the west in the future, and the great demon king of Minnesota is rising rapidly!
Zheng Ke's strength is terrifying, and at the same time, many other big city teams in the league are starting to have an undercurrent. Minnesota is only a small city after all, compared to Los Angeles, compared to New York, not far worse than Miami, and the Clippers, Knicks, and other teams that are still struggling, Lakers, Heat, and other ambitious teams are starting to act.
What they think of is that Zheng Ke is only 20 years old, how much judgment can a young person at this age have, how much resistance can he have? With the attraction of big cities and the unique financial advantages, can't you still handle such a young hairy young man?
It didn't take long for McHale's desk and Schwertz's mailbox to receive countless emails, all of which were naked seeking the possibility of Zheng Ke's deal.
This made Timberwolves owner Glenn Taylor panic, for fear that this cash cow would go away, so he urgently convened a Timberwolves sensible meeting on the same day to clarify the core of Zheng Ke's management of non-traded goods. Then the next day, the Timberwolves revealed such an absolute business idea to major newspapers.
Even so, there are still many teams that do not give up on the pursuit of Zheng Ke, the most powerful of which are the New York Knicks and the Miami Heat. The Knicks' pursuit of top stars has never stopped, the former Kobe, James and now Zheng Ke, they are always eager for top stars to save the team. And the Heat's Pat Riley has been working on his "Big Three" plan, hoping to replicate the success of the Celtics.
The turmoil from the outside world has not had much impact on Zheng, who has never had any intention of leaving the Timberwolves, who have great potential to develop and the young people on the current team are excellent teammates who can help him become the king of the West in the future. And he has never had the concept of a big city and a small city, in his eyes, they are all foreign places, what is the difference? In contrast, Minnesota's beautiful scenery and passionate fans have made it a little difficult for him to let go of the city he has lived in for two years.
His immediate priority now is to get in shape and try to show his best on the stage of the finals (to be continued......