As a popular team in the league, the Timberwolves naturally have a lot of scenes during the Christmas war.

The league put the Timberwolves and Trail Blazers together, and their battle became the finale of the Christmas game, which was particularly eye-catching.

The earliest time was the game between the Heat and the Knicks. Two teams from the same big city battled it out on a twilight afternoon. At this time, it was already the early morning of the 26th in Eastern China, and many fans of the two teams secretly got up from their beds to watch the game, or they didn't sleep at all, and were waiting in front of the TV or computer.

The two teams were not at the same level at all, and the Heat formed a full-court suppression. In the end, with a solid free throw, Wade had 30 points, 9 rebounds, 5 assists and 4 steals, and the Knicks had nothing to do with him.

After that came the Celtics and Magic games, the Cavaliers and Lakers, the Rockets and the Suns. By the time the Timberwolves and the Trail Blazers started playing, it was already 11:30 a.m. Beijing time on the 26th. The players of the two teams complained very much, and Lefu complained directly about the league's cheating ideas.

"Why are you coming to the Christmas War? Wouldn't it be better to go home and eat turkey while roasting the stove at this time? Damn, we're still coming to Portland to play away, buy Karma."

But complaining is complaining, as a member of the league, an ordinary professional player, this basic quality is still there. No one is going to turn down a game just because they're going to have a holiday with their family.

Portland didn't have a lot of attendance today, and even the arrival of the team's sworn rivals didn't spur the fans. Such a festival. In such cold weather, fans prefer to sit on the sofa at home and watch the game together around the TV. to the fans of the scene. If it's not nearby, it's not a die-hard fan

The players of the two teams exchanged hands in a stomach of complaints.

Roy is in his fourth year of career, at the age of 25, and his condition has reached the peak of his career. Both offensively and defensively, he is impeccable. It's not the first time he's played against Zheng Ke, and both have their own wins and losses, but in recent times. He always loses more and wins less. Especially in the encounter with the Timberwolves in the playoffs last year, it was a great shame that the Timberwolves shaved their heads alive.

Roy has always kept it in his heart. He always trains hard to be able to get a shame.

But providence makes people, such a Christmas war, such an important game. The pioneers were short of major generals. Not only Batum and Oden have not recovered from serious injuries. Cunningham, Fernandes and Portsbilla are all on the injury list. The team can even only use a veteran like Jowan Howard, who is about to retire, as the starting center, which is really poignant.

On the other hand, on the Timberwolves' side, several veterans have recovered their health, Iverson and Brad Miller have all been on the team, and even Thorton has failed to make the 12-man squad.

One side is old, weak, sick and disabled. One side is strong, it seems from the beginning. The end is already predestined.

Poor Roy still won't give up, and the Trail Blazers still played bloody at home, which was the one thing they lacked the most last season.

At the beginning of the first quarter, the Trail Blazers played under Roy's leadership, not only Andre Miller hit a three-pointer, but Roy and Aldridge also hit mid-range jumpers. At one point, the score was ahead of the Timberwolves.

In the middle section, after the official pause. Zheng Ke suddenly began to convuls, and after breaking through twice in a row, he hit a pull-up jump shot to help the Timberwolves tie the score at 13. Then, with his skillful back-to-back skills, he shook up Martel Webster and hit a two-point layup with a low hand to overtake the score in one fell swoop.

Roy was also not far behind, feintting to shake off Avlalo and hitting mid-range jumpers in quick succession.

At the end of the first quarter, the Trail Blazers led the Timberwolves by two points at 26-24, and Roy scored 10 points in a single quarter, and he looked surprisingly good.

Billups had a terrible hand, missing three shots in the first quarter, so much so that Whitman brought up replacing him in the first quarter. At the start of the second quarter, Iverson came on and partnered with Billups to form a super-offensive backcourt. Both men are top-notch scorers on the guard line and have started to put constant pressure on the Trail Blazers' guard line after Roy is gone.

Whitman was a complete conspiracy, and McMillan had to be fooled unless he didn't want to win the game. And judging from the current situation on the court, the Trail Blazers are still very hopeful of victory.

So it didn't take long for Roy, who had rested for less than 2 minutes, to return to the field again. Whitman's purpose is also for this, he hopes to reduce Roy's combat effectiveness through a war of attrition, and as soon as Roy goes, the Pioneer will be equivalent to cutting off his head, and it will be easy to win.

Roy lived up to McMillan's high expectations and hit a three-pointer to help the Trail Blazers regain the lead.

Whitman changed his generals, replaced Billups, Iverson three minutes later, and replaced the new forces Lawson and Lowry, the Timberwolves on the court became a super small lineup, but the speed suddenly increased a lot, Brewer, Gibson The interior line can be said to be the smallest and fastest interior line in the NBA.

The Timberwolves' defensive counter-attacking style instantly turned into a bombardment style, and the speed of the conversion and the smoothness of the conversion process made the audience extremely jaw-dropping.

With only one player left in rotation on the Trail Blazers' interior, such a rapid pace is still very physically demanding. Aldridge, despite his youthful vigor, was tired enough. By halftime, he felt as if he had run a 5,000 with all his might, and his heart almost jumped out. "The Trail Blazers are dying, so if we push harder and continue to be aggressive like this in the second half, we can take this win!"

Whitman in the locker room was in high spirits and loudly cheering up the team's morale. He felt that he had no last resort, so he simply changed his name to "Hui Banxian" in the future.

However, the resilience that has always been on the Timberwolves is suddenly showing up on other teams. The Pioneer looked at it and almost finished in one breath, but it was still hanging there. Zheng Ke led the Timberwolves and finally played a small climax, either Roy made a three-pointer to stabilize the situation, or other players stepped forward, so that the collapse of the development has been able to hang behind the Timberwolves.

However, Roy's score rose rapidly before he knew it, and by the end of the third quarter, he had scored a high score of 35 points, which greatly boosted the morale of the Trail Blazers and the audience. The crowd cheered on the home team, "The Trail Blazers will win, Roy MVP!" "Record-breaking, record-breaking" "40 points~~"

Zheng Ke, on the other hand, was a little tepid, scoring 21 points, 6 rebounds, and 5 assists.

Then in the fourth quarter, Billups strained his thigh in a scramble and returned to the locker room early. And Zheng Ke looked back at the team doctor's expression, knowing that Billups would not play in today's game. It was Lawson who replaced Billups, and Whitman was afraid that he would get hurt because he didn't use Iverson. The reason why Lowry is not used is that Whitman actually admires Lawson, who is extremely fast and accurate on the outside, and thinks that he is more suitable to cooperate with Zheng Hack in positional warfare.

The smell of gunpowder in the fourth quarter of the two teams was a bit strong, and Zheng Ke and Roy coincidentally played early, indicating that the game had entered the decisive stage. When the game was tied at 88, Roy hit a three-pointer from the outside, caused a foul on the inside, and also made a basket to assist Aldridge with a dunk, and suddenly hit a wave of 8-0 small climax. "What's going on here?"

Whitman was a little flustered, and he was horrified by the resilience of the Trail Blazers. It's like last year's Timberwolves, hanging behind others like this, and then suddenly erupting in the last moment, taking away the opponent. The Lakers, the Rockets fell under this move, and they also died in the hands of the quality of the Timberwolves, is the Timberwolves going to be countered like this today?

After that, the Trail Blazers Blake hit another three-pointer. And one entry is two in a row. And Zheng Ke finally got excited at the last moment, hitting a three-pointer on the outside and causing damage on the inside, but there was no way to recover the decline. In the end, the Trail Blazers, who were short of major generals, won the Timberwolves 105-98! "Young teams just like to be upset." Zheng Ke was not in a particularly bad mood after the loss, he hugged Roy after the whistle and said in a joking tone. "You timberwolves look like they're very old." Roy's 43 points surpassed his 42 points against the Rockets on Dec. 1 and became his highest score so far this season.

Zheng Ke is not paranoid, and although he has a high desire to win the game, he looks at it all rationally. No one wants to lose, but his mood can self-regulate, for him, the top priority now should be to take the Timberwolves plane, rush back to Minnesota overnight, and spend Christmas with his family (to be continued......