At the beginning of the second half, the Heat, who failed to win the opening game, had the first offensive opportunity at the beginning of the third quarter.

Chammos handed the ball to Wade on the wing, Wade looked at James, who was entangled with Zheng Ke in the bottom corner, and then beckoned Bosh on the inside to come out and do the pick-and-roll.

After bypassing Afflalo's defense, Wade hit the inside with a frame, and Jordan Jr. stepped to the basket in front of him and missed.

The rebound was taken by Jordan Jr., who jumped up again, which was his 8th rebound of the game, and in front of the Heat's interior lineup, it seemed that grabbing the board had become a very easy thing.

The Timberwolves offense, handed over to Zheng Ke in the low post.

Once Zheng Ke fell to the low position, the threat to the Heat rose more than a notch. James bent his arm behind Zheng Ke's back, and Zheng Ke grabbed the basketball with one hand, relying on his wide vision to pay attention to the situation on the court. His passing ability, coupled with a variety of offensive means in the low post, makes him the most terrifying killer in the low post, and the Heat is not a clamp, nor is it a trap, and it is a dilemma.

After shaking twice to attract the Heat to shrink their defense, Zheng Ke split the ball into the hands of Billups on the outside.

Seeing Zheng Ke split the ball, Chanmos immediately gave up the bag, flexibly controlled his body to turn around, and then pounced on Billups outside the three-point line. Billups took the ball and waited for Moneymoss to come over, then re-hoisted the basketball and handed it to Zheng Ke, who was one step closer to the paint.

This time, Zheng Ke received the ball and turned his body directly, turned over and made a backward jumper.

James reacted a beat slower, and when he jumped, Zheng Keqiu had already been projected.

Two point hit! At 50-41, the Timberwolves led by nine points.

And at this time, the Timberwolves lineup on the court: Billups, Afflalo, Zheng Ke, Love and Jordan Jr. On-court Heat lineup: Money, Wade, James, Haslem and Bosh.

Kenny Smith laughed: "Zheng Ke still looks hot in the second half!" ”

Barkley nodded in praise, "If only Zheng Ke could maintain this kind of firepower throughout the game." It would be a disaster for the Heat. ”

The Heat attacked, and the basketball was controlled by James at the top of the arc.

James and Zheng Ke talk directly. He took a deep breath and calmed down. He is a smart man who knows what to dodge and what to dodge. The one-on-one relationship with Zheng Ke was destined to be inescapable from the beginning of the game, and the two met in a narrow way. Only the brave can be victorious.

So this time James's breakthrough was extraordinarily resolute, and that step broke out later, combined with the impact of his body's strength, so that Zheng Ke instantly felt that he was hit by a rhinoceros, and the weight disadvantage made him unable to work and spread the defensive gap.

James broke through. The shoulders were immediately on the same level as Zheng Ke.

Zheng Ke had already adjusted through strong body coordination at this time, his feet moved quickly, and his body stuck to James's body like kraft candy, and the two began to engage in physical confrontation.

Chanmos ran back into the bottom corner, and James had a good vision and chose to pass in time.

Chanmos hit a three-pointer jumper. 44 to 50.

"That's how it hits!" The moment Spoelstra threw in at Chanmos. As if he had been shocked, he let out a loud cry and stood up with clenched fists. The pressure on him has been very high, this year the Heat formed a big three, the goal is to win the championship, and now they have rushed to the finals, if they can't win the championship, it will be a big blow.

After 3 minutes. Zheng Ke made a block for Afflalo. Afflalo runs off the ball and cuts into the air, drawing the attention of the Heat's defense. Zheng Ke withdrew from outside the three-point line and received a split from Billups. After receiving the ball, he put on a shooting pose, shook James's center of gravity, took a step sideways, made a drift shot from the middle distance, and hit!

Zheng Ke's game in this quarter has a tendency to explode, and he has scored 8 points in a row.

After 5 minutes. Zheng Ke broke through and caused a foul on the Heat's defense and stood at the free throw line. For Zheng Ke, who is the No. 1 active player in free throw shooting percentage, free throws are like eating and drinking, and it is easy to score two more points.

Spoelstra's forehead was sweating. Keep asking yourself what to do? Zheng Ke kept scoring points, the Timberwolves had a clear initiative on the court, and the Heat had not been very morale-driven. James hasn't been able to break through to the interior a few times in a game, and if he only shoots on the outside, he won't be very efficient at all.

At the end of the third quarter, the Timberwolves actually led the Heat by 15 points at 78-63. This point difference is already very large, and it is the biggest crisis that the Heat have encountered since entering the playoffs this year.

The fans at the scene watched it very well, and the team should lead the Heat so easily in their script. Although after a game, Zheng Ke did not have many masterpieces of breaking through to the inside to complete the violent dunk, but his jump shot was very accurate, whether it was a backward jump shot behind his back, or a stop-and-go jump shot with a sideways step, or a drift shot in the dribble, and a fixed-point shot after a step-back step, the entire Zheng Ke was a shooting machine, ending the game with shots in different ways.

And so far, the effect is good, Zheng Ke scored 28 points on 11-of-19 shooting in the third quarter, and is currently the man with the highest score in the game.

Heading into the fourth quarter, ESPN interviewed Timberwolves head coach Thibodeau.

Reporter Erin asked: "The Timberwolves had a considerable advantage in the first three quarters of the game, especially in the third quarter, when the whole team shot very well. And James, Wade, and Bosh are not high overall scores, do you have any special arrangements for this before the game? ”

Thibodeau touched the fat on his waist, pondered for a moment, and then replied, "We did a very good job of defending and rebounding in the previous games. Jordan Jr. grabbed a lot of frontcourt rebounds, Kevin Love did a good job of protecting our backcourt rebounds, and the players did their part, and the whole team worked together to limit the Heat's shooting percentage. This point is a normal tactical arrangement before the game, and there is no particularly serious targeting."

In fact, according to Thibodeau's original words in his heart, what he thought was that the Timberwolves obviously only needed to guard against the Big Three. The other Heat players are either too young, too old, inexperienced, not athletic, etc. This is due to the fact that the Heat emptied the rest of the team in order to form the Big Three, and perhaps next year, the year after that, through the draft, through the free market reinforcement, the Heat can really build a super battleship with the Big Three as the core.

At present, it is just an empty shelf, and it is all supported by the Big Three.

So when James and Zheng Ke lost their combat effectiveness in the matchup, Wade couldn't extricate himself from Afralo's entanglement, and Bosh didn't have many opportunities to make a move, it became obvious that the Heat were behind the Timberwolves by a large score.

In the fourth quarter, Zheng Ke did not go to rest, and the Heat Big Three also insisted on not getting out of the firing line.

The Timberwolves, on their part, replaced Billups, Brewer and Jordan Jr., with Lowry, Pekovic and wing defender Corey Brewer. Afflaro is currently in a situation of four fouls, and the Timberwolves replaced Brewer on the court to take over Afflalo's defensive work.

Chammos miscalculated the distance between him and Wade, and was carelessly cut off by Brewer, and a dragon was killed to the front.

Wade chased after him relentlessly, looking like he was going to give him a chase hat. However, Brewer was thin and fast, rushing up like a small whirlwind, and then conservatively chose a quick one-handed side-handed tomahawk dunk, and Wade, who jumped up, almost covered him, and the two flew out of the baseline together after physical contact. 80 to 63.

Smith said: "The Timberwolves are so talented! The new Cory Brewer is a high-pick rookie picked by the Timberwolves in '07 and is currently a backup to Zheng Ke, playing at the team's shooting guard and small forward positions, and occasionally playing at the power forward position. The most impressive thing is his long arms, but the decline in hesitant three-point shooting ability in recent days has made the team's head coach often let the veteran Mike Miller replace him as Zheng Ke's first bench, and the young man looks excited to play at this critical moment! ”

Barkley laughed strangely and said, "Actually, I also have long arms, but thin people look a little longer." ”

The Timberwolves have the confidence to make substitutions, at least Thibodeau is very calm when he thinks that his side is still ahead by more than ten points. Even if the Heat are about to explode, he has the opportunity to call a timeout to adjust the time and reaction. The Heat didn't dare to make a big change at all, and Spoelstra struggled for a long time before replacing Haslem with Joel Anthony and Bosh back in the No. 4 position.

Two minutes later, the Timberwolves blocked the attack, and Zheng Ke faced Bosh's misplaced attack, approached two steps and hit a jumper directly, and his personal score broke through to 30 points.

Zheng Ke has suppressed James throughout the game, and James has only scored a total of 15 points, which is exactly half of Zheng Ke's score.

So Zheng Ke began to whisper in James's ear: "30 to 15, 30 to 15, 30 to 15" (to be continued). If you like this work, you are welcome to come to the starting point (qidian) to vote for recommendation, monthly pass, your support, is my biggest motivation. For mobile phone users, please go to m.qidian to read. )9