After the game against the Warriors, the Timberwolves went on to challenge the Memphis Grizzlies back-to-back.

The Grizzlies, who have Randolph, are not optimistic about their future. Randolph's reputation is so bad, stealing, street fighting, selling firearms, lazy training, and a penchant for data. If you list his faults, you may not be able to count them. "He's going to spoil those kids in Memphis." Clippers head coach Dunleavy said of him.

However, when the Timberwolves arrived in Memphis and entered the FedEx Center, they saw a different scene.

The young lads were sweating profusely, the famous bad boy Randolph was also in the training arena, and the Grizzlies exuded a youthful enthusiasm and showed good fighting spirit.

"Doesn't seem like so." Zheng Ke found Conley and smiled.

"Hmm. It's not like you Timberwolves, it seems like we've won four games in a row, but today we're holding back the strength to pull the defending champion off the horse. Conley said menacingly, looking confident.

"Oh?" Zheng Ke pretended to be surprised: "You guys actually have such dangerous thoughts!" ”

"Haha, it's not dangerous at all, I've been looking forward to it for a long time."

The two were both drafted in the 07 world, and they met each other at the Rookie Challenge twice, which can be regarded as a special friendship between students of the same level, and Zheng Ke's visit to Memphis made Conley full of fighting spirit.

Grizzlies starters: Mike Conley, O.J. Mayo, Rudy Gay, Zach Randolph, Marc Gasol.

Timberwolves starters: Billups, Afflalo. Zheng Ke, Kevin Love, Nikola Pekovic.

Today was also Pekovic's first start. The muscles on the young man's face were tense, and he looked nervous. Whitman on the side comforted him and encouraged him.

"I'm fine, really." Pekovic let out a long breath, his expression still serious.

He didn't expect this moment to come so early, considering that he was just a player who came on the field in garbage time last week to brush up the stats. In order to deal with Marc Gasol, who is completely superior in height and weight. Whitman put Pekovic in the starting lineup, so that the black and white duo plus the Timberwolves have two interior players. It was all the space in the forbidden area at once!

It's a crazy move, but it's very good for the Timberwolves, because when it comes to outside shooting, the Timberwolves have blown up the Grizzlies.

And the Grizzlies. I didn't find out until after I got on the field. The inside partner on the opposite side is so similar to himself!

The Grizzlies' projection ability can only be said to be average, Mayo is a nerve knife, shooting any team on time, including the Spurs, including the Lakers, and directly shooting the Grizzlies themselves when they are not allowed.

"Bang!"

Rudy Gay hit an iron from mid-range, and the rebound was picked up by Love in the main position.

Lefu felt that it was much easier for him to grab rebounds in this game, and the original Anderson was stuck outside. And now Pekovic is extremely outstanding, and even Makgasol can't squeeze in.

Lefu turned his head to look at the front court. Noticing that the Grizzlies were a little slower to retreat, he threw his arms and threw the basketball like a discus.

The basketball was like an accurate positioning missile, finding Aflaro, who was still running wildly. And behind his ass is Mayo, who is trying to chase back.

Afflalo looked back, and after making sure that the distance was safe, he took three big steps to end the Timberwolves' fast attack.

The Timberwolves lead 11-4.

This kind of fast break is very demoralizing, especially when the opponent is still a bunch of young players, and the Grizzlies look slightly frustrated.

The manager was not unaware of this, but did not ask for a timeout. Young teams have to go through this hurdle, and if a fast break breaks the team, there is no hope for such a team.

This time, the Grizzlies gave the ball to Randolph on the inside.

Randolph seemed to have changed his appearance, standing on the outside line and watching Zheng Ke with Randolph holding the ball, feeling the changing momentum of Randolph.

"Seems to be a lot more mature?"

Randolph struggled to knock out Lefou, and after hitting a step-back jumper, Zheng Ke couldn't think for sure.

Maybe it's just a temporary change in Randolph, and he will become the Portland bad boy in the future, maybe Randolph has really changed his mind, and after so many years of wandering, Randolph wants to really prove himself.

It's all possible, but it looks like Randolph is in good form for this game.

Love's footwork, bounce, strength, and reach are not enough to make him an excellent player in defending Randolph, and in the face of an important member of the Timberwolves' championship last season, Randolph exploded!!

After scoring this mid-range jumper, Randolph became the third player to face the Timberwolves this season after Channing Fry and Yi Jianlian. "Huh!" "Huh!" "Huh!"

He made consecutive jump shots, broke through low-handed layups, and hit a two-and-one after a self-steal, turning the seemingly impregnable Timberwolves interior upside down.

The Grizzlies, who had poor projection, instead chiseled out a level and hit a wave of 8-0 mini-climaxes.

At 12-11, the Grizzlies led by one point.

Whitman asked for a timeout. "What's wrong with you, what's going on? Kevin (Lefou), what's the matter with you? Forget about being hit by that dead fat man, and let him grab the rebound in the frontcourt? "Whitman was furious, yelled at the players who came off the court, and Lefu was shot, becoming the main target of Whitman's saliva." I'm sorry coach, I'm fine. Zheng Ke opened his mouth and smiled, attracting the attention of all the players: "It's okay." Zach does have some flexibility and ability, and he is in pretty good shape for this game. But remember, he's just one person, and there are five of us, and his weight isn't enough for him to maintain this level of attack forever! “

Under Zheng Ke's words, the players' eyes gradually brightened, especially Lefu, whose depressed expression just now was swept away.

Whitman saw the change in the players and gave Zheng Ke a thumbs up in his heart, and he followed Zheng Ke's words: "So, keep our aggressiveness, start with defense, let them feel our full-court pressing, feel the pressure we give them, force them to make mistakes, play our fast break, play our counter-attack!" “

The Timberwolves have a lot of players who can play now, and how did Whitman dare to use a tactic that consumes a lot of physical energy like full-court pressing? Now it can be said out loud that there are a bunch of talents on the back line, a group of energetic young people, who are not afraid of lack of physical strength at all.

After the timeout, the Grizzlies found that the Timberwolves were much more resolute on their first offense.

Billups had a three-pointer opportunity from the outside and threw it out resolutely, and even if he didn't score, he didn't feel any mood swings.

Conley took the ball, and as soon as he turned around, Billups pounced like a bully.

The action was so fast that he almost broke Conley's dribble, he quickly turned around and blocked the wolf-like Billups, he tapped the dribble a few times with both hands, turned his head to look around, and saw that Afflaro was following Mayo. "The whole court is pressing?"

Conley's brow furrowed. As a typical American-style point guard, Conley's two-handed dribbling ability is absolutely qualified, he has never been afraid of such a tactic as pressing the whole court, the only question is, how much physical strength can the Timberwolves consume?

Such doubts were dispelled after three minutes, and the Timberwolves replaced them with a "little fat man" with amazing strength!

Lowry isn't fat, but he's definitely a pretty strong defender, he's not afraid of any physical confrontation, he's keen to compete with other skinny point guards, and he's enjoying the whole game with Conley.

For this, he was even whistled for a foul by the referee.

Conley felt that his physical strength was rapidly draining, and the physical energy consumed by the physical confrontation with "Combative" Lowry was too great, and every time he took the ball through the half court, he had to consume a lot of physical energy.

Conley tried to get the ball to Mayo and Rudy Gay to control the ball separately, but found that they were equally difficult to dribble. "Oh my God! What kind of players does the Timberwolves have? Why is this close defense so strong? Conley groaned helplessly, helplessly watching Rudy Gay be stolen by Zheng Ke for the dribble.

Zheng Ke quickly dribbled to the frontcourt, saw that the Grizzlies retreated quickly, stopped his body unhurriedly, waited for his teammates behind him to come, he even changed his right hand to his left hand to dribble, and then took the time to wipe a handful of sweat.

Seeing Zheng Ke wiping his sweat, Rudy Guy suddenly relaxed his vigilance. "叱~"

Zheng Ke's feints are not shallow and deceitful, Rudy Guy just relaxed his body, Zheng Ke dribbled the ball, and at the same time bent over, like an arrow from the string to keep up with the basketball, at this moment, he completely passed Guy's defense! "Daddy!" Guy yelled and reached out to grab Zheng Ke's jersey, but only touched the corner of Zheng Ke's shirt.

It was Mayo who retreated to the inside line, and when he saw Zheng Ke rushing over violently, he didn't dare to go up and block the muzzle of the gun.

Zheng Ke turned three steps into two steps, lifted the ball and rounded his arms, lightly stepped on the floor, and leaped in the air (to be continued......)