Chapter 12: Defeat
George Karl's adjustments still worked, and after playing again, the Nuggets were already playing in a good way. After all, the Timberwolves are a young team, and the star of the team, Jefferson, has only been in the NBA hodgepodge for two years.
Zheng Keshu was encouraged by head coach Whitman, and he was extremely excited, after all, the manager's appreciation helped him to stand on his feet, or to go further.
Iverson finally made up his mind under the repeated requests and hints of George Karl on the sidelines, after all, he is 32 years old, although he is still in his prime, but his physical strength is no longer there, if he beats this difficult rookie like this throughout the game, it will be very bad for the Nuggets.
So this time he chose to block and dismantle when attacking, Zheng Ke was very surprised, after all, Iverson would choose to break through head-on or pull jump shots when attacking in front. However, Zheng Ke's reaction was not slow, he bypassed the Nene, who came to block the pick-and-roll, followed Iverson and followed Iverson into the inside.
Zheng Ke was very excited, he was fighting with the Nuggets' two superstars throughout the second quarter, although the defense was good, he never covered their hats, Iverson's three-step layup made him seem to see the glory of his cap off Iverson on the front page of the newspaper tomorrow!
But "Ah! Iverson yelled, threw his hand into the air and flew off the baseline, and the ball went into the frame after hitting the board.
The "drop" referee blew the whistle: "White No. 17 pushes and fouls." The referee gestured to Zheng Ke.
"This" Zheng Ke's mind was a little out of turn.
"Don't foul easily, Zheng!" Head coach Whitman shouted from the sidelines.
Judging from the on-site replay video, Zheng Ke's defense of the ball was very good, but his right hand was suspected of pushing people. Judging from the NBA referee's "general penalty scale", Zheng Ke's ball can be blown. Barkley commented.
"What are you saying about this, Charles, what is the general penalty scale?" Smith laughed.
"Haha" Barkley Daxiao: "I didn't say anything about star whistles, or encouraging offensive whistles or anything. “
"Zheng Ke has committed a foul, and this time there is a suspicion of a thug foul."
"Zheng Ke fouled again, but still blocked the foul. The Timberwolves had already committed four fouls in the quarter, and Iverson made a direct free throw. Our rookie Zheng Ke is also in a foul crisis. ”
In just two minutes, the situation on the court changed abruptly, Iverson made 3 fouls on Zheng Ke in a row, plus the two fouls when defending Anthony in front, the number of fouls on Zheng Ke has reached 5, Whitman on the sidelines is already wiping sweat, the Nuggets are too insidious, once Zheng Ke is off the court, the Timberwolves' weak outside defense will be even weaker, Zheng Ke, who can defend Iverson and Anthony? Whitman hastened to ask for a timeout.
"Zheng, you go off the court first, you take a good look at how your teammates defend, how to avoid fouls This is the two of you, you and Brewer are both compulsory courses to enter the NBA, study hard, and play again in the second half." Whitman Zuihou said with determination.
He is also a dead horse as a live horse doctor, how can anyone learn these tricks of NBA old fritters after looking at it?
Zheng Ke was very disappointed, his life was up and down too fast, he was just fantasizing about being able to defeat the Nuggets and seal the answer, but he was beaten down by others in the blink of an eye. Of course, he knew that he was deceived and fouled by Iverson, and he had seen reports of such things in basketball magazines and newspapers he had read before, such as a rookie player being deceived and fouled by a veteran player in a game, and he laughed at those players at the time for being stupid, which was all deceived, but when this kind of thing happened to him, he finally understood, which is called never tired of cheating
Cheating fouls is a university question, he doesn't know, but he always tries to find the mystery or flaw, but unfortunately, after Telfer, who replaced Zheng Ke, came on the court, Iverson rarely broke through the cheat foul, just organizing games or breaking through the ball.
This made Zheng Ke very hurt and melancholy: "Why do star players want to fight against me as soon as they see me, how civilized are they to play against others?"
He doesn't want to think about how cheap his mouth is, he doesn't scold people without dirty words, and he also picks on other people's scars, this kind of trash talk with Chinese characteristics has never appeared in the NBA before, but now it appears, Zheng-style trash talk!
At halftime, the Timberwolves trailed the Nuggets by two points, 51-53.
In the locker room, head coach Whitman arranged the Timberwolves' game schedule in an orderly manner, and he made the starting lineup for the second half, Telfair, McCantz, McCantz, Brewer and Jefferson, this is the strongest offensive lineup that the Timberwolves can put out, Anthony will definitely start in the second half, and it is understandable to arrange the lineup in this way.
But what I didn't expect was that Anthony, who had rested for so long, still felt the same hand, and scored 8 points in the second half in 3 minutes, so far Anthony's score has risen to 24 points.
Whitman was taken aback by Anthony's courageous performance, and he replaced Gossman with Zheng Ke, who was already grinding his fists.
"You're finally here, boy!" Anthony said viciously.
"Can't wait, melon?" Zheng Ke pretended to be disgusted and couldn't stand it and said.
Anthony, embarrassed~~~~
Although Zheng Ke successfully provoked Anthony's anger, Anthony is not stupid, he did not fall into blind singles, but pressed step by step, looking like he was looking for a foul, after all, Zheng Ke had already committed five fouls.
But Zheng Ke is a single man.
He didn't care about a few fouls on his body at all, but made the move big and disrupted Anthony's rhythm. This is the target center, and the referee doesn't want to blow down the home team players who just came up to "put out the fire", so although Anthony asked the referee to reason and foul, it was all in vain.
However, Anthony still found an opportunity to make a foul on Zheng Ke's beater, and it was so obvious that the referee didn't dare to blow the home whistle too much, so Zheng Ke graduated with honor
Zheng Ke was fouled by Anthony after 5 minutes in the second half, Zheng Ke was very depressed, but his hard performance still fell into the eyes of the Timberwolves fans who came to watch, and he successfully interrupted Anthony's offensive rhythm, so that the Timberwolves could keep the score tight in the next game. So when the DJ at the scene encouraged the fans to cheer for this young second-round show, Zheng Ke was applauded and encouraged by the fans after he got off the field, which made him embarrassed, and stood still stupidly, but Gosman reminded him to react and wave his hand to the fans in response.
The result of this game still hurt Zheng Ke, although Whitman and the Timberwolves fought together and fought bloodily, but their strength was not good, and finally lost to the Denver Nuggets 91-99.
After the game, major newspapers in the United States reported on the process of the match in detail, and they were quite surprised that Zheng Ke was able to cause two superstars to take turns heads-up. But more of their coverage focused on Anthony's 35 points and Ivor contributing 14 assists, and it seems that the Golden Twin has finally caused good chemistry after a season of running-in.
No one knew that in an ordinary apartment in Minneapolis, Zheng Ke's strength had once again improved
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