The first game between the Timberwolves and the Trail Blazers has ended, and Zheng Ke also scored a career-high 47 points in the playoffs, but some experts have suggested that the first game between the Timberwolves and the Trail Blazers did not play like the playoffs for most of the time, and the two teams did not even have a player who left the court with six fouls, which also indirectly proved that the physical contact between the two teams was not intense.

Zheng Ke scoffed at this claim.

Only those who watch the game have a say in the physical contact between the two teams, at least in Zheng Ke's eyes, the physical contact between the two teams is more than double that of the regular season. In the first game of the series, Batum committed five fouls, all of which were committed on Zheng Ke, and each time he was more ruthless.

On April 21, the NBA Defensive Player of the Year in the 08-09 season was finally announced, and Dwight Howard narrowly defeated Zheng Ke to win the Defensive Player of the Season of the Year. He is only the fifth player in history to top the list for rebounds and blocks in a single season, and at just 23 years old, he is the youngest player to win the award.

The players in the third to fifth place are LeBron James of the Cavaliers, Dwyane Wade of the Heat, and Sean Battier of the Rockets.

The NBA's Best Defensive Player is voted on by a vote of 119 journalists, commentators and editors covering the NBA. Each person has three ballot papers in their hands. The first ballot is 5 points, the second ballot is 3 points, and the third ballot is 1 point. Howard received 60 first-place votes, 30 second-place votes, and 15 third-place votes for a total of 405 points. Zheng received 40 first votes, 55 second votes and 20 third votes. With a total score of 385 points, these two have basically divided all the points, and the gap between the other players and them is too big.

It is worth mentioning. Afflaro also got two third-place votes, much to the delight of the lad.

It didn't take long for the official website to announce the best coach of the season, and the Cavaliers' McBrown was named the best coach of the season.

The first vote for the best coach is McBrown, and the second is Timberwolves' Randy Whitman. Although the Cavaliers have the first record, the Timberwolves' progress is even more amazing, and the Timberwolves only got 23 wins last season. This season, he has a full 54 wins, and this kind of improvement makes Whitman's probability of being selected as the best coach in theory very high.

But Whitman is the head coach of the Timberwolves. Zheng Ke's role in the Timberwolves is obviously greater than Whitman's, and in the eyes of outsiders, the Timberwolves' outstanding performance is the most critical factor. Whitman, while a good coach for training young players, is not a top tactician. Even his role in the field has not been recognized.

Whitman felt sorry for not being selected as the best coach, but he didn't feel unexpected, after all, McBrown was much louder than him. Now it's more important to deal with the Trail Blazers to keep home court advantage.

The second battle between the Timberwolves and the Trail Blazers officially started on the evening of the 22nd.

After the first game, the Timberwolves' rookies have clearly adapted a lot. Everyone was laughing and laughing in the dressing room before the game, and the atmosphere was relaxed and cheerful.

What Whitman didn't expect was. The Trail Blazers were the first to change formations.

Blake was dropped from the starting line-up and replaced with Gomez. It's a lineup without a point guard, Roy, Gomez, Batum, Aldridge and Joel Purzbilla!

"No point guard?" When he saw the Trail Blazers lineup, Whitman's pupils shrank suddenly, and his mind began to quickly analyze the strengths and weaknesses of this lineup.

Billups isn't a speedy point guard, and Roy has no problem with Billups. Coupled with Roy's always playing the role of commander when attacking, whether there is a point guard or not is not much of a problem for the Trail Blazers' offense. So the reason why the Trailblazers changed their formation so clearly is to defend Zheng Ke.

Gomez is 2.01m, Batum is 2.03m, both have extra-long arm spans, and McMillan hopes that the two will have a limiting effect on Zheng Ke.

"Ryan, you're not having a good time with the Trail Blazers." Seeing Gomez start again, Zheng Ke still couldn't help but smile and said hello to his former friend.

Gomez had a serious expression and said, "Zheng, you have to be careful, I will try my best to defend you this time." ”

Zheng Ke was stunned, infected by Gomez, and stopped talking.

It was still Anderson and Purzbilla who jumped the ball.

Potsby pulled over the Birdman, took the lead in the basketball, and tossed the ball to Roy.

Roy's expression is very serious, it is not the first time he has played a cameo point guard, but it is the first time to play as a starter, the burden on his shoulders is very heavy, and whether he can grasp the degree of individual offense and organize the team's offense is the biggest problem he faces.

It was still Afflaro who defended Roy, and Billups defended Gomez at Whitman's behest.

Roy stretched out his right hand and stood at the top of the arc and began to direct his teammates' movements.

Suddenly, Roy's left hand in possession swapped the ball to his right hand, and then took a swift step with his right foot, and the whole person broke away diagonally.

"Damn it!" Roy's movements were so sudden that Afraro originally thought he was going to organize an attack, but he didn't expect to come up and trick him.

Roy took two steps to get closer to the basket, and the basket was held against Aldridge and Pulz Bilaka.

"Drink!"

Roy let out a loud shout, flew up, raised the basketball with one hand, and smashed it into the hoop!

"Bang!"

The basket was smashed with a roar, what an imposing offense, like blowing the horn of the Trail Blazers' indomitable fighting spirit.

The deafening defensive sound of the scene dropped a pitch in vain, and the fans looked at each other without words.

"We still have one, we return one to them!" Billups took Zheng Ke's baseline serve and loudly cheered up his teammates.

After pushing through halftime, Billups directed Love to come out to block him, and Zheng Ke ambushed him on the baseline. Gomez was clinging to Zheng Ke tightly, and Batum in the distance, faintly also had the meaning of wrapping Zheng Ke.

"What's going on? A ballless double bag? Zheng Ke was taken aback in his heart, but his face remained silent.

Billups broke through two positions with the help of Love's pick-and-roll, and then passed back to Love, who took a step inside the three-point line and chose a jumper, and the basketball missed.

The Timberwolves quickly retreated, and the Timberwolves' fast attack speed was amazing, and the retreat speed was also amazing.

Seeing that there was no chance of a fast break, Roy motioned for him to give the ball, and he pressed down the tempo and slowly pushed forward to the frontcourt, and this time, Avlalo was fully focused and kept a suitable distance from him.

Roy distributed the ball to Batum on the weak side, who then hoisted the ball to Aldridge.

Aldridge got the ball and leaned his back against Lefu and didn't squeeze away. Immediately afterwards, the dribble is changed to the left hand, and at the same time, the left foot is used as the axis, and the right foot exerts force, and the whole person exerts force to float to the back.

Raise your hand, shoot, hit.

Love has defended very well, but Aldridge is the kind of player who has a fresh move, and he doesn't know how many teenagers he has practiced his straight-arm jumper after the back single, although he is not as big as Nowitzki's range of movements, but with his super long arm span, basically no one can cover him.

Lefu was not frustrated, he knew that his specialty was not defense, in Zheng Ke's words, everyone has their own characteristics, so why bother with this?

0-4, the Timberwolves trailed by 4 points, and the DJ on the scene organized cheers, and the fans shouted to cheer for the home team.

Zheng Ke ran back from the baseline, barely received a pass from Lefou, and was almost cut off by Gomez, his defensive intensity was particularly strong, and Zheng Ke was very uncomfortable.

Zheng Ke took the ball with his back, and just after he put on a pose, Batum gave up on Afflaro and ran to defend Zheng Ke.

Zheng Ke was very calm, first protected the basketball with both hands, and then distributed it to Afflalo on the outside. Afflaro wanted to make a shot, but Roy immediately came over to make up for it, so he gave the ball to Billups at the top of the arc, and at this time Batum also ran over, Billups made a shooting feint, played a simple time difference, and burst inside.

Billups had a good sense of rhythm, and after two steps, he made a pull-up jump shot and hit an easy shot.

Zheng Ke's face is a little ugly, the Trailblazers came up to implement the bag, very resolute, he is difficult to catch the ball, and it is even more difficult after receiving the ball, is this legendary

"The legendary Jordan's Law?" Whitman muttered to himself, is the pioneer afraid of Zheng Ke to such a point? Aren't they afraid of other Timberwolves players shooting their shots? (To be continued......)