The Lakers' physical crisis erupted in the second half of the third quarter.

Although midfielder Altai rested for 15 minutes, it was too late to recover from his intense physical exertion. Not everyone has the skills to replenish their physical strength like Zheng Ke!

Zheng Ke felt that the breakthrough was suddenly much easier, and Atai's footsteps moved more slowly, as slowly as ants crawling in his senses.

"Whew~~"

With the sound of the wind, Zheng Ke brushed Artest's body, and after a big leap, the forefoot flicked and floated away like catkins.

"Huh!"

21 minutes. Zheng Ke laughed heartily, the corners of his mouth rose slightly, revealing a smile.

Artest thrust his waist and gasped for air, his chest rising and falling like a bellows, obviously on the verge of physical strength.

Phil Jackson furrowed deeply as he turned his head to look at the Lakers' bench and couldn't find a suitable defensive replacement for small forward. Could it be that the Lakers really have no hope of beating the Timberwolves at all? Phil Jackson's heart welled up with great sorrow, and it was a huge irony that the defending champions were about to be swept by someone in the regular season.

"Coach, let me go!"

Bynum seemed to see Phil Jackson's embarrassment and actually took the initiative to ask for help.

"You? Are you going to defend Zheng Ke? Phil Jackson asked angrily.

"I" Bynum blushed from Phil Jackson's words, and he hesitated before he could make it clear.

It turned out that Bynum wanted to emulate the Timberwolves' three-interior tactics in the first half, and use him, Gasol and Odom to form a tall interior defensive lineup, so that at least Zheng Ke would not be suddenly killed alive. And Odom is fast, more than enough to play as a small forward.

Phil Jackson fell into deep thought, three inside? Let's be honest. He was moved, but the Lakers had never trained like this before, and Zheng Ke was not Odom, Zheng Ke's long-range attack power was extremely amazing. Such a lineup is bound to allow Zheng Ke and other Timberwolves outside players to get a lot of shooting opportunities, and the Timberwolves' fast break is bound to become more difficult to defend. It can be said that this is a set of tactics where risks and opportunities coexist.

"Coach, let me go! Ron can't even run anymore! Bynum said anxiously: "It's changed, there is still a glimmer of life, if you don't change it, you can only wait for death!" ”

Bynum actually said such philosophical words, which really surprised Phil Jackson!

Immediately, he laughed twice. I didn't expect that I couldn't even compare to a young man. He made a quick decision, put his hands in his mouth and whistled, and at the same time asked the referee for a timeout.

The Lakers called a timeout with 2:45 left in the third quarter.

At this time, the Timberwolves had a seven-point lead of 66-59, and won the Lakers by eight points in this quarter. Zheng Ke has also scored 8 points in a single quarter. That terrifying scoring machine is showing its power.

"Artest has no physical strength, and the Lakers have no choice!" When Lefu left the game, Zheng Ke whispered in his ear that his ability to read the game had increased.

"Definitely. The small forward on the bench is Luke Wharton, and he's a complete straw bag! Little Jordan said on the other side of Zheng Ke, this guy has always had a big mouth, fortunately, he said it in private, if he put nonsense in the media. I'm afraid it will cause some war of words again.

However, Luke Wharton is indeed average. He signed a six-year, $30 million contract with the Lakers in '07, when the '06-07 season happened to be his peak season, averaging 11.4 points, 5 rebounds and 4.3 assists per game while shooting 47.4 from the field and 38.7 from three-point range. But since then, he has been completely reduced to a soy sauce man, not even as good as Vujasic. He has served as a substitute for the Lakers for dozens of games this season, shooting 32.8 from the field and only 23.5 from three-point range.

Lefu and Little Jordan walked down with Zheng Ke on their left and right, like two left and right protectors.

Mo about two minutes later. The timeout ended, and the players from both sides returned to the field.

"Huh!"

Zheng Ke's eyes narrowed, and he found that the Lakers actually replaced three tall interior lines. Almost at the same time, he remembered the results of Thibodeau's three-inside tactics in the first half. "Interesting, is it trying to stop my breakthrough?"

Odom is a player who swings between the No. 3 and No. 4 positions, but in recent years, he has been playing more power forward and point guard on the Lakers, and he has been a good small forward. Not to mention anything else, this height and weight are there, at least Zheng Ke's back fight will not be as easy as before.

Zheng Ke didn't think about back-to-back singles, he wasn't arrogant enough to be like this.

In the first wave of the Lakers' offense, Odom held the ball on the outside, Zheng Ke leaned in very closely, and his long arms were like a poisonous snake waiting for an opportunity, ready to give a fatal blow.

Odom's face darkened, thinking of Zheng Ke's terrifying steal data, he was a little flustered, and his hand movements were slightly deformed. "Chance!"

Zheng Ke's eyes lit up, his shoulders pressed down, and the biceps muscles of his arms exerted force, which instantly straightened, like a spear, and accurately stabbed the somewhat unstable basketball in Odom's hand.

Suddenly, there was an irresistible force from the hand basketball, and Odom's big hand couldn't grasp the basketball at all, and he watched the basketball roll to the court. "Oops!" Odom immediately turned around and wanted to get the card owner Zheng Ke forward. "Bang!" Zheng Ke was like a wild bull, unreasonably slammed Odom's body away, and then rushed forward with extreme brutality, while lowering his body center of gravity.

Zheng Ke picked up the basketball on the ground and hit the frontcourt alone, and the Lakers had given up the defense by this time.

Easily, Zheng Ke completed the sidehand tomahawk split.

Phil Jackson felt that his eyes were dark, and he had just said that he had a good tactic, and this kind of low-level mistake immediately occurred, and he dared to dribble in front of Zheng Ke?

Naturally, he attributed Odom's mistakes to his previous distractions on the field.

68-59, the margin widened to nine points.

Bryant couldn't take it anymore, he turned around after halftime, then stretched out his arm and shouted at Fisher for the ball. "I'm coming!"

After taking the basketball, Bryant pouted his buttocks, then straightened up, and felt the strength of Afflalo's defense.

Avralo was on the lookout, jumping his arms high and ready to pounce. "Humph!"

Kobe Bryant snorted coldly, his body muscles tensed, and he slammed into Aflaro!

Afflaro struggled, took a small step back, Kobe Bryant followed, then hugged the basketball, his shoulders shaking, his body shook to the left, and then turned to the right and leaned back. "Bang!" "Huh!"

After the basketball is hit high on the board, it falls into the basket with precision.

Afraro smiled bitterly and shook his head, this kind of offensive defense was often used by Zheng Ke when he trained with Zheng Ke before, and the technical movements of the two were exactly the same, but Zheng Ke's back was more domineering, and the feints after that were a lot less, and it was equally difficult to defend.

Offense and defense rotate, and it's the Timberwolves' turn to attack.

The average height of the Lakers now exceeds that of the Timberwolves, Gasol, Bynum, two seven-foot tall men, and Odom 2.08 meters, which is obviously a little taller than the players in the same position as the Timberwolves.

However, the basketball game is not useful if you grow taller, after Zheng Ke came out to get the ball, he found that the Lakers' outside defense was a little lax, his head turned left, and the basketball he grabbed was smashed to the right.

With a very fast sideways pass, Afflalo took over the basketball near 40 degrees from the three-point line. "Huh!"

He hit a three-pointer.

After the goal, Afflaro was also excited, making an OK gesture with his right hand, pointing three fingers to the ground, and then swiped it over, indicating that he had made a three-pointer.

71 to 61, the margin increased to 10 points.

Lakers fans suddenly found that their team was defeated by someone else in the third quarter, which used to break out often. Two teams that also liked to explode in the third quarter met and were destined to split the winner, but unfortunately, the Timberwolves had the upper hand.

Such a result was certainly not what Kobe Bryant wanted, and he made a request to continue playing on the court in the fourth quarter.

Phil Jackson thought for a moment before agreeing to Kobe's request. And his arrangement made the Lakers' strength on the court at the beginning of the fourth quarter much higher than that of the Timberwolves. "Elderly people dare to play like this, I'm still afraid that you won't succeed?" Thibodeau was also angry, waved his hand, found an opportunity, and also sent Zheng Ke on the field.

I really don't give it a chance!

After Zheng Ke came on the court, he hit a layup on a small pull-up rod, which caused Lakers fans to be very dissatisfied, especially the Timberwolves head coach Thibodeau, who was lined up.

Thibodeau didn't know that his arrangement had made him the object of dissatisfaction among Lakers fans, although it was a little inexplicable, but he had indeed become the most hated figure in the Los Angeles area among the Timberwolves, except for Zheng Ke. No way, who let the Timberwolves' second leader, Carrefour, be a college graduate in Los Angeles? He still has a local fan base.

After more than ten minutes on the court, the time entered more than 5 minutes before the end, at which time the Timberwolves still led by nearly 10 points, and the Lakers could only barely ensure that the score difference was not widened.

At 4 minutes and 37 seconds, Zheng Ke sent a wonderful pass to Lefu, who hit a key three-pointer to give the Timberwolves a 13-point lead.

At 3 minutes and 41 seconds, Kobe Bryant made a two-plus-one layup after completing the breakthrough, bringing the difference back to within 10 points for the Lakers.

At 2 minutes and 12 seconds, Zheng Ke received a pass from Billups, turned past Artest, who was re-played, and showed a very large European step in front of Gasol, who was born as a European player, hitting two points on the board, and the difference became 11 points.

At 1 minute and 08 seconds, Kobe Bryant's outside three-point shot missed, and there was no hope of complete victory.

In the end, the Timberwolves defeated the Lakers 97-87 by 10 points, Zheng Ke got a quasi-triple-double of 29 points, 7 rebounds and 9 assists, and delivered 5 steals and 2 blocks at the same time, but only 1 turnover, leading the Timberwolves to win the team's first big enemy in March!