Chapter 244: First Victory

In terms of strength, the Magic and the Timberwolves should be in between.

But that was already the old yellow calendar of the regular season, and the Timberwolves, who had gone through these rounds of playoff grinding, became like a sword out of the sheath, and the edge was exposed. Compared to the Magic, the Timberwolves' young players have clearly improved more, and overall they have entered an indescribable state.

The Magic were a little stunned.

For what? That's one of the questions the Magic players want to know the most. Could it be that Zheng Ke is more powerful than James? I'm afraid not really, James has been famous for a long time, Zheng Ke is just a new superstar, in terms of overall evaluation, James should be a higher level. How can you fight the Timberwolves, but it is more difficult?

The members of the Magic team were a little puzzled and sat in the locker room without speaking.

Big Van Gundy clapped his hands, still trying his best to boost the morale of the Magic players in the locker room: "Cheer up, everyone!" In the first half, we just didn't take a few open shots, and in the second half, we continued to maintain this attitude and put pressure on the Timberwolves, and the victory will still be on our side after all! ”

"Victory is ours after all!" At the same time, the players in the Timberwolves locker room folded their hands together and roared the slogan in unison.

The soldiers dispersed, and then left the locker room in an orderly manner and headed for the playing field.

The Magic's home arena, Amway Center, is located in downtown Orlando, a historic arena that counts down to the time the Magic have been playing. Because the Magic team is already working on a new arena, maybe next year. Maybe the year after that, the Magic will move away. Therefore, in the old arena, the Magic team actually rushed to the finals. It was definitely an unexpected surprise and you can see how much they love it from the enthusiastic support of the fans.

Even the sexy, sweet-looking cheerleaders danced a lot harder, and these East Coast beauties were full of enthusiasm with sweet smiles, and their expressions didn't change much regardless of whether the team was behind or not, bringing a cool summer feeling to this slightly oppressive arena.

"Wow. That's good. The Lefous whistled and pointed at one of the cheerleaders.

Zheng Ke leaned against the player's tunnel with his back and saw this completely disregarding others. The guy who was shouting suddenly had a black line, lowered his head and pretended not to hear.

"I think you're going to find a girlfriend." Billups said to Lefu in the tone of an elder.

"Hey, hey." When it came to finding a girlfriend, Lefu laughed dryly. Scratched his head. Stop talking.

"Didn't the NCAA school girl come to Kevin last time, I think she's good, Kevin, is she your girlfriend or not, you don't want it, I'll do it!" Randy Foye, who was coming up in the back, said half-jokingly.

"Bastard!" After Randy Ferye's pervert nature was revealed, Lefou's face changed, and he pinched Randy Ferye. The two of them were making a fuss in the narrow tunnel of the players.

"Alright, the cheerleaders are gone. Don't make any noise, we're going to play. Zheng clapped his hands to remind the two of them, but took the lead out of the tunnel of the players.

After taking two steps, Zheng Ke suddenly stopped, and then showed a mouthful of white teeth at Lefu: "Actually, that girl is really beautiful." ”

Without waiting for Lefu to pounce, Zheng Ke shrunk his neck and ran away

The second half of the game was played on time, and the Timberwolves, who did not jump to win, had the first offensive opportunity of the second half.

Back on the basketball court, the Timberwolves were no longer giggling, everyone was nervous and had serious expressions. Under Billups's organization, he began to work like a machine, training tactics a thousand times.

Zheng Ke made a gesture to go out, then suddenly braked sharply and began to cut into the penalty area.

The disadvantage of Tekoglu's inflexibility was completely exposed at this moment, even without the help of blocking, Zheng Ke still opened up the space between him and Tekoglu at that moment, and was in an empty position.

"Biography!"

As soon as Zheng Ke yelled in his heart, Billups hit the ground and passed, and the tacit cooperation between the two at this moment made the Orlando fans in the stands feel cold.

Howard blocked in front of Zheng Ke. Although he had been detained by Zheng Ke in the past, at this moment, his outstanding sense of defense made him stand on Zheng Ke's most threatening path for the first time.

The eyes of the two met in the air, and Howard's eyes widened, as if to say, "Come on boy, look how I fan you!" ”

Zheng Ke cut in from 45 degrees, and Howard blocked the 45 degrees in the penalty area.

Zheng Ke's body trembled, his shoulders sank, and his left foot took a big step, the stride was so large that he instantly left Howard's control, and the whole body came to a frontal position. Zheng Ke took advantage of the situation to lift the ball and made a shooting motion, which made it impossible to see the truth or falsehood.

Between the lightning and flint, Howard jumped up with a "rub", and at the same time stretched out his hand to cover the sky and the sun.

Zheng didn't look at Howard's movements, he took the second step, stepped on the left side of the basket with his right foot, and then spun his body and jumped.

When Zheng Ke spun his body and dunked his backhand into the basketball, the Amway Center fell silent for a moment.

Except for the commentators who exclaimed, only the group of "whooping" Timberwolves benches on the Timberwolves bench were left in the arena, shaking their towels vigorously and applauding.

"This breakthrough is followed by a backhand dunk, which reminds me of that breakthrough backhand dunk at Kobe Bryant's All-Star Game in '07." Zhang Weiping showed his true colors at the moment, and when he was commenting on Zheng Ke's game, he didn't forget to broadcast Kobe Bryant, who had gone home to fish.

He paused and continued: "If the Magic team lets Zheng Ke break through like this, it may be more troublesome, and if Zheng Ke opens this point, it will be a very terrifying thing." ”

However, the situation on the court is not as terrifying as Zhang Weiping said, and Zheng Ke's breakthrough will not be 100% successful, but he is good at combining breakthrough and shooting, and Magic can't prevent Zheng Ke, which is recognized by all media before the game. After all, during the Eastern Conference finals, James blew up all the players on the Magic frontline.

The Magic have their own style, and the three-point sharpness is their most terrifying weapon.

But the Magic's three-point shooting percentage in this game is just average, it may be that the Timberwolves' outside defense is too strong, or it may be that the first game of the Finals is too tense.

By the end of the third quarter, the Timberwolves had a 13-point lead at 76-63, and the margin was getting wider and wider.

The DJs at the scene became weak, and the Timberwolves behaved like the San Antonio Spurs in this game, with strong defense and stable state, which made the fans feel a little helpless.

This is even more true of the Magic players on the court, and Howard singled Anderson, but the effect was mediocre. Every time he made a second hit, the Timberwolves players came very quickly, and so far, Howard has only scored 14 points on 2-of-8 shooting, but has committed six turnovers.

Seeing that the Timberwolves were about to win this game, Zheng Ke had no desire to attack, basically when he attacked, he stood outside and watched the play, occasionally breaking through once or twice, and shocked the Magic team. And this change of offense has made other Timberwolves players play more energetic and fluent.

With 5 minutes left in the final quarter, the Timberwolves led by more than 20 points, and Van Gundy felt that there was no hope of victory in this game, replaced the main players, replaced a bunch of substitute players, and announced his surrender. It didn't take long for Whitman to find a dead-ball opportunity and playfully swap in the young Timberwolves players who were already eager to try, and the game went into garbage time.

Zheng Ke and Lefu and others chatted on the bench, this game was won very easily, and I felt that except for the first quarter when the difference between the two teams was a little anxious, the rest of the time it was the Timberwolves who kept opening up the difference. Although he didn't show a smug smile on his face, when the camera gave him a shot, he could still see Zheng Ke's slightly relaxed appearance.

The 70% chance of winning Game 1 of the Finals and then winning the championship is 70% in history, and while that doesn't justify the Timberwolves winning the championship, it does excite this group of youngsters, who feel like they're within 70 percent. Even when they walked out of the Amway Center, the players were holding their heads high, and the O'Brien Cup tattooed on their chests had gone from pressure to glory.

The Timberwolves' bloody score of 103-81 in the end was also amazing, and the media and newspapers in the outside world were full of reports that were optimistic about the Timberwolves winning the championship. Zheng Ke did not score perverted statistics similar to the previous rounds in this game, but the data of 26 points, 7 rebounds and 7 assists was enough to make him the best player of the game. (To be continued......)

PS: The old man is back