On the plane back in Minnesota, the Timberwolves teammates were still talking about the game, especially the several super pullups that Rose completed during the game.

"Tsk, that guy's body is really exciting." Randy Foye said with a little envy.

"But wouldn't it hurt him to play like this?" Lefou, who is a typical floor streamer, is able to grab so many rebounds every night not because of his bounce and reach, but because of his excellent position awareness, broad shoulders and strong upper limbs.

"It must hurt your body!" Zheng Ke immediately made a judgment: "Especially the wear and tear on the waist, abdomen and knees. ”

Billups looked at Zheng Ke in surprise, he didn't expect Zheng Ke, who is now playing a bit towards Fauvism, to have this opinion.

Zheng Ke paused and continued: "It's okay to use it occasionally, but it's too difficult to use this as your main offensive method. ”

"That's right," Billups nodded, "after all, people are not machines, and machines are still damaged." ”

"But then again, this kind of lever is really difficult, and it's hard to throw it into it during training." Randy Foye said to Zheng Ke, "ZK, you should do it." ”

Everyone's eyes focused on Zheng Ke, Zheng Ke scratched his head, and nodded embarrassedly: "It can be done, but the hit rate is not high, and it is estimated that it is not as high as Derrick (Rose)." ”

"Wow!" Fuye, who received a nod from Zheng Ke in acknowledgement, let out a strange cry: "It's already good, okay, look at me." I can't even do it. ”

"It's useless to know this, it's better to improve your shooting skills, or your passing ability." Zheng Ke, who was slapped on the back, was a little happy in his heart. However, he personally has a different opinion, and he prefers to practice the basic skills of invincibility rather than training some useless fancy moves, like Duncan's hitting the board, like Jordan's back.

The crowd chatted for a while, but Whitman stopped everyone from chatting.

Whitman said, "Let's rest more, we have to play against the Warriors tomorrow."

The year '09 bodes well. After the Timberwolves picked off the Bulls on the road, they beat the visiting Warriors at home and won 115-103. Zheng had 24 points and nine assists, while Warriors had a game-high 25 points.

The All-Star Game voting has also entered a white-hot stage.

In the number of votes on the western side, Yao Ming led all the way. followed by Kobe Bryant and Zheng Ke. The two were evenly matched, followed by Duncan and Maddie. Balloon stars such as Stoudemire and Chris Paul can only be outside the top five.

On the Eastern side, the highest number of votes was not the little emperor James, but Howard, who played super numbers this season, averaging 20.8 points per game. 13.9 rebounds and 2.9 blocks, plus a good record for the Magic. That made Howard one of the hottest stars of the season. This is followed by stars such as James, Wade, Iverson and Garnett.

People were surprised to find that the east and west were led by two big centers, which was not common in previous years.

On January 6, the Timberwolves challenged the Grizzlies on the road.

Rudy Gay met the bitter Zheng Ke again, contributing only 12 points in the game, and the Timberwolves won 94-87, Zheng Ke scored 18 points, but only made 11 shots.

The Timberwolves have quietly won three in a row.

On January 8, the Timberwolves hosted the Thunder.

The Thunder's recent record has been very poor, they have lost 7 in a row, compared to the beautiful Zheng Ke, Durant is obviously more entangled, although his personal ability has grown rapidly, the three-point shooting ability has been fully developed, and even the average score per game has risen to 25.7 points, but the team cannot win.

Before the game, Zheng Ke invited Durant to have a meal at "Taste of China".

Durant had been frowning, clearly not in a good mood. He asked Zheng Ke with a wry smile: "Brother, how did you do it, weishenme you have such a good record?" ”

Zheng Kehaha smiled, wiped his mouth, and said, "We are also lucky." You see, before the start of the season, our Timberwolves were a team with strong offense and weak defense, and the defensive problems on the interior were very serious. Then we brought in Chris Anderson, Aaron Afflalo grew up, and we now have a starting lineup that's more terrifying defensively than offensively. “

"I really envy you," Durant showed an envious expression and said, "I don't know when our Thunder will rise, hey." “

"It's okay, a little patience," Zheng Ke advised: "Russell (Westbrook) is very good, you know, he has all the ingredients to become a superstar: amazing physical fitness, strong fighting spirit, and hard-working spirit, when he grows up, you Thunder will be a bull." “

"That's right," Durant nodded, speaking of Westbrook, his spirits were clearly much better, and he seemed very happy with the help the team brought in this summer.

At this time, Westbrook and his alumnus Kevin Love, enjoying the chewiness of steak in a steakhouse, suddenly Westbrook couldn't help but sneeze.

Hey?

Who misses me? Westbrook wiped his nose with a napkin and continued to fight with the steak.

Although the main forces of the two teams have a long history, they are either good friends or classmates, but on the playing field, there is no talk of intercession with the enemy, and the game scene is very hot, and Westbrook even completed a tomahawk split on Lefou's head, making Lefu disgraced.

In the third quarter, Zheng Ke broke out and scored 17 points in a single quarter, stretching the score to more than 20 points in one fell swoop, laying the foundation for the final tone of the game.

In the end, the Timberwolves beat the Thunder at home, Zheng Ke scored a game-high 38 points, and also handed out five steals, four of which went to Durant. Although Durant's projection ability has become stronger, his ball control ability has not reached the outrageous level of later generations, that is, Durant's offensive ability with the ball needs to be improved.

On Jan. 11, the Timberwolves narrowly defeated the Bucks 106-104. This Chinese derby is obviously not as enthusiastic as the last time against the Rockets, Zheng Ke and Yi Jianlian are both decent, Zheng Ke contributed 21 points and 10 rebounds, and Yi Jianlian contributed 14 points. The game was still tied until more than 20 seconds after Zuihou, and at the critical moment, Zheng Ke hit the winning shot with a layup. With Reed missing a three-point shot, the Timberwolves won five in a thrilling way.

The Timberwolves' recent surge has finally caught the eye, and before they know it, they have overtaken the Mavericks and returned to sixth place in the West. The Suns, on the other hand, squeezed out the Hornets and rushed to eighth place in the West. Now that the eighth spot in the West could change at any time, a situation has been formed in which the Jazz, Hornets and Suns are competing for it. You must know that in the first two years, these three teams were still strong teams in the west!

The Timberwolves are on a five-game winning streak, and Zheng was once again named last week's Western Conference Player of the Year. Last week, he averaged 26.9 points, 9.7 rebounds and 3.5 steals per game, and his stats were magnificent, so why not give him an award?

Zheng Ke is of course very happy to receive this award, but he is even happier that his overall rating, which he has not touched for a long time, has finally improved.

The overall rating is 88, of which the offensive rating is 90, the defensive rating is 88, and the rebounding rating is 80.

Although the rating of defense is lower than that of offense, but with the help of skills, Zheng Ke's defense is actually more terrifying than his offense, and this season, the efficiency value of the objects he defends has dropped by an average of 30%!

Now many experts are singing praises for Zheng Ke, believing that Zheng Ke can be selected as the best player of the season. Especially the two most defensive statistics, steals and blocks, Zheng Ke can contribute an average of 2.4 and 1.3 per game, what is this concept? James, who claims to be excellent defensively, is only averaging 1.5 steals per game.

On January 14, the Timberwolves hosted the Heat. It was their third straight home game, with Wade scoring 31 points and making 16 free throws, but it was the Timberwolves who emerged victorious. Billups broke the Heat's guard line, whether it was Chalmers or Chris Quinn, both of whom were blown up by Billups, and Zuihou forced Heat head coach Eric Spoelstra to use Wade to defend Billups.

After this game, the Timberwolves' winning streak reached six.

The Timberwolves' youngsters have never enjoyed such a long winning streak, and everyone is fighting hard right now, and everyone wants to carry the streak to the end.

So in Phoenix, everyone staged a comeback, and after being beaten 42-24 by the Suns in the first quarter, the whole Timberwolves team broke out. As Whitman said to the media after the game: Even the thin Anderson withstood O'Neal's attack, so what else can't happen?

As a result, the Suns fell out of the top eight in the West again, this time with the Jazz on top, and the three teams looked like they were taking turns (to be continued......