The '09 playoffs are still in full swing, and there was a rare burst of cheers in the Rose Garden Arena today.

"Toot ~"

The referee's whistle sounded again, "Timberwolves No. 11 hitman fouled!" ”

"Even-bought karma!" Anderson held his head in disbelief as he picked up his second foul just three minutes into the first quarter.

"It's okay, just go down and have a good rest!" Zheng Ke hooked Anderson's neck and ravaged his long hair.

Amid the applause and cheers of the audience, Anderson walked off the venue with a depressed face.

Whitman's brows furrowed, Anderson fell into a foul crisis that surprised him, you know, in the Trail Blazers, Pulzbilla is not the main offensive player, in the first few games, Anderson has been very few fouls, at least compared to Love, Anderson has fewer fouls.

Channing Fry replaces Anderson.

Billups turned his head to look at Zheng Ke with a worried look in his eyes, he had been in the league for so many years, and he smelled an unusual smell from the referee's penalty scale.

Zheng made a gesture for him to make a single ball, and he decided to use the single ball to suppress the Trail Blazers' high momentum.

At the moment, the Timberwolves are trailing by three points 8-11, but the Timberwolves have received three fouls and two turnovers so far in the game.

Billups received it, and after he pushed the ball across the halfcourt, he directed his teammates to run, leaving Zheng Ke in the low post, and at this moment, only Zheng Ke and Batum were left in the right half of the Trail Blazers' half.

Zheng Ke got the ball with his back, and he now likes to play with his back more and more. It's easy, it's high, and the key is. When playing alone with his back like this, his ability to break the bag is much stronger.

As soon as Zheng Ke was about to beat Batum with his back again, the scene immediately burst into boos, and fans made various ways to interfere with Zheng Ke. But in fact, they sweated for Batum in their hearts. In this round of the series, they finally understood Zheng Ke's back-to-back singles, without meticulous footwork. However, with a large backswing and accurate mid-range shot, the Trail Blazers front group complained bitterly, and the Trail Blazers lost to the Timberwolves, and a large part of it was lost to Zheng Ke's move.

"Wrap him. Wrap him! McMillan put his hands on his lips and roared hoarsely into the field, not knowing who he was calling to wrap up Zheng Ke.

Aldridge raised his hands and moved quickly towards Zheng Kebao.

Aldridge came from Zheng Ke's right side of the bag. Zheng Ke didn't mean to pass the ball. After leaning his back on Batum, he collected the ball with both hands, used his left foot as the axis, and put his right foot on the ground, and made a back-to-back jumper after the baseline was completed.

"Huh!"

Zheng Ke proudly raised his hand in the air, Batum was hit by him and hurt, outsiders looked like he was defending well, but in fact. There was very little disruption to Zheng Ke.

10 to 11.

Anderson's downplay still has a certain impact on the Timberwolves, and Love alone can't protect all of the Timberwolves' backcourt rebounds. In the next few offenses, the Trail Blazers always took the initiative on the basketball court with the advantage of rebounding.

At Whitman's suggestion, Zheng Ke, Billups, and Afflalo all began to pay attention to protecting backcourt rebounds, but in this way, the Timberwolves gave up their best defensive counterattack, and Zheng Ke's super scoring ability between rotation defenses could not be shown.

The two teams are fighting hard in their positions!

This is not the Timberwolves' specialty, the Timberwolves with super mobility Zheng Ke do not like to fall into the position to attack, but because of Anderson's downcourt, they were forced to switch to a positional offensive team.

The pioneers took the initiative.

After the first quarter, the Trail Blazers led by four points at 23-19, which was not a big difference, but the Timberwolves, who have always been sharp on offense, scored only 19 points to prove the advantage of the Trail Blazers on the court.

It was a really aggrieved game, Zheng Ke was still indignant after returning to the bench, he grabbed the paper cup from the staff, drank a large sip of water, and then fell to the ground.

Zheng Ke himself had a good first quarter, scoring 7 points and 4 rebounds, but the team as a whole was in trouble, which made him feel very uncomfortable.

"It's okay, don't panic, although we encountered a little difficulty, but we are 3-0 in total, everyone must be calm, now the pressure should be on the Trail Blazers' side. We just need to play our style and play more sensibly to be able to regain the initiative."

Whitman loudly boosted morale, his familiar words drilled into Zheng Ke's ears, I don't know why, Zheng Ke was irritable in his heart, he took a few breaths in a row, and calmed down.

The Trail Blazers' bench was jubilant, everyone selectively forgot that this was a game they had to fight against the water, and all they had to do now was play with their momentum, Roy exclaimed: "We can't let our fans down, look around, this is our home stadium, it's all fans who support us, we can't let these fans who came to support us leave disappointed!" ”

"That's right." McMillan took over and said, "Boys, you guys did a good first quarter, all we have to do now is keep it that way, keep the ball turning, defend well and play aggressively!" ”

No one would have expected such a scene, after the main team ate Karma in the first quarter, the benches still did not have any form in the second quarter, on the contrary, the bench lineup led by Fernandez finally broke out and beat the Timberwolves' bench to the ground.

In the first half of the second quarter, the Trail Blazers had 39 points, while the Timberwolves only had a pitiful 25 points, and the benches only scored a total of 6 points after coming on the court, even if Billups was on the court, the Timberwolves were still the same.

The substitutes walked off the basketball court dejectedly, and at this time, Zheng Ke looked at ease, and he and the substitutes high-fived one by one: "Good job, brothers." ”

Zheng Ke's appearance on the court made the remaining Timberwolves players on the court feel at ease, and they handled the ball much more calmly.

"It's the first time I'm here!"

Zheng gestured, and Randy Foye gave the ball to Zheng, who stopped the ball outside the three-point line and his teammates around him pulled away from the Trail Blazers.

The Timberwolves made up the roster of Billups, Randy Foye, Zheng Ke, Love and Anderson. Although Afflalo's three-point shot is also accurate, Randy Foye, who has shot more often, gives the feeling that his three-point shot is more accurate, and with him and Billups on either side of Zheng Ke, the Trail Blazers' players dare not let it go.

"Left or right?" Zheng Ke was thinking about the direction of the breakthrough in his mind, but his eyes were observing the surroundings to ensure that he could react as soon as others came to cover him.

Zheng Ke did a simple crotch dribble and approached Batum little by little.

"Left!" Batum's eyes burst into bright colors, and Zheng Ke's breakthrough action was completely seen for the first time, and he made the most accurate judgment and blocked the road in advance.

I went, Zheng Ke couldn't retract his strength, and hit Batum's body with one shoulder, and the huge force penetrated Batum's body, knocking him to the ground and flying upside down.

"Toot ~"

"Timberwolves hit man on the 17th, offensive foul!" The referee was unrelenting, grabbed Zheng Ke's pigtails, and grabbed them desperately.

Zheng Ke had nothing to say, this time the change of direction was a little simpler, allowing Batum to make the right judgment and block the direction in advance, he slapped the ball with both hands, and then dropped the ball with one hand.

Batum completed a successful defense, and the French Pippen got up with a bang, opened his mouth, and let out a roar, how many games, he finally completed it once!

The audience in the Rose Garden gave the young man a lot of face and immediately gave him a warm applause.

Just like Zheng's offense was fruitless, the Trail Blazers played the most beautiful first half of the series, leading by 14 points at halftime, 52-38. Among them, Roy and Aldridge averaged 13 points in the half, and on the Timberwolves side, Zheng Ke scored 15 points in the half, and the highest among the others was Billups with 7 points.

The Timberwolves decided to change lineup in the second half, and Anderson was troubled by fouls, playing a total of five minutes in the first half, carrying three fouls on his back, and if there was another foul in the third quarter, he still had to go to rest. Whitman made an impromptu decision to play a lineup of one big and four small.

Love, Smith, Zheng Ke, Afflaro and Billups made up the second half of the start.

However, this lineup failed to get the desired effect, although the offense has picked up, but defensively, Smith couldn't prevent the 2.11-meter Aldridge at all, and the two teams exploded into a mutual explosion in the third quarter.

At the end of the third quarter, the Trail Blazers led the Timberwolves by 13 points, 81-68. (To be continued......)