Chapter 144: Iguodala's Defense

"Next, let's welcome our superstar, a six-foot-8-inch small forward from China, Zheng ~~~ Ke~~~~~" As the dynamic and passionate voice of the live DJ at the target center sounded, Zheng Ke trotted all the way out of the player's tunnel.

Zheng Ke is a player who came out of the team, after he came out, all the players stretched out their hands and put them on their shoulders, forming a big circle, and everyone sounded the slogan violently:

"What are we?"

"Timberwolves!"

"What are we going to do?"

"Fight, fight!"

Recently, the attendance rate of the Timberwolves has also skyrocketed, and the new Timberwolves have given fans a big surprise, and Zheng Ke, who scored 52 points in the last game, has become a big hero in Minnesota today, and he has become the favorite topic of small talk among young people nowadays. Today, the attendance rate of the target center is a historic 70%, almost as if it is in the playoffs.

In Zheng Ke's impression, it seems that the target center has such a large number of spectators for the first time, and listening to the sound of the mountain and tsunami is not much better than Cleveland.

"Hi ZK! Long time no see. During the pre-match ceremony, Iguodala gave Zheng a warm hug.

"Long time no see, Andrei." The so-called reaching out and not hitting the smiling person, Iguodala's enthusiastic appearance made Zheng Ke, who was originally about to blow him up, a little flustered, but his hand movements were not slow, and he gave him a strong hug with his backhand.

"You performed very well yesterday, this game is against you, I am under a lot of pressure!" Iguodala said with a smile.

"Where, where." Zheng Ke said modestly.

After greeting for a while, the two returned to the formation, pressed their legs, twisted their waists, and began to prepare for the referee's kickoff.

Whitman's pre-game guess was exactly right, and second-year Seaddeus Young was favored by Cheeks with his excellent performances in the previous games, and Cheeks put forward swingman Andre Iguodala into the No. 2 position.

The referee saw that the players on both sides had already taken their positions, so he signaled the game to start, and he blew the whistle and threw the orange basketball into the air! Haitian striker Daimpot and Love Kalofo jumped up almost at the same time, looking hideous to fight for the ball.

But unfortunately, Daim Porter's height and arm length seem to have a little advantage, slightly better than Lefou, will be the first step to the basketball, the quick-eyed Miller will protect the basketball, and the game officially begins!

Lefu glared at this "ugly-looking" Haitian fiercely, he felt that it was his own shame to lose to him in jumping ball, and he was the one who wanted to win the rebounding king!

In fact, Lefu underestimated Delham Porter a little, the Haitians played their peak season with the 76ers last season, averaging 10.5 points and 10.4 rebounds per game, making him one of the league's leading interior double-doubles, and the Haitians have maintained full attendance for several seasons in a row, which is really a rare high-quality blue-collar worker in the league.

Miller opened his calf and raced forward with the ball.

The 76ers are a strange team, and the team's leader, Andre Iguodala, is averaging 18 points per game, but he admits that he prefers to share the ball. Andrea's assistant coach at the University of Arizona, Treunson, once said, "It's not that Andre can't score, he doesn't want to score more than 20 points, and that's because he doesn't think that's the role he's supposed to play." "In other words, it's a big guy who doesn't like to score too much.

So Miller didn't have any "conventional wisdom" to hand over the first shot to the boss, and directly called Brand out to do the pick-and-roll, and then found a direct gap between Smith and Blanton, shook off Billups, and slipped into the inside.

Lefou's sense of co-defense is really not good, if this ball was a guy like Howard, he would have left his opponent behind and made up for Miller, who slipped in. By the time Love reacted, Miller had already scored the ball with a textbook throw.

Zheng Ke scored a career-high 52 points against the Nuggets in his last game, and he is now daring to take on more responsibility on the offensive end.

The 76ers formation is a typical one-on-one defense, and the Timberwolves are ambushed by Brewer and Love on the weak side, and suddenly open up a space.

Zheng took advantage of Smith's off-ball cover and cut in from 45 degrees to the right side of the three-point line, and Iguodala was suddenly blocked outside. Billups looked for the right opportunity and played a clever ground-hitting pass that went through.

Zheng Ke received a pass from Billups outside the penalty area, and directly faced the Haitian Shenfeng who came out of the defense, and the Haitian Shenfeng opened his two big arms, covering Zheng Kezhou like a net.

But he underestimated Zheng Ke, and after Zheng Ke took the ball in his left hand, he directly coquettishly didn't look at people's back passes. Like a basketball cannonball, it flew whistling towards Lefou, who stretched out his hands to prepare.

Lefou's vision was wide open when he received the ball, and when he was unguarded, it was no different from training, he jumped easily, threw the ball, and the basketball arced high and fell into the frame. 3 to 2.

The center of the target, which had been holding back for a while, suddenly sounded a tsunami-like cheer, which startled Whitman, who was in command, and subconsciously took out a handkerchief and wiped the hot sweat on his forehead.

"Nice three-pointer!" Zheng Ke was overjoyed, smiled and gave Lefu a punch.

“soeasy!” Lefu shook his head and proudly went back to defense.

Zheng Ke rolled his eyes, of course you think it's simple

The 76ers attacked, and Miller dribbled to the frontcourt. At this time, Iguodala also began to run, Thaddeus Young blocked Zheng Ke, Brewer saw this, immediately changed defense, Miller passed the ball, Iguodala dribbled a few times against Brewer's defense. Just when Brewer thought Iguodala was nothing more than that, and was very happy, he crashed headfirst into the ball-carrying cover that Brand had given Iguodala.

Smith couldn't make up for it, and Iguodala made a jumper.

Zheng Ke frowned, although Smith is a horizontal body, and the tonnage of Liliang is quite good, but the consciousness is honestly not much different from Lefou, plus the speed is slightly slow, giving Iguodala space for easy jumpers. Seeing the devastated interior loopholes, Zheng Ke felt that the Timberwolves' interior defense should be strengthened, waiting for the unreliable Serbian man, it was better to seek a trade himself, and he was determined to talk to McHale about this problem after the game.

There is still no big problem with the Timberwolves' offense here, Billups took advantage of Lefou's high-quality blocking and demolition into the interior, attracted Thaddeus Young's defense and then distributed the ball to the outside Brewer, Iguodala didn't dare to let go of Zheng Ke, and watched Brewer adjust the angle and then shoot, hit! 6 to 4.

If the 76ers score two points like this, and the Timberwolves score three points, it would be quite good to go on like this, at least Zuihou must win the Timberwolves.

Thaddeus Young was clearly not going to let the Timberwolves get their way, and in the next round, he hit a three-pointer from the baseline to put the 76ers up by one point at 7-6.

From the opening offense to the present, every shot has been hit, and the fans who bought tickets to watch the game on the spot are very happy. What do fans like? Fans love to see goals scored, you come and go, how nice it is.

But immediately, the Timberwolves got the first iron of the game, Zheng Ke thought that he had thrown off Iguodala with his speed, so when he received a pass from Billups on the right side, he was relieved to boldly use the backward jumper that he had practiced in the past few days.

The ball swept across the net under the basket very outrageously, and the net flower turned up also seemed to have scored a goal, which made some fans who did not watch the game seriously very happy, and only after shouting for a long time did they understand that they had made a big oolong.

Zheng Ke's face changed, but he didn't think there was anything wrong with Iguodala's defense, he must have just used his own backward jumper, if he didn't use this move, this ball would definitely be able to be thrown.

In the next round, the 76ers' hand was also infected, and a jumper outside the big box by "Old Captain" Brand was interfered with by Smith and bounced out of the frame.

Lefouka owner Dyrem Porter grabbed the rebound, and as soon as he wanted to use a long pass, he was covered by Dylam Porter like a chicken, and he didn't find a chance, so he had to be handed back to the Billups organization.

Lefou's long pass in the last game left a deep impression, and that time with Zheng Ke's cooperation, up to last week's top ten goals, top ten dunks and top ten assists, immediately became famous, and even Cheeks repeatedly told Dalem Porter before the game to let him contain Lefou, not let Lefu easily make long passes.

Zheng Ke made a counter-run under Iguodala's tight defense, slipped out of the baseline, and received a pass from Billups near 60 degrees, but Iguodala immediately stuck to it like an epiphysis.

Zheng Ke turned around and faced Iguodala with a simple crotch cross-step dribble. Seeing that Iguodala didn't move, he tried to break through to the left, and at this time, Iguodala moved!

It was really a lightning strike, the timing was just right, Zheng Ke's left hand holding the ball was cut by Iguoda's stretched hand, and suddenly, a strong force came from his hand, and the basketball immediately broke away from Zheng Ke's control, fell out of the way, and rolled to the front court in a hurry