Chapter 277: Contest
Billups was extremely steady on the ball, and under his command, the Timberwolves players began to run unhurriedly.
Iverson gave Zheng Ke a 45-degree off-ball screen on the right side, although he is not tall, but the tactical literacy and rich experience he has cultivated over the years have made his cover quality very high, directly blocking Durant running to the line. Now that Durant is out of position, he called Harden to go and make up for it.
Zheng Ke got the basketball, and Harden was on top of Zheng Ke's back.
Harden licked his chapped lips, his eyes widened, and his palms sweated slightly.
It's only when you meet face-to-face that you can feel the pressure from your superstars. Just like Pekovic before, like James Harden at the moment. He looked at Zheng Ke and didn't know how he would attack.
Zheng Ke smiled slightly, turned his back, pouted his buttocks, and arched his back in.
"Bang!"
Harden is also a heavyweight at the shooting guard position, with a stocky muscle. However, Harden felt a tingling sensation in his arm, and then an irresistible force came from the border.
"Rub."
Harden couldn't stand it and took two steps back.
Zheng Ke was unforgiving, and continued to lean back, crashing into Harden's chest and opening half of the space. In the distance, Durant couldn't stand it anymore, and moved in small steps, and he was about to wrap up Zheng Ke.
"呲~"
The sneaker rubbed violently on the smooth floor, and Zheng took a big clockwise step with his right foot and his left foot, away from Durant's direction. Then he supports his left foot to exert power. Like a windswept leaf, it floats backwards.
Harden bared his teeth and pounced on it, finding that even Zheng Ke's face could not be reached.
"Huh!"
Basketball goes through the heart. Zheng Ke looked extremely relaxed.
"Welcome to the NBA, rookie~~"
Harden's face froze, and he said this again. As this year's Tanhua Show, this season he often heard others say this to him, and his face suddenly turned bitter. Damn, I'm going to say that to the level 10 rookie next season
Time flew by, and in the blink of an eye, the first quarter of the game was over.
The Thunder really lived up to expectations. At the home of the Timberwolves, the game with the Timberwolves was tied at 28. Two of the youngsters, Westbrook and Durant, both scored as many as eight points and became the heroes of the first quarter. And the Timberwolves are on their side. Zheng Ke is still the one who scored the most points, he scored 11 points on 4-of-6 shooting, and he was very efficient.
In the second quarter, Whitman put the bench further on the court. Lowry. Iverson, Brewer, Gibson and Anderson made up a pure bench lineup.
Only Lawson and Thorton were left unplayed.
The team's arrangement made Lawson anxious. In regular training, he performed no worse than Lowry, and sometimes, Lowry would be beaten by him. Now, his playing time for a game is completely insecure. Naturally, my heart is very unpleasant.
The Thunder's bench lineup is not inferior.
Even though Harden has just entered the NBA, his maturity and composure still bring a lot of changes to the Thunder's bench. He and Westbrook are two kinds of people. One is played in the sky and the other is played on the ground. And his accurate three-point shooting from the outside has quickly become a supplement to the Thunder's outside shooter group.
In addition to offense, Harden is also surprisingly aggressive defensively, an attitude that probably every rookie who has just entered the NBA will have.
The two teams are still in a stalemate, and even the Thunder played a wave of 10-2 small climax in the second quarter, which shocked Whitman, who was sitting firmly on the Diaoyutai, into a cold sweat.
Fortunately, there was Iverson, who made two breakthroughs to make kills and recover the score difference.
After that, the main players returned to the field one after another. Whitman rubbed his chin and thought about it, and replaced it with Tylawson, who couldn't wait. Lowry, on the other hand, walked off the field a little sullenly and casually high-fived Lawson.
McHale, who was in the box, noticed this detail: "Are there already signs of a contradiction?" "Although at present, there is no contradiction between Lowry and Lawson, but one mountain cannot accommodate two tigers, and in the long run, there will be big problems between Lawson and Lowry sooner or later, and the locker room atmosphere of the Timberwolves will definitely deteriorate." Looks like we have to trade Lawson out. “
Why Lawson? This was a knee-jerk thought by McHale. Compared to Lowry, Lawson is faster and shoots more accurately. And when it comes to the most important pass of the point guard, the two are actually comparable. And Lowry is only a year older than Lawson, but he has been in the NBA for three seasons, and this is his fourth season. In terms of potential, Lawson may be higher than Lowry. But in terms of potential, Lawson may never be able to grow. Lowry, on the other hand, has made great strides in his ability to read the game and defend against opposing team players since he apprenticed to Billups. Even Billups praised Lowry for definitely making a difference in the future, so McHale didn't want to trade Lowry.
In fact, this is a very simple proposition, that is, whether the Timberwolves want a player like Billups to assist Zheng Ke, or a player like Iverson to assist Zheng Ke. Judging by last season's title, the former seems to be a better fit.
As a result, Lawson was the only one in McHale's trading plan.
The game on the court entered a white-hot stage, and in the second half of the second quarter, after the main lineups of the two teams came on the court, the fans raised their spirits again.
Zheng Ke felt good today, and in the face of Durant, his desire to fight was unprecedentedly high. "Bang!" "Huh!"
After eating Durant near the baseline and shaking his back, he chose a mid-range step-back jumper. Durant's gibbon-like arms came over and covered Zheng Ke's eyes. Zheng Ke relied on his feeling to hit the board into the frame. "Hell!"
Durant also played angry, he felt that he had just defended well, but Zheng Ke still possessed the demon and threw the ball into the basket.
Coming back, Durant's head was hot, and he made a pull-up jump shot from outside the three-point line regardless of it.
Also in it!
Zheng Ke didn't have time to react to such a shot, so he could only stretch out his arm, hoping to interfere with Durant's shot, but Durant was also a little supernatural today, and he also hit.
Zheng Ke's face was very exciting, blue and white, he took a deep breath and calmed down his ups and downs after being bukkake.
Billups gave the ball to Zheng Ke, who took a step inside the three-point line. Seeing this, Westbrook on the side prepared to come over and wrap Zheng Ke.
Durant waved his hand and shook it, gritted his teeth and said, "Don't come here." "Hmph." Zheng Ke snorted secretly, thinking that you are asking for your own death. He grabbed the basketball with both hands and placed it at his waist, his shoulders against Durant's body, and took a light step with his right foot, testing Durant's reaction.
Durant didn't react.
Zheng Ke withdrew his foot, then stretched out again to test it.
Durant still didn't react.
After a few back and forths, Zheng Ke suddenly took a step back from the dribble, floated backwards, raised his muscular arms, and threw the ball.
Step back jumper!
Almost stepping on a ball from the three-point line, Zheng Ke still hit it like a pervert.
The Thunder fans in front of the TV suddenly let out a wail, "How can you be so perverted? "It's an exaggeration, you can score this kind of goal." "Can't stand it, my lottery"
The two are addicted, just like the 8th who met No. 1 back then, and his heart is full of irrepressible heads-up desire.
This is the desire that can detonate all the fans, and people hold their breath and widen their eyes for fear of missing every detail.
In terms of ability value, Zheng Ke, who is already 95, is much higher than Durant, who is only 92. However, Zheng Ke's high ability value is due to his comprehensive score, and a student like Durant, who seems to be a bit biased at present, can have an ability value of 92, which shows that his offense is very perverted. The state of the two has come up, and no one can prevent anyone.
Just like now, Durant immediately turned around and singled out Zheng Ke, and after barely dribbling the ball in front of Zheng Ke a few times, he suddenly jumped up and shot, Zheng Ke reacted and jumped, and Durant had already thrown the ball.
Such a quick shot, such a rhythmic ball, Durant still threw it. "It's unreasonable." "Kevin Durant felt so good today that it's no wonder he can average more than 30 points per game this season." "Even our Zheng Ke can't prevent it, Durant is crazy today." The fans at the scene were also speechless, watching Durant score unreasonably again and again, shaking their heads again and again, in disbelief.
It wasn't until halftime that the heads-up between the two came to an end, and it lasted for the last few minutes of the second quarter, with the two performing most of the time. Billups, Westbrook, Love and others practiced the equivalent of a few minutes of switchback running, not participating in the offense at all, nor participating in the defense.
And at halftime, the Thunder had a slight advantage. They led by 2 points at 57-55.
Durant scored 22 points in the half, and Zheng Ke scored 27 points in the half. The audience who didn't watch the game thought that the two people were releasing water to each other and swiping each other's data
It is strange that the head coaches of the two teams actually let the team bosses mess around like this. After all, in a formal basketball game like the NBA, endless heads-up is one thing that every head coach hates very much. Managers want their players to execute their tactics perfectly according to their own tactical thinking, rather than destroying tactics like this.
Why would the two be allowed to go it alone? Both managers today thought of going together. What Brooks thinks is that the Timberwolves are a single-core team, and if Zheng Ke is tired, the Timberwolves will have nothing to do. And Whitman thinks that the Thunder's main scoring depends on Durant, and if Durant falls, the Timberwolves can finish beating the Thunder.
Unexpectedly, the two of them would fight for a pound and a half. As a result, the second half of the game was a bit troublesome, Whitman looked at Zheng Ke, who was panting, and reached out to scratch his head. "Kevin Durant's physical strength should be more expended" (To be continued......)