Chapter 359: Christmas Doesn't Feel Anything
Chinese celebrate the Spring Festival, Westerners celebrate Christmas.
Zheng Ke respects their culture, but he really can't arouse any interest in celebrating the holidays. Since I was a child, I didn't have the habit of celebrating festivals at this time, so I can change it in a year or two. What's more, he has to work so undisciplined on such a festival, not to mention how bad his mood is.
The bad mood gives rise to a cold hand, and on the territory of Lord Jesus, Zheng Ke dared to be so arrogant, and he deserved to shoot 1 of 6 in the first quarter.
Zheng Ke walked off the court depressed, and actually became a middle school gentleman in the first quarter, and what is even more outrageous is that today's kind referee was probably in the spirit of ending the game quickly, turning a blind eye to Anthony's foul action, Zheng Ke didn't even get a free throw in the first quarter, and only scored 2 points, which is really ashamed.
"Superstars like Kobe, Maddie, Jordan and all that are going to explode at Christmas, what's going on with you?" Thibodeau asked.
Zheng Ke was speechless, sullen and didn't know how to answer.
"Ha, I see. It must be Christmas, Zheng Ke is in a hurry to go home and reunite with his family for the holidays, I have been to China, and Chinese people like to pay attention to reunion during the holidays! Anderson, who has been to China for a while, made a very good understanding of Zheng Ke at this time, and analyzed it decently.
The people around him also praised it, and they were moved by Zheng Ke's family-caring spirit, what a good man
Zheng Ke's forehead was beating, and he had already spit Anderson ten thousand times in his heart: "Go to your sister's China, have you been to and don't know that we Chinese are just Christmas?" What's going on with this reunion, and what's the touching on this face? Did I do anything?"
The Timberwolves bench was nonsensical about Zheng Ke's rare iron strike, and the Nuggets were also talking about it.
"Although we are still 22-24 behind by 2 points in the first quarter, Zheng Ke has a bad hand, which is good news, we guarantee this rhythm, and if we win this game, we will be able to tie the record with the Hornets who are seventh in the West, everyone work hard!" Head coach George Carr gave his players a shout of encouragement.
Anthony has a lot of resentment in his heart, and obviously his excellent defense is also partly due to this. How can it be ignored?
But Antonik didn't dare to directly attack the coach like Zheng Ke, George Karl is becoming more and more powerful, and he is one of the few iron-blooded coaches in the league, and he dares to talk back to him when he is tired of being crooked.
So Anthony smashed it and smashed it in the mouth. Put on your training coat and stop talking.
And the performance of the fans is different, they are talking to each other, and most of them have amazing expressions on their faces.
"It turns out that ZK can also strike iron, if it continues to be so accurate, the center of the league can wash and sleep."
"That's right, he's an outside player, and most of his scoring is in mid-range jumpers, and he's shot 57 percent so far this season, which makes the center embarrassed."
Zheng Ke's non-alien behavior has finally brought a group of people who thought he was an alien creature back into the ranks of earthlings. At this time, he was still being teased by his teammates on the bench.
In the second quarter, the two teams played off the bench first, with Anthony Carter, J.R. Smith, Ver Harrington and others on the Nuggets side and Lowry on the Forest side. Jordan Jr. and others lead, and in terms of strength, it should be the Timberwolves who are slightly superior.
However, this strength does not necessarily determine the direction of the game between the two sides, in the case of the comparison of strength has not reached a qualitative change, the morale of the two sides, feel, luck and other components are the real things that determine the game. Especially with convulsive players like the Nuggets and JR.
So. It is not surprising that when the substitutes fought for a pound and a half on the field.
At the end of the day, it is still necessary to take the main force to solve the opponent. Zheng Ke once again put on the battle in the 6th minute, he exhaled into the palm of his hand, and shouted in his heart for the blessing of the Sanqing Patriarch.
On the first goal of the game, Zheng Ke got an offensive opportunity. A false shot from beyond the three-point line passed Anthony.
If it were usual, Zheng Ke would have made a stop and then made a jumper. But at this time, he was also a little hesitant, gritted his teeth, and simply killed inside.
The Nuggets inside are Nene and Sheldon Williams. Nene is known as Brazil's cancer warrior. And Sheldon Williams is a little less famous. But in fact, Sheldon Williams, who was picked up with the No. 5 pick in the first round of the 06 draft, was a star forward at Duke University, and even the No. 23 jersey he wore in college was retired by the school, becoming the 12th player in the history of Duke to retire his jersey.
Produced by Duke University, the concept of defense must be deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and Sheldon Williams is one of the best, and the reputation forged by his excellent defense in college is as good as that of Okafor.
Zheng Ke dared to be tough in front of these two good interior defenders, and he could be regarded as a master of the arts.
As a result, it was clear that Zheng Ke was a lot more physical than the two, and after dodging Sheldon's defense in the air, he stretched out his long arms and hit a layup.
The basketball bounced on the rebound, and then flew to the basket, but when it was about to go in, he hesitated the angle, the force and the reason for the spin, and there was a rapid spin on the hoop, and then in the eyes of everyone, the basket was brushed out.
"Hell!"
Zheng Ke scolded secretly and turned his head back to defense.
Anthony almost didn't grin, Zheng Ke's move was already perfect, but he deviated from the feeling of the last hit, which every top scorer will encounter, commonly known as the blacksmith's upper body.
Here, the Nuggets turned around, Anthony and Zheng Ke were entangled on the outside, Anthony grabbed the ball and tried to move, and then suddenly made a jump shot like a green onion on dry ground.
Zheng Ke was prepared and jumped into a beautiful blindfold defense.
"Huh!"
Accompanied by a spinning basketball through the net, there is a crisp friction sound of entering the net.
"Huh."
Anthony couldn't hold back any longer, with a faint smile on his face, he stretched out his right hand while defending himself, looking at his palm, feeling as if he didn't believe that he felt so good, but in fact, it stimulated Zheng Ke to feel bad.
This kind of inferior agitation method is ineffective for Zheng Ke, although he is depressed, he also knows that victory is the most important thing, so he simply came back and focused on guiding the ball and defense, and returned to the original blue-collar appearance.
Two rounds later
"Hey, I'll go."
Anthony turned around and wiped Zheng Ke and flew to dunk, but Zheng Ke, who arrived later, fanned the raised basketball and grabbed it on the basket with his bare hands.
"Attack!"
Avrallo, who caught the basketball flying over in the bottom corner, yelled, took the lead himself, and rushed to the front court with his head down.
The Timberwolves rushed towards the Nuggets halfcourt, Zheng Ke was extremely fast, and immediately ran to the front of the Timberwolves after coming down, just like the big leader in the bandit army, followed by the little brother who raised the sand and rushed forward.
"Whoosh~"
Zheng Ke ran fast, Afflaro split the ball Billups, and Billups split the ball Zheng Ke who advanced in the middle.
In the fast break, it is generally basketball for players who advance in the middle, because he has the widest vision and can quickly pass the ball to players on both sides.
The reason why the Timberwolves' fast break is difficult to defend is that the first reason is that he has good awareness and speed, the second reason is that Zheng Ke has strong finishing ability, and the third reason is that there are people who can act as a mid pusher at any time, Zheng Ke, Billups, Afflaro, and even Love can, provided that the Lefu dribble is not stolen.
At this moment, Zheng Ke distributed the ball to Billups, who advanced on the left side, and the only Nuggets who retreated were JR and Anthony Carter.
Zheng Ke's momentum is too amazing, and he rushes up so fast, and he is a well-known power player in the league. The name of the person, the shadow of the tree, he ran over with such a murderous spirit, and JR's heart trembled a little.
Billups took two steps, and then threw it directly into the air, the angle was excellent, and the height was also received by Zheng Ke.
Zheng Ke grabbed it with one hand, and then bent his arm down.
"Bang!"
He dunked the ball, then flew forward with inertia, deflected his head, dodged the rebound in front of him, and flew into the crowd of photographers.
"Damn, it's good that the dunk can be dunked."
This is the second shot by Zheng Ke, and he has scored 4 points so far, which is 1 point less than the JR score scored by the Nuggets off the bench.
"2 of 8 shots, the shooting rate is over 20 percent!" The Nuggets attacked, and Anthony chattered at Zheng Ke.
Zheng Ke pouted, foreigners' math is poor, and these eight shots can only be counted as more than 20 percent?
Anthony and Zheng exchanged trash talk for a while, then suddenly turned around and ran to the line, then Nene covered without the ball and received a pass.
One step at a time, he leaned on the passage blocked by the inside, and was about to pierce himself in.
"Find out!"
Zheng Ke stretched out his hand behind his back, and his arm rushed to Anthony's side like a python, about to point his dribble.
"Toot ~"
The referee's whistle, which had not sounded for a long time, finally remembered, and he may finally remember what he was here for today. But the whistle was a bit out of place, and Zheng Ke turned his head to look at him - it was the white No. 17 thug who had fouled him.
"Oh my God! Buddy. Zheng Ke spread his hands, walked towards him, and asked innocently, "I didn't foul?" And did not violate him either! ”
The referee glanced at Zheng Ke obliquely, his expression was obvious, and he didn't have time to talk to you now.
The scene sounded the first boos of the day, although Zheng Ke is not good, but he is still the darling of Minnesota, seeing that the referee dared to give such a penalty, suddenly all of them were not satisfied, except for shouting black whistles, there was only this boo in the sky.
Boo whom?
Maybe boo the referee, maybe boo Anthony. In short, Anthony, who stood at the free throw line, failed to hit the second free throw, and gave Love a backcourt rebound in plain detail.
Lefu hadn't made a move to make a long pass, and Sheldon, who had already done his homework, was scared to cling to him.
"What the hell?" Lefu is dissatisfied, Lao Tzu is not a point guard, why is he pressing so hard? Suddenly, two iron elbows were erected, and there was a great intention to crash into them.
Sheldon smirked, thinking that this Timberwolves player was really a bandit, and quickly jumped away.
Love then turned around unhurriedly and handed the ball to Billups, who was not far away.