The Bulls, who were only seventh or eighth in the West two years ago, have improved a lot.

With a playful ponytail on the back of his head, Noah is one of the most thunderous hairstyles in NBA history, and of course a few people will still like his offbeat style. Noah is Zheng Ke's classmate, and both of them are draft compatriots in the 07 world, and they are also familiar with each other. The 26-year-old was already a double-double club member with 10 points and 10 rebounds last season, and although he hasn't practiced a good pass, he has already become the Bulls' No. 1 interior core.

The importance is even greater than that of Boozer, who is an All-Star power forward.

The Bulls were able to have such a good defense today, and this white man was a big contributor. And now facing the Timberwolves, he has no intention of giving some face, and he is playing extremely actively.

The two teams fell into a scorching battle, Zheng Ke had no intention of giving up his strength to attack, more than half of the first quarter, there were few breakthroughs, and most of the time he was doing things such as passing the ball and playing with his back to his back.

Instead, Rose, Tubbillups, suddenly became addicted, changed direction drastically, and the first step was as fast as lightning, which was simply incomprehensible to the extreme.

Billups played half the quarter and often relied on Zheng Ke's help to help limit Rose's offense. So Ross was fierce suddenly, and he didn't hit a few throws outside the paint area, and the shooting rate was not as good as that of Luo Erdeng, who shot at a fixed point on the outside. But then again, without Ross's strong breakthrough, Zheng Ke would not let go of Luo Erdeng and shrink the overall defensive line.

At the end of the first quarter, the Bulls led the Timberwolves by one point at 18-17.

"A rare point difference!" The host who broadcast the game was TNT's old acquaintance Barkley, who exclaimed the Bulls' defensive ability: "I didn't expect this Bulls team to have this defensive ability!" In my opinion, it's not inferior to the Timberwolves at all! Look, even Carlos Boozer is a lot harder."

Partner Smith said with a smile: "Carlos Boozer used to be trained by Sloan as Karl Malone when he was in the Jazz. Although he doesn't have much outstanding defensive talent, he is still quite good at small movements and other things. Now the partner Joakim Noah complements each other perfectly! ”

Barkley said: "I'd love to see the Timberwolves score more than 20 points in the first quarter for the first time. In that regard, the Bulls are the first of their kind this season. It's not easy to hear. ”

Smith made a funny look and laughed, "Why don't I think you're praising the bulls, but praising the Timberwolves?" ”

"Tout?" Barkley laughed out loud and said happily, "Do the Timberwolves still need my pursuit right now?" And don't forget. I've been a staunch supporter of Zheng Ke since he entered the alliance, and I said at the time that this kid is unlimited, look, I said yes! “

The two of you say a word, I gag the chat commentary and entertained a lot of viewers in front of the TV, Barkley also broke the news from time to time, exposing some things about him and Zheng Ke, this hateful bald head never knew what low-key was, and I couldn't wait to tell the world that Zheng Ke was my buddy. He's going to break Michael's record!

And at this time-

The game on the court has reached the main rotation time of this quarter, and the Bulls' Rose is on the game early. Before Billups was in rotation, he faced a sideways development of burly steel cannon Lowry. Lowry isn't much better defensively than Billups, but he's young and fit. Especially the strong pectoral muscles, in the face of Rose's impact, they were able to do not fall behind, and they looked at Rose, who was used to coming and going freely. "I'm rubbing, the Timberwolves' backup point guards are so strong?" Rose scolded secretly, feeling that the unattractive kid in front of him was really strong. "Bang!"

Rose carried Lowry into the interior and made a sharp stop. One-handed toss.

The basketball arced and hit the back edge of the hoop, then bounced a few times and fell into the net. "It's fine!" Rose wiped the sweat from his forehead, and then took a deep look at Lowry, who was grinning and rubbing his chest there, "This guy isn't very tall. “

Rose's desperate Saburo-style play spelled disaster for the Timberwolves' bench. The two are not at the same level at all, forcing Xibodeau to sit on the Diaoyutai no longer steadily, and with a wave of his hand, Zheng Ke was replaced on the field in advance. "Wow, Coach Wise!"

Zheng Ke was delighted. jumped up, ripped off the team uniform on his body, and gently pulled the black arm guard on his left arm. He was already unhappy with Rose, who was showing off his might on the field, and this time he was replaced in advance, which was exactly what he wanted.

Zheng Ke has not yet appeared on the stage, but just sat on the technical table, which immediately caused cheers from the audience.

Behind him was the cheers of local Minnesota fanatics. "Kill the Chicagoans!" "Our Zheng Ke is on the field, you're finished!"

After a dead ball, Zheng returned to the basketball court, at which point the Bulls led the Timberwolves by three points at 25-22, and the two teams played a little more than a quarter, but they didn't even add up to 50 points.

Rose made a second free throw to give the Bulls a four-point lead at 26-22.

Dinghaishen's needle should play a role in stabilizing the morale of the army. Thibodeau reacted quickly, and Zheng Ke returned to the court in time, just in time for the momentum of the somewhat rising Bulls.

He didn't choose to shoot himself on the first shot, and after attracting the Bulls' heavy siege, he directly transferred a large area and handed it to Lowry in the bottom corner. Lowry's expression was calm, and he got up and raised his hand, which was a three-point shot. "Hit!"

Thibodeau clenched his fist and waved lightly, and Zheng Ke was different when he came on the court.

25 to 26.

Offense and defense rotated, and the Bulls attacked.

Rose, who was in possession of the ball, was standing outside the three-point line, and Lowry was standing a meter away from him, apparently giving the highest strategic instructions to prevent breakouts and shoots. "Humph! When I can't vote? A wave of pride welled up in Rose's heart, and he retracted his body and suddenly burst into shooting like a spring.

Lori was taken aback for a moment, subconsciously took a step forward, and reached out to make a standard defensive stance.

Rose flicked his wrist slightly, and the basketball flew out of the tips of his fingers. "There it is!" As soon as he made a shot, Rose felt that this shot was very stable and felt very good, and the basketball line that flew out was very straight, and at this angle, it looked like it was facing the basket.

however

The basketball flew out of the bottom line by grazing the net under the hoop, and several big men under the basket stuck their arms with each other, looking up at the hoop one by one, but found that the basketball flew out of the bottom line.

Three do not stick

Rose's face darkened and he frowned.

Zheng Ke looked at Rose with some surprise, Rose's hand shape was very beautiful just now, and the arc of the shot looked extremely reasonable, he thought he was going to enter, but he didn't expect to throw a three-no-stick. But immediately he reacted and had to go to the baseline to serve.

Zheng Ke ran over and wanted to serve, but the referee refused to give it. It turned out that this Rose shot was out of bounds, and it was also a dead ball, and the referee had to hand send the ball to the player, unlike after the goal, the Timberwolves player could directly pick up the basketball and serve.

Therefore, Zheng Ke had to wait patiently on the outside for the referee to prepare for the work, and then solemnly send the ball to him. "Pit daddy!"

had a good offensive opportunity, Zheng Ke passed the ball to Lowry, and felt a great pity in his heart.

After Lowry got the ball, he pouted his fat little ass and ran quickly to the front court. He has been with the Timberwolves for three years and has developed the habit of advancing quickly, the Timberwolves' offensive rhythm has always been fast, and fast pushing can sometimes bring the opponent into the rhythm of the Timberwolves, so as to win easily.

But the Bulls are clearly not such a team, under Rose's control, the Bulls have become the slowest offensive team in the league, but he is such a fast and explosive player.

So against the Bulls, the Timberwolves rarely had a chance to break fast, and the offense of the two teams slowed down. The extremely slow round offense caused the difference between the two teams to be small, and even if Zheng Ke was about to explode, the Bulls always spent almost twenty seconds or so, how to keep him in hot form.

It wasn't until the main team came on the court and played the second quarter of the game that the two teams scored a total of 79 points, including 40 points for the Timberwolves and 39 points for the Bulls.

There are few such low-scoring games in the target center, and people are used to the attack like the forest beacon fire, but people feel a little unaccustomed and a little bored at the same time.

Boredom is used to describe this great game, which shows how accurate the iron rule of defensive teams not winning at the box office is.

The suspense of the game moved to the second half, and both teams had the idea of a life-and-death battle in the third quarter.

It was the Bulls who broke out first, Rose made a single block after a series of pick-and-rolls, hit two long-range two-pointers, and then broke through to Korver, who was 45 degrees from the three-point line, and Korver scored three points.

A wave of 7-0 small ** gave the Bulls an instant 46-40 lead to a 6-point difference.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Thibodeau quickly asked for a timeout. There are many pauses like the NBA, so there are only 48 minutes of game time, plus various pauses, advertising time, and rest time, it can be expanded to an average of two and a half hours of game time, and fans don't think it's too long, so they can endure more pauses and advertisements in order to watch the game.

The Timberwolves were only shot first by the Bulls and lost the opportunity, Zheng Ke came back from a pause and relied on the blocking and dismantling of Lefou's wide body, walked the bottom line, and returned the color with a drifting stop-and-back jumper, which attracted the applause of the bench players and the audience.