4：2。

Tom's goal helped the Timberwolves stop the bleeding and opened up the Timberwolves' offense.

Not long after the Timberwolves completed the counterattack, the Spurs quickly organized the offense, still starting with David Robinson's high blocking, through the blocking, Avery Johnson also quickly accelerated to break through, and after attracting Marbury's pursuit, he quickly hoisted the ball back to Robinson near the three-point line.

The latter took the ball, took a big step forward, and immediately stopped, and his body paused for a moment before throwing the basketball.

"Bell~~~" With a soft sound, the basketball collapsed directly out of the basket and fell outside.

Garnett under the basket stretched out his arms, stuck in Duncan's position, and was about to jump to grab the rebound, but when he suddenly felt a light behind him, and he stumbled and couldn't jump to grab the rebound at the first time. At the same time, Duncan's figure quickly flashed out of Garnett's side, rising from the ground and grabbing the basketball with one hand and pressing towards the basket.

"Bang !!"

At this moment, a figure quickly entered the paint area from the direction of the bottom line, and the martial arts defense returned to the basket, jumped up directly, and pressed one hand on the basket.

The huge force wrapped in the inertia generated by the impact of the martial arts, and directly pressed the basketball down. Duncan, who landed quickly, was a little unstable under the influence of the great power of martial arts, and fell backwards, Garnett, who had just stood firmly, subconsciously stretched out his hand to support Duncan, Duncan took Garnett, and the two "kicked and kicked" back a few steps before barely standing firmly.

“ohhhhhhh！！！”

In the stands, the Minnesota audience who saw this scene erupted in enthusiastic cheers, and the shouts broke through the roof of the target center arena, and the atmosphere suddenly became enthusiastic.

Wu Dao hooked the ball with one hand, looked past Duncan, who was slowly getting up, and said to Garnett:

"If you play like that on the defensive end, I don't think you should think about taking on the offensive load."

"Doing a good job of the foundation of one's life is the most important thing for a No. 4 position, right? Kevin! ”

After saying that, Wu Dao ignored Garnett and threw the ball to Marbury, who rushed up to catch the ball quickly, and then ran quickly along the sideline towards the frontcourt.

The Spurs' return defense was very fast, and the Timberwolves did not have a chance to play a fast attack counterattack.

Therefore, Duncan's running speed back to the defense was not too fast, and his figure couldn't help but look at the martial arts a few more times when he crossed the martial arts.

Garnett's foul mouth is also well-known in the league's inner coils. Although Duncan is a rookie who just entered the league this year, before the game against the Timberwolves, their coach Popovich also specifically told him not to be affected by Garnett's trash talk.

A stinky NBA third-year "veteran" must definitely not have a good temper in the locker room.

But this is such a person, who will actually be taught a lesson by Martial Arts, a first-year high school rookie, this rookie, is really crazy.

Thinking of this, Duncan couldn't help but glance back at Garnett, who was running quickly towards the Spurs half, although Garnett's mouth was muttering something, but when he passed by Wudao, he didn't say anything to Wudao, which made Duncan a little surprised.

A veteran with a bad temper and a bad mouth will be "taught" by the rookie and still not talk back, this kind of thing is somewhat beyond Duncan's imagination.

He Duncan is also a high-profile rookie, with a very high tactical position and team status in the Spurs, as if he is Robinson's successor and the cornerstone of the team in the post-Robinson era.

But this is the kind of Duncan, and when he is on the team, he will not use the tone that Martial Arts just did to talk to the veterans.

The scene where Wu Dao reprimanded Garnett on the court just now also left a deep impression on Duncan, and the Timberwolves' first-year year may be much more difficult to deal with than he imagined.

"Pass!"

Duncan quickly settled into the defense, and Garnett, who quickly crossed the martial arts, also quickly fell towards the low post, on the right side of the sideline of the paint area, nearly two meters in front of the bottom line, Garnett stuck Duncan with his back, raised his arms flat, and shouted for the ball.

Avery Johnson, the No. 1 position of the Spurs, also heard the shouts of Garnett on the inside, but he was not moved at all, nor did he make any defensive adjustments, still staring at Marbury in front of him calmly, not allowing the opponent to have a chance to break through easily.

Avery Johnson simply wasn't going to defend Marbury's hanging pass to the inside.

Jokes aside, what the Spurs are most proud of this season is the interior twin towers of Robinson and Duncan. Thanks to this twin-tower pairing, the Spurs started the season with a 5-1 record and lost the game against the Chicago Bulls.

The Spurs' Robinson and Duncan both have the height, weight, athleticism, and sheer talent on the defensive end, and both are the kind of roles that can be played from the inside out, and Avery Johnson doesn't think Garnett has the ability to impact the baskets that these two men are guarding.

Marbury's gaze only glanced at Garnett on the inside, and then at Tom on the side.

Seeing this scene, Avery Johnson quickly made a position adjustment, in his opinion, the Timberwolves don't care about passing the ball inside, but if they want to give the ball to Tom, they can't.

However, as soon as Avery Johnson's body moved, Marbury's wrist shook in reverse, and the basketball flew directly to the right, and was successfully held by Wu Dao.

Marbury's original intention was to let Takedo tear up the defense with singles, but unexpectedly, Takemichi, who got the ball, grabbed the ball and hung it directly into the hands of Garnett, who was in the key position on the inside.

"Smack!"

Garnett slapped the basketball hard after taking the ball, his face showed a little excitement, and he hit the ball back, and gave Duncan a "100 million points" confrontation, which faced the "hard" back attack, "fight and retreat" and took half a step back to stabilize his body.

And Garnett's "formulaic" turnaround jump shot after the back hit, but the moment the basketball shot, Duncan directly rose to the ground and slapped the basketball that had just flown out of Garnett's palm.

A volleyball cap, Garnett, who was blocked, couldn't help but exit the F-shape, quickly looked back, and saw that the basketball was about to fly out of the sideline when it was jumped up and intercepted by Wu Dao, and he was also quietly relieved in his heart.

Carry the basket again, adjust your mentality and raise your hand to ask for the ball.

However, this time, Wu Dao didn't pay attention to Garnett's meaning at all, seeing that En's feet were unstable in his pursuit, he directly dropped the ball and accelerated his advance, and in the process of breaking through, his body was only directly on Sean Elliott's body.

And Wu Dao didn't use his dead force, and after the confrontation was given, he pulled back with an emergency stop, and directly pulled out a long shot.

The moment the basketball was shot, Sean Elliott, who was hit by the martial arts, actually fell to the ground almost at the same time, which caused a burst of cheers from the audience in the stands.

"Huh!"

As the sound of basketball sounded, the cheers in the target center arena rose a few points, and the media's cameras focused on Takedo and Sean Elliott, freezing the scene of Takedo overthrowing Sean Elliott.

Sean Elliott, who weighs 93kg, and Martial Dao, who weighs 107kg, is too different.

The difference of nearly 30 pounds, in a game like the NBA, is completely the physical fitness of two gears, and between these two gears, there are several gears.

Faced with a pull-up jump shot after a martial arts confrontation, Sean Elliott was unable to defend himself at all.

Seeing the basketball into the net, Garnett glanced at Wu Dao with some unhappiness, but he didn't say anything and quickly returned to the court to defend.

"In this game, the most noteworthy person for the Timberwolves is not Tom or Kevin, but the rookie!"

"This physical."

"With this kind of ball and this kind of shooting consistency, it's really pretty scary."

"I don't know how the scouts in the draft at that time observed, and such a scouting report can be obtained? What a stupid guy! ”

On the side of the court, Popovich looked at the martial arts who quickly returned to defense, and couldn't help but curse in a low voice with a document in his hand. These days, black-haired Asians are indeed disrespected, and the scouting report issued by a scout with tinted glasses is of course distorted.

Admittedly, give the Spurs another chance to be drafted, and their champion will still be given to Duncan, no way, interior players are so precious these years.

But correspondingly, if Popovich is allowed to see the game of Wudao, he will definitely persuade the team to trade the high-pick signing and bring Wudao to the Spurs and Duncan as a partner.

If their Spurs still have such a super scorer at the small forward position, their Spurs guarantee this year is the Western Conference Finals.

"It's a pity that such a guy is an opponent."

Popovich muttered to himself with some regret and looked at the court.

By this time, their Spurs had completed a counterattack in less than 15 seconds. I don't know if it was influenced by Garnett, Duncan also asked for the ball in the low post, and after getting the basket, he quickly stepped into the basket, and a rebound sent the ball into the basket.

Duncan is more of a traditional interior player than Garnett's offense, and his technical characteristics are not full of bells and whistles, he looks solid and plays resolutely.

Although Garnett's defense was not obviously out of position, he was still unable to stop Duncan's attack.

The score of the two teams was very tight, Marbury chose to attack himself after entering the front court at home, and after continuous crotch changes, Marbury consciously found the opponent's defensive flaw and directly forced the inside.

But this is simply Avery Johnson's trap, and his principle of defending Marbury is to shoot and not burst.

Marbury, who quickly entered the paint area, was directly covered by David Robinson, who was covering the defense, and in the face of this long man who was covering the sky, Marbury jumped directly sideways after the ball was closed, and passed the ball to Tom who followed up on the left.

Tom held the ball unsteadily, paused and adjusted before exploding the ball and taking a step towards the paint, then quickly turned around and made a jumper.

Tom didn't dare to force the basket, and the Spurs' interior twin towers put a lot of pressure on him.

"Bell~~"

Tom's difficult shooting is a bit inaccurate, or rather, his shooting percentage has been like this for the past two seasons, and his shooting percentage has basically remained around 45%.

In this era of defensive intensity, Tom's shooting percentage at this level is already quite good.

But how good are you going to say about Tom's stats? That's not necessarily, Tom's shots are not the same as Corvo and Iverson, who have a lot of unreasonable shots, and a lot of shots under the bag.

Tom plays very reasonably, and the shot selection tends to be very team.

As the basketball collapsed into the basket, Duncan, who was in a good position, grabbed the rebound.

Then the Spurs also quickly launched a counterattack.

The Spurs' offense is a bit formulaic in the eyes of the martial arts, but this formulaic offense is very useful in the face of the Timberwolves.

It's still David Robinson's high pick-and-roll.

This kind of team with a high mobility interior line likes to play 1 (a short term for high cover tactics).

This time, Cherokee Parks chose to follow up, but what he didn't expect was that Robinson gave a fake cover, and he quickly ran back to the inside after noticing Cherokee Parks coming out, and Avery Johnson sent a second pass.

David Robinson caught the ball under the basket and dunked to help his team score two points with ease.

Wu Dao still wanted to make up for Robinson, but he didn't think that the other party would not give you a chance to be in the bag at all.

Under the Spurs' strong offense, the Timberwolves quickly ran towards the front court amid the cheers of the home fans.

Garnett still asked for the ball in a low position, and this time, Marbury did not hesitate at all and gave the ball directly to Garnett on the inside.

And this time, Garnett also seized the opportunity very well, and after blowing up the ball back to a physical confrontation, he chose to shoot with a half-sideways small hook hand, and the basketball side wiped the board and fell into the net.

"Hey, rookie!"

"How do you act like a robot?"

"Move! Would you like to move? ”

Garnett, who scored the goal, was very excited and whispered in Duncan's ear. However, Duncan didn't care about this at all, ignored Garnett, and walked to serve outside the baseline on his own.

The Spurs' counterattack task in this round was handed over to Duncan on the inside.

The latter also took the ball in the low post, and was about to prepare for a single, when he saw Wu Dao, who was originally standing one step inside the three-point line on the same side, took a big step back in the direction of the basket.

Although he was carrying a basket on his back, Martial Arts' movements put Duncan under considerable pressure.

The volleyball hat that Wu Dao gave him before somewhat affected Duncan's mentality when attacking.

"Smack!"

Duncan blew up the ball, hearing the sound of the ball falling, Takeshi quickly turned around, looked at Duncan, and saw Takemi's movements, Duncan immediately closed the ball and passed the ball to Sean Elliott.

The big vacancy, defending Sean Elliott's martial arts, is close to him, a meter and a half away.

As Sean Elliott lifted the ball quickly, Takeshi also slid forward and quickly followed up. Seeing that the martial arts came up so quickly, Sean Elio chose to drop the ball and break through after a while.

But after only two steps, he was directly forced to stop by the martial arts.

Sean Elliott was also ruthless in his heart, jumping against the defense of Wu Dao, grabbing the ball with one hand and forcing a shot.

However, Sean Elliott's confrontation did not affect Takemi's defensive posture at all, and at the moment when the opponent's basketball shot, Takedo also jumped high and fanned the ball away.

Marbury, who was in the frontcourt, quickly received the basketball and scored a layup.

Another successful defense, Popovich on the sidelines saw this scene, couldn't help but stand up, and shouted at the players on the field:

"Look at people! Pass the ball! ”

"What's the fight?!"

"Give the inside, give the ball to the inside!"

The unreasonable shots of the players made the "team basketball" coach extremely angry. He doesn't mind players making mistakes, but he minds players playing as he tells and also making mistakes.

Popovich didn't tolerate Sean Elliott's mistake and let Chuck Person (203cm/100kg/34) on the bench do a warm-up after yelling.

(End of chapter)