Duncan.

From the beginning of his entry into the league, he has been a high-profile player, and even at the beginning of his entry into the league, he has caused many NBA teams to swing. Throughout the history of the NBA, there are very few that can cause such an "earthquake".

And unlike other NBA rookies, Duncan is an unusually "mature" rookie, and in his first season in the league, he averaged 21 points and 12 boards per game.

Duncan's opponents of this level even surpass a considerable number of "celebrities" in the NBA today.

Starting with the basketball, Wu Dao looked at Duncan in front of him, and a smile suddenly appeared on his face. After a quick crotch dribble, Takeshi grabbed the ball with one hand and threw it directly away from Duncan's side.

The basketball was so fast that Duncan only felt a red shadow pass in front of his eyes, and when he turned around, the basketball had already fallen into the hands of Garnett, who had fallen low.

"Smack!"

With a soft sound, Garnett faced the Spurs' Chuck Parson directly hit the back of the ball, and after a strong impact, he directly stepped into the basket, and then grabbed the ball directly with his left hand and pushed it out to the basket.

Garnett's movements were fluid and fast, and Chuck Parson only raised his hand symbolically, only to watch the basketball go into the net.

Cheers rang out from the stands, and the spectators were very excited to see the scoreboard jumping.

Seeing Garnett excitedly spewing trash talk at Chuck Parson, Takemichi smiled unabated, glanced at Duncan, and began to quickly turn around to defend.

"Hmm"

"This newcomer."

On the side of the court, seeing Wu Dao's handling of this ball, Spurs' head coach Popovich also murmured in surprise.

Today's game can be said to be a national attention, at least, most fans who watch the NBA will pay attention.

Before the game, the media's gimmick was also quite sufficient, on the one hand, blowing about the "strongest No. 4 position showdown", and on the other hand, what was the "strongest newcomer" showdown.

This kind of name has long attracted a lot of attention.

Regarding this, Popovich also believes that Martial Arts himself is very clear.

Now that the game has reached the most critical period, and Martial Arts is facing a controversial opponent, if it is an ordinary young person, it is impossible to pass it to others after getting the ball at this time.

After all, defeating Duncan to prove that he is the strongest newcomer is such a temptation that ordinary newcomers can't refuse.

But this newcomer to the Timberwolves chose the most reasonable way to play in this situation, which couldn't help but make Popovich feel a little stunned and surprised.

If Takeshi hadn't played according to his script

Then in this game, they Spurs may not have much chance.

Popovich knew very well that Chuck Parson would not be able to stop Garnett.

"Hey, martial arts, the pass is very good."

"Wise choice!"

"Don't worry, after this game, I will definitely support you in front of the media!"

"Although you are afraid to fight against Duncan, your passing choices are not a problem at all!"

When the Timberwolves returned, Garnett said to Martial Arts with a smile on his face as he passed by.

Well.

It sounds like human words, but how does it feel a little harsh when it falls on the ears of Martial Arts?

"I'm just giving you a chance to perform, I don't want you to be completely reduced to a supporting role."

"I'm going to pass Duncan, it's easy!"

Wu Dao narrowed his eyes slightly, pursed his lips, and replied lightly. Hearing this, Garnett's pace slowed down slightly, and he suddenly said with a smile:

"No, you don't have to take care of me like that."

"If you can fight it yourself, you can fight it yourself."

"I still believe in you!"

Garnett felt that Martial Arts was hard to say this, and pulled away the "steps" of Martial Arts with a smile.

"Really?"

"I'll satisfy you."

Wu Dao glanced at Garnett, and then focused on the Spurs who were starting to advance.

The Spurs have made a lot of changes on the defensive end, but they have maintained their style of play on the offensive end.

Chuck Parson was expected more from Popovich, but unfortunately, Takedo has given up on helping to defend the interior players and focused all his attention on Chuck Parson in front of him.

Under the high-pressure defense of Wu Dao, Chuck Parson's side couldn't run out of the open space at all. The Spurs' usual training basically revolves around David Robinson and Duncan, and Popovich did not have a special tactical system for Chuck Parson.

The temporary rough coordination on the court was simply not enough to support Chuck Parson in shaking off his fast-moving martial arts.

Helplessly, the Spurs began to choose to give the ball to the inside.

It was David Robinson who took the ball, who sat down comfortably against the Cherokee Parks defense, approached the basket and quickly turned around to make a jumper.

Cherokee Parks didn't keep up with David Robinson's movements, and only raised his arms to interfere.

I don't know if it was Cherokee Parkes' defense that worked, or David Robinson's own tackled rubbish. In short, David Robinson's near-basket jumper was actually inaccurate, the basketball collapsed from the basket, and the rebound was held by Garnett.

The offense failed, and the Spurs quickly retreated.

The Timberwolves saw that there was an opportunity to continue to pull the difference, and they also suppressed the speed of the rush, and after Marbury got the ball, he began to sort out the team's offense in an orderly manner.

On the sidelines, the crowd waited with bated breath as the Timberwolves launched the attack.

Defending martial arts, it's still Duncan.

Marbury didn't choose to play his own when he saw Takemichi in the last attack, and this ball didn't mean to pass the ball to Takemi.

His thoughts were the same as Garnett's, and he felt that Martial Arts was a little afraid of a head-on confrontation with Duncan, and chose to leave the opportunity to his teammates.

As soon as this thought passed quickly, Marbury gave the ball to Tom on the side, and after the ball was released, he quickly cut to the basket.

However, Avery Johnson followed closely, and the open cut Marbury walked around the interior and then quickly moved down the baseline to the three-point line in the bottom corner.

At the same time, Tom also dropped the ball quickly, and after an acceleration gave the opponent a little physical confrontation, he made a quick stop, shook the opponent's center of gravity and then accelerated to start, killing the paint area.

I have to say that Tom deserves to be an "All-Star Substitute" level player. At the critical moment of the game, the most lethal offensive defense was chosen.

In the face of Tom, who entered the paint area, Robinson also quickly made up the defense.

In the face of Robinson's defense, Tom was not afraid at all, and directly threw the ball against the defense after closing the ball. The basketball went over David Robinson's fingertips, grazed the rebound, and bounced back into the basket.

And as the sound of the basketball entering the net sounded, there were also enthusiastic cheers in the stands.

At 89:82, the Timberwolves re-established their advantage in just a few minutes after they came on the court.

In the next few minutes, the Timberwolves and Spurs exchanged offense and defense.

The Spurs' efficiency in the final quarter was not very high, and Robinson's cold touch showed no signs of warming up until the end of the fourth quarter of the game.

Compared with the Spurs, the Timberwolves played smoothly, with Garnett, Tom, and Marbury scoring after the Spurs made defensive adjustments.

The scores of the Timberwolves and Spurs also came to 96:86.

The difference was 10 points, and there were less than two minutes left until the end of the game.

The Spurs did not give up hope of victory, and in this offensive round, David Robinson forced the inside line and staged a violent dunk directly on the head of Cherokee Parkes, and while scoring smoothly, it was also to seduce Cherokee Parkes to foul and get a free throw opportunity.

And with David Robinson firmly serving into the basket, the difference between the two teams also narrowed to 7 points.

"Almost."

Wu Dao glanced at the scoreboard, glanced at the little time left, and muttered in his heart, and made a decision at the moment.

And as the Timberwolves began to organize offense and enter the frontcourt, Marbury saw that Wu Dao, who had not taken the initiative to ask for the ball for a long time, stretched out his hand to him.

Without too much hesitation, in the face of the martial arts who took the initiative to ask for the ball, Marbury chose to pass.

"Smack!"

As the basketball started, the stands suddenly quieted down when they saw Wu Dao taking the ball. Just now, David Robinson's two-and-one dunk still had some impact on Timberwolves fans.

Fans are desperate to see their teams respond forcefully.

As soon as the basketball was in his hands, Wu Dao didn't have any extra movements at all, he raised his hand and pulled out his hand directly, and in Duncan's stunned expression, the basketball flew directly over his head.

"That's it?"

Duncan couldn't help but mutter, and when he turned around, he couldn't help but rush to the basket, wanting to grab the rebound.

"Bell!"

With a soft sound, the basketball smashed directly into the rim of the basket and popped out, and Wu Dao's three-point shot was inaccurate.

But fortunately, Garnett seemed to have expected it, and under the confrontation with Chuck Parson, he had already grabbed the best rebounding spot.

As the basketball fell, Garnett grabbed the rebound directly under the sandwich of Duncan and Chuck Parson.

Garnett went all the way, Duncan and Chuck Parson firmly surrounded Garnett, raising their arms high to prevent Garnett from being strong.

On the battlefield under the basket, the battle is quite fierce, and everyone who understands basketball in this era understands it.

Even Duncan, "College Student", was quite tough on the defensive end, he and Chuck Parson both squeezed Garnett's space with their chests, and at the same time made quick moves to interfere with Garnett's ball.

"What are you doing with the ball?"

"Pass!"

At this moment, the voice of Martial Arts came to Garnett's ears, and although the latter could not see Martial Arts' position under the attack of the two defenders, Garnett still sent the ball out of the gap and passed it in the direction from which the sound came from.

Duncan saw the basketball flying out of his waist, quickly turned his head to look, and saw that Wu Dao was standing in the bottom corner at this time, stretching out his hand to hold the basketball in his hand.

Without the slightest hesitation, Duncan rushed directly towards the martial arts, and flew directly at the moment when the martial arts raised the ball, about a meter away from the martial arts.

"Smack!"

Duncan soared and tried to block, but Wu Dao suddenly collected the ball at this moment, and the explosive ball took a big step sideways and then directly flashed Duncan who was flying, and then smoothly lifted the ball and threw the basketball out.

It's three points again.

And this time, there were no accidents, and the basketball went straight into the screen with a crisp sound.

“ohhhh——”

Cheers poured into the court, and as the scoreboard jumped, the difference between the two teams returned to 10 points.

"First-grader, can you be more stable?"

"If I hadn't grabbed the rebound, would we have lost points?"

Garnett, who grabbed the offensive rebound, was a little proud, and happily "taught" martial arts when he returned to defense.

"Is my shot shaky?"

"Do you want to hear what you're talking about?"

"I'm giving you a chance to brush the board, don't be ignorant, Kevin!"

Wu Dao's words also made Garnett unable to find an angle to refute for a while. To be honest, if even the projection of martial arts is unstable, Garnett may not be able to find any players with stable projection.

Garnett has a bad mouth, but he also knows the ball.

Of course, it was impossible to shut up Garnett like this.

"You always have an excuse."

"If you have the ability, you can blow up that square face!"

"If you blow him up, I'll obey you!"

Garnett's square face refers to Duncan.

To tell the truth, Duncan really doesn't have a face, and Garnett's words are somewhat personal.

"That's what I'm going to do."

"It's boring if the game goes into garbage time early, it's just right now!"

Wu Dao nodded, answered, and then looked at the Spurs and others who were running towards the Timberwolves halfcourt.

In this round, Duncan actually mentioned the high post to make a block for Chuck Parson, delaying the pursuit of Martial Arts, allowing Chuck Parsons to bypass Martial Arts' pursuit and rush to the opponent holding the ball at the top of the arc.

After receiving the basketball, Chuck Parson also quickly paused after receiving the basketball, and then made a three-point shot from the outside.

This kind of offensive coordination of the Spurs was staged for the first time in this game, and there were some mistakes in the defensive rotation of the three of Wudao, Garnett, and Marbury, which gave Chuck Parson a chance to name Marbury.

Luckily, Chuck Parson's shot didn't go in, and the basketball hit the rim of the basket and fell outside.

Under the basket, David Robinson flew to Cherokee Parks and scored on an easy dunk.

The defense failed, and the Timberwolves did not dwell on this ball, and slowly organized a counterattack.

They have the lead, they have the advantage in the score, and there is no need to speed up their attack.

Although the Spurs tried to wrap the Timberwolves on the court, in the face of Avery Johnson's tight defense, Marbury was able to break through easily.

After quickly entering the frontcourt, Marbury saw Takemichi who wanted the ball again, and after pressing the offensive time, he gave the ball to Takemichi in the last 12 seconds.

As soon as the basketball was started, the martial arts directly swept the ball and tried to take a step, striding horizontally, and quickly retracted his feet and lifted the ball.

Duncan, who knew that martial arts had a strong three-point threat, was also focused on at this moment, raising his hand to block.

But at the moment when Duncan raised his center of gravity, the martial arts quickly started digging and stepping, and his sideways body was directly pressed against Duncan's body, accelerating his advance.

"Bang!"

The power of the martial arts is very strong, so strong that even Duncan is "fighting and retreating", and he was pressed several steps by the martial arts towards the three-point line before gaining a foothold, curbing the speed of the martial arts.

However, at this time, Wudao, who was rushing forward with the ball, suddenly blew up the ball and turned around, Duncan reacted quickly, and a horizontal move directly intercepted, and at the same time, he also predicted the direction in which Wudao was about to drop the ball, and prepared in advance.

But Wu Dao's movements were quite weird, he suddenly jumped lightly halfway through, jumped back and suddenly faced the basket in mid-air, and at the same time, the basketball in his hand was also quickly raised above his head and thrown out.

“？？？”

The strange change of rhythm and the big back-to-back shots made Duncan's defense useless.

"Huh!"

As the basketball flew over Duncan's head and landed steadily into the basket, a soft sound reached Duncan's ears.

On the side of the court, the audience who saw this scene suddenly erupted in amazing cheers after a brief period of shock.