At the beginning of the third quarter, Wu Dao, who returned to the court, scored against the defensive shooting of two people, and he obviously sat on the sidelines for a whole quarter, and his hand feeling was not affected at all.

Just one goal made the Bulls' coach explain that he was not wrong about the importance he attached to that young man. None of the targeted adjustments he made during the break fell short.

Looking at the martial arts that began to quickly return to defense in the court, the Zen master's face couldn't help but show a smile, and he reached out and gently stroked the small stubble on his chin, with a little expectation in his eyes:

"Young people, really feel the intensity of the playoffs."

"Don't thank me."

"Hmph."

A chuckle came out of the Zen master's mouth.

And in the middle of the court, the Bulls also completed a round of offense at this time.

Jordan successfully received the ball outside the three-point line under the defense of Wu Dao, and as soon as Jordan got the ball, Wu Dao quickly took a step back, half a meter away from Jordan, and established a defensive line in one step inside the three-point line.

His defense, to Jordan, seemed like saying "You shoot!" You can't make it anyway! ”

In the face of this naked ridicule, Jordan is of course impossible to be convinced, he is a "god", whether it is offensive or defensive, there is no "god" with any shortcomings.

Such a thought flashed through his mind, and Michael Jordan quickly lifted the ball after a brief adjustment.

After the basketball was raised, Jordan's afterglow also quickly glanced at Wu Dao, and found that the young man really continued to stand inside the three-point line, with no intention of coming out to pounce.

And Jordan, who held the basketball high, also quickly collected the ball, and saw that Wu Dao was unmoved, so Jordan immediately lifted the ball again and shot directly with a three-point shot.

After seeing Jordan's obvious shooting tendency, Wu Dao slowly raised his arm, symbolically interfered, and then rushed to the inside, ready to grab the rebound.

"Bell~"

Sure enough, with a soft sound, the basketball collapsed directly out of the basket, and Ben Wallace under the basket was not as tall as the opponent, but his strength and card position experience could indeed break his wrist with the Bulls' substitute inside, and he noticed that Wu Dao returned to the basket to protect the frame, Ben Wallace also quickly changed his strategy, focusing on the card position, and there was no intention of jumping up and grabbing the ball at all.

Coincidentally, the rebounding ball also fell in the direction of Martial Arts, and with the help of Wallace's desperate card position, Martial Arts easily took the ball into his arms and glanced at Wallace with a smile on his face, and Martial Arts also sensed Wallace's intentions.

This dude.

You're actually planning to help yourself brush up on rebounding stats?!

Just now this rebound, Wallace himself was the most likely to win this rebound after he flew the opponent, but he gave up?!

Wu Dao secretly remembered Wallace's operation, and after taking a few quick steps with the ball, he saw that the players on the Bulls' side were returning to defense quickly, and he also had no idea of fast attack, and he gave it to Chris Kyle, and then ran slowly towards the front court.

As the Timberwolves' players approached, Jordan, who was defending Mitchell, couldn't help but look sideways at the pair of Wu Dao and Cooke.

And this time, Wudo did not use his strength to forcibly create space for himself to receive the ball, such a style of play, too much effort, although Wudo does not have physical problems, but in the professional arena, there are so many games to play, when you can save strength, you must save strength.

In the face of Kukchi's defense, Takedo quickly moved to the right front, and after the opponent chased him, Takedo turned and ran back on the spot, quickly running behind Chris Kyle at the top of the arc.

Kukchi's defensive moves were a beat slower, and he was pulled out by Budo for almost a meter.

In the blink of an eye, Martial Arts had already come behind Chris Kyle, and at the same time, Chris Kyle also sent the ball into Martial Arts with his hands behind his back, and at the same time raised his hands backwards and reflexively jammed Ron Harper, who was opposite him.

At the same time, Kukchi also quickly pursued Wudao, and at the top of the arc, Wudao, who was nearly a meter away from the three-point line, raised the ball with both hands, and actually put on a posture of trying to project.

The chasing Kukchi didn't think about it when he saw this scene, and pounced directly towards Wudao, Wudao is different from Jordan, in fact, in the first quarter, Wudao has already proved his long-range shooting ability with ultra-long three-pointers.

That whistle-kick, even now, is still fresh in Cooke's memory.

Cooke flew to the defense, Ron Harper was stuck behind Chris at the first time, and it was indeed a good shooting opportunity for Martial Arts.

But at the same time, it's also a good chance to make a breakthrough!

The basketball in the hand of the martial arts who held the ball fell rapidly, and after a low dribble, in just one step, the figure of the martial arts quickly stepped over the two of Kukchi and Ron Harper, and went straight towards the bull's basket.

Wu Dao's rush speed was too fast, and it was too sudden, with his explosive power, from the start to the acceleration of the completion, it only took two steps, and in the blink of an eye, Wu Dao had already held the ball and approached the free throw line.

Then, under the watchful eyes of the Bulls' interior lineman Bill Winnington and Joe Klein, Wu Dao, who quickly cut in, stepped on the free throw line and soared directly into the air.

“！！！”

In the face of the martial arts that attacked the basket quickly, Bill Winnington and Joe Klein both chose to block at the first time, and their movements were almost synchronous, quickly taking a step forward and raising their hands to block.

The martial arts body gliding towards the basket soon hit the bodies of Bill Winnington and Joe Klein, and under the violent body collision, the martial arts momentum in mid-air was stunned, and the basketball that was originally held high was also quickly pulled down, and then sent from Bill Winnington's armpit to the rebound.

At the same time, Bill Winnington and Joe Klein noticed that Wudao pulled the lever to make a layup, and seeing that it seemed that they couldn't block Wudao, they simply didn't do anything, and planned to pull Wudao down directly.

Bill Winnington slapped Takemichi on the shoulder, while Joe Klein slapped Takemichi's arm on the other side.

The huge force hit the body of the martial arts, making the martial arts in mid-air inevitably a little unbalanced, after landing, the martial arts took the initiative to fall to the ground after a stumble, in order to relieve the pressure on the ankles, when falling to the ground, the body of the martial arts even slid backwards for more than a meter.

And just when Wu Dao fell to the ground, the soft sound of the basketball wiping the board into the net, and the referee's sharp whistle sounded in unison.

After the referee made an effective downward gesture for the goal, he also quickly pointed to Bill Winnington and awarded the opponent a defensive foul.

When the referee made the decision, there was enthusiastic applause and cheers in the stands. In a corner of the front row of the stands, a black-haired young man in a black casual sweater clapped his hands happily after seeing this scene, and shouted the name of "martial arts" in his mouth, but his voice was too inconspicuous in this stadium full of tens of thousands of people.

“ohhh——”

"It's really too strong!"

"Mitsui, that martial artist is actually your high school classmate?! It's unbelievable! ”

"This guy is really too strong!"

Next to the black-haired young man, there was a black man with a height of about 190cm, seeing the martial arts on the court walking to the free throw line, the black guy grabbed the arms of the young man next to him with some excitement and roared excitedly.

"Calm down, Jason, you're going to stun me."

The young man's name is Mitsui Shou, and his partner, Jason Terry (188cm/82kg, 1999 first-round pick No. 10), was born in Seattle, and both of them are members of the University of Arizona basketball team, although they are only substitutes, but both are indispensable and important rotations at the University of Arizona.

Jason Terry, who is now a junior, is averaging 20 minutes per game.

And Mitsui Shou, a sophomore, also averaged nearly 20 minutes per game.

If Martial Arts sees Mitsui Shou today, I'm afraid he may not recognize it at first sight.

Today's Mitsui Shou's height has been fixed at 193cm, and his weight has also come to 91kg, compared to high school, Mitsui Shou is a lot stronger.

Although he was wearing a loose sweater, he could still see the traces of his exercise from Mitsui Shou's tough facial lines.

Unlike the growth trajectory of martial arts, Mitsui Shou came to the United States early, but he didn't play in his year of high school. His weak body has no advantage at all in such a place, and Mitsui Shouna's proud projection skills, because of the difference in the intensity of the game, on the field, the hit rate is really invisible.

However, Mitsui Shou is not the kind of man who will give up easily, and the conditions in his family are really good enough, after entering some training camps run by former NBA celebrities through certain channels, Mitsui Shou has entered a period of rapid growth.

At the same time, his family was also involved in Mitsui Shou's activities, and finally after donating a laboratory to the University of Arizona, Mitsui Shou finally became a college student.

Mitsui's family did this, not out of support for Mitsui Shou to play ball and spend a lot of money to send Mitsui Shou to the University of Arizona.

In fact, the University of Arizona is one of the Ivy League schools in the United States, and it has a considerable degree of gold content. The school's diplomas and alumni resources are exactly what Mitsui's father, Tomoaki Mitsui, valued.

Mitsui Shou University majored in nursing, this school can be ranked in the top ten in the United States, Mitsui Shou himself also has his own plans, if his talent does not make him a real professional player, then use other ways to let him continue to stay in the basketball career he loves.

Fortunately, Mitsui Shou's body is able to hang meat, and has strong coordination and stability, after the body becomes stronger, Mitsui Shou is also gradually adapted to the intensity of the NCAA game, and the three-point shot has a considerable degree of stability.

Now it has become one of the team's indispensable sub-lineup scoring points, and there are also scouts who have cast their eyes on Mitsui, who is expected to have the strength of a second-round pick when he graduates from his senior year and can appear on the professional field as a fixed-point pitcher.

The University of Arizona itself has a heavy academic workload, and Mitsui Shou is a member of the basketball team, so this time he came out and asked for leave from the school and the team to make the trip, in fact, to be able to see with his own eyes the martial arts that are now famous in the league.

Under the watchful eyes of Mitsui Shou and Jason Terry, Takedo on the free throw line casually threw the ball, and the basketball crossed an arc in the air, and then fell into the net with a soft sound.

Bill Winnington and Joe Klein's foul moves did not affect the feel of martial arts. And as the basketball entered the net, cheers erupted from the stands.

Mitsui Shou and Jason Terry in the stands were also infected by the warm atmosphere of Minnesota's home stadium and shouted loudly.

Jason Terry is actually not a Timberwolves fan, he is actually a Bulls fan, but for the sake of Mitsui Shou inviting him to watch the game, he has temporarily become a Timberwolves fan

"That's strong! Martial arts."

"It's you!"

"But I'm not going to just throw in the towel, and one day, I'll be able to stand in a stadium like this and cheer the crowd on!"

Mitsui Shou's eyes were fixed on the martial arts who quickly returned to the defense in the court, not only did he not feel jealous or frustrated, but he was stimulated with fighting spirit and fighting spirit in his heart.

The outstanding performance of martial arts in the arena encouraged Mitsui Shou.

In the middle of the court, the Bulls attacked, and this time, Michael Jordan still chose to try three-pointers under the defense of Wu Dao.

A superstar of Jordan's genre is sometimes a little paranoid.

Wherever you fall, you get up, this is also the "law" that Jordan has always adhered to.

And this time, Wu Dao's defense was obviously not as perfunctory as before, and at the moment when Jordan's basketball was about to shoot, Wu Dao jumped up directly and sealed the basketball in Jordan's hand.

Jordan, who just noticed the martial arts movement, sped up his shot, and at the same time adjusted the arc of the basketball ball, and the basketball narrowly crossed the fingertips of the martial arts and flew to the basket.

Then, under the gaze of everyone, it fell steadily into the net, making a crisp sound.

"Humph!"

After the goal, Jordan let out a soft snort and a smile appeared on his face. Standing in front of Martial Arts, he couldn't help but spread his hands and put on an expression of "I'm really sorry".

Jordan's three-point shot was like a response to the 2+1 that Wu Dao had just played, and the cheers of the fans in the stands were also pressed down by Jordan's goal.

However, the Timberwolves also quickly launched a counterattack.

Ben Wallace raised the position to cover Budo without the ball, and with Ben Wallace's blocking, Budo did not move towards the inside line, but ran directly to the bottom right corner.

And this time, Chris's side had insight into Wu Dao's running intentions in advance, and the person arrived at the ball.

And Joe Klein on the inside didn't have time to make up for the defense at all, so he could only watch Wu Dao, who received the ball outside the three-point line in the bottom corner, directly shoot at a 0-degree angle with a three-point shot.

Under the gaze of everyone, the basketball fell steadily into the basket.

The clean response ball also made the stadium burst into enthusiastic cheers again.

"This kid"

Jordan looked at Wu Dao, who confidently returned to defense after the ball, and also felt very tricky, looking at Wu Dao's back, greeted Cooke, and said:

"You're here to defend him."

"I'm going to guard against that kid!"

As he spoke, Jordan pointed with his thumb at Sam Mitchell, who had not run a few steps, and his expression became serious.

(End of chapter)