The game between the Timberwolves and the Rockets gradually became intense, and the offense on the Timberwolves' side basically revolved around Takedo and Garnett.

In Barkley's eyes, a young player like Garnett will inevitably be blown up in front of Olajuwon, but in fact, the result is also a surprise to Barkley, although Garnett does not have too many attacks with the ball, but generally speaking, he plays in a very orderly manner against Olajuwon.

In today's game, Garnett's biggest desire is only one, and that is to "defeat the celebrity". But luckily, Garnett wasn't carried away by his thoughts, and he handled basketball fairly calmly when he was on the court.

And after sensing Olajuwon's strength, Garnett's mid-low post offense is also biased towards projection. Or it is to cooperate with the martial arts to block and dismantle, Olajuwon's movement speed is not slow, but the strong personal ability of the martial arts will inevitably attract Olajuwon's attention.

Sometimes Garnett can also get the opportunity to "misplace" Barkley, relying on the basket to rush, it is not easy to break through Barkley with Garnett's ability, but in the case of a good opportunity, Garnett can also do it if he just shoots in front of Barkley.

Under the leadership of Wu Dao and Garnett, the overall offensive rhythm of the Timberwolves is quite smooth.

On the defensive end, the Timberwolves also played out the characteristics of their team's youth as much as possible, with high-intensity man-to-man close defense and effective defensive rotation of players, and the Rockets' outside offense was more stumbling.

Barkley is more difficult to match with Martial Arts, and it is not easy to attack Martial Arts' defense alone, even if his teammates often come up to help him hang up and dismantle, but Martial Arts still interferes with Barkley with terrifying athleticism.

Barkley's hit rate was not too high under the encirclement and interception of Wudao, and he was actually very uncomfortable.

And if Barkley sits on the inside, Garnett's defense is tough enough to cause him some trouble.

It's just that Barkley's individual ability is there, and his interior offense can often fool the Timberwolves to foul the defenders.

On Olajuwon's side, he played very smoothly on the inside.

Although Tom sometimes chooses to give up the opposing player to pinch Olajuwon, the experienced Olajuwon is also very smooth with the ball, and the package is to give the Rockets an open scoring opportunity.

But once Tom doesn't wrap Olajuwon on the bag, Olajuwon will be able to beat Timberwolves' Stanley Roberts.

Ross Barkley's offensive efficiency is so-so, but Olajuwon's offensive efficiency is very explosive.

Under the advantages of the other, the first quarter of the game between the Rockets and the Timberwolves was also inseparable.

At 29:27, the Timberwolves only had a two-point lead, and there was no so-called "lead" in such a game period.

Wu Dao shared a lot of balls today, and "only" scored 11 points after a single quarter.

Garnett, although the offensive efficiency is relatively stretched, but in front of Olajuwon, he also scored some points, and scored 7 points in a single quarter.

The rest of the Timberwolves' scoring was also taken by Marbury and Tom.

As for Roberts, he didn't have any offensive performance opportunities on the inside, and occasionally got a chance to make a shot, and when he dunked, he was covered by Olajuwon, who came back to chase after him.

On the other hand, on the Rockets' side, Olajuwon scored 11 points on 4-of-5 in a single quarter and 4-3 on free throws, although Barkley's personal score was also 10 points, but his shots were a few more than Olajuwon, and the overall offensive efficiency was not as good as Olajuwon.

As for the rest of the Rockets, their performance on the offensive end is relatively average.

The Timberwolves team, if there are any "super huge" holes in defense, I'm afraid there is only Marbury alone.

But the Rockets are not the kind of team with super guards, and the threat to the Timberwolves is acceptable to everyone.

"Those little guys are really hard to deal with!"

"They all played well."

During the break, Barkley took the towel from the hands of the bench players, wiped the sweat from his head and face, and said some praise to the Timberwolves players.

It's not like this to be subdued by the Timberwolves players, he just acknowledges the strength of the Timberwolves' group of young people.

Especially the martial arts opposite him, Barkley can see from the performance of the martial arts on the field. In such a fierce game, the opponent is still playing with ease, and the confidence exuded by his body when holding the ball makes him feel very familiar.

The other party was able to score so many points "casually", and there was no doubt about his personal ability, and Barkley couldn't help but feel that he was playing against Jordan at his peak.

"You're sweating a little wrong, do you need a break?"

Just after wiping a round of sweat, there were fine beads of sweat oozing from Barkley's head and face.

Rockets head coach Rudy Tomjanovic keenly noticed Barkley's anomaly when he was holding the strategy board to design defensive tactics for the players, raised his head, stared at Barkley and asked.

"I'm excited right now, I'm not tired at all, it's okay."

"The score is so tight, if I go down first, it's not good to be seized."

Barkley shook his head, took a few heavy breaths, and spoke.

When Rudy Tomjanovich heard this, he also looked at Barkley's dark face carefully and nodded slightly.

"Pay attention to the distribution of physical strength."

"You don't have to fight with young people, you have your own strengths to use."

"Pay attention to the distribution of physical energy, this ball is a tough battle, don't take it lightly."

After a few words, Tang Shuai continued to arrange his defensive tactics.

He can see that on the offensive end, the aspects that the Rockets can optimize are actually not too big, and his players are all veterans of many battles, and they are not decisive balls, and a specific tactic is needed for a specific player to successfully receive the ball and attack in a specific place.

Most of the time, the tactics of the game on the field need to be adjusted from time to time, which is the task of the defenders.

Whether or not a team can bring out all the weapons is one of the criteria to measure whether a defender is excellent.

Tang Shuai's tactical design is also aimed at martial arts, he instructed the players to strengthen the defensive intensity and intensity of martial arts, let go of the outside players, and force martial arts to pass the ball back to other players.

In Tang Shuai's view, the opportunity to win lies in the other players of the Timberwolves.

In the second quarter, Philip emphasized letting Wudao run more, disrupting the opponent's outside defense, and also allowing Wudao to have more large-scale half-court transfers.

In the same round, Takedo can even choose to run multiple times between the bottom corners of the two sides to get rid of the defense at once, while also strengthening the power of the "leash".

Philip's plan was to let Martial Arts "walk" Barkley, relying on his young body to weaken Barkley to death.

At the same time, Philip also let Marbury attack more independently and bring out his personal impact.

The second quarter of the game between the Timberwolves and Rockets began again after both teams made some adjustments.

The Timberwolves had the ball, Marbury really listened to Coach Phillip very much, and as soon as the second quarter came up, Marbury relied on an excellent forward change of direction in front of the opposing player and broke through the Rockets' defense.

The two Rockets interior lines wrestling with the Timberwolves players on the inside couldn't react, and they didn't have time to make up for the defense when they saw Marbury's emergency stop jump shot directly.

"Bell~~"

As soon as he came up, Marbury's hand felt a little cold, and the rebound was picked up by the Rockets, and then the Rockets began to organize the offense.

Compared with the adjustment on the defensive end, the Rockets' offense still revolves around Olajuwon.

And this time, the outside players of the Rockets covered each other, and Da Meng was also a shooting feint after receiving the basketball, and he still broke through after failing to pick up the opponent, and it happened that Barkley cut in time at this time.

After Olajuwon handed the ball out of the middle of the game, he saw Barkley go straight to the basket after getting the basketball and score with a dunk.

The Rockets' offense was unusually terrifying when it unfolded around Olajuwon, and Garnett's assistance defense did not work well for the Flying Pigs, who had already rushed up.

And Roberts, who is a consumable, has already carried three fouls, if it weren't for the Timberwolves who still have the ability to be a decent center Cherokee Parks on the bench, then the Timberwolves' defensive intensity on the inside is now a notch lower.

At that point, the Timberwolves will be even more passive.

Wu Dao did not have any explosive performance in the second quarter, he took Barkley more often to "go shopping", and only occasionally when the team's offense could not work, the basketball would come to Wu Dao's hands, and Wu Dao would perform the task of attacking the ball.

When this kind of ball is given to Martial Dao, the offensive time is often only about ten seconds, and sometimes even less than ten seconds, and Martial Arts needs to complete the shot and score in a relatively short time, which is not an easy thing to do.

And the rockets often have a notch of defensive strength against Wu Dao at such critical moments, even for players like Wu Dao, under this kind of high-pressure defense, the shooting rate will be greatly affected.

Barkley has done a great job on the defensive end, relying on his great physicality, and he has the greatest impact on Budo's shots.

Midway through the second quarter, Roberts picked up his fourth foul and was replaced by Cherokee Parkes, who was replaced by Philip for less than a few minutes after that.

As soon as Wu Dao got off the court, the Rockets also hurriedly replaced Barkley and Olajuwon and replaced them with substitutes.

And after the substitution adjustment, the offensive firepower of the rocket did not decrease.

Eddie Johnson (201cm/98kg, 39 years old), who came off the bench for the Rockets, didn't know what kind of chicken blood he played, and frequently scored on the head of the Timberwolves, relying on his half-familiar three-point shot and sharp penetration, he actually easily leveraged Mitchell's defense.

On the Timberwolves' side, although Mitchell was blown up by the opponent on the defensive end, he also found some court on the offensive end.

In the first half of the bench, the feeling was actually quite hot, and Marbury also sensed this and fed Mitchell a few balls.

For a while, the game between the Timberwolves and the Rockets in the second quarter was inseparable.

At 27:26, the Timberwolves still had a small advantage, and at the end of the second quarter, they only led the opponent by three points.

During the break, Philip successively changed to the bench lineup, and the Rockets also began to rotate.

In the first few minutes of the third quarter, the Timberwolves' bench players were once pressed to the ground by experienced Rockets players.

It was only when about four minutes into the game time that Takedo was returned to the court.

As soon as Wu Dao entered, the Timberwolves' bench suddenly had a backbone, and in just over 2 minutes, Wu Dao staged a shocking dunk, not to mention, he also pulled out three three-pointers in a row, and also hit two of them.

Although the rocket succeeded in stopping the counterattack, it failed a little more often.

After Takeshi came on the court, the difference between the two teams was directly expanded to 8 points.

The Rockets realized that something was wrong, and quickly called a timeout, and at the same time switched all the starters back to the court.

And with Olajuwon and Barkley back on the court, the Rockets successfully stabilized their position, and under the leadership of the two of them, the Rockets began to launch a fierce counterattack after stabilizing the score.

Philip also interrupted the Rockets' comeback momentum with a timeout, and also made substitution adjustments, sending the main players to the court.

In addition to the four players of Wu Dao, Garnett, Marbury and Tom, Cherokee Parkes is also in the sequence of main players.

After the third quarter, the single-quarter score of the two teams also came to 26:23, and the Timberwolves had a slight advantage.

With a six-point difference, the Timberwolves have accumulated a slow advantage, but in the eyes of fans, it is quite stable.

Throughout the game, the Timberwolves played down, and there were no obvious weaknesses.

Anyone with a discerning eye can see that the hard power of the Timberwolves is indeed not inferior to the Rockets, and the players are younger than the Rockets, and the players are in better shape.

Fans and the media all know that if no player on the Rockets' side can break out and stand up, there will be no suspense in this game.

But in fact, today's game, both Olajuwon and Ross Barkley played quite well.

At their age, they still play 100% of their strength.

But this is still not enough, playing 100% of the strength is not enough to support the Rockets to win.

The two of them have to be like when they were young, and they must burst out with a powerful force beyond themselves in order to drag the aging Rocket to win.

Houston fans are also looking forward to the arrival of their Rocket's savior.

But alas, the savior of the rocket they were not able to wait.

The Timberwolves' death, but it made them wait.

"!!Shh

Not long after the start of the fourth quarter, a crisp sound rang in the ears of the audience.

After the Rockets' offensive loss, the Timberwolves launched a counterattack.

Wu Dao received the ball at the elbow area outside the three-point line, and after a simple body change of direction and rush, he immediately stuck to the sideline of the three-point line, and shot a dry pull-out jumper, and the basketball went into the net.