The timeout passed quickly, and Harris didn't give any tactics to the players during the timeout, just replacing Fisher, the starting spot, with an older backup point guard, Joan Barry.

After making substitution adjustments, Harris only had time to emphasize to the players to slow down the pace of attack and defense, and the sound of the buzzer had already sounded, and the timeout was over.

The players from both sides returned to the court, and the game resumed as the Lakers kicked off in the backcourt.

The Lakers still made some adjustments during the timeout, but on the Timberwolves side, Coach Philip did not make any adjustments.

When the Timberwolves returned to the rest area, they were praised by Coach Phillip. The basketball the Timberwolves played in the first half of the second quarter was exactly what he wanted to see.

Tough defense, chasing defensive counterattacks, smooth basketball operation, and the players cooperate with each other tacitly.

This is exactly what Phillip would want the Timberwolves to look like, and with such a team, Philip is confident that he can beat any opponent.

Even if there is a Laker with the big shark O'Neal in charge, he is confident that he can cross it!

In the middle of the court, after the Lakers adjusted after a timeout, the team's offensive rhythm also slowed down. Although the young Kobe Bryant is the kind of character who is not afraid of heaven and earth, his current position in the team is still not stable enough.

The coach's words, he didn't dare to turn a deaf ear, his football bully personality and boss demeanor have not been completely cultivated.

Therefore, after Harris's lesson, Kobe Bryant also restrained, and when he was without the ball, he did not die to ask for the ball to play martial arts, but interspersed running positions in the middle of the court, trying to pull the Timberwolves' defensive line, and running the empty position also had the intention of disrupting the Timberwolves' defensive formation.

The Timberwolves are a team that plays defensive counterattacks, on the defensive end, the rotation speed between players is very fast, and Kobe's running position is more or less effective, at least, through the running, he forced the Timberwolves' defensive formation to start working.

And Wu Dao, who originally defended Kobe, was also rotated to defend Eddie Jones under the alternate cover of Lakers players.

This gave Bryant the opportunity to single-handedly Tom one-on-one.

If it was a pure one-on-one, it wouldn't have been easy for Kobe Bryant to break through to the All-Star level of Tom, but O'Neal seemed to have been touched by the Timberwolves at some strange button.

actually changed the norm of "squatting in the pit", and pulled to the middle distance to make a cover for Kobe.

With O'Neal's help, Bryant quickly turned and slipped to the bottom line and entered the basket, and with Garnett's help defense, a pull rod rebounded, sending the ball into the net.

As the basketball slammed into the net and cheers erupted from the stands, Lakers fans regained confidence in the team.

However, Lakers fans didn't rejoice for long, and the Timberwolves turned their heads and quickly returned the color.

The man who blew the horn of the counterattack was Marbury.

Although Joan Barry is older than Fisher and has a more body advantage, this does not mean that Joan Barry can do better than Fisher against Marbury's defense.

Joan Barry is nearly 30 years old, his peak athleticism has passed, and he himself is not the kind of guard line player who eats with talent, and the physical talent of his peak is also in the lower reaches of the league's guard line.

Marbury is in his prime, and his breakaway speed is among the best across the league.

In the face of Joan Barry's defense, Marbury was just a simple crossover, directly opening the opponent and stabbing under the basket.

At the same time as Marbury made a move, the martial arts on the wing also suddenly changed direction without the ball, and his body shook, and then he used his strength advantage to push away Kobe Bryant, who was defending himself, and linked Marbury's breakthrough to the Lakers basket.

As soon as Garnett on the inside line saw Martial Arts cut in, he immediately gave up the position of the inside line and pulled out along the bottom line.

And the two inside lines of the Lakers saw Marbury cutting in along the middle, and the two martial arts who cut in the wing, and they all turned their attention to martial arts.

One acre of three-point land under the basket, the area is too small.

O'Neal felt that the lateral speed was not bad, but he didn't rush to block the martial arts, but rushed towards Marbury first, when Marbury felt the threat, and quickly sent the ball to the side to follow up the martial arts, the direction was changed, and he quickly combined with his teammates to block the martial arts.

The basketball flew, Wu Dao didn't even cast his eyes towards the basketball, and at the same time he didn't mean to catch the ball, at the moment when the basketball was close to him, he drew the ball with his left hand, and he quickly sent the ball to the hands of Garnett in the middle distance in front of the baseline.

The basketball started, the stunned look on Garnett's face flashed the moment he received the basketball, and his professionalism drove his body, lifting the ball and projecting it in one go.

"Huh!"

As Garnett scored from the open field, the arena was surprisingly quiet. It was a long time before the audience erupted in cheers.

"Good shot."

Wu Dao raised his fist towards Garnett, Garnett's face was slightly stunned, and then he reacted and lightly bumped fists with Wu Dao.

Following the footsteps of Martial Arts and began to defend back, Garnett looked at Martial Arts's back, a little distracted.

"This guy. Transsexualized? ”

"What's going on?"

Before the pause, Garnett vaguely felt that today's martial arts playing style seemed to be a little different, but Garnett didn't think much about it at that time, and he couldn't think of what was different in martial arts for a while.

But after pausing to "chill" his mind and then returning to the court, Garnett instantly sensed what was different in the martial arts.

The current martial arts look very calm when playing matches.

And the blades on his body seem to have been fully restrained by him.

With Garnett's understanding of Martial Arts, in that kind of near the basket point to catch the ball, even in the face of O'Neal's supplementary defense, in the face of Kobe's pursuit of the bag, Martial Arts will never pass the ball out.

He will definitely challenge that kind of defense, and only then can martial arts make people understand how powerful he is as a young wolf king.

But today, in the face of this kind of basket attack, Wu Dao actually chose to pass.

It is precisely because of this that Garnett will be a little surprised after receiving a pass from Martial Arts.

This shouldn't have happened to Martial Arts

"Hey, what are you stimulated by?"

"Girlfriend broke up with you?"

Garnett is a straight man, and he won't hold anything in his heart, after the martial arts were settled, Garnett did not immediately enter the inside line, but gently pulled the martial arts jersey and asked with a little concern.

“？”

When Martial Arts's face showed a look of doubt, it wasn't that there was anything wrong with him, but that he felt that Garnett had something wrong.

Wu Dao didn't understand, how could Garnett ask such a thing without a head.

"No, Takako and I have always been in harmony."

"In all respects, it's harmonious."

Wu Dao glanced at Garnett and spoke.

Hearing Wu Dao say this, Garnett didn't sell it, and asked bluntly:

"Why did you just remember to pass me the ball?"

"You're not the kind of person who would be afraid of O'Neal's defense, why don't you just attack the basket?"

Hearing Garnett's words, Wu Dao also glanced at Garnett deeply. Originally. In the minds of his teammates, the image of martial arts is that of the kind of person who would rather be strong than pass the ball even in the face of a three-person bag?

"I just suddenly realized that I don't have to prove anything to others anymore."

"Actually."

"That's how I played."

A gentle smile appeared on Takemichi's face. Garnett looked at the smile on Wu Dao's face, and he was also in a trance for a while.

It was the first time he had seen Takeshi show such emotions in a match.

In the regular season, every time Garnett saw Martial Arts, he could feel a strong fighting spirit from Martial Arts. That sharp appearance seemed to tear apart all the enemies that stood in his way.

Even if he is playing an intra-team practice match with Martial Arts, Garnett can feel his concentration and seriousness from Martial Arts when he plays against Martial Arts.

But the martial arts in his impression was completely different from the guy in front of him with a "peaceful" heartbeat.

"Is it because of the rookie wall?"

Garnett felt the change in martial arts' mood and attributed the change in martial arts to a "reason".

He called the current change in martial arts - climbing over the rookie wall.

The rookie wall may sound like a mystical thing, but in fact, it's something that is common in the NBA.

It takes the best basketball players in the world to be able to enter this league. Everyone who steps into the NBA can be called a "super genius".

Before entering the NBA, which of those "rookies" was not the pride of the sky in college, high school, and in the local league?

But after entering the NBA, the rookies have to face

Off the field, I took the sneakers and wrapped them for the seniors, and I had to be ravaged and educated by those old fritters on the field.

The rookies thought that when they entered the NBA, they would be able to call the wind and rain on the court like they did in college and high school, and they all fantasized that they would become big stars, big tycoons, and start a different life.

But the reality is that life is indeed different, but it is completely different from what the players imagined in their hearts.

Rookies carry the expectations of their families, their peers, coaches, and even the expectations of fans of a country to step into the NBA.

In their hearts, they are fiery, and they want to work hard to do something to repay those expectations.

With this mentality, rookies who are desperate to prove themselves often struggle to show what they are capable of on the field.

Competence constraints are part of the equation, and mentality can also have a big impact.

From the pride of the sky that everyone expects, to the water cooler administrator at the bottom of the alliance, not everyone's mentality can be adjusted.

The pressure on Wu Dao Gao after entering the alliance is not small, he has never paid attention to public opinion in Asia, and he does not want to be influenced by those public opinions.

What those media will say about him, you can guess with your ass.

When you perform well, you blow it to become the first person in the past, and if it seems to be a compliment, it is simply poison for a player like Wudao who has not yet made any achievements.

If you don't look at it, public opinion is there.

Wu Dao wants to put on a performance and wants to respond to the expectations of all yellow fans.

But now, Martial Arts doesn't actually think like that anymore.

He's strong enough! He's already the leader of the Timberwolves! He doesn't need to prove anything to anyone, he just needs to be strong and lead the team to more wins.

To be able to score on the heads of three people, yes, is strong.

But the current martial arts, even if he doesn't rely on that kind of goal, others can't ignore him anymore.

In that round of attack and defense just now, it was already visible.

There is no Marbury and Garnett in O'Neal's eyes at all, there is, only his martial arts!

The Lakers' players entered the frontcourt, Takedo fell into defense, and Joan Barry, who was holding the ball at the top of the arc, glanced at Takemi, flicked his wrist, and quickly sent the ball to Eddie Jones on the other side.

Joan Barry seems to be a little afraid that Kobe Bryant's ball will hit the Martial Arts defense again?

Following the running Kobe Bryant to change his defensive position, Wu Dao's eyes inadvertently met Joan Barry's.

From Joan-Barry's eyes, Martial Arts saw fear and jealousy.

"The regular season has been played so far."

"No team can ignore me!"

The game between the Lakers and the Timberwolves is getting more and more intense.

Joan Barry didn't play long in the second quarter before being replaced by Harris. Joan Barry's control of the pace of the game is really good, but his ability is not enough after all, and he is in the opposite position with Marbury, and Marbury bursts into a sieve.

And Wu Dao also makes full use of his influence in the hearts of Lakers players, and he doesn't need to take the ball, just Marbury, who is linked to the breakthrough, can involve the Lakers defense.

Therefore, in the second half of the second quarter, Marbury, Garnett and Tom made efforts one after another.

In the third quarter, the Timberwolves, who had the lead, made some personnel changes, and Takeshi was replaced to rest, while the center was also replaced with Wallace.

After Takeshi went off, the Lakers recovered some scores led by Eddie Jones and Kobe.

But as Wudao returned to the court, the Lakers' counterattack momentum was directly extinguished by Wudao's two consecutive dry pulls.

stabilized the situation with scoring, and the Timberwolves' offensive and defensive rhythm quickly stabilized.

After that, until the end of the game, the Lakers were unable to find any hope of a comeback in the heads of the Timberwolves.

Whenever a Laker player feels hot and starts to score points in a row, Wudao will always stand up and suppress the Lakers' arrogance with scores.

Whenever the Timberwolves make some mistakes or the offense is stuck, Takeshi will also take over the ball and use the almost unsolvable singles on the outside to open up the situation for the team and stabilize the morale of the army.

As the whistle blew for the end of the game.

The Timberwolves won the game with a 121-111 10-point lead over the Lakers.

In this game, the OK combination began to show its edge, and the two played a lot of wonderful cooperation, helping the Lakers play a team level on the offensive end.

But the Timberwolves' offense is much more fluid and efficient than the Lakers.

Martial Arts played 42 minutes in the whole game and scored 37 points, although the data is still explosive, but fans who watched the whole game will find that compared to the previous game, Martial Arts' number of shots has been compressed compared to before.

At the same time, Wudao's assist data and rebounding data also have 7 and 9 respectively, which has improved by leaps and bounds from the previous game with three or four assists and three or four rebounds.

Martial arts' presence on the court has not diminished because of the decrease in the number of shots.

On the contrary, the martial arts in the arena have become more dazzling.

When the Timberwolves are in trouble, the first thought that comes to the minds of fans is - give the damn ball to Martial Arts!

(End of chapter)