The league's game to determine which is the higher scoring champion or rebounding champion kicked off on the night of the Wizards' arrival in Minneapolis.

The Wizards' starting lineup remained the same as before, as Josh Howard didn't play well in the limited playing time in the two weeks since he returned, and even worse than Trevor Booker if you only looked at offensive efficiency.

But fortunately, Josh Howard's defense is still as sharp as ever, so he naturally became Sun Yue's replacement.

Sun Yue is now completely relying on himself to gain a foothold in the Wizards, because his hard work allowed him to win the competition with Howard, thus keeping the starting position!

This is what the truth is, basketball does not lie, as long as you are willing to train steadily, you will definitely be able to improve and be recognized by others!

The starting lineup on the Timberwolves' side is as follows, point guard Luke Ridno, scoring guard Wesley Johnson, small forward Corey Brewer, big forward Kevin Love, and center Daco Mirisic.

The two sides opened the jump ball, Bracch won, and the ball of the first attack was taken by Li Kaiming and dribbled to the front court for Hinrich.

The Timberwolves' overall defense is on the outside, and it seems that their head coach Kurt Lambis has made plenty of preparations before the game, coming up with a killer move tonight to prevent the Wizards from throwing threes.

But Rambis couldn't have imagined that the Wizards' starting lineup was not the main offensive means of throwing threes at all, seeing that the Timberwolves' defense was so far outside, Hinrich and Li Kaiming hit the three-point line with a block, and then hit an unguarded mid-range emergency stop!

The Timberwolves' two interior lines, Love and Mirisic, are both white interior players who are not good at defense, and in the face of this combination, how could the Wizards choose to throw on the outside?

Unless Sanders' brain show is funny!

The Timberwolves served to Reedno, who dribbled past half court and handed it directly to Love who was stuck in the back position inside.

Li Kaiming stood behind Lefu and resisted the latter, and did not deliberately defend Lefu's catch, mainly because he wanted to test it and see how Lefu played.

In the video class before the game, you will also see how the opposite player plays, but that can only look at a shape, practice is the only criterion to test the truth, and if you really want to know how the opposite star plays, you have to feel it yourself on the court!

After Lefu received the ball, he began to arch his back inward, and the inside line of the back single is the main type of Lefu's shot, at this time Lefu is still a fat man who is slightly fat, and the strength level is also very good, Li Kaiming felt a little, and knew that Lefu's strength level was definitely not worse than himself!

Because the defender can't take the initiative to exert force, so even if Li Kaiming still has some strength not to use, he can't exert his strength, NbA stars are some old oil, if the defense goes all out when the back is up, there are only two results, one is to be turned around by the opposite side, and the other is to be fouled.

Li Kaiming, who has played for half a season, has already understood these routines almost, and it is naturally impossible to make such a low-level mistake, so he can only keep himself behind Lefu, but he is pushed to the basket step by step by Lefu.

After arriving at the basket, Lefu directly turned around and threw it, and easily scored before Li Kaiming's block arrived!

2-2 draw! The stadium at the center of the target resounded with the cheers of the fans.

The ball was scored by Lefu under the basket, Li Kaiming did not feel any discomfort, with Lefu's interior offensive skills, it is almost impossible for him to completely prevent it, so if you want to win this game, you have to work hard from the offense.

And what type of player is the pair of Lefu and Mirisic most afraid of? It's fast!

As soon as the speed is said, our old Li will not be sleepy, compared with speed, even if all the big forwards in history are pulled out to compare, he will not be empty.

Isn't that a coincidence!

So after arriving at the front, Li Kaiming blocked with Xinrich again, but this time he turned quickly and went to the penalty area first.

Xin Liqi knew what Li Kaiming wanted to do at a glance, so he hit the ball and sent the ball to Li Kaiming's hands.

After Li Kaiming got the ball, he strode directly to the basket, and directly dunked with one arm before Mirisic came over!

4 to 2!

Lefu and Mirisic, who ran to the basket, looked at each other and then smiled wryly!

How can you prevent this? I can't prevent my life from risking it!

But Timberwolves head coach Rambis was not moved by Li Kaiming's easy hit to the basket, and he still insisted on the strategy of defending the perimeter.

After the end of the first quarter, the Wizards led by 3 points at 28-25 on the road, and it can be seen that Rambis's defensive strategy is basically no problem.

As long as you grasp the point of not throwing three points to the Wizards, you can suppress their scoring frenzy, Rambis smiled and shook his head, are the head coaches who played against the Wizards before confused, how can such a simple thing not be thought of?

But the smile on Rambis's face didn't make it to the half, and the second quarter quickly changed.

There are many games in which the Wizards do rely on three-point shots, but there are other games that completely rely on Li Kaiming's personal ability to collapse the opposite side.

For example, Li Kaiming himself stood up and scored consecutive points, and once the opposite side could not respond, the rhythm of the game was controlled by the Wizards.

In order to defend Li Kaiming and suppress the rhythm of the Wizards, he had to help defend and trap Li Kaiming, which would miss the outside line of the Wizards, so the question returned to the beginning: how to prevent the outside line of the Wizards?

In the second half of the first quarter, Sanders switched to a five-small lineup, but unfortunately Rambis still stuck to the three-point line, so the advantage of the five-small lineup was not brought into play.

So in the second quarter, Li Kaiming couldn't stand it anymore.

Is Lanbis so defensive that you look down on the Wizards? You look down on me Li Kaiming's inside line lethality!

As soon as the second quarter came up, Li Kaiming began to desperately break through the inside, cut to the basket without the ball, changed his direction with the ball and broke through Lefu to the basket, and the mid-range heads-up in the three-point line.

All kinds of means were put into battle, showing the audience in the target center arena a scoring feast full of tricks and excellent ornamentation!

Li Kaiming's sudden outburst made the Timberwolves a little unresponsive for a while, and the Timberwolves were still playing inside as before, occasionally throwing a few outside.

After Li Kaiming stood up in person, the score was immediately stretched to double digits, and the forced Rambis had to call a timeout!

After a minute of ideological struggle, Rambis finally decided to change his strategy and help defend the rotation package Li Kaiming!

This incident fully proves that the vast majority of people are short-sighted and can only see the gains and losses in front of them.

This wrong decision by Rambis directly allowed the Timberwolves to bury the game.

After returning to the game, Li Kaiming found that the Timberwolves began to wrap themselves up, which is exactly what he couldn't ask for!

So he started to take advantage of the space he broke through and then distributed the ball to the shooters on the perimeter.

Not to mention that the Wizards' group of shooters are all bullying the weak and afraid of the hard, when Rambis was defending the outside before, almost none of these guys could throw in the fleeting vacancy.

Now the Timberwolves have given some big openings to the outside in order to defend Li Kaiming, which will allow this group of shooters to find opportunities.

It wasn't one, not two, but three, four.

Under such a large-scale outbreak, at the end of the first half of the game, the difference of only 10 points was forced to reach nearly 20 points......

Seeing this sudden change in the situation on the court, Timberwolves head coach Rambis was full of remorse, slapped his thigh, and almost cried bitterly!

Originally, the good anti-three-point tactics were executed very well, what do you say you are doing with him?

It's okay now, I don't have to fight, and I don't want to lose my face!

In the second half, Rambis switched the defense back, and it was too late to make amends.

The Wizards have an 18-point difference, and as long as they don't waste it, they can grind the Timberwolves to death in the second half.

And with someone like Kaiming Lee on the Wizards, can the team be allowed to make such a stupid mistake?

So in the end, after the full game, the Washington Wizards defeated the Minnesota Timberwolves 108-94 on the road, and the victory of the game was firmly in the bag.

Li Kaiming played 34 minutes, shooting 13 of 22, including 2 of 5 three-pointers and 10 of 11 free throws, and got a quasi-triple-double of 38 points, 11 rebounds and 9 assists.

The rest of the Wizards were mediocre, and Hinrich remained Lee's most trusted helper, finishing with 21 points, 3 rebounds and 11 assists on 8-of-14 shooting.

Nick Young hit two three-pointers and scored eight points, Sun Yue had eight points and four rebounds, and Lewis hit three three-pointers to score 13 points.

The Timberwolves had 24 points, 16 rebounds and 4 assists.

Li Kaiming didn't understand Lefu's rebound, although the Wizards' backcourt rebounds were also robbed by Lefu, but they were all within the range of bearing, and Lefu's 16 rebounds were really silent!

After the game, Li Kaiming shook hands with the Timberwolves players, and the last handshake was Lefou.

Although Lefu is a little fat man, but the whole person seems to be very generous, and his attitude is also very kind, he hugged Li Kaiming's shoulder and patted it twice, and then said sincerely, "Li, your performance is really great!" You're sure to make a name for yourself! ”

Li Kaiming's heart warmed after listening to it, since he entered the league, this is the first time that an unfamiliar player has encouraged him and praised him.

The other celebrities don't know why, they all seem to have a grudge against him.

So Li Kaiming also hugged Lefu, "Thank you, brother." ”

It's a pity that such a good person was actually selected by the Timberwolves, and Li Kaiming was a little pitiful and happy in this freezing weather.

After winning the Timberwolves on the road, the Wizards didn't stop for a single point, and immediately left this cold place and returned to Washington.

Although Washington's latitude in Emerica is not low, and the winter is not very hot, compared to Minneapolis, it is simply paradise!

The next opponent is interesting, the Toronto Raptors.

This means that Li Kaiming is going to meet his good brother Elliott Williams again.

After the Raptors won against the Wizards last time, this guy also texted to mock him, and this time he must be given an unforgettable memory!