one-handed ball

Chapter 222 The performance in the training hall

It's definitely a big deal for Minnesota.Since the Timberwolves joined the league in 1989, the highest height of the playoffs was only five years ago when Garnett led the team to the Western Conference Finals.After Garnett left, everyone thought that the Timberwolves would fall into a long period of sinking, but they did not expect them to rise at such a rapid rate.

If the Trail Blazers who swept the fifth in the Western Conference did not give people too much feeling, then defeating the Lakers in their heyday and advancing to the Western Conference Finals is undoubtedly a blow to the general managers of the remaining 29 teams in the league.

Bringing up the past again, people have accused those general managers who had no eyesight at the beginning.Lakers fans vomited blood when they remembered that they were one step away from Zheng Ke in the draft.But now, if there are no accidents, the Timberwolves will have extremely strong strength to cause trouble for the Lakers in the next few years and become the biggest stumbling block for the Lakers on their way to the championship.

Of course, no matter what, the Lakers have finished the season, it's time to go home, it's time to go fishing.Maybe next year they will make a comeback like many clamoring Lakers fans, but this year, it can only go here.

As the second team to advance to the conference finals, Zheng Ke and James have too many similarities.The same versatility, the same outstanding talent, and the same small forward player.Many experts in the league exclaimed in the column: The era of the rise of small forwards has come!

ESPN's Windhorst pointed out in a column: "In this era of increasingly blurred positions, the rise of an all-around small forward is unexpected and understandable. A breakdown of LeBron and Zheng Ke The similarities are simply too numerous to list. Just the two men’s unrivaled power at the small forward position is a very similar weapon. The biggest difference between LeBron and Zheng Ke is that LeBron’s lethality is more powerful. Strong, Zheng Ke's shooting is more accurate. This is why after entering the playoffs, LeBron's assists far exceed Zheng Ke, and Zheng Ke's scoring far exceeds LeBron's reason."

On the Internet, there is a lot of discussion about the similarities and differences between Zheng Ke and James about whether the small forward is rising.At the beginning, it was just a few expert fans chatting, and then it gradually evolved into the chatting of stars and celebrities. Many superstars such as Magic Johnson and Charles Barkley joined the discussion.

Barkley said bluntly: "Strength determines everything. In the final analysis, the technical movements of the two start from strength and evolve into various offensive methods. For example, James' breakthrough, without his savage dragon-like strength, it is difficult to achieve lethality. It is also difficult to attract double-teams; another example is Zheng Ke's fadeaway jumper, without his supernatural power, it is difficult to break through defenders, and it is difficult to get good shooting opportunities."

The third team to advance to the conference semifinals is the Rockets.

The Rockets and the Spurs fought six games. Yao Ming scored 39 points and 21 rebounds in the sixth game at the Rockets' home court. He helped the Rockets narrowly win by 3 points while being on par with a star like Olajuwon.

Immediately afterwards, the Magic unexpectedly won the battle of life and death, overthrowing the defending champion Celtics and becoming the fourth team to advance.Turkoglu Turkoglu scored 25 points, becoming the player with the highest score in the game, and sent 12 assists at the same time, becoming a nightmare for Bostonians.

So far, all four teams in the Eastern and Western finals have been released. The Cavaliers will play against the Magic, and the Rockets will play against the Timberwolves.

It is very difficult to predict who will advance and who will be out, but in general, the Cavaliers have the highest probability of advancing, followed by the Rockets.

In fact, this is easy to understand. The Cavaliers have not lost a game in the playoffs so far, and they are the team with the lowest odds of winning the championship.Facing Howard, the Cavaliers have a natural advantage. Both the inside and the outside look particularly balanced. With James who controls the team's rhythm, the Cavaliers have a very high voice to defeat the Magic. Experts also unanimously look down on the Magic.

As for the Rockets in the West, the strongest point is that Yao Ming proved himself in the bloody battle against the Spurs. Even Yao Ming's most feared defensive defense seemed to lose its effect in the sixth game, because the forward defense may prevent Yao Ming from playing singles, but it also Yao Ming may grab an offensive rebound for a second attack.What troubles Whitman is that Yao Ming is not the kind of player who takes the ball hard. His fadeaway jumper, his precise hook at the basket, and his skillful footwork at the basket are the opponents Anderson fears most in defense. , How to defend Yao Ming is the first big hurdle before the Timberwolves.

Before the Western Conference Finals, Zheng Ke had been training hard with the team, spending every day in the Target Center arena.

The Rockets have a better record than the Timberwolves in the regular season and have home court advantage. Therefore, the Timberwolves still need to go to Houston to participate in the game.

The Timberwolves came to the Toyota Center in Houston two days earlier and began to adapt to the venue.

Yao Ming knew that Zheng Ke and the others would come to the arena for adaptive training early in the morning, and he was in the training hall with a smile on his face, watching Zheng Ke walk into the training hall first.

"congratulations!"

Zheng Ke smiled after seeing Yao Ming, stretched out his fist and punched Yao Ming.

Yao Ming knew that Zheng Ke was talking about the Rockets entering the Western Conference Finals. Thinking of this, Yao Ming was also full of joy, and he showed a naive smile: "It's just luck, it's just luck."

"Why did you come to the arena so early, and there is no game today." Zheng Ke asked with a smile.

"You still ask me, obviously you came so early to dig?" Yao Ming said to Zheng Ke in Mandarin with a Shanghai accent.

"Hehe." Zheng Ke smiled, and then took off his coat, revealing the training uniform sent by the Timberwolves.

"I invite you to dinner at noon, will you come?" Yao Ming asked casually, proposing his invitation.

"Of course, why not?" Zheng Ke said viciously: "The local tyrant must be slaughtered."

Yao Ming was embarrassed and said, "You are a rich man yourself, okay?"

Zheng Ke took off his long trousers, revealing the sports shorts he was wearing inside, threw them on the bench casually, and then asked Yao Ming: "You are a celebrity in Houston now, and after Olajuwon, you will be the first general." Will the Rockets bring the team to the Western Conference Finals, will there be discounts for eating out?"

Yao Ming patted the ball, rolled his eyes and said, "There is no such thing."

After getting ready, Zheng Ke stood up from the bench and began to do stretching exercises before training meticulously, standard and serious.

"Hey, it's so annoying to beat you." Yao Ming couldn't help letting out a sigh of relief when he saw Zheng Ke doing leg presses.

"How do you say it?" Zheng Ke asked without looking back.

"When I saw you training so hard, I got the creeps." Yao Ming joked.

"It's normal." Zheng Ke obviously didn't understand Yao Ming's words, and said: "When I went to Los Angeles to play, I often saw Kobe before I went to the arena for training. And, in fact, I was also forced. "

"Who forced you?" Yao Ming obviously didn't believe Zheng Ke's nonsense, took a sip of the water in the glass.

Of course, Zheng Ke would not tell Yao Ming that it was forced by the system. Although he has mastered extremely high ability values, he needs regular training to maintain all of this. That is, parentheses appear after his ability value, and then subtract one or a few points of ability value.Usually in this case, he needs to double his training to improve his state and erase the parentheses.

Zheng Ke felt that the warm-up was almost done, and then something came to his mind, and he suddenly smiled at Yao Ming.

"Dayao, look, I'll show you a difficult one." Zheng Keru said.

Yao Ming was confused by Zheng Ke's words, and couldn't help asking: "What's so difficult?"

Zheng Ke smiled and did not speak, but took the ball and walked towards the middle circle. He estimated the distance, and then pretended to pray to God, which amused Yao Ming beside him.

Zheng Ke took two breaths, then grabbed the basketball and rushed out like an arrow off the string.

"So fast!"

Yao Ming's pupils shrank suddenly, and Zheng Ke's speed when he was not dribbling was simply astonishing, like a white ray of light, piercing the field.

Zheng Ke rushed to the three-point line, then took two big steps, and stepped on a small step before the free throw line!

"Isn't it?" Looking at Zheng Ke's actions, Yao Ming suddenly caught something in his heart.

"Drink!"

Zheng Ke yelled, and his left leg broke out with enough force to break mountains and crack the ground, and he flew into the sky. He held the basketball high in his right hand, and his feet subconsciously opened at 60 degrees. The whole person looked like Jordan's logo.

As if there was no gravity, Zheng Ke cut through the sky, and then smashed the ball into the basket with one hand!
"boom!"

The palm of the hand and the basket made a loud noise, and there was a loud thunderbolt.

Yao Ming opened his mouth into an "O" shape, and it took him a long time to come back to his senses. He widened his eyes, and then uttered a sentence to the smiling Zheng Ke: "Hey, is it a human?"

"You should go to the slam dunk contest!" Yao Ming was so excited, he ran over and grabbed Zheng Ke's arm, shaking it there.

Zheng Ke was dizzy by Yao Ming: "Stop, stop."

In fact, he often plays some difficult dunks during training. This trick is very difficult to dunk from the free throw line. Even in the most peaceful state of mind, he is not [-]% able to dunk.Finishing it in front of Yao Ming made him very happy.

After a while, Yao Ming finally calmed down, and then suddenly said to Zheng Ke seriously: "You should try to avoid dunking like this in the future, it will hurt your body and be dangerous."

"Don't worry, it's fine." Zheng Ke felt a warm current in his heart when he heard Yao Ming care about him so much.But his own body knows that he has the god-like recovery ability to face such a dunk without any pressure.What's more, most NBA players are injured when they lack awareness of protection. If they are prepared for self-protection, NBA players are rarely injured unless they are born with glass or someone has black feet .

The two chatted a lot, and Yao Ming didn't leave until the Timberwolves players gradually came to the training hall.When the team reporter saw Zheng Ke and Yao Ming training together in the arena early in the morning, their sense of gossip suddenly exploded, and they snapped a few photos of the two.

(End of this chapter)