one-handed ball

Chapter 364 Unstoppable

Catch the ball, turn around, and pull up for a jumper.

Zheng Ke's movements are simple and elegant. With his outstanding wingspan and jumping ability, when he is in the air, basically no one can block him.

Even Kidd's eye-plugging method.

"Shh!"

Zheng Kegao shot the basketball through the net, and his bright eyes were like the deepest starry sky this summer.Hands raised high in the air, arrogant and domineering
"How about it, old man?" Zheng Ke began to chatter in Kidd's ear when he retreated. "How about this turnaround jumper? With your height and jumping, I can easily go over your head." Complete any attack! Is Carlisle crazy? Let you guard me?"

Kidd kept silent, but what Zheng Ke said was really annoying. It would be embarrassing enough to lose a goal after taking the initiative to defend, but he still taunted himself like this, which made Kidd really annoyed.It's just that he has always been calm, and now it is a critical moment, when the overall situation is the most important, he suppresses the anger in his heart.

Nowitzki scored two points with a high jumper, and the Mavericks were 69 points behind 79 to 10.

Lowry controlled the advance of the basketball. After replacing Barea with short legs to defend, Lowry only felt that the pressure on his body was relieved a lot.At least when facing Kidd before, he had to worry about Kidd all the time. The old guy has too much defensive experience, and he might fall into his way at any time.

Barea's offense breaks through, and his shooting is okay, but his defense.
After Lowry's simple cross step, he opened up a little space and broke through from the left position.The Mavericks' zone defense shrunk extremely quickly. After passing Barea, Lowry was immediately flanked.His reaction was extremely fast, and with a force on his wrist, he quickly transferred the ball to Marcus Thornton, who was 45 degrees open on the left.

With an open opportunity, Thornton made a decisive move!
The basketball went wide, and this rebound was taken by Haywood, who was stuck in the main position under the basket. This outstanding blue-collar is a weakened version of Chandler, and he complements Nowitzki.

The Mavericks attack.

At this time, 2 minutes have passed in the fourth quarter, and the game has entered the last 10 minutes.Of course, the premise is that the winner will be determined after 48 minutes.

Nowitzki is still holding the ball in the low post, Love is on the court, but the German seems to be addicted to beating him.

The problem is, Love really can't guard Nowitzki.He can now resist most of the low-post attackers in the league, but he has encountered opponents who are not good at power forwards. What is surging in his heart is the same pain that the NBA centers encountered when they met Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

Nowitzki took the ball, and Zheng Ke moved in small steps to double-team.

Nowitzki immediately reached out and passed the ball to Kidd, who was emptied by Zheng Ke from the outside.The Timberwolves rotated the defense very quickly. Kidd had just got the basketball, and Lowry immediately came to make up for it at the top of the arc.Then Kidd naturally passed the ball to Barea, who was defended by Thornton on the other side.

Then Barea made another pass to Peja on the left flank.

"Snapped!"

Big yellow hands suddenly appeared in front of Peja's outstretched hands!
"You underestimate me!" Zheng Ke's eyes flashed with excitement, and his speed was as fast as a white lightning.His judgment was extremely accurate, his speed and wingspan were too frightening, this steal was just right, and when he jumped five or six meters away alone, the other players of the Mavericks and Timberwolves reacted.

It takes time from reaction to action. At this time, Zheng Ke has reached the Mavericks half-court three-point line. Everyone knows that this is another dunk, and the Mavericks players also gave up chasing and defending.

Zheng Ke turned his head and looked behind him, and found that he could sing a one-man show at halftime.

He boldly took three big steps. In the eyes of the audience expecting, and in their roar of "Here we go", Zheng Ke spread his wings and made a one-step dunk with a tomahawk inside the free throw line!
The basketball passed through the net and hit Zheng Ke's chest and flew out of the baseline. Zheng Ke stood under the basket with his feet and roared at the camera.

81:69.

Mistakes like this were very undeserved, and Blair jumped angrily off the court, doubting whether it was the right decision to put the "young" Barea on the court.

The NBA is most afraid of all kinds of low-level mistakes in the team. This is far more terrifying than a bad hand feeling, because it is easy to be pulled away from the score.

Nowitzki is very strong. At least from the second quarter of this game, the Timberwolves have been implementing Thibodeau's double-team strategy. They would rather let other players of the Mavericks take shots than let Nowitzki take shots.This is a somewhat weakened version of Jordan's law, and it's no better to deal with single-core teams.

At 6 minutes and 43 seconds, Zheng Ke assisted Love to hit the basket and shoot successfully, and the game entered the final main rotation time.

On the court, the Mavericks replaced Marion, Chandler and others, and the Timberwolves replaced Billups, Jordan Jr. and others accordingly. Zheng Ke put his hands on his hips and watched the two teams make the final substitution.

Kidd's expression was a little awkward. Ten minutes ago, he even boasted that Haikou would go out in person to defend Zheng Ke.

As a result, during this period of time, Zheng Ke scored 5 points and 4 assists on 8 of 3 shots. Except for Zheng Ke's mistake at the beginning, which made Carlisle shine, Kidd was basically blown out the rest of the time.

So as soon as Marion came up, Kidd didn't say much, and the two exchanged defensive targets in a tacit understanding, and he began to return to his old opponent to compete with Billups.

"Isn't Marion just as defenseless?" Thibodeau on the sidelines thought to himself, he had great confidence in Zheng Ke.In the years he has been involved in the coaching work, he has seen at least a thousand players, but Zheng Ke is still the number one physical fitness man.Perfect muscular lines, explosive power like a leopard, and the most terrifying thing is the power of a big shark. It is simply a machine born for basketball.

In comparison, although Marion is also very talented, he is far behind.

At least after Zheng Ke got the basketball, he pushed his butt up and leaned hard against it with real physical strength.Marion couldn't help but took a small step back.Zheng Ke turned around immediately, with his right foot as the axis, and then exerted force with his left foot, making a standard backward jumper like a textbook.

The goal was scored, 90 to 79, and the Timberwolves still led by 11 points.

This 10-point difference is a natural moat, and the Mavericks players feel deep sadness and feel that they can't catch up.This feeling makes people flustered. Although it is not negative to slow down work, the decline in high morale is an indisputable fact.

Three minutes before the end, Billups made a three-pointer from the outside to seal the victory, helping the Timberwolves pull the point difference to 3 points.Carlisle shook his head off the field, his face was very unwilling, but now he fell into hesitation in choosing, and he was a little unwilling to give up the game like this, but seeing the tired looks of the players, another rational voice in his heart told him that this The Mavericks have lost the game.

He didn't struggle for long.

At 2 minutes, the point difference was still 15 points, and at this time, Zheng Ke's breakthrough caused Marion's foul.Carlisle let out a sigh of relief, and replaced all the main players in a lonely way.

The Mavericks surrendered, and the Timberwolves won their first victory in the second round.

The final score was that the Timberwolves beat the Mavericks by 111 points 99 to 12. Zheng Ke still scored a game-high 34 points and 13 assists in this game. He scored 14 points in the last quarter of the game.It can be expected that this will basically be tomorrow's headlines again—Zheng Ke scored 14 points in the final quarter and beat the Mavericks at home.

The Mavericks players slumped into the tunnel, flanked by Timberwolves fans who taunted them victoriously.

"I'm so fucking unwilling!" Nowitzki finally turned around and glanced at the center of the target, feeling very upset.

"It's okay, I'll come back to compete with them in two days." Kidd played his big brother's demeanor and patted Nowitzki on the shoulder, as if he had read the "big king"'s mind.

Nowitzki feels that he has been in a good state since entering the playoffs, as if he has reached the peak of his career.Playing Thunder in the first round, the boy from Congo was beaten all over the ground by himself.This round of beating the Timberwolves, the bearded Love was also beaten by himself, but the results of the two were very different.Thinking of this, he couldn't help but fell behind with Kidd, and asked a little depressed: "Why are we behind? I feel that we are not far behind the Timberwolves, but we lost ten times without knowing it." More points."

Kidd is someone who is determined to be a coach. Even if he is an authority, he still sees the problem very clearly.So he pondered: "The Timberwolves lead us by a little point every quarter. Since halftime, we have been in a situation of falling behind, and we are always chasing points. We pay too much attention to this point difference, so that Without the characteristics and aggressiveness that we should have maintained, Zheng Ke is very difficult to guard against, but the Timberwolves only have him.”

"Only him?" Nowitzki stopped, wanting to hear Kidd's opinion.

Kidd said: "Billups is not young, and the obvious decline in regular season data is an important sign. Although Love can get big data, you should know that he basically has no ability to attack independently. Timberwolves can The players holding the ball are actually only one and a half players. If there is no Zheng Ke, Billups and Love alone are just a second-rate team. What we have to do is actually to defend Zheng Ke alone. !"

Nowitzki was suddenly enlightened by what Kidd said, his eyes lit up, staring at Kidd and asked: "And then?"

"Then?" Kidd was taken aback, spread his hands, and asked in confusion, "What then?"

Nowitzki said: "Then how to defend Zheng Ke?"

Kidd wiped the sweat off his face and said in embarrassment: "This is also the most troublesome thing at present. The Timberwolves have become a whole under the integration of Zheng Ke, and how to defend Zheng Ke has become a research topic for the entire league. I also today Defending him for half a quarter of the game, he is really different from James, not only has superior physical fitness, but also has a touch that never seems to be cold, as if an anti-freezing machine is installed."

Nowitzki: "I wipe."

(End of this chapter)