The King of the NBA

"34:21, Timberwolves lead by 13 points."

"This first quarter was really unexpected. I thought that even if Westbrook had a truce, the Thunder and Durant would be a little behind at most, but I didn't expect to be behind by as much as 13 points in the first quarter. "

"Yeah, Ning's performance is really surprising. At first I thought he was in trouble today and would be guarded to death, but I didn't expect it. Oh, when did he be so accurate?"

At the end of the first quarter, the Timberwolves took the lead with as many as 13 points.

This is related to Love's excellent performance, the Thunder's lack of Westbrook, and Ning Yi. He scored 8 points in the first quarter, plus 1 rebound and 2 assists, which can be said to be indispensable.

Entering the second quarter, Ning Yi did not play immediately. The Timberwolves sent out a lineup of main and mixed substitutes. Pekovic, Brewer, and Martin were all on the field, playing with Turiaf and Sheved.

On the side of the Thunder, Durant did not play, and Reggie led the team.

I have to say that when Durant is not on the court and Reggie leads the team alone, the effect is much better than when he and Durant play together, as if this can stimulate Reggie's small universe.

As soon as he came up, Reggie hit a three-pointer, which stopped the Thunder team from bleeding.

For the Timberwolves, Martin also played a solo, but failed to score. After the Thunder got the rebound, they launched a counterattack. After passing the ball a few times, it was passed to Adams. Adams pushed back and made a light throw.

Swish!

Go in.

Seeing this ball, Adelman frowned slightly. During this time, Pekovic was a little out of shape, as if he lacked focus, and always made some small mistakes. Facing some rookies, or when he was able to do his best, he always performed well. Not as expected.

Of course, this is not a question of strength, but a question of status.

"Perhaps, it's time to have a good talk with him." Adelman thought to himself.

On the court, under the leadership of Reggie, the Thunder played a wave of beautiful offenses, and even unknowingly narrowed the point difference to only 5 points.

At this time, Adelman made a substitution, replacing Love and Rubio.

On the side of the Thunder, Brooks also replaced Durant and Ibaka. Except for the rookie Adams, the others were all starters.

With this lineup back, the Thunder continued their momentum of chasing points. Durant came up to play singles, changing direction in front of his body, with a very large arc. He passed Brewer in one step and went inside for a dunk.

Durant's dunk shocked the Thunder's morale. In the following period of time, they played a 9:3 shock wave, not only overtaking the score, but also leading by 3 points.

Seeing this situation, Adelman called a timeout.

The Thunder played very well in the past few minutes, but the Timberwolves did not do well. The offensive end was weak, they couldn't score no matter what, and the defensive end couldn't defend.

From leading by 5 points to trailing by 3 points, it only takes a moment.

"Pekovic, Brewer, Martin, you three go down." Adelman made a substitution, "Dion, Ning, Mbah a Moute, you three go up." After the substitution, Adelman spread out his tactics Board, start to arrange: "Wait a minute."

On the other side, Brooks also performed a personnel rotation, replacing Reggie with Derek Fisher, and replacing Adams with Kendrick Perkins.

After the timeout, the Timberwolves attacked.

At this time, the Timberwolves' lineup was Dion, Love, Ning Yi, Mbah a Moute, and Rubio. Rubio advanced to the frontcourt, looked at the situation on the court, hit the ground, and passed the ball to Love.

Love singles, was double-teamed, and sent the ball to the outside.

Ning Yi took the ball, stood outside the three-point line, and was about to shoot a three-pointer, but Durant was not fooled, stepped forward half a step, raised his hand, but did not take off easily.

"Sure enough." Ning Yi smiled wryly, but it was not surprising.

The last time he lied to the Thunder once and hit a buzzer, the Thunder have learned their lesson.

What's more, the person defending him at this moment is Durant, who has height, wingspan, speed, and enough basketball IQ. Ning Yi expected from the beginning that the opponent would not be easily fooled.

Ning Yi passed the ball to Ba Mote.

Mbah a Moute moved a few steps to the side, made a pick-and-roll with Dion, and pulled out his hand.

The goal was missed, and the Thunder got the rebound and launched a quick counterattack, but Durant's shot missed, and they couldn't score.

It took a few rounds to go back and forth, and both sides encountered scoring obstacles, and neither of them was able to score. It seemed that they couldn't do it all of a sudden.

"beep"

At this time, Brooks made a substitution, replaced Durant, replaced Collison, and replaced another rookie of the year, Andre Robertson.

For the Timberwolves, Adelman replaced Love and Rubio with Brewer and Barea, and changed to the same lineup he used in the previous game against the Magic, playing fast break and fast defense.

Except for Brewer, this lineup is all substitutes.

The whistle blows and the game continues.

The Thunder launched an offense and passed the ball to Perkins after a few passes. Perkins beat Dieng with his weight. Although he failed to score in the end, he caused Dieng to foul, but he only made two free throws. One, the second goal was missed, Dion took the rebound and quickly passed a long pass to Brewer.

Brewer took the ball and saw that Ning Yi had already reached the front court, just outside the three-point line at a 45-degree angle. He passed the ball immediately without hesitation.

Ning Yi took the ball, dribbled one forward, raised his hand and shot.

Swish!

The goal was scored, and the score was 2 points.

People are excited, it is Ning Yi again.

Then the Thunder attacked and hit the iron, and the Timberwolves were relentless. After Barea advanced to the frontcourt, he made a pick-and-roll with his teammates, then put the ball under the basket, and Mbah a Moute, who sneaked past the baseline, got the ball. , took advantage of the trend and made a reverse basket, also scored two points, and evened the score in one fell swoop.

And, just a few tens of seconds later, Ning Yi tricked the opponent with a fake shot, took a step to the side, and saw another defender pounced on him, he hit the ground and passed the ball to the middle.

Brewer hit it, took the ball and made a dunk.

"What the hell is this?" Brooks was annoyed. The Timberwolves are almost all on the bench at the moment, only Brewer is the starting player, but why is it more difficult to deal with than the main lineup?

On the Timberwolves side, almost all of them were on the bench, but when the bench players broke out, it was also terrible. After the first two or three offenses were scored, a group of bench players completely ran away.

Ning Yi scored another point with an air cut, Dion also scored two points with a tip-up, and then Barea saw the opportunity, just like Ning Yi in the first quarter, with a few seconds left in the second quarter A three-point hit.

"These benches are crazy!"

People gasped, and before they knew it, a group of substitute players from the Timberwolves actually reversed the situation, from being behind by 3 points to now overtaking and leading by 7 points.