NBA: Trading Westbrook at the beginning shocked Lao Zhan

After briefly observing Beverly's defensive position, James chose to attack Beverly's front foot. Relying on his size advantage, James squeezed Beverly and took a big stride over Beverly by half a body.

Beverly tried his best to slide his steps and followed James, but he still couldn't hide the huge difference in stature.

Seeing that he was about to be unable to keep up with James, Beverly became ruthless, raised his right hand high, and slapped James' ball-holding arm heavily!
Beverly's shot was heavy, even ruthless!
Don't break the rules, once you break the rules, you must commit ruthlessly!
This is the basketball philosophy advocated by Beverly!

James was unprepared, his arm was pulled severely by Beverly, and the basketball fell off his hand.

"Beep beep beep!!!"

"Invasion foul!!"

Almost at the same moment when the foul occurred, the referee's whistle blew and signaled that it was a personal foul, the Lakers' frontcourt ball.

There is no problem with this penalty. Although Beverly's foul was ruthless, it did not reach the point of a malicious foul. Calling a personal foul is no problem!

Satisfied with the penalty, James handed the ball to the referee.

"Hey, LeBron! Why did you drop the ball when I touched you? Did I hurt you?"

Beverly curled his lips at James, and his mouth was still chattering trash at James.

Hearing Beverly's words, James frowned slightly and looked back at Beverly.

"You talk a lot, but I don't know how your defense is. Is it as hard as your mouth?"

Beverly laughed loudly and clapped for himself: "Come on, come and try!"

James snorted coldly, didn't speak any more, took the ball from his teammates on the sideline, and faced Beverly's defense again.

At the top of the arc on the three-point line, James took a tentative step and pretended to break through!

Beverly was afraid of James' breakthrough, and quickly took a step back.

Now it gives James a lot of shooting space!

James squatted down slightly, raised the ball and aimed at the basket.

Beverly realized that James might be about to shoot, and quickly jumped up to interfere with James.

But James didn't want to shoot this ball, he just made a fake shot to deceive Beverly's defense!
Seeing Beverly jumping high in the air, James quickly lowered his center of gravity, put the ball forward, broke through step by step, and easily passed Beverly.

Entering the penalty area, facing Towns' supplementary defense, James leaped high!
Towns was a little apprehensive looking at James in the air. He didn't use his strength to take off, but just stood there with his hands high, watching James dunk.

Without Towns' interference, James easily put the ball into the basket with one hand!

The Lakers went first and scored 2 points!
With James' dunk, the Timberwolves' home momentum dropped a lot.

"Hey man, you gotta jump up on him, don't be afraid of getting hurt!"

"Jump up and block his ball, it's that simple!"

Beverly was very dissatisfied with Downs' defense just now, and took the initiative to walk beside Downs and said.

Downs also knew that what he just did was wrong. Faced with the reprimand from the big brother in the team, Downs nodded embarrassedly, and took the initiative to admit his mistake: "My fault, I will do as you said next time!"

Beverly nodded with satisfaction, patted Towns on the shoulder, then took the baseline ball from teammate Vanderbilt, and advanced to the frontcourt with the ball.

At this time, the Lakers adopted a 3-2 zone defense strategy according to the lineup, and through the continuous circulation of 3 players on the outside, they put enough pressure on the Timberwolves' outside line!

Beverly saw the Lakers' defensive strategy, and was a little surprised in his heart. The Lakers just pinpointed that the Timberwolves' lack of inside offensive ability!
Don't look at the Timberwolves' main inside player, Towns, who has good statistics, but his style is soft. He likes to shoot three-pointers from the outside, or turn over and jump from the low post!

Towns also has some inside attack ability, but facing the Lakers thick eyebrow brother and Howard's penalty area defense, there are still some not enough to see!

Relying on Towns' inside strength, the idea of ​​breaking the Lakers' 3-2 zone defense from the inside of the Lakers is unrealistic.

It's a little troublesome, it seems that I can only change my style of play!

After Beverly made his decision, he quickly raised his right hand and spread his five fingers in a tactical gesture.

The Timberwolves players quickly settled down, forming a 5-out offensive formation.

"Thick eyebrows, Howard, spread out! Expand out!!"

Vogel saw the Timberwolves switch formations on the sidelines, and hurriedly shouted loudly from the sidelines.

Brother Nongmei and Howard understood, and quickly expanded to the bottom line on both sides, and the 3-2 defense became man-to-man.

After seeing the Lakers switch to man-to-man, Beverly glanced at the positions of his teammates. When he saw Russell facing the weaker defensive Hield, Beverly quickly passed the ball. In the hands of Russell, at the same time he signaled Russell to play a single.

Russell received the ball, understood what Beverly meant, and quickly signaled his teammates to open up the space. Facing Hilde in singles, Russell sank down and took a tentative step to break through.

Hilde also knew how bad his defense was, so he quickly gestured behind him to signal the inside players to prepare to help defend.

Brother Nongmei understood, and moved a little to the inside line two steps.

At the same time, Russell began to break through, suddenly accelerated after one crotch, connected the front of the body and squeezed half of Hilde, and then quickly pushed forward with the ball to break through to the inside.

From the corner of the eye, he caught sight of the thick-browed brother on the left baseline, and Russell felt a little panicked. He knew that if the ball was hit inside, it would most likely be covered by the thick eyebrows!
In addition, Vanderbilt's bottom line three-point ability is not very strong against the thick eyebrows. If he breaks through the inside and scores the ball, Vanderbilt is likely to miss the goal!

Why not do it yourself!
Russell made a quick decision and chose a mid-range shot!
So, Russell took the initiative to find a physical confrontation, resisted Hilde next to him, used the recoil to connect with the side-step jumper, and hit two points in the middle distance steadily! !
The Timberwolves pulled one back and the score was rewritten to a 2-2 tie. The enthusiasm of the Timberwolves fans on the scene was mobilized again!
Back to the Lakers' offense.

James once again held the ball to face Beverly's defense.

Looking at the short Beverly in front of him, James didn't want to miss this opportunity to play big and small. He resolutely chose singles, still signaling his teammates to open up space.

Big and small, relying on physical advantages!

James held the ball and made a strong breakthrough step by step, without any other extra actions, just relying on his strong physical fitness to forcefully crush Beverly into the inside.

Seeing that James was getting closer and closer to the basket, Beverly became a little anxious. He kicked his feet hard on the ground, and his upper body exerted strength to resist James. His hands were dishonest, and he put them in front of him to block James' waist!

This is a foul move!
James realized this and quickly made a three-step layup!
"Beep beep!"

Sure enough, as James expected, the referee's whistle sounded!

James has already made three steps, and this goal is likely to score 2+1!

Beverly also realized this. Anyway, the whistle had already sounded. Beverly became ruthless, and cut James' ball holder again with his right hand.

But James was not affected at all, the basketball was firmly held by James and put into the basket!
James scored 2+1! !
"Too fucking small."

James landed, turned to look at Beverly, and said in the most flat tone.