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"Hey, that's just bad luck, hit me again if you have the guts!"

Hearing what James said, Beverly curled his lips in disdain, and said to James on his own.

"Hmph, just wait."

James said coldly, then turned and walked to the free throw line.

After receiving the referee's pass, James dribbled twice, easily made a free throw and made a steady hit.

In the Timberwolves' offensive round, Beverly wanted to return one. Facing Monk's defense, he directly chose to make a tough breakthrough. After reaching the inside, he resisted the layup.

But Beverly's stature is too short. Although he pushed Monk away, his shot was still interfered by Monk!
However, Beverly was lucky with this goal. After the basketball circled the basket twice, it finally fell into the net!

“too fucking easy!!!”

“too fucking easy!!!”

After the goal was scored, Beverly sat on the ground and shouted excitedly. His tough response aroused the atmosphere of the Timberwolves home team!
Originally scored consecutively by the Lakers, the momentum of the Timberwolves on the scene has weakened a bit, but Beverly's tough performance swept away the previous haze, and the Target Center fell into a carnival again!

Seeing this, James' complexion sank slightly, but he couldn't let his momentum return to the Timberwolves again. As the leader of the team, he must stand up at this moment!
Thinking of this, James took the ball from the baseline and rushed forward with the ball. After squeezing past Beverly's defense on the three-point line, James took a big stride to the inside.

Seeing this, Towns from the outside line rushed over to help defend. James saw the situation and directly chose to pass the ball. The basketball was passed to Howard, who was open on the outside line!

Howard is a chance for a wide open three-pointer at this time!
Seeing that no one was coming to defend, Howard dribbled the ball a little to adjust his state, and then made a decisive three-pointer!

Howard didn't make too many three-pointers. Seeing Howard's three-pointer this time, the people on the Lakers bench stood up one after another, raised their hands, and prepared to celebrate for Howard.

I saw the basketball draw a beautiful arc in the air, and fell into the basket hollow! !

"Oh oh oh, that's a good shot!!"

"Indeed, this shot is beautiful, it's hard for you to see this kind of shot from a traditional center forward!"

Howard's three-pointer was beautiful, and the two commentators at the Timberwolves Target Center also applauded.

The Lakers bench also fell into madness, and everyone stood up to celebrate Howard!

Lin Fei, who saw the ball from the sidelines, also raised his hands high, with a smile on his face, and he couldn't stop applauding for Howard.

Worthy of being a shooter in the finals! ! !
The Lakers scored successively at the beginning, and Timberwolves coach Chris Finch couldn't sit still, so he quickly called a timeout to adjust his strategy.

"Hey guys, it's okay to play offensively, just play like this, play harder!"

Chris Finch first encouraged the Timberwolves players, then changed the subject and started talking about the Timberwolves players.

"However, guys, our defense is a bit bad, allowing James of their team to score too many points in the paint!"

"They just gained an advantage on the court, and the lineup after the timeout will not change. Next, we need to strengthen the inside defense. Towns, Vanderbilt, facing their 5-out lineup, how much do you remember? Go inside to make up defense!"

After Chris Finch finished speaking, Towns on the side didn't understand, and asked the head coach suspiciously: "But, if we help defend inside, wouldn't Howard and Thick Eyebrow on the outside be emptied?"

"They will get a lot of three-point opportunities, and Howard just scored a three-pointer!"

Chris Finch understood what Towns meant, and explained softly: "Let you help defend, help defend! Remember not to completely let go of the players you are defending!"

"When Towns and Vanderbilt go to the inside to defend, Beverly, Edward, Russell, you skate faster, and help Towns and Vanderbilt to defend Thick Eyebrow and Howard!"

"Don't worry, guys! Thick Eyebrow's three-point shooting rate this season is not high. Although Howard has some three-point ability, three-pointers are not his conventional weapon after all!"

After Chris Finch finished talking about the defensive strategy and encouraged the players, the timeout just ended and the game restarted!
As expected by Chris Finch, the Lakers did not change the lineup, and still continued the starting lineup!
This ball is the Timberwolves offensive round!
This time, Edward took the initiative to take the ball and pushed it into the frontcourt!

Edward has already become the boss of the Timberwolves this season. Now facing the unfavorable situation at the beginning, Edward feels that he needs to respond!

Although he was eager to respond, Edward still maintained his sanity. Facing James' tough defense, Edward did not choose to be reckless, but chose to call a pick-and-roll, changing the defender he was facing to a weaker defender. Hilde.

Edward, who has good physical fitness, is extremely fast, and he kicks the ground directly to start a breakthrough!
Hilde's defensive pace was very slow, and he couldn't resist Edward's impact at all. Edward easily entered the inside line and scored an easy layup.

Vogel on the sidelines frowned seeing Hilde being rushed by Edward so easily.

Vogel looked back at Gary Clark on the bench, and said in a deep voice: "Hey, Clark, warm up and get ready to play!"

Gary Clark nodded, quickly took off his jacket, and warmed up on the sidelines in his jersey.

Look back to the playing field.

At this time, the possession of the ball returned to the Lakers, and it was still James who advanced with the ball.

According to the instructions of the coach during the timeout, the Timberwolves faced the Lakers' five-out formation. The Timberwolves still adopted man-to-man defense. Vanderbilt is staring at the inside, ready to make up for the defense at any time!

Even if James at the top of the arc passes Beverly, he still has to face the complementary defenses of Towns and Vanderbilt.

Facing the two tall insiders of the Timberwolves, James didn't dare to go hard, so he could only choose to distribute the ball to Howard and Thick Eyebrow who were open on the outside!
But the Timberwolves' perimeter defensive players are very fast, and Howard and Nongmei's shots are often subject to some weak interference!

In the face of these weak interferences, Howard and Big Eyebrow did not respond effectively at first. The two of them did not feel good about the three-pointer in today's game, and they frequently hit the iron. Dare to make a shot, the Lakers' offense has stalled!

Not to mention the poor performance on the offensive end, the Lakers also had problems on the defensive end.

The three-point strikes of Nongmei and Howard caused a lot of long rebounds. Once such long rebounds are taken by Timberwolves outside players, it will be a quick defensive counterattack!

It is difficult for the Lakers' large lineup to keep up with the fast break speed of the Timberwolves' outside players, and they cannot cause effective interference at all. This has caused the Timberwolves' outside players to frequently and easily score fast break layups!

It has to be said that Timberwolves head coach Chris Finch's strategic arrangement was very successful this time, and the little lead the Lakers had originally established was quickly overtaken!
The Lakers coach Vogel on the sidelines also saw that the momentum was wrong, and quickly called a timeout to make adjustments.