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Chapter 96 This damn wolf king spirit! (Third update, first order please!)

After the game against the Bulls, the Bucks got on the plane and continued to fly west, from the Eastern Division to the Western Division, and from 01 to 02.

Although the new year has a new atmosphere, the next schedule for the Bucks is not easy at all. The Bulls, the underdogs in the East, are just appetizers, and the real devil's schedule has just begun.

The first stop of the Bucks' four-link Western Conference, and the fourth Minnesota Timberwolves in the Western Conference!
He Li met Garnett again, and He Li would naturally be prepared for this.

"Didn't expect it!" He Li still threw the ball into the basket steadily in the face of Garnett's small movements.

At the beginning of the game, the Timberwolves missed the first attack. The Bucks grabbed the rebound and did not rush to play, but slowly advanced.

Alstom passed the ball to He Li, and He Li faced Garnett's defense and scored the first goal of the game.

Garnett thought that his small moves would make He Li suffocate, and then by blocking the block from the front, he would be able to prevent He Li's jumper.

Unexpectedly, just as Garnett got started, he pinched Zai Heli's weakness as usual, felt the touch from his fingertips, and immediately thought in his heart: "It's not good!"

"Waist protection?"

Facing Garnett's question, He Li smiled and said: "It seems that this is not the first time you have encountered this situation!"

I have to say that Garnett has enough defensive experience.

There are not many defensive players who use waist protection these days, but Garnett still guessed it. Obviously, this is not the first time he has encountered a prepared player like He Li.

However, you have Zhang Liangji, I have a wall ladder.

Garnett's defense and small moves are very good, but Garnett did not rely entirely on defense to achieve his current achievements.

In the next round, Garnett responded with the ball and hit He Li on the head.

Garnett's height, wingspan, and weight have advantages over He Li. It's normal for He Li to defend but can't.

However, He Li reciprocated the same way, and returned the little tricks he learned from Garnett to Garnett.

Although Garnett scored this goal, it was definitely not easy.

Next, He Li continued to hit Garnett with the ball behind his back, but he just pretended to attack.

After the game against the Bulls, He Li and Reid have been training together for a long time. Over the past two days, the two have developed some tacit understanding.

When Reed saw He Li hitting back, he knew He Li was calling him and waiting for him without jumping for the first time.

Reid immediately shook off the defender and cut to the basket.

He Li attacked for nearly two seconds before jumping to open up space and make a shot.

Garnett didn't have eyes behind his back, and his attention was all on He Li, so he couldn't guess that He Li was a fake caster.

The other Timberwolves players reacted a step slower, and when they reacted, Reid had already completed the dunk.

"Why don't you dare to hit me with my moves? What are you hesitating about? Coward!"

When He Li and Reid clapped their hands to celebrate, Garnett suddenly questioned He Li.

Obviously, Garnett has been paying attention to He Li for more than a day or two. He Li's iron-blooded jumper is a regular scoring method.

Garnett could guess that He Li would definitely cast an iron-blooded jumper in front of him, but now He Li not only didn't do it, instead of taking the initiative to attack, he passed the ball instead.

"The lone wolf dies, but the pack lives! KG, do you understand the spirit of the wolf king?"

Hearing He Li's rhetorical question, Garnett was stunned for a moment.

"Lone wolf dies, pack of wolves live? Are you asking me if I understand the spirit of the wolf king?"

Garnett said that he was also caught by this question all at once.

Garnett's trash talking to He Libiao was not a subconscious move, but the result of careful thinking.

Before the game started, Garnett knew that the Bucks were No. [-] in the Eastern Conference. Now this Bucks, He Li plays a very important role.

If He Li can only score and grab rebounds, then the Timberwolves will probably win this game.

Because as long as Garnett redeems Heli, the remaining Bucks are nothing to fear.

However, Garnett knew very well that He Li still had good organizational skills.

He Li can pull out to give people a pick-and-roll, can support in a high position, or pass the ball out by attracting double-teams, so that teammates have more comfortable shooting space.

Countless calculations, Garnett did not expect that He Li can still send assists to his teammates in the low post.

After Garnett heard the news, he immediately thought that He Li had to be ridiculed, and He Li fell into a tit-for-tat, infinite singles mode. He had to restrict He Li from connecting with other Bucks players.

If he doesn't do this, then even if he and He Li restrict each other and consume energy, He Li will at most have a lower scoring ability and fewer rebounds, but he still has the ability to make it easier for his teammates to score.

And he consumes the same amount of physical strength, but the Timberwolves will have some problems.

The lone wolf dies, the pack lives!How could Garnett not know this truth?
The Timberwolves have a strong defense because Garnett supported the entire defensive system, not center Rasu Nesterovic.

Rasu Nesterovic is a white center. Although he is big, he can resist O'Neal a few times, but his footsteps are really not fast.

Not to mention a small guy like Reed who can't judge which hand is laying up.

Therefore, if Garnett wants to pull Heli to blew himself up, he must consider the result with the greatest benefit.

Garnett has not been paying attention to He Li for a day or two. Garnett is very clear that after He Li broke through the rookie wall, his offensive ability is incomprehensible.

Even facing a player like Duncan, He Li's offensive efficiency still hasn't changed much.

Garnett thought that he would not be weaker than Duncan, and even had stronger defensive ability, but he knew very well that he couldn't completely defend He Li.

That is to say, if he focuses on assisting defense and changes directions to weaken He Li's organizational ability, then it is very likely that He Li will use his excellent scoring ability to attack him once or twice, one after another, until he is shot.

In this way, he may not be able to guard He Li, and the Timberwolves may not be able to guard against the Bucks' offense, and they may lose the game.

The lesser of two evils, Garnett hopes that he will redeem He Li, limit He Li's organizational ability, and hand over the game to other players of the two teams.

However, He Li was not fooled at all, and launched a soul torture on him.

"You can still be in a daze while playing a game, aren't you stupid?" the big dog said in desperation.

Speaking of just now, the Timberwolves didn't notice that Garnett was suddenly in a daze, so they quickly served and attacked.

Seeing that Garnett was still standing there, the Bucks saw that it was a five-on-four situation, and they all chose to press the audience and steal a wave.

Alston was in a hurry, and Billups made a gambling steal, but it didn't work.But the big dog following behind accelerated towards Billups, and before Billups could react, the ball in his hand was gone.

Although the Big Dog's defense is not good, he averaged one steal per game.

After the Big Dog grabbed the ball, he made a fast break, scored a dunk, and then made another insult to Garnett.

Garnett came back to his senses, only to realize that their Timberwolves were already 4 points behind.

Garnett regained his energy and cooperated with his teammates to score points, but Wally Szczerbiak hit the iron with two points. Garnett grabbed the rebound and passed it to Billups on the outside. Billups also hit the iron with a three-pointer.

This wave of iron strikes really broke Garnett's heart.

After the Bucks grabbed a defensive rebound, they immediately played a fast break.

The Timberwolves didn't settle fast, but Reed missed a three-pointer after chasing him. Fortunately, the big dog picked up the rebound and broke into the basket to challenge Garnett and Rasu Nesterovich.

Garnett realized that the big dog might break through and score the ball, but Garnett couldn't decide whether to pass to He Li or Reed, and Joel was stuck at the basket, so Garnett could only guard against the big dog first.

Sure enough, the big dog passed the ball to He Li, and waited for Garnett to continue to defend in front of He Li.

He Li has already set his posture.

"This is the iron-blooded jumper you want, are you satisfied?"

Before the basketball fell into the basket, He Li turned around and roared in celebration.

The iron-blooded big jumper really boosts morale, but sometimes it will be stopped by the referee and a technical foul will be awarded to prevent the field from being wiped out.

With the experience of playing against Garnett last time, He Li understands that he can't yell at Garnett face-to-face, but now he is yelling at his teammates. It shouldn't be a problem, right?
As for whether the celebration in advance will pretend to be a failure, in fact, He Li doesn't care.

It doesn't matter if you fail, anyway, this is not a live broadcast across the United States. The memory of the audience in the Minnesota area is limited, and the scene of pretending to be ugly will be forgotten in a few days.

But if the pretense is successful, He Li can ask someone to ask for the video of the game after the game, edit the highlights at that time, and then ask his team to pretend to be passerby fans from time to time and come out to recall a wave.

There is one thing to say, He Li had a good time with Jeff Austin, and his business level has been significantly improved.

Closer to home, Alston was yelled at by He Li. He was a little dumbfounded at first, but then realized that He Li was pretending to be aggressive to Garnett.

Alston saw He Li facing Garnett's defense and scoring a mid-range shot, and felt the heroism coming to his face. He was Spartan!

"CIC can still be so handsome?"

The Bucks are 8 to 2, leading the Timberwolves by a full 6 points.

And He Li scored 2 points on 2 of 4 shots alone, and these 4 points were scored against Garnett.

The Timberwolves coach knew that something was wrong, so he quickly called a timeout.

After the timeout ended, the Timberwolves had no problem attacking, and the Bucks did not have a small climax like just now.

However, at the end of the first quarter, He Li took the initiative to talk trash to Garnett when the Bucks took the lead.

"Why don't you make a move, why don't you dare to hit me with my moves? What are you hesitating about? Coward!

The pack of wolves was helpless, and the wolf king bowed his head. KG, do you understand the spirit of the wolf king?
KG, for the next game, I hope you don't let me down! "

Garnett knows what He Li is talking about, good guy, the iron-blooded jumper, the spirit of the wolf king is yours, so what am I?
The Timberwolves fell behind in the first quarter, partly because of Garnett. Garnett's performance was really not very good.

Faced with He Li's ridicule at this time, Garnett was really powerless to refute.

However, Garnett was not angry. As a master of trash talk, how could he be easily broken by his "imitator"?
Because the first quarter consumed a lot of energy, Garnett did not play at the beginning of the second quarter.

What's interesting is that the Timberwolves' bench lineup not only did not lose points, but it seemed to be on par with the Bucks' bench lineup led by He Li.

The Timberwolves played extremely anxiously against the Bucks in the second quarter. The key point was that the Timberwolves' backup shooting guard Anthony Peeler suddenly broke out.

Who would have thought that a small backup shooting guard made 5 of 3 shots, 2 of 2 three-pointers, and 5 of 4 free throws. He scored 5 points on 12 shots in total, and his scoring efficiency was so abnormal?
To be honest, there is no way to prevent this sudden unexpected situation in any game.

This really echoes that sentence, it's not that our army doesn't work hard, but the enemy army has Gundam.

In fact, before Garnett played in the second quarter, He Li made 3 of 2 shots and 2 of 2 free throws. He scored 6 points.

But in comparison between the two, He Li can only bow down.

After Garnett re-entered the court, Garnett resumed his offense and stepped up his efforts against He Li.

Obviously, Garnett wants to use the offense to further consume He Li's physical strength, hoping to use this method to weaken He Li's influence on the game in the second half.

It seems that Garnett felt good in the second quarter. By the end of the second quarter, Garnett had come from behind. He made 13 of 6 shots, 5 of 5 free throws, and scored 17 points, 11 rebounds and 4 assists.

He Li made 9 of 6 shots and 3 of 3 free throws. Because of the small number of shots and rebounds, he really couldn't beat Garnett. In the end, he only had 15 points, 6 rebounds and 7 assists.

"Is this the second forward in the Eastern Conference?"

"If it's just like this, after tonight, all the female fans who cheered for you will scream for me!"

In the previous All-Star voting, Garnett was a little behind Duncan.In other words, today's game is a contest between the second forwards in the East and West.

Judging from the game data in the first half, Garnett's scoring and rebounding, who also served as a power forward, seemed to fully surround He Li.

Of course, this data cannot withstand scrutiny. From the perspective of on-site performance, perhaps He Li is better.

But for Garnett, performance doesn't matter.Garnett is constantly looking for opportunities to stimulate He Li, let He Li react in the direction he wants.

However, He Li was not fooled, but kept stimulating his psychological defense.

He Li laughed at Garnett and said, "Kevin, when will you be number one in the Western Conference?"

In the All-Star voting, Garnett is the second forward in the Western Conference after Duncan, and the Timberwolves only rank fourth in the regular season.

Wen has no first, Wu has no second.

This season, the Bucks double-killed the Spurs, and He Li's matchup can also be said to have defeated Duncan.Before that, the Bucks and He Li also defeated the Timberwolves and Garnett once.

The Bucks are still in the lead in this game, and He Liju's "No. [-] in the Western Conference" is still very lethal.

During the intermission, Garnett did not recover for a while.

However, time was ticking and the game quickly entered the third quarter.

For the Bucks, the Big Dog led the team at the beginning of the third quarter, while Tim Thomas defended Garnett.

Naturally Tim Thomas couldn't guard Garnett, but Garnett couldn't guard Tim Thomas either.

Tim Thomas, who doesn't fight or grab, is easy to be ignored, but sometimes he will suddenly become a bench bandit.

In the second quarter, He Li fed the ball to Tim Thomas. Tim Thomas said that he would not eat the food that came from him. He made 5 of 1 shots and only hit a three-pointer.

In the third quarter, when He Li was away, Tim Thomas suffered another wave of Garnett's small moves, and suddenly lost his temper!
In the end, he made 6 of 5 shots, 3 of 2 three-pointers, and scored 12 points, almost the same as Anthony Peeler in the second quarter.

Sometimes the game is like this, role players will come out of the blue and bring some surprises to the audience.

In the third quarter, the Big Dog made 6 of 3 shots and only scored 6 points. However, relying on the explosion of Tim Thomas, the Bucks expanded their scoring advantage to more than 10 points.

After He Li returned to the court, facing Garnett, who was not physically strong and was depressed by Tim Thomas, He Li bombarded him with "killing you while you are sick".

He Li scored 21 points in three quarters. Although Garnett also had 22 points, after the third quarter, the Timberwolves were already 16 points behind.

However, the Timberwolves did not give up in the fourth quarter.

Except for Garnett, the other starters struggled hard at the beginning of the fourth quarter.

The Bucks will let the big dog lead the team again. As the big dog can't lead the team, then He Li will play and lead the team.

He Li just waited for Garnett to play, and when the time came, he would fight the king against the king.

However, during the period when the big dog led the team, some people in the Timberwolves exploded.

Big Dog: "I have provoked someone, why do I lead the team and people keep cheating?"

Billups' performance in the past few seasons has been mediocre, but in fact Billups is the same No. [-] pick as Duncan.

There is no doubt that Billups is a genius, but why didn't he play out in the past few seasons, but instead became a parallel importer?
I can only blame the coach for not being able to do it, and Billups was actually taken care of in the Timberwolves. Later, when he met a coach like Carlisle who is good at using guards, it was even better.

During the Timberwolves, Billups was a nerve knife and a convulsion player, and he could explode from time to time.

Billups exploded today. He started slowly in the first three quarters, but in the fourth quarter, after warming up, he started to explode.

Three three-pointers in a single quarter, all of which were hit.

The big dog's eyes turned green: "God is so unfair to me!"

Seeing that the Timberwolves were about to start, George Karl pressed the timeout ahead of time, allowing He Li to play and lead the team.

He Li played to stabilize the situation, but after Garnett played, the Timberwolves were still chasing points.

By the last minute of the game, although the Bucks were still 1 points ahead of the Timberwolves, there were only 4 points left.

George Karl had no choice but to replace the big dog to serve as a scoring point at critical moments. Of course, He Li was still on the court, still defending Garnett.

With 48 seconds left in the game, the Bucks missed the ball. If the ball hits, the game will be less suspenseful, but it just missed.

Although Garnett had offense in the fourth quarter, but not much, because he wanted to keep his physical strength at the most critical moment.

Garnett once again lived up to expectations and grabbed a rebound. The Timberwolves used Garnett's pass to launch a fast break.

The Bucks didn't catch up here, and Billups made a solid mid-range shot.

"Is this really Mr. Key?"

This is true, only the wrong name, not the wrong nickname!

At this moment, Billups looks tougher than Garnett.

Fortunately, after the shot, with 39 seconds left in the game, the Bucks had the ball and had a 2-point lead.

At critical moments, only key players can stand up and score.

Before the big dog hit the iron, the Bucks were all up and down, so they could only hand the ball to He Li to handle it.

He Li also did not disappoint the Bucks players.

He Li hit Garnett with his back first, then jumped up and passed the ball to Dagou. Dagou understood what He Li meant and rushed in directly.

At the same time, He Li ran to the right corner to catch the ball.

The other players of the Timberwolves saw He Li's sudden move and knew that the situation was not good, so some players immediately rushed over.

But He Li had already received the pass from the big dog, and then he made a long-range shot with no defense in the bottom corner.

"brush--"

"Unbelievable!"

"Fantastic!"

"Can you get in here?"

The Timberwolves home fans at the scene thought that He Li made a few random shots, and they thought it was funny to see He Li was unguarded and still used sky hooks.

But I don't want to, He Lina is really a brave man, and at the most critical moment, he helped the Bucks make a three-pointer.

This is a valuable three-pointer, and it is also a three-pointer that shoots through the Timberwolves' defense and breaks the morale of the Timberwolves.

With 22 seconds left in the game, how can the Timberwolves recover 5 points?How to win the game?

Not only the Timberwolves fans were desperate, but Garnett at the scene didn't know how to spend the next 22 seconds.

At this time, the head coach of the Timberwolves, Philip Saunders, was also desperate, but with the last timeout left, he could only use this timeout first.

During the timeout, Philip Sanders tried his best to organize words to motivate the players, hoping that everyone would finish the game seriously without leaving any regrets.

Garnett took the lead in yelling twice to motivate the players.

But the Timberwolves players seem to feel the anxiety and uneasiness of the Wolf King.

In the last 22 seconds, there are still 5 points left. The only tactic the Timberwolves can deploy is to hit a three-pointer first.

Soon, Garnett gave Billups a pick-and-roll, allowing Billups to shoot a three-pointer to chase points.

Although the two hadn't cooperated much before, the effect of this pick-and-roll was really good.

However, the Bucks were not unprepared. As soon as Billups received the ball and the pick-and-roll was not over, the Bucks fouled Gary Trent, who had a poor free throw percentage for the Timberwolves.

Gary Trent made two free throws at the free throw line.

First free throw, Duang!

The Bucks suddenly felt stable here!

The second free throw, it was Duang again!
If it weren't for rebounding, the players on the Bucks side would be lying on the ground laughing.

However, I couldn't laugh anymore!

Garnett's offensive ability may not be the hardest at critical times, but his defense and rebounding are definitely strong enough.

Garnett grabbed another rebound, Billups saw this, immediately ran outside the three-point line.

The Bucks noticed something here and immediately double-teamed Billups. Unexpectedly, Garnett passed the ball to Anthony Peeler.

"brush--"

"Come in!"

Like the other teammates, He Li's heart skipped a beat.

Meanwhile, George Karl also used the last timeout.

George Karl replaced Alston, because Alston made less than 7% of his free throws, and replaced Mark Pope, a backup power forward.

At the best moment, the Bucks can handle the ball and let Reed dribble.

Although Mark Pope only made 5% of his free throws, but after all, he sat off the court and had physical strength.

In addition, the team replaced the shortest guard with a power forward, and it was easier to rebound.

With 12 seconds left in the game, the Bucks won as long as they controlled the ball and made sure the Timberwolves didn't foul them to get the ball from them.

George Karl had laid out everything that could be arranged, but man was not as good as God.

Facing the pressure of Billups, Reed made a dribble error, and the ball bounced off his foot.

Billups missed the ball, but the ball still fell into the hands of the Timberwolves and was picked up by Gary Trent.

Fortunately, Mark Pope, who had just played, had physical strength and quickly caught up with Gary Trent and gave him a big cap.

The ball went out of bounds with 4.3 seconds left in the game.

There was no timeout on both sides. As long as the Bucks defend the Timberwolves from shooting three-pointers, as long as they don't lose, they will play overtime at most.

However, at the last moment, the Timberwolves chose to pass the ball to Garnett, allowing Garnett to play He Li inside and score two points first.

He Li also thought this was the case at first, but when Garnett turned over and made a jumper, Garnett chose to pass the ball.

The ball was passed to Wally Szczerbiak who was outside the three-point line. Wally Szczerbiak faced the defense of the big dog, raised his knife and hit a three-pointer.

"I really don't know the spirit of the wolf king! But I know, I can share the victory with my teammates!"

"Come on, you didn't shoot any of the shots at the critical moment, but you pretended to force them all!" After saying this, He Li still felt a little sore in his mouth.

But there is no way, George Karl sent a big dog who was going to turn the tide at a critical moment, whoever wants to be defeated by the big dog everywhere.

Of course, it was just because He Li suddenly lost the game, he felt that he could have won, but he lost the game at a critical moment, or because someone else lost, then he was very upset and wanted to complain.

But soon, He Li let go.

There has never been a quiet time, just because someone is carrying the weight for you.

The big dog was always the one to take the blame, the big deal was that he didn't do his job at the critical moment this time.

He Li will definitely be useful to the boss in the future, so let's continue as brothers.

No kidding, the current situation of the Bucks is really difficult to play against a strong team.

This is the first time that He Li played so easily at a critical moment, but this situation will happen many times in the future, and He Li doesn't know whether he will be an undercover agent for Dagou when he encounters this situation in the future.

So, nothing to blame, nothing to complain about.

To say a thousand words and ten thousand, the reason why I lost the game was because I was not strong enough.

If you are capable, you can carry the team. If you are not capable, you can find a brother.

He Li chose to let go and be kinder to himself and his teammates.

At this time, Garnett also chose to be friendly to the opponent He Li.

"This season is over, is the kid interested in exchanging jerseys?"

"Hey, this damn wolf king's spirit is still a bit fascinating!"

(End of this chapter)