one-handed ball

Chapter 11 Answers
The Timberwolves on the court put up a "five-forward tactic" similar to what Pat Riley said. Grasp the initiative on the field, then the second half will be very difficult.Therefore, Whitman's formation of this lineup may have been a flash of inspiration, but it is more likely that he was forced out by the situation.

If someone said before this game that the Timberwolves would hand over the outcome of a game to a rookie, then others would think that this person is crazy, but this is the case, the initiative on the court is in the hands of Zheng Ke.

Now the focus of the audience is on Zheng Ke, can he play a good point guard?
It is not that Iverson has defended against big men before, but they were all defended after dislocations, like the opponent is a point guard with a big man over two meters in length. He has seen the little emperor of the Cleveland Cavaliers before And Rocket McGrady played like this.

However, Iverson obviously thinks highly of Zheng Ke. Zheng Ke has no organizational skills at all now. He is just a pure "point" guard, so just after halftime, Zheng Ke hit the ground and passed the ball to Jefferson. .

From the standpoint of the audience, there is only one Jefferson singles inside, and the remaining Zheng Ke, Gerald Green, Gossman, and Corey Brewer are all standing outside the three-point line, and the distance between each other quite big.

That's right, this is the Magic's tactic, a super insider plus four shooters standing on the outside, but compared to the Magic, the Timberwolves' outside height has an advantage, but the three-pointer is better or worse than the Magic.

Martin succeeded in Jefferson's inside singles and caused Martin to foul and made an additional penalty.
Offensive and defensive rotation, Zheng Ke defends Iverson at the top of the arc.

Iverson is in control of the ball, making tactical gestures.It is impossible to say that Zheng Ke is not nervous. There is no one under the reputation. Although Iverson's speed is not as fast as his peak period, the results of the Sky Eye investigation told him that Iverson is still a superstar with an ability value of 90. Especially the speed item, which still reached 91! !
Suddenly, Ivor dribbles the ball to his right hand with a crotch dribble.

Zheng Ke was unmoved, he thought to himself: "There must be a counter move!"

I didn't know that Iverson really only dribbled. After he handed the ball to his right hand, he accelerated and rushed to the right. His amazing explosive power and speed immediately passed Zheng Ke.

"I'm going!" Zheng Ke cursed secretly, and hurried to follow, but he was already one body behind, and could only watch helplessly as Iverson made a throw before Jefferson made up the defense.

"Although I don't know what you are going to do, but I want to say, your defense is really bad, rookie!" After returning, Iverson machine-gunned a trash talk in Zheng Ke's ear.

"No matter how good the offense is, you didn't wear a ring, did you?" Zheng Ke was not angry, but replied with a smile.

Iverson finally knew why Anthony was angry. This second-round rookie's mouth is too poisonous, and he only exposes other people's scars. Seeing Zheng Ke's smiling face, he also wanted to beat him up.

The Timberwolves attacked, and Jefferson made a hook against Martin.

"Martin, what are you doing! Let it go! Allen, you double-team Jefferson in the next round! Don't let him score so easily!" Nuggets coach George Karl roared from the sidelines.

The Nuggets attack.

This time Zheng Ke stepped back one meter away from Iverson.

"Oh, isn't it anti-burst and anti-shot?" Iverson murmured: "Do you think you can prevent me like this? How naive!"

Iverson dribbled the ball in a cross step and gradually moved forward.Zheng Ke retreated step by step, and the distance between the two sides was always maintained between half a meter and one meter.

Iverson made a breakthrough to the left, but Zheng Ke didn't move, "It's so far away, I won't have time to move when you come here." Zheng Ke thought.

Unexpectedly, Iverson's breakthrough was a fake action. He took a backward step in an instant, and then shot a jumper.

"What?" Zheng Ke was shocked, but he was too far away from Ivers, and with Iverson's retreat, Zheng Ke couldn't do anything to Iverson even if he raised his long arms. What a distraction.

Fortunately, the arc of the ball was too flat, and it hit the back edge of the basket and did not make a shot.

"Put it on, Zheng! Use your speed to follow him!" Whitman roared dissatisfied from the sidelines.

Zheng Ke nervously made an ok gesture to show that he understood.After all, Zheng Ke is just a rookie. He has only played 7 games. There are many players in the NBA. They have their own styles.

So in the next round, Zheng Ke didn't retreat, and still used the original defense, using his long and big arms to oppress Iverson, and he didn't dare to be too aggressive to prevent being fouled by Iverson.Iverson's speed is indeed fast, but Zheng Ke's speed is not slow either. Zheng Ke's speed reached 88 after speed training, which is almost the top speed of the NBA. Under this speed, coupled with his teammates Double-teaming, Iverson's offense has been greatly restricted.Iverson couldn't start the situation, and the offense of the Nuggets team was hindered!
"Oh, God!" Smith, who was sitting on the sidelines, exclaimed: "This second-round pick did a great job!"

"He actually prevented the answer." Barkley also felt a little incredible: "I think our young man from China has found the answer to survive in the NBA!"

There is nothing wrong with the Nuggets' lineup, Iverson, Diawara, Kleiza, Kenyon Martin, Camby, but compared with the Timberwolves' lineup, the Nuggets obviously lack Vigorous, the defense turns too slowly.

After Jefferson was double-teamed by the Nuggets, he did not choose to play hard, but chose to pass the ball outside. After the Timberwolves outside players passed the ball into the hands of open players.Zheng Ke, Brewer, and Green each threw a three-pointer, and the Timberwolves recovered the score in an instant, 38:38! !
"Drip~~" The Nuggets requested a timeout.

George Karl's face turned pale. He didn't expect to recover the score by relying on the Timberwolves' way of playing.

"Martin rests, Nene, you go on, you must guard Jefferson after you play! Camby also rests, Najera, you go to the game, pay more attention to running after you play, you are a veteran, give more Those rookies from the Timberwolves are causing trouble!" Carl's eyes gradually brightened.

"Allen, you make that rookie foul a lot, he has absolutely no experience in this area," Carl turned his head and said to Iverson.

"I know the coach." Iverson said sullenly. The kid's defense just now had a big impact on him. He played very depressed. Now he has to foul a rookie again. There is nothing wrong with it, but this makes Iverson, who has a strong self-esteem, quite upset.

"Coach, why don't you let me go!" Anthony said, shaking off the towel.

"No, what you have to do now is to recover your strength. In the second half, you and Allen should sum up the game together." Carl waved his hand and said.

Timberwolves on the bench.

"Zheng, you did a good job!" The head coach patted Zheng Ke who came down from the field with satisfaction.This made the friends who also came down from the field very upset.

"Coach, what about us?" The extroverted Green said with a smile, "I also scored a three-pointer just now!"

"Of course, boys, you all did a great job!" Whitman clapped his hands to the players who came down from the court one by one: "You are about to overthrow a strong contender for the championship!"

"As long as we maintain this state and share the ball with each other, we can definitely win this game!" Whitman clapped his hands and cheered loudly:
"Let's keep fighting!"

(End of this chapter)