The Timberwolves are in full swing, losing only two games in December after a run-in pain period in the early part of the season, and their record jumped to first place in the West. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

The three-headed monster began to exert its power, with 35-year-old Cassel and 34-year-old Sprewell surrounding 28-year-old Garnett, who was in his ninth season with the Timberwolves.

The combination of veterans is a little less risky than the combination of young players, a supergiant with two All-Star level players, the Timberwolves are finally showing their sharpest fangs, Garnett has probably waited long enough for this day, Duncan has won the championship twice as a lifelong rival.

So the strength of the Timberwolves is very terrifying, at least for today's Heat, it is not at all a grade. Before the game, no one was optimistic that the Heat would upset the Timberwolves on the road.

"Just went through an overtime with the Bucks yesterday, so it's no wonder that this game can be won." Odom was a little frightened at the thought that he might have to play against Kevin Garnett.

"The point is that Caron is not playing this game, and his knee is sore." Yang Di spread his hands, and also felt that the probability of winning this game was very small.

The players all think so, the coach is even more flat, in such a game, the mentality is relaxed first, it doesn't matter if you lose, you can win or earn.

So at the beginning of the game, Yang Di and others relaxed and warmed up.

There were many fans in the target center arena who came to watch, and because of the Timberwolves' consecutive wins during this period, the team gradually attracted the attention of the public.

Yang Di didn't know anyone in the Timberwolves, and after the warm-up, he returned to the bench to sit, and at this time, the stadium lights were turned off, and the Timberwolves began the appearance ceremony.

Garnett, Sprewell and Cassel stimulated the fans with their passionate approach, and the cheers were particularly enthusiastic, and although they were not young, they were still very energetic in style.

The Timberwolves also started Trenton Hassell and Elvin Johnson, the latter of whom has the same name as the great Lakers point guard "Magic" but is actually a black Louisiana center who excels at defense and rebounding.

On the Heat side, Alston went into the starting lineup again, then Wade and Eddie Jones were the wings, and Odom and Grant formed the interior line.

At the beginning of the game, the Heat showed a weak state, such as Odom lost the basket, was grabbed by Garnett and made a frame of two and one, such as Eddie Jones smashed the front of the basket twice in a row with an empty three-pointer, wasting a lot of opportunities, only relying on Wade's four free throws to score 4 points, and fell behind 4-11 in the opening game.

"Even if you lose, you can't give up points!" Stan Van Gundy thought to himself and called a timeout to adjust the Heat players.

Then, Cassel made a layup and easily made a small pull in front of Grant, a 35-year-old veteran!

Odom missed a jumper, the Timberwolves were on offense, and Sprewell hit the Heat's inside.

Accidentally cut to the ball by Eddie Jones, and then the basketball smashed on his leg and went out of the baseline, the Heat finally managed to defend once, and it was entirely a credit to the individual defense.

Van Gundy felt a little bad, and if it went on like this, it would take less than a quarter for the Heat.

His eyes swept over the bench, Yang Di was sitting precariously, looking ahead, neither humble nor arrogant, looking like a general.

Van Gundy nodded with satisfaction, thinking that Yang Di has really matured a lot recently, why don't you try to replace him first? Anyway, in terms of physical strength, this guy should be relatively well preserved, and he went out for a morning jog early in the morning, didn't he?

……

Yang Di appeared, "Axi, it's really cold." ”

He regretted a little that he didn't exercise well when he was warming up just now, did he turn off the air conditioning in the target center? Is it necessary to save like this?

At this time, just over the halfway point of the first quarter, the Timberwolves led the Heat by 7 points 15-8.

"Hey, change guards, buddy!" Odom ran over and secretly pulled Yang Di and said, "The 21st is handed over to you, you know." Then with an expression of "I am optimistic about you", I ran away without waiting for Yang Di to respond.

Yang Di was speechless, but in fact, before going on the court, Van Gundy had already asked him to defend Garnett, and Odom said it or not, he had to change his defense.

He tightened his pants and headed forward, and by half-time, Alston had possessed the ball past half-time.

At the position of 45 degrees at the three-point line, Wade singled out Sprewell, who is 1.96 meters tall and has also entered the best defensive lineup.

It was not easy for Wade to break through him, and after the two crotch crossovers, he turned to the left.

Under the confrontation between the two people, Wade broke through to half and distributed the ball to Eddie Jones on the other side, at this time Yang Di ran out to Eddie Jones to block and dismantle, Eddie Jones shot after a single block, Yang Di was too far away from the basket and gave up the scramble for rebounds in the front court.

Garnett jumped up to grab the rebound, and the Heat quickly stepped back.

After unhurried half-time, Cassel asked Garnett to come out to catch the ball, and Garnett responded with the ball in the high post.

Garnett, as a representative of the top power forward in history, has unprecedented versatility in the position of power forward, especially this season, so far, not only has he scored 25+ points, but also averaged nearly 14 rebounds per game, as well as 1.5 steals and 2.4 blocks on behalf of the defensive end.

The most embarrassing thing for the guards is that Garnett, as a power forward, has an average of nearly 6 assists per game, in fact, since the beginning of the 99 season, Garnett has maintained a comprehensive data of 20+10+5.

High-position strategy is already the most common tactic of the Timberwolves.

Yang Di spread his legs and locked on Garnett's back step by step, because Garnett's range within the three-point line was comprehensive, and he didn't dare to let go of his shots.

At this time, Sprewell on the right ran over to catch the ball, and made a gesture with both hands to catch the ball.

I saw Garnett grab the ball with both hands and draw a big circle, and then suddenly took a big step with his right foot, and on the side of his body, he actually broke through to the right side with the ball.

The two of them actually just made a pretended cooperation, and Garnett's breakthrough was too sudden!

The range of strides was too big, Yang Di stretched out his hand to block sideways, Garnett's arm flung over, and after the two people touched, they bounced away, and their bodies dived, and their speed was even higher, faster than ordinary small forwards!

At this time, Yang Di was defending with the basket on his back, and he didn't have time to adjust his pace, and he really watched Garnett break through his defense.

Yang Di retreated behind Garnett, Garnett rose in one step in the paint area, the bounce speed and bounce height were very amazing, Yang Di jumped in vain to chase the hat, and found that he couldn't reach it at all.

"Bang!"

Garnett flung his feet to the back of the basket with his feet, then hung the basket with both arms, turned his body around and fell, glaring at Yang Di, who had also landed at this time, and the spout was a trash word.

"Rookie, your defense is inferior."

Yang Di was angry, and his chest was about to explode, what kind of person is this, his brain is sick? immediately shot back without showing weakness: "It's true that I'm a rookie, and you haven't seen you win the championship!" What's the big deal? ”

"Say it again!" Garnett hates others to talk about winning the championship the most, and the 28-year-old is indeed in the most embarrassing situation, on the one hand, he is in the name of a top power forward, on the other hand, superstars of the same level like Kobe, Duncan, O'Neal and other superstars have won the championship, and if he doesn't win the championship at the peak, will he be old like Carl Malone and Gary Payton?

So Yang Di poked his sore foot all of a sudden, making him furious.

Yang Di snorted, didn't pay any more attention to him, and ran forward.

Then Garnett's trash talk box was completely opened by Yang Di, and after half time, he took the initiative to give up the original defensive Odom, and found Yang Di to spray wildly, Yang Di replied in three sentences, but poked him in pain every time, which made him even more angry.

Odom was very happy, Garnett let go of him to defend Yang Di, and instantly felt that the whole world was clean, the air was so beautiful, and the lights were so gorgeous......