basketball myth

(Thank you zhouyu1976)

The five minutes of overtime can be regarded as a successful rescue of the game for the Timberwolves at this moment.

Because the next overtime game is a brand new five minutes, the Timberwolves can completely start from scratch, and they should not make mistakes easily again.

However, this overtime was a bit unacceptable and very depressing for the Mavericks, who were already almost certain to win.

Li Feng's two consecutive wonderful goals in the last twenty seconds were like two heavy sap hitting the Mavericks, causing them to quickly feel a lot of regret, and the team's momentum was reduced.

It has inevitably shrunk a lot.

Especially Mark Cuban, the big boss behind the Mavericks. He had just planned to stand up and celebrate the Mavericks' victory, and also make a joke with Li Feng. In fact, he really didn't believe it. Li Feng only made two seconds.

A reversal can be directed within a few minutes.

Who knows, although Li Feng didn't really completely turn the game around, he did put the Timberwolves on the same starting line as the Mavericks again, without losing the game at all.

So at this moment, Mark Cuban was standing on his seat, his expression had quickly changed from expectant to bitter and depressed, with a hint of surprise. Something was gradually wrong with the way he looked at Li Feng.

However, Li Fengke, who scored at the buzzer, had not forgotten the big boss of the Mavericks. He continued to smile at him like a demonstrator, and then walked towards the Timberwolves bench with his head held high.

Since both sides still have five minutes to decide the outcome of the game, their players need to take a good rest first.

On the bench of the Timberwolves, including head coach Rambis, the Timberwolves players were very surprised and happy about Li Feng's key performance just now. But now is not the time for everyone to celebrate.

After the pleasantries, everyone continued to listen intently to Rambis's tactical arrangements in overtime.

They were lucky enough to escape, but that doesn't mean they will be fine. If they don't perform well in overtime, then the Timberwolves will just be wasting time by entering overtime as they wished.

Therefore, they must show a stronger state and fighting spirit, and must not waste the five minutes of the game easily. At least they must think about how to play more effectively and how to win the game conveniently and smoothly.

The Mavericks, of course, are also very serious and united, and are not willing to lose the home victory easily.

In addition, since the two teams have been fighting fiercely for 48 minutes, foul problems on both sides in the upcoming overtime may also change the final direction of the game.

Although many of the Timberwolves players have not been sent off so far, their actual situation is not good at all. The two big insiders Nikola Pekovic and Kevin Love

, now all five fouls are committed. It is indeed a very dangerous situation. Michael Beasley on the outside is not much better, he also has four fouls.

Li Feng is slightly better than his teammates. The three personal fouls he accumulated should not have much impact on the game in overtime.

However, the foul crisis situation is not only so dangerous for the Timberwolves. In fact, Dallas is not very lucky to play against the Mavericks.

The Mavericks' only inside barrier, Brandon Haywood, also suffered five fouls early on. His direct substitute, Yin En Mahinmi, was in no better condition than him, with the same five fouls.

There are also Marion and Vince Carter on the outside, each with five fouls. The Mavericks' foul situation is quite bad, even more serious than that of the Timberwolves. Even offensive core Dirk Nowitzki,

Four personal fouls are already considered a lot.

In the overtime competition between the two sides, in addition to being more focused and stronger, whoever can avoid sudden loss of players due to fouls should also have a slight advantage.

The rest time before overtime was not long. The sweat beads on the players' bodies had just begun to decrease, but they had to get up to fight again.

Li Feng casually grabbed a large towel, wiped his body vigorously, jumped on the spot twice, and once again slowly stepped onto the court at the American Airlines Center under the gaze of countless people.

Obviously, just relying on Li Feng's performance of five consecutive goals to pull the Timberwolves into overtime, he is destined to be unable to escape people's various praises. And in the current overtime, he is naturally also receiving praise.

The first thing to pay attention to is whether he can continue to dominate the overtime and lead a shocking situation.

Li Feng's personal mentality was quite good. He didn't care about the crowd watching and the cameramen's capture. At the same time, he still did not forget to say hello to Mark Cuban, the Mavericks' boss, who sat down again.

At this time, Cuban could only smile slightly, and then looked expectantly at the core of the Mavericks, Dirk Nowitzki.

Soon, the two sides restarted the jump ball. Pekovic jumped high and snatched the basketball from Heywood's hands in advance, letting the basketball fly directly into Li Feng's hands.

Li Feng grabbed the basketball, faced Sean Marion who rushed forward again, and ducked lightly to avoid the opponent's tentative steal. Then he handed the ball to Ricky Rubio and took his time.

At halftime of the Mavericks.

"Defend!"

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The fans of the Mavericks shouted loudly again. They had just come out of the shocking situation of Li Feng's two consecutive goals, but they still did not hope that Li Feng could really successfully lead the Timberwolves to win tonight's game.

Since this was overtime, the Timberwolves were very careful in their offense in the first round.

During the Ruby Olympics game, when he saw Li Feng being covered by Shawn Marion's two abnormally long arms, he did not easily choose to pass the ball, but instead handed the ball to Kevin Love.

After Kevin Love got the ball, he shouldered it hard with his back. He spent a while with Dirk Nowitzki.

At this time, Dirk Nowitzki is playing very hard, but he is not as soft as the legend says. In addition, Kevin Love is not that tough either.

So, after playing for a while, Kevin Love couldn't find the right time to take action. In desperation, he turned the ball inside at close range, trying to give it to Pekovic.

Pekovic took the ball and immediately threw it in the direction of the basket, but inevitably suffered some interference from Brandon Haywood. Unfortunately, the ball did not go in.

No goal was scored. Pekovic's first reaction was naturally to fight for offensive rebounds.

Pekovic's body was turned and leaned against by Heywood at this moment, and his position was somewhat disadvantaged. In desperation, he subconsciously stretched out his hand, brushed Heywood forward, then jumped up and grabbed Heywood's head.

rebounded.

However, at this moment, the referee's whistle sounded.

Pekovic fouled on a rebound!

Then, the referee quickly made a gesture towards Pekovic to leave the field. Obviously, this was his sixth personal foul in tonight's game.

This unexpected movement suddenly made the atmosphere at the American Airlines Center very exciting. The Mavericks fans clapped their hands and were really happy that the Timberwolves suddenly lost a capable player.

Mark Cuban also clenched his fists vigorously and shouted cheers to the Mavericks players.

After seeing Pekovic's apologetic look, the Timberwolves players did not blame him for being reckless, but instead encouraged him one after another.

On the bench, head coach Rambis quickly sent substitute center Darko Milicic to replace Pekovic for the remaining minutes of the game.

Since both sides have to accumulate three team fouls in overtime, free throws will be taken. So now the Timberwolves have only lost the ball, but they will not score points with free throws.

The Mavericks immediately started a counterattack with Jason Terry taking control of the ball. He even attempted a dribble breakthrough against Rubio.

Rubio was still a little green and was shaken away by the experienced Terry with a fake move.

After getting space, Terry's pull-up jump shot was very crisp, and he also shot the basketball very accurately.

His two points gave the Mavericks another two-point lead over the Timberwolves, 112:110.

The Timberwolves have to try their best to score, otherwise the situation on the field may become more dangerous.

After returning to the Mavericks half and facing off with Shawn Marion again for a while, Li Feng suddenly rushed outward, stood with his back in front of Marion, and took the initiative to reach out and catch Rubio's pass.

After receiving the ball, Li Feng dribbled decisively and turned around, as if he was about to pass Marion.

Marion was beaten by Li Feng before with a turning movement, so now he couldn't help but be more careful and quickly took a step back.

However, Li Feng did not really complete the breakthrough move. He patted the basketball and then stepped back from the outside!

Marion was shocked, thinking that Li Feng would choose to step back and shoot a jumper, so his body couldn't help but continue to pounce forward, and then blocked the ball back forcefully.

It wasn't until this moment that Li Feng's real killer move began to be revealed. He dribbled the ball and took the first step of his breakthrough at lightning speed, forcing a cut through Marion's unsteady body!

After passing directly, what he had to face was the blockage of Mavericks center Brandon Haywood.

For this Heywood, Li Feng had no fear, and still jumped up against his palm, and his body made heavy contact with Heywood in the air. He was like an invincible warrior, taking out an indomitable weapon.

Huge momentum!

After hanging in the air for a moment, he finally threw the basketball in the direction of the basket.

Snap!

Haywood's palm still hit his arm, but it did not change the trajectory of the basketball flying to the basket.

Immediately, the basketball jumped hard on the basket twice and rolled smoothly into the basket.

Another two plus one!

After landing, Li Feng was so excited that he kicked the pillars of the basket as hard as he could, which was quite a relief.

Now the two sides were even, and the Mavericks' starting center was also made to commit a lot of fouls.

In addition, he has one more free throw opportunity.

The Mavericks had no choice but to replace Ian Mahinmi as a temporary replacement for Brandon Haywood, who unfortunately graduated.

During this period of time, Li Feng faced the interference of the Mavericks fans who were shouting loudly. He made a solid hit of the extra penalty basketball and overtook the Mavericks by one point at 113:112.

Naturally, the Mavericks couldn't just sit back and watch the situation fall behind without taking action. They quickly launched an offensive action and returned the ball to the boss Dirk Nowitzki, who was responsible for personally directing a key score.

The other Mavericks players consciously opened up the space and tried their best to prevent the Timberwolves' defense from complementing each other or working as a team.

Li Feng had no choice but to hope that Kevin Love could stop Dirk Nowitzki and contribute a strong defense. At the same time, he also hoped that Kevin Love would not be too impulsive, lest he

If you get a foul, you'll be in trouble.

However, whatever you are afraid of will come to you.

Before Li Feng had finished thinking, the referee over there suddenly made a loud noise and quickly blew the whistle, awarding a penalty to Kevin Love. At the moment when Dirk Nowitzki was about to take a shot, the thug fouled.

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After hearing the referee's whistle and seeing the referee's actions, Li Feng helplessly exclaimed, "Oh no!"

Kevin Love also seemed very unjust. He was about to argue with the referee about something, but his temper seemed to be rising.

However, Li Feng quickly stepped forward, patted him on the shoulder, and pulled him to the bench: "Kevin, leave the rest to me, don't make a fuss. Don't worry!"

Kevin Love probably finally understood at this time that this is the home court of the Dallas Mavericks. There may be some home-biased whistles during the game, which is a very normal phenomenon. If he continues to make noise, he may have a negative impact on the Timberwolves.

The team will be even more disadvantaged. The only thing to blame is that he was too careless just now. It is really not a good choice to continue to chatter to the referee at this moment.

Soon, Matt Barnes stood up from the bench, took off his coat, and quickly walked into the court, temporarily playing power forward to defend Dirk Nowitzki.

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Since it was a shooting foul, Nowitzki made free throws and hit two consecutive free throws, once again leading the difference between the two sides back to 114:113.

Seeing two Timberwolves big men sent off in a row, the Mavericks fans at the scene also diluted their depression about Haywood being sent off, and instead gradually cheered with excitement.

But Li Feng didn't care much about this unfavorable atmosphere. After he got the ball from Rubio, he immediately launched an attack.

After playing a pick-and-roll tactic with Darko Milicic, he faced Ian Mahinmi's cover.

Li Feng quickly braked and stopped, hugged the basketball, and held it up as if he was about to jump up and shoot.

Mahin Mina is one of the typical insiders who "fly at one point". He decisively threw his body into the air, and then suddenly discovered with regret and shock that Li Feng was forced to be fouled by him!

Li Feng's process of drawing fouls was really successful. Mahinmi couldn't hide in the air even if he wanted to, and the referee on the field couldn't even call it if he didn't want to.

So, Ian Mahinmi had just come on as a substitute for the Mavericks for a while, and announced that he had committed six fouls and was about to leave the game.

The Mavericks fans at the scene were once again shocked and opened their mouths. They were very helpless, especially the big boss Mark Cuban. From their perspective at the moment, Li Feng clearly wanted to make things difficult for them and had to separate the two teams.

The situation is on the same starting line.

After the Mavericks lost Mahinmi, Carlisle had no choice but to replace Ah Lian.

A Lian is also a big player, and Carlisle wanted to let him come out and stand inside, barely playing any role.

The UAE didn't actually play a few minutes of the game tonight. Now that they were ordered to take over in overtime, they looked very solemn.

Although Li Feng had a serious chat with Ah Lian at the barbecue restaurant before, but now he was on the playing field and saw Ah Lian coming up, so he didn't talk too much. He continued to quietly shoot two free throws.

The hit turned the score over again, with the Timberwolves still suppressing the Mavericks 115:114.

Both teams have already beaten two inside players at the same time, so the other players on the field who have committed a lot of fouls have also paid a little attention to their defensive actions and dare not continue to push them to avoid being unlucky again.

He will follow in the footsteps of those who have suffered the consequences.

In the next few rounds of overtime, both sides had bad luck in scoring, and failed to score continuously. The score of 115:114 lasted until only 1 minute and 30 seconds remained.

Time has suddenly come to a critical moment. Whoever can maintain the lead in the remaining time will have the initiative.

Therefore, the Mavericks called a timeout to adjust their style of play, and then tried to attack again and try to score goals.

Soon it was Dirk Nowitzki who was the main attacker. After cooperating with his teammates to no avail, he had to force a singles and finally chose to take a jump shot.

Unfortunately, at this moment, Matt Barnes of the Timberwolves maintained a very strong defense against him, preventing him from scoring smoothly.

However, the Mavericks are really the best team in the world.

The Arab League suddenly grabbed the offensive rebound under the basket and dunked hard against the basket. While scoring the first official score of the night, the Arab League also allowed the Mavericks to score with about one minute left.

, can continue to lead the Timberwolves by one point again!

The Mavericks fans immediately regarded Arab League as a superhero and cheered and clapped enthusiastically.

The pressure to score on offense almost immediately came to the Timberwolves again.

However, after a period of serious timeout and tactical arrangements, Li Feng took the initiative to stand in the Mavericks' half court with a basketball. He seemed unhurried and did not rush to attack because time was running out.

After he suppressed the time consumption for a while, he forcibly chose to make a breakthrough in the direction of the basket.

Shawn Marion decisively defended him, but finally suffered a loss due to Li Feng's sudden change of direction and pull-up jump shot, which cost him the last personal foul he had been carefully saving.

Then, Marion also successfully graduated as a six-offender!

In less than five minutes of overtime, a total of five players from both sides were sent off the field. Among them, three players from the Mavericks were all the work of Li Feng!