basketball myth

() In fact, the Oklahoma City Thunder and the Minnesota Timberwolves are already very familiar with each other.

Therefore, they successfully met in this season's Western Conference finals. The two sides did not have any pretense or pretentiousness, and directly took the initiative to officially declare war on each other.

The Oklahoma City Thunder players are very confident that their team's strength has become stronger and stronger. They feel that they should be able to make history in the playoffs this season and continue to beat the Timberwolves like they did in the last playoffs.

Team novel chapter.

The Timberwolves also have similar strong self-confidence, but they don't think the Thunder can walk past them again. Instead, they think this series is the perfect time for them to complete their true revenge.

For a while, the two sides started to quarrel with each other again, just like what happened countless times before.

In response to such attacks and responses, Li Feng was naturally too lazy to say any more nonsense. He knew that he could easily become the target of public criticism, so he simply handed over the task of starting a war of words to his very professional teammates. Anyway, his

There is definitely someone among his teammates who is willing to do such a thing, and it can save him some trouble.

As for the die-hard fans of the Timberwolves and the media experts who support them, they will naturally quickly and spontaneously help them actively and violently attack their opponents, and there is no need for him to pay too much attention.

As for the Oklahoma City Thunder, the player who is mainly responsible for being the main force in the war of words is still the direct character Russell Westbrook, who also showed a strong fighting spirit and spirit for the Thunder.

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Probably because the goals of the Thunder players this season are very lofty, and no one wants to lose. Later, other Thunder players also started to have fighting ideas, and gradually participated in this war of words.

James Harden became the second Thunder main core player to verbally attack the Timberwolves after Russell Westbrook. He effectively cooperated with Westbrook's offensive actions.

In addition, although Kevin Durant, the nominal head of the Thunder, did not directly attack the Timberwolves like his two partners, he also showed his personal confidence and confidence in the Thunder in all aspects, both overtly and covertly.

strong recognition.

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The Thunder were coming with force, and it seemed that they didn't have much fear of the Timberwolves at first.

However, when the Thunder quickly entered the center of the Timberwolves' home court, they suddenly discovered that what the Timberwolves left for them was indeed a huge blocking force.

Countless people throughout Minnesota have successfully integrated with the Timberwolves team. The atmosphere in the Target Center is almost scarier than hell!

The players of the Thunder slowly adapted to the atmosphere and environment in the Target Center in a state of sudden and somewhat surprising helplessness.

But the momentum they had when they first came over seemed no longer so strong and domineering, and was quickly annihilated by the terrifying home court jointly created by the Timberwolves and fans.

In fact, this series, the Western Conference finals, can be considered a very important round.

Naturally, this shocking duel further attracted the attention of countless other fans, media experts, and there were more game broadcasters, and the on-site commentators were also completely top-notch existences.

Commentator Charles Barkley, who seemed to have not appeared in front of the eyes of most Timberwolves fans for a long time, appeared in the live commentator's seat at the Target Center together with his old partner Kenny Smith.

In addition, Shaquille O'Neal, the recently retired Shark, suddenly appeared on the commentary stage as a guest, working with Charles Barkley and Kenny Smith.

In response to this, Li Feng, who has been relaxing on the court to prepare for the training, also showed a bit of gossip and boredom.

He saw Shaq O'Neal and Charles Barkley sitting in the commentary box on the sidelines, and knew that through the descriptions of these two commentators, this game was destined to be full of a lot of bad fun and have a unique sense of entertainment.

And this kind of slightly entertaining game situation is really a very good stage for him, and he likes it very much.

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Probably the players on both sides of the game will attach great importance to this game tonight, but at the same time they are still very unhappy with the players on the other side.

As a result, they started to engage in tit-for-tat attacks against each other from the moment they got used to the training ground. This was a step further than the previous verbal spats in the air, and they started shouting trash talk at each other.

This situation on the scene lasted until the official start of the game between the two sides. It has not eased at all. Instead, it has become worse as time goes by.

Perhaps it was because they had just eliminated the powerful and disciplined San Antonio Spurs, which made the Thunder players feel pretentious and quickly showed a lot of aggression in this game.

For example, Li Feng's old enemy, Russell Westbrook, would take the initiative to find opportunities from time to time to proudly show off to Li Feng how the Thunder easily defeated championship favorites like the Spurs.

Why is it so awesome?

Of course, Li Feng has never been an economical person. He directly and harshly mocked Russell Westbrook as being brainless and unable to make comparisons at all.

He told Westbrook that this year's Spurs team is obviously one year older than last year's Spurs team. But even so, it still took the Thunder as many as six games to compete with the Timberwolves.

The performance in each season is almost the same.

In the first two rounds of this year's playoffs, the Timberwolves have achieved an extremely impressive eight-game winning streak, with two consecutive big scores of 4-0, defeating two recognized strong opponents.

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Comparing these two, it is clear at a glance who is stronger between the Timberwolves and the Thunder.

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In the following game, a verbal spat similar to this was considered a relatively good situation. In fact, both sides also had some more egregious, or can be said to be naked and abusive trash-talking attacks. The number of times was

Quite a lot.

Neither of the two sides was prepared to save face for the other tonight, and they vented their long-standing grievances to their heart's content, making this game even more sparkling!

In the first quarter of the game, because the Timberwolves took advantage of the home court by waiting for work, and had direct and crazy help from many fans at the scene, the Oklahoma City Thunder played away from home to a certain extent.

As a result, the Timberwolves successfully ended the first quarter with a 32:24 lead, slightly gaining the upper hand.

In the second quarter of the game, during the initial rotation time, there was another scuffle after the substitutes from both sides came on the field.

As a result, for the Timberwolves, veteran Tracy McGrady suddenly had a small explosion. His continuous scoring made the Thunder seem to be caught off guard again.

It has to be said that McGrady's continuous scoring ability is still quite high-level and lethal. It used to be a very terrifying existence. Although he is old now, he still has a little experience in this area. He can still explode in a short period of time.

Show a certain state and ability.

The Timberwolves took this as an opportunity to maintain the previous point difference between the two sides, and then widened it to more than ten points.

After the main players of both sides returned to the game after a period of time, the situation on the game became more and more favorable to the Timberwolves. They could basically continue to play steadily without taking any risks, which was very convenient.

Blade freely.

On the contrary, the Thunder need to make some effective changes immediately.

The Thunder were lagging behind and were naturally very aware of these crisis situations. They quickly thought of countermeasures and prepared to let Russell Westbrook serve as the spearhead of the team's offense in order to restore the Thunder's little bit of success.

Decline.

Because this guy Russell Westbrook has a crazy personality, and he often doesn’t have many complicated ideas in his mind. It’s okay to say that he is single-minded.

Therefore, in this game before, he did not suffer too much on-site influence and interference from fans, and his personal condition was always good. The grudge between him and Li Feng also allowed him to maintain a very strong fighting spirit.

In addition, the most important thing is that he is the special player when the Oklahoma City Thunder need to urgently chase points. He has always been a weapon to disrupt the game and play fast breaks. The Thunder often rely on his sudden attack.

He performed in a certain way and suddenly defeated his opponent with ease.

At this critical moment when they were slightly dangerous and lagging behind, it was easy for the Thunder to place their hopes on him again.

Sure enough, Russell Westbrook was on the scene again soon, trying to play a very overbearing style of play, and even made Ricky Rubio suffer a lot in front of him.

Fortunately, Timberwolves head coach Rambis has become more and more discerning, and his on-the-spot reaction speed has gradually become stronger and more agile. He took the initiative to replace Ricky Rubio with Wesley Johnson in a hurry.

In other words, the Timberwolves immediately used Li Feng as the only point guard on the court, and used Wesley Johnson to concentrate on guarding Russell Westbrook.

Wesley Johnson was able to come out at such an opportunity, and he was quite desperate.

Since he was a starter before, he has now degenerated into an ordinary member of the team's rotation.

This gap left him with a sense of urgency and bloodlust, and he hoped to display his personal abilities on the court in a timely manner and contribute his strong energy. He tried to return to the Timberwolves' starting lineup.

Or take on a more important role in the team.

Therefore, he had been waiting all the time, and he was really working hard after he came on the stage.

When a defender like Wesley Johnson, who is a little bigger than Russell Westbrook, uses extremely hard work to defend, the results are remarkable.

Even though Russell Westbrook's personal ability is quite powerful, he was still forced to restrict Wesley Johnson a little, and he failed to really play a key role in allowing the Thunder to recover the score in time.

And this situation is completely good news for the Timberwolves.

On the field, the Timberwolves players, under the leadership of Li Feng, further attacked the Thunder step by step, making the Timberwolves increasingly take the initiative in the game, which was very helpful in winning the final victory.

They had just completed the restriction on Russell Westbrook in a short period of time, and gradually the Thunder had no choice but to call a timeout and reset and change the emergency offensive plan on the court.

In fact, the Thunder's new scoring plan is not a secret.

Obviously, they should soon send their last ace, Kevin Durant. Let him give full play to his strong scoring ability to narrow the point difference between the two sides as much as possible. They cannot lose too much in the first half.

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And Kevin Durant quickly accepted such a task and showed no signs of backing down.

In addition, at the same time, the Thunder brought James Harden to the game and replaced the slightly tired Russell Westbrook. They tried to deal with the Timberwolves' various defenses with fresh combat power.

and restrictions.

James Harden is also a very powerful player now. He is one step ahead of Kevin Durant, controlling the ball and preparing to attack the Timberwolves.

It seems that he really wants to use his very relaxed and fresh state and energy to deal with the already exhausted Timberwolves.

James Harden does not have the abnormal physical fitness of Russell Westbrook, and Wesley Johnson just worked too hard and was a little tired.

So Li Feng personally faced Harden and returned Thunder shooting guard Thabo Sefolosha to Wesley Johnson for defense.

James Harden also seemed to want to perform well in front of Li Feng, and he quickly became very excited about Li Feng's proactive personal defense.

After a while, he used his slightly thick body to stick out his big fat butt. Facing Li Feng, he began to dribble the ball slowly.

Li Feng was not very far away from his body, so he paid attention to any breakthroughs he might make.

Li Feng has always been very clear that James Harden's next breakthrough move will most likely be his usual way of getting out of the way and stepping forward for a layup.

Sure enough, James Harden then tried a little bit of probing and feinting against Li Feng, and then decisively and quickly unfolded his body, pulled the basketball in the horizontal direction, and got out of the way of Li Feng.

When he was free, he took a step forward and rushed to the basket to score.

However, when he gradually completed these movements as quickly as he wished, he suddenly felt that Li Feng's palm unexpectedly came directly to his basketball, and moved the basketball he wanted to move to the horizontal position.

It was cut off smoothly!

Steal, see steal again!

Li Feng immediately gave the Timberwolves fanatic fans at the scene another wonderful surprise, allowing them to once again appreciate his quick steals and beautiful rhythm of taking advantage of the situation and violent counterattacks!

An easy score brought his personal score to 15 points, and the Timberwolves continued to maintain a ten-point lead over the Thunder at 53-35.

James Harden suddenly got a bad start, which aroused the strong fighting spirit in his heart. He held the basketball again in the next round and wanted to complete a step-back jumper to respond to Li Feng on the court.

Unfortunately, his step-back jump shot was still too slow, and Li Feng completely saw through it.

Then, Li Feng used a very powerful defensive move, forcing him to make the step-back shot.

Looking back, during the period when the Timberwolves continued to attack, Li Feng quickly used the foul-making style that James Harden has always been good at, and continued to deceive James Harden himself into fouling, which was considered a short period of time.

He beat James Harden repeatedly.

Under such circumstances, Kevin Love, the boss of the Thunder, naturally couldn't hold it in any longer and began to explode into a very strong scoring state. He then succeeded in successive attacks on the court, finally bringing the Thunder a

The very obvious hope suddenly rang the o'clock alarm for the Timberwolves.

Kevin Durant's sudden official display of power announced that the Thunder team was far from the end of the game. They still had a strong ability to take the game back, and it also renewed the momentum of the Thunder team.

A jolt.

Timberwolves small forward Michael Beasley was obviously unable to withstand Kevin Durant's many scoring methods, so head coach Rambis quickly replaced him with Matt Barnes.

Dedicated to guarding Kevin Durant.

However, Kevin Durant is a little different from what happened to Russell Westbrook before. He was not restricted by the Timberwolves' dedicated defensive player Matt Barnes, but continued to

He scored like crazy and kept attacking the Timberwolves' basket, which was very fierce.

Before Li Feng of the Timberwolves really scored in a continuous explosion, Kevin Durant suddenly became a very dazzling protagonist in the game between the two sides. He even surpassed Li Feng in the limelight and even left the Thunder behind.

The score was brought back to within ten points!

Although a lot of time was consumed in the first half, Kevin Durant's strong performance still allowed the Thunder to regain the hope of victory, and also caused the Timberwolves to suffer a big blow.

In this regard, Li Feng finally decided to do something.

However, he still has no plan to score points like crazy right away.

At present, his teammates are in good condition on the offensive end, and he does not need him to score crazy points continuously. And at the moment, he actually wants to participate in the defensive end of the Timberwolves to limit the divine help.

Kevin Durant.

It has to be said that Li Feng has become more and more comfortable on the defensive end in the previous playoffs. Even Kobe Bryant was repeatedly restricted and abused by him.

This very beautiful situation made him almost addicted, and then he wanted to implement his more refined defensive methods in front of the taller Kevin Durant.