The King of the NBA

With five minutes left in the fourth quarter, the Timberwolves trailed by 9 points.

Adelman called a timeout, and when the players came down, he spread out the tactical board and arranged tactics: "Wait for us."

"Coach." Love interrupted, his eyes were sharp and glowing, and he said: "Please leave the last 5 minutes to me. Now Ning can't play, I hope I can help the team win."

"Huh?" Adelman frowned, looked at Love seriously for a while, and smiled, "Okay, I'll leave it to you for the next 5 minutes." He looked at the other players and ordered, "Give the ball to him as much as possible later." Love, help him with screens and pick-and-rolls."

At this time, Love can take the initiative to stand up, which is gratifying to Adelman. What he expects is that when Ning Yi is not around, Love can stand up and assume the responsibility of the core players.

When Ning Yi became the leader of the team, Adelman was always worried that Love would be silent, live up to his original pride, and become a green leaf beside Ning Yi as a foil.

Love's ability to stand up means that his ambition and pride are still there, and Adelman is also greatly relieved.

Subsequently, Adelman rearranged his tactics, emphasizing the core role of Love, and arranged several tactics around Love.

The tactics are arranged and the timeout is over.

"Okay, let's go." Adelman said: "Come on!"

The players nodded in unison.

Love looked at his teammates, took a deep breath, and said, "Brothers, please trust me."

"Um."

"I'll help you pick and roll later."

"As long as you have a position, my ball will be delivered."

Several players laughed and expressed their support for Love.

Le Fu warmed his heart, nodded heavily, then turned around, looked at Ning Yi, Ning Yi stretched out his hand, clapped hands with Le Fu, and said with a smile: "Brother, I will cheer for you on the sidelines."

"beep"

The timeout ends with 5 minutes remaining in the fourth quarter.

The two sides returned to the field, the Timberwolves attacked, and the lineup on the field was Dion, Love, Shabatz, Martin, and Rubio.

Rubio advanced with the ball and looked at Love after reaching the frontcourt. Love asked for the ball in the low post. Rubio passed it immediately, and then ran around Love, pulling everyone around Love away.

People were pulled away, Love played singles, while dribbling, while staring at Terrence Jones to push inside, after pressing two steps back, Love suddenly turned his back, retreated his body, and jumped with one foot.

Terrence Jones didn't react slowly and rushed forward quickly.

Swish!

With a soft sound, the basketball was hollowed into the net.

There is a flame burning in Love's chest, and he is fully committed to the offense, as if he has returned to the former Timberwolves. On this court, he is the king and the most dazzling light.

In this state, Love's feeling is overwhelming, he shoots decisively, and his shooting percentage is also high.

Less than a minute later, Love made a counter-run, pulled beyond the three-point line, and raised it after receiving a pass from Rubio. Terrence Jones was startled, did not dare to neglect, and immediately jumped up.

But he was fooled.

When he jumped up, Love quickly lowered his center of gravity, accelerated past Terrence Jones, went inside to face Howard's defense, and made a small throw with one hand with his left hand.

Swish!

Still in, the point difference is 5 points.

In a moment, Love scored two goals in a row, narrowing the point difference to only 5 points, which cheered up the Timberwolves fans and cheered loudly.

However, the Rockets were not so easy to defeat. They soon launched a counterattack. Harden's breakthrough was still sharp. Martin had no way to restrain him. He could only foul and send Harden to the free throw line.

Howard is still very deterrent in the interior, and Dieng has made rapid progress, but as a second-year player, he is obviously not as good as Howard in terms of strength and experience.

Unknowingly, the point difference became 8 points again.

Love took a deep breath and gave Rubio a wink. Rubio understood and directed his teammates to move. Love moved to the outside and crossed positions with Dion. Dion made a pick and roll for him, and Love shook off The defender came to the left three-point line, Rubio's ball was also passed, Love took the ball and shot directly.

boom!

The ball missed, and the basketball bounced far away from the basket.

At this moment, Love quickly rushed to the hoop, grabbed the basketball before anyone else, dribbled a step forward, stepped into the penalty area and jumped up, ignoring the defender, and it was a dunk.

This dunk is so domineering that the defender can only watch and dare not block it.

"here you go."

"Love, Love"

The fans were excited and shouted loudly.

Love scored consecutive points. In a short period of time, he scored 6 points by himself, and he kept the score. If Love hadn't exploded, I am afraid the game would have lost its suspense.

"Hmph, it's just a battle of trapped beasts." Howard looked at the timer and sneered, "There is more than a minute left, and we still lead by 6 points. The Timberwolves will lose."

With one minute and fifty-one seconds left, the score difference was 6 points.

Although Love continued to score, the situation was still unfavorable to the Timberwolves. Adelman called a timeout again, and the opponent's players ordered: "Use foul tactics and foul Howard."

"Still fouling Howard?"

Everyone was surprised. "Cut Howard" has been used before, but the effect is not good. Today, Howard seems to be cheating, and the free throw percentage is very high. Is it really useful to continue "slashing"?

Adelman nodded, and said in a deep voice: "Do as I say, I don't believe Howard can always maintain such a free throw percentage."

Everyone's eyes lit up and they nodded in unison.

Back on the court, the Timberwolves implemented the "cut Howard" tactic and sent Howard to the free throw line. Under the eager gaze of the Rockets fans, there was a bang, and the ball hit the iron.

"Uh..." Howard was stunned for a moment. He couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat. He took a few deep breaths and made another free throw. "The shot was too hard just now. Be gentler."

The ball flew out of his hands, and the result seemed too "soft" for a three-point shot.

The fans were dumbfounded, and then burst out laughing.

Howard's face was ugly, and he wished he could find a hole in the ground and get in.

"The coach's prediction was right, our chance has come." Love thought to himself, and after coming to the frontcourt, he cooperated with his teammates, used the cover of his teammates to throw off the defender, and made another three-pointer.

At the same time, Terrence Jones struggled to pounce and reached out to block.

beep!

Swish!

The whistle blows, the ball goes in, Terrence Jones fouls.

With 51 seconds left, the score is 3 points away, and Love will also hit the serve line.

This change was so fast that the Rockets fans were caught off guard and froze on the spot.

Love walked to the free throw line and steadily made an extra free throw. The point difference was only 2 points, and there were 51 seconds left in the game.

The Rockets called a timeout and rearranged their tactics. For the Timberwolves, Adelman mainly emphasized defense. As long as the ball is defended, there is still a chance.

The timeout ends and players from both teams return to the field.

"Defend, defend"

Timberwolves fans stood up and yelled.

Perhaps it was the loud voice of the fans that affected the Rockets. Harden failed to score this time, but the Timberwolves seized the opportunity, Love singles, attracted the defender, and then unexpectedly distributed the ball to the outside.

"What?"

People were surprised to see that there was no one in front of Rubio. He adjusted after receiving the ball to make sure he was standing outside the three-point line, and then flicked his wrist.