Rebirth of Hayes Cyclone

Chapter 42 [The game is for five people]

The timeout ends and the players return to the field.

The defensive tactics of the two sides were still man-to-man. The Rockets called Yao Ming.

Matt Brad laughed: "We can see Hayes saying on TV every day that'the game is five people'. Just now he played there alone, and Adidas will be unhappy. Now Finally, a second guy made a shot, and it didn't go in."

Drexler said: "The Rockets still use Hayes to defend Garnett. Garnett also passed the ball...Although Hayes is difficult to block him, Garnett can't squeeze into the three-second zone. It's also very uncomfortable if you can't play your back kicking kung fu."

Battier and Tracy McGrady hit jumpers one after another, the Timberwolves still had to rely on Garnett, and the score between the two teams quickly opened.

Garnett's teammates couldn't help him much.

Mike James had a sharp breakthrough, but his timing of shooting was poor. After a few shots, he was replaced and replaced by Troy Hudson, a guy with even less offensive ability.

Trenton Hassel is a shooting guard who can't score, and the Timberwolves really have no talent to use him.As long as McGrady defends with ecstatic eyes, he can be dealt with.

Mark Blunt is physically strong, but his playing style is not very tough. He also has a mid-range shot with a mediocre hit rate.He can't pose a threat to Yao Ming in the offense.

The Rockets only had Hayes struggling against Garnett.

However, the Rockets can't change players to defend. Garnett is one of Yao Ming's guest stars in the league. Battier is good at defending swingmen, so there is nothing he can do about Garnett.Novak's defense is terrible, let alone Mutombo, he can't keep up with Garnett, even when he was young.

Originally, the Rockets still had Juwan Howard, but when they thought of Jeff Van Gundy, they became angry.

Howard injured his finger against the Mavericks, and the team doctor still says he can't play.Kirk Snyder can't play because of a broken wrist. What about Howard?Just hurt a finger.Could it be that the injury of the middle finger and the inability to make the "fake squid" gesture to the opponent is the reason why he cannot play?Jeff Van Gundy began to actively look for opportunities to make suggestions to the top. The two team doctors seemed to be as Hayes said, and they had to get out quickly.

At the beginning of the second quarter, "Wolf King" Garnett rested and replaced Eddie Griffin.The Rockets also changed Yao Ming and Hayes to rest, and sent Mutombo and Novak.

Eddie Griffin grabbed an offensive rebound when he came on the court, took off again and made a dunk across Novak, which also caused his foul and succeeded in a three-pointer.

Immediately afterwards, Battier made a pass error and was intercepted by Trenton Hassell, who assisted Ricky Davis to hit a three-pointer, overtaking the score, and the Rockets called a stop.

Jeff Van Gundy first said to Novak: "When defending, you have to concentrate. You have height, and you have to be tough."

Novak nodded vigorously, but Van Gundy's words are absolutely meaningless. Some people are just soft. If everyone can be hard when they say hard, there is no need for Viagra in this world.

The Rockets mobilized their troops and replaced them with Bunche Wells and Spanoulis, ready to hit the inside line when Garnett was off the court.

Drexler said: "Karnett rested, and the Timberwolves caught up with the score. Without Hayes, the Rockets' internal defensive loopholes are too obvious. Eddie Griffin has good physical fitness. If he If you can put your mind on basketball, you may become a superstar."

Matt Brad laughed and said: "Yeah. When he was first selected by the Rockets, he was called the future 'Drexler' by the Houston Rockets executives. It's a pity that he didn't become you and left the text. - Baker's line."

Eddie Griffin has excellent jumping, agility, and his ability to shoot three-pointers from the outside.He is a very comprehensive rookie. At that time, the Rockets were also the focus of training. He formed the short-term Rocket Trident with Yao Ming and Steve Francis, and he was also invincible.He was once a genius and a fool.The genius is that he is extremely talented in basketball, and the stupid is that he leads a life of depravity: women, alcohol, drugs.Don't be fooled by his melancholy eyes like Tony Leung, he is really a bad guy.

After the game restarted, the Timberwolves' offense was in a mess, and it was just a coincidence to chase 6 points in a row.Want to ask who is the Timberwolves who has the most points, the most rebounds, the most assists, the most blocks, the most steals, and the most playing time?The answer is Kevin Garnett.He did all the work in Timberwolves by himself.Without the "Wolf King", the Timberwolves will not be successful.

Spanoulis has found his place in the Rockets, and that is the pick-and-roll tactic.All his skills are average, only this one is outstanding. In the World Championships, he can even use his footsteps to leave Wade behind.He can lay up on his own, or he can choose to split the ball.

After a 4-minute break, Hayes returned to the field.

In order to please the star of the team, Spanoulis gave Hayes all the points after the breakthrough.Hayes used a hook to hit one, and he went to the basket twice to attract the opponent's inside player to cover the defense and pass the ball to Mutombo.Mutombo rejuvenated his second spring, finishing the offense with a dunk every time.

There were cheers and applause from the Rockets auditorium.

Drexler leaned forward and back with a smile, and shouted: "It's fatal, just use Mutombo for defense, and let him dunk when attacking, do you want to exhaust him to death?"

Matt Brad laughed and said: "You have to study the psychology of the players. Hayes is obviously premeditated. Can passing other people have the effect of contempt? The oldest person is going to hit the top five balls. What about the Timberwolves? Chasing points?"

Under the strong contempt of the Rockets, the Timberwolves coach couldn't bear it, and replaced Garnett, who had rested for a few minutes, and replaced the inside "colander" Mark Blunt.

"It's great to see you when I'm not here. That's it, kid who brushes the data." Garnett walked up to Hayes when he came on the court, sarcastically.

Hayes sighed, and said: "Kevin, to be honest... I feel really sad for you. You are one of my favorite players, and I really want to make friends with you. If the two of us are partners, we will definitely Will win the championship. Seeing that you are about to be stimulated into mania by these trash teammates now, alas."

As if to verify the authenticity of what Hayes said, Mike James took it outside the three-point line for a while, facing Spanoulis' follow-up defense and made a three-pointer. rebound.

Seeing this extremely unreasonable shot, Garnett didn't spit or blow in Hayes' ear for the first time in the return defense.

Hayes followed him, shook his head, and said earnestly: "See? This is the point guard that you can't even control yourself. If I were him, I would definitely pass the ball to you..."

While speaking, Spanoulis succeeded in breaking through Mutombo's pick-and-roll again and easily scored two points. The Timberwolves' inside line was empty.

Garnett was silent. He has played in the Timberwolves for 10 years and dedicated his most glorious days and youth to the Timberwolves.He even voluntarily cut his salary to find better players for the team, but how many qualified helpers have the Timberwolves found for him?Olavokandi, the most watered champion in history, the old Kassel, and the madman Sprewell who needs to "support his family", they have also been stronger, but that is too short, he stays here, and there is tomorrow ?
The basketball was handed over to Garnett.Facing the interference of Hayes, Garnett turned around and made a jumper, which missed the shot.Mutombo got the rebound again, and the other four Timberwolves played seemed to have no desire to grab rebounds at all.

The ball was touched out of the sideline by the Timberwolves, and the Timberwolves replaced Trenton Hassel with rookie Randy Foye.

Bunche Wells received the ball and used his body to force Randy Foye who had just entered the field. After entering the three-second zone, he turned around and made a jump shot. Covered out.

Randy Foye, who was new to the field, had an advantage in speed, and he quickly went down after receiving the basketball. Mike James was also on the fast break with him.Randy Foye can pass the basketball to the open Mike James for a three-point shot, but he is just a rookie with too little experience and wants to express himself too much. Facing the chasing Spanoulis, he chose Going it alone, he played too fast and missed a fast break layup, and Battier, who was back on defense, picked up a rebound.

"Dude. Your teammates should read the Adidas ad. You may be better than me and you can beat me easily. I don't care. But it is absolutely impossible for the Timberwolves to win against the Rockets." Hayes continued to tease Garnett .The people who were nagged in the first quarter began to turn against customers.If he hadn't been reborn, the ad would have been done by Garnett with no teammates.

"If you don't want to die, you'd better shut up." Garnett said coldly.

After a while, the disappointing Randy Foye received a wonderful pass from Garnett and missed a jumper again.

"If I were leading the Timberwolves, I wouldn't be stupid enough to trade Brandon Roy for Randy Foye. Are they thinking on their knees? Brandon Roy has star potential. Foye? Hahaha... ..." Hayes burst into a burst of Stephen Chow-style laughter.

Garnett showed two rows of white teeth and looked at Hayes viciously.

"Okay, brother, I'm sorry, I was wrong. I'm leaving now...don't follow me." Hayes said, striding to the outside to catch the ball.

Garnett quickly followed.Defense does not follow.Hayes didn't stop after receiving the ball, his eyes looked to the left, and the ball was set aside with both hands to the right.There was a big gap under the basket, and the people under the basket didn't know where to go. Bunch Wells, who had just been capped, caught the ball and dunked it with both hands, and let out a bad breath.

The Timberwolves' defense was useless, falling behind by 15 points, and the head coach requested a timeout.

Garnett sat on the bench without saying a word. Before leaving the court, he seemed to see a trace of pity in Hayes' eyes.That look was more deadly than any trash talk and it drove him crazy.

If I can have good teammates, I don't need to have much dominance, just a brain is enough, as long as I play reasonably.Garnett's mind flashed Ray Allen, Paul Pierce, and Chuck Hayes who stimulated him for a while...

He didn't want to admit that Hayes' words really touched his heart.If the two of them are on the same team, maybe they can really win the championship.

"Chuck, did you defend well? What are you and Garnett talking about? It seems that you haven't stopped talking." Jeff Van Gundy asked with a smile.He feels good when the team leads.

Hayes smiled and said: "It's nothing, I just told him that I hope he will come to the Rockets and win the championship with us. His teammates are too bad."

"Your ideas and suggestions are good, we only need to pay him 2000 million salary." Jeff Van Gundy laughed.Garnett is very difficult to the Rockets.

At this point, Drexler was saying the same thing. "Garnett's teammates are really bad, pity this superstar. Let's look at the data of the other four starters. So far, only Ricky Davis has scored 7 points. Mike James has 4 points, The other two didn't score."

Matt Brad laughed: "Even if Ricky Davis scored a lot, he wasn't a qualified helper. Just think about his self-made triple-double."

When mentioning Ricky Davis, the first thing that people think of is not the foil of Carter and Francis in the 2000 dunk contest, but his first disgraceful "triple double".

On March 2003, 3, 16 seconds before the end of the game between the Cavaliers and the Jazz, the Cavaliers sent a sideline ball near the half court. Davis received the ball from Jones from the Jazz Stevenson in the backcourt and did not dribble. The ball went forward, but instead slammed directly into the unguarded rear rim and hit the bottom of the rim with a bang.People on and off the court were stunned by Davis's behavior - he deliberately missed the shot to grab the 6.1th rebound, so that his technical statistics reached a "triple double".Can such a player who fights for numbers be a good team player?
At that time, Stevenson publicly expressed his dissatisfaction, "This is obviously an insult to me. I hope he is joking, but that is even worse, it is rubbish."

The Rockets replaced all the main players.

The Timberwolves role players continued to perform poorly, unreasonably forced jump shots, and faced defensive players recklessly. This kind of scene was not uncommon and filled the entire game.Ricky Davis and Mike James hit some shots, but it didn't matter.People in each of their positions don't seem to know what work they should be doing.Guards are not like guards, forwards are not like forwards.

Garnett is still very strong, both offensive and defensive ends are very comprehensive, Hayes can not completely limit him.

However, Garnett's play is not as passionate as the first quarter.He completed an alley-oop dunk in the third quarter, but he didn't let the audience see the usual screaming, but silently ran back to his own half to defend.

It's a detail that few people notice.

The Timberwolves can cause any trouble for the Rockets, all the way behind until the end. 92 to 78, 6 Rockets players scored in double figures, and the Rockets won the longest six-game winning streak since the start of the game.

After the game, both Garnett and Hayes attended the press conference, and the atmosphere between the two teams was very friendly after the game.

数据上看，加内特27分14篮板6助攻完全压倒了海耶斯的16分6篮板4助攻。

However, when the reporter asked about Garnett's matchup with Hayes in this game, Garnett said: "I lost to Hayes in this game. He is an amazing player. He played a reasonable game. Team basketball, which led the Rockets to the right track. I just played beautiful data, and everyone saw the ending, and we lost again. As long as we lose, luxurious data is meaningless. The role of a leader should be to lead the team to achieve Victory, and I didn't make it."

The reporter interviewed Hayes again. "Mr. Hayes, you and Mr. Garnett have played against each other many times in this game, especially in the first few minutes of the game. You have played at a high level. Are you satisfied with your performance in this game?"

Hayes said with a smile: "I won, of course I am satisfied! I would like to thank my teammates for their trust in me. It is mutual trust that gave me the opportunity to prove myself. However, the same sentence, the game is for five people."

Technically, the two had their own strengths in this game, and Garnett was slightly better, but Hayes didn't need to make a strong attack, and the Rockets won the Timberwolves.

There is only one thing Garnett can beat Hayes, and that is his teammates.Because Hayes has the support of his teammates, Yao Ming, McGrady, and even Spanoulis can make the Timberwolves' defense tight.

Garnett's trash talk was just provocative words to attack Hayes. Hayes could be regarded as a joke except that he felt noisy; while what Hayes said was true, like a silent sharp arrow piercing the ground. on Garnett's heart.Make him have to care about...

After this game, Garnett has been disheartened about this season and the Timberwolves.

"Wolf King" is ready to leave.

(End of this chapter)