one-handed ball

Chapter 266 Overtime!
The trouble with Thornton's outbreak is that the Thunder were forced to replace the main lineup, including Durant, ahead of schedule.

This isn't the first time Coach Brooks has done something like this.Whenever the Thunder are in trouble, or when the score is tight, he will subconsciously wave and replace the young No. 35.I don't know when this thin-looking third-year student has become the backbone of the Thunder.

The effect after Durant played is obvious, and the score difference was quickly chased back.

After a few more rounds, Whitman saw that the timing was almost right, and also replaced Zheng Ke.This is also the so-called soldier against soldier, general against general.

Zheng Ke walked to Durant's side, supported his knees, with an inconspicuous smile on his face.

"You played comfortably alone, and scored a lot of points while I was away?"

Durant breathed out his nostrils, snorted coldly, and looked unhappy.He responded, "Is there any difference between you and me? If you come, I can still get points."

This is Durant's unreasonable response to his trash talk. Zheng Ke gave Durant a slightly surprised look, and asked with great interest: "What if you can't make a shot later? I don't feel good alone. Might never be this good. Besides.”

Durant kept his mouth shut. He felt that he really deserved a beating. Why did he answer Zheng Ke’s trash talk just now?
The Timberwolves serve the ball from the sideline, and Love lifts the ball over his head and spins it in his big hands.

Zheng Ke made a simple screen for Lowry, allowing Lowry to easily take the basketball.Then Lowry dribbled the ball and ran to the top of the arc. Love ran from outside the boundary to the inside.

Love cuts to the inside, half a body ahead of Jeff Green.

Lowry passed to Love, but Jeff Green gave full play to his relatively flexible advantages, accelerated, stretched out his long arm, and cut off Lowry's pass.

"Counterattack!"

The eyes of Durant, Westbrook and others lit up, and they turned around and made a fast break like nature.

Thunder's third-line fast break, Westbrook ran fast like launching a solo fast break skill, Zheng Ke retreated alone, and couldn't figure out what the ball handler was thinking.

do it yourself?
Zheng Ke squinted, and a gleam flashed in his long and narrow eyes.Looking at the advancing Westbrook, he decided to take a gamble in his heart.

Sure enough, Westbrook did not disappoint Zheng Ke. He leaped up in three big strides, and his whole body stretched gracefully in the air like Chang'e flying to the moon.

Although Zheng Ke also took off, Westbrook followed the inertia and stayed away from Zheng Ke's defensive range.

The basketball was turned to the backboard by him and hit the board into the basket.

"This kind of moving speed can also make progress." Zheng Ke landed on the ground, looked at Westbrook who flew out and fell into the group of camera operators, and felt that this person was really amazing.

There will always be mistakes in the game. Zheng Ke looked at Lowry and signaled him not to care.

A few minutes later, the two teams reached 100 points one after another. At this time, there were still more than 4 minutes before the full game. Whitman looked at his watch and replaced Billups, who was recharging his energy.

After Billups came up, he made a three-pointer at the 45th position of the three-point line, giving the Timberwolves a 103-100 lead.

At such a critical moment in the game, the fans on the sidelines also became excited.Some fans called on everyone to cheer for the home team with loudspeakers, and the voice of "defense, defense" became louder and louder, which made the Timberwolves' substitute players who were not playing on the field feel excited.

Seeing that Billups made a three-pointer, the fans waved slogans and star posters more frequently.

But the good times didn't last long. After two rounds, the Thunder also scored a three-pointer from the outside line by Durant, leading the Timberwolves by 105 points 103-2.

Zheng Ke succeeded in back-up singles against Durant, and the two teams drew again with 105 points.With this goal, Zheng Ke scored 50 points in this game. This is the second time he has achieved 50+ points this season. The last game was in Phoenix, where he scored 50+ points against the Suns.

Time passed by every minute and every second, and the scores of the two teams were always entangled.

At 3 minutes and 05 seconds, Zheng Ke made a breakthrough and caused Durant to foul. He made two free throws from the free throw line and the Timberwolves led by one point. At 2 minutes and 14 seconds, Zheng Ke broke through for a layup and was fouled by Ibaka's thugs. Ibaka fouled 5 times. Zheng Ke made two free throws from the free throw line. The Timberwolves and the Thunder tied. At 1 minute and 34 seconds, Durant made a three-pointer on the line, and the Thunder led by two points.After that, the two teams missed their offenses. Until the last 39 seconds, Zheng Ke assisted Love, and Love made a key mid-range jumper. The two teams tied again with 113 points.

It was a suffocating last few minutes. Both teams had high offensive efficiency. You scored one and I returned one, which made the fans stare intently.

After the Thunder paused, they served in the Timberwolves' half.

Westbrook dragged the time to the last 10 seconds, and Durant came out to catch the ball.But Zheng Ke still stuck to him tightly, not giving him any space.While hesitating, Westbrook remembered a ball that was intercepted by Zheng Ke in the first half, and he dared not pass the ball anymore!
Time was running out, and Durant didn't want the ball either. He signaled Westbrook to play a single, and at the same time moved away to open space for him.

After a few dribbles, Westbrook took a step away from the three-point line and made a strong three-pointer!
Billups was taken aback. This is really a master who doesn't play according to the routine. For a while, he didn't effectively interfere with Westbrook's shooting.

The arc of basketball flight is a bit flat.
"Shouldn't it go in?" Billups thought as he turned to look at the basket.

"boom!"

The basketball hit the back edge of the rim and fell into the rim neatly!The sprinkling of the net and the crisp sound made people marvel at the power of this shot.

The audience was silent, only Westbrook clenched his fist and roared.
After a while, Zheng Ke came to his senses.He clapped his hands and reminded his teammates loudly: "What's wrong? We haven't lost yet! Isn't it just three points behind? You can get it back at any time!"

Encouraged by Zheng Ke, the Timberwolves players came to their senses.yes!Haven't lost yet!It's not being killed, what is this for?
The main reason is that Westbrook's three-pointer was too exaggerated, which shocked the Timberwolves players on the field for a while. People looked at the Thunder players holding Westbrook on the field and thought the game was over. , the game is not over yet, there are still 15.7 seconds left!

The Timberwolves paused.

Whitman drew tactical lines on the tactical board, his tie had been ripped off at this time, and his eyes were bloodshot.He roared in a rough voice: "Believe in your teammates, believe in your teammates! We have to create the best shooting space for Chauncey and Zheng Ke. Once one of them makes a shot, Kevin, Chris, you You have to rush to grab the offensive rebound at the first time, even if you can't get it, you have to shoot the ball. Do you know?"

"understood!"

After all the soldiers put their backs together, they fell heavily
The Thunder actually pushed the Timberwolves to a desperate situation, which was never thought of by experts before the game.Even the audience at the scene didn't think about it.Some fans who don't usually pay much attention to the NBA as a whole still retain the memory of the Thunder at the last two years in the Western Conference.As everyone knows, they are already the first young dark horse in the West this season, and their record is close to the top eight in the West.

"Huh~" Zheng Ke had a serious expression, and breathed into his palm, hoping to be blessed by the gods.

Afflalo served from the outside, Anderson, Love, Zheng Ke, Billups and others huddled together in the other half, and the fans couldn't see who was defending whom if they didn't watch carefully.

With the whistle of the referee, Billups rushed out of the crowd first, and Westbrook quickly followed after being blocked.Billups stretched out his hands, as if he was about to catch the ball, and when the arc was 45 degrees, he suddenly changed direction and ran to the bottom corner.

Zheng Ke also slipped out of the crowd at this time, Anderson and Love set up double screens for him, and Durant immediately missed him by two positions.Zheng Ke easily caught the basketball.

After he took the ball, he raised his hands directly and made a shooting posture.

Durant didn't have time to think, and jumped up reflexively.

Zheng Ke was very calm. After Durant jumped up, he took a step aside, then took a deep breath, and threw the ball before Safoloza and Durant rushed over together!
"Shuh!"

The basketball also fell into the basket neatly, and the big rock that the audience worried about finally fell to the ground. People raised their hands like mushrooms after a spring rain, celebrating their narrow escape.

Love and other Timberwolves players also spread their arms, excited.But Durant and others had no time to clean up their injured mood, so they ran to the bottom line, ready to serve quickly and attack the Timberwolves.

"Back to defense!"

Zheng Ke roared and took the lead to return to the defense.

Everyone reacted, calmed down one after another, and quickly retreated to the half court.

Since the Thunder have already served, there is no need to pause, not to mention that the pause is almost used.The Timberwolves chose the risky three-pointer tactic because there was no timeout, but they did not expect to succeed with one hit.

The Thunder waited until the last few seconds before Durant took control of the offense.Zheng Ke's defense was very tight, and the two were almost stuck together.Under such circumstances, the referee also turned a blind eye to the frequent physical contact between the two.Therefore, Zheng Ke's cowhide defensive effect is stronger than usual for three-pointers, and it is difficult for Durant to turn around.

With Duran's twisted jumper at the last moment, the two teams entered overtime!
This is really an unexpected result. There was no winner in 48 minutes of the regular season!You know, Zheng Ke has scored 57 points at this time, which is not only the highest score so far this season, but also the highest scoring record in his personal career!
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