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Chapter 605
The Timberwolves' winning streak was ended by the Spurs.

The defeat of the Timberwolves just allowed the Spurs to achieve 60 wins and lock the third place in the Western Conference.

Duncan's performance was dominant.

This night, facing Garnett, Simeon and others, he single-handedly scored 38 points, 19 rebounds, 7 assists and 7 blocks, dominating both offense and defense. ending.

After this campaign, the Timberwolves' record was 66 wins and 11 losses.Even with such a record, it still cannot lock in the first place in the league.

The Mavericks are coming on strong, and they are close behind with a 64-13 record.

If the Timberwolves can't win the next few games, they are likely to be overtaken by the Mavericks.

One of the last few games of the Timberwolves this season was against the Mavericks.

This game is about the battle for the top spot. Both teams don't want to give up, and they are both ready to play a playoff game.

At the beginning of the game, Nowitzki made consecutive shots, leading the Mavericks to lead the Timberwolves by 11 points.

At the beginning of the second quarter, Bai Jidong led the wolves to counterattack. Spanoulis, who came off the bench, found his touch from the outside and scored four consecutive three-pointers, stopping the game.

Since then, Spanoulis lost his touch, and the Mavericks focused on marking him.

The Timberwolves fell into a scoring drought for a while.

On the side of the Mavericks, the Jets and the German tanks continued to show off their power, intending to widen the point difference.

In times of crisis, Bai Jidong stood up and used a series of jaw-dropping scoring performances to lead the team to tie the score before the end of the first half.

"White Wolf currently ranks first in the scoring average with an average of 34.6 points per game." Brin said excitedly.

His partner Wharton knows Bai Weidong's scoring ability very well, "He had this ability when he was in Chicago, but he suppressed his own scoring at that time."

Brin said: "Now it seems that players should find the most suitable style of play. Even if the White Wolf scored so many points, his assists did not fall behind. His scoring efficiency is so high. Statistics show that the White Wolf this year His scoring efficiency is the highest in history, which is unbelievable, and without Kobe, he will be the strongest scorer after MJ."

There is an obsession in Bai Weidong's heart, that is, everything that Jordan has done.

Jordan's two three-peat championships are unprecedented and are considered irreproducible. Now that he has the opportunity to achieve the three-peat championship, he has to do better than Jordan.

Even Jordan didn't allow the team to win 70 games for two consecutive years, so his primary goal is to beat the Mavericks, who are their strongest opponent in the remaining games.

The people of Dallas are very familiar with Bai Jidong in the second half, this kind of Bai Jidong has appeared in the playoffs before.

He didn't talk much, but he was cruel, and every time he made a move, it was like stabbing a sharp knife into their hearts.

Such an enemy is frightening. No matter what the Mavericks do, Bai Jidong can score points. They even gave up defending the guards.

As long as Bai Jidong holds the ball, he immediately double-teams.

Bai Jidong's behavior towards double-teaming is very strange, more excited than one-on-one, giving people the feeling of "Only two guarding me? Good opportunity!"

After three quarters, Bai Jidong scored 45 points, the Timberwolves led by 14 points, and the game entered the fourth quarter.

In the last quarter of the game, Bai Jidong restrained his offense, and the Mavericks double-teamed him again. He immediately passed the ball to his teammates, and each pass returned an assist.

Out of respect for Mavericks, Bai Jidong did not raise the score to 50 points.

He didn't score any points in the fourth quarter, and got 6 assists all by passing.

With 5 minutes left in the clock, the Timberwolves' lead had reached 24 points.

There was no suspense in the game, Bai Jidong received a foul, and clocked off work with an astonishing stat of 45 points and 16 assists.

"I have always believed that No.1 in the league should have such conditions: to make opponents fear, to make neutral people respect, to make fans surprised. White Wolf has all the standards. If anyone really took over MJ's torch, then this one Man must be the White Wolf. He took the torch from MJ and ruled the league like MJ did."

At this time, no matter how Brin brags about Bai Jidong, no one will object.

Facts are in front of us, Mavericks, who has been in the sky for a long time, has lost in front of Bai Jidong, what else can he say?
At the end of the game, Bai Jidong was unsurprisingly elected the best player of the game. He accepted the reporter's interview with a slight smile.

"Congratulations on winning again, which brings you one step closer to 70 wins. Although you can't break the regular season record of the 96 Bulls, you have the opportunity to go further than last year. Do you have confidence in this?" the reporter asked.

Bai Jidong smiled and said: "It would be great if we can get 71 wins. No one doesn't like to win. We will play the game step by step, and let the rest take its course."

It is one step closer to the end of the regular season. Weak teams want to lose as many games as possible in order to gain a high pick in the draft. After all, the quality of this year's rookies is very objective. If they get the top three picks, they can Select a supernova as the cornerstone of the team.

As for the strong teams, they also began to intrigue, and the top-ranked teams wanted to pick a soft persimmon in the first round.

Some teams at the bottom are not so weak, such as the Lakers.

No one wants to play against the Lakers in the first round. Kobe is too difficult to control. If he goes crazy for a consecutive series, he might lead the Lakers to the next game.

The Nuggets are also difficult to deal with. Although the results are not good, but think of their two guns in the backcourt-the combination of Anthony and Iverson, no team wants to meet them in the first round.

It seems that the Warriors are the best to fight.

There are no strong stars, nine points for offense and one point for defense, and it all depends on the touch. The Suns are weakened in an all-round way, and whoever picks them will make a fortune.

The calculative Mavericks set their first-round goal to the Warriors, and deliberately lost to the Warriors in the next game, allowing them to rise to seventh in the Western Conference.

This defeat affected the ranking of the entire second half.

The ranking of the Warriors has risen, and the Lakers have also risen one place according to the relationship between victory and defeat.

Also because of the outcome, the Nuggets fell from sixth in the West to eighth in the West.

This big drama made the fans very addicted. In the next regular season, the fans only care about the winning or losing of the teams in the second half, but they don't care so much about the teams in the first half.

The Timberwolves met the Warriors, and they didn't plan to let the water go, and they fought with all their strength.

The Warriors stalemate for three quarters relying on touch, and they were exhausted in the final quarter, so they handed over their guns and stopped.

At the same time, the Lakers and Nuggets won, and the Warriors fell to eighth in the West again.

The Mavericks saw it, how could this be possible?this is our target!

But the opponents behind them have no teams in the second half, so we can only see the follow-up development.

The Mavericks are not the only ones who are interested in the rankings. The Spurs are the same. They don't want to encounter a team with too much talent in the first round, so they take the initiative to lose to the Lakers to help the Zijin Army stabilize the rankings.

In this way, the only suspense is the Nuggets and Warriors.

Which of these two teams is seventh and which is eighth.

The Mavericks have a special liking for the Warriors, and they pray to God before each round of the regular season: Golden State will win!Warriors must win!

The No. [-] Timberwolves said: You play how you like, I just want to win, and I want to break the record!
The Timberwolves continue their winning streak. They are not on the same channel as other teams. They don't care who they play in the first round, as long as they can reach 71 wins.

If it can be done, they will be the only championship team in the history of the league to improve their regular season record for three consecutive years. (If you also win this year)
The last two games of the Timberwolves, one against the Nuggets and one against the Grizzlies.

The game against the Nuggets determined the seventh and eighth rankings in the West, and the initiative is in the hands of the Timberwolves.

The heart of Dallas is ashamed. They believe that the Timberwolves will play a little easier in the playoffs, and they will definitely lose on purpose, so that the Nuggets will be ranked No.7.

Not just Dallas, the whole world thinks so, there is no need to make trouble for yourself, who doesn't want to play easier?
The Timberwolves also held an internal meeting about whether the game would be waterproof.

Bai Jidong's speech is decisive, no one knows what Bai Jidong said, when Bai Jidong expresses his opinion, the meeting is over.

The result of the meeting is: hit to death!
The Nuggets thought they had a chance to beat the Timberwolves. They really thought the Timberwolves didn't want to run into them in the first round.

Therefore, Anthony and Iverson came to the Target Center in a happy mood. Before the game, they rushed to the media to say that they would win, but they were disappointed.

The Timberwolves beat the Nuggets to death like a rival in the same city. At halftime, the Nuggets scored 35 points.

"It seems that Minnesota doesn't want to affect the record of the regular season for the opponent in the first round. They don't care which team they meet in the first round."

Marv Albert commented on the Timberwolves' first half performance.

The Nuggets are not that weak, they just haven't prepared well. Who knows that the Timberwolves are so careless, and they just knock people out with a hammer without even saying hello.

Bai Jidong wanted people to know that they are a group of wolves who are particular, so in the second half they controlled the tempo and kept the point difference at around 30 points.

After three quarters, Bai Jidong scored a triple-double of 25 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists, and clocked off work.

The two sides played the rest of the game with the second team, and the Nuggets eventually lost to the Timberwolves by 26 points.

After this battle, the top eight in the Western Conference have not changed, and the playoff map has come out.

The Dallas people were ecstatic, and countless Mavericks fans ran to the Timberwolves' official account through Inu to like it.

"Don't get me wrong, we are not dazzled by the record. This is a decision we made after discussion. We think Denver is better than Golden State, that's all." Bai Jidong's words angered the Nuggets.

But he doesn't care.

"I don't mean to offend anyone, it's the truth, it's the conclusion we've drawn from the few matches we've played this season."

The Mavericks and Dallas fans ignored Bai Jidong's words. They thought they had found a huge bargain and were complacent. They could not wait for the playoffs to begin immediately, and they couldn't wait to slaughter the poor Warriors.

(End of this chapter)