NBA bench saves national team

After a day off.

The Lakers and Timberwolves ushered in the second playoff game.

It is still held at the Staples Center, home of the Lakers.

Compared with the last game, the Lakers are getting better and better. They played a crushing offense at the beginning, and with a wave of shooting like a storm, they scored a wave of 3:14 in less than 3 minutes. Offensive Tall Grass.

Gained an 11-point lead.

Seeing this, the Timberwolves coach decisively called a timeout to make adjustments.

After a pause comes back.

The team began to give the offensive option to the penalty area, and Howard and Love continued to attack in the penalty area.

Especially for Love, Anderson couldn't keep up with him at all.

Under the excellent performance of the two inside players, the Timberwolves scored 6 points in a row and gradually stabilized their position.

The two sides immediately fell into a stalemate.

But the Lakers still gradually opened up the score by virtue of their better offense.

The Timberwolves have been waiting for the outbreak of the ace player James Harden, but Harden seems to be paralyzed, the whole person looks listless, and has no desire to attack.

The first quarter is over.

23: 36.

The Lakers took a 13-point lead.

秦风单节打满12分钟，9投7中，三分球6投4中，罚球3罚3中，怒砍21分4篮板2助攻1抢断1封盖的全能数据。

科比则是6投4中，三分球3投1中，得到9分。

Gemini scored 30 points in a single quarter, showing a strong dominance.

It once again interprets the saying that the playoffs are the stage for superstars.

Entering the second quarter of the game, Qin Feng led the team alone, and the two main players, Gasol and Kobe, rested off the court.

this stage.

Although Qin Feng was on the field, he no longer took the initiative to ask for the ball to attack, but gave Louis Williams more offensive opportunities.

That's how the Lakers routinely plays right now.

If Williams feels bad, then Qin Feng will take over the game again.

Williams and Jrue Holiday, who already have experience in the playoffs, will still be nervous, and they played poorly in the first game.

However, in this game, both of them returned to normal and began to play normally.

Although the Timberwolves' bench lineup is not bad, but their strength is very average, mainly because of the Howard trade, which has lost many outstanding young players, leaving only some players that the Magic don't like.

The only one with strong strength is the "European Golden Boy" Rubio.

In the deal involving Howard, Rubio was also reported to the Magic as a bargaining chip, but because of the point guard Nelson, the Magic gave up Rubio, and instead asked the Timberwolves for a first-round pick right.

So Rubio was lucky to stay in the team.

Without losing the two core players Love and Harden, the Timberwolves management is already very excited to trade Howard, so they don't care about other bargaining chips.

After all, because of Garnett's deal, the Timberwolves have a lot of draft picks, and they have hoarded a group of young players with potential in recent years.

Trading a few players away has an impact on the team, but not much.

Back in the game.

Led by Qin Feng, the second team of the Lakers continued to expand their lead.

In particular, Dayao in the penalty area can be said to have dreamed of returning to the top, and once again played an efficient performance. In 4 minutes, he made 5 of 4 shots and scored 8 points, 4 rebounds and 1 block.

The performance is amazing.

In less than half a quarter of the second quarter, the Lakers extended their lead to 25 points.

See here.

The Timberwolves coach was a little desperate, so he hurriedly called a timeout and replaced all the main players.

Although they stabilized the situation in the second half of the second quarter, they fell behind too many points in the early stage, which made it difficult for them to catch up with the point difference within a period of time.

The second quarter ended quickly.

51: 69.

The Lakers led by 18 points at halftime.

After a long intermission, the second half began.

The two sides maintained the opening lineup.

The Lakers took the lead in attacking.

After receiving Kobe's pass from the outside, Qin Feng stopped and made a three-pointer.

The basketball arced high.

Swish.

Hollow into the net.

The point difference came to 21 points again.

Timberwolves offense.

After Harden dribbled the ball through half court, he passed the ball to Love, who singled Anderson with his back.

Boom!

strike iron.

After Qin Feng grabbed the rebound, he set off a defensive counterattack. After dribbling the ball for half the court, he was flanked by two people, so he passed the basketball out with his wrist.

Kobe stopped outside the three-point line and shot a chasing three-pointer directly after receiving the basketball.

The basketball arced high.

Swish.

Hollow into the net.

The point difference came to 24 points.

There was a roar of cheers like a tsunami.

The third quarter of the Lakers' death is about to begin again!

Besides, now that they have led by so many points, there is no suspense in this performance.

The fans think so.

The commentary on the spot thinks so too.

But the biggest charm of sports games is that you never know what will happen in the next second.

Originally, the Lakers firmly grasped the situation of the game.

But after the Timberwolves' head star went through the downturn in the first half, he seemed to wake up in the second half of the game and suddenly began to explode.

Three-pointer, 2+1 breakthrough to the penalty area, mid-range jumper, assists teammates to score.

Harden seemed to have suddenly opened up Ren Du's second line, scoring consecutive goals and couldn't stop them.

整个第三节，哈登11投7中，三分球5投2中，罚球5罚4中，疯狂揽下20分3篮板3助攻1抢断的数据。

Carry the audience!

But even though Harden's performance was so explosive, he still failed to lead the team to reduce the score too much.

Because Qin Feng's performance on the Lakers side is not too much.

第三节单节8投6中，三分球4投3中，罚球2罚2中，得到17分3篮板2助攻2抢断的数据。

So the third quarter is over.

84: 99.

The Lakers still hold a 15-point lead.

Into the fourth quarter of the game.

The main Lakers players such as Qin Feng and Kobe must have no way to clock out of get off work.

Steve Kerr simply joined the full main lineup, directly bringing the game to the decisive stage.

The same is true for the Timberwolves.

If the point difference cannot be narrowed to single digits in the first half of the fourth quarter, it will be difficult for the Timberwolves to hope to win the game.

The two sides continued to attack.

The Lakers continue to improve their defensive strength, making it difficult for other role players to have a chance to play.

Although Harden is still strong, but it is difficult to prevent the team's defeat.

It took half a quarter.

The Lakers once again extended their lead to 23 points.

The game lost its suspense.

Reluctantly stalemate for 2 minutes, the Timberwolves head coach finally did not insist, and replaced all the starting players, so that the game entered garbage time.

beep.

The whistle sounded for the end of the game.

101: 120.

The Lakers beat the Timberwolves by 19 points, and the series came to 2:0!