The Pacers' fourth game was two days after Xie Nini's birthday.

In the fourth game, their opponent was last season's Western Conference runner-up Minnesota Timberwolves.

The historical issues of last season previewed the dangers of this game tonight in advance.

Xie Hou instinctively achieved a double MVP miracle in his rookie season. If it weren't for the rise of Garnett and the Timberwolves, and his absence of 20 games due to injury, this would have really happened.

Because the Wolf King has been suffering from Mingzhou for a long time, he led the team to the second record in the league with full attendance last season. King Arthur is young and has more opportunities to fight for MVP in the future (those who voted for Garnett with their eyes closed must think so) - a series of reasons that made Xie Hou miss MVP.

Interestingly, after the finals, ESPN, which has always liked to make trouble, launched an anonymous vote and invited voters to make another decision in a form that does not count.

If you were asked to choose MVP again, who would you choose?

Some people speculate that espn may only give two options: Xie Hou and Garnett, otherwise it will not be explained why only two of them won the vote.

This second vote, which had no other purpose than disgusting Garnett, allowed Xie Hou, who led the team to win the championship, to get 95% of the vote.

Minnesota's media is disgusting, and they have many reasons to explain why Garnett stopped in the Western Conference Finals and couldn't get people from other regions to listen to it.

The result that fans saw was that the Timberwolves stopped in the Western Conference Finals, and Xie Hou led the team to sweep the Lakers.

Against this background, this battle tonight will inevitably bring real fire.

At the beginning of the game, O'Neal Jr. became one of the protagonists of this focus battle.

In the first half of the first quarter, the Pacers relied on his offensive and attacked the penalty area in turn.

Garnett should have defended him, but was pulled outside by Kirilenko's three-point shooting range. At the beginning of the game, the Timberwolves trusted the defense of the No. 1 pick Olovo Kandi.

Although Olovokandi is a parallel product, it is a very distinctive parallel product.

Like Kwame Brown, he passed the inside single defense, and his assisted defense relies on his physical fitness and has a certain level, so he can serve as the Timberwolves' center.

It was a half-wrong and half-right decision to let O'Neal defend O'Neal alone.

The correct thing about the Timberwolves is that Olovo Candi is indeed more suitable for single defense than Garnett. Garnett can only fully reflect value when assisting in defense; the mistake in the forest is also here. If Olovo Candi defends alone for a long time, O'Neal will be able to impress him.

Soon, the No. 1 pick in 1998 successively fouled.

As the protagonists of the center of conflict, Xie Hou and Garnett have the least movement.

In the first half of the quarter, the Pacers started 10-5.

Olovokandy was replaced and replaced with a medicine jar by Jonathan Bend.

"Fortunately, the Pacers didn't choose Jonathan with the third pick, otherwise I really didn't know what the Pacers would look like today."

In 1999, the Pacers gave the All-Star inside Dale Davis in order to get a lottery draw, and the inside was completely empty. It is completely understandable if they chose the inside new star to strengthen it.

As a result, they chose Xie Hou, who was destined to be stocked overseas.

Judging from the results, they bet right, but it really took a lot of determination to make such a decision at that time.

After Bend came on the court, Xie Hou's desire to attack increased greatly. It was not because he was excited to see students of the same level, but just felt that it was time to attack.

The time period when Xie Hou exerted his strength was when Garnett was at the highest pressure.

Bend could not defend O'Neal Jr. This matter came to Gagne. He had to take into account both the single defense O'Neal Jr. and the assisted defense of Xie Hou.

Few insiders can do these two things at the same time.

Garnett could only do part of it. He limited Xiao Ao's attack to death and interfered with Xie Hou's attack to the best of his ability.

Xie Hou did not stop. In the eighth minute of the first quarter, he broke through the penalty area, like an Eagle passing through the ground, pressing the difficult-to-get-jump wolf king Garnett to score a dunk.

In the first quarter, the Pacers' momentum was like trying to completely blow up the Timberwolves.

35 to 25

The second quarter is exactly the same as the first quarter.

The Timberwolves' degradation this year is very obvious, and the only person who has not declined is Garnett.

He can still average 22135 per game, but his teammates, the two veterans who still had oil in the fuel tank last season, had significantly deteriorated their competitive level.

After halfway through the second quarter, the score difference widened to 15 points.

"If we can't be tougher, we will be humiliated by them!" Garnett scolded louder than anyone else when he ended up, and even the booing of the away game could not cover up his voice.

His angry curses may have awakened his teammates. In the remaining half of the first half, the Timberwolves began to implement a tough defensive strategy.

Confrontation is an effective weapon to reduce the opponent's hit rate.

Such a game is the specialty of the Eastern Conference strong teams. The Timberwolves suddenly played this with the Pacers, and they didn't react when they were at home.

The half ended, 53 to 42.

The Timberwolves stubbornly narrowed the 4-point difference.

The intensity of the confrontation increases and the force of the movement increases, and the direct impact of the emotions of both parties is rising.

Focus War has never had a temper to a temper, and the person with the most significant change is Artest.

At the end of the midfield, Sprewell didn't know what kind of ecstasy was poured into it, so he fought with him when he came up.

Artest, an extreme personality that was not perfect in childhood, was easily obsessed with. As a person who dared to pinch his coach in his early years, Spraywell knew how to anger Artest.

The small move is just one of the reasons that anger Artai, and it is also the double standard for the referee to determine the foul. With the same move, why did he foul but Sprewell remain peaceful?

The referee could not tell Arte that the maniac had better acting skills, he could only keep emphasizing authority and let Arteste raise his hand.

Artest was not so stupid that he fought head-on with the referee. He raised his hand unconvincedly, thinking about how to take revenge.

The Timberwolves brought up a storm of confrontation, and the Pacers decided to strike back, headed by Artest, and gave Sprewell an amazing elbow while fighting for defensive rebounds.

On the spot, Sprayville's blood burst out.

Artest was immediately hailed as a second-degree malicious foul and was expelled on the spot.

The madman's eyebrows and eyes were opened, and his face was not angry but laughed.

The departure of the wild beast gave the Timberwolves a breakthrough.

No one of the Pacers could fill his vacancies, but unfortunately, the Minnesotans who had done all the mechanisms and had all the dirty tricks were still unable to defeat the Pacers.

The deterioration of the Madman and the Aliens is too serious, and Garnett cannot support the team on both offense and defense.

The beast's exit aroused the blood of the walker.

Xie Hou began to exert force and frequently called pick-and-roll to find a one-on-one challenge.

Whenever the Timberwolves dare to double-team, he will immediately pass the ball to the open position. If he does not double-team, his misaligned breakthrough attack will be enough to make the opponent pay the price.

"This is an atypical East-West strong showdown."

"The Timberwolves are not as strong as we imagined, and the Pacers are not easy to fight."

Xie Hou's scores tonight were all based on breakthroughs, and his shooting touch betrayed him. This is a situation that he had to face after the technical transformation.

He hasn't played a game like tonight that he wouldn't make any shot no matter how he shoots.

The technical transformation often makes him unable to find the rhythm of scoring goals, which is the most obvious tonight.

Every time he wants to shoot, he just holds the ball up and feels wrong, so he either shoots or passes the ball to his teammate who is caught off guard before shooting.

Such things happened so many times that Xie Hou completely gave up shooting and defeated the Timberwolves with just breaking through.

He won't be happy about this, because the Timberwolves are no longer the T1-level team last year.

Garnett is still the same Garnett, but the madman and aliens are no longer as brave as last year.

At the end of the game, the Pacers beat the Timberwolves 112-97.

Xie Hou won his first triple-double of the season: 24 points, 13 rebounds and 10 assists.

His only stable scoring method is breakthrough, but the Timberwolves cannot limit it.

"We have been hearing about which players can become the scoring champions by just breaking through, but those are shit! In my opinion, only Arthur has such ability! As long as he wants, he can become the scoring champions by breaking through!" Garnett, who scored 22155 like a clock-in-time and played after get off work, praised Xie Hou.

Everyone thought Xie Hou wanted to follow the script to reply to Kwaganette.

He didn't do this: "kg may be right, but winning is the most important thing, and I'm glad we won the game."
Chapter completed!