Chapter 857
The break passed in silence, and Van Gundy was anxious, but he couldn't do anything but keep encouraging him. He admired the head coach of the Chicago Bulls a little in his heart, and he implemented full-court pressing at the beginning, disrupting the rhythm of the Knicks with crazy pressing. Then accurately captured the timing of Lamar's injury and the Knicks' lack of vitality, and pushed the Knicks into a rather unfavorable situation in one fell swoop.
At the beginning of the second half, the situation on the court was still the same, and Lamar, who had returned to the playmaker position, sent good balls to assist his teammates to score, but the Bulls, who had gone crazy, still firmly held the lead. No matter how hard the Knicks players tried, they couldn't break the score any further.
Watching the minutes of the game go by, Lamar also became impatient, but he was really not in good shape tonight, and his three consecutive outside shots ended in iron.
"The Knicks are in danger of having a dangerous game, and if they go on like this, they will probably flip in the gutter and lose to the Bulls for their second loss of the season. At this time, if Lamar can step up, the situation can change, but Lamar's form does not look very good. Maybe a finger injury has affected his performance!"
With three minutes left in the game, the Knicks were still three points behind the Bulls, and even Bill Walton, a Knicks fan who was ultimately there, couldn't help but lose confidence.
The fans in New York also fell silent, and they have seen that it is basically impossible for the Knicks to win this game. The only thing they can do now is to cheer on the players on the pitch as much as possible and hope for a miracle.
Lamar doesn't want to lose, he's still making his last effort. Van Gundy is also frequently deploying, but Lamar, who is obviously not in shape in this game, is still left on the court by him, and he knows that Lamar is now the spiritual pillar of the Knicks, maintaining the Knicks' last breath. If the team loses its backbone, the rest of the game will be in doubt.
Before the end of the game, the Knicks' final comeback still failed to get the result they wanted, and when the red light came on at the end of the game, and all the Chicago Bulls players rushed into the court to celebrate wildly, the Knicks players chose to leave the court at the first time.
No one expected such a result before the game. In such a contest of disparity, people thought that there was no suspense about the Knicks' victory at all, but the result of the game once again told people that anything is possible before the red light comes on at the end!
"The Bulls played really well and they deserved to win. On the contrary, my team-mates and I were so bad today, most of the time we were on the wrong path, and as a result, the victory was getting farther and farther away. ”
Lamar was in attendance with Van Gundy at the post-match press conference, and he felt that as the leader of the team he needed to give an account to the fans who supported them.
"But it's not the end of the world, it's just a normal game. Since it's a game, there are losses and wins, no one can win all the time, and the team that played better won and it was clear that the Bulls did better today. ”
'They caused us a lot of problems from the start, established the lead and kept it until the end of the game and they deserved it!'
After this game, the Knicks' record has changed to 13-2 and is still at the top of the league, but because of Lamar's injury and the form problems shown in this game, their road to the championship has been overshadowed.
The Knicks' home loss to the Chicago Bulls quickly spread around the world, and its impact was even more appealing than the previous Los Angeles Lakers' 144-65 home win over the Nuggets, setting the record for the largest point difference in recent decades.
The previous record of winning eight consecutive victories and sweeping the Timberwolves in two rounds has made the Knicks' strength infinitely magnified in people's hearts, and they are almost about to be deified. Who would have thought that at this time, when the Knicks were in full swing, a little-known Fish Belly Bulls would be able to take down the Knicks in Madisonson, the stronghold of the New York gang.
Even stranger phenomena are still to come, those who can't wait to jump out every time the Knicks are unlucky in the past, such as Kenny Anderson, Big Mouth Cuban and others, this time the response is obviously much slower. Those fans who have become accustomed to watching them Black Ramal and Black Knicks for fun are a little uncomfortable.
In fact, there is really nothing strange about their performance, every time they sang down the Knicks and attacked Lamar before, they would immediately be stuffed back by a wave of fierce counterattacks by Lamar and slapped them in the face. The result is often to tease Lamar and be raped, making himself not a person inside and out, and his originally glorious image has become like a clown, this kind of thing that he slaps his big mouth, they don't want to do it anymore.
But to keep their Knicks silent when they were unlucky was obviously to make them suffer a lot of psychological devastation, so when the reporter put the microphone to Anderson's mouth to hear what the famous troll would say, Mother Donkey just smiled mysteriously: "I'll give you the answer you want in three days!"
For Kenny Anderson's low-key performance, the powerful reporters quickly thought of the reason. Just two days after this game, the Knicks will visit the Union Center Arena, the home of the Bulls, to challenge the Young Guards. Will it continue to sink or succeed in revenge?
The home loss to the Chicago Bulls ended the winning streak, leaving the Knicks holding their breath to go to Chicago for revenge. Before that, they never even dreamed that they would lose to the Bulls, who now have nothing.
The mentality of the players has changed, and Jeff Van Gundy as the head coach is naturally watching. He can't do anything about this, and for NBA players who are already adults, they will be bored by other people's lectures, and what to do to make themselves look at the game with a normal heart can only rely on themselves.
Before the team's departure, Van Gundy received another piece of very frustrating news, according to the team's team doctor's report, Lamar's finger injury showed no signs of getting better, and could continue to worsen at any time. If Lamar continues to play, there is a good chance that the result will be more serious.
In fact, without the team doctor's report, Van Gundy can see just by looking at Lamar's swollen carrot-like little fingers that Lamar's so-called accident has now become the biggest trouble for the Knicks.
Faced with such a fact, Lamar also couldn't laugh or cry. After fighting in the NBA arena for more than four years, those strong men who hated him so much that their teeth itched failed to do anything to him, and as a result, a small baby made him suffer such a serious injury, and what made him feel even more dramatic was that this little baby was still his son!
Although the team doctor repeatedly advised Lamar to rest for a while, after all, although his current injury will not be easy to turn around in a short time, as long as he rests for a while, this injury will still be reduced.
But Lamar refused, he didn't want to rest at this time, even if it was only a week off as the team doctor suggested. The team had just lost, and if he was out of action as the leader of the team due to injury at this time, it would be easy for others to think that he was running away and making excuses for his poor performance in the last game, and he didn't want to give those people an excuse to attack him.
"Now that I've decided to carry the Knicks, I have to fight with my brothers!"
As the team's bus approached the United Center arena, home of the Chicago Bulls, Lamar saw the bronze statue of Michael Jordan towering in front of the arena through the car window!
In his previous life, Lamar also admired Michael Jordan like many basketball teenagers, but after he was reborn, the worship in his heart disappeared completely. He felt that since Kobe Bryant in his previous life could achieve achievements that were infinitely close to Jordan, and LeBron James was praised as surpassing Jordan, why couldn't he do it after being reborn? Since it is also possible for Jordan to do what he did on the basketball court, there is no need for this idol to exist.
But at this time, seeing this bronze statue again, and seeing the adoring eyes cast by the fans carrying the red bull flag when they passed by this statue, Lamar, who had gradually matured, suddenly had some other thoughts in his heart. It is not in vain that a player can still be remembered by so many people after retiring for so many years!
"Lamar, what are you looking at?" Devon Wade's baby face suddenly appeared in front of Lamar and asked curiously.
Lamar smiled and pointed to the bronze statue outside: "Look at a legend!"
Devon Wade was slightly stunned, but quickly understood what Lamar meant: "That guy is indeed a legend. It's a shame I didn't get to fight him, he's an unbelievable guy!"
Devon Wade paused for a moment, and added like a dog's tail mink: "You're also an unbelievable guy!"
Lamar smiled and said, "That's a really high rating!
Wade's face turned pale, and he said seriously: "What I said is true! I have a hunch that your future achievements will be greater than that guy! Of course, I will surpass that guy." ”
Lamar didn't speak, but still looked at the statue of Jordan until it disappeared from his sight, and then came back to his senses and followed his teammates out of the car and into the visiting locker room at the United Center arena.