The two people sitting on the bench now are no better, Olajuwon is a veteran, McDyce has been away from the court for almost a year, and Simmons and Arenas have just risen from college and are the team's most physically challenged players.

It is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice, and Van Gundy can only rely on Lamar on the field at this time.

You must know that Lamar's physical strength is the best in the team. In the first half, Lamar was also mainly passing, saving a lot of consumption.

To say that Lamar's tactical literacy and offensive ability are indeed not covered, otherwise he would not have become the starting power forward of the championship team as soon as he entered the NBA, but no matter how strong an individual is, he needs the help of his teammates on the court.

In this way, Van Gundy shouted hoarsely to lay out the tactics for the Knicks' players.

"Got it?" Van Gundy himself became less confident as he looked at the players with blank expressions.

"A bunch of idiots! Jeff's meaning is very simple, I'll go up after the third quarter, you guys cover me!" Lamar's words were light, but they were accurate and reached the ears of every Knicks player: "To put it more simply, you are all scumbags, and the hope of the team is on me!"

"What?"

Dampotter glared at Lamar angrily, "Doesn't that obviously mean that none of them together are worth Lamar?"

Lamar's words were vicious, but they worked very well.

After the game restarted, the Knicks were on the back slate.

At its best, the Knicks had a 10-point lead, but the momentum was quickly suppressed by the Boston Celtics' next onslaught.

The game quickly went into a rather strange situation, with the Knicks' side constantly making substitutions. One will play the three-high tactics, and slowly play the positional battle with Boston, and the other will play the small-ball tactics, and the Boston big fast attack will be galloping.

In order to deal with the Knicks' tactics, Boston also had to change the lineup on the court from time to time.

The situation on the court seems to be that the Knicks have been pressing Boston. But as long as anyone who knows a little bit about basketball knows that the Knicks are making such changes out of helplessness.

Looking at the situation on the field, Van Gundy frowned, and stroked the top of his bare head with his hand. At this time, Van Gundy really wished that he could find a solution to the problem by touching his head like that.

Rick Pitino looked at Van Gundy's brows and looked embarrassed, and he was not very happy.

Since Lamar joined the Knicks, he hasn't had much of an advantage in his previous battles with Van Gundy. Because Van Gundy has changed, he is no longer the guy he used to be who only defended three axes. Triangle tactics, small balls, Princeton, pick-and-roll, now Van Gundy has become a tactical magician, as long as he can win the game, Van Gundy can accept it.

So looking at Van Gundy's appearance, Pitino has been worried about what Van Gundy has done, and now the most desired thing is to end the game quickly.

With the vast majority of Lamar's energy starting to attack, the quality of the defense inevitably dropped significantly. This change made Anthony Walker, who was opposite Lamar, very happy, and every time he got a valid statistic, he had to look at Lamar provocatively.

It's just that Lamar never seems to see Anthony Walker as his opponent, so Lamar's eyes have never been focused on Walker.

This made the originally triumphant Anthony Walker a little frustrated. So the more Lamar ignored him like this, the harder he hit, and for a while the Knicks' basket was smashed by him.

As the saying goes, two fists are hard to beat four hands, and the Knicks are in such a situation right now. As the Bostonians began to adopt man-to-man defensive tactics, Lamar's scoring stats began to rise.

It's a pity that the rest of the Knicks didn't give up, and when Lamar beat Anthony Walker into a sieve, the entire Knicks team was beaten into a sieve by Boston.

Defense! is defense! The lost Battier Knicks made a huge mistake in defense. Battier is an absolute good player in both single-handed, assisted, and wheel-to-wheel defense.

The Knicks' tight bucket-like defense at the time of Battier's departure turned into a colander.

Weak to advance and defenseless to retreat, this is the best portrayal of the Knicks' performance on the court!

Seeing that the opponent followed him and frequently deployed troops, it was clear that he wanted to fight to the death with the Knicks.

Van Gundy was angry, but there was nothing he could do. At this point in the game, there is not much the manager can do, and in the end it depends on the resilience of the players themselves, and maybe a little luck.

By the middle of the fourth quarter, the Knicks had already been caught up by Boston. That's definitely not a good thing for the Knicks.

Looking at the situation of the Knicks players at this time, the morale that was originally high when they were leading has now been worn out, but the Boston Celtics have been greatly boosted because they saw the hope of a comeback. Anyone with a discerning eye knows that the big picture of the game is decided.

It's not that Van Gundy didn't think about surrendering and admitting defeat, but he felt unwilling! Jeff Van Gundy is also a stubborn person in his bones, and he would rather die standing than live on his knees!

And Van Gundy is sure that even if he is willing to surrender, the opposite Rick Pitino, who has been suppressed by him for a season, will not let him go easily.

Beat the water dogs, that's for sure!

Van Gundy clutched at the last hair on top of his head in distress.

Compared with Van Gundy, who is anxious like an ant on a hot pot, Lamar seems to be very calm, and still controls the ball and organizes the game without hurrying.

The potential of human beings is always unlimited, and it is always possible to suddenly explode in the small universe at the most difficult time, producing an extraordinary power. That's what Lamar wants right now – to bring out the hidden potential in his teammates.

may be worried that he will be completely destroyed by the other party. In the final five minutes of the game, the entire Knicks team suddenly erupted without warning, and the originally exhausted Knicks players launched a suicide attack on the Boston Celtics like a return to the light.

It's a pity that such an outbreak lasted a little short, and the moment of the outbreak was a little late.

The final result of the game was that the Boston Celtics narrowly defeated the Knicks on their home court to tie the overall score at 2-2.

"Alright, brothers!" Lamar was not disappointed by today's strength, but had a sense of relief: "The game is over! You just don't feel guilty anymore, it's better to make it easier for yourself than to torture yourself! To be honest, we're happy to be able to play like this without having the right time and place! Because half of our team is playing the playoffs for the first time. ”

After losing the game, Lamar said that he didn't care at all, it was impossible, but Lamar suffered from it and lost because of it. Because such a result was simply within Lamar's expectations, it was normal for the Knicks to lose without taking advantage of the right time and place.

Besides, the Knicks were able to push Boston to this point when half of the team had no playoff experience, and it is something to be proud of! Of course, if you can win the game, of course, it will be the best, but it is not a pity to lose.

Lamar's relaxed appearance didn't ease the Knicks players, and the whole locker room was still in a dead state, and everyone had their heads down and didn't know what they were thinking.

"Okay, guys, I'll admit I went a little too far today!" Lamar looked at the silence of the group, and knew that everyone understood their abnormality today.

Dampo didn't even look at Lamar with a special face, and muttered in a low voice: "Do you damn guy really want us to lose so much?

Lamar laughed when he saw Dampot's childlike mood: "Seriously, you guys did a good job today. ”

As he spoke, Lamar walked to the center of the locker room where he usually appeared most often: "I am telling the truth, and I am definitely not comforting you! You have done a good job, really good! I know that some of you have been surprised by my abnormality today, I hope you will give me a chance to explain!"

"Guys, do you think the Boston Celtics are better or our opponents in the next round?"

"The latter, of course!"

"That's right, our biggest weakness right now is our lack of experience, half of the players on the team have no playoff experience. And the Boston Celtics seem to me to be our best litmus test, so why don't we take this opportunity to hone ourselves?

"But we still lost the game in the end!" said Houston, who was lying on a bench with his face covered with a white towel.

Lamar didn't have to look at Houston's expression to know that the loss in this game was a great disappointment for this guy. Houston scored 19 points in the first half, but in the second half he only scored 8 points due to serious physical problems.

27 points, 5 rebounds, 3 assists! Overall, Houston's performance is still quite good.

But the loss of the game still left Houston in a deep self-reproach. Although the team has never played with him as the core, he still stubbornly believes that if his physical strength had been better, the outcome of the game should not have been like this.

Lamar walked over and ripped off the towel that was covering Granger's face: "What if we lose? Now it's just that we're on the same page, are you worried that we're going to lose to those Boston bastards in Madison? Or are you not confident in yourself now?"

"How is that possible?" Houston sat up straight with round eyes, "Don't think that you can look down on people if you are the boss of the team now!"