"That's right!" Van Gundy smiled and nodded, then continued to pay attention to the situation on the field. Vertices are updated the fastest

Obviously, even if the Los Angeles Clippers have the addition of the top pick Dwight Howard this season, in the eyes of Lamar and Van Gundy, they have not changed at all from last season, at most from a super bad team to an average team.

However, the form on the court at this point looks very strong against the Los Angeles Clippers, who play very smoothly on offense and have improved significantly defensively compared to last season.

For the first time on the Knicks' court, these guys played an official game together, and the cooperation seemed a little rusty, and they were suddenly stunned by the opponent's onslaught, and they looked extremely passive on the court.

It wasn't until the fifth minute of the game that the Knicks broke through and passed to Mourning under the basket, who dunked with both hands to get in the way of the Knicks' first open score of the night.

At this time, the score on the court had become 17:8, and Nick was 9 points behind his opponent.

On the Los Angeles Clippers' side, Howard scored seven points alone. The first three attacks of Warcraft were all strong baskets, using absolute power to eat Mo Ning, who had just returned from injury, and the fourth attack was stopped by the helpless Mo Ning with a foul.

During this time, Van Gundy watched the team being beaten to a colander by the Clippers, but he didn't feel anxious at all, and he didn't even stand up. He's still watching, watching every player on the pitch perform, and he also wants the players to figure things out on their own.

But after all, it is the first time that the five leading players of the Knicks are cooperating, and it is normal for them to be unfamiliar with each other.

And none of them are freaks like Lamar. Battier is a support player, Mourning and Cassel are good but not old, and Wade and Prince are talented but still young.

Therefore, in their current state, it is impossible to turn things around on their own. When the team is at a disadvantage, it's a bit hard to expect them to make changes on their own.

It was the Clippers' turn to attack again.

Barang Davis pouted and controlled the ball to watch his teammates' every move, Crawford and Posey pulled to either side of the three-point line, Taylor stood near the free throw line, as if ready to block Davis, and Howard, the core of their court, squeezed inside to fight Mourning as he had done a few times before.

Davis began to break through, and he took advantage of his physical tonnage to easily push Cassel aside.

When Howard saw his teammates coming in, he immediately stepped outside and opened the space under the basket.

Mourning didn't follow in time, but stood outside the reasonable collision zone and waited.

Instead of choosing to go it alone, Davis gently threw the ball upwards.

When the ball was about to hit the rebound, a big hand appeared in time to stop the ball, and then smashed the ball into the basket.

"Boom!"

"Bang!"

Mourning under the basket didn't dodge in time, and was hit hard by the flying Howard, and fell to the ground in embarrassment.

This shot happened to be captured by countless cameras.

Van Gundy couldn't sit still anymore and stood up and called a timeout.

"I'm not happy with where I'm going! Yes! I'm very unhappy! You're sleepwalking on the pitch and no one is playing at your normal level. Or is this what you're really capable of? If that's the case, then I'm so disappointed in you! You don't deserve the Knicks jersey. ”

Even if you don't care about winning or losing the game, it's too embarrassing to be beaten up in the first few minutes. Especially when this opponent was swept by the Clippers in the regular season in recent years.

This made Van Gundy a little angry and severely reprimanded his players.

"We have to make a change! Don't think that there is still a lot of time to go, that there is still a long time to end, that is dangerous. Now we're 13 points behind!"

"I don't ask you to tie or overtake your opponent in the first quarter, but you have to close the gap to within 10 points. Don't try to show off your crippled technique in front of me, that's not what I want to see. Pass the ball a lot, like you normally do in training, you know? Okay, now it's all for me to play and teach the self-righteous L'Anders a hard lesson. ”

Van Gundy's rebuke finally made the Knicks' players regain a little composure, and their performance on the court was much more normal.

The two sides began to enter a stalemate, and the score gap remained between 11 and 9 points.

With 49 seconds left in the first quarter, Anderson finally caught the ball under the basket. Before Taylor could get up to the defense, the Brazilian suddenly turned and stepped back, swinging the ball up with both hands in a shooting feint.

Taylor was fooled and jumped up to block it. But when he flew up and suddenly saw the sarcastic smile on the corner of Hilario's mouth, he knew that he had been deceived.

Hilario pulled the ball around Taylor's huge body still in the air, and moved the ball to the basket with one hand, and the basketball obediently slid in.

With Crawford's last-ditch shot, the score was temporarily fixed at 27:20, with the Knicks still trailing by seven points.

"Good job, guys, but not good enough!" Van Gundy's face finally softened a little, but he was still a little unhappy with the players' performance.

"Lamar! Want to go up and play?" Van Gundy looked at Lamar, who would always be the first to think of Lamar when the team had a problem. It's almost become a habitual thinking.

Lamar didn't speak, but directly pulled off the tracksuit on his body to reveal the jersey inside, it seems that he has been prepared for a long time.

Seeing Howard's wonderful performance on the court, Lamar's heart was also moved.

Although the current Howard is far inferior to the future Warcraft, after all, it is the Zhengtai version, and this guy Lamar doesn't mind going up and hitting him.

Van Gundy nodded, then said, "Alonzo, you can get off the field and rest first. Lamar, you'll go up and play as a center forward later. Your job in this game is not to score, but to show that rookie what the NBA's top interior player is. And you have to find ways to create opportunities for other people. Of course, don't miss out on a good chance to score, I don't want to see them proud. ”

Lamar had finished his final preparations and said with a smile, "Of course, Jeff, I don't think you'll ever see it again today." ”

"Good!

At the beginning of the second quarter, Clippers fans, who were still cheering for the team's outstanding performance, were surprised to find that the Knicks had taken the lead in making changes. Lamar Odom, the bandit leader, is finally on the field.

Los Angeles fans can't forget the painful memories Lamar has brought to the city over the years.

Lamar hasn't allowed the Clippers to get a win over him since the Los Angeles Clippers' brain-dead uniform team traded Lamar.

Lamar led the Knicks to the Staples Center five times last season, averaging 33.6 points, 11.4 rebounds, 8.2 assists, 1.2 steals and 2.0 blocks. Not only the basket of his own team, the Los Angeles Clippers, is a beautiful woman with big breasts and fat buttocks in his eyes, and he can do whatever he wants. Even the Los Angeles Lakers, who were the favorites to win the league championship last season, couldn't escape his butcher's knife!

Now that this demon from New York is here again, what does he want to do? And he wants to ravage the Clippers who have just had the hope of revival? The fans in Los Angeles can't help but be angry when they think of the tragic experience of last season.

Seeing Lamar on the pitch, the fans immediately let out an astonishing boo, hoping to boo him back to New York and never come back.

"Boy, go back to New York! ”

"Bastard, your time is over! Dwight will break your dog's legs!"

"Damn fleas! I'm waiting to fuck your ass!"

Lamar had barely walked into the stadium when the audience heard a burst of swearing.

If it were a rookie season, Lamar would certainly not hesitate to hit back, and certainly not skimp on his middle finger, just as he did in Dallas. But now he won't!

Since becoming the leader of the Knicks, Lamar has become more and more mature, and he will use his performance on the court to fight back if there is any grudge.

"Hey, man, the people here seem to hate you?" said Billups, gloating a little hungry.

Lamar sneered, "I hate them even more! They traded me back then! I swore when I left here that I would make them regret it." Now they have felt remorse, even fear, because there is no better way for a coward to get rid of his fear than to be abusive. ”

"So, what are you going to do?"

"You'll know when the time comes!"

The game restarted and Anderson put the ball into Lamar's hands.

Lamar didn't push forward as quickly as he used to, just dribbled slowly, and Taylor, who was defending in front of him, didn't pose the slightest threat to him as if it didn't exist at all.

Every time Taylor reaches out and tries to break the ball, he is surprised to find that the basketball magically disappears just as his fingers touch it.

Lamar just walked through the halfway line and raised his left arm and waved it twice. The other four players pulled away as quickly as they could get some kind of signal to create a single opportunity for Lamar.

Suddenly, Lamar moved without warning. There were no feints, no dazzling ball control skills, just the speed that easily threw Taylor behind him and went straight to the basket.

Howard had left his position to defend Anderson. At this time, seeing Lamar rushing in, he quickly took a big step and met him from the diagonal side.

Two people jumped up almost at the same time, one wanted to stuff the basketball in his hand into the basket, and the other aimed at the basketball in the opponent's hand.

The two collided violently in the air.