Chapter Seventy-Six: His eyes have changed

Maddie is about to start swinging, everyone can feel it, he can't hide behind the scenes all the time, and he can't be willing to be a fixed-point shooter, he wants to be the protagonist, just like Keller of the Knicks. When he left the Raptors, it was because he was unwilling to live under the aura of his cousin Carter forever. It's the same now, although head coach Van Gundy established Yao Ming's central position before the game, but that doesn't mean he will endure it forever, especially as he watches his main rival, Keller, who pulled him off the scoring throne, and his heart is almost silent.

Yao Ming naturally knows what his comrades-in-arms are thinking about now, the team is already ten points ahead, and he is now feeling a little tired after the main game of the game, and he is also willing to become the beauty of the best people.

Van Gundy is the same, although he prefers Yao Ming to shoulder the task of the tactical core of the whole game, but he also knows very well that for the use of Yao Ming, the most suitable game should be controlled to about 35 minutes, and he can rely on Maddie.

As a result, as soon as the second half of the game began, the Rockets immediately changed their strategy and played the kind of nondescript basketball that didn't want to run and bomb, and positional warfare was not like positional warfare.

"Here's your chance"

This is probably the common idea of the Knicks, but unfortunately, the Knicks' calculation is destined to fail, Yao Ming because the first quarter of the game was too hard, the second quarter of the game only played for a while before being replaced by Van Gundy, replacing Yao Ming is not the African mountain Mutombo, but the white power forward Novak, who is rarely sent to the court, a very good three-point shooter, played a lineup.

"Come on"

The Rockets' offense, Maddie took the initiative to find Keller, and his eyes were no longer as listless as usual, but instead a sharpness that made Keller have to raise his vigilance

Keller was stunned, Maddie moved, strode forward, and then leaned forward, making a gesture to break through. Keller barely reacted, just instinctively took a step back, but it was this step that Maddie caught the opportunity.

The body quickly recovered, and made the best dry pull-up jump shot, Maddie's eyes were full of confidence at the moment of the basketball shot, and after landing on the ground, he waved his arm violently and roared, and at the same time the basketball went into the net.

Maddie began to wield power, the Rockets' offensive continued, although the Knicks' counterattack wave was also very fierce, especially the point of Howard on the inside, after being abused by Yao Ming for a whole game, his long-suppressed leakage point was finally released, whether it was coolie Hayes or Novak, who couldn't defend at all, was not his opponent at all, and for a while the Rockets' basket was dunked loudly.

Although the Knicks' offense was lively, but helplessly, Maddie was given wings today like an advertisement that Keller was very familiar with in his previous life, and became omnipotent, breakthroughs, jump shots, and the Knicks' basket today is completely open to this slightly sad genius.

"Guys can't go on like this, we've got to cut off Maddy's point" Thomas yelled hoarsely with his tactical board, "look at how many points he's scored now, just a few minutes in the second quarter, we've got him 12 points, we've got to do something"

Thomas said, glancing in Keller's direction, hesitated, and then said: "Keller Denny's next you two wrap up Maddie, you must not let him shoot easily, this is my bottom line, his shooting is too much of a threat to us, control him, don't let him get a chance to shoot at the free throw line"

When Thomas said this, Keller's heart did tremble fiercely, although he didn't want to admit it, but Maddie's performance tonight was indeed too good, maybe it was Yao Ming's outstanding swing that stimulated the weak self-esteem of players at this level after establishing a core position, in short, Maddie exploded without warning tonight, and now it seems that the Knicks are simply a victim who accidentally hit the muzzle.

"Okay, let's do it then" Keller stood up, the timeout was over, Keller smiled at Thomas, and was the first to walk onto the court.

The game restarted, the Rockets attacked, and the basketball was once again in Maddy's hands after passing half court. Maddie's movements looked a little slow, but every move was full of murderous energy, leaning forward, putting the ball on his waist with both hands, and staring sharply at Granger who was defending in front of him.

Keller was always watching Maddie's every move, ready to go over and carry out the bag at any time.

"Does this guy only explode after being stimulated severely?" Keller thought, moving slowly towards Maddie, "Since you want to compete, I'll fulfill you."

Suddenly, Keller lunged at Maddie, and a hand reached for the basketball.

Steals

If ordinary people encounter such a situation, they will definitely panic, but Maddie is different, just when Keller's hand is about to press on the basketball, Maddie also moves, her body turns gracefully, and at the same time as she turns, the basketball is thrown out by him.

"Huh"

The ball was scored by Battier's three-pointer, a player who played a prominent role on the court but was rarely noticed, and when he made a play at a critical moment, a three-pointer extended the lead to 15 points, and the Knicks were really in trouble.

After high-fiveing Battier, Maddie suddenly turned around and yelled at her bench, banging her chest while roaring, which caused an uproar in the audience. Although many people can guess that Maddie will be a little dissatisfied with Van Gundy taking away his core position, no one expected it to be so strong.

Seeing that Van Gundy's face became a little ugly, Battier hurriedly hugged Maddie to calm him down, but Maddie didn't appreciate it at all, and still kept beating his chest, at the bench, to be precise, at Van Gundy: "Look at me, look at me"

Just when Van Gundy felt that his patience had reached the limit, suddenly a huge figure beside him stood up, it was Yao Ming, I saw Yao Ming with a smile, walked to the sidelines, clapped his hands gently, and then waved his fist and shouted: "Well done Tracy"

Van Gundy saw Yao Ming's reaction, and the dissatisfaction in his heart suddenly disappeared, it is enough to have such a player in the team who knows to take care of the overall situation, Maddie is just a willful child and let him be.

Maddie also seemed to feel that what he had just done was a little too much, and waved his hand to the stands and ran back to his half of the court to participate in the defense.

The Knicks attacked and fell behind by a big score, and at this time the Knicks habitually began to rely on Keller, hoping that Keller could pull the team back from the edge of the cliff by himself.

"Huh"

is also a three-point shot, after Howard and Aldridge's continuous blocking and dismantling cooperation, Keller's opportunity to shoot, not only Maddy, Keller is now also encountered by the Rockets' bag defense, although Battier is not a defensive titan like Artest, but he is smarter and knows how to use his own advantages, coupled with his kraft candy-like close defense, Keller is uncomfortable enough, and there is a Maddie eyeing him next to him, so at the beginning of the second quarter of the game, Keller obviously has fewer opportunities to shoot。

When it was Maddy's turn to attack, this time Maddie suddenly activated, drilled through the gap between Keller and Granger before Keller could make up the defense, and then went straight to the basket, scoring the ball with a throw, and also causing a foul on Howard.

Although Keller is not a frontal defense, Maddie is still very excited to beat Keller in an almost face-to-face battle, and then hit a free throw, he has scored a full 20 points in this game, tied Keller, and the two are on the same starting line.

Thomas saw that Granger couldn't prevent Maddie at all, so he immediately replaced him with Martin with the support of a mad dog, although Martin's body was a little thinner than Granger, but he was not soft in the process of defense, which he completely inherited Keller's style, and basically shot when he should have shot, if ordinary people encounter him like this, they don't play cards according to common sense at all, and defenders who like to gamble on character will definitely be forced to be in a hurry, maybe it will really go wrong.

But today's Maddie is destined to hurt the Knicks, and the core position was replaced by his comrade-in-arms Yao Ming, which deeply stung his self-esteem, and the heroic heart that had been silent for a long time finally awakened on the court of Toyota Center tonight.

"Boom"

Another violent dunk after breaking through the entire Knicks' defense line in a row made the fans who went to the Toyota Center Arena to watch the game today completely hIgh the sky.

"It's unbelievable, I'm almost forgetting the last time Maddie did this great swing. Drexler, the guest commentator at the Toyota Center, held his head and sighed, "He reminds me of a person who may be upset when I say that, but his performance today is completely comparable to that of his cousin Vince Carter when he was young, and omnipotence is omnipotence."

After the goal, this time Maddie aimed at Keller and reached out to point, which means that it is self-evident that it is your turn one by one, don't let me down