Chapter 874
Wade continued to play with Vince Carter on the offensive end, trying to maintain the lead left by Lamar, and also reciprocating with a few assists for Arenas and Simmons from time to time. Ranwen ?ena'com
The situation on the court is good, and the Knicks are not out of control because Lamar is gone. Lamar, who sat on the sidelines and watched the game, was also in a very good mood because of this, and occasionally stood up with his teammates on the bench and waved the white towel in his hand because of some wonderful performances by his teammates.
As the minutes ticked by, the situation for the Raptors didn't get any better. Seeing that the team was inevitably going to have a heavy defeat, Vince Carter and Anthony were a little anxious, and on several occasions their teammates had better chances, they did not choose to pass, but chose to attack, and the score between the two sides was further widened by playing alone.
When the red light came on at the end, the Madison Bandit Nest was once again a sea of joy, and even Knicks fans seemed to be used to such celebrations, believing that as long as Lamar was around, they would taste victories like this more often.
Anthony sat on the ground as if he had been drained of his strength, and Vince Carter looked at his hands in a daze with a wistful expression. The Raptors' good form this season, and the gradual maturity of some teammates around him, made Vince Carter feel that he has the right to challenge for the championship.
Who knew that when Vince Carter ran to New York full of confidence and confidence to challenge Lamar, he would get such a result. Vince Carter felt a wave of powerlessness from the bottom of his heart, as if God had never favored him, the team's poor record, his physical injuries continued, and his opponents were getting stronger and stronger, and from the day he and Lamar were in this world, it seemed that his fate was sealed.
Vince Carter was not reconciled, he was really, really unwilling. He doesn't want to hear people mention star-studded NBA superstars with longing, and Lamar is always the first thing to mention, then Kobe, AI, Kevin Garnett, Tim Duncan, etc., and maybe sometimes he is interested in saying, "And that Vince Carter of the Raptors, he's also a very nice guy!"
Vince Carter has had enough of what people say about him, is it really just good? hell, what he wants to do is the brightest star. What he wants is to trample Lamar, Kobe, AI, Garnett, etc., and trample on their corpses to win the championship.
But at this moment, the bright red score of 114:90 on the live scoreboard was particularly dazzling, and to Vince Carter, it was simply a great irony! Every number on it seemed to laugh at him, which filled his heart with unwillingness.
"Vince, we've lost, it's time to go! ”
Alvin Williams walked over and grabbed Vince Carter by the arm to drag him back to the locker room, and it was not a pleasant thing to watch New Yorkers celebrate right under his nose.
"Is it really over?" Vince Carter couldn't help but smile bitterly when he saw the Knicks players who were high-fiveing each other and celebrating the victory not far away, and then followed Williams to the players' tunnel, and at the moment when he was about to step into the passage, Vince glanced back in a ghostly manner.
Perhaps it was predestined in the dark, Vince Carter and Lamar's eyes met in the air, and suddenly the flame that was almost extinguished in Vince Carter's heart burned again. He is not reconciled, he still wants to fight, he will not accept defeat like this!
Watching his good brother fade away, Lamar felt a little relieved for him as he felt bad luck. Because Lamar could see that the flame of battle in Vince Carter's heart had not been completely extinguished, but so what? The stronger the opponent, the more Lamar's fighting enthusiasm would be stimulated.
In fact, Lamar can feel that Vince Carter at this time is already one of the top swing guards in the NBA, but Lamar still thinks that Carter can still improve, this is not Vince's limit, he still has room for improvement!
Lamar hopes that Vince Carter, a friend's rival, will become stronger and cause him more problems in the near future. If only someone else might nip this danger in the bud, Lamar was different, his heart was full of anticipation for that future.
At the post-game press conference, Vince Carter, who contributed 28 points, 11 rebounds and 7 assists in the game, was the first to be bombarded. As for Lamar, the odd-tempered guy had better save it for last, and the reporters seemed to have a hunch that they might get big news about Lamar today.
"It's a shame we lost the game, but maybe some people think we've done well enough to play against a championship favorite like the Knicks, and it's very good to play to this point. But I still think we should be able to do better!"
'We made a lot of mistakes at the start and created a lot of chances for Lamar and it made us very passive throughout the game. I think if we had taken those opportunities at the time, maybe the result of this game would not have been the way it is. But it's over, and it's not interesting to say anything more, but we're not going to be discouraged, and I'm still confident that the next win will be our Toronto Raptors!"
Vince Carter's words sounded uneventful, and although there were a few small explosions in between, it would not have been able to arouse the interest of reporters at all. So naturally, they set their sights on Lamar, the NBA's famous powder keg, in the hope that he could step up and save tomorrow's newspaper sales.
"It's not that I don't give Vince face, the facts are the facts! Even if they try ten thousand times, they will still lose!"
Lamar was really speechless, and the reporters present were so excited that Lamar began to go crazy, and now tomorrow's newspaper sales will naturally be guaranteed.
The reporters at the scene were crazy, and Vince Carter, who had just finished a large set of open and secret nonsense, was about to drink saliva to moisten his throat, and almost choked to death. He couldn't figure out what kind of madness Lamar was smoking, so he poured salt into his wounds without saying anything.
Lamar didn't seem flustered in front of a group of drooling reporters and a Vince Carter who was about to kill with his eyes, and continued in a reasonable tone: "I know there are many people who want to sit in my position, but none of them succeed! Now I'm still sitting here talking to you reptiles is the best proof, I'm the best player, and the Knicks are the best team!"
"There's no one in the NBA who can really beat us, but ourselves. It's a fact, and there's no way anyone can deny it, and I don't like people who talk big things, and since they want to challenge me and want to sit in my position, the best thing to do is to go out on the pitch and split the winners, not say anything here and afterward. I'll leave that for later, now that we've won, that's the truth!"
Speaking of this, Lamar paused, took a leisurely sip of water, looked at the reporter with a hungry face, smiled slightly, stood up and pointed to his chair, and said arrogantly: "Who else wants to grab my position now?"
Lamar said and glanced in the direction of Vince Carter, the smell of provocation that even Van Gundy, who had a not-so-very nose.
Lamar What kind of fuss is this? The boat of friendship is capsizing like this? For a while, Vince Carter's lungs were about to explode, and he didn't say that he wouldn't admit the loss of this game, but just wanted to save some face. Don't you understand the truth that you can see each other in the future by leaving a line in life? Do you need to be-for-tat like now, and almost drive him into a dead end with a single sentence?
Seeing that Vince Carter's face was about to darken, the corners of Lamar's mouth hooked, obviously his goal was achieved, Vince was angered by him, but Lamar felt that this was not enough, he had to add another fire: "See that no one wants to grab it, so this seat is still mine, and it will always be mine!"
The press conference was over, and even Vince Carter didn't know how he got out of the house, and he didn't understand why he hadn't punched Lamar in that pesky face. But he knew that the next time the two met, he would die on the pitch even if he died, and he had to win!
The Knicks have won two consecutive home games and still hold the top spot in the East, and it seems that it will not be easy to pull them down. As Lamar said, "Whoever wants to sit in this position, come and challenge me." No one, so this position is mine!"
Originally, the most promising to overturn the Knicks to occupy the first place in the East was the Detroit Pistons who were closely behind them, but unfortunately the Pistons lost to the Timberwolves in the snow Minnesotama tomorrow on the second day of the Knicks' victory over the Raptors.
Before the game, probably no one would have thought that the Pistons would fall in front of the Timberwolves so easily, but the Timberwolves showed everyone with 72 points, 24 rebounds, 15 assists and 4 steals that the league's No. 1 strength.
In this game, the efficiency of the three-headed monster is amazing, and the overall average shooting rate is a terrifying 54%. Of course, this isn't too difficult for Lamar, but the point is that the three-headed monster isn't like Lamar. Although Lamar also has long-range shots, most of them are three-pointers, and the interior offense still accounts for half of his shots, you must know that there is an essential difference between the shooting rate of the interior and the outside.
Of course, the essential reason for the Pistons' big loss is not the opponent's three-headed monster, but the team's own large-scale injuries. This was predicted long before the start of the season. Among the five core players of the Pistons team today, Van Exel, Rasheed Wallace, and Ben Wallace are all over thirty years old, and everyone has a lot of old injuries and dark injuries on their bodies to a greater or lesser extent.