At this moment, the Spurs ball 'fans' on the scene finally boiled, and their long-suppressed 'agitation' x Duncan returned to normal, and successfully blocked Dam's 'Both' in the next defense, and the Spurs' ball 'fans' finally saw the hope of revenge and cheered for their team more and more.

Dam' Boult lowered his head a little lost, just when he was defending Duncan one after another, he thought he was enough to compete with Duncan, but he was beaten all over the ground and looking for teeth.

"Samuel, look up!" Lamar couldn't help but shout when he saw Dam' Bot's dejected appearance, "It's not time to admit defeat yet." If you give up now, what's the point of your previous efforts? Raise your head! You have to understand what your responsibility is! Don't let them look down on you, and we will continue to fight. ”

Dam' 'Bo' was also re-energized by Lamar's words, howling loudly and throwing himself into the game. But without the hidden dangers of Davis and Arenas, it is all reflected at this time. With less solid defense and fewer options on offense, the Knicks fell into passivity for a while.

Now it's up to you!

Jeff Van Gundy's words still came back and forth in Lamar's ears, and he was very 'excited' about Jeff Van Gundy's trust. Now that the team is facing a difficult situation, it is time to use its own power.

"Give me the ball!"

Lamar yelled to take the ball and said to his teammates, "Brothers, let's go!"

"Oh!"

The Knicks' players were also 'excited' by Lamar's words, shouted and stepped forward to participate in the offense. Although the first quarter of the game has not yet been played, the decisive stage of this game has arrived one step earlier.

Without Davis, an interior defensive stalwart, the Knicks' decline in defense began to show. Although the players who replaced him also performed very hard, the lack of strength still made them frequently leak 'holes' when defending.

Duncan, who had been depressed for a whole quarter, finally found a window to vent at this time, and Dam's defense alone could not stop the crazy offensive of the league's most well-rounded power forward, even with Lamar on the side, it still had no effect.

After losing Marik Cross as a scoring weapon, the Spurs focused their main attack points on the inside and outside duo of Duncan and Parker, and the two began to show a tacit understanding of playing together, making their attacks extremely sharp, often tearing the Knicks' defense through a few simple passes.

In just one second quarter, the Spurs went from equalizer to comeback, and extended their lead to tenths before half-time.

At halftime, the atmosphere in the Knicks' locker room was unusually dull, and all the players had drooping heads. Arenas also calmed down, and lay on the bench with a 'wool' towel covering his head without saying a word, if it weren't for his undulating 'chest', he would be quiet and no different from a dead man.

Jeff Van Gundy went to the team doctor to find out about Antonio Davis' injury. Having finally found a suitable interior bench for Lamar, Jeff Van Gundy was very worried about what would happen. If Davis were scrapped this season, he would have one less card in his hand, after all, an injury to his knee is not a trivial matter.

"We can't go on like this anymore if we don't want to watch the San Antonio people show off their victories in front of us and insult us for being soft. We have to make a change. ”

Lamar looked at the lonely expressions of his teammates, suddenly felt a burst of anger, stood up and said in a cold tone. Everyone who looked at him couldn't help but feel cold in their hearts, as if they were being targeted by death.

"Gilbert Arenas!" Lamar shouted, "How long do you want to pretend to be dead?!" Do you think that now that you are lying there like a dead fish, we will adore you like a tragic hero?"

"What did you say?" Arenas pulled off the 'wool' towel covering his face and roared angrily as he walked towards Lamar, his face slightly distorted.

"Dead fish! you're a dead fish who only shirks responsibility!" Lamar glared at Arenas in a-for-tat manner.

"You're looking for death!" Arenas, who erupted, didn't even think about it, and swung his big fist at Lamar.

But for Lamar, who has been 'messing' in prison since elementary school and fighting in groups, Arenas's level is simply not enough in his eyes. Before Arenas could swing his fist, he kicked him directly in the stomach.

"Boom!"

Arenas was hit directly by the huge impact on the locker in the locker room, holding his stomach for a long time and unable to get up.

Lamar walked up to Arenas and looked at him coldly, "When you taught Davis a lesson to that old cripple, I thought you had finally done what a man should do. But when I saw the dead fish you looked like just now, I realized that you were still a coward. Throwing a fist at someone is just a sign of your timidity!"

"You! you nonsense!" Arenas stood on his feet, glaring at Lamar viciously.

"Really?" Lamar sneered, turned his head and continued, "If you want to prove me wrong, show me!"

After saying that, Lamar turned to look at the others, and was 'excited' by the bloody scene just now, and now the eyes of the Knicks players finally have a little brightness again.

"And you! Do you think that if you pretend to be bullied, you will be pitied? Their most desperate desire now is to get a good win over our heads and beat us to the ground, and then they can laugh at us and point at our noses and say, 'Look! these guys from New York are a bunch of so-called soft-ass who gave up before the game was over!'" ”

"No, they don't want to do that!" Chauncey, who was provoked, was the first to jump up and shouted: "It's a little early for the San Antonios to celebrate victory, and if they want to win, they must step on our corpses! Brothers, Lamar is right! We are not the time to give up, as long as we do our best, victory is not far from us." ”

"That's right!" the old guy Olajuwon saw that the atmosphere was almost brewing, and also stood up and began to support Lamar, "It seems that I was still too indulgent to that dumb in the first half, and I think I need to be closer to him in the second half!"

Olajuwon's words made the Knicks in the locker room shiver. In the first half, especially in the first quarter, Olajuwon's charming appearance was deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

"What do you say?" Lamar looked at Arenas again.

The general snorted coldly, and then said a little weakly: "What else can I do? I just want to tear those San Antonios outside to shreds, what's the use? I can't even play!"

"As long as the attachment to victory in your heart is not extinguished, it is useful. Lamar said firmly: "If you're not afraid of being torn to shreds by the angry San Antonios, stand at the entrance to the players' tunnel and cheer us on!"

By the time Jeff Van Gundy returned, the Knicks' locker room had changed. Everyone was yelling for a look at the Spurs.

When Jeff Van Gundy saw such a scene, he couldn't help but feel more satisfied with Lamar as the leader of the team.

He did not give a detailed explanation of Davis's injury, but just reassured everyone that the problem should not be particularly serious, and it has not yet reached the point of being out of control.

Now that the team's morale has recovered, Jeff Van Gundy still has to worry about the technical and tactical aspects. For the second half, the layout is still dominated by Lamar, and the other players have to serve Lamar and completely release his attacking power.

At the beginning of the second half, the Knicks' change did surprise the Spurs a little, and there was a brief panic, and Lamar seized the opportunity to score seven points in a row, narrowing the score gap to single digits.

But soon the Spurs recovered from the panic and once again sacrificed their best technique of boiling frogs in warm water, and played Tai Chi with the Knicks.

The Spurs are indeed the top team in the league, and even if Marikroos is sent off and suffers from their own strength, their consistency is still terrible. The overall strength is strong, so that they are not afraid of temporary personnel shortages at all. Whether it's Duncan and Parker, the team's offensive axis, or Steve Smith and Barry, each of them can shoulder the team's scoring responsibilities at any time.

In contrast, the young, newly rebuilt Knicks are far less stable than the veteran Spurs. Although Olajuwon, a strong veteran, can also play beautiful offense from time to time, Alan Houston's mid-range shooting is still so accurate, and Chauncy is still so big-hearted, but more often the Knicks can only rely on Lamar to score with his personal ability to wrestle with the Spurs.

"Wow, these guys are so tough!" Lamar gasped as he sat on the bench.

There was less than a minute left until the end of the third quarter. Throughout the third quarter, he scored 17 points on a burst shot alone. But even so, the Knicks are still eight points behind their opponents. Although the gap has been narrowed a little, it is very difficult to go further.

Jeff Van Gundy looked at Lamar, and he couldn't ask Lamar for more, because he knew very well that against a strong opponent like the Spurs, Lamar had already used 200% of his energy.

But who made Lamar the leader of this team, sometimes he knows that he can't do anything, but he can only bite the bullet and fulfill the responsibility of a leader!