Chapter 592: Victory over the Pacers
The New York team was at full strength and took a 10-point lead at the end of the first quarter.
During the break, ESPN's reporter interviewed D'Antoni: "It's hard for the Knicks to have problems on the offensive end against any team, do you think the New York Knicks are stronger this season than last season?" ”
"There's no doubt about it, I loved the New York Knicks last season because we won the championship, but certainly this season we need easy, but not just easy!"
D'Antoni became the head coach of the championship, and his words were a little more connotative.
Sure enough, when people get to a certain position, they will realize what kind of words they should say!
At the start of the second quarter, as the lead had reached double digits, D'Antoni deliberately let Jeremy Lin play a little longer.
In the recent intra-team group confrontation, Jeremy Lin and Yi Jianlian were divided into a group, in the game, Yi Jianlian consciously played a few blocks with Jeremy Lin, and it was at that time that D'Antoni suddenly found that there was such a blocker in his team's lineup who could use the pick-and-roll to increase his aggressiveness!
With D'Antoni's eyes, he naturally saw the potential that Jeremy Lin had, and if this potential could be stimulated, it might burst out with unimaginable power!
D'Antoni thinks so, which is why he gave Jeremy Lin the chance to prove himself.
In the second quarter, Jeremy Lin played 6 minutes, and he was in good shape this night, scoring a total of 4 points and 3 assists in these 6 minutes, which was very efficient, and almost every round of his offensive with the ball could be rewarded.
This excites him and D'Antoni, who supports him.
He really values this kid more and more!
One thing to say, Jeremy Lin did reach the best stage of his career during this period, unlike the injuries that followed, he did not have much injury in this period, and more importantly, he did not have any problems with his personal self-confidence during this period.
For Jeremy Lin at this time, the only thing he lacked was an opportunity!
From Yi Jianlian's point of view, Jeremy Lin may not need to play "Lin Crazy" like he originally did, this is not what he needs, what he really needs is to gain a firm foothold in the league step by step.
It was also a wrong decision for him to choose to go to the Rockets later, Morey gave a poison contract and almost robbed him to Houston in a robbery way, but he didn't give enough respect, because the dead fat man suddenly found that he had a chance to get James Harden, and it was also for this reason that Jeremy Lin immediately changed from a core player to a second-in-command or even a third-in-command of the team as soon as he entered the Rockets, because he had to be a fixed-point pitcher who ran without the ball in order to cooperate with Harden, but in fact, everyone knows, He is a defender who needs to hold the ball in his hand, and without the ball is equivalent to abolishing half of his martial arts, and then the injury hits, so that "Lin Crazy" is more like a dream.
Rather than dreaming, it is better to be steady and steady, step by step to improve, although he can't become famous overnight, but at least for him, he can better adapt to this alliance, rather than adapt to that alliance without preparation.
Jeremy Lin's current upbringing is better than he was originally, although he has one less chance to get ahead.
If nothing else, it's unlikely that the New York Knicks will have a slew of injuries!
But the same team didn't look down on his big brother either.
Even because of Yi Jianlian, everyone took a little more care of Jeremy Lin.
In addition, with Yi Jianlian's active cooperation in the training match, in short, even if Jeremy Lin does not experience "Lin Madness", he can grow up well, and even more stable than the original him.
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At the end of the first half, the Knicks extended their lead to 13 points.
Although the lead was only 3 points higher than in the first quarter, this advantage at halftime was enough to prove the strength of the Knicks.
Some fans are still a little disappointed after watching the half, after all, the Pacers are the dark horse team of this season, and the record currently suppresses the existence of the Heat team, such a team meets the New York Knicks, everyone hopes to see them cause some obstacles to the Knicks, although they don't expect them to win, if you want to win the current New York team, you must have strength and state indispensable.
But to their disappointment, even the dark horse Pacers could not hinder the New York Knicks, who still easily led by 13 points.
"That's a big deal, now who can tell me who this New York Knicks is against?"
"Before the game I was worried about the New York Knicks, but now it seems that my worries are a little redundant! A defending champion is a defending champion! ”
"Another one-sided massacre, hehehe, why am I so excited!"
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But one thing to say, the Pacers have really improved this season!
After trailing by 13 points in the first half, they still played very calmly, and there was no panic at all.
This is a trait that only strong teams can have.
It's just that this team is really a bit poor on the offensive end, at least it certainly can't keep up with the Knicks.
And when the pace of scoring can't keep up with the Knicks, losing is a sure thing.
In fact, it can be seen from this game that if you want to win the Knicks, the thing that must be done is that the offensive end and the defensive end must be above the league's first line.
The Pacers, the defense is not bad, although the Knicks hit a high percentage in the first quarter, but in the second quarter with the bench rotation, their shooting rate is not high, and the team's shooting rate is only 43%!
Defending the Knicks like this, after all, can't say that the defense didn't do a good job!
But their offensive ability is not enough, and if their defensive ability is among the best in the league, then their offensive ability is only barely at the level of the first line.
This is the real reason why they have not been able to catch up with the score.
As the game came to the final quarter, New York extended their 13-point lead to 16 points at the final whistle!
106 to 90!
The New York team continues to hold on to the golden unbeaten, and the Pacers' 16-point loss in this game also shows the ceiling of this dark horse team.
They still have a long way to go as a true championship team.
Of course, this does not mean that the Pacers' season is over, on the contrary, as a newly formed Pacers, with the return of core player Granger, they need a while to adapt, and this team actually has room for improvement.