Despite Mo Xi's good performance after coming to the high post, the old coach Larry Johnson still saw some of Mo Xi's problems at a glance, for example, Mo Xi has not scored through the mid-range shot in the high post, and the old coach understands that this has nothing to do with the 76ers' defense, just because Mo Xi does not have the confidence to score in this way in this position. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info To be reasonable, Mo Xi still has a very respectable hit rate in the zero degree angle of the left and right bases.

After discovering this, Lao Shuai did not immediately grasp this point, such a small problem is still very inconspicuous in the face of Mo Xi's still high-profile offensive efficiency, and this kind of problem will receive the best effect when it is played at a key point.

Although Mo Xi's performance seems to be very good, on the whole, it does not play a role in opening up the situation.

There are two points that make Mo Xi the most uncomfortable in this game, one is that the offensive means of both sides are projection as the best means, but now everyone is not shooting well, so there are a lot of rebounds and basket impacts, both of which are Mo Xi's weaknesses; The second point is the inside partner, Thomas in this kind of fierce game, because of too many actions early break, now with Mo Xi partner is Andrew Long, both of them are tall and large inside lines, but Andrew's movement is slower, and there is not much intersection between the two of them, and the cooperation between the two is lacking.

However, Mo Xi did not stay long in the third quarter, and with four minutes left in the third quarter, Mo Xi ate two fouls in a row, and had to go off the court with four fouls on his back.

In the third quarter, the two sides are still in a stage of strong defense, but the 76ers are still better at handling the details, in this quarter the 76ers are one point ahead, and now the 76ers have a small lead of two points, this feeling makes the Knicks very uncomfortable, they seem to see another self, and the most important thing is that the other self is in the upper hand, they can already predict how the 76ers should play next, defend the offense, and play like a frog in warm water.

Van Gundy is not in a hurry, this point difference is not very difficult to accept, but in terms of the current defensive intensity of the two sides, it is extremely difficult to not score a point. Van Gundy switched to an offensive-biased lineup and didn't use a point guard, and this time Ward didn't feel good, and now he has three fouls, so he simply let him go off the court and replace him with John Wallace and others. It's just that under the leadership of the Knicks' double guns, the Knicks did not make a breakthrough on offense.

Soon after the start of the fourth quarter, Van Gundy had to let the two guns go off the court separately, and the most critical part of this game was physical strength, rather than the players' skills, experience, and willpower, and ensuring the physical fitness of key personnel in the team became the top priority.

This is also the worst point of the Knicks, the Knicks just played a game, it was their back-to-back away games, in terms of physical strength, the Knicks are naturally at a disadvantage, and the Knicks' lineup is a little older, the youngest is 22 years old, and the average age of the Knicks is 31 years old.

Just as Van Gundy feared, the Knicks lost physically, and with six minutes into the fourth quarter, the Knicks trailed by six points, and almost instantly, the Knicks' physical disadvantage exploded.

Larry Hughes and Bruce Bowen each hit a three-pointer off the bench, which was the only two three-pointers the 76ers hit in this game, and if Wallace hadn't forced two points before that, the Knicks would have been in a difficult situation.

With five minutes remaining, Van Gundy made an early change to the starting line-up, but put Ward, who had done nothing in the game, off the pitch and replaced it with Chris Charles, who had played a good game.

The Knicks went into the five-minute battle.

The Knicks came back from a pause and chose the first wave of offense on the inside, Mo Xi grabbed a hole in the opponent's defense, forced it in, stuck under the basket, and a vacuum belt appeared in front of Mo Xi, without any 76ers players interfering nearby, but at this time the ball was still on the other side.

Charles broke through with the ball, but only managed to move laterally against the opponent under Snow's defense, but this also disguised Charles's intention to pass the ball. Charles reached the 45-degree position and passed directly to Houston on the baseline, Houston couldn't find a chance to shoot under the heavy defense, so he decisively passed the ball to Moxi.

Mo Xi just stuck in the position under the basket at this time, and before the three seconds came, the defender failed to push him out, but Mo Xi forcibly turned around to the bottom line, pushed the defender away with a broad back, and then arched his butt back, squatted down, exerted force on his feet, jumped up like a volcanic eruption, and dunked with one hand under the basket.

Despite his equal weight, thanks to his training at the East Bamboo Pavilion, Moxi's power skills are enough to give him an advantage over a center of the same weight.

The Knicks forced back a two-point deficit.

The 76ers attacked, and the old coach's offensive arrangement was like water, pervasive. Snow handed the ball directly to Aaron McGee on the wing in the front court, and then ran to the basket himself, circling around the two centers.

Mo Xi felt a chill down his spine, this warrior 76 has been used three times, but before it was two people around the bottom line, this time although there was only one person, the pressure did not decrease. Van Gundy didn't make a tactical arrangement for the situation, and it all depends on the Knicks players themselves.

In a single round of individual defensive ability, Charles is not as good as Ward, which is why Van Gundy chose Ward as the starting point guard over the more experienced and older Charles.

Charles couldn't keep Snow, Snow still made a small opening, McGee hit the ground, Sprewell interfered with some passing routes, but the power was too small, and the ball still got to Snow safely.

Snow turned and struck.

Mo Xi got rid of the entanglement of the opposing player and tried to step forward to interfere, but he was still a step too slow, Snow made a shot, and the ball stumbled on the basket a few times, and finally climbed into the basket.

Calming down, the Knicks quickly turned around and attacked.

This time, the 76ers failed to leave a gap for Mo Xi, and the layers of defense made it difficult for Mo Xi to receive the ball on the outside, and for a while, it was difficult for both Sprewell and Houston to get rid of the defense, and the Knicks' offense came to a standstill.

Seeing that there were still ten seconds left in the offensive time, Mo Xi quickly stepped forward and made a cover for Charles, and Charles broke through the ball. But Charles was too anxious, the ball passed very badly, Houston almost threw himself out to catch the ball back, but was also forced to the boundary, the 76ers quickly stepped forward to wrap up, trying to force Houston out of the court, Van Gundy hurriedly called the next timeout.

Larry Brown nodded in the old god, not surprisingly, Van Gundy's next arrangement he had guessed, it was nothing more than to let Mo Xi return to the high position, whether it was offensive or strategy, old Brown started his previous layout.

Back on the field, Mo Xi started to make a wall directly in the high post, and Sprewell ran out to catch the ball directly through the cover.

Sprewell received the ball outside the three-point line, he made a gesture to make a shot, but failed to shake the opponent, had to collect the ball and force another breakthrough, at this time there was not much time left, Sprewell broke through a back pass to the side of the Mo Xi, Mo Xi's defender directly stepped back, to prevent Mo Xi inward pass route and break through the line.

At this time, there were only three seconds left, and Mo Xi hesitated for a moment and chose to shoot in the middle.

Because of the small hesitation just now, Mo Xi's action was not very good, the ball was deflected, and the rebound was accepted by the 76ers.

With four minutes left in the game, the Knicks are still six points behind, and the Knicks are very dangerous in terms of the current situation on the court.