Chapter 147: Experiment Item 001
"Okay, this is today's tactic, don't be pressured, play normally, the other side can't beat you anyway." George Karl confidently patted the tactical board and said to the Knicks players.
After the All-Star break, the Knicks finally had their first game since the massive trade, facing the Golden State Warriors at home.
"Boss, is this old man reliable?" Arenas whispered to Mo Xi, the old coach who had just taken over the Knicks looked kind, but he really suppressed the lawless hooligans of the Knicks, but personality belongs to personality, wrist to wrist, for a coach, the most important thing is obviously his coaching ability.
Mo Xi patted Arenas on the shoulder and said, "You just have to do what he says." Although Mo Xi said it very easily, he was not completely sure in his own heart, this Warriors was a test subject, and the Knicks were not.
But as Thomas said, the Knicks had no choice but to be better or go into the abyss.
Walking onto the field, Mo Xi shifted all his attention to the field, where only victory was the greatest.
Murphy jumped to possession with ease, Rasheed Wallace picked it up and passed it to Arenas, who made a quick run forward.
Arenas advanced with the ball, and after coming to the frontcourt, he passed the ball directly and did not continue to hold the ball, but the object of the pass was not the core of the Knicks, but Sprewell.
Sprewell forced a punch to the basket, but the man quickly split the ball halfway through to Wallace in the corner.
Wallace is one of the few closest to a modern forward in his era, with his superior mobility, excellent individual scoring ability, and most importantly, his projection ability.
Sprewell's breakaway pulled the defender in front of Wallace into the three-second zone.
Wallace was blank in front of him, and the three-pointer shot directly.
The Knicks' first attempt at offense seemed a bit rushed, and the ball bounced straight out of the frame.
However, the Knicks' offense is not over, and at the request of George Karl, the Knicks stepped up their impact on frontcourt rebounding. In addition to Houston maintaining a backcourt posture at any time, Arenas, Sprewell, and Mo Xi are all rushing for rebounds in the frontcourt.
The Warriors, who were already a little weak inside, couldn't stop the impact of the Knicks at all, and Arenas grabbed this frontcourt rebound and shot directly to the basket to score the ball.
After scoring this goal, the Knicks quickly returned to the defensive end, and even if the current Warriors are not the Golden State Warriors coached by Nelson Sr. in the future, they are still a team that takes offense seriously.
Only this time, they encountered hard bones.
Arenas still doesn't have much desire to defend, but it doesn't matter, and the Warriors simply can't get the ball moving.
After the Warriors point guard passed the ball, the Warriors' ball handler was immediately pressed by the Knicks. Sprewell was ferocious, but well proportioned, and was loitering on the referee's line. Because it was just the beginning of the game, the referee did not set the penalty standard so strictly.
The Warriors player was forced by Sprewell to stumble under his feet, almost lost the ball, and hurriedly protected the ball and passed it to his teammates who came to meet in the high post.
But at this time, Houston suddenly appeared, he jumped forward, cut the ball hard, and the Knicks directly launched a fast break.
And what is surprising is that it is actually Rashid Wallace who is running at the front.
Houston threw the ball straight forward, and Rasheed Wallace received the ball and dribbled into the half court by himself.
However, because of the dribble, Rasheed Wallace's advance was still a little slow, and just as he was about to be caught up by the Warriors' defenders, he smashed the ball directly to the ground.
Arenas jumped out from the side, and after receiving the ball, he accelerated and went straight to the frontcourt, and in the face of the Warriors players who hurriedly returned to the defense, Arenas calmly made a layup.
The Warriors then tried to attack again but did not succeed, and the rebound was directly accepted by Moxi, and after Moxi won the rebound, the Knicks went directly to the frontcourt.
Mo Xi first handed the ball to Houston in front, Houston did not pause after receiving the ball, and passed the ball forward to Sprewell, who dribbled the ball into the three-point line, and suddenly stopped the jump shot and scored the ball.
Whether it's offense or defense, the Knicks are very fast, which George Karl has borrowed from the ancient Knicks tactics used by the Knicks in the playoffs before, and based on this to create a faster and more stable offensive and defensive transition system.
In the first five minutes, the Warriors were beaten to a wave of 14:6, in fact, the Warriors' scoring is normal, but the Knicks' scoring is too abnormal. This is not the era of the three-point contest in later generations, and the Knicks did not have a single three-point in these fourteen points.
However, the fans in New York sniffed out something wrong from it, where did the ink go? The Knicks' strongest point seems to have been marginalized, with only two points and a board so far, and even the offensive organization doesn't see much of Mo Xi's figure hungry, is it true that George Karl won't coach the center?
Just when the suspicions continued, the first official timeout came, and George Carr patted Mo Xi on the back and said, "It's time, go up and give them some cruelty!" ”
Mo Xi smiled and nodded
"Of course!"
The timeout came back, and the Knicks possessed the ball.
This time, Mo Xi pulled it out to Arenas to block and dismantle, after the two disassembled, Mo Xi went directly to the basket, Arenas directly passed a half-high ball to Mo Xi, Mo Xi received the ball under the basket, and directly lifted the heavy dunk.
Immediately after Sprewell's side made another steal, the Knicks advanced to the frontcourt, and Houston received the ball outside the three-point line and shot directly?
No, no, it's an air relay!
At some point, Mo Xi had already rushed up, grabbed the ball in the air, as if gliding in the air, and bombarded it.
The Warriors, who had finally scored two points, returned to the offensive end and found that the Knicks, who had just been playing with their lives, suddenly slowed down.
But did the Knicks really slow down?
Just when the Warriors were about to slow down the tempo a little, the Knicks handed the ball to Moxi, who ate it in the low post.
In his normal trajectory, George Karl had barely coached a player with excellent offensive ability with the ball before he met Anthony, and Ray Allen may have been one in the early days, but he gradually began to lean towards a goalscorer, and the spiritual breakthrough was not visible before he was injured.
Mo Xi easily crushed the Warriors to score inside.
The Knicks' next round of offense still handed the ball to Mo Xi, and Mo Xi chiseled it to the basket again, and just when the Warriors center tried his best to resist Mo Xi, Mo Xi swiped his hand and passed the ball directly to the back of his head, throwing the ball to Rasheed Wallace who rushed inside, who scored directly with a violent dunk.
The addition of Moxi's low-post singles did not slow down the Knicks' offensive tempo, but because of Moxi's unstoppability, the Knicks' offensive options were richer.
George Karl's quick offense cleverly solves a key problem for the Knicks, the distribution of the ball. Since the ball is not enough to score, then I will play a few more rounds, and this time, the right to shoot should always be enough points.
The Knicks led 36-25 in the first quarter, and in such a fast pace, this score seemed normal. Fans in New York felt a wave of excitement and felt that their team was in for a big change.