Chapter 150: A Little Try
The Knicks soon faced their first challenging opponent after their freshmanship, last season's regular season champion, the Sacramento Kings. The Kings didn't make any moves this offseason, it's not a kind of arrogance, it's a kind of nature, the Kings are already very strong, and they also have a few very good rookies, when their rookies also grow into a strong team, that's when the Kings are powerful, the original Kings died of injuries, and now where they died is unknown.
And the biggest attraction of this game is the contest between the two sides, which is different from the previous encounters, this time, the inside lines of the two sides are very coincidental, and they are all battles of ideas. The king's twin towers are both strategic interior lines, which can be called the interior line of guards, and the Knicks' twin towers, not to mention anything else, can be called a textbook of traditional interior lines in the offensive alone, although after a few games, the style of the two is more inclined to the swinging style predicted by Pat Riley, but technically, the low post of the two people is extremely excellent even in ancient times and even in ancient times.
Now these two teams together can be regarded as passionate, the most important thing is that these two teams are in turmoil, and they urgently need some results to prove themselves, the Knicks needless to say, they have just experienced a series of large-scale operations, although the team is currently winning one after another, but it is not stable, once lost, it is very likely to be beaten back to its original shape, as for the Kings, it is mainly because of injuries, or because of the injury of the main player Chris Webber, Webber missed a lot of games this season because of injuries, Although the Kings are still very strong, they always seem to be holding their breath and can't spit it out, and finally Webb is back, just in time to meet the Knicks, their biggest enemy on the way to the championship, and there is a shocking battle.
So the fourth-ranked team in the East and West faced each other head-on, Mars hit the Earth, blazing fire, and the war became more and more intense.
As early as last season, the Kings regarded the Knicks as their opponent in the Finals, who would have expected that the Kings would collapse in the Western Conference Finals, and the battle with the Knicks would naturally come to naught, and now the two sides are making a comeback, but it has attracted a large number of fans.
Whether it is Webber or Divac or others in the Kings team, Mo Xi is not very familiar, many people of the Kings, except for Weber, Stojakovic and Bibby, the rest are really only thanks to Adelman's system to play their own value, the most conspicuous of which is Divac, just ask, now in the league where O'Neal and Mo Xi are in charge, who would use a center with low post ability as the team's starting center? But Adelman found Divac and found his place to stick to himself, and many others are like this, so to speak, compared to the Knicks' star shine, the Kings are really a "civilian team".
This game is destined to be scorching, during the warm-up, Mo Xi can feel the burning gaze from the other side, Adelman is not a coach who is good at boosting morale, but how can a person who can play such a brilliant basketball be a person who has no passion in his heart, and George Carr, as we all know, is an old madman.
The two sides almost rushed onto the field with a kind of street fighting momentum, and the referee was stunned, almost unable to hold the whistle, and the league was also extremely optimistic about this game, and directly sent Crawford, Crawford, and the bald Crawford, who have performed very well in recent years, because it is very important, so say it three times, well.
Mo Xi and Divac walked to the middle line, ready to jump the ball, although Divac jumped ball did not win anyone, but there is always hope, not to mention this is a long-awaited game for the Kings, last season the two sides ended in a draw, this season this time for both sides, it seems to be significant.
Divac glared at Mo Xi viciously, Mo Xi looked back at Di Xi with an expressionless face, for this Serb, Mo Xi didn't know much, even if he fought only a few times, but at the level of Mo Xi, it was enough, this is a guy who absolutely can't leave room for him, the best way is to let him run tired.
A whistle blows, and the game officially begins.
Mo Xi easily jumped to possession of the ball, and the Knicks began the first round of offense.
Since George Karl coached, Arenas has been playing more and more easily, if it weren't for the lack of experience, the lack of ability, and the most critical point, the lack of defensive ability, the current Arenas may have been helped to the second position by George Karl.
After Arenas advanced to the halfcourt, he directly made a blocking and dismantling cooperation with Mo Xi, Mo Xi went directly down to the low post, Arenas pulled to the side, pulled out a little space and passed directly to Mo Xi.
Arenas was reluctant to pass the ball, but it was a different story if it was passed to Moxi.
After receiving the ball, Mo Xi was still some way from the basket, Mo Xi started the dribble, and suddenly pushed the ball out with both hands.
Divac thought that Mo Xi was going to distribute the ball to Spreville in the bottom corner again, and hurriedly took a step forward, you know, this is a means that Divac is also very good at, and he naturally knows how to deal with it.
But obviously, Mo Xi is also clear about this, this is just a feint!
Mo Xi slammed the ball back, strode forward, and a light layup went straight to the first point of the game.
Divac was a little annoyed, but defense was not what he was good at, and although the Kings' defense was strong, it was obviously their offense that was stronger.
The king pushed forward in a frenzy.
Even if the coach was returned, the Knicks' defensive speed still did not slow down, and the King's sneak attack did not succeed, but they didn't care and started their Princeton directly.
George Carr's defensive tactics of pressing should have been very restrained from this kind of run-pass-shoot offensive method, but the core of the King's organization is two interior lines, and the Knicks' two major interior lines, Mo Xi and Wallace, although the defense of the restricted area is not good, but both of them have a shortcoming that is not a shortcoming, and neither of them is so good at outside defense.
Webber shook off Wallace directly with a cross step, Webber not only had excellent footsteps in the low post, but also the footsteps of the face frame, Wallace was shaken away, Mo Xi hurriedly stepped forward to make up for the defense, Webber turned around, and directly passed Mo Xi, but Webber did not shoot himself, but distributed the ball to the outside, and Stojakovic forced a shot on the top of Sprewell's head with his height at this time.
With a "dang", Stojakovic struck the iron.
Mo Xi stepped forward to take the rebound, turned around, made a semi-long pass, and found Arenas, after Arenas received the ball, he rushed out like a bullet, Bibby kept interfering beside him, but Arenas didn't care, and forced a fast-break layup against Bibi.
The ball goes in.
At this time, Arenas has gradually found his own way of attacking, and this offensive method of relying on strong upper body strength to force a layup is also a kind of offense.
The Knicks fought back.
George Carr's fast-break system of defensive counter-attacks is gradually showing its claws in front of the Kings.