Chapter 66: Ending the Game
After playing the first quarter, Van Gundy was in hot shape, but Van Gundy still put him on the bench first, for the protection of players, he is more experienced and persistent than anyone else, for his own players, Van Gundy was beaten a lot, and was injured by Camby again. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
Mo Xi's current age is not big, it is not small, it is the time of half a child, Van Gundy's use of Mo Xi is more cautious, Ewing back then The evil consequences are vivid, how could Van Gundy not deal with it carelessly?
In the second quarter, Mo Xi only played two minutes on the court, made two shots and one hit, and did not get any chance to perform, and in the second half, Mo Xi was finally able to get enough playing time.
At halftime, the Knicks held the lead and led the Hornets by a wide margin of seventeen points. At the beginning of the 21st century, such a point difference is really not small, especially in the east where defense is heavy and light offense, it is a score that is difficult to catch up, because the defense of the east is there, everyone is very strong, and the gap between the top teams and the average team lies in the durability of this defense and whether they have the ability to tear this line of defense.
Obviously, before the trade, the Hornets definitely did not have the ability to directly face the defense of the big brother Knicks in the East, but now, the Hornets have Eddie Jones, an offensive and defensive integration, with their own offensive and defensive conversion system. (Looking at it this way, it seems that Iguodala, where to go to the offensive and defensive conversion ability has become stronger, I always wanted him to go to the Bulls and do a wave of things with Rose, who is still healthy)
Although Eddie Jones received the ball at the first time, he did not attack at the first time, but passed the ball back to David Wesley, who in turn hoisted the ball to Elden Campbell on the inside.
Elden Campbell was obviously about to get to a deep position, but when he turned around and saw Mo Xi's focused face, Campbell reflexively passed it out directly to Eddie Jones, who was standing at the top of the three-point arc outside. Although the first quarter lasted just over seven minutes, Elden Campbell seemed to have lost confidence in the face of Moxi.
Eddie Jones frowned, Elden Campbell has been teammates with him for many years, and although he will congratulate Mo Xi on making the All-Star, there is no doubt that deep down he still wants this old teammate to make an All-Star once. Only now, the old teammates seem to be a little discouraged, and Eddie Jones is frowning, intending to get a wave of play for Campbell.
Eddie Jones sank his center of gravity, tentatively walked, pulled Sprewell's center of gravity down as well, and then quickly flicked, crossed dribble, and shook.
The center of Spreville began to swim a little, and seemed to float a little, but still tried to step on the floor as best they could.
Eddie Jones's movements were a little faster, pulling directly to the side, dribbling the ball widely, and following up with his left foot, it seemed that he was going to force a breakthrough directly from this side, Sprewell moved slightly, but saw that Eddie Jones pulled the ball back to the left again, pulled the ball back to the left with a crotch, shook his shoulders, accelerated, and turned back to the right to force a breakthrough, Sprewell was shaken to the spot, unable to move.
Eddie Jones rushed in directly, strode inside, dunked in flight, flew into the air like a god, and smashed to the basket with thunder, Ewing was like a black tower, and met it without hesitation, but it was still dunked by Eddie Jones, and it also caused Ewing's defensive foul.
The goal ignited the excitement of Charlotte's fans, who shouted and let out indeterminate roars as proof that they had witnessed such a miraculous dunk.
Eddie Jones hit a free throw and the Hornets were close.
The Knicks attacked, and Mo Xi directly brought it up to Ward to block and dismantle.
Ward and Mo Xi quickly dismantled, but this time, Ward entered the inside line, and Mo Xi was pulled to the horn position.
Elden Campbell switched to Ward, Ward accelerated directly and forced into the restricted area, but Ward rushed too hard and failed to control his body, this layup was too hard, hit the rebound, and was followed by Campbell to accept the rebound.
The Knicks seemed to be a little relaxed because of the big lead, and the defense was a little slow in this round, Eddie Jones saw the opportunity, directly advanced wildly, and staged a full-court fast-break tomahawk dunk directly in front of the Knicks' whole team.
The Wasps' momentum is beginning to show some signs of rekindling.
The Knicks are starting to gather their minds and focus on the game, and the margin is already 12 points, which is not very safe, especially for Eddie Jones' excellent touch right now.
The Knicks switched back to positional offensive mode, and Ward gave the ball directly to Ewing, who asked for the ball at the waist position, although Ewing had a height and weight advantage in the position of power forward in this game, but surprisingly, he was not able to cause some damage to Eric Williams who was opposite him, and even his shooting percentage was a little low and only in the early 40%.
It's no wonder that yesterday, the Knicks and the Heat had a life-and-death battle, in that game, Ewing rose up and scored 22+12+3+3 to help the Knicks defeat their rivals, in today's back-to-back games, it was better at first, but as the game progressed, several starters of the Knicks felt more and more physically exhausted.
Ewing began to hit Eric Williams in the back, constantly digging in.
Eric Williams fought and retreated, he was very self-aware, in the face of Ewing's strong body, although he was already in his twilight years, but it was still not a player like him who could put it on defense by relying on a momentum, Eric Williams was very smart, he put Ewing in a little bit, only to prevent Ewing from the last shot.
As he got older, Ewing began to gradually reduce his back-to-back singles on the inside, mostly solving the battle with a turnaround jumper close to the three-second zone, and this shot was no exception. After Ewing pushed inside two or three more steps, he suddenly made a turnaround jumper to the inside and shot directly, Eric Williams jumped hard and didn't touch it, but it obviously caused a lot of interference to Ewing.
"Wow~"
Ewing's shot missed.
At this moment, it was the blue number 30 again, and Mo Xi suddenly jumped out, compared to the past, his rebounding has improved a bit, if the opponent is absent-minded, he will also cause some trouble for the opponent's backcourt rebounding, and Elden Campbell is obviously in this state at the moment.
Mo Xi slammed his strength and grabbed the rebound in the front court.
Mo Xi didn't jump immediately after the rebound, but slowed down and lowered his center of gravity.
Just as Mo Xi lowered his center of gravity, Elden Campbell rushed over, and Eric Williams also turned around to guard Mo Xi, and the two blocked Mo Xi under the basket one after the other.
Mo Xi took a deep breath, tied his feet into a horse step, exerted his strength in the cemetery, and rose into the air against the sandwich of the two, directly clasped his hands and hung on the basket.
The Knicks completed a secondary offense and pulled the deficit back to 14 points.
Under the tug-of-war between the two sides, the difference between the Knicks and the Hornets stabilized at about ten points, and at this time, Mo Xi was replaced by Van Gundy.
Mo Xi sat on the court, looking at Van Gundy with a confused face, Mo Xi only played six minutes in the third quarter, and Mo Xi shot two of the four in the third quarter, and grabbed three rebounds, the state is very good, Mo Xi is a little unclear, but out of respect for the coach, Mo Xi did not say anything.
But Van Gundy seemed to have guessed Mo Xi's inner thoughts, and said to Mo Xi, who was sitting next to him: "You played very well in this quarter, but I hope you will leave some strength, and when you play in the fourth quarter, I hope you can still perform now." ”
In fact, Van Gundy didn't have to say this to Mo Xi, but he didn't know why, and for what reason, he still said something to Mo Xi.
Hearing Van Gundy say this, Mo Xi felt a little better in his heart.
And it turns out that Van Gundy's move is not wrong at all, in the third quarter, Eddie Jones suddenly broke out, scoring 14 points in a single quarter, and directly narrowed the difference between the two sides to six points, the Knicks' defense is very strong, but after a big battle with the Heat, the current Knicks' physical strength is not enough to support them to defend like they want to in the past.
Van Gundy had to let his main players go off the court early to cope with the Hornets' final Jedi counterattack, only to rely on a pure bench lineup to support him on the field.
As soon as the fourth quarter arrived, Van Gundy immediately switched to Moxi, along with Sprewell, who restrained Eddie Jones.
Murphy and Sprewell came off the bench and Eddie Jones didn't choose to take a break and seemed to want to play the full second half.
As soon as Mo Xi came on the field, he gave the opponent a wave of dismounting.
Mo Xi withstood Brad Miller, who came off the bench, directly pressed the strength of his whole body, and started with a tough back hard chisel, and pushed Brad Miller to the basket at once, and then turned to the basket in three slow steps, halfway through the ball with one hand from the waist upward, hooked out, Brad Miller was stuck by Mo Xi, couldn't move, and couldn't come forward to defend at all, Mo Xi easily scored two points.
Mo Xi compared it in his heart and found that Elden Campbell is worthy of being the starting center of the Hornets, and he still has his own uniqueness, at least he will not be helpless in the face of himself like Brad Lost.
The sophomore, Brad Miller, didn't have any outstanding offensive means against Moxi, but his high-post playmaking skills were not bad, and Eddie Jones also agreed with this, and he directly gave the ball to Brad Miller in the high post after receiving the ball, and he organized it.
Brad Miller doesn't have much of an advantage in terms of height, so he has been suppressed by Mo Xi in terms of vision. Brad Miller's corner of his eyes moved, swept it, and suddenly found that Eddie Jones had quickly inserted it to the basket at some point, and just behind Mo Xi, Brad Miller did not hesitate to pass the ball directly with a back pass.
But what Brad Miller didn't know was that there was also a person on this field who also had an excellent vision and overall vision, although Mo Xi didn't see anyone behind him, but his afterglow swept the whole field, and found that he only lost Eddie Jones' position, almost without thinking about it, Eddie Jones must be behind him, sure enough, Brad Miller passed backwards, but it happened to be blocked by Mo Xi, Mo Xi directly cut off the ball, passed to Charles in front, and ran quickly to the front court.
When an interior player is involved in a fast break, it is undoubtedly very uncomfortable for the defender, and Mo Xi quickly followed up, received a cross pass from Charles, and scored with a light one-handed slam.
In one minute, Mo Xi scored four points in a row, and the difference opened again, and the Hornets fell into a great passive situation.
Eddie Jones started to chase the points, but he didn't have a minute off in the second half and faced the Sprewell defense, and it was hard to play as easily as he did against Brad Miller.
Three minutes later, Mo Xi scored two more goals, and the point difference was opened up, and the Hornets had to call another timeout, otherwise the game would be played by Mo Xi alone.
The Hornets took the lead in replacing the starters, and the Knicks then replaced the starters, although the Knicks have taken a lot of leads, but the Hornets are not without a fight, in Van Gundy's view, as long as the Knicks can maintain the score within three minutes, then the Knicks will really be in the bag in this game.
The Hornets started to go crazy, or rather, Eddie Jones went berserk.
Eddie Jones started with an unreasonable three-pointer against Sprewell, but in the eyes of everyone's surprise, this shot hit directly, and Eddie Jones continued life for the Hornets with a crazy performance.
It's just that next, what no one expected was that it was the second-year player Mo Xi who stepped up on the Knicks' side to take over the game.
Mo Xi singles Elden Campbell with the ball in the waist position. At such a life-and-death juncture, Campbell was also a little anxious, using both hands and feet, directly entangled in ink, and now most of the league's referees still follow the penalty rules of the last century, and try to give as few whistles as possible in the fourth quarter.
Mo Xi felt very uncomfortable, but this also seemed to arouse the ferocity in Mo Xi's heart, and he suddenly exerted his strength, directly and brutally pushed Campbell directly with his shoulder, and wanted to chisel the inside line, both of them seemed to be angry, and they were stiff and rigid all at once, although Campbell was at a disadvantage, but he did not back down at all. Mo Xi bumped all the way to the basket, and his body seemed to be a little unbalanced, but he still threw the ball high, and the ball turned twice on the edge of the basket, and finally miraculously went in.
There was a lot of noise on the bench on the Knicks' side, and it was as if they were back to the days when centers were rampant.
After Mo Xi scored this goal, he calmed down a lot, relieved himself, and ran directly back to the backcourt.
Eddie Jones was a little tired, but he knew that this goal had to be scored or the Hornets would have no chance.
Eddie Jones didn't catch the ball in the first place, but kept wandering around the perimeter like a wolf looking for an opportunity to kill its prey. Finally, he spotted a gap in the Knicks' defense.
Eddie Jones rushed out like a beast, took the ball from David Wesley's hand in a near-grab manner, and slashed straight to the basket.
At this time, Ewing was pulled up by Eric Williams, because Ewing was not moving fast, Ewing became an obstacle in the high post, and Sprewell had to go around, but because of this time, Eddie Jones went directly to the basket unimpeded and got up to dunk.
However, Eddie Jones seemed to be a little too blind to look around him.
It was the blue No. 30 figure that made the Hornets players feel helpless, he suddenly appeared from behind Eddie Jones, and when Eddie Jones put his hands behind his head and was about to make a heavy dunk, Mo Xi suddenly appeared, pressed the ball down, and actually stopped Eddie Jones' dunk alive, a clean block. The audience was in an uproar.
Eddie Jones was a little frustrated, the game was over.
Elden Campbell also sighed, he has no chance, this Knicks' No. 30 will probably enter the All-Star.
Mo Xi ended the match with this block.
At this time, there were nearly four minutes left in the game, but both sides seemed to have no intention of fighting again, and replaced the starters one after another, but Van Gundy surprisingly did not replace Mo Xi, but let Mo Xi continue to score points on the field.
Before the end, Mo Xi scored two more goals to complete an explosive game, cutting 31 points, 10 rebounds, 4 assists, 2 blocks and 1 steal.