Chapter 138: The Bleakness of New York
Houston failed to form the slightest block against New York, Yao Ming cut 21 points and 9 rebounds in this game, in a sense, this is already the performance of the league's first-class center, although Wang Zhizhi, who was opposite him, also scored 18 points and 4 rebounds, but at least the performance on the offensive end was eye-catching.
Compared with these two people, or compared with his previous performance, Mo Xi seems a little ordinary, only getting 21 points, 14 rebounds, 6 assists and 3 blocks, mainly because Mo Xi's performance on the offensive end in this game does not make people feel very excited. But no one can question Mo Xi's current status, especially during the period of O'Neal's injury, although there is a No. 5 position playing the No. 4 position, but Mo Xi is in full swing at the moment, coupled with the crazy media in New York, Mo Xi is really the league Caesar now.
After this game, though, the Knicks seem to be in some trouble.
The Knicks have endured an incredible three-game losing streak.
These three defeats shook the entire league, and people seemed to have seen the sinking of the Titanic.
In these three games, the Knicks' performance is like two people before, the bench can still only reach the point of averaging more than a dozen points per game, and the firepower of the starter is the key to the problem, the Knicks' starting firepower is only in their early seventies in these games. As a problem, as the absolute core of the team, Mo Xi cut 43+12+8, 41+14+6 and 48+15+9 respectively in these three games, and more than half of the scores of one person and the whole team are directly related, and the worst part lies in the distribution of the ball by others.
Arenas is by no means a traditional defender, never passing the ball when he can shoot, and he has intensified it after handing over the playmaking task to Sprewell and Moxi; As a shooter, Houston's statistics have not declined, in fact, he is the most consistent point in the entire Knicks, averaging 48 shooting per game and scoring 14 points; And the remaining two, Sprewell and Elton Brand, have become the blackest backers, the two obviously have excellent offensive ability, but they can't get the right to shoot, which makes the data drop significantly, and the score of both is reduced to no more than ten points, and the slump on the offensive end makes the performance of these two people unsatisfactory in other aspects, and for a while, the Knicks are in turmoil.
Ewing Law, another Ewing Law, Mo Xi supported half of the team alone, but it was difficult to taste a victory, but because Mo Xi's performance was so shocking, that no one sprayed him, and layers of pressure converged on Van Gundy's head.
"A bunch of bastards!" Van Gundy angrily slammed the newspaper on the table and let out a rare foul mouth.
Van Gundy felt powerless, and a three-game losing streak wasn't a huge loss, but the problem was that this was New York, the Knicks were champions, and they had just started an 11-game winning streak, so a three-game losing streak would be a bit ugly for such a team.
Van Gundy slumped in the chair, if he loses again, I'm afraid that it will be really difficult to keep the position, he also knows what position his tactical level is, he has the ability to be the best assistant coach, but he can't become a real famous coach, but this Knicks is trained by him, although it seems to be a little long, and his original reinforced concrete defensive layout is a little different, but in the end this is the Knicks he worked so hard to protect under the clutches of the terrible management in New York, he is reluctant to leave.
The team's problem now is obvious, and that is that there are too few goals......
In fact, if Arenas is also thrown to the bench and replaced with a traditional organizational point guard, then the Knicks' lineup will be strong again, but where to find such a guard, anyway, there is no one within the Knicks who can replace Arenas as a starter, and the trouble is not over, will Arenas accept a sixth man position? The answer is simply obvious.
What the hell should I do?
Van Gundy looked frustrated, in the next game, the Knicks will face the hidden boss of the West, the San Antonio Spurs, which is also the only team that Moxi hates to play against, in his words, this team only wants to meet in the Finals if possible, and he doesn't want to touch this weird stone at all other times.
Van Gundy opened the Knicks' thick playbook, which every player has in his hand, but even a guy like Mo Xi only flipped through the playbook, and the Knicks's playbook is more of a reminder for the players.
Van Gundy immersed himself in the playbook, hoping to find the right strategy for the Knicks as much as possible.
It's just that Van Gundy doesn't know that there is a bold guy who has set his sights on his "foundation".
In a small bar in the middle of nowhere, a small black man was drinking one by one, but his face was not drunk, but when he raised his glass again and again, he saw his eyes getting brighter and brighter through the reflection of the glass of the wine glass.
This is a polite guy, always with a smile on his face, but it always makes people feel very incongruous, because behind this smile, there is a kind of chilling coldness that makes people feel chills in their hearts, this is an assassin, a brave man.
With a cold smile and those fiery eyes, staring firmly at the sports news on TV, it was an opportunity, a big opportunity, a way for him to surpass himself in another way.
Finally, he put down his glass, but the smile didn't change, but it grew colder and colder. One hand took out his mobile phone, and the other hand took out a folded paper from his jacket pocket, and he opened the paper with one hand, which was full of pencil marks, full of people's names and crossed out one by one, leaving only the last name, which was a fairly good position, and there was a series of words behind it, which was heavily outlined with a red pen. The man thought for a moment, nodded, and slid his fingertips back, it was a phone number.
The man dialed the phone, and it took a while for someone to answer.
"I hope this is good news, otherwise you're responsible for waking me up in the middle of the night!" This is an old man, an old man with a lot of passion.
"Don't be so angry, it's not a good thing for the elderly, be careful of getting sick." The lazy tone made people want to go up and scold him.
"Is that you?" The old man was shocked.
"Of course it's me." The man put the paper down and turned his glass.
“......”
The two of them were silent for a while, and the man was the first to break the silence and said, "Two days later, it will be both my chance and yours, don't you want to give it a try?" You don't want to be crushed by those old men all the time, but the most important thing is that this kind of person New York is not exactly what you think it is? ”
The old man was silent, silent, silent.