Chapter Forty-Eight: The Knicks' Daily Life, Section 4
My name is John Wallace, I'm six feet eight inches, I weigh 225 pounds, I'm a native of Rothchet, New York, and I'm a graduate of the prestigious Ski Resorts University, I'm a basketball player, I now work for the Knicks, I'm heterosexual, I'm still unmarried, but I've had a couple of girlfriends, uh, it's far away, let's do it all over again, what? Make up the number of words at the beginning? Well, get straight to the point. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoLike I said, I'm a basketball player, and now I work for the Knicks, and it's a good job, playing legally every day, oh no, legal playing. The Knicks are very strong, at least I think so, there is a very thick interior group here, although their rebounds are really not good, there is also a strong outside configuration here, which is also what I have always been curious about, the two positions are repeated, and someone has to mention the forward to play, so they are really okay, this is not the key, the key is if they are like this, how can I get on the position, I can be regarded as a native of New York, born in New York State, raised in New York State, and the school is still New York State, Even the draft was the New York Knicks, but I was traded the following year. After complaining, you have to get down to business, or you may not let me come out again in the future. The Knicks are strong, how strong? Now the Celtics, the team with the most championships in the league, not even one of them, is such a team, and we beat it 75-65 in the first three quarters. However, this is not a cause for joy because there is a joke that the Knicks are crazy in the fourth quarter. Well, that's it, and it's still the Knicks' day-to-day. The foundation of this Knicks was left by Pat Riley back then, and the Knicks were tough enough under the guidance of Pat Riley, but there was also a problem, the Knicks' offense was not explosive, although the Knicks were not unable to rely on tough defense to reverse others, but once the opponent played momentum in the fourth quarter, the Knicks, who had no offensive explosiveness, could only be dumbfounded and watched the opponent chase points crazily, such as now.
The Knicks suppressed the Celtics' score to 65 points in the third quarter with excellent defense, and the Knicks blossomed at each point, Ewing, who had limited playing time, had cut nine points, seven boards and three blocks, which was very commendable for a veteran who was thirty-seven years old and had experienced a series of injuries, and the other points of the Knicks, in the third quarter of the game, had three people score double-doubles, Mo Xi scored 13 points, Sprewell 15 points, and Houston 20 points. However, such a ferocious performance in the fourth quarter was a little insufficient in front of the Celtics, without him, the Celtics' twin stars suddenly played a volcanic eruption in the fourth quarter.
The Celtics twins, young and strong, returned to the court at the beginning of the fourth quarter and bombarded the Knicks' basket in turn.
Antoine Walker had a lot of offensive tools until he was less obsessed with shooting threes in the future, one of which was the back-to-back jumper that was already standard for the league's top scorers. Relying on his thick physique, Antoine was not afraid of Kurt Thomas, who came on as a substitute, leaned on the opponent, ate a few small movements of the opponent, and then put his butt on Thomas's abdomen, and then turned around and leaned back.
Thomas immediately stepped forward, stretched out his leg between Walker's feet, and bullied forward.
But Antoine Walker didn't intend to use the offensive style of turning and leaning back, he shook it, retracted the ball, quickly pushed forward, bowed his head past Thomas, shrank behind the opponent, got up and jumped, and the whole person shrank in the air, which looked a little funny. But Antoine Walker's shot didn't show any funny enough to make people laugh, and the soft feel of enviable, the basketball drew a high arc and fell steadily into the basket.
At this time, the Knicks' first scoring point on the court was John Wallace on the bench, and his offense was mostly based on interior offense, no three-point shots, and occasionally he would take a cold shot to make a shot, which can be regarded as a weakened version of Moxi.
It's just that this weakened version of Mo Xi ran into Paul Pearce, who was in a hurry to chase the score.
Wallace ran out of the baseline, went around in circles, came to the flank to catch the ball, and turned to face Pierce. The best time to break through in the face of the defender is actually the first step, the first step of both sides can actually be regarded as a kind of prediction, the attacker predicts the movement of the defender, the defender predicts the movement of the attacker, if this step is successful, where can so many fancy moves be used later, even if Iverson is considered to be a master of passing, in fact, there are not so many moves when passing, often just the first time to come to a rapid crossover, and then it is an acceleration directly past the opponent.
Wallace obviously thought the same way, he planned to bully Pierce just posted, unstable footing, and forcibly change the center of gravity to pass Pierce, he chose to break through in the direction that Pierce came from, directly pull the ball, start, and accelerate.
However, this season's Pierce really seemed to be walking around in front of the Gate of Truth, facing the opponent's strong breakthrough when his center of gravity was unstable, Pierce did not panic, he let Wallace's first step, just when Wallace felt a little confused, Pierce turned around and directly knocked down Wallace's dribble from behind.
As soon as Pierce turned around, he launched a fast break and hit the Knicks straight to the basket.
Knicks guard Charles struggled to defend himself, but how could he catch up with the young man in his twenties who was already thirty-two years old?
Pierce staged a slam dunk at Madison Square Garden.
Spike Lee was furious, no one dared to be so presumptuous in New York, and he yelled at the court.
However, what made Spike Lee angry was not over, and the next shot of the Knicks still did not score, and the Celtics fought back again.
But fortunately, this time the Knicks' defense was very fast, and the Celtics' fast break was terminated, but Antoine Walker didn't care about this, he didn't want to ask for the ball directly from the Celtics point guard, and shot directly outside the three-point line.
Another high arc, straight towards the basket.
Luckily the goal didn't go in, but unfortunately, the Celtics rushed strongly and rushed straight down the frontcourt rebound, and the Celtics regained an offensive opportunity.
The ball was quickly passed to the perimeter, and Pierce held the ball outside the three-point line on the left side, glanced at the half-court for a moment, and then dribbled a step inside the three-point line.
Wallace quickly stumbled up to defend, but it was clear that Pierce wasn't going to take him seriously.
Pierce pulled back, made a quick stop, moved to the side, and made a pick-and-roll with Antoine Walker, Antoine Walker pulled straight back, Wallace hesitated, did not switch positions with Thomas, he still chose to follow Pierce. But by this time he had lost his first defensive position, and Pierce was like a bulldozer to the inside.
At this time, it was Marcus Camby who was guarding the inside line, Pierce had obviously heard of Camby's name, he didn't dare to be presumptuous in front of this center, and he held the ball in his arms with both hands and rushed directly to Camby like a human bomb, Camby couldn't dodge it, and was forced to foul by Pierce.
Fortunately, Pierce only hit one of two free throws, but the Knicks' lead has been eroded.
By the seventh minute, the Knicks were only 1 point ahead of the Celtics, and Van Gundy hurriedly sent all the starting lineups on the court, but in the position of the inside, Van Gundy struggled for a while, but Ewing had a doctor's order after all, and Van Gundy still used Mo Xi and Camby to form the inside twin towers.
The Knicks changed to the main lineup and planned to give the Celtics a direct dismissal.
Ward and Camby made a blocking and pick-and-roll cooperation, but did not disassemble, Ward passed the ball directly to Sprewell, who dribbled and broke through, but in the face of Adrian's defense, Sprewell was forced to stop dribbling and had to transfer the ball to Mo Xi on the inside.
Mo Xi received the ball and directly began to chisel the inside line with his back, but it was obvious that Mo Xi couldn't squeeze the opponent's 290-pound body at all, and this inward push was just a cushion for follow-up actions. Mo Xi turned over and turned back directly after a while, and the opposing player stepped forward to push up, at this time, Mo Xi realized that he had made a mistake, the opponent's size advantage was too strong, so forced up, Mo Xi had no space to make other moves, except for the direct backward shooting, there was only one way to pass the ball, in a hurry, Mo Xi chose to pass the ball to Houston.
However, at this time, Houston was not in a good receiving position, and the ball was directly cut off by Pierce, and the Celtics counterattacked.
Pierce didn't rush in, and he chose to pass the ball to the point guard at halftime, but the latter played a little excitedly and passed it directly to Antoine Walker, who was following him. Walker received the ball, and with a step away from the three-point line, he pulled it up and shot it.
Camby was in a hurry, and when he saw the other party making a move, he didn't want to just fly over with a big hat, but unfortunately Camby was still late, and Walker had already made a move.
The basketball flew out in a leisurely arc and slowly fell into the basket, and the Celtics overtook it.
Van Gundy slapped his thigh on the sidelines and resisted the urge to replace Ewing. He knew that even if he replaced Ewing at this time, he might not be able to change anything, and the current Ewing had not yet recovered his past state.
The Knicks players on the court are quite stable, and they are not flustered because the opponent overtakes the score, or rather, in fact, the Knicks have a passive skill in this period, no matter when, the Knicks players can play calmly, which is one of the reasons why the Knicks lack explosiveness, they play too rationally.
The Knicks re-attacked, and this time, Ward bypassed the two most heavily defended points and hoisted the ball to Mo Xi on the inside.
With the experience of the previous game, Mo Xi didn't dare to hold it up this time, he chose the most unpretentious way of playing, withstanding the opponent's center, wrestling with the opponent, but he didn't use all his strength, his feet suddenly withdrew, turned to the middle line, grabbed the ball with both hands and strode around, the defender opened his hands and followed closely, and Mo Xi hooked his hand. But under the body impact, Mo Xi didn't grasp the balance well, the ball was a little short, and the rebound bounced directly under the basket and smashed on the floor.
Mo Xi hurriedly turned around and grabbed a ball under the basket with the opponent's center. Obviously, in the competition for this kind of floor ball, the strength of the lower limbs is very important, thanks to the daily practice of the East Bamboo Pavilion, Mo Xi's current lower body strength has reached a very considerable level, even Ewing may not be able to compare with Mo Xi in the strength of the lower limbs, although Ewing's lower limb strength is the weakest.
Mo Xi grabbed the ball and got entangled with the opponent's center, although there were some advantages, but if it went on like this, it would inevitably be judged that both sides would earn the ball, this is not what Mo Xi wanted, Mo Xi broke out at this time with the characteristics of mixing in the New York Knicks, he flicked his arm brutally, hit the opponent with an elbow, and at the same time directly threw the opponent away, the referee frowned on the side, tightened the whistle in his mouth, but still did not blow, after all, right next to him, there was a Spike Lee who had been chattering silently.
Mo Xi struggled to grab the ball and shot directly under the basket, but at this time, the Celtics players pressed over, and Mo Xi missed the shot and hit the side of the basket. At this time, the basket became a swamp, and the players on both sides were entangled with each other, dragging their arms and pulling each other's jerseys in the corner, in this case, the two sides competed to see who was more ruthless and whose arm was longer.
In such a competition, Mo Xi's pair of long arms won by luck, and he gently lifted the basketball upward, and the basketball gently floated upwards and landed on the basket and gently slid into the basket.
Madison Square Garden suddenly seemed to be detonated, and there was a boiling sound, and Spike Lee was so excited that he even dropped the Coke glass in his hand to the ground.
The two sides are tied.
In a fierce confrontation, the score between the two sides remained tied, and when there was more than a minute left, Van Gundy suddenly made an adjustment and replaced Ewing, but this time he was replaced by Ewing, but instead of letting Ewing come to the center position, he let him go to the power forward to play against Antoine Walker.
In a rare move, Van Gundy made a substitution that seemed right after the game.
The Knicks get the offensive ball.
Ward slowly advanced forward with the ball, looked ahead, and suddenly hit the ground to pass the ball to Ewing in the waist position, Ewing had no problem getting stuck with Antoine despite having just returned from injury.
When Ewing received the ball, he pushed Walker back fiercely, Walker was pushed back and took a step back, Ewing saw this, turned around, put the ball down, and then lifted it, shook it for a while, Walker did not come up, but directly fixed in place, he couldn't tell whether Ewing was doing a feint or not.
Ewing didn't give him a chance to think, he just raised his hand and shot.
Ewing's shooting rate in the whole game was not very high, only more than thirty, but at such a critical moment, Ewing seemed to have returned to the era of one person and one city. The Knicks are leading again.
Ewing's goal got the crowd boiling again, and Spark-Lee stood up again and clenched his fists and cheered loudly.
Antoine Walker waved his hand hatefully, he didn't expect this old man to have such strength.
Celtic started to get nervous.
Pierce received the ball and walked inside the three-point line, Antoine came to the corner position and made a block with Pierce, Antoine directly blocked Houston and became Ewing to change the defense of Pierce.
Faced with this kind of small and big situation, Pierce did not hesitate, shook slightly, and went directly to the inside line and made a backhand layup.
However, it's the mecca of basketball, Madison Square Garden. The center, who everyone thought was old, seemed to be back to the peak of the five-year period, and he flew up and chased the defense directly from behind, and actually pinned Pierce's layup to the rebound.
But the Knicks didn't pick up the rebound, and the rebound was grabbed by Adrian, who protected the ball and quickly called a timeout.
Celtic rearrange tactics.
After kicking off again, the Celtics changed their offensive style, they passed the ball directly outside the three-point line, which can really reduce Ewing's defensive ability, after all, he is not the kind of center who can move well and help defense.
Sure enough, after a few rounds of conduction, Ewing couldn't keep up, Walker became Ward to defend him after switching positions with the point guard, the difference between the two was twenty centimeters, Walker's shot was still very high, and Ward couldn't defend at all.
Walker made a direct three-point shot.
Just as Walker was about to celebrate, a white shadow flew through the air, and it turned out to be Ewing again, and Ewing roared and fanned the ball out of bounds.
The Celtics' offensive time was exhausted, the offense was fruitless, and there were only more than 20 seconds left, and it was still the Knicks who had the ball, and the Celtics had to resort to foul tactics.
With Ward hitting both free throws and Antoine Walker missing another three-pointer, the Knicks won the game.
Mo Xi and Pierce hugged each other and teased each other
"I can't imagine that two kids who grew up in Los Angeles are playing at the opposite end of Los Angeles."
Ewing's first comeback game, although statistically speaking, is very average, but in terms of the final offense and defense, New York's beast is still strong.