Chapter 64: Unstoppable

The Knicks started the first offense of the game, and although everyone wanted to send Mo Xi to the All-Star, the Knicks handed over the right to the first offense to Ewing. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Ward controlled the ball through the half, and the players on both sides quickly fell into position, leaving no chance for the Knicks to start a fast break. Ward dribbled the ball on the wing, and once the Knicks were all on the line, Ward hoisted the ball high to Ewing.

Because Van Gundy put Ewing in the position of power forward, so in terms of physical fitness alone, Ewing is completely superior to the opponent.

Ewing catches the ball, because the ball is a little erratic, Ewing instead took two steps out to catch the ball, the distance of these two steps made Ewing lose the opportunity to attack the basket directly, but Ewing didn't care very much, defending him was Derrick Coleman, who was six feet ten inches tall, and his weight was almost the same, Ewing didn't want to hit the opponent directly as soon as he came up. Ewing used his lower body to resist the other party, and leaned forward with his upper body, as if he didn't want to entangle with the other party too much. Ewing changed his feet, stepped forward, suddenly exerted force, threw his body horizontally, and raised the ball above his head with both hands, which was directly a turn-over jumper.

Mo Xi's turnaround jumper is almost the same as Ewing's, but it seems that because of the subtle influence of his long career, Ewing's turnaround jumper is much more free and fast than Mo Xi.

It's just that no matter how free and easy the shot is, it is a good shot, maybe because of the first attack in the opening game, Ewing's hand feeling is not very good, and the power of this ball is a little too big, and it bounces out on the back edge of the basket.

Elden Campbell got stuck under the basket and took the rebound calmly.

Bill Duffy once half-jokingly said to Mo Xi that Mo Xi is only about five rebounds away from the All-Star Stars, which is also true, although Mo Xi now has some small flaws in his own technology, and he has not done enough in many details, but there is no doubt that Mo Xi is already in the ranks of first-class centers just for his offensive ability, but correspondingly, Mo Xi also has the defense of a second-rate center and the rebounding of a third-rate center, which is simply a short board in the short board, Defensively, thanks to the Knicks' overall defensive bonus, Moxi's performance is quite acceptable, but although the Knicks are in a group of insiders, they always fall behind in rebounding, which makes Moxi's rebounding level criticized.

The Hornets who got the rebound began to launch a counterattack, the Hornets' offense is very distinctive, simply put, everything is indecisive to Jones, the time is coming for Jones, and the critical moment is given to Jones, when Eddie Jones is in the Lakers, even when he is the boss, there are few times when the offensive and defensive fronts are shoulder-to-shoulder, and in the small team it means that you will get more shots, more respect, and more right to speak, but it also means that you will bear a heavier burden.

Elden Campbell didn't even make a transition to the point guard first, but found Eddie Jones with a small long pass, and Eddie Jones received the ball and quickly advanced to the frontcourt.

The Knicks were extremely quick to defend back, with Sprewell and Ward leading the way back to the halfcourt, and Sprewell following closely from head to toe.

Even under the encirclement of the two, Eddie Jones did not mean to slow down at all, but under such defense, the fast-break dunk was a little unrealistic, Eddie Jones suddenly stopped at the free throw line, shook off Ward, and raised his hand directly in the face of Sprewell without hesitation is a pull-up jump shot.

Eddie Jones hit a pull-up jump shot on a fast break to kick off the game.

The Knicks are attacking, and this time, the Knicks' offense began to shift to the point of mexiness, intentionally or unintentionally.

Mo Xi pulled to the side and made a cover for Houston, who quickly came out to get rid of the defender with the help of the cover and came to the top of the arc.

Ward quickly transferred the ball to Houston, but at this time, Elden Campbell had already left Mo Xi to interfere, Houston lost the first opportunity to shoot, Houston quickly turned around and dribbled, and Mo Xi, who was still standing in place, did another blocking and dismantling cooperation, after the two disassembled, Mo Xi quickly took two steps to the inside line, and Houston opened a distance. Houston also took a step outward, the two took apart some distance, and then Houston sent the ball forward, passed a precedent, Mo Xi took a step forward to catch the pass, raised his hand a little, shook Elden Campbell who came back from the switch, and then pulled the bow and shot an arrow, and raised his hand to dunk.

Mo Xi briskly scored the Knicks' first point.

Players on both sides knew that Moxi and Elden Campbell were competing for the twelfth All-Star spot in the East, and they were happy to pave the way for the two, Moxi's side of the offense was over, and the Hornets side of the offense was over, and David Wesley gave the ball directly to Elden Campbell, and after the jump ball, the two began their first real direct confrontation.

Elden Campbell is actually not good at such a back-to-back attack, when he was with the Lakers, he could only be regarded as a coolie center, but in the East, the competition is significantly smaller, which makes him eligible to impact the All-Star.

The West is strong and the East is weak, the West is strong and the East is weak, in fact, it is not the strength gap of the team, but the stars, there will always be one person in the East to suppress the other teams, resulting in a large loss of stars in the East. Looking at this edition, the East has confirmed the candidates, Alan Iverson, Vinson Carter, Alonzo Mourning, Eddie Jones, Grant Hill, Ray Allen, Alan Houston, Glenn Robinson, Jerry Starhouse, Reggie Miller, DeCambe Mutombo; And here in the West, not to mention the All-Star lineup, but look at the people who didn't make the cut, "White Chocolate" Jason Williams, "Penny" Hardaway, "Little Squirrel" Stoudemire, Steve Francis, the scoring master of the last era, Steve Smith, the Mavericks three-headed monster Michael Finley, the top scorers of the class of '96, Sharif Abdullah Rahim, Glenn Rice, "Roaring Celestial" Rasheed Wallace plus a Charles Barkley, The combined salary of the people in the West who were not selected for the All-Star team can compete with the All-Stars in the East.

Elden Campbell held the ball to his chest, and then sat directly in front of Mo Xi first, but unfortunately Mo Xi's core strength was so good that Elden Campbell couldn't even make Mo Xi shake a little. Elden Campbell didn't expect that he would have any good results this time, he just wanted to find a comfortable position.

Elden Campbell began to chisel inside, but with just one body's strength, he couldn't push Mo Xi at all, and after three chisels, Mo Xi still didn't move, which made him a little annoyed, and the center in front of him was not known for his defense. But in fact, Moxi's defense is only weak in defensive experience and awareness, and under the influence of Ewing, he often does some untimely help defense and misses his own defenders, as far as this pure single defense ability is concerned, Moxi is not bad.

Elden Campbell couldn't squeeze Mo Xi, so he chose a rougher offensive method, and he wanted a very deep position, directly half-turned, and shot under the basket.

But this time Mo Xi's attention is very concentrated, after all, it is related to whether he can enter the All-Star, Mo Xi can be said to be a twelve-point spirit, when he saw Elden Campbell turn around and shoot, Mo Xi was a little hesitant, because he had seen this move, last time Olajuwon shook him like this, he carefully pasted it, and suddenly found that there was some surprise, the other party, it seems to be a real shot? Before he had time to think about it, Mo Xi directly stretched out his hand, covered the opponent's shot directly with one palm, and pushed down, the ball was knocked down, and Mo Xi blocked Elden Campbell's shot.

Houston behind him quickly picked up the ball, and the Knicks switched from defense to offense.

Like the Hornets, the Knicks also gave the ball directly to Mo Xi, who asked for the ball in the low post. Just now, Mo Xi blocked Elden Campbell's shot, and this time, Campbell must get back to the court, but can he really get his wish.

Mo Xi didn't choose to push with his back like Campbell, after all, unless you have an absolute advantage in strength, the effect of back push is still very small. Mo Xi quickly turned, and without giving Campbell much time to react, Mo Xi was already starting to move sideways and hit the basket.

Campbell followed with an immediate start, moving sideways with the ink.

Mo Xi saw Campbell following, and his feet were a little faster, and Campbell was not to be outdone, so he took a step faster to prevent it. But what he didn't expect was that just as he showed the speed under his feet, Mo Xi suddenly stopped, turned back, and switched to his left hand, about to hook his hand.

Campbell, seeing that it was not good, hurriedly pounced, who expected Mo to be on the side, shook Campbell away, leaned forward, and put the ball directly into the basket with both hands.

Campbell was a little annoyed, he was completely washed by Mo Xi in this round, and he seemed to be inactive, if it weren't for Mo Xi's slight lack of experience, he could even directly make a foul on Campbell.

Elden Campbell took the initiative to ask for the ball this time, and he must take this bad breath, and in the first round of the offensive and defensive rounds of the two, Mo Xi played well at both ends of the offensive and defensive ends, crushing Elden Campbell. For his All-Star spot, Campbell fought hard.

Elden Campbell was once again in the low post, this time he still came first with his back to push, this time Mo Xi was not too tough, took a step back, this step seemed to give Elden Campbell some confidence, Campbell suddenly retracted, flicked his body, forcibly turned around and floated out sideways, stealing directly to the basket, intending to steal a layup.

I really haven't seen much of this kind of attack, you know, the inside line in the east is like the Xuantie heavy sword in Yang Guo's hand, taking the road of opening and closing, relying on momentum to suppress people, Mo Xi really rarely has this kind of sneaky type.

However, Elden Campbell's turn seemed to be a little too fast, the center of gravity was completely uncontrollable, and the feeling of the shot was a little floating, and the ball actually hit directly under the basket.

The basketball quickly smashed to the floor, Elden Campbell because he was already close, and his center of gravity was also very low, so he picked up the rebound directly from the ground.

Although Campbell didn't score, he grabbed the rebound in the front court, was overjoyed, and took advantage of his center of gravity to rise up directly, intending to give Mo Xi a heavy dunk under the basket.

So, in the usual Knicks style, what do you do when someone dunks in front of you? Johnson's education of Mo Xi has always been to press it down, and if it can't be done, it will be dodged again. (It's really, except for Jordan and those super centers, no one really dunked alive on the Knicks' interior in the 90s, but only in those years)

Mo Xi pounced directly at Elden Campbell, and without hesitation, he stretched out his right hand and pressed it directly.

Campbell only transferred to the East this season, although he usually played with the East inside, but it was not very frequent, and although Campbell had adapted to it during this time, he was still instantly intimidated in the face of such a tough situation.

"Drop"

Mo Xi directly pressed Campbell from the air with the ball, but it was still not crisp enough, and the foul was first.

Elden Campbell walked to the free throw line and hit one of two free throws, which made him breathe a sigh of relief, at least he finally scored, but this breath was spit out and he couldn't take it back.

The two sides battled it out for a few more rounds, and Mo Xi seized the opportunity to get another chance to go straight to Elden Kembell.

Murphy and Ward made a screen, hand-to-hand to Murphy, who turned his back to Elden Campbell in the high post. It's not a good singles position, too close to the halfway line and too far from the basket.

Mo Xi decisively turned the ball back into Ward's hand, and ran to the basket himself, Ward did not pause after receiving the ball, quickly sent the ball forward, and gave it back to Mo Xi's hand.

Ink went straight to the basket in front of the penalty area, right in front of Elden Campbell.

Mo Xi raised his hand and stood in a T-shaped step at the same time, Elden Campbell knew that it was a feint and was not fooled at all, but just raised his hand high.

There's still a lot of space under the basket to use, and Campbell doesn't dare to be careless. Mo Xi took back the foot that stepped out, stepped back, and shifted his center of gravity to the back of his body, just when Campbell was unmoved, Mo Xi jumped up and shot directly under the basket. Mo Xi shot almost without interference, and the ball felt very good, and the ball was hollow into the net.

On the bench of the Knicks, Camby and others waved towels wildly, and in the opening minutes, Mo Xi's performance was too good, three shots and three hits, and also defended the opponent's two attacks, in terms of individual performance, Mo Xi was already unstoppable.