During the New Year's period, the Knicks had a long break to wait for the Celtics at Madison Square Garden. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 This is the second meeting between the two sides this season, and since that time in the playoffs, they blocked God wearing the number 23 jersey, the Celtics' luck has not seemed to be very good, coupled with the deterioration of Auerbach's health in the past two years, the power has been decentralized, and the Celtics' selection of Paul Pierce has been a stroke of genius.

In the last meeting, the Celtics lost a lot, and this time, it was even more imposing. However, in terms of team style, the Celtics are almost naturally at a disadvantage against the Knicks, who advocate tough defense. Not to mention anything else, just look at the two strongest points of the Celtics, the frontcourt twin stars, will be suppressed a lot when facing the Knicks who are all back. The first is Antoine Walker, Johnson is different from Moxi, not only is he physically strong, but also has excellent outside defensive ability, and he can also pull to score outside the three-point line, and the confrontation between the two will undoubtedly be better than Johnson; As for Paul Pearce, although Houston may not be able to guard against him, at least the two are evenly matched on the offensive end, after all, Uncle Pee is still very young now.

The Knicks, who have been off for four days, are now very inflated, and as a team full of seniors, it is wonderful to have such a long vacation during the season to protect their form and get plenty of rest.

The Knicks' starting lineup changed back to normal, and Ward returned to the position of starting point guard, as the starting point guard of the Knicks, Ward's strength was still recognized by Van Gundy. Johnson and Ewing partnered on the inside, with Houston and Sprewell on the outside.

The Celtics are still in the same lineup, with the Green Army twins, Antoine Walker and Paul Pierce as the forward killers, Kenny Anderson and Adrian Griffin in the backcourt, and Vitaly Portapenco under the basket.

At the beginning of the game, the two sides jumped the ball, relying on the height advantage, Ewing easily picked the ball from the hands of the Ukrainian boy, and the Knicks' possession, the first wave of offense began.

Ward advanced, just like the Knicks' usual style of play, and the first ball was hoisted directly into the inside line to Ewing's hands.

Ewing held the ball and forced his back against Vitaly, who pressed his weight down, also planning to have a hard-fought duel with Ewing. It's just that Ewing has been famous for a long time, and it doesn't just rely on a brave spirit. Ewing did not continue to fight with the opponent physically, but directly half-turned around and showed his steps, turned around, accelerated, dribbled a step, bowed, retracted his body, and then threw himself outward, hooking his hand.

Vitaly just put all his strength into the confrontation with Ewing in front, and when Ewing turned around, Vitaly lost his support, stumbled under his feet, pounced in the air, and when he looked up, he saw Ewing hook and scored the first goal directly.

The Celtics seemed to have been surprised by this for a long time, and went straight to their own offensive rounds without looking back.

Kenneth dribbled through the halfcourt, rounded the front court, and took advantage of Antoine Walker's cover to make his way inside.

Because Johnson and Ward did not choose to switch defenses, Kenneth did not pass the ball to Antoine Walker, who had been asking for the ball behind him, but directly hit the inside. But the Knicks' interior line has Ewing in charge, Kenneth only took two steps and chose to give up, facing Ewing, Kenneth still didn't have much confidence in his heart, but fortunately, Paul Pierce rushed over nearby to answer. Kenneth decisively passed the ball through.

Paul Pierce received a pass, turned around and threw it directly, the action was very crisp and neat, for young players, self-confidence is always the most important point, as long as you throw confidence, even if it is a god, I will kill you, well, I ran the wrong channel.

It's just that Paul Pierce's shot was very decisive, but it didn't get the expected effect, Paul Pierce's mid-range shot missed, and the rebound was collected by Ewing.

The Knicks directly launched a wave of fast-break counterattacks.

Ewing handed the ball to Houston in front of him, Houston dribbled two steps and quickly made a long pass to find Ward, who had passed the halfcourt, but Ward had been caught up by Adrian Griffin at this time, and under some entanglement, Ward lost the opportunity to score quickly, and had to stabilize the rhythm, slowly dribbling outside the three-point line, looking for opportunities.

At this time, Sprewell and Johnson also followed, although they lost the first move of the fast break, but the Knicks obviously did not intend to give up, and the two seemed to be planning to force a wave of the opposite penalty area, because at this time, the opponent's interior line has not been replayed in place, you say Antoine Walker? Under normal circumstances, everyone ignores his defense, although Antoine Walker's rebounding is good, but the individual defense is really outrageous, and the difference is mainly due to Antoine Walker's lack of desire to defend, even if he is passed by a nobody, Antoine Walker will not have any anger.

Johnson forced directly into the basket from the middle, Ward hit the ground and passed the ball to Johnson, Johnson faced Paul Pierce and Kenneth Anderson at the same time. Johnson forced a turn, blocked both men at the same time with his broad back, and turned around to distribute the ball to the outside and into the hands of Sprewell, who was following him.

Sprewell received the ball, and instead of breaking inside, he started straight with a three-pointer.

Sprewell's choice was good, but the hand didn't seem to be so good, Sprewell's three-pointer popped out of the frame, Johnson couldn't grab the frontcourt rebound, and the rebound was collected by Pierce.

The Celtics got the rebound, and they were a little restless, feeling that the opponent's wave of fast break was too reluctant, if there is a wave of fast attack counterattack now, no matter how fast the opponent's offensive and defensive conversion is, it may not be able to stop it, you know, now Ewing has just passed the half.

Kenneth Anderson is also an experienced veteran actor, but in comparison, he plays more passionately, and when he sees the situation on the court, he doesn't want to think about it, and just throws the ball and finds Antoine Walker. At this time, Johnson had just started to return to defense, and he had not yet passed half court, and Antoine Walker was already waiting early on the three-point line.

Antoine Walker turned around to receive the ball, then turned straight and raised his hand to shoot a three-point shot.

However, Antoine Walker actually missed this open three-pointer, and Ewing, who was rushed back, picked up another rebound.

In such a rhythm, the fast attack counterattack of both sides in the first quarter was obviously more, not to mention the shooting rate, but this rhythm made Van Gundy very uncomfortable, although the Knicks were still suppressing the other party, but this was not the way the Knicks played, Van Gundy hesitated, or called a timeout when the Knicks had the upper hand.

Van Gundy's timeout was not used for substitutions, but only to emphasize that the team should keep the tempo down and take it into their own hands.

The timeout was effective, and the Knicks slowed down the rhythm and returned to their usual warm water boiling rhythm.

After three minutes, the Celtics had to make a quick decision to find the point where the situation would open, and Celtics coach Rick Pitino replaced Antoine Walker, who had played poorly today, with Danny Fortson, one of the league's most famous rebounding monsters.

Danny Fortson is a 1997 rookie from Philadelphia, his style is a lot like Rodman, and like Rodman, he was also a leading scorer in college, and the name of "Big O" Oscar Robinson is high on the overall scoring list in Cincinnati, and the next person is Fortson, who is second with 1881 points. And in that year's rookie stats, Danny Fortson beat Tim Duncan to score a rookie high of 26 points that season. And his rebounding efficiency is also very high, reaching 23% last season, and it has risen by 1% this season, and the main thing is that he has very little playing time, and this season is only 15 minutes of playing time, so little playing time is not for nothing, because he has too many fouls, and his actions on the court are always extremely fierce, quite a bit of the style of the Knicks gangsters back then.

The reason why he is introduced like this is only because he has an idol called Patrick Ewing.

Mo Xi, who was also substituted in this wave of timeouts, saw for the first time what a real fan brother was, and as soon as he came up, Danny Fortson came directly to Ewing before he greeted his teammates, gave the latter a big hug, and then said with a harmless look: "Don't worry, Pat, I'll let you go upright." There was sunshine in his smile, but there was something that made Mo Xi shudder.

As soon as they fought, Mo Xi fully understood how much respect Ewing contained in the other party's words.

After the Celtics' offense was fruitless, Murphy ushered in his first round of offense after he came on the court.

Charles, who was substituted on the court together, first chose to give the ball to Sprewell on the wing on the offensive end, and Sprewell moved quickly and came sideways to near the free throw line.

It's just that just when Sprewell got rid of the defender with the help of Mo Xi's cover, Mo Xi suddenly felt a huge force coming, and before Mo Xi could react, the person had already fallen to the ground.

You know, Mo Xi's lower plate is very stable, which is already recognized in the Knicks, although Mo Xi may be mediocre in terms of running and jumping talent, but in terms of lower body strength, Mo Xi is definitely the best one, this is such a Mo Xi, Mo Xi who is firmly rooted on the floor, and he was put down like this.

The referee blew the whistle as soon as possible, and Danny Fortson stopped indifferently, and at the same time seemed very friendly to pull Mo Xi up from the ground and whispered: "Your body is really good, it took a lot of effort to squeeze past you." ”

Mo Xi looked dazed, that is called squeezing over? The man who averaged four fouls per game in fifteen minutes was not covered.

Sprewell was furious, but Danny Fortson's behavior was too friendly, and Sprewell still knew the reason for reaching out and not hitting the smiling face.

The Knicks returned to serve and attack, because they had just been forcibly interrupted by Danny Fortson, and the Knicks were no longer in a good rhythm when they attacked again, and Sprewell did not attack rashly, but handed the ball to Ewing on the inside.

Ewing gouged in twice, then turned and hooked his hands.

But the ball was played too casually, the ball didn't go in, and it bounced out.

Danny Fortson was like a hound, pounced directly on the rebound and took it off.

The Celtics did not choose to break fast this time, and they also played steadily. After Antoine Walker went off the court, the Celtics became a one-core play, and the Celtics pulled away on the court, directly forming a situation where Paul Pierce singled Houston.

Although Paul Pierce is only a sophomore rookie, his singles kung fu cannot be measured by age.

Paul Pierce tentatively stepped forward, clicked three times in a row, and then sent forward, pushed Houston, pulled the ball laterally, and changed direction again when Houston came to defend, reversed the sideways and made a step-back jumper.

Paul Pearce makes a shot.

Soon, though, the Knicks returned the favor.

When Mo Xi and Ewing play at the same time, there will be a new option in the Knicks' tactical board, the twin tower tactics, this combination is actually eternal, but most of them are defensive interior lines plus an offensive interior line, but when it comes to the Spurs, Popovich has developed this tactic with two offensive interior lines at the same time. The core of this lies in the tandem between the two inner lines.

Ink Xi received the ball in the high post and forced Danny Fortson with his body, this is not a comfortable job, Danny Fortson's confrontation is extremely strong, so that Mo Xi has a feeling of being in opposition with Mourning, and finally, Mo Xi finally gave the ball to Ewing in the low post of the inside.

Ewing began to gouge inside again, but Danny Fortson's defensive enthusiasm was very high, and he decisively let go of Mo Xi and pounced directly on Ewing.

Ewing hurriedly passed the ball to the high post when Danny Fortson pounced.

It's just that Danny Fortson is really like a beast, he forcibly stops his body, and then kills back, pressing directly towards the ball in front of Mo Xi.

Before Moxi's request fell into his hand, he saw that Danny Fortson had already pounced, and Moxi hurriedly clicked the ball back to Ewing with both hands.

At this time, Ewing pulled himself to the front of the penalty area early, received a pass from Moxi, and directly turned over a jumper, in such a close position, Ewing's turn-over jumper almost never missed. Through an inside pass, the Knicks scored two more points.

Thanks to the Knicks' good play at the beginning, like the first meeting between the two sides, the Knicks ignored the Celtics' defense in the first quarter, forced 33 points, and led by a wide margin of 33:24 in the first quarter.