Chapter 38 Clocking out and out
At the beginning of the second half, the regrouped Mavericks began to fight back, Bradley broke free from the entanglement of Mo Xi, and directly gave Sprewell, who broke into the interior, a big hat, Sprewell was a little confused, when did he suffer such a shame. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info But now that the ball is switched, it is not his turn to attack, and Sprewell intends to find his way back on the defensive end.
But the Mavericks have come to the front court in the blink of an eye, a wave of rapid transmission, Nash passed to Finley, Finley stopped sharply, shook off the Houston burst outside line Nowitzki, Novitzki relied on his height advantage to shoot directly three-pointers.
missed, but the Knicks' interior was just after halftime, and Finley rushed to grab the rebound and hit the basket.
The Mavericks seem to be back in the opening stage, playing fiercely and violently, this ferocity is not reflected in the defense, but on the offensive end, they seem to be enraged hummingbirds, with a dizzying rapid advance of the combination punch smashed on the Knicks, the Knicks are like a drunk, stung all over the head.
However, it was just a bag on his head, and the drunk who was bitten woke up.
Sprewell receives the ball on the outside and passes to the inside.
Mo Xi chiseled in twice, Bradley was very dead, Mo Xi was not reluctant, and passed it to Houston on the other side.
Houston used Andrew's cover to kill the inside line and break through Sprewell.
Sprewell tried to walk on the spot, suddenly started, forced through the Mavericks' non-existent defense, and then stopped suddenly, and when Bradley moved out to make up for the defense, he wore Bradley's small door to give the empty inside line to Moxi, who received the ball without pausing, and dunked on the spot.
The Knicks' patient conduction overwhelmed the Mavericks.
In fact, Nelson could have organized the team to play this kind of offense if he wanted to, but he believed in the talent of his players too much, and he was more suitable to be a football coach than a basketball coach.
The Mavericks continued their run-and-gun journey, Nash pushed forward quickly and gave it directly to Finley, only this time Finley was entangled by Sprewell and couldn't make the first shot, and Finley passed the ball back to Nash, who broke through with Nowitzki's cover for a pull-up jumper. However, it can be seen that the wrist injury still seriously affected Nash, and Nash's shot was once again wide of the ball.
The rebound was picked up by Moxi, who hurried back to the halfcourt, and the ball was handed to Ward, and the Knicks pushed steadily again.
In the face of the Mavericks, Mo Xi became a tactical fulcrum, after passing the half, Ward hoisted the ball to Mo Xi again, but the ball was a little too light, Mo Xi was not very comfortable, and passed the ball out, and Ward scored again.
This time, Moxi's card was very strong, elbowing Bradley, making a posture of turning his back and walking the baseline, Bradley had to move down to block Moxi's offensive line in advance.
It's just that Bradley moved like this, and a large piece was vacated in the upper half of the penalty area, Nowitzki didn't immediately realize that there was a large blank behind him, Ward directly inserted the inside line, Mo Xi was another hand-to-hand cooperation, and Ward hit a layup directly.
Ward's performance in this game was also outstanding, so far, Ward has made five of six shots, and for a defensive team point guard who was originally defined as being able to shoot, Ward's performance today is considered to be extraordinary.
The Knicks easily scored two more points, and Nelson was very anxious off the court and wanted to play in person, but the injury to Nash made him have nothing to do, although in Nelson's tactics, the role of the point guard is not very large, but Nash is the most critical point of the tandem team, not to mention that the opposite side is not being cast into a sieve by the Mavericks, and the Mavericks themselves have been torn off the last fig leaf by the Knicks.
The Mavericks attacked Nash again and quickly changed direction, shook off Ward's space for a step, followed the step inward, and passed sideways to Bradley's hands. Bradley can be said to be the twelfth pick in the Mavericks' offensive system, and as soon as Leng Buding received the ball, Bradley was a little dazed, and then reacted, intending to solve the battle with a half-turn faceframe jumper.
It's not wrong that Bradley is taller than Mo Xi, but Mo Xi is also more than two meters and ten meters, maybe it's because Bradley is really difficult to get offensive opportunities, the offense is completely rusty, this shot has no feints, not even a back, Bradley just faced Mo Xi straight shot.
Mo Xi was extremely excited, and his keen sense of smell told him that this might be one of the few opportunities in his career for the Bloody Hat. Mo Xi jumped high, stretched out his long arms, and slapped hard with an almost volleyball smash when Bradley made a move. But maybe Mo Xi was too excited, or Bradley was too unhearted, Mo Xi's cap was very tight, but it was his wrist on the ball, which hurt Mo Xi grinning, but because of this, Mo Xi directly buckled the ball in his hand and pressed it on his abdomen.
After holding the ball, Mo Xi stepped forward, dribbled the ball, and pressed Bradley with his back, and his long arm shook and a long shot was delivered.
Normally, Van Gundy doesn't allow the center to launch a fast attack with a direct long pass, but now that Mo Xi has opened up, he doesn't care about these at all, and finds Sprevel with a direct long pass.
Sprewell received the ball and quickly rushed up, with a straight arm and a dunk.
It's also ironic that the basketball that Nelson wanted to play became a reality for the Knicks, who admired defense.
Compared with Van Gundy's ruthless players, Nelson's usage is much softer, although the team is still behind by a large score, but Nelson took into account Nash's injury, or chose to replace Nash at this time, Nash understood Nelson's concerns and did not complain, but he was also curious about what the hell Nelson's crazy old man was playing.
Nelson was replaced by Hubert Davis, a North Carolina star player, but after entering the league, he seemed to be inactive, he was drafted by the Knicks, and now he is facing the Knicks, I don't know what it feels like.
Nelson's lineup has no point guards, it is all pitchers, and it is still an amplification of the previous height advantage, and Nelson seems to want to rely on the advantage of big shooters to force a wave of offensive frenzy.
Van Gundy was much more decent this time, still replacing Thomas against Nowitzki, and in the first half, Thomas's defense was still very successful.
The Mavericks had another wave of quick offense, but it seemed that because the height advantage was too obvious this time, Finley forced a foul on Ward, who switched to defense, and went to the free throw line.
Finley made both free throws.
Sprewell seemed to think of something, pulled Thomas over and muttered not knowing what to say, Van Gundy frowned a little, although Sprewell's character has been much better, but occasionally there will be disobedience, this is his nature, it is inevitable.
Truth be told, there are too many players in this Knicks team that Nelson likes to use, but the relationship between Nelson and New York is not destined to allow these trades to take shape.
The Knicks attacked, Ward still handed the ball directly to Moxi, on the offensive end, unless facing those first-class interior defense masters, such as Mutombo, who has now begun to grow up, and Garnett, who has played before, Moxi still has a great chance of winning, after all, Moxi's talent is lame, but in terms of performance and data, it makes sense that he is a forward.
Mo Xi seemed to play confidently, turned his back to Bradley, and directly turned over and made a jumper.
Bradley didn't react at all this time, he thought that Mo Xi would shake him a few times and shoot under the basket, and Mo Xi's turnover jumper was not stable, but he didn't know how many nights Mo Xi practiced for this turnover jumper.
The center of gravity sinks, squats, and the buttocks are pushed backwards, and the whole person suddenly rises from the ground, completes the turn in the air, and uses the waist to lean back, that is, as Mo Xi practiced before, Mo Xi sits in the air, and then holds the ball high in both hands, and hits it steadily.
He likes it when he has his arms up, and now, this is his stadium. Madison Square Garden was boiling.
The Mavericks continued to attack under tremendous pressure.
That's when Sprewell and Thomas whispered content.
The two of them fought for fouls to organize Finley and Nowitzki to catch the ball, the two were stared at overwhelmed, time was constantly consumed, and in the end the ball still did not reach the two of them, Davis hurriedly missed, and the rebound was taken by Moxi.
Although the Mavericks scored 28 points in this quarter because of a large number of fouls, they couldn't stop the Knicks, and the Knicks scored 35 points crazily.
At the end of the third quarter, the Knicks beat the opponent 96-59, and all the starters went to rest, and the game entered garbage time one quarter early.
And in this game, Mo Xi, who clocked in and out of work, played very eye-catching, scoring a career high of 25 points, 10 rebounds and 5 assists, plus a block, which was the first time in his career that he got 25+10+5 results, and Ward, who also played well with him, was 20 points and 4 assists, and this time Houston and Sprewell made cameo appearances in the organization, scoring 7 and 8 assists respectively.
This victory of the Knicks can be described as hearty, but Van Gundy has a headache, Mo Xi's play is too good, Ewing will be back soon, Ewing is impossible to be put on the bench, so put Mo Xi on the bench?
We don't know any of this, but tonight is destined to be a moment of remembrance.