At the beginning of the second half, as soon as the Pacers came up, the Knicks felt a deep malice, and the Pacers' style of painting changed, and they directly began to choke the Knicks' outside line. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

At first, the Knicks didn't care much, because the Knicks' interior duo was still in the top tier despite being a little old, but they soon realized that something was not quite right.

The Pacers' interior line is too high, the Knicks are three inches shorter than the Pacers as a center or a power forward, don't underestimate these three inches, for Ewing and Johnson like the jumper-based inside, whether it is a physical alignment or a technical alignment, they will not be afraid, even those jumping men, these two people can win an easy shot as long as they squeeze each other before shooting, but when they face this kind of person who is more than ten centimeters taller than them, This makes their shots uncomfortable, and the opponent doesn't need to jump, just raise their hands high to interfere with the opponent's shot.

More than three minutes into the third quarter, the Pacers played a wave of 7-0 mini-climax, and the Knicks were a little powerless to resist.

The Pacers' outside firepower is very strong, and the Knicks have to devote a lot of energy to restrain the opponent's three-point firepower, but to the Knicks' surprise, the Pacers did not make any arrangements for the three-pointers, but used the three-point shot as a containment, a large number of mid-range shots after blocking and dismantling, and skillfully avoided the Knicks' inside restricted area guarded by Ewing.

The Pacers used clever ways to avoid the Knicks' strongest defensive line.

Schmitz and Mark Jackson blocked the left corner, Ewing defended it, because the Knicks continued the starting lineup in the first half, and it was Sprewell who defended Mark Jackson at this time, but Sprewell had a height advantage over Mark Jackson, once he switched to Schmitz, of course, this advantage did not exist, Ewing did not dare to switch defenses with Sprewell, but it was also because of this that Ewing had to walk a little more, although it was only two steps, but Schmitz still got a short period of time in the middle, Schmitz crossed to the free-throw line, pulled away again, and then shot from the center.

This big man from Europe has a shooting touch that all outside players in the league would envy.

Schmitz's shot made a smooth curve and went straight into the basket.

Defensively, although the Knicks have suffered a big problem, the Pacers' feel inside the three-point line today is really strange, for the Knicks, the real headache is the Pacers' defense, the Pacers locked the Knicks' outside scoring points.

Ewing and Johnson had to force their way up on the offensive end.

Johnson received a pass from Sprewell and moved to the high post, flanking Dale Davis, and despite being at a height disadvantage, Johnson's strong body thanks to boxing training allowed him to at least physically lose to anyone against many power forwards.

Johnson hit Dale Davis twice hard, Davis couldn't hold it and took a step back, Johnson turned around and made a gesture to throw. It's just that when he turned to throw, Dale straightened his arms, and Davis's raised hands cast a shadow directly on Johnson's face.

Seeing this, Johnson had to give up the idea of shooting, now he is not as able to jump as in the past, and now he shoots more of the kind of in-place shooting of interior players, rather than sitting directly in the air and stepping back to shoot like in the past, and the opponent can only look up below.

Johnson still passed the ball to Ewing, who was stuck in the low post.

Ewing also has a physical advantage in the face of Schmitz, but just like Johnson, Ewing has an absolute advantage in strength, but unless he knocks the opponent down directly, otherwise, he just knocks out a little space, and after turning around, he still has to face the opponent's raised hands, and he can't see where the basket is.

But at such a time, Ewing must stand up, whether he enters or not, Ewing must take action.

Ewing pushed Schmitz away, and Schmitz, like Dale Davis, staggered back, but stubbornly pounced. Ewing took advantage of this short moment and this half-step space to force a turnover jumper, but Ewing could no longer see the basket, and he could only rely on his own feelings to forcibly find the position of the basket.

Ewing's shooting felt very good, he accurately found the position of the basket, but because of the tall wall made of human flesh in front of him, Ewing had to adjust his shooting position, and the ball drew a strange arc high, although he found the basket, Ewing's shot was a little lighter, and it bounced off the side edge of the basket. Schmitz took the rebound.

The Knicks are still in such a situation when they attack again, Sprewell wants to use his own strength to play a strong wave, but once Sprewell makes a move to rush into the three-point line, it will immediately attract the Pacers' pinch, Jalen Rose stepped forward and directly sandwiched Sprewell in a position of one step inside the three-point line, which made Sprewell very uncomfortable, not up or down.

Sprewell opted to pass the ball to Houston, but the Pacers seemed to have a special idea of running, and Reggie Miller came in the blink of an eye to cut the ball off.

Houston borrowed his body to force the ball down, but lost the ability to dribble and had to hand the ball to Ewing on the inside again.

Ewing is not very deep in this ball, and it seems that in his opinion, the opponent's defensive style is probably the same everywhere. Ewing played very violently this time, directly hitting the opponent with his body, and at the same time opening the way with his shoulders and elbows, opening a path directly in front of him, Ewing gritted his teeth and pushed directly to the basket, but it seemed that he had used too much force before, Ewing rushed too hard and failed to control his body, and this layup turned out to be off.

The Knicks couldn't attack for a long time, and the point difference was gradually stretched to eight points, which made Van Gundy very annoyed, but in the face of such a situation, unless the interior played a tough performance, it would be difficult for the Knicks to find opportunities to form a connection between the inside and outside.

Van Gundy looked at the bench, his eyes lit up, and he called Mo Xi, replaced him on the court, and took Ewing to form the Knicks' interior twin tower offensive line again.

Since yesterday's small family gathering in the East Bamboo Pavilion, Mo Xi has a different idea about this Christmas war, he knows that through a camera, and his family and friends are watching him, which makes him full of different motivation, Christmas gifts have been given, but it is good to think of more Christmas wishes.

Mo Xi was very active in the first half, and even made a difference in offensive rebounding, which is very different from his usual performance, and Van Gundy seems to have seen that Mo Xi has a strong desire to attack this game, and it is undoubtedly a good choice to send him on the court when this kind of team's offense is blocked.

Van Gundy's judgment was not wrong, and Mo Xi showed his worth as soon as he came on the court.

After coming on the court, Mo Xi came to the power forward position and replaced Sam Perkins on the court, which actually lost his previous advantage, and the Pacers' height dropped.

Ewing received the ball in the high post, Mo Xi came to the bottom line to get stuck, Ewing took a look, hoisted the ball in, and then slowly advanced to the penalty area.

After receiving the ball, Mo Xi directly made a fake action of passing, pretending to give Ewing who cut in.

Sam Perkins is very experienced, he was not fooled, but he still involuntarily flashed his body inward, which was completely due to the natural reaction of the body.

Mo Xi found this moment, and then turned around, and turned over again, and the other party pasted it up like a dog skin plaster, and it was at this time that Mo Xi suddenly collected the ball, suddenly broke forward, and pushed hard, Sam Perkins was pushed back again, and Mo Xi suddenly raised his hand.

Sam Perkins was a step away at this time, and seeing this, he quickly stabilized his center of gravity and flew up.

But Mo Xi's set of actions was just a fake move, seeing that he shook Sam Perkins, he directly changed his movements, walked on the line and marched to the basket, striding into the restricted area.

However, at this time, Schmitz, who was very close, quickly left Ewing to come over to make up for the muse.

Mo Xi caught a glimpse of the figure from his side with the corner of his eye, suddenly stopped, made a hook movement, Schmitz subconsciously jumped up, Mo Xi collected the ball again, and then turned over, avoiding Schmitz, hooked his left hand out, a smooth curve slid through, and the basketball fell into the basket.

Moxi's play has allowed the Knicks to recover on the offensive end, but it depends more on the Pacers' offense and how the Knicks should respond.

The Pacers attacked, and Mark Jackson dribbled through the halfcourt.

When Mark Jackson was dribbling, few point guards in the entire league dared to face Mark Jackson's advancement except for those top point guards, such as Kidd and Payton, after all, Mark Jackson's advancement was a "lifelong event" for them.

Jackson pushed directly with his back this time, and the Knicks did not dare to rush forward to defend, after all, under this lineup, the Pacers have a good shooting skill in every position. All of this can only be forcibly solved by Ward himself.

Ward gritted his teeth and struggled to resist Jackson's advance, because the Knicks are also a strong defensive team, Jackson's advance did not dare to go too deep, and gradually stopped when he came to the waist position, looked around left and right, and some could not find a position.

But for Miller, there was never a situation where there was no room to shoot, and Miller suddenly accelerated and ran towards the bottom corner, with Houston following closely and two brilliant shooters starting a sprint race on the court. After Miller reached the bottom corner, he suddenly turned over and went around the baseline, and Sam Perkins quickly moved over to give Miller a cover. Mo Xi kept up, trying to change the defense of Miller, but not to mention such a big center as Mo Xi, in the league, there are very few people who can keep up with Miller in the running position, Miller almost instantly threw off Mo Xi and ran out of an excellent vacancy, Jackson's pass was also in place, and Miller shot directly.

"Smack~"

An unexpected voice came, Miller's shot was blocked, but the contributor to this hot pot meal was not Ewing as people thought, but Mo Xi, who had just been thrown off by Miller. Mo Xi didn't know where the motivation came from, so he just caught up, although Miller's weird shooting posture made it difficult to block him, but it was different on his side, Mo Xi killed from the side and invited Miller to eat a hot pot.

The game between the two sides once again fell into a tug-of-war, but because of the strengthening of the Knicks' offensive ability, the Pacers could no longer crush the Knicks as before.

Although the Pacers had the upper hand in the first half of the third quarter, Mo Xi helped the Knicks stabilize the situation after coming on the court, and slightly recovered some scores, allowing the Knicks to enter the fourth quarter with a small disadvantage of three points.

Mo Xi played very well in the second half of the third quarter, but Van Gundy still chose to put Mo Xi on the bench at the beginning of the fourth quarter.

For the first time, Mo Xi was a little unhappy with Van Gundy's arrangement, he felt that he could play for a long time, after all, he did so well at both ends of the offensive and defensive ends today, and he could have allowed himself to play more, but Van Gundy's conservatism still chose to follow the step-by-step plan.

Mo Xi sat on the bench and felt very tormented, the score difference between the two sides did not fluctuate much, and when there were more than four minutes left in the game, the Knicks were still three points behind, at this time, Van Gundy called a long timeout, arranged for Mo Xi to play, and Ewing formed an inside twin tower.

Mo Xi seemed to have a spring under his feet, and jumped up directly from the bench, calm as Mo Xi, and there were times when he was so excited.

However, in such a scene, Van Gundy still made some small risks, because the Knicks did not have a point guard who could match Mark Jackson, and Van Gundy simply came to the Knicks' version of the height combination again.

I have to say that it really worked wonders like Van Gundy to take out the strongest person on the team and force a lineup to form a lineup.

Sprewell handed the ball to the high post and ran to the flank.

Mo Xi held the ball high and shook it twice in the direction of Sprewell, it was Davis who defended him, Dale Davis is the kind of typical bulldog-style blue-collar player, whether you feint or not, I just want to make you uncomfortable, Dale Davis sticks to Mo Xi like a sloth.

Mo Xi suddenly moved, became very tough, squeezed Davis away with his shoulder, and smashed the ball into Ewing's hand on the inside.

Ewing took the ball to his chest and used the force of this recoil to push directly back to Schmitz, who was knocked backwards, and Ewing directly turned over and made a jumper.

At this time, Jalen Rose on the side pounced, intending to force a foul on Ewing, but Ewing did not give him this opportunity, Ewing directly shook his hand and wore the ball to Houston, and received the ball without hesitation at a break, and shot directly with three points.

But today, the Knicks had a terrible three-point hand, and Houston's three-point shot was missed.

Ewing was blocked by Schmitz, seeing that this rebound was about to fall into the hands of the Pacers, suddenly a blue figure flew out from behind, Mo Xi got rid of Davis's entanglement, and forcibly rushed to grab the front court rebound, after the rebound arrived, Mo Xi jumped again and dunked directly.