Although the sky over New York is cloudy at the moment, there is not much room for this atmosphere of victory and defeat in the interior of the Knicks, at least, those who are eager to win are as good as ever. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Houston stood aside to continue his boring and extremely monotonous shooting drills year after year, day after day; Sprewell was working on his defensive footwork with his trainer, while Mo Xi was working on his back with the Knicks' last remaining center, Chris Dudley.

Ewing is injured, Camby is injured, the Knicks' interior defensive core is all GG, and now the Knicks can rely on only Kurt Thomas and veteran Chris Dudley, but Van Gundy still holds a glimmer of hope, he always thinks that Mo Xi will suddenly open his mind, overnight, from a second-rate interior defender, not to mention becoming a top defensive core, at least becoming a defender at the level of PJ Brown. Unfortunately, even God does not have this faith.

But in fact, to some extent, the Knicks don't really care about their current predicament, because without the lineup of Ewing and Camby, they have played like this in many games this season, and after winning a game, the pressure on everyone has been put down, but they really performed better than when Ewing was there.

And the most critical thing is the Knicks' tactics, Van Gundy is also one of the people who have long known Ewing's last contract, and he began to build Ewing's tactics after leaving early, according to the current situation of the Knicks, there is no doubt that after Ewing's departure, the outside double gun will become the new offensive core. As for Moxi, Van Gundy still continues the center forward tactics specially created for Ewing during the Pitino period, and he will be an offensive fulcrum on the inside, the initiator of the attack, but, judging from the current situation, it seems that Moxi often deviates from the side of the terminator in these three games.

But it doesn't matter, what matters is that the Knicks have stabilized from the brink of collapse and have a faint tendency to go to the next level like last season. Of course, the final test of all this will depend on tonight's game.

As always, the Knicks' playoffs are not only a collection of die-hard Knicks fans, but also a lot of New York celebrities who are keen on it, but tonight, they are by no means the protagonists.

In fact, no one expected tonight's protagonists to be so furious, as if they were, the Burning Legion.

"Ink took Schmitz, turned around, oh, feints, and went back and turned around, and he burst in, oh, stopped again, hell, if you shake me like this again, I won't explain you, you're Olajuwon, not Ewing, okay, I was wrong, at least your rollover jumper was not made by Ewing."

The Knicks didn't collapse, but the Knicks' on-site commentator did, he never saw when the Knicks had such firepower, perhaps, there was a Reed Holzman period in history?

It can't be said that Ewing alone slowed down the overall speed of the Knicks, but the Knicks' game has always been as slow as it can be, and the people who imprinted the Knicks the most in the nineties were Pat Riley and Pitino, these two people, one is the god operator who dominated the gorgeous era, but in the New York period, he played an iron-blooded tough guy and a conspiracy gangster routine; The other is a legendary coach in the collegiate league, but his tactical philosophy seems to be somewhat incompatible with the commercial league, with a greater emphasis on teams and hardly any individual performances. It's just that the tactics of these two people have one thing in common, that is, the pace is extremely slow. Van Gundy grew up watching the Knicks play, and the Knicks' slowness penetrated into his heart, coupled with his days as an assistant coach under Riley, it can be said that he was almost instilled into a coach who could finish the offense in twenty-four seconds and would never finish it in twenty-three seconds.

It's just that the Knicks played very slowly before because the core of the Knicks was inside, even if there were occasional superstars on the outside, it was just a flash in the pan, but now it's different, the leader of the Knicks has retired due to injury, and the Knicks are now the ones who have the final say in Sprewell and Houston, of course, at least Larry Johnson will be added to this game.

The Hitches felt unbelievably good in this game, and Larry Johnson in particular.

In the first quarter, the Pacers were almost blinded by Johnson alone, and with several other people tearing up, if it weren't for Bird, I am afraid that a tragedy would have played out at Madison Square Garden.

In this game, Ward was directly defined by Van Gundy as a dribbling pitcher point guard, and after dribbling through half court, he directly handed the ball to one of Sprewell, Larry Johnson, or Moxi.

In this round, Ward passed half court and handed the ball directly to Johnson in the high post.

Johnson is facing Dale Davis, to be honest, Dale Davis hates this counterpoint very much, he wants to defend Mo Xi more than Larry Johnson, because it was Mo Xi who emphasized the All-Star spot that he almost held firmly in his hands, you know, normally speaking, this kind of filling spot is designated by the coach, and the Eastern coach at the time was Larry Bird, for this reason, Davis has a great opinion of Mo Xi.

The Pacers' interior line is much higher than that of the Knicks, Johnson faced Dale Davis, and couldn't even see the basket and other people's positions for a while, but Larry Johnson's muscles that have been rampant for many years are not ornaments, Johnson directly pulled a step, just when Davis was about to move and follow the defense, Johnson stepped out and directly hit Davis, Davis lost the lead, where would Johnson let him go, continue to work hard, and forcibly squeeze Davis. It's just that Davis is still a little too high for Johnson, and Johnson is not sure to completely shake him off in this place, and simply passes the ball to Mo Xi, who asks for the ball in the low post inside.

Mo Xi turned his back to Schmitz. Schmitz is three feet taller than Moxi, but fortunately, Johnson over there is nearly five feet shorter than Davis, and he is not ugly on his side, but there is one point, Moxi is really not easy to play.

Mo Xi held the ball and turned his back directly, walked the bottom line, squeezed Schmitz to the basket, but Mo Xi didn't get a chance to shoot, because Davis came over and delayed, so that Schmitz was able to turn around and cover Mo Xi under his figure again, Schmitz's defense of Mo Xi is very simple and rough, that is, stretch out his two arms to the sky, how you shake me, I just put my hand on your head.

Mo Xi gritted his teeth and dispelled the idea of shooting backwards, if you want to shoot backwards in this position? What's the difference between that and praying to God?

But fortunately, the Knicks have another advantage here that is not an advantage. Because of the height gap, Johnson pulled out of the three-point line, Davis wanted to follow, but in the face of Johnson, who was flexible and strong, it was really difficult to completely follow the defense, Johnson threw off Davis, ran to the bottom corner three-point position, and yelled at Moxi.

Mo Xi flicked the corner of his eye and immediately passed the ball away from Schmitz's side. Schmitz's interference with Mo Xi is not all-round, because the center of gravity is too high, and Mo Xi is difficult to defend in the high post or passing.

Johnson directly made a three-point shot after receiving the ball, and Johnson played extremely resolutely in these games, and this one seemed to have reached a certain point, and Johnson's whole person broke out all of a sudden.

The basketball slides neatly into the hoop.

Davis couldn't keep up with Johnson, which became the most important problem for the Pacers in this game, and Johnson seemed to smell something, so he simply stopped outside the three-point line. Sure enough, once Davis's defense was a little too big, the Knicks would immediately pass the ball to Johnson, and Johnson became the Knicks' main point of attack for a while.

Sprewell burst into Johnson, Johnson tentatively stretched forward, and instantly shook Davis to stand in place, Johnson took advantage of the situation and directly scored another three-pointer, and then went in.

The Knicks' offense opened up, and what was really frightening was that the Knicks' defense was still airtight.

Reggie Miller certainly didn't intend to let Johnson kill the Pacers in the way he did best, and Reggie Miller would have reciprocated a few, but ......

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Reggie Miller has exploded, the Knicks shamelessly used a pseudo-joint defense against him, one person is responsible for following the defense, and the other four interfere with the shooting, Reggie Miller's hand style is quite unsmooth today, and the score is in vain because of the shooting rate of both sides.