Chapter 67: True and False Team Attack
Van Gundy has always advertised the Knicks as a team offensive team, but in fact, the Knicks only barely averaged 20 assists per game, of which Mark Jackson alone accounted for half, averaging 9.5 assists per game, Sprewell 4, and Mo Xi 2, these three people are almost the core of the entire Knicks' organization.
On the Kings' side, although no one averages more than eight assists per game, almost everyone on the Kings' side can pass, and the big men who can pass the ball the most can be said to be in the Kings.
This game, which was called a real or false team offensive battle by some media who like to provoke trouble, has now made the entire league feel a little worried and scared by the Knicks' terrifying winning streak, and the Sacramento Kings, who are currently recognized as the strongest, use a real team offense to judge the rebels, which really gives people great hope.
The Knicks players gathered in the tunnel of players, all refreshed and holding their heads high, like the invincible Roman army of the year, and the players were talking loudly. This may be a bit arrogant, but Mo Xi can feel the faint uneasiness and anxiety in the air.
The winning streak puts a lot of pressure not only on the opponents, but also on the players, especially now that they are facing the team with the best record in the league.
The Knicks are like a rubber band that has been twisted and turned, tight and entangled, and will break at any time.
On the other side of the Kings team, their atmosphere is as relaxed as ever, the style of play is like people, and the players in this Kings team are people with very similar personalities and get along very well. Facing the Knicks, who have won 29 consecutive games, although the Kings are also under some pressure, it is clear that they don't care, all they care about is their basketball.
In the midst of the huge cheers, the players' entrance ceremony began, and the huge momentum of the past not only did not bring huge pressure to the opponent at the moment, but made the stones on the shoulders of the Knicks players a little heavier.
At the start of the game, players from both sides threw away as much distraction as possible and began a battle between the top teams in the East and West.
In the jump ball stage, Mo Xi directly crushed Divac without accident and jumped the ball easily.
Against the league's most authentic team offensive team, the Knicks don't have any special plans, and since they have relied on their own style to win 29 games in a row, why can't they continue to play this game in the same way in this 30th game?
The Knicks went straight into their offensive rhythm, and Mark Jackson slowly pushed to the frontcourt, and after stabilizing a bit, the Knicks handed the ball directly to Moxi.
Moxi is up against Divac, a legendary "PC" who has the best high post skills and the worst low post defense.
Mo Xi didn't even use too much physical confrontation, and sat directly under the basket, Divac didn't even have the freedom to resist, Mo Xi simply topped, walked low, turned around, pushed Divac out of the inner line, and completed a one-handed frame split under the basket.
Divac is an inch taller than Moxi, but obviously, Divac didn't plan to use this inch to do anything to resist Moxi's offense, and completely gave up resistance, directly letting Moxi bully into the basket penalty area.
However, for the Knicks, whether they can defend against the opponent's offense is the most crucial.
The Kings' offense is interesting, their playmaking core is actually Chris Webber, then Divac, then Mike Bibby and Kort Glou, and the former starting point guards are in the same organizational position as their backup forwards, and it has to be said that this is also a very amazing phenomenon.
Mike Bibby controlled the ball through the half court and handed the ball directly to the high Divac, although Mike Bibby is young and strong, no matter which aspect of the body is above Mark Jackson, but under Adelman's tutelage, the King's offense is becoming more and more team-oriented, for a single point of local advantage, unless it has an absolute advantage, the king will directly choose to give up.
In the past, one of the two inside lines came to the high and the other came to the low position, and the cooperation of the two people in the high and low positions is really a great deterrent.
Divac handed the ball to Mike Bibby, who drove straight to the basket.
Because of the super firepower range of the king's inside line, Mo Xi didn't dare to let go of Divac rashly, and could only watch Mike Bibby pass in front of him.
And Mike 1-Bibby is obviously not the last line of the King's attack, Bibby is halfway forward, and suddenly passes the ball horizontally to Webb, Webb does not stop the ball at all, and directly gives the ball to Peja in the bottom corner.
After receiving the ball, Peja completely ignored Sprewell's defense and shot directly. As a tall shooter at six feet nine inches, there really isn't anyone in the league in the same position who can do anything to interfere with Peja.
Peja opened the call for the Kings to attack with a three-pointer from outside the game.
Compared with the Knicks' previous pure scoring by Moxi, the King's offense passed the ball through the hands of four players, each of whom was crucial, and compared with the Knicks' performance just now, it was even more different.
However, the Knicks don't care about that at all, and they are ready to be crushed on the defensive end against the best scoring team in the league, even though they are already one of the few team teams in the league.
The Knicks are on offense again.
Ink pity, ink pity, and ink pity.
The Knicks' offensive style is that once they find a weakness in the opponent's point, they will bite tightly and not relax until they bite the prey to death. In fact, this is also a very common practice.
Murphy catches the ball again and hits Divac with his back.
Although he didn't play against the Kings, Mo Xi also knew that the Kings' two interior lines were their actual engines, and the easiest and most direct way for the Knicks to win was to knock out one of the points.
Murphy can score easily against Divac, but it will be difficult to create fouls.
Divac is also an old fritter, knowing that his defense is not good enough, and he will use a lot of small actions to solve the game when necessary, but he does have a lot of experience in controlling his fouls.
Mo Xi was going to make him a foul, but he was dodged by the opponent, and the embarrassed Mo Xi didn't even score the ball, but fortunately he picked up the rebound in the front court, so he scored the goal.
The pace of both sides was fast in the first quarter, because the Knicks were helpless against the Kings' movement, and the Kings' interior players were helpless to defend.
Although Divac is higher than Moxi, he can't defensively at all, and Webber can't interfere with Moxi at all.
In the first quarter, the Kings led by two points at 30:28.