Chapter Forty-Seven: God Bless New York

Van Gundy's face was disgraced, the second quarter was coming to an end, the Knicks' performance was very bad, yes, not how good the Pacers were, but the Knicks' performance was too bad, and everyone on the court seemed to have been brainwashed at this moment, only to throw the ball out of the basket and into the hands of the other party. Van Gundy made several substitutions in a row www.biquge.info but the Knicks' performance still did not improve, scoring a few points dryly, but the score with the Pacers had stretched to more than 10 points.

In Van Gundy's agitation, the half-time whistle finally blew. The Pacers took a big lead 45-32 heading into the second half.

Once again, the Knicks' locker room fell silent. Feel is a magical thing, sometimes it's the key to the direction of the game, and the most amazing thing about it is its contagion. Sometimes, when a player's hand is too smooth, he will often guide other teammates to feel hot, even a 7-foot-6" center can shoot three-pointers; In the same way, the iron thing is more contagious, one person striking iron, maybe you need to adjust it, two people, then you have to change people, three people have to change their tactics, four, five, this is not a way, because God does not let you win.

The Knicks are now in such a contagion, at halftime, the team did not score a single double-double, and the total shooting percentage was also pitiful, only in the early 30%.

Van Gundy doesn't know how to arrange tactics in this situation, the Knicks are not in good shape, Charles, Thomas, they are in good shape, there is another reason why the Knicks are currently behind is free throws, the Knicks have too few free throws, lack of lethality, at the end of the first half, the Knicks were thrown ten streets by the opponent on the free throws, and the Knicks' offense needs more aggression.

Half-time was fast approaching, and Van Gundy didn't do much to set it up, just asking the team to play more inside when the outside line was inaccurate.

Mo Xi, who still started in the second half, became the focus of the Knicks' offensive link, and the Knicks' offense began to revolve around the interior.

Although Mo Xi is the Knicks' first offensive point at the moment, the ball is still in the hands of a few outside people who passed first, and then it was handed over to Mo Xi through Johnson who was in the low post early.

Mo Xi catches the ball and starts to single Schmitz. To be honest, Schmitz's type of center Mo Xi is not easy to deal with, because he is much taller than Mo Xi, and his weight is much heavier than Mo Xi, and it is not advantageous to play Mo Xi in the low post, and Mo Xi wants a low position, and it is difficult to have a large turning space.

It's just that after a few rounds of playoff baptism, Mo Xi now has a lot of changes and improvements in the low-post offense. Mo Xi is shorter than Schmitz and lighter than him, but Mo Xi's explosive power is still very impressive, Mo Xi knows that his chance may only be like this, and he is not anxious, looking at the time, and gently arching inward. Suddenly, Mo Xi pushed towards Schmitz, who leaned back slightly, and Mo Xi turned to face the basket.

Schmitz hurriedly retracted his body and raised his hands in front of Mo Xi.

Before Mo Xi could finish turning around, he pulled back one step and returned to the position just now.

As a technical center, Schmitz almost completely guessed Mo Xi's technical movements, and saw that Mo Xi had just returned to his position, and Schmitz stuck to it like an appendage.

Mo Xi finally found an opportunity, with the power of this turn, Mo Xi jumped hard, the inside line of the backward shot, Schmitz tried in vain to block, but unfortunately he just stood up and didn't have time to jump, so he could only try his best to stretch out his arm to interfere with Mo Xi.

Mo Xi hit the basket and seemed to get the team off to a good start.

Sometimes, performance on the offensive end can spur people to work harder on the defensive end, let alone an iron-clad defense like the Knicks.

The Knicks perfectly defended the Pacers' ried-back, Reggie Miller missed an outside shot, and Murphy took the rebound and handed it to Ward.

Although the Knicks were far behind, the Knicks still followed their own pace and slowly advanced to the frontcourt.

This time, Johnson and Mo Xi completed a switch, and Mo Xi received the ball in the high post and singled Davis. Davis' defense can be described as a textbook Eastern interior line, with physicality, small movements, awareness, and everything.

Mo Xi ate the opponent's elbow as soon as he received the ball, and almost lost the ball, so he hurriedly stabilized himself and held the ball with his back. Mo Xi can only barely guarantee the position under the squeeze of the muscle stick behind him, here is still a step away from the free throw line, very close to the outside of the co-defender, Mo Xi must quickly play the ball, even if it is passed, give up and this offense, but in the dark, Mo Xi always has a voice in his heart to brave him, this is a golden opportunity, the team needs his inside score, the team needs, because of his implementation of the tactics, think about these, Mo Xi suddenly came to strength.

Mo Xi made a jaw-dropping pass at this time, Mo Xi grabbed the ball very indifferently, and threw his hand back, as if he was shooting directly, although everyone didn't believe it, but surprisingly, everyone looked at the basket, and they wanted to know where this kid got the courage to dare to make such a shot.

Davis also thought it was a feint, but Mo Xi's movements were so neat that people couldn't help but look back to see if the goal had scored, so he inadvertently turned back. Then he saw that Mo Xi passed by him with the ball.

Without the slightest show-off, Mo Xi's simple layup was like two people from the magic of the moment just now, and the difference between cloud and mud.

The goal was scored, and Madison Square Garden was boiling again, with the commentator constantly shouting, "Amazingman! Amazingman! Amazingman! A magical blow, this is the future of New York, haha, maybe Hakim in the west can fly ten thousand and three, but our lads can also fool eighteen thousand. ”

Not only was the crowd boiling, but so were the New York players, and Camby kept waving towels off the field.

The excited Johnson pulled Mo Xi over and asked loudly, "Boy, how did you do that?" Well? ”

Mo Xi smiled indifferently and said, "It's just that my back is itchy and I want to scratch it." ”

In this way, the nickname "ITCH" was brought out by Johnson.

However, even if he scored such a wonderful goal, it couldn't change the fact that the Knicks were still behind by a large score. Larry Bird just sneered off the court, as a great player, he knows that sometimes some players' flashes of inspiration can completely change the direction of the game, but this flash of inspiration happens in the last quarter to make people scared, in the third quarter, it can only show that the donkey skills are poor.

Sure enough, after two consecutive goals, Mo Xi failed to score, but it was the Pacers' side, chasing two goals in a row, and the score returned to the beginning of the situation.

The Knicks became agitated again, and Van Gundy made another change, replacing Sprewell and Ward, and replacing Charles and Camby, intending to force a steady pace and suspend the morale of the army. After all, if the Knicks want to chase points, they must first not lose points.

The Knicks' defense has always been fine, but even so, it can't change another fact, the Knicks need to rely on fouls to successfully defend many times, the Pacers have scored ten points more than the Knicks by making free throws, and what's worse is that Mo Xi's offensive ability is good, but when it comes to lethality, it is much smaller, and the inexperienced Mo Xi even wanted to force a foul in an offense, but Davis, who defended him, ignored him, and Mo Xi threw a three-way away in embarrassment.

At the end of the third quarter, the Knicks trailed by eight points.

After the start of the fourth quarter, Van Gundy left a break for Moxi, although in the fourth quarter, it is generally the time for the guards with fast scoring ability to play, but unfortunately, the Knicks' three scoring points collectively did not wear glasses, and even Sprewell has committed five fouls, and he may be sent off at any time. As a last resort, the Knicks' task of chasing points was put on a few interior lines, or Camby's hard chisel, or Thomas's mid-range shot, or Dudley's rebound, at this time, several people's offensive means of pressing the bottom of the box were used.

Larry Bird sneered even more, when the team needs to chase points, they can only rely on the inside players to chisel hard, it is not how strong the interior players are or how weak the opponent's defense is, but the coach is too bad to deal with it.

In Larry Bird's view, this one has been won, and the next time is to throw off some means, the next one, and he wants these New Yorkers to go to Indiana with fear.

Larry Bird thought for a moment that this job can't be left to Reggie Miller, he is too hated and may be counterproductive, and it is best for Chris Mullin to do it.

Bird called a timeout, replaced Mullin, and ordered him to perform a psychological blow to the Knicks, which is colloquially called a blowout.

Mullin's performance in this game is extremely impressive, he has scored 18 points, the shooting rate is more than half, and his status in the league is high enough, and he can be regarded as handy in doing these things.

Mo Xi didn't plan to give up, and after returning to the court, he attacked one after another, but the more he got to the end of the game, the less help he could get, after all, at such a time, the three-point shot is always the best weapon, Larry Johnson couldn't care so much, and shot after receiving the ball outside the three-point line, but unfortunately, "Bang Bang Bang" shot five in a row, and none of them scored.

Although the Knicks suppressed the Pacers in the second half, they dug a big hole in the first half, and the Pacers' offense started again.

In the end, the Pacers won the game 90-81, and the only thing that made people happy was that they did not lose more than 10 points in this game.

Next, New York is going to Indiana to start the battle of Tianwang Mountain, at this time, all New Yorkers are very serious, and the next game will be a life-or-death showdown.