Chapter Eighty-Seven: Déjà vu Nicks Returns
The Knicks led by one point and entered the final quarter by a narrow margin. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
The final bayonet battle is just around the corner, but at this time, the Knicks seem to be a little down, and the continuous battle makes the Knicks' entrusted interior combination inducement and Johnson a little unbearable, both of them have experienced major injuries, their bodies are far less durable than in the past, and in the fourth quarter, both of them wrote obvious shortness of breath.
Van Gundy began to think, undoubtedly this is the biggest difficulty in the Knicks series, but relatively speaking, this is also the final level, the two on the court, the change to the Knicks is more mental and will, for this kind of life and death moment, this is more important than any technology.
Now, Van Gundy has no choice but to pin his hopes on the Knicks' new generation inside.
At the beginning of the fourth quarter, Mo Xi and Thomas took the court first to buy more rest time for Ewing and Johnson.
On the Heat's side, adhering to Pat Riley's usual style, iron and blood first, in other words, exhaustion is not worth his life, and Mourning leads the starting lineup directly on the court.
The Heat attack first. The game has reached this point, there is no tactical at all, it is completely up to the usual accumulation of the players, and for the Heat, the most important accumulation is Mo Ning's singles.
Everyone pulled away, and Mourning singled Mo Xi in the high post on the left.
At this moment, Mo Ning's eyes were faintly red, Mo Xi was originally just a small character with no taste in his eyes, but his progress was too fast, it could only be regarded as a season and a half, Mo Xi already had the strength that could make him upset, yes, just upset.
Mo Ning held the ball head-on, faced Mo Xi, directly sank the center of gravity, shrunk his shoulders, and then hit it with the ideal Mo Xi's chest, if it was a year ago, Mo Ning this time, Mo Xi would inevitably have to take two or three steps back, but now, Mo Xi's feet seem to have roots, standing there steadily, which actually gives Mo Ning an illusion of being like a mountain.
Mo Ning couldn't hit a blow, and immediately turned his feet, turned over and reversed and rushed into the inside line from the outside.
Mo Xi's hard resistance just now was not without paying a price, although he stood firmly under his feet, but he was hit by Mo Ning, and he couldn't move for a while, so he could only stand on the spot, watching Mo Ning pass by.
But Mo Xi's progress in the past year is really great, seeing that Mo Ning seems to be about to break through completely, he doesn't turn around, and directly backwards, intending to push Mo Ning from the side, at least, not to let him get so close to the basket.
The scale of the playoffs is much more relaxed, especially now that it's in the fourth quarter, and this level of physical contact is normal.
Mo Xi succeeded, at least half of the success, and Mo Ning had to choose an extremely awkward laziness to end the attack.
The ball bounced out of the frame, Thomas and PJ Brown battled it out under the basket, tangling it up, but it was Sprewell who quickly turned around and grabbed the defensive rebound.
So far, Sprewell can be said to be the biggest contributor to the Knicks, but again, he is also the one who has played the longest, and Sprewell must now calculate every trace of physical strength, at least for now, if he can not play fast break, he will not play.
The Knicks slowly advanced to the frontcourt, Ward hovered outside the three-point line with the ball, and compared to the simple and rough offense of the Heat, the Knicks at least had a team attack in front, although in the end it was still a higher proportion of individual singles.
Ward quickly handed the ball to Sprewell, who directly forced Marshburn, who was a good player in the low post, but defensively, he was too much inferior to Bowen.
Mashburn was passed by Sprewell in one step, and he forced to chase it, but Sprewell's explosiveness was too strong, and he had already reached the basket.
Mourning pushed away Mo Xi to step forward to make up for the defense, and Sprewell passed the ball directly from Mo Ning's armpit to Mo Xi.
The pass is a good pass, but Mo Xi has not much room to shoot on the inside at the moment, and Sprewell and Mourning squeeze the space under the basket.
Mo Xi stretched out the ball to the outside of the basket with both hands, pretending to hook his hand, and then directly picked the ball with his wrist, sent the ball to the outside line, and gave it to Ward.
Ward is also ruthless, and raising his hand directly is a three-point shot, but Hardaway's defense is also very good, and the Knicks' hand in this game is generally not good, and Ward's ball is off.
Under the basket, Mo Xi teamed up with Sprewell and began to compete with Mourning for rebounds. It's just that Mo Ning's strength on the defensive end can be erased with numbers, and the two were directly bounced away by Mo Ning, Mo Ning pressed Mo Xi to jump, and forcibly took off the rebound above his head.
The two sides pressed the pace slower and slower, the range of movements became larger and larger, and the impact became stronger and stronger. In such a situation, it seems that it can really only be resigned to life and death?
The main reason is that the outside line on the Knicks' side has not been opened for a long time, and Houston is still pressed to death, but fortunately, the Knicks' free throws today are surprisingly good, and the team has only missed two free throws so far, and the gap with the opposite Heat is very obvious.
With both sides using defense as a means of victory, Marley was once again replaced by Pat Riley and Bruce Bowen was once again on the pitch.
As in the previous encounter, Sprewell once again faced Bowen's defense, and Houston's side was too bad because of today's hand, and Bowen directly targeted Sprewell, the Knicks' most scoring player on the court.
Sprewell chose to face Bowen on the flank again, but at this moment, when it was a matter of life and death, Sprewell was not hypocritical, and directly called Thomas to block and dismantle.
Thomas was tough enough, and it was unrealistic for Bowen to bypass Thomas to continue defending Sprewell in such a situation, so the Heat changed the defense, and PJ Brown switched to defend Sprewell.
Brown's original intention was just to delay and change back when Bowen got rid of Thomas's cover, but Sprewell didn't give Brown this chance to buffer at all, and as soon as he saw the opportunity coming, he hurriedly rushed forward like a shark smelling blood, striding and accelerating to force Brown past him, and directly hit the inside.
At this time, Mo Ning was about to step forward to make up for the defense, but found that he was a little unable to move, Mo Xi inserted his half-pulled body directly into Mo Ning's arms, and the two of them hugged each other tightly like a couple in love, unwilling to separate. Fortunately, the current atmosphere is not open, and there are not a large number of rotten girls whose eyes are shining and making magical screams.
Mourning was held down by Moxi, and Sprewell got a rare opportunity to hit the basket directly.
Sprewell seized this opportunity, but he didn't seize it, because just after Sprewell took a step past Brown, Brown found that Mourning couldn't get rid of Mo Xi and didn't step forward to make up for it at the first time, so he panicked and actually pulled Sprewell directly.
The loose whistle in the playoffs does not mean that there is no whistle, such an obvious foul is naturally directly whistled by the referee, but under this pull, Sprewell also lost his balance, staggered and threw the ball up, three did not stick, and had to accept two free throws.
But at this time, Brown, Riley, Van Gundy, Johnson, Ewing, Mourning and others were very excited and came forward to surround the referee.
Because it was Brown's fifth foul. For a time, the beach in Miami was changing.
The pause, the unsurprising pause, and everyone realized that the direction of the game was about to change significantly.