Chapter 15: The First Battle of Auburn Hills

As it stands, the Pistons and Knicks have a similar team structure, and the two strongest points on the team are guards, which also makes the game a little more-for-tat. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

The Knicks won the ball and the Knicks launched the first round of offense. Ward controlled the ball and advanced to Johnson in the high post, and Johnson cooperated in the high and low posts and passed to Mo Xi in the low post. Time has passed, and the villain interior combination that terrified the entire league is long gone, and now the interior defense is even more useless after trading West Cliff.

Mo Xi singles, unlike the Bulls in the last game, although the Pistons' interior group does not have strength, but at least in terms of height, it will not be suppressed to death, forming a huge defensive hole. Mo Xi sat and played, gradually forcing the opponent into the penalty area, and the Pistons center was at a disadvantage, but he did not lose his position.

At this moment, a blue figure suddenly came out from the side, it was Houston. Grant Hill followed closely, his hands outstretched, constantly disrupting Houston.

Mo Xi hesitated for a moment, but still relied on his height advantage to pass a measure in advance.

It's not for nothing that Hill is called the closest successor, first of all, he is already far ahead of the others in terms of physical fitness, and Hill is a step ahead of the curve in an attempt to destroy the ball.

Hill's prediction was accurate, but he didn't expect Houston to have an extremely strong desire to win in this game. Houston jumped and caught the ball before Hill, and then Houston was not able to stand firm under Hill's defense, but Houston shot in everyone's unexpected eyes.

For Houston, the position is really ugly, probably only the hands are still steady, but that is enough.

The arc of the ball was as graceful and swift as ever, plunging headlong into the net.

The Knicks opened the scoring.

The Pistons attacked, and Jerry Starhouse asked for the ball directly in the low post, shouting at his teammates for offensive possession.

The Pistons point guard was slightly unhappy, and this single mode didn't reflect his role at all, and he was completely watching Stackhouse play.

Stackhouse singled Sprewell in the low post. Sprewell himself does not have excellent back body ability, but as the best forward defender of this era, he has played against this type of person, such as the Black Eight battle, although it is not a direct counterpoint, but Sprewell is the main defender of Mashburn, Mashburn's back ability is definitely much stronger than Stackhouse.

Stackhouse rammed into Sprewell in quick succession, and the latter, not to be outdone, kept hitting back. Stackhouse suddenly retracted and half-turned to the left.

Sprewell posted it, and Stackhouse rolled over again and threw it directly. Sprewell was shaken off and Starkerhouse hit the shot.

The Knicks organized the offense, and Ward handed the ball to Johnson at the top of the arc, and this time Johnson did not hand it to Mo Xi on the inside, but handed it to Sprewell, who came behind him.

After receiving the ball, Sprewell used Johnson's cover to kill directly inside, and the Pistons' flexible defense quickly closed down to the restricted area. Sprewell rose into the air and passed the ball in the air to Houston, who was ambushed outside the three-point line, and Houston scored a three-pointer.

On the Pistons' side, Jerry Stackhouse asked for the ball again, this time on the wing, still singled Sprewell with his back.

It seems that because the previous goal was washed, Sprewell defended this ball very seriously, and Starkhouse couldn't find the opportunity to make a move.

At this time, Grant Hill got rid of the defense and came to the side of Stackhouse, but Stackhouse did not pass, he directly turned over and made a jumper.

This ball Sprewell was not out of position at all, the two were of similar height, Sprewell successfully interfered with each other, Stackhouse's shot was a little out of proportion, the ball smashed directly on the rebound, and the rebound that popped up was bagged by Johnson.

The Knicks launched a fast break, which was not a successful fast break opportunity, because the opponent is also a traditional defensive powerhouse, and the transition speed between offense and defense is also top-notch.

However, the Knicks' fast break seems to be a bit unreasonable, which is more like a progressive cake.

Ward received Johnson's pass and advanced quickly, but he didn't get too greedy for the ball, just dribbled past half court and handed it directly to Houston, who was keeping up.

Houston didn't pause and went straight to the top three-point position of the arc, and at this time, Houston attracted the attention of most of the Pistons.

Next is Mo Xi, Mo Xi as a center, the footsteps are also very fast, Mo Xi cut in from the wing, received a pass from Houston, and directly started the layup.

Moxi's offense made the Pistons a little flustered, and the formation immediately shrank to the restricted area, and Moxi saw this, turned and passed back to Sprewell, who returned to the frontcourt.

Sprewell picked up the ball, dribbled a step, got to the three-point line, and threw a big two-pointer.

Hit.

Judging from the opening scene, the Knicks are in very good shape.

Being defended by Sprewell seems to have fueled Stackhouse's desire to attack even more, but Stackhouse has been the best in his dictionary in the years, and if he wants to win, he just needs to give him the ball.

Stackhouse didn't choose to play with his back to the single this time, he took the ball from the point guard, directly faced Sprewell, kept stepping on the tentative step at his feet, and suddenly started to cut inside. But Sprewell predicted it well in advance and blocked Stackhouse's breakthrough. Stackhouse lost the ball, the ball was picked up by Ward, and the Knicks launched a fast break again.

It's a pity that this time the fast-break Pistons returned to defense in a timely manner, and the Knicks didn't find a chance. However, the Knicks immediately switched to offensive positions.

This time, Mo Xi did not sink to the low post, and went up to the flank to cover for his teammates. Houston had a great passion for this game, he quickly ran in the Knicks' double cover, directly shook off Hill, the Pistons inside intended to make up for the defense, but was blocked by a small push action by Johnson with foul tendencies, Houston received a pass from Ward, a quick stop jump shot, and an elegant mid-range shot returned to the Palace of Auburn Hills, but this time he did not wear the jersey that symbolizes Detroit.

The ball fell into the basket as always, and Houston's boldness once again angered Detroit.

Jerry Starhouse has three consecutive single offenses, the shooting rate is not high, and the opponent hit a counterattack, this time the Pistons point guard does not plan to give him the ball again, ignoring Starkerhouse's angry eyes, he directly passes the ball to the interior over, Duke's center Kristen Leitner can still reach the level of 15+5 in his career before the shrinking season last season, but unfortunately he did not survive the shrinking season, and the competitive state of the whole person has dropped significantly, and he can't see the shadow of his peak at all. Christine couldn't beat Moxi, and he didn't take it anymore and gave the ball directly to Hill.

At this time, Hill was at his peak, shaking off Houston in one step, smashing in from the middle, and then, another one-step pull-up jump shot shot before Mo Xi came over to make up for it, and hit.

At this time, Johnson found that the Pistons were a little slow to return to defense, and suddenly came to a quick serve, Ward understood, and threw the ball directly to the frontcourt, Sprewell controlled the ball, passed the ball behind him, and took off to dunk the ball with the momentum.

The Pistons coach is a little angry, the team's current desire to defend is very low, outrageously low, if it weren't for the Pistons' defensive habits developed over the years, they might have been blown up now, as a last resort, when the game was more than three minutes into play, the Pistons called a timeout first, for the Eastern team, the strength of the defense is the strength of the strength, and the Pistons need to find their defense.

Sometimes, though, the one who calls the pause first may not have good fruit to eat.