Chapter Fifty-Eight: The Christmas Dinner

With Mo Xi slamming the dunk again, this icy Christmas was instantly ignited. Pen, Fun, Pavilion www.biquge.info Mo Xi staged a dunk again and again in this game, although it was only a dunk under the basket, but Mo Xi's balls were actually a little difficult, which also made Mo Xi's performance instantly bright.

But no matter how pleasing this dunk is, it is not as good as the UFO in Toronto, even if it is Carter's dunk, it is only two points, and the Knicks are still behind, but now they are only one point behind.

This time it was the Pacers offense, and every time it came to such a time, I couldn't help but find Reggie Miller not only because he had the highest salary on the team, but also because he was Reggie Miller, who could always put the ball in.

Mark Jackson didn't pass the ball to Miller at the first time, and when Miller was on the court, why wouldn't the opponent be on guard? Mark Jackson and Schmitz made a blocking and pick-and-roll combination, after the two were separated, the Knicks did not change the defense, Mark Jackson still faced Sprewell, he did not have the advantage of facing Ward or Charles before, but Sprewell seemed to be worried that Mark Jackson would pass the ball directly to the disassembled Schmitz, standing slightly forward, which gave him a small opportunity.

Mark Jackson quickly seized the opportunity and slid straight to the basket, Sprewell took a step slower, and Mark Jackson managed to break inside.

At this time, because Schmitz had been pulled out of the free throw line, Johnson had to pull away from the bottom corner in order to defend Jalen Rose, in other words, now the Knicks' interior line is completely guarded by Mo Xi.

Mo Xi's state in this game is indeed excellent, but this can't hide the fact that Mo Xi's defensive ability is very mediocre, although it has improved slightly in defense now, but there are still some gaps.

Jackson burst into the interior and faced Mo Xi, Mo Xi raised his hands high in the face of the menacing Jackson without flinching, Mark Jackson wanted to take advantage of Mo Xi to pass the ball to the Dale Davis Cup behind him when Mo Xi stepped forward, but Mo Xi's position was still very good, and he did not show the passing space behind him.

Mark Jackson wanted to go back to Miller, but Miller was targeted by Houston and couldn't get rid of it at the first time, and Mark Jackson finally chose to make his own layup.

Mark Jackson's body is a strong point guard, and he used half of his body to block Moxi's sideways hook layup.

Faced with this situation, Mo Xi squeezed his body over with great effort, but found that it seemed to be a little futile, but a fierce force came up, and Mo Xi directly forced a slap to the racket.

"Drop"

Because half of his body was leaning on, Mo Xi couldn't jump, and for the same reason, Mo Xi's block was not good, and he still ran into Jackson.

Jackson hit one of two free throws, and Mo Xi made a relatively successful defense.

The Knicks quickly turned to offense, and time was running out, with more than three minutes to go, and the Knicks trailed by two points.

Mo Xi brought up to Sprewell to do a pick-and-roll, and after Sprewell dismantled, he quickly went inside, and the Pacers chose to switch defenses in the face of the Knicks' pick-and-roll, and Davis switched to Sprewell on top.

The past two years have actually been the period when Sprewell's offensive ability is the best, just because he is in a slow-paced defensive team like the Knicks, and he is not the first shot, so in terms of data, it seems to be just a relatively good quarterback, but only those who are really in the position with him know that such a guy, even if he was born ten years early, in that era, can become the No. 1 representative of the guard.

Sprewell saw that the defender next to him was replaced, and suddenly accelerated, and directly accelerated against the opponent's defense to impact the basket, Davis failed to keep up with Sprewell's first step, and was directly lost most of his body, Schmitz saw this and stepped forward to make up for the defense.

Sprewell didn't pass the ball, but instead rose to the challenge, facing Schmitz directly, Sprewell made a small folding motion in the air, avoiding Schmitz, and then stretched his body and pulled the rod directly to make a layup. (If anyone has watched Rose play for 12 years, they must know what kind of coquettish this is)

Sprewell made a layup, and at the same time opened his arms with a coquettish face, and walked to the camera on the sidelines, looking so unstoppable that even the Knicks players wanted to go up and beat him.

The score was tied, and Pacers fans began to get a little agitated.

However, as I said earlier, the Walker also has a Miller, a unique Miller in the sky and on the ground.

Miller's goals are always unreasonable, as long as he wants to, as long as God is on his side, as long as he receives the ball and then shoots......

Miller started the crazy run, and the Knicks had already experienced Miller's crazy run back in the playoffs, and this time the recap brought people back to that painful and angry time.

Miller ran around the bottom line from the bottom corner of this side to the bottom corner of that side, Houston, as an excellent shooter, also has a good running ability, but just like in the playoffs, Houston was surrounded by Miller's flexible movement, and before he got out of the basket, he had already lost Miller's position, but Johnson was made up at this time, but Johnson has strength, but whether it is flexibility or speed, Johnson is far inferior to Miller, Miller is just a feint, and he directly got rid of Johnson. But the Knicks' defensive chain is really strong, Johnson lost his position, Sprewell made up from the side, and Miller always guaranteed someone in front of him, but because of Miller's running position, the Knicks' defensive attention was attracted by Miller, especially Mo Xi and Ewing, although these two are traditional centers, but both of them often do some unnecessary defense, so the Knicks' defensive formation was disrupted.

Mark Jackson got a moment of vacancy when Sprewell switched defenses, for a pass-first point guard, it was as simple as throwing a pebble into the ocean, Mark Jackson passed the ball directly to Jalen Rose, Jalen Rose stood at the top of the arc, at this time it was Mo Xi who changed the defense, but Mo Xi's attention was also on Miller, a little far away, Jalen Rose got a good shot position.

Because the Knicks' defensive formation had been disrupted before, and it was in the hands of Jalen Rose, everyone thought that this should be their own defense, so in an instant, Jalen Rose attracted everyone's defense on the Knicks' side, and Mo Xi, Sprewell, and Houston ran over one after another, and Miller was empty.

Jalen Rose passes the ball and Reggie Miller catches it.

Catching, squatting, jumping, shooting, and the action in one go, this is by no means a three-point shot action worth learning, but this is definitely a three-point shot that should be written into a textbook, like a superb sniper, loaded, aimed, shot, and sniped people thousands of miles away.

The Pacers are leading again, and this time the pressure is on the Knicks' side.

Ewing was ruthless this time, directly forcing it in the low post, he stuck in a deep position, but because it was too deep, Sprewell couldn't pass the ball in at once, so he passed the ball to Mo Xi at the free throw line first.

After Mo Xi got the ball, he directly lifted the ball high in the air, and Dale Davis stretched out a pair of long arms to interfere as much as he could, but Mo Xi still easily hoisted the ball from his head to Ewing.

Ewing received the ball and did not hesitate, a top, a turn, and a big hook.

Schmitz was pushed and failed to interfere at the first time, giving Ewing a very comfortable shooting position, Ewing was very deep, and no Pacer player around him could come up and interfere at the first time.

Ewing's hook shot made the Knicks quickly recover two points, but they still trailed the Pacers by one point.

The Pacers plan to strike while the iron is hot and pull the score away in an instant, and as long as the four-point difference is reached, the Pacers can almost rest easy. With less than two minutes to play, being down by five points means you have to bet on a three-pointer, and being behind by two points is either a two-point overtime and a three-point shootout, but four points behind? There is no situation where there is no way out, and there is no hope for another village, and it is difficult for people to choose.

Mark Jackson first made a blocking and dismantling cooperation with Dale Davis, and after the dismantling, Mo Xi changed the defense of Mark Jackson, Mark Jackson did not make a small plan to fight big, but chose to push with his back, but Mo Xi's lower body strength is very good, coupled with the difference in weight, Mo Xi stuck Mark Jackson, so that he could only hover in the position of one step inside the three-point line outside the three-second zone, and for a while, the situation seemed to be at an impasse.

Miller, Reggie Miller, is still this "riffraff killer" Reggie Miller.

This time, Miller didn't go around like the Knicks in the last ball, but in the suspicious eyes of the Knicks, he directly walked a big V-shape, inserted the inside line from 45 degrees on one side, and went around to 45 degrees on the other side.

The movement was very neat, quickly throwing off Houston, but it also came to Johnson's defensive range.

Mark Jackson still chose to pass the ball at this time, passing directly to Miller, when Mark Jackson passed, Johnson quickly left Jalen Rose and went straight to Miller, but Miller shot directly as if he didn't see the other party.

In fact, Johnson's defense was really slow, and when he first got in front of Miller, Miller had already made a move.

However, since it is Christmas, how can there be no big gift, as the king of the east, Nix naturally wants to give his courtiers a Christmas gift.

A No. 30 jersey floated past Miller's eyes, along with Miller's basketball that he had just thrown.

When Mark Jackson passed, he decisively dropped Jackson and rushed directly to the three-point line, because of the advantage in strength, Mark Jackson failed to pull Mo Xi, Mo Xi stepped forward in two steps, and jumped directly, he believed that Miller would definitely shoot, and sure enough, he waited for Miller's shot in the air.

It's just that Moxi's block is still a little too reluctant, and the ball falls down, and it actually falls at Miller's feet.

Miller and Johnson scrambled.

If it were five years ago, it would not be possible to snatch the ball this time, after all, Johnson's tendons are not good-looking, but now, Johnson is even struggling to lower his waist.

Miller quickly picked up the ball, and the unbelieving Miller dribbled the ball, distanced himself from Moxi, came to the side, and made another three-point shot.

This time, Mo Xi just fell, and the center of gravity was just stable, because Mo Xi's second jumping ability was not strong, this time he could only watch Miller make a move, but fortunately, he was not completely idle to do, he directly greeted him, raising his arms high.

If there's anything wrong with Miller's shooting, it's the height, and that's a big difference from other all-time shooters, Miller's shot doesn't have a lot of height. First of all, he doesn't have the height of Bird, and secondly, he doesn't have the height of Ray Allen, Miller's three-point strength is because he is fast enough, his running position is enough to help him eliminate a lot of enemies, and he is good at running out of position and receiving three-pointers, which is still a little difficult to shoot against a big center.

Under the interference of Mo Xi, this goal was not scored, but at this time, Ewing under the basket faced the situation of being sandwiched by three people. Schmitz, Dale Davis plus a Jalen Rose. Because Mo Xi and Johnson were still outside, Ewing hit three people under the basket this time.

A lot of people say that Ewing's rebounding is poor, Ewing's rebounding is a bit bad, if you just look at the stats. You have to know who Ewing's teammates are, first Anthony Mason Jr. and Oakley, then Mason left and ushered in a Johnson, and now Oakley has a Camby, Ewing's stats can't go up because there are too many rebounders on the team, which doesn't mean that Ewing's rebounding is not good, you know, he has always been the rebounding king of the Knicks.

Ewing stuck Schmitz and squeezed the opponent out of bounds with a straight butt, and then a pair of thick arms directly stopped Jalen Rose unceremoniously pushed the opponent away, and when the basketball fell, he pressed the whole person to Dale Davis, and then tiptoed lightly and forced the rebound in the Pacers' three-man encirclement.

The Knicks launch a fast break.

Sprewell received the ball and ran straight to the frontcourt, with Houston close behind.

The Knicks' double fast break went straight into the opposing half without a hint of hindrance. But it was still the Pacers who moved faster, after all, it was the lineup advantage, and the Pacers still interrupted this wave of Knicks' offense.

The Knicks weren't impatient, they controlled the tempo again, and Sprewell steadied the dribble and handed the ball to the high post again.

Mo Xi continued to pass Ewing on the inside, but this time, after passing the ball, Mo Xi moved directly to the inside.

After Ewing received the ball, he arched inward again, Schmitz was already ready, this time it didn't have much effect, but Ewing found that Dale Davis had leaned over with Moxi, Ewing couldn't turn around, but Moxi had already arrived. Ewing quickly cooperated with an internal pass and gave it to Mo Xi's hands.

Mo Xi didn't pause at all after receiving the ball, and jumped straight to dunk, leaving Dale Davis behind him to stretch out his arms in vain.

The Knicks are overtaking again, overtaking by one point!

The game came to the most critical moment, with 25 seconds left, and the Pacers attacked, and by this time they were already one point behind.

Mark Jackson dribbled the ball steadily, and he was going to spend about the time here, leaving eight seconds or so to be enough.

Miller sat quietly in the bottom corner, letting the Knicks players wander back and forth around him, like a seasoned hunter on the Siberian plains, always looking for an opportunity.

But he couldn't wait for his chance, Mark Jackson made a mistake and was stealed by Sprewell because the dribble was too long.

Mark Jackson wanted to foul on the spot, but Sprewell had already passed the ball to nearby Johnson, and he couldn't make the foul.

Houston received the ball and rushed to the court, at this time he was followed by a Pacers player, Johnson's pass also followed, and Houston received the ball and shot directly from beyond the three-point line.

But Jalen Rose was too fast, he was already behind Houston, and at the risk of a foul, he jumped straight up, the referee hesitated, didn't give the whistle, and Houston's shot was interfered with.

Just when the Pacers breathed a sigh of relief, it was the No. 30 jersey again, and its owner ran to the front court at some point, picked up the ball, threw the ball, hit the rebound, and then, threw itself and dunked, and flew up. Dunk!

Mo Xi used a wonderful action that did not belong to the big man to complete the final blow of the Knicks in this game, while leaving the opponent less than a second, with Miller's strong shot missed, the Knicks won the Christmas battle, and Mo Xi also completed a quasi-lore for the first time, doing what a protagonist should do.