Chapter 22 The Three Levels of Ink Regret
"People call me a little white dragon with two guns and fast legs, and I came here today to pass three levels~"
Although at the press conference, Mo Xi and Van Gundy repeatedly said that Mo Xi is still very young, there are still many shortcomings, and there is still a lot of room for growth.
Then Van Gundy was "snapped", not a stick is better than a stick, a reporter from Los Angeles said: "So you think Mo Xi will surpass Jordan if he progresses, right?" When do you think it will be? Three seasons later? This season? Or after three games? ”
Van Gundy looked confused, you play this language game very slippery, you don't do this kind of thing!
Just when Van Gundy was thinking about how to fight back, Mo Xi, who was really bored on the sidelines, spoke: "Thank you for your good wishes to me, but I'm curious, why after three games, instead of five, six?" Mo Xi is probably the first person in the alliance to answer reporters' questions in such a way as to encircle Wei and save Zhao.
The battle between Mo Xi and reporters is not untargeted, and in the next few games, Mo Xi will face many high-quality interior lines in the league, such as the next road trip to the East. The Knicks will visit Charlotte Hornets and then the Chicago Bulls.
The Charlotte Hornets became rich because of a wave of trades with the Heat, and at small forward, they welcomed Jamal Mashburn, who had been depressed in the Heat, and left Pat Riley's crumbling system, Jamal Mashburn fully unleashed his offensive talent, and destroyed the hearts of one opponent after another with his devastating back-to-back offensive skills, and last season he entered the top 30 in points, assists, and rebounds, and was able to enter the top 30 in a single event. This already means that he plays better than many people in the league, and can be regarded as a star, and even the standard of the star, Mashburn's three top 30 is a sensation for a while, and it also makes the rift between Pat Riley and the Heat executives bigger and bigger.
He was also traded by his old rival P-J. Brown. Although Brown began to be a little powerless in the face of Mo Xi as early as two years ago, Brown himself is still a first-class defensive center in the league, and in the face of ordinary centers, Brown can definitely teach people.
And at point guard, the Hornets still have their top pick, another top guard, Baron Davis. In his investigative report, scouts have said that this is a talented player with the level of physical confrontation of Kidd and the unique big ass of Mark Jackson. In Moxi's eyes, this is a strengthened version of Arenas, as their offensive options are all the same brainless.
And at power forward, the Hornets' David West is also a talented man who has been highly anticipated by the Hornets' hierarchy. Shooting guard David West is also a talented projection player who makes up for the Hornets' lack of outside scoring ability. Coupled with the fact that the Hornets have a lineup of old and young, as well as Jamal Mashburn who is in his playing years, it can be said that their lineup is much more reasonable than that of the Knicks.
After that, it was the Chicago Bulls, who frequently made big moves in the draft. The Bulls are actually not very strong, but somehow, he seems to have made a round of moves against Moxi, such as the fact that the Bulls' interior line is already very substantial, but he still used two high picks in the draft to select two high school rookies, Eddie Curry, known as the "Little Shark", and Tyson Chandler, a spring man. Plus there's Brad Miller and Elton Brand, who was supposed to be traded away but didn't make the trip.
In a word, the Bulls' inside line is completely a targeted wheel war created for Mo Xi, after losing Kukoc and Artest, the Bulls did not choose to strengthen the outside line, but went further and further down the road of the inside line, perhaps the big men in the league have become more and more prominent in recent years, especially the guy who dominates the entire arena in the West.
With the Timberwolves and the Eastern Conference giants Pacers coming from behind, it's fair to say that the Knicks didn't start the game very comfortably.
In Mo Xitong's inexplicable speech, the press conference became the Knicks' outlook for the next schedule, Van Gundy's face was full of incredulity, and he really deserved to be a center produced by Georgetown, which was very Georgetown. Van Gundy thought about it and found that there was also a center from George City in his team, Osara Harrington, who was also a member of Ninety-Six, the first in the second round, and Georgetown has sent too many players to the league in recent years, and even Van Gundy once felt that if it weren't for Georgetown's coach John Thompson Jr. retiring, Georgetown would probably dominate the league (some coaches, you really don't accept it, maybe they didn't get many honors, but they just brought you a lot of top players)
After the mouth cannon, it's actual combat.
The day after the press conference, New York traveled to Charlotte to play the Hornets.
Before the game, many media said that the two sides were almost at the same level, and Barkley, who is known as a fan of the ink, also made an objective evaluation, saying that Jamal Mashburn's back was very much like himself in the last shot. In addition to the difference in strength, Marshburn is, to a certain extent, really Barkley on the small forward, and he also added the defensive button (it is hard for you to imagine that a person who can really dominate the basket really has no defense, although it is a little shorter, but in that era, he can't defend, and he can dominate the game only by offense, probably he is the only one, and he shamelessly said that as long as Bird is in the league for a day, he is not the one with the worst defense)
The game, which was considered to be evenly matched, did not last long, at least not for long.
In the first quarter, relying on Mashburn's accurate back-to-back shot, the Hornets and Knicks went five-to-five. Even at the beginning of the second quarter, Davis, who has the "unlimited right to fire", suddenly exploded and led the Knicks by ten points in one breath.
Then, Van Gundy made an early substitution for Moxi, and then there was no more.
I always thought that even if I couldn't prevent Mo Xi, but I could make him unhappy, PJ Brown was slapped in the face, Mo Xi completed a dominant game, played 34 minutes, cut 34 points, 13 rebounds, 8 assists and 2 blocks, although there were also four turnovers, but after all, the flaws were not hidden, and his shooting rate was extremely high, 15 of 17 shots, just a few free throws.
The important thing is that after defeating the storm of No. 23, Mo Xi immediately showed such dominance on the field, New Yorkers have always worshiped heroes, just look at Marvel to understand that Mo Xi's strength was distorted by New York but really put in the eyes of fans across the United States.
In such a situation, the Knicks came to Chicago, and they wanted to see what kind of routine this targeted Bull was playing.