Facing a more tired Ewing, Mutombo easily won the ball and the Eagles began their first attack. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

After getting the order of the old coach, the Hawks' offense went faster, the point guard passed to the frontcourt, the Hawks forward received the ball outside the three-point line, his hand movements did not stop, and he returned it to the point guard Blaylock, at this time, the Knicks had not yet fallen into the position, and Ward was still more than two steps away from Blaylock, who actually pulled out his hand directly after receiving the ball.

Fortunately, the game had just begun, and everyone's state was not opened, and Blaylock's ball popped out of the frame.

At this time, the Hawks didn't look at this frontcourt rebound, and quickly returned to defense. The rebound was easily pocketed by Thomas.

The Knicks still came to the front court at their own pace, only to find that the Hawks' defense was full of gambling steals, and it seemed that even if they were passed by the Knicks, it would not matter.

And that's true, Ward got past the defenders and accelerated into the interior, forgetting that the Eagles still had a mountain on the inside.

Mutombo's huge body appeared in front of Ward, and Ward panicked, hurriedly shot, did not score, and the rebound was obtained by the Hawks.

The Hawks didn't pause at all after getting the rebound, passed the ball straight forward, and forced a wave of fast breaks.

At this time, there are not many people who return to the Knicks, and the fastest ones to defend are Ward and Thomas, the big forwards.

The Eagles formed a 3-on-2 frontcourt, made a mid-range emergency stop to play the board, scored the ball, and scored the first point of the game.

At this point, Ewing was able to run past the midfield.

The Knicks turned their head to attack, and this time the Hawks still had the same defensive strategy, but Ward didn't dare to make a mistake and passed the ball to Houston.

Houston picked up the ball and adjusted his shot, and the action was done in one go, hitting another textbook mid-range shot.

The Hawks were not discouraged by this defensive loss and immediately moved on to the next round of offense.

At this time, the Eagles actually gave people the feeling of playing under old Nelson. The dizzying fast pace, the full field of play, every attack is as good as possible to complete in ten seconds.

The Knicks, on the other hand, were unconsciously controlled by others, and the star Ewing didn't touch the ball once, just doing a switchback run.

Van Gundy couldn't sit still, he didn't expect Wilkens to use such a tactic, which made him a little uncomfortable for a while. The players on the same court were also a little uncomfortable, and for a while, the Knicks were beaten into a wave of 10:2 small climax.

Van Gundy hurriedly called a timeout, with Sprewell coming on for Ewing and others moving up, hoping that the quicker, more agile lineup would do something, at least not lead the nose.

Back on the court, the Knicks surprised their lineup. Nelson, who also coached in New York, was outraged by the New Yorkers for wanting to trade Ewing for O'Neal, and resigned before the end of the season, replacing him with Van Gundy. Everyone in this lineup has played under Nelson before, and Sprewell was chosen by Nelson at the beginning, and the Hawks' fast play actually made them feel like they were back in the Nielsen era, and they played better than the Hawks.

Sprewell and Houston raced to each other, taking advantage of their teammates' cover to fire frequently.

On the defensive end, because everyone's movement is excellent, especially the Knicks' interior Thomas, who is good at stealing more than blocks, the Hawks' fast break is frequently disrupted.

The rhythm of both teams has been playing very fast, and the Hawks' lineup at this time is much more bloated than the Knicks, and because of the fast pace, the Hawks have many more undeserved mistakes, and in the last three minutes of the first quarter, the Knicks not only overtook the score but also expanded it to 10 points.

Wilkens hurriedly made a change, bringing on Chris Crawford, who was more mobile, for Corbyn, who had nothing to do. After some adjustments, it was difficult to recover 4 points before the end of the first quarter.

At the end of the first quarter, the Knicks led 27-21, which is very rare for a representative Eastern team to play such a score in the first quarter.

At this time, Van Gundy also understood that the opponent was not going to attack in this way, but to drag down the Knicks in this way, and to entangle the Knicks and strangle the other party with a mess before the Knicks broke out behind.

Faced with this situation, Van Gundy had no choice but to hope that the players could hold on, and at the same time delay the pace of the game as much as possible, he thought about it for a while, and decided to play with a pure positional battle lineup in the second quarter, not requiring to play with the opponent to any extent, as long as the opponent did not let the rhythm up.

So, at the beginning of the second quarter, the Knicks replaced Charles, Dudley, Moxi, Thomas and Sprewell, in which Thomas was put into the small forward position. In a sense, such a lineup can be said to be the classic lineup of the Knicks, with a center with interior offensive ability, an outside scorer, a versatile point guard, and two defenders on the front line.

At the start of the second quarter, the Knicks played "He is strong, he is strong, the breeze is blowing; He is crossed by him, and the bright moon shines on the river. No matter how fast the eagle plays, what should he do, even if you don't guard against me, I'm still slowly dribbling and playing 24 seconds of offense.

Due to the offensive rhythm of this lineup, most of the ball is handed over to Mo Xi on the inside.

The current situation in the East is that every team is missing interior line except for the Knicks, and the Knicks have too many interior lines, Ewing, Johnson, Thomas, Moxi, Camby, Dudley and a veteran Herpo Williams who has been out of the squad with a guaranteed contract.

And on the Eagles' side, Mutombo had to put on the battle again, and he would meet his little junior brother for a while.

Mo Xi was in a deeper position to reach the ball, and his body was tightly pressed against Mutombo.

Mutombo felt the pressure coming from in front of him, and whispered to Mo Xi: "I can't see it, in less than a month, my strength has increased a lot, but can I withstand it?" ”

Mo Xi didn't pay attention to Mu Tombo at all, Mo Tombo is tall and has long arms, even if he really passes him, he will be chased by him one step by one, the best way to face him is actually a small hook under the basket, that position is not worried about Mu Tombo's block at all, the small hook in that position is very easy to interfere with the ball, but Mo Xi wants a position that is not deep.

As a last resort, Sigma turned around, intending to use the inside footwork honed by the word machine in the last round of the playoffs to complete the offense, with his feet shaking, cross-stepping straight to the middle, and the splitter was about to dunk.

But Mutombo turned around and caught up with Mo Xi and pressed the ball down.

The ball landed on the floor and did not go out of bounds, Mo Xi hurriedly picked it up, but when he tried to get up, he was already pressed down by Mutombo and couldn't stand up. Since the ball didn't touch the basket, seeing that the time to attack was about to come, Mo Xi suddenly realized that this was not the opportunity for the small hook he had been looking for?

Mo Xi stretched out his arm as much as he could, leaned out and jumped as far as he could, flicking his wrist and making a small hook.

Mutombo hurriedly waved his hand and knocked the ball out, but unfortunately it was a little late, and the ball was still over the basket when the shot was made, and the referee gave the interference ball.

Mutombo wanted to get it back, but first, the Eagles played too fast, and there was no time for him to settle down, and secondly, he was not a consistent scorer in the team, and the court never recovered.

After scoring the last goal, Mo Xi found that it was still difficult to score in front of Mutombo, so Mo Xi gave up very unmanly, using the opportunity of covering to get rid of Mutombo, constantly forming a mismatch with his teammates, and using his height advantage to deal with the rest of the Eagles.

Mutombo looked at it and secretly cursed the shameless man in his heart, but he could only watch, and only occasionally would he have the opportunity to help defend it.

After this shrinking season, Mo Xi's back play is still very improving. Simply stuck the position, and then chiseled twice hard, and when the opponent began to go up with all his might, he suddenly turned around and cut into the baseline to attack.

However, Mutombo came over from time to time to help defend and Mo Xi had to be vigilant at all times, and once Mutombo moved, he distributed the ball to Spreville outside.

For a while, the two sides also played hotly, but the Hawks, who had a significantly faster pace, had many more offensive opportunities than the Knicks, and the score gradually caught up, and with a free throw, the Hawks overtook the score again.

At the end of the first half, the Knicks trailed by two points at 48:50, a score that many expected, but unexpected.

People think, even Van Gundy himself thinks so, that the Knicks are likely to fall behind in the first half and even pull away some points, but now this is completely unexpected.

Van Gundy, despite the snickering in his heart, remained silent and returned to the locker room with a sad face. Wilkens, on the other side, really returned to the locker room with a sad face.