Madison Square Garden

Fans of the Wizards from afar looked a little anxious, and the team they had high hopes for was being pressed and beaten, which was simply unbearable for the capital. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 In their opinion, even with Chris Webber, they still have Juwan Howard, Richmond, Ben Wallace, their lineup is still full of talent. However, the scene off the field at this time is literally a slap in the face.

The white jersey kept jumping, and Chris Charles jumped quickly in a row, and he actually forced the ball away from Juwan Howard's hand and grabbed this rebound. You must know that the second uncle Huo at this time, although he is still your second uncle, is not the second uncle in your impression.

In the early days, Uncle Huo was also a typical case of a classical center, just looking at this game, so far Ewing has only 16 points, seven rebounds, and a shooting rate of only 33%, which has weakened a super center into a civilian, while he himself has 29 points, 13 boards, and a shooting rate of more than half. Although Ben Wallace played a big role in this, it was Juwan Howard who faced more of Ewing head-on.

But in the NBA, there is an artifact called teammates.

After Charles grabbed the rebound, he quickly dribbled to the front court, made a light emergency stop, dodged Richmond who was stealing from behind, and threw his hand to cross the ball to Charlie Ward, who was standing at a 45-degree angle.

Charlie Ward adjusted slightly, raised his hand and released a three-point shot, and under the soothing shooting rhythm, the orange elf simply fell into the basket. Normally, Van Gundy doesn't like players shooting threes on the fast break, but when a guard doesn't miss a ball in a game except for a layup with his back on his back, a good coach won't interfere with the player's judgment.

But Chris Charles on the side didn't know whether to cry or laugh, he was thirty-two years old, and he was transferred from the Nets to the Knicks for a safe starting position, but in the past season, Knicks rookie Charlie Ward has grown into a qualified point guard, and Charles has been remembered vividly, making him want to cry without tears.

Now there's another Spreville, and there's less rotation time. The Knicks had lost two games in a row before, and the performance of several guards could only be said to be mediocre, and in the last game against the bitter enemy Heat, Sprewell was injured, although he felt very sorry for him, but the old Charles still had to thank him for this opportunity. Who knows, his performance is perfect, counting the few hits just now, the quasi-triple-double of thirteen points, eight boards and nine assists, but Charlie Ward also has sixteen points, five boards and seven assists, and more importantly, that super high shooting rate.

After all, Chris Charles feels that he is just an ordinary person, he only thinks about how to make his life better in the future, far from Ewing and their desire to win, he has almost vaguely made up his mind that after this contract, he will go to the free agent market to test the waters.

With Charlie Ward's goal, the Knicks played a wave of 15-5 climax, already leading the Wizards by 22 points, Wizards coach Bernie Bixduff hurriedly called a timeout, hoping to stabilize the rhythm, even if he lost, at home, he must not lose more than 20 points.

Jeff Van Gundy on the other side nodded in satisfaction. The previous two consecutive losses in the opening season, especially the loss to the bitter rival Heat, caused a lot of psychological burden on the team, and the Knicks are now in desperate need of a big win to regain momentum. This one can only be said to have caught up with the Wizards.

"Well done," Van Gundy said aloud, patting everyone on the shoulder, "just keep fighting, you're great, we want more than just a win." Van Gundy looked at the time, there were still four and a half minutes, and this game could almost be counted as garbage time, and it was time for the newcomers to work out.

"Camby, Scott, Ink, Bronson, you play, Charles, you bring it, you're almost triple-double." Van Gundy continued.

Van Gundy's tactical set-up and on-the-spot command may not be top-notch, but he also has his own unique side, and he has a way of communicating with players that many coaches don't have. It's also interesting to say that a person with a high degree of education actually mingles with a group of muscular sticks who rely on his body to eat, and this is also a reason why he is optimistic about Moxi.

"Uh-huh, uh-huh?" After three consecutive hits, Mo Xi relieved himself, it seemed that he was about to play, this was his NBA debut.

In the previous two games, whether the team was behind or ahead by a large score, or the score was deadlocked, Mo Xi did not get a chance to play. In the first game, a large number of Chinese people who came at the invitation of Mo Yishan sat behind him.

Just as Mo Xi shook his mind, Van Gundy became a little impatient and said, "That's right, who else can it be, and who else is the Oriental name?" Lift your big ass off the stool and get ready to play. ”

Mo Xi hurriedly stood up, hurried to Van Gundy's side, and finally arrived, his debut.

Van Gundy didn't take the tactical board, just stood there and said to the Knicks players who were in a circle: "For the next four and a half minutes, we're going to slow down the tempo, and for the rest, you guys relax a little bit, let me see how good you are, and now let's play." ”

Murphy was a little excited and walked after Camby towards the pitch, but was stopped when he took a step.

Ewing grabbed him, and said with a blue face, "Mo, take off your clothes." ”

Mo Xi's face turned red as soon as he brushed it, and he never played, but he finally had a chance, but he was so excited that he almost had to wear a warm-up suit like this. He hurriedly threw down his clothes, revealing his number 30 jersey and went on the field to meet his teammates.

At this moment, assistant coach Thibodeau's face changed and said to Van Gundy: "The Wizards are not all benches, they still have Ben Wallace." ”

The reason why Ben Wallace was put on the court, Van Gundy can also guess the reason, is nothing more than to strengthen the defense, and it would be too ugly for the home team to lose by 20 points. However, this is a big deviation from Van Gundy's plan. The teams that the Knicks have encountered in these games are all strong teams on the inside, so he prefers to use veterans such as Dudley and Williams, and the first game of the rookie will definitely suffer some setbacks, but it can't be too much, the rookie who was educated to death by Jordan doesn't know how much. Originally, according to his arrangement, the Wizards' bench interior line did not have any defensive blue-collar lines, so that Mo Xishang could play well, but Ben Wallace was different, although he was also young and only a bench player last season, but many insiders felt that he had the talent of the best defensive player.

Ewing on the side seemed to hear their conversation and said: "That's what he will experience in the future, it's no different if it's earlier or later, if he can't bear it, it's that he doesn't have that ability." ”

When Van Gundy heard this, he pouted, and his red face and white face became yours.

The whistle blows again, the game continues, and the Wizards have the ball.

The Wizards also basically switched to the bench, Ben Wallace, Terry Davis, Chris Whitney, Tim Leegler, Randle Jackson.

Whitney dribbled across half court and was denied Terry Davis to the latter, with Davis facing Charles.

Among the defenders, Charles's body is definitely considered strong, Davis lit up twice, didn't dare to go hard, and passed the ball to Whitney.

Whitney catches the ball from beyond the three-point line and faces veteran Scott. Whitney was a straight-tempered man, and when he saw that the other party was an old guy, he just shook it symbolically, and then accelerated to eat hard, passed Scott, and forced a layup at the free throw line.

Whitney only felt a breeze blowing on his face, and at some point there was already a guy in a white jersey standing in front of him, number 30, no impression, rookie?

As a 6-foot small man, Whitney has a very prominent speed and a strong desire to attack, and when he saw someone coming to make up for the defense, he didn't choose to pass, anyway, the inside line was the stupid big man with an explosive head (Big Ben), Whitney jumped straight up, trying to drill through Mo Xi's armpit and score the ball.

Mo Xi saw that the opponent's small point guard ignored him, and he was not annoyed, and turned his head and raised his hand to go down, trying to block.

"Beep" whistle, ball in, 2+1.

It turned out that this was also a cunning black man, and Whitney's forced breakthrough did not end with a layup, but instead pulled up and made a strange throw, rubbing a foul on Mo Xi.

While he was about to make a free throw, Charles walked over and said to Moxi: "Mo, you're a Knicks, this is Madison Square Garden, where you have to play tough, not a rickety light pole." ”

Mo Xi nodded, the ball just now seemed to him to be in place, as for toughness, the Knicks played really hard, not dirty, just tough, although there were occasional fights, but he just couldn't learn it, even if he had been going to the martial arts gym to practice in this paragraph, he still had a bookish air on his body.

Whitney scored a free throw to pull a three-pointer back.

Mo Xi ran towards the position of the wizard, and said in his heart: It's still early, I still have a chance.

At this time, the timer showed that there were four minutes and seven seconds left.