With a towel on his shoulder, Mo Xi calmly sat on the folding bench to replenish his water, and the crazy offense in the first quarter was very draining for the Knicks players. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info At this time, Mo Xi seems to have returned to that calm state like water, which is very different from the fierce appearance on the court just now, looking at this kind of Mo Xi, people can't help but think of the point guard Stockton of the Utah Jazz, that is also like this, you may think that this is a shrewd and capable lawyer or a doctor or something, but you will never think that he is a basketball player, and he is a representative of a very tough style on the court.

Speaking of it, it can be regarded as a black man who is close to ink, from just learning basketball to the present, Mo Xi has met a lot of outstanding "leading brothers" along the way, and has learned a lot from them, and interestingly, these people are not ruthless characters without exception. So, Mo Xi started his two-sided life, three good students off the field, and began to develop to problem children on the field, fortunately, he is still just a hot-blooded young man.

Van Gundy looked at the situation on the field, patted Mo Xi's shoulder and said: "Yes, very good, you just performed very well, keep it up, we have a big advantage." ”

Van Gundy's poisoned milk quickly paid off, and Camby was only four minutes into the game before being saddled with two fouls, and although it didn't matter if there were more fouls on the bench, Camby was different, and he was a mainstay of the Knicks' interior defense.

In desperation, Van Gundy began to make substitutions, Mo Xi, Thomas came on the court, replacing Camby and Johnson, Johnson, Houston, and Sprewell were destined to play more than 40 minutes in this game, considering their physical strength, the oldest Johnson was the first to be replaced to rest.

Under Popovich's adjustments, the Spurs have the momentum to catch up, the margin has been reduced to five points, and after Murphy came on, he received instructions from Van Gundy to stabilize this lead, at least with such a lead into the second half.

At this time, the Spurs no longer had the panic of the first quarter, and walked out of the influence of being opened by the Knicks in the first quarter, and the two sides fell into the previous defensive battle again. Mo Xi also confronted Duncan again.

Receiving the ball on the right side near the bottom corner is a terrible position for a center forward, because not only does there not have much room to turn around, but it is also easy to make mistakes out of bounds, and generally speaking, the center forward is forced to receive the ball in this position is already considered a mistake, and there is probably only one pass left.

But Duncan and Mo Xi don't think so. It's strange to say that Duncan is already a shining sun in the West at the moment, and Garnett said that these two No. 21s can be said to be representatives of the younger generation, and Mo Xi, probably no one knows before these finals, but Duncan just thinks that the yellow-skinned boy in front of him will continue to block in front of him in the future. (Don't ask me why, that's what I want to know, just like everyone who saw Chen Ergou thought he could make a big deal back then.) ）

For Mo Xi, all disadvantages can be made up by thinking, and sometimes the geniuses' flash of inspiration is here.

Mo Xi flanked Duncan, who blocked the path above, leaving only a narrow path on the bottom line. Mo Xi raised his hand, turned the ball from the left side of his body to the right side, and at the same time pushed forward with his right foot, stepping between Duncan's feet, Mo Xi suddenly moved, the ball shot first, smashed the floor behind Duncan, and bypassed Duncan from the left side, intending to have a frontal human ball. Duncan understands the ball very well, and he has already prevented the fame skills of the Knicks center, who is slightly younger than himself, and he has already prevented it, marking people and not watching the ball, this is Duncan's strategy.

But it was also the case, Duncan was taken out of position by Mo Xi, and the bottom line suddenly had more space for one person to pass through, Mo Xi suddenly moved and froze, quickly turned around and squeezed Duncan away, just picked up the bouncing ball and flew towards the basket.

A stunning blow, Duncan really deserves the title of the emperor of his background.

However, despite the occasional surprise, the focus of both sides is still on defense, and Mo Xi is far from Duncan in this regard.

At this time, Robinson, who had taken a short break off the court, returned to the court, and after he returned, Duncan naturally retreated to the power forward position, but when the Spurs attacked, Duncan still accurately found Moxi. One top, one lean, one turnover, Duncan does not have the 45-degree board skills that will be alone in the world in the future at the moment, but the kung fu of hooking the back of one hand is by no means below any of the four centers. Duncan squeezed out of the way and easily hooked the ball in, but he was powerless to stop it.

For the Knicks, rhythm is also a big defensive weapon for them, no matter how good the offense is, let your offensive rounds play a tenth less, and your score will naturally drop, which is how the Knicks interpret it.

At that time, Pat Riley's offensive mode was to give the ball to Ewing, he played if he was willing to play, passed it out if he didn't want to, found a favorite position to play again, and turned over the opponent with an excellent turn-over jumper, and someone passed it out to Stoudemire, and then with Oakley and several other muscle clubs rushed to grab offensive rebounds, which constituted the Knicks' simple and crude "In-out" tactics back then.

Today's Knicks don't have the confidence to use this tactic in the past, so they have completely become a jump shooting team.

Houston and Sprewell crossed the run to cover each other, the ball came to Houston's hands, Houston suddenly stopped, the opposite defender hurriedly turned around and pounced, but saw Houston jump again, retreated, and the defender pounced again, but this save just hit Houston's muzzle, although the ball was not thrown, but caused the opponent's foul.

Houston hit two free throws.

However, as the Knicks' shooting percentage dropped, the Spurs gradually caught up with the score, and Johnson, who had a three- or two-minute break, returned to the court to replace Sprewell. Relying on Johnson's tough performance, the Knicks stabilized the difference, and at halftime, the Spurs trailed by three points at 46-49, and the Knicks led into the second half for the first time in this series.

Entering the second half, Van Gundy made a direct substitution, and the energetic Camby came to the center position, intending to restrain the Spurs' interior line and share some pressure for Johnson. However, Camby seems to be a little unlucky today, after the half quarter of the game, Camby added two more fouls, one was given by Robinson and the other was given by Duncan, these two are also the most aggressive people on the offensive end of the Spurs in this game, and almost all the fouls of the Knicks are concentrated on these two.

Camby committed four fouls and Van Gundy had to substitute him again. The Knicks' originally substantiated interior line is stretched thin in this series, because the Spurs' twin towers have too obvious physical advantages, and the playing time of Thomas, Dudley and others has been greatly reduced.

In the second half, the Knicks' defensive strategy began to change, because of the emergence of the helper, the league began to adopt a laissez-faire attitude towards the bag, and the Knicks naturally had to take a small trick with their home court advantage.

It was Duncan who the Knicks were so focused on defense, and no matter how well Duncan played, the fact that he was only a sophomore rookie (a phrase that can actually be said for many years) was still not experienced enough in handling the ball many times, and for a while, Duncan fell into a spiral of turnovers.

Popovich saw that his beloved disciple was in a quagmire, and kept protesting to the referee, but at this time, Popovich did not have the prestige of the past, and the referee did not pay much attention to it, after all, this is New York.

However, although the Knicks limited Duncan a little, the two sides did not eliminate each other, and on the offensive end, the enraged Duncan still made the Knicks' offense a little helpless.

Although Duncan is also excellent in strength, he is not as bulky as the average interior player of the same type, but has excellent foot movement ability, and the defensive range can cover any position within the three-point line, such an excellent co-defender has a great impact on the Knicks' shooters. Johnson's cover quality is still very high, but it is undeniable that Johnson's height of less than two meters is really a hard injury, Duncan quickly made up for the defense in place, and under Duncan's interference, whether it is Houston or Sprewell, the shooting rate has begun to decline, and can only frequently hit the interior line, and exchange hand-to-hand combat for free throw opportunities.

In this way, it can hurt the Spurs' Mario Ailey, he is the first batch of forward swing men in this era, but at this time he has to face the torture of the Knicks' double guns, the two continue to cross the run, against Houston, he lacks height, meets Sprewell, the speed can't keep up, and is beaten by the two of them, just three or five minutes, he has five fouls on his back and has to rest, these five fouls are all in this quarter.

Rao is so, the Knicks didn't score much in this quarter, but fortunately, the Spurs too, the difference between the two sides remained unchanged and came to the final quarter.

Mo Xi felt a little tired, one is that the amount of training these days has really made him a little unbearable, and on the other hand, Camby is deeply troubled by fouls, and Mo Xi has had to stay on the court for a long time, which may be the longest time he has played since entering the league. But it's not without benefits, except for Houston, who has scored 26 points, the Knicks have the highest score in the bottom, and he has scored 18 points, although this is also the reason why he has encroached on Johnson's shooting rights a lot, but Mo Xi's performance has to be praised.