Chapter 61: Glory with New York
“fan――tastic,fantastic,it‘sfantastic!”
New York in the 90s had a unique spirit of its own - talented, self-explanatory, unremitting efforts, and finally magnificence. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info Since the early 90s, Nix has performed these perfections to the limit, and now, the twentieth century is about to pass, and the spirit of New York has been perfectly interpreted in Madison Square Garden again, this time, it is touching and tearful.
“Heisanactivevolcanofrozen,FrozenVolcano,suchasReniervolcano。” (He's an active volcano covered in ice, a volcano of ice and snow, like Mount Rainier.) Well, today my roommate took the retake for bilingualism, which was more inflated.
Murphy came on and replaced Dudley halfway through the first quarter to partner Johnson on the inside. At this time, Mo Xi is really like a live DJ, like a volcano that may erupt at any time, a volcano covered in ice and snow, Rainier.
In the first quarter, the Knicks played extremely crazy, Houston had scored 12 points in a single quarter, and even another Sprewell, who had two guns, did not fall behind and scored 6 points.
Ward controlled the ball through the halfcourt, and in this game he was more of a defensive point guard, and the ball was more directly handed over to the outside gunners. Ward handed it to Houston and flashed to the side.
Houston receives the ball and turns, three-threat moves, and faces the defender. The opponent is very tenacious, defending the propulsion, and sticking it hard, after all, there are still two steel centers standing there on the inside of the Spurs. Seeing this, Houston was not ambiguous, raised his elbow, crashed away from the defender, and killed inside.
However, this round of attack will not end here. Sprewell quickly shook off the defenders and went outside to stagger past Houston. The difference between the two made the defenders a little overwhelmed, but fortunately, the Spurs' interior line moved, and Duncan dropped his mercy and took a step towards the middle line, blocking Houston's forward path.
With a flick of his arm, Houston distributed the ball to Johnson on the wing, Johnson quickly dropped the ball to Mo Xi on the inside, and Duncan hurriedly turned back.
Mo Xi held the ball with his back to Duncan, and then pushed the opponent hard, and passed back to Houston with one hand.
At this time, the Spurs made a mistake, Houston did not have a defender around, and the nearest defender, Mario Allie, was just hanging behind him, without any interference at all, and Duncan had to go out again to make up for the defense, but this time it opened the empty door behind him.
Houston sped forward and pressed his hands forward to get the ball to Duncan's side and into the hands of Mo Xi behind him. Mo Xi did not hesitate after receiving the ball, and pulled up a heavy dunk, which shook the basket.
Judging from the back of the rebound, this ball was a bit of a pity for Duncan, and for a while, the home court cheered.
The Spurs were naturally going to get one back, but the ball was lost to Avery Johnson before it could be rotated around. Ward took the opportunity just right, spotted Avery Johnson as he was about to pass the ball, and intercepted it the moment it left his hand. However, the Spurs are a strong defensive team in the end, and they quickly return to defense, and the Knicks' fast break did not succeed.
The Knicks turned to the position, this ball Knicks played faster, the pause of the ball barely exceeded two seconds, first to Sprewell, Sprewell broke through the hand and passed to the high post of Mo Xi, Mo Xi passed to Johnson inside, Johnson quickly distributed the ball to Ward who came to the bottom corner. At this time, there was an open space in the Spurs defense, and Mo Xi accelerated to cut inside, although Duncan blocked the offensive line of the middle line, but the other side was open and Ward passed the ball in time.
Mo Xi received the ball while running, thanks to his thin body, Mo Xi stopped immediately after receiving the ball, Duncan took an extra step forward, with the advantage of this step, Mo Xi suddenly turned around, facing Duncan, accelerated past Duncan, Duncan turned around and chased his hat. Mo Xi caught a glimpse of it out of the corner of his eye, but he didn't hesitate, let Robinson, who was made up on the side, Mo Xi stopped again, leaned back, avoided Duncan's pursuit, and made a quick stop jump shot under the basket, hit.
After Mo Xi succeeded, the Knicks were already ten points ahead, and Mo Xi turned back to defend with a blank face.
That's not enough, it's just the beginning. Mo Xi kept telling himself that the desire to win was burning in Mo Xi's heart, as if he was going to burn to the sky.
Popovich angrily called a timeout, and the Knicks played well offensively, but it was not because the Spurs had too many mistakes in defense. Popovich lashed out at his players while replacing Mario Aley, who had just made back-to-back mistakes on the defensive end.
The Spurs who played again gave people a new feeling, and they didn't dare to contribute after being scolded. The Spurs quickly played the ball to Duncan in the high post, and Duncan turned his back to Mo. Duncan turned slightly, turned to his side, stepped lightly on the tentative step twice, saw that Murphy was unmoved, and distributed the ball to Avery Johnson who came out from behind him, who slammed directly into the basket.
Larry Johnson quickly came to the box to make up for the defense, and the two Johnsons went head-to-head again.
According to the Spurs' tactical system, Avery Johnson should not be this ball, but sometimes if you don't do something, you can't live a good life. A short, thin figure of the number six bravely rushed towards the stout figure wearing the number 2 jersey on the opposite side.
Avery Johnson was knocked directly to the ground, and the referee hesitated and did not give the whistle, but at this time, Robinson on the side picked up the ball that fell to the side, took advantage of Larry Johnson's unstable footing, and dunked directly.
Annoyed, Johnson turned to attack. But a cunning man like Johnson will not choose Robinson, he directly asks for the ball in the high post, and Robinson has to follow closely because of Johnson's shooting ability. Robinson just raised his foot to save, Johnson quickly dribbled through, Robinson couldn't control the momentum, and was completely overrun by Johnson. Johnson slammed straight into the basket.
But at this time, there is a Duncan under the basket, in the face of Johnson and Mo Xi's front and back attacks, Duncan seems unhurried, his body is horizontal, separating the connection between the two, Johnson faced Duncan's defense and chose to go directly to the basket, Johnson's layup was deflected under Duncan's interference, but Mo Xi grabbed the offensive rebound and hit the basket.
The Knicks quickly switched back to the defensive end.
The Spurs are back on the offensive end, and in their opinion, there is no need to worry about a sudden burst of offensive frenzy like the Knicks, this state of affairs will not last long, and the basketball game is like this, both sides will play their own climaxes at various times, and everyone is just fighting to see whose scoring climax lasts longer and more.
However, when Spurs thought so, they made some small mistakes. You know, there are some teams that tend to burst out with suffocating power when they play at home, such as the Utah Jazz in Salt Lake City, or the New York Knicks.
The Spurs' offensive wave was terminated, and this time, the person who did it was Mo Xi, the interior who is not known for his defense.
Originally, the ball had been comfortably passed to Robinson, Robinson and Johnson fought hard for muscles, and under the hard shock, it was Johnson who fell behind and took half a step back. Robinson was unforgiving, and took another step forward, squeezing Johnson away, and the splitter was about to be buckled.
At this time, Avery Johnson was suddenly heard exclaiming, "Be careful." ”
Robinson didn't know why, and suddenly saw a hand stretched out behind him, this was a pair of very clean hands, so clean that Robinson felt that he was not suitable for playing, and it was good to play the piano. But it was such a hand, in Robinson's surprised gaze, that he pulled the ball out from behind and ruined Robinson's dunk.
The basketball flew high, Duncan immediately arrived, trying to make up for the omission just now, Duncan caught the ball, turned around, and hit the big hook on the baseline.
It was another flash of yellow lightning, and the No. 30 jersey suddenly floated in, and it was another powerful blow, Duncan's big hook hand was dropped from the side by Moxi, and the ball went out of bounds.
The Spurs only had three seconds left in their attacking time, which was almost the time to catch the ball. The Spurs gave the ball to Sean Elliott to execute. Elliott received the ball and dribbled to take a step to take advantage of Duncan's cover to shoot, but he forgot that there was another person who came with Duncan, the Knicks' No. 30 Moxi. For New York fans, this is another familiar blow, the Spurs' shot was ended by Mo Xi again, in just a dozen seconds, Mo Xi sent three blocks in a row, crushing the Spurs' offense.
Spurs hesitated a little at this time, sometimes a strong opponent is not terrible, what is terrible is a crazy opponent.
The Knicks played a crazy performance in the first quarter, not only suppressing the opponent on the offensive end, but also not lagging behind on defense, in such a fast pace, the Spurs only scored 21 points, and the Knicks scored 32 points to beat the Spurs by 11 points. Among them, the outside double guns are naturally outstanding, but the substitute center is not bad, but it is actually a storm on the inside of the Spurs.
The glory of New York still glistens.