Chapter 9: The Knicks' Law of Victory

In the 90s and even in the early 21st century, the Knicks always adhered to the strategy of traditional basketball in terms of team building ideas and tactical style, using an excellent big man to lead the whole team, even if the best one on the team at this time was an outside lineman, the opponent was just an offensive finisher, and the tactical core was still the big man who was not brilliant. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

As one of the Knicks' rare interior players with low-post offensive ability, Mo Xi is fortunate to experience what it feels like to be a core figure.

After jumping to win possession, Ward controlled the ball and slowly advanced to the front court. Ward didn't directly hand the ball to the inside, he looked around and gave the ball to Larry Johnson in the high post first, since the Finals, Popovich's two-tower tactics have been imitated by many people, but first you have to have two strong interior lines that can attack with the ball, and the Knicks also meet this standard, Van Gundy simply got a set of Knicks' two-tower tactics, but the offensive finisher is on the outside.

Johnson held the ball high and faced the new champion Brand, Johnson didn't choose to come up and give the rookie leader something to see and learn first, anyway, the time is still long, Johnson deceived Brand and hit the ground and passed to Mo Xi.

Ink received the ball in the low post, opposite Dick Simpkins, who was only six feet nine inches, much shorter than More, and was also at a disadvantage in terms of power. Mo Xi began to gradually push towards the halfway, allowing himself to move up and pull the opponent's defensive position. Suddenly, Mo Xi squeezed his shoulder, pushed Simpkins away, and then secretly pressed his hand on Simpkins' thigh, sped up and turned, protected the ball with both hands, and moved three slow steps to the front of the basket, hooking his hand sideways.

The Knicks scored the first point of the game with a single from Moxi.

Next up is the Bulls offense. Although Phil is gone, the triangle offense still affects the Bulls in a sense. The Bulls' point guard dribbled the ball past halfcourt and handed it to Kukoc and ran to the bottom corner three-pointer. Kukoc didn't stop the ball, handing it to the Bulls who ran behind him, who came to the bottom corner three-pointer on the other side and hoisted the ball straight to Simpkins, the Bulls center on the inside. Even though Moxi's defense is not good, the innate physical advantage makes it difficult for Simpkins to turn around when facing Moxi. Simpkins arched inward a few times, but Moxi only shook back slightly. Seeing this, Simpkins had to pass the ball out again and give it to Kukoc, who ran back to the free-throw line.

As the best scorer in Europe, Kukoc's strength is unquestionable, and he was once considered the founder of the new dynasty of the Bulls, but he is only called Kukoc after all.

Kukoc faced Sprewell, shook slightly, and then stepped back to make a jumper. However, this jumper failed to shoot, and just as Kukoc stepped back, Sprewell stepped forward directly and slapped the ball when Kukoc raised his hand to shoot. This time it was played very cleverly, the ball did not cut, but it was cut right at Kukoc's waist to make a jumper shot, and in an instant, Kukoc's strength was discharged, and the ball was out of his hand.

Sprewell controlled the ball but couldn't get a quick break opportunity, dribbling to the front court and slowing down and starting to fall into position.

In this round, the Knicks directly gave the ball to the hands of Mo Xi on the inside, but this time, Mo Xi did not continue to play alone. Mo Xi's feet changed, Sigma turned to face the frame, and under the interference of the opponent, Mo Xi tried his best to protect the ball, and then pulled to the side, coming to the front of the basket, at this time, Brand, who was eager to perform, hurriedly made up for the defense. Mo Xi shook his hand and threw the ball to Johnson on the baseline, Johnson swept the corner of his eye after receiving the ball, and quickly gave the ball to Houston who came to the three-point line outside the three-point line, Houston pulled up a three-point shot, but the basketball smashed on the front and popped up, and Brand grabbed the ball with his weight advantage and a pair of long arms. The Bulls quickly switched offense.

As a basketball philosophy, the triangle offense is most criticized not only for his ability to require execution players, but also for the slow transition between offense and defense.

The Bulls' counterattack was forced to stop halfway through, and it was still Sprewell, who judged Kukoc's dribbling movement, occupied the position in advance, and forced the opponent's dribble to stop.

The bulls had to go back and regroup. This time it was a much simpler tactic, with Brandra coming out to block and a small ground-hitting pass that led to Brand's direct shot in the right corner. As a high-profile champion, Brand naturally has his own uniqueness, and when he was in Duke, Brand's handshot was his biggest lethal weapon.

Unfortunately, this is no longer a university, this is an adult world.

Although Johnson is a head shorter than Brand, it does not affect his interference with the latter in the slightest, and after Brand receives the ball, Johnson directly bumps into Brand, of course, this is a light for Johnson. Although Brand weighs big enough, where will he meet someone of the same tonnage as himself during college, this time he met Johnson, and he didn't check it for a while, but he actually suffered a loss, this ball Brand was unstable, weak at his feet, short shots, and the rebound was accepted by Moxi.

The Knicks didn't launch a fast offense either, but contrary to the Bulls, the Knicks didn't want to, the Knicks converted their offense and defense extremely quickly, but at this time, Van Gundy's task was to drag the rhythm into the meat grinder battle that the Knicks are best at.

Ward passed the half court without hurrying, dribbling beyond the three-point line and observing the situation on the court.

Sprewell quickly ran back from the wing to the basket. Ward didn't rush to pass the ball, he first handed the ball to Houston on the wing, Houston hit the ground to Mo Xi, at this time Sprewell happened to run to the basket, but Mo Xi didn't give it directly, he and Sprewell made a hand-to-hand blocking cooperation, which is not in the Knicks' tactical manual, purely the two of them improvised. Sprewell understood Mo Xi's intentions, and took advantage of the opponent's cover, and after getting the ball, he turned around directly and hit a jumper.

There was a stark contrast between the Knicks' methodical offense and the Bulls, and for a while, the Bulls playing at home were a little flustered, but fortunately, the game had only passed for a short time.

Next, the Bulls' style of painting changed, and the triangle offense disappeared into a strong attack on the basket.

Kukoc relied on his physical advantage to force past Sprewell, and Mo Xi quickly made up for the defense, but he also missed Simpkins behind him. Kukoc cleverly passed the ball to Simpkins, who jumped straight to the basket for a layup.

Mo Xi hurriedly turned back to defend, and saw that Simpkins had already shot, so he simply threw himself into the air and covered Simpkins, and Simpkins even hit Mo Xi with the ball, although the ball was not scored, but fortunately, it caused a foul on the opponent's inside.

Simpkins hit both free throws.

The Knicks attacked, and Ward chose to hang the ball directly to Mo Xi this time, and Mo Xi relied on his physical advantage to force forward, and Kukoc had to step back a little, ready to help defend the interior at any time.

However, Mo Xi saw this opportunity and directly flicked his hand to pass the ball to Sprewell, who had been missing the three-point line for a long time. Sprewell is excellent offensively, but he's by no means a great three-point shooter, shooting just 27 percent from three-point range last season. Sprewell missed the shot, and Johnson scrambled for an offensive rebound to no avail, returning to the Bulls' offensive round.

With the experience of the previous shot, this time the Bulls launched a direct attack on the inside, and Kukoc once again attracted a lot of attention and distributed the ball again, only this time, Kukoc distributed the ball to Brand, who was in the high post. Brand was in a good position at this time, he didn't think about it, and shot directly, but unfortunately this ball was not fully prepared, and Brand, who was a little excited, made a big shot, and the ball bounced out, which was a long rebound.

Mo Xi jumped up quickly, wanting to pocket this rebound, but he did not develop a good habit of card position, and he was preemptively accepted by Simpkins, who was killed in the oblique stab, and when Mo Xi just landed, Simpkins killed directly to the basket.

Johnson quickly made up the defense directly from the side, and Simpkins made a layup to no avail, so he had to force a foul on Johnson.

Although Mo Xi has done a lot of training, his lack of experience still makes him not good enough in many aspects.

Simpkins hit another two-free throw.

Seeing that the opponent kept hitting the basket, Van Gundy frowned, and Mo Xi was still a little worse in defense, and many times he had to take a foul to stop the opponent, which was very similar to Ewing, but Ewing's foul was because he was too eager to defend and couldn't wait to stretch out his hand every ball to prevent the opponent from scoring.

In the past seven minutes, the score between the two sides in the first quarter still did not open, taking advantage of an official timeout, Van Gundy replaced Moxi, replaced Camby, this game to win undoubtedly has to start from the defense, Camby's role is much greater than Moxi.