Chapter Twenty-Three: A Hollywood-like Series

New York defeated Miami, and on this day, newspapers large and small all over the East Coast rushed to report it, as if the end of the world was coming. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info

The media in New York celebrated, and the clash between Mo Xi and Mourning was touted as the Knicks' center inheritance, and Mourning seemed to have been sanctioned by the Knicks center throughout his career.

On the other hand, in Miami, people were furious in the face of the defeat in the first game, but they didn't know what to say, so they had to talk about the data. In the first game, Mourning almost beat Ewing in terms of statistics, Mourning scored 27 points, 8 rebounds, 1 assist, 3 steals and 5 blocks in 46 minutes, shooting 62% from the field and 7 of 8 free throws; Ewing had 9 points, 15 rebounds, 1 assist, 1 steal and 4 blocks in 32 minutes, shooting only 33% from the field, and only once made free throws, one shot and one hit. However, professional basketball professionals can see that in this game, the Knicks' rebounding is the key to victory.

Without an effective offensive approach and a lack of offensive rebounding support, it is difficult for the Heat to score more than 80.

Miami is calm, but everyone knows what Miami is going to do next, not to mention that the next game will still be Miami's home stadium.

However, a day later, something unexpected happened to everyone. Miami won, but Miami won very narrowly, and if it weren't for the eight-point lead in the first quarter, Houston didn't seem to have a touch today, and the second game between the Knicks and the Heat is expected to be extremely intense.

The problems on both sides in this game are very exposed, the Knicks have too many outside mistakes, and the jumper type relies too much on the feel and the running position of his teammates, the interior is almost all blue-collar players, and the offensive means are only Ewing and Johnson's backs, of course, it seems that now it seems to add a pity, but it is still slightly weak.

The problem with the Heat is that there is only one from beginning to end, offense, offense, offense. Pat Riley was criticized for his lack of offense during his time with the Knicks, otherwise people would not have strongly demanded the departure of the iron-blooded coach, and his style is still the same in the Heat, iron-blooded defense, casual offense, relying on slow offensive rhythm and monotonous offensive means to suppress opponents.

Sometimes it's one thing to know, it's another to be able to change.

In short, the Heat stubbornly tied the total score and came to Madison Square Garden in New York.

The atmosphere in Miami is hot, really like fire, with a scorching fireball streaking across the sandy beaches of Miami, scorching everything; New York is a different place, it's more like the volcano on the eastern island, covered in snow and ice with hot lava that burns people's lives.

When Miami first arrived, unprepared, he was slaughtered again by more than twenty points, 97:73.

This loss was so bad that even the Miamins themselves didn't know what to say, and they simply mentioned it in the Miami newspapers, and the Heat lost again. Because of this game, the Heat lost from beginning to end, and was completely blown up by the Knicks in every aspect.

Lost eight rebounds at 35:43, two fewer assists, two fewer steals, two fewer blocks than the Knicks, more turnovers than the opposite, and fouls. The team's core Mo Ning's performance can only be said to be mediocre, but it is definitely not worthy of the performance of a top center, playing 42 minutes, 18 points and 7 boards, with a shooting rate of 50%

And the biggest highlight of this game is the young Knicks center, Georgetown's Moxi.

In the 24 minutes he played, Mo Xi made four of nine shots, 13 points, six rebounds, 1 assist, 3 steals and 0 turnovers.

This game did not have the same performance as Mo Ning before, but showed amazing talent on the court, note that it was a talent on the court, not a physical talent. Houston and Sprewell felt as if they were old friends and knew their intentions, and although they were not physically strong, they could always block the defenders and create a good offensive line. On the defensive end, especially in the second half of the third quarter, Mo Xi seemed to be sheltered by Lady Luck, and in the eyes of people, he was almost self-defeating, because he could not effectively suppress Mo Ning's continuous strong play and went around to block the passing route, five attacks to assist in defense, resulting in three steals and two out-of-bounds, as if the performance of penetrating the Heat's offensive routine was suffocating, and in the third quarter, the entire Heat hesitated to play the ball and only scored 11 points.

From the rookie bench at the beginning of the season to the drunken team outcasts to the bench bandits who are now back on the court, it all happened in four months, and an NBA version of Forrest Gump was staged.

Since this scene was staged in New York, the New York media frantically chased Mo Xi and continued to chase him, seeing him as the next Ewing, the next patron saint of New York. A large number of Mo Xi's information has been exposed, from childhood to adulthood, even who is at the same table in elementary school has been found out, not to mention the identity of the mother Mo Liyu's well-known Hollywood editor and the black background of Dongzhu Pavilion.

It is also thanks to this that Pat Riley, the godfather of the Heat, has collected a lot of information about Moxi, from the initial high school league to the college days, Pat Riley has continued to analyze.

Lighting a cigar, Pat Riley looked at the screen flashing in front of him and fell into deep thought, not thinking about how to lock him down, but having some other thoughts. This center is indeed a good seedling, but it is still far away, as long as you fall into a muscle trap, I am afraid that you can't do anything, you can only play decently, it can be seen from these three games, Mourning's defense is good at creating defensive traps, using his bouncing advantage, often leaving some room for the opponent to turn, PJ Brown is different, pure muscle strangulation, from the first minute on the court to entangle the opponent, whether it is the offensive end or the defensive end, will be entangled with the opponent, Therefore, it does not leave much space for the other party.

It just so happens that Mo Xi is the kind of person who has infinite creativity, and the space left by Mourning is often used by him skillfully, but PJ Brown's death entanglement is better.

But that's not the point, and now Pat Riley thinks that this Eastern kid seems to be an important piece of the puzzle for the Heat. The Heat lack a slurner. There is a lack of shooters, a lack of qualified interior substitutes, and this Mo Xi, as long as he trains well, can be fully qualified for these three positions.

Pat Riley took a deep puff of his cigar and smiled mysteriously, and the off-the-board move happened to be what he did best, but now was not the time, at least until the series was over and the Heat eliminated the Knicks.

A day later, Game 4 began in New York, with the Miami Heat battling it out.

This Heat played the momentum of the Eastern Conference championship, even on the road, even in the face of mortal enemies, even if they were on the verge of death, but the Heat played their own iron-blooded defense, the Knicks did not score more than 12, and the team's shooting rate was even lower, only 36%, and the last game of the brilliant Mo Xi was lost in the Heat's muscular forest, only relying on free throws to get two points and three rebounds. Although the Knicks still had the advantage of rebounding in this game, the Heat's 20 assists and 6 turnovers completely crushed the Knicks, and before the final quarter, the Heat was still 58-62 behind, but in the fourth quarter, the Heat rebounded fully and played 29-10 to pull the game back to the same running line.

Of course, perhaps, this is not the same running line, after all, in the last game, the Knicks will rush to Miami to challenge the Heat. A dark cloud seemed to have laid over the heads of the Knicks.

At the end of the game, Mourning and Ewing were serious, and the tiebreaker was the time to really test the superstar's responsibility, WinorgoHome.