At the start of the second round, the Knicks sat at home to meet the challenge from the Pistons.

The fight against the Pistons was the most frightening thing for the Knicks, because the old man across the street kept putting on a look that I had seen through you, and that I was ready to deal with you. Rather believe it than not, in the face of the menacing Pistons, the Knicks really have some feeling of entering the playoffs at this time.

Under the threat of New York's hostile home field, the game officially began.

Mo Xi easily jumped the ball away from Big Ben's hand, and the Knicks got the right to attack for the first time.

Jason Williams dribbles lightly through the half court, for this piece of white chocolate, Larry Brown can be said to have a deep understanding of his characteristics, the harder you attack him, you may have to face more unbelievable situations, just let him play safely, the restless factor in his body will automatically make him wrong.

Mo Xi stepped forward as soon as possible to cover for the white chocolate. The two were almost touch-and-tear and attacked to the basket at the same time.

Big Ben's footsteps were a little reluctant to keep up with Moxi, and although Rasheed Wallace was near the basket, he didn't choose to turn back to make up for it, and it was Prince who stepped forward to make up for it, and he let go of Sprewell on the wing and came to Moxi. Prince's supplementary defense doesn't really want to rely on him to block Moxi, Prince's defense is very strong, but it is still a little worse in the face of the impact of interior players, far inferior to Big Ben, his role is mainly to block Moxi in front, and Daben or Rasheed Wallace to help defend from the side.

At this time, White Chocolate had already stuffed the ball to Mo Xi who went down, and Mo Xi did not hesitate to pass the ball to Sprewell outside after observing this defensive trap of the opponent.

However, Sprewell couldn't get a chance to shoot, and Hamilton, who was closest to him, quickly came over to make up for it.

Sprewell was also decisive, quickly moving the ball to Houston, who stole the top of the arc, and Houston waited for Billups, who let go of White Chocolate and turned back to defend in addition to Sprewell's pass.

However, the Knicks' offense is not so simple, and the Knicks' offense is never just a simple transfer of the ball to get a good shot. As soon as he split the ball, he sank into the low post and switched positions with Ratlleaf, who kept lifting up to the free-throw line, where he made another cover for Houston.

Houston passed the ball back to Sprewell, who stepped forward to pick it up, and at the same time activated himself to use Ratliff's cover to shake off the defender and then go down to the baseline, going around behind Moxi. As a once first-class running mid-range pitcher, Houston has become a little old, and his knee injury has made his form worse, but his running ability has improved with age.

But the scene in front of him made him extremely surprised. Alan Houston couldn't get rid of the defenders! His defender has changed back to Hamilton at the moment when he just staggered with Sprewell, and Hamilton, who is obviously the same as his style, is far beyond him in terms of running ability, and it can even be said that Hamilton symbolizes the pinnacle of running shooters, the kind of level that no one can surpass, even if there are many super three-pointers in later generations, but when it comes to running away ability, it is always the basketball player of this track and field family who is better.

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What's more, Houston's knees now don't allow him to run as recklessly as he used to.

Houston didn't get the space to shoot, but fortunately he was already very close to Mo Xi and hoisted the ball to Mo Xi. In the end, the Knicks still handed over the end of the offense to Mo Xi.

Mo Xi's position is good, but after all, it is Da Ben who defends him, and the offensive time does not allow Mo Xi to make other choices, after repeatedly hitting Da Ben, Mo Xi finally squeezed out a little space, and quickly turned around and retreated to jump shot. But the pressure from Big Ben made Mo Xi's shot a little deformed, the power was slightly greater, and it hit the basket, Big Ben turned around and directly closed the rebound, tightly guarded it, and then handed it to Billups to advance slowly.

The Pistons rarely play fast offense when facing the Knicks, partly because the Pistons themselves have a slower offensive tempo, and partly because they don't want the Knicks to play their own feelings.

Billups pressed the time through the halfcourt, the No. 1 position has always been the Knicks' weakness, and it can even be said to be the biggest weakness, even if Jason Williams was introduced this season, it only improved the Knicks' organizational ability, and the defensive ability of the No. 1 position is still an undoubted shortcoming. And the Pistons, when it comes to offensive ability, it is precisely the No. 1 position that is their strongest firepower, it can be said that now in the East, the strongest No. 1 position must be Jason Kidd, and the second-strongest No. 1 position is Billups.

Although Billups also has such and such problems, in the current period of withering talent in the No. 1 position, and even more barren East, it can be said that Billups is really not afraid of anyone, except for that one Jason Kidd.

Billups faced White Chocolate, and to be honest, he didn't take the other side seriously at all, if it was one-on-one, he would definitely be able to score from White Chocolate easily, but the Knicks' defensive front that relies on the movement ability of the interior is really a headache. But he wasn't the star of the Pistons' offense today.

It's surprising that the Pistons actually set their sights on Ratliff, the guy who was the No. 1 block player in the regular season.

Hamilton did nothing but take Houston on a run, while Prince kept roaming around the corner and flank, and Billups handed the ball directly to Rasheed Wallace on the left baseline.

Ratliff's defensive style is actually very similar to Rashid Wallace's, the difference is that Rashid Wallace's ability to predict defense is far inferior to Rashid's, and this predictive ability is also Rashid's biggest weapon to get the block king, in other words, the real pure single defense, Rashid is very strong, but compared with his strong defensive ability, it is much weaker.

Mo Xi judged the Pistons' intentions as soon as Rasheed Wallace was ready to beat Ratliff, and Ratliff was also past the age of standing, although there was no cliff-like decline, but it was indeed much worse in various physical functions, and if Ratliff had to spend more time on the bench, then the Knicks' interior defense system was broken up, and Reggie Evans and Nazr Muhammad on the bench may have no problem with rebounding and interior defense. However, they are unable to extend their defensive range outwards like Ratliff and Moxie, and they lack deterrence under the basket.

While these questions were in the back of his mind, the clash between Rashid Wallace and Ratliff had already been decided. Rasheed Wallace is worthy of a back-to-back singles textbook, and many moves have to be admired even by Mo Xi.

Rashid-Wallace first turned to face Ratliff with a sigma step, and seeing Rashid's movements, Ratliff retreated decisively.

Seeing this, Rasheed Wallace took another turn and burst into the basket, and it was a very clean and direct shot.

Ratliff had just stepped back, his center of gravity was still behind, and he had no time to interfere, so he could only reach out in vain and watch Rashid Wallace hit the shot steadily.

Mo Xi began to constantly think about how to deal with it next, obviously the best way is to go to Rasheed Wallace himself, after all, Big Ben really lacks the ability to attack independently.

While thinking about countermeasures, the Knicks have also advanced to the frontcourt.

With the previous experience, White Chocolate was planning to use another blocking tactic to organize the attack, but found that Mo Xi made a gesture and stayed directly at the waist position, ready to play Daben alone.

White Chocolate pouted, but still hoisted the ball to Moxi, who was always the first tactical choice in the Knicks.

At the moment when White Chocolate hoisted the ball to Moxi, Prince immediately put down Sprewell and came over to Moxi's bag.

Mo Xi immediately spotted Hamilton, who began to gradually move towards the vacant Sprewell, decisively dismissed the idea of passing, and turned to avoid Prince's bag and turned to the basket.

Big Ben stepped back with his right foot, blocking Moxi's side of the offensive line and jamming Moxi's mid-turn foot.

Mo Xi immediately realized that he was caught in the middle of the opponent's two interior lines, but it was too late to retreat, and Rasheed Wallace had already pounced to block the other half of Mo Xi's attacking space.

In a hurry, Mo Xi hurriedly changed hands, turned sideways, and hit a big hook with his left hand, directly scoring the ball.

Mo Xi turned around and quickly returned to defense, although the goal was scored, but there is no doubt that the Pistons' defensive arrangement is very good, this goal can be scored, Mo Xi is purely based on the feeling of years of training, and then there is a next time, Mo Xi can not guarantee the hit rate.

When the Knicks were defending, Moxi quickly exchanged defenders with Ratlleaf, but after seeing Moxie's move, Billups changed his offensive style as if he had expected it.

Big Ben and Rasheed Wallace both pulled out to cover and forced Murphy and Ratliff away from the basket, while Hamilton ran with ease, and Houston relied on his experience to follow him.

Just when Murphy and Ratliff were distracted by Hamilton's run, Billups suddenly kicked in, got rid of the white chocolate, and took advantage of the Knicks' two interior lines to be distracted by Hamilton's running and went straight to the basket, and Billups made a layup.

The Pistons, after the Knicks changed their defensive alignment, decisively put the offensive focus back on Billups. Billups and Hamilton teamed up, making Murphy and Ratliffe tired, but Billups's style of play was a bit inclined to promiscuity, and the offensive efficiency of the Pistons was not very high for a while. It's just that the offensive efficiency of the Pistons has never been high, and even in the rules where the intensity of the confrontation is not large, the Pistons often score more than 70 points.

It's just that opposite him, the Knicks actually have a similar scoring efficiency as them, which is a bit spicy, you must know that the Knicks are the team that averages the first points per game in the regular season.

In order to avoid falling into the opponent's defensive trap again, Mo Xi had to give a lot of finishing opportunities to his teammates, but the best offensive man with the ball among the Knicks on the floor was Sprewell, and he had completely lost his direction under Prince's care, and the more he played, the more anxious he became, and Houston was firmly targeted by Hamilton, and when one running pitcher defended another running pitcher, this kind of shadow situation can be described as a happy sight.

The Pistons have to rotate defensively fast enough, and every time Mo Xi wants to play alone, the Pistons will not step forward to cover the clamp at the first time, but let Mo Xi start to start, but will only step forward when he is not in an absolutely advantageous position, so that Mo Xi is in a dilemma. It's not easy to do this, the Pistons are able to do this because they have a Big Ben, and because of the presence of Rashid Wallace and Prince, even if Mo Xi can get rid of the first pack, he will immediately have a second person step forward to cover it, and if Mo Xi passes the ball to Sprewell, the Pistons can immediately switch defenses, as for distributing the ball to Ratliff, Mo Xi really doesn't have this idea, Latliff's scoring ability is not much better than Big Ben.

For a while, the court fell into a stalemate, and if this situation continues, it will be the Knicks who will fall into the disadvantage in the end, because this rhythm on the court is undoubtedly the most familiar to the Pistons, especially now that the Pistons don't even play fast breaks, they are slowly advancing.

Mo Xi couldn't find a way to deal with this lineup on the field, and the best way was to replace one or two players with offensive ability with the ball.

Obviously, George Karl also saw the current Knicks' dilemma and made the same decision as Mo Xi, but his courage was more than Mo Xi thought, or this should be the true face of George Carr.

George Karl went up three times, and the first round was roughly clothed in the first round, while Arenas and Anthony also played together, replacing Ratliff, Houston and White Chocolate, and this time, everyone on the Knicks had their own offensive ability, although the defensive ability of this lineup was almost at its lowest point.

After the Knicks changed to this lineup, they really had earth-shaking changes on the offensive end, and the Pistons' bag of Mo Xi gave these people a chance to attack, especially these people are still the type that I really dare to shoot if you give me the ball, and the rough play makes Mo Xi like a fish in water on the offensive end, a No. 4 position that can open up space, last season, the combination of Mo Xi and Wallace made countless inside lines in the league cry and grab the ground, and the general outside projection ability is definitely better than Wallace.

For a moment, the Knicks seemed to be rubbing the piston to the ground.

However, the situation of the Knicks has not been particularly improved, because this lineup is even more unable to guard against the Pistons, and the backcourt composed of Sprewell and Arenas has been blown up against the combination of Billups and Hamilton, and the backcourt of the Pistons is the core of their offense.

George Carr and Thibodeau began to discuss countermeasures on the sidelines, but before the two discussed the results, they could only rely on each other's explosions to temporarily hold on to the scene.

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