Chapter 25: Just Shot
After the Bulls' high school duo was knocked out, the Bulls had to recognize the reality and switch to Brad Miller and Elden Brand again. The Bulls intend to pull the offensive line outward, but the Bulls' current top-heavy lineup doesn't necessarily make a smart move to let them abandon their strongest interior point and move to the outside. But the Bulls are really helpless, because the Knicks' interior defense, from starters to benches, is a master of this way.
The bull was spent, and what made people feel chilling was that the main initiator, Mo Xi, did not seem to have the intention of stopping, as his first substitute, Ewing also strongly supported Mo Xi.
In the third quarter, he had 28 points, 10 rebounds, 4 assists, 3 blocks, and a steal. At the end of the third quarter, the Bulls, who were pressed by Moxi, scored only 59 points, and the Knicks led by 14 points at the Union Center.
According to the Knicks' defensive intensity and pace of the game, even if the bench players face the Bulls' starters, the Bulls may not have a chance to close the score to within five points.
However, Ewing does not plan to continue to play, he wants Mo Xi to continue, Mo Xi's career high is 36 points last season, and now Mo Xi has a very good hand, and he has grabbed a lot of rebounds, Ewing wants Mo Xi to play his signature game.
Mo Xi is a little noncommittal, Mo Xi's desire on the court is very precocious, compared to what 40 + 20 and other data honors, he values victory more, as long as he wins, it makes no difference whether he plays or not, let others play more, but also let them find or maintain their own state, and even for many people, playing can also enhance their strength, such as Arenas, but he still did not get the opportunity to play.
Mo Xi plans to let Ewing continue to play a dozen to find a sense and accumulate game fitness. But for Ewing now, he would prefer to see his successor become a giant.
Mo Xi couldn't praise Ewing, plus there was also Van Gundy's help, so Mo Xi continued to appear in the fourth quarter in the envious eyes of Arenas.
Amid the angry roar of the Union Center, Murphy reappeared, and the Bulls didn't seem to give up on the game yet, except that the center became Tyson Chandler. Compared to the rest of the Bulls, it's clear that the guy who came into the league and was going to put all of his energy on the defensive end would be better suited to limit Moxi.
At the start of the fourth quarter, the Knicks had the ball.
Ward came off the bench and dribbled through the half, and Ward knew Van Gundy's tactical intentions at the moment, waiting for Mo Xi to fall into position, and directly hoisted the ball to Mo Xi.
When Mo Xi received the ball, the boos in the United Center were even louder. When a player is in a blast, he's not afraid of anyone, and when a superstar comes to him in full form, who else can stop him?
Mo Xi resisted Chandler, now Chandler is just a jumping man, and his muscles are just the appearance of an ordinary high school student, and he can't stop Mo Xi's strong advancement at all, but Chandler just has such a brute force, but he is so similar to Mo Xi on the court, he can't prevent you, and he has to be tough with you.
Mo Xi didn't give Chandler much time to be tough, and with a combination of body and technology, Mo Xi had found his own way.
Mo Xi leaned hard, turned around and walked the bottom line with the force of recoil, Chandler followed closely step by step, but one step declined, but Mo Xi suddenly stopped, and Chandler was bound to stop, but Mo Xi stopped his footsteps at the same time, and slightly pushed Chandler, so that the latter could no longer keep up with his next step, and he turned around again, scoring with a small hook under the basket, which was another set of standard Mo Xi-style offense.
Hojberg dribbles quickly through the half, and he intends to speed up the tempo and try to narrow the difference to within ten points first, but Hojberg is a famous court tough guy for the Bulls, with a tough style of play and a tough personality, but as a commander and rhythm point, he is obviously not qualified.
Hojberg made a pick-and-roll with Brand in the high post, and Hojberg burst in, didn't choose to split the ball, but went straight to the basket.
Hojberg throws.
He was going to use this method to avoid Mo Xi's defense.
However, Mo Xi had already acted when Hoiberg broke through. Bypassing Chandler and coming to the bottom of the basket, just as Hojberg made a move, Mo Xi had already taken off, directly fanning the ball that Hojberg had just left his hand and directly out of bounds.
The Knicks' bench erupted in beastly cheers.
The Bulls re-served, but the offense was still fruitless.
The Knicks attacked again, and they gave Mo Xi again, and this time Mo Xi had to be in a deep low position.
Mo Xi didn't choose to make too much physical contact with Chandler, just simply leaned on Chandler, and at the same time lifted the ball, put it on the side of his head, suddenly started, half turned, and walked to the basket, Chandler followed, raised his hands high, and interfered with Mo Xi's vision.
But Mo Xi didn't look at the basket, and boldly relied on his familiarity with the basket that he had trained to hook his hand directly.
Mo Xi scored two more points.
The Knicks' score is getting bigger and bigger, Hojberg is very anxious on the court, and he has lost his mind a little bit and sent Mo Xi a hot pot base, and Mo Xi smiled unceremoniously.
Next, Mo Xi attacked the basket, mid-range jump shots, turned over jump shots, and Mo Xi completely incarnated into a low-post offensive technique textbook. pulled the difference between the two sides directly to 20 points, and at the same time calmly scored 40 points, and directly told Van Gundy that he was going to play with a foul.
Played 37 minutes, made 18 of 26 shots, made 4 of 6 free throws, cut 44 rebounds, 5 assists, 5 blocks and 1 steal, although there were still five turnovers, but it was also the first time to dominate the battlefield with a perfect posture, who would have thought that a joking word before the game would come true.
The rest of the game had become garbage time, and Arenas pitifully stepped forward and said cautiously to Van Gundy, "Coach, when can I play?" ”
Van Gundy seemed a little absent-minded, but he seemed to think about it for a moment and said, "Uh, well, you're on the next dead ball." ”
Arenas happily ran back to his position, the twelfth on the team.
Arenas has never been so concerned about garbage time on the field as he is now, and every second feels like a century. Even, even when his teammates got the ball, Arenas began to curse them for their mistakes.
Arenas was counting on one or two dead shots in the last three or four minutes, but the substitutes on both sides were very focused, and they cherished the short playing time.
As time passed, Arenas became more and more impatient, and when the time entered the last half minute, Arenas couldn't take it anymore, threw the towel on the ground, and scolded fiercely: "Fuck! ”
But no one noticed Arenas except for Moxi, and even Arenas's shouting and scolding were drowned out in the boos of the entire audience in Chicago.
Some people are happy and some are sad, and everything is not always as it should be.