Chapter 63: A long-lost victory

At the beginning of the fourth quarter, the Knicks changed to an offensive lineup, Mo Xi, Johnson, Houston, Sprewell, Ward, offensive and defending, and directly had a hard fight with the Spurs. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

In the opening game, the Spurs possessed the ball, and Ward directly led the defense to Avery Johnson.

Avery Johnson stumbled and handed the ball to Duncan in the high post, Duncan turned his back to Larry Johnson and pushed it in twice, Johnson was not tall enough, but his muscles were not ornaments, Duncan failed to chisel Johnson, simply protected the ball, turned and held it high, and hoisted the ball high to Robinson. Robinson began to snort on his back.

One of the four centers, Mo Xi is not the current Mo Xi can deal with, Robinson chiseled twice, Mo Xi has retreated to the penalty area, in height, Mo Xi is also one inch shorter than Robinson, and the difference in weight is not to be calculated, Robinson turned around directly, and forced Mo Xi to come to a bully hard bow.

Although Mo Xi can't bear the other party in strength, he doesn't want the other party to act recklessly in front of him. pounced directly on the other party without backing down. Mo Xi stretched out his hands and put them on Robinson's head.

The two hands and a ball met in the air, and a huge impact erupted, and a loud bang came, and the two figures fell from the air, but the difference was that Robinson only landed a little crookedly, and Mo Xi hit the basket rack, making the basket tremble.

The basketball flew straight into the sky under the strength of the two of them, and fell straight down, fortunately, under the desperate efforts of Mo Xi, this ball was not scored, the referee hesitated, and did not give a foul, after all, just now it looked ferocious, but in fact, the two sides did not have any physical contact, but both pressed on the ball.

Robinson is experienced, and he doesn't wait for the referee to give a whistle and just bend over to grab the rebound.

However, at this time, Robinson's physical advantage became a disadvantage, the center of gravity was too high, and before Robinson could lower his body, Johnson had already taken the first step to control the ball in his hands.

The Knicks quickly launched a fast attack, Ward received a long pass to Houston, Houston received the ball outside the three-point line, dribbled a shot, lit up the defender, dribbled to a position inside the three-point line, and hit it steadily.

Robinson was a little annoyed by a small character, and turned around and went directly to the low position, wanting to beat Mo Xi.

Robinson's characteristics are unique among the four centers, and in Popovich's words, Robinson is playing with his right head. In this regard, Mo Xi is somewhat similar to him.

Robinson gave Mo Xi twice, although the general's face frame technique is his strongest part, but in fact, his back body is not much worse, but after people have seen a lot of Olajuwon and Ewing's various back singles, it seems that Robinson's back is not very good.

But as the most comprehensive of the four centers, Robinson is also the best of several central defenders.

Robinson dribbled and turned to the inside, dribbled a step, gently squeezed away Mo Xi, turned around again, turned around in the opposite direction to completely shake off Mo Xi's defense, and made a light layup in front of Mo Xi.

This ball was lost, and the Knicks immediately launched a counterattack with a quick serve, but the Spurs were very vigilant, and the Knicks' sneak attack missed, so they had to turn to positional battles.

Johnson played high, Houston and Sprewell crossed positions, and Ward pulled them to the bottom corner to make room for them to drive near the baseline on the same side.

Sprewell received the ball and took advantage of Houston's involvement to kill from the middle to the inside, and Robinson moved sideways to make up for the defense, but did not completely lose control of the defense of Moxi.

Sprewell didn't dare to make a mistake and gave the ball to Ward in the bottom corner, but Ward didn't have a chance to shoot and handed the ball to Mo Xi.

Mo Xi originally wanted to play Robinson, but now the offensive arrow on the field is Houston, and he is indeed the most sure one, seeing Robinson quickly turn back to defend, Mo Xi still simply gave up his idea of singles, leaning on Robinson and turning to the middle, Robinson sealed Mo Xi's offensive position half a step in advance.

But Mo Xi didn't want to shoot at all, he just wanted to find a good passing position.

With a shake of his hand, he quickly sent the ball to Houston, who received the ball and bypassed Johnson's cover and shot directly.

The ball hit steadily.

The Spurs continued their tactical style, relying on the twin towers to attack, this time it became Duncan, the twin towers passed and cut together, Duncan gave Robinson a low post in the high position, and then Duncan quickly cut inside, and received Robinson's return pass to the basket, Johnson, who was far from a disadvantage in height, had nothing to do about it, and Mo Xi was also stuck in Robinson's dead position, and he couldn't help but guard against it.

Once again, the Knicks had to try to regain an advantage on offense.

The advantages and disadvantages of both sides are obvious, this performance is particularly prominent, the Spurs twin towers have cut 40 points, and the Knicks have also scored more than 40 points with two guns, but in terms of other people's scores, the Spurs only Avery Johnson scored a double-double, and the Knicks are Johnson and Moxi, so for a while, the Knicks still have some advantages.

In fact, the offensive methods of the two sides are very similar, relying on the inside line, and the outside players shoot and score, but the current Knicks have less Ewing, and the inside deterrence is insufficient, and it seems that they are more than willing but not enough.

The Knicks quickly moved the ball from the left wing to the right wing, and Murphy pulled it out to cover Houston, who received the ball and was delayed by Robinson, who couldn't, so he made a back-hitting pass to Murphy.

Robinson quickly turned back to defend and couldn't get the first chance to attack.

Ewing and Robinson have also played against each other several times over the past decade, accumulating a lot of experience, which he has passed on to Mo Xi without reservation. The first thing about Robinson's defense is that the "Admiral" is a very showy person, and if he can beat you, he won't just interfere with you.

Mo Xi lowered his center of gravity, pressed the ball down, dummed to the left, and crossed his feet to break through and pass Robinson on the right side.

Robinson is the most mobile of the four centers, and he seems to have passed Robinson, but he was actually driven near Duncan by Robinson.

Seeing that Mo Xi is about to face the situation of being caught by the twin towers, Mo Xi dribbles and stops urgently, although Mo Xi's guard skills are not as skilled as these super insiders, but he has also been mixed in the streets of Los Angeles, not to mention that now in New York, behind him is Rock Park, this hand emergency stop is already a small achievement.

Robinson immediately stopped, and at the same time took a step ahead of Mo Xi.

After the emergency stop, Mo Xi lowered his center of gravity and made a backward jump shot.

Such a simple feint Robinson naturally wouldn't be fooled, and he didn't stop moving, and the relay pulled up his left foot as the axis and turned it slightly, wanting to hook his hand.

Robinson immediately took a sideways step to block Mo Xi.

Mo Xi took advantage of the situation, and withdrew his right foot from front of him to make a move. This action was done very well, and Robinson sneered and rose to the ground.

It's a pity that this set of actions is still a feint, and when he saw that Robinson was finally shaken, he flicked his legs, jumped up, and shot out with some back.

The ball bounces into the basket and bounces into the basket.

Robinson's face was a little unsightly, he defended this ball very well, but in the end, there was no need to jump up and forcibly cover the opponent, otherwise Robinson's height and arm span would not be able to score under his interference.

The game gradually came to a stalemate, after all, both sides are strong defensive teams, and the more they get to the end of the game, the greater the defensive intensity, even if the Knicks have a drag on the side of the oil bottle, they also dragged the Spurs off the horse, and the two sides rolled on the ground and learned to fight as a scoundrel.

Note that at this time, the two sides were really rolling on the ground, and the two sides each used their respective Johnson as the main force to stage an iron-blooded offensive and defensive battle with the characteristics of the Knicks, Larry Johnson fell to the ground three times in a row to save the ball, which aroused the cheers of the fans in the audience, and the Knicks were demoralized for a while, and forcibly opened the difference by three points.

Seeing that the clock was running out, with less than 40 seconds left and the Spurs still trailing by six points, Popovich called a 20-second timeout to set up a three-point strategy, and for this purpose, he specially replaced Steve Kerr, a veteran of the Triple Crown who was poached from the Bulls.

It has to be said that after the legendary shooter played the game, he put a lot of pressure on the Knicks.

Maybe it's really too much pressure, the Knicks actually made a big mistake at such a critical time, Ward who was guarding Steve Kerr was blocked by Duncan's cover, and Johnson did not reach an agreement, neither of them could change to Kerr at the first time, Kerr comfortably received the ball on the left wing at 45 degrees, Sprewell hurriedly pounced to make up for the defense, Kerr calmly passed the ball back to Sean Elliott, Sean Elliott despite the poor performance of this game, But he's the best shooter the Spurs have cultivated in the past decade.

Sprewell, who had just saved, had to turn back to defend again.

At this time, Elliott quickly passed to Cole, and Cole calmly hit the shot in the face of Ward, who was hurrying away.

With 27 seconds left, the Knicks led by just three points.

The Knicks were a little flustered, Van Gundy was still holding a timeout, he was a little hesitant, not sure if he should use it at this time, after all, Popovich still had a timeout in his hand, and the current Knicks still have the lead.

Fortunately, the Knicks didn't let Van Gundy hesitate.

Although a little panicked, Ward quickly calmed down, through the half of the time Ward and Mo Xi made a simple combination, quickly moved to the right wing, at this time Houston from the bottom corner of the right wing with the help of Johnson's cover in the low post to run out of the left wing opportunity, Ward's eyes are fast, boldly came to a horizontal pass, the speed of the ball passed quickly, no one reacted to the Spurs, Houston received the ball, in the face of the defender who pounced on the decisive shot.

“H2o―”

Accompanied by Houston's elegant shot, the live DJ almost shouted out the nickname of the Captain Knicks.

The ball slammed into the net, splashing a white wave.

Houston countered and replied to the Spurs with a tough response.

Popovich frowned and handed over his last timeout.

It's just that the Knicks' mistake last time could not be made again, Kerr failed to receive the ball, and the Spurs had to give the ball to Duncan in the high post and regroup.

But the Spurs underestimated the Knicks' desire to win, Johnson and Houston immediately pinched Duncan, Duncan just caught the ball, and there was no movement, and the Knicks held it down, Johnson forced the ball down with his strength advantage and handed it to Houston.

The Spurs immediately fouled Houston to the free-throw line.

Houston, who had not conceded a free throw in the game, scored a game-high 34 points.

The Spurs didn't take a timeout, there were only ten seconds, the Knicks pressed all over the court, the Spurs sent the ball out with difficulty, and miraculously passed the half court in the Knicks' hand-to-hand combat, but Kerr, who was the most sure of the Spurs' three-point shooting, was blocked by Ward at the moment, and the Spurs had no other way to force a three-point shot and missed.

Johnson ran out of time with a mischievous shot into the sky.

The Knicks successfully killed the Spurs with an outstanding performance in the fourth quarter, and won the opponent very much. The Knicks all breathed a sigh of relief, at least the Knicks were still moving forward.