The Christmas war has officially begun, and the New York side is their enduring combination, returning to New York's historic passer Mark Jackson, New York captain H20 Alan Houston, the current league's No. 1 rabid Rabid Rabid Sprewell, New York's ironwall Kurt Thomas, plus the current New York new core is in a sense the East's No. 1 center Moxi. On paper, the New York Knicks are absolutely top-notch in the league, with excellent offense and defense, or extremely strong defense, but their problem is also very clear, which is the age structure of the team, which makes the team likely to miss great opportunities to attack and defend due to physical problems with players at critical moments.

But New York is New York, and they have the best home-court advantage in the league.

The Raptors have also undergone a major change this season, many of the team's old men have left, only Antonio Davis and Vincent Carter are still there, and they are also veritable stars in the team, especially Carter, as for the others, the center is Eric Montrose, an unknown center, who only went to the starting position because of the Raptors' injury, and they also have a starting guard swingman, Morris Peterson, who may be the first batch of 3D players at the No. 2 and No. 3 positions, In addition, he is a rare left-hander, a very good practical role player, and their starting point guard Alvin Williams can only be described as quite average, and may be at the bottom of the league's starting point guards.

On the whole, the Raptors don't seem to have found their right way forward after last season's glory, but are getting more and more backwards, but it's really hard for Carter and Antonio Davis, the two of them actually brought the team to the ninth place in the East, although there are also reasons why the Eastern team is weaker, but it can also show the strength of these two people.

But today, the Raptors will face a tough test, and the Knicks' concrete jungle is no joke.

At the beginning of the game, the Raptors didn't let the center step forward and Mo Xi jumped the ball, but Antonio Davis stepped forward. Since that year's All-Star, Antonio Davis, who was squeezed out by Moxi, has formed a mortal feud with Moxi. It is said that cutting off people's financial roads is like killing parents, Mo Xi rose to prominence in the year when Antonio was most likely to enter the All-Star, with the help of the city's influence and skin color, he successfully squeezed out Antonio, and entered the All-Star under the nose of Larry Bode, every time Antonio saw Mo Xi was a little bit gnashing his teeth, the most angry thing for him was that Mo Xi's progress was too fast, and he could no longer successfully limit Mo Xi, and now there is an argument in the league, that is, Mo Xi is on the road to becoming the next Barkley, Not because of the mouth and ass, but because it has the potential to be someone who can only dominate the league on the offensive end.

With a slight vertical stroke, he used his reach advantage to successfully point the ball in the direction of Mark Jackson, and the Knicks took the lead in attacking.

The Knicks' first wave of offense was simple, just a small tentative.

Kurt Thomas pulled up to the high post to block Jackson, and after the two separated, Thomas moved a step sideways to near the free throw line, and Jackson hit the ground and passed the ball to Thomas, who took the ball and shot straight away.

But in this game, Antonio was very excited when he saw Mo Xi, and he stepped forward directly to point the ball down, grinning and making a silent mockery at the Knicks.

It's a pity that he was very unsuccessful in this wave of forced pretense, and when he turned around, he was repaid a hot pot by Thomas in the same way.

The first goal of both sides was the Knicks' side using the cover of the low post, walking from the bottom corner, coming out on the other side to receive Jackson's pass, and scoring with a shot.

The bosses of both sides, Carter and Moxi, are surprisingly calm, and they rarely even handle the ball.

In the end, it was Carter, who was pressed into the disadvantage by the team's direct opening, couldn't help it first.

Stepping on the three-point line to catch the ball, half-turning to the side to face Sprewell, compared to Moxi's situation, Carter is undoubtedly a little worse, is Sprewell's defensive level and the Raptors center's at the same level?

Carter accelerated, used the start of the first step to force a half-body advantage, and then with the help of Antonio's cover, he directly killed the basket with a big change of direction.

At this time, the basket was in a state of mid-air, Thomas was pulled out by Antonio, and Mo Xi was on the other side of the basket, at this time it was impossible for him to turn around and intercept, because Carter had already taken off.

Mo Xi hesitated for a moment, and did not choose to rush up and forcibly interfere, no matter how the league rendered it, this was just a regular season.

Carter is never ready to rush up to the opposing center to break this attack, because for Carter at this time, these are the same, stepping over, turning over, pulling the rod past, folding the past, or directly riding and flying over, these are no different.

There was no reinforcement personnel in sight, and Carter directly turned 180 degrees in the air and made a strong back buckle.

Amazing!

Despite being an enemy, people here in New York would love to see Carter dunk. This buckle ignited the first fire of the Christmas war, which had been a little dull.

Kenny Smith and Barkley on the commentary bench also started to get high.

"To be honest, Lao Ba, I still don't understand why you are commenting on this scene in New York, is it bad in Los Angeles, although Vincent's dunk is as flavorful as ever." Kenny Smith said, licking his lips.

"Oh my God," Barkley said, with a look of disgust, "what kind of expression do you have, you know?" The young ladies of the year all looked like this when they saw me. ”

"So now you can only attract grannies." Kenny Smith quickly shot back. This kind of fighting mode has really experienced a lot of experience between the two.

Barkley pouted and said, "Don't you know the style of that old hip-hop guy over there?" This kind of game is likely to be played well? And that big fat man is too lazy to die, and he definitely won't play. ”

Smith was speechless, well, you have a point. Smith coughed lightly and said, "Let's come and watch the game." ”

The Knicks were deducted like this, and they wanted to fight back, but the person who fought back was not the Knicks' most athletic Sprewell, but Mo Xi, and the battle of the stars began.

It's just that Raptors center Eric's defense, which has no ability to resist, is still a little unexciting to watch.

Mo Xi asked for the ball in the waist position, and the position he wanted was not very deep, but two or three steps were enough for Mo Xi to come to the basket.

Mo Xi caught Jackson's lob and shook it from side to side, and then directly began to advance savagely.

At this time, Barkley interrupted Smith's explanation again, and started his routine loudly: "That's right, that's it, sit down, sit on him, be his brother, send him to Thailand." ”

Mo Xi naturally couldn't hear Barkley's voice on the court at this time, but he also knew what Barkley meant, and pushed forward all the way, originally the Raptors had specially designed the newspaper clip tactics for Mo Xi, but at this moment the game has just begun, is it too dirty to play like this.

The Raptors' hesitation made Mo Xi go straight to the restricted area. Mo Xi shook his shoulders again, turned around in reverse.

Eric immediately followed, but as soon as Eric took a step, Mo Xi turned back, leaned back, pushed Eric out of bounds, jumped on his own feet, and at the same time turned to face the basket, rose from the ground, and pulled the frame with both hands.

Although it does not have the tension-filled beauty of Carter, the advantages of relying on his own form are insufficient.

The sound at Madison Square Garden was loud and loud, and they knew that the game had just begun.