Chapter 67: Back Injury

On the court, Nash, who had a full quarter and a half of rest, was in better shape than ever, hitting a 3-pointer from the outside as soon as he came on the court.

After that, the Knicks JR Smith missed a mid-range shot, Gortat protected the backcourt rebound, handed the ball to Nash to counterattack the fast break, went straight to the blue line, hit the ground and passed back to Shannon Brown, who followed up, and staged a folding dunk. 2 more points.

The score was 86:82, and the score instantly fell behind to 4 points.

The Suns are two completely different teams with or without Nash. Due to the Knicks' weak backcourt and no available people, Shambaugh, a rookie who had been playing for 35 minutes at this time, was almost unable to keep up with Nash's quarters, and was walked away by Nash's shots and passes.

But D'Antoni looked at McBibby on the bench and didn't choose to make a substitution, and that's when he thought of Jeremy Lin, an Asian point guard in the Development League, who could be recalled for the next game, and he could top it up if necessary. He never expected that this decision would create the inspirational story Lin Madness that swept the United States.

The Knicks relied on Jr.S.'s interior offense and Anthony's scoring to stabilize the situation. The scores of the two teams alternated and never pulled away.

With three minutes left in the game, the Suns took the Knicks inside from the low post with a non-stop hand-to-hand ball. As soon as Nash saw the middle of the front court empty, he quickly dribbled the ball straight inside and made a steady layup, while Shambaugh struggled to chase the hat.

But because Shambaugh's physical strength was a little worse, his body in the air was not well controlled, and at the same time as the block, the whole body slammed into Nash, and then pressed Nash to the ground together.

only heard an "ah", and everyone present was shocked.

Shambaught quickly became frightened, only to see Nash curled up on the floor, covering his back with one hand.

The audience watched this scene displayed on the big screen and exclaimed.

"Oh, my god, Nash seems to be injured, it's still his back, I remember he's always had an old injury on his back"

"Hopefully it's just a false alarm"

Hill pushed away the Shambaught on the side, and his teammates squatted on the ground to ask Nash, but they didn't dare to help, Gentry was blindfolded, and quickly called the team doctor to check. And Shambaugh had been standing on the sidelines, he really didn't take it, but he didn't mean to.

At this time, Gentry and the Suns players did not investigate whether Shambaugh was intentional or not, because it was meaningless, and they were most concerned about whether the injury of the team's soul Nash was serious.

After the team doctor's initial inquiry and examination, Nash will not be able to play this game, but the specific situation needs further examination.

With the help of the team doctor, Nash disappeared into the tunnel of the players. Everyone was still relieved, after all, they were still walking, and they didn't use a stretcher, and they were already Wanxing.

The referee reviewed the footage and found no tendency for a malicious foul on the part of Shambaugh, only giving a normal foul. Hill made a free throw in place of Nash.

The game will continue, and Gentry will send Chen Shu. The latter felt very uncomfortable at this time, although he wanted to play, but he was very reluctant to play in this way. His heart was full of gratitude and respect for Nash, and he prayed in his heart that Nash was okay.

Looking at Shambaugh, who has always been a little distracted, judging from his previous defense of himself, Shambaugh is not a player with dirty defense, on the contrary, his defense is very clean, and it was really an accident to hurt Nash this time.

But no matter what, he's going to win this fight, both for himself and for Nash.

In the last 2 minutes and 40 seconds, the score was 94:92 The Knicks' offense, both sides were very professional, and no one had such a big mood swing like Chen Shu. The Knicks are resolute on offense this time, and everyone doesn't like to lose at home.

Facing Chen Shu, who was in a defensive posture and his eyes were burning, Shambaugh did not attack with the ball, but passed the ball to the outside JR Smith, who broke through with the ball, disrupted the formation of the Suns, rushed to the basket and passed the ball to Xiao Si on the right side of the penalty area with a backhand.

The opportunity was good, Xiao Si didn't let it go, a small throw, and scored 2 points.

The score is 94:94.

With 2 minutes and 23 seconds left, Chen Shu held the ball quickly, took a step outside the three-point line, and chased down the 3-point shot.

"Bang" was a little unlucky, but fortunately Hill grabbed the rebound in the front court, and the second offense, small throw, still missed. The 38-year-old veteran has been on the court for 36 minutes, his strength is exhausted, and his shot is short.

This time the Knicks didn't give a chance, although Xiao Si didn't get stuck in a good position, but with his amazing bounce, he jumped high and collected the rebound in the backcourt. Pass to jR Smith and launch a counter-attack.

On the Suns' side, Brown didn't have much presence throughout the game, and the only role was to defend against JR, which was not bad. Under Brown's pursuit, JR did not choose a fast-break layup, because he suffered a loss before and received a big hat from Brown.

There was 1 minute and 56 seconds left. JR dribbled back to the perimeter, handed the ball to Shambaugh to reorganize, and waited for everyone to settle down, and the double reversed fell into a positional battle.

At the end of the game, everyone was physically exhausted, and only Chen Shu was full of energy.

This is Anthony playing the style of the boss, reaching out to ask, and posing with 3 threats in the face frame. At the end of the game, the skill advantage of 3 threats was brought into play, and after a tentative step, he pulled up a jump shot, which not only saved physical strength but also increased his shooting percentage.

94:96。 There is 1 minute and 41 seconds left. The Knicks lead by 2 points.

The crowd cheered enthusiastically, which was what they wanted to see, and the stars stepped up and walked away from the game.

"A 2-point jumper from Anthony, when it counts, the superstar should step up"

"That's true, Barkley, you say the Suns, who's going to step up? The Suns don't have a superstar on the court."

"Well, I guess it's my little brother who stepped up, he has the temperament of a killer"

The Knicks didn't give the Suns a chance to break fast, and everyone was focused at the critical moment. Chen Shu controlled the ball at the top of the arc, Brown and Dudley began to cross runs to get rid of the defense, Hill responded in the low post, and Gotatra came out to block Chen Shu.

After the blocking, Chen Shu played big against Chandler, easily broke through, and the middle was empty, but Chandler was hanging behind him, and Chen Shu did not dare to go to the basket directly, but attracted the defender to slip to the bottom line.

A long pass to Dudley, the point guard at the top of the arc, Dudley raised his hand for a 3-point shot.

"Bang" is a pity that it is a little shorter. There is 1 minute and 20 seconds left.

Dudley is a small forward with three-point ability, although the shooting rate is average, but he should be a little sure in the vacant situation, but he was abused by Anthony for a night, first, his physical strength was exhausted, and second, he was indeed unlucky.

Chandler, who was in the Chandler box, received the rebound and wanted to pass to Anthony to attack.

Suddenly, a yellow hand came out of the passing route, it was Chen Shu, who predicted Chandler's passing route and intercepted the basketball first.

There was no hesitation to pull out the jump shot, and "heck" scored 2 points.

Score: 96-96. There is 1 minute and 14 seconds left until the end.

The Chinese fans at the scene burst into applause, and Emma Roberts also jumped up excitedly, attracting a burst of sideways glances from the audience on the side, and their hearts swayed.

"The perfect steal and jump shot from China Chen, this ball was crucial, and it kept the suspense of the game to the end, and I think the crowd would love to see a game like this."

"What a beautiful jump shot, Maddie possessed. I suddenly found that Chen Shu's imitation ability is very strong, like Jordan in layups, and like Maddie in dry pulling. Smith said thoughtfully.

"Rookie, you won't take the victory away at Madison Garden, I'll beat you" Anthony was furious, the rookie really annoyed him.

"All promises are lies until they become reality"

"You're the most arrogant rookie I've ever met"

"Is this arrogant? Then I said that tonight, I will shoot the killer ball, is this more arrogant, haha" Chen Shu's momentum is not false at all, he has the trash talk of Bird's predecessors.

"Haha," Anthony laughed angrily.