"Boy, you can't win this game, even if I die on the court, I won't let you continue to be arrogant in Madison." As soon as the game began, Ratril Sprewell stuck to Meng Xu, needless to say about the grievances between the Knicks and the Pacers, and the grievances between Meng Xu and Sprewell. If the Knicks don't need to mobilize to play that team, and everyone can show all their energy and 120% fighting spirit, then it is definitely the Pacers, especially Sprewell, who gritted his teeth with hatred for the Pacers and Meng Xu.

Last season was definitely the most humiliating season of his career for Sprewell, even if he was traded by the Warriors to the Knicks, Sprewell never felt this way, and now every day of Sprewell's time in New York, he can feel the shame and the shame of his heart. Especially the malicious foul on Meng Xu last season, not only was Meng Xu elbowed into a concussion, lying in the hospital for more than ten days, and then Sprewell was also banned by the league for two additional games and fined 5000 US dollars, for a time Sprewell became the laughing stock of the entire league, which is definitely a great shame for Sprewell, and under the "special care" of the league, Sprewell not only missed the best team last season, but also missed the All-Star, what annoyed Sprewell even more is that After the Knicks were swept out by the Pacers, the Knicks actually began to peddle themselves, if it weren't for their remaining 3 years and 40 million big contract, they really couldn't find a suitable "pick-up man", Sprewell is already in other teams now, although Sprewell is now disheartened with the Knicks, but Sprewell still holds back his strength to prove himself this season, especially with the Pacers, in front of Meng Xu, Sprewell wants to prove himself again, after all, even if he wants to leave the Knicks, Sprewell also has to leave with his head held high, instead of being swept away like a lost dog.

"Ratrel, anger can make people lose their judgment of the situation, and even your anger will not stop me." Meng Xu knew that Sprewell hated himself very much, just by looking at his already hideous face when defending himself. At the moment when Meng Xu spoke, his body leaned towards Spreville fiercely, after the vacancy, as soon as Meng Xu stretched out his hand, Jamal Tinsley passed the basketball over, before Sprewell was re-pasted, Meng Xu directly turned around and wiped Sprewell behind him, and after a feigned change of direction, Meng Xu shook off Kurt Thomas, who was making up for the defense, and rushed directly to the basket is a one-handed split.

"Beautiful dunk, Meng's ability to get rid of it is really outstanding, two very simple moves, he got rid of Ratrill and Kurt in a row, especially Kurt Thomas, in front of Meng's feints, there is not the slightest resistance."

I have to say that in the entire league now, there is no player who can defend Meng Xu one-on-one, and the strength of the outside players is obviously insufficient in the face of Meng Xu, even the brutalist outside line like Sean Marion, who can defend from the No. 1 position to the No. 4 position, does not have any advantage in strength when facing Meng Xu, and is out of position when squeezed by Meng Xu. When defending Meng Xu, the interior players will face the dilemma of slow speed, slow turning, and unable to keep up with their feet, and because of Meng Xu's large offensive range, those big forwards who are stronger than Meng Xu in strength, and can barely keep up with Meng Xu's footsteps and movement speed, have nothing to do when Meng Xu pulls the outside to shoot.

The Knicks, who were originally in the traditional configuration of the double interior, in order to limit Meng Xu in this game, sent a big forward Kurt Thomas, who had excellent movement speed but a somewhat out-of-the-box playing style, so the Knicks' basket can only rely on center Osella Hanington to protect it, but Ocella Hanington has been difficult to take care of itself in the scramble with Mutombo, not to mention dividing his energy to defend Meng Xu, so in several consecutive offenses after the opening, As long as Meng Xu gets rid of Sprewell or Kurt Thomas, the Knicks' basket will be ravaged by Meng Xu.

Less than two minutes into the opening game, Knicks head coach Don Cheney was already pacing back and forth on the sidelines, this Jeff Van Gundy's successor, after taking charge of the Knicks with the support of Isaiah Thomas, was arranged by the team owner and Isaiah Thomas, ready to transform this Knicks, completely abandon the Knicks' hated style of play, and create a gorgeous offensive team, but in the offseason, the Knicks attacked everywhere, but the result was nothing, not only the players that Don Cheney wanted, none of them could be traded, Even Sprewell, who is regarded as a cancer by Knicks management, can't find a team willing to take over. And the current Knicks, after the resignation of Jeff Van Gundy, who is good at defense, is also facing a very embarrassing situation, not only the team has lost the defense that it used to rely on, but also under the leadership of Don Cheney, the Knicks have not been able to play a beautiful offense, and the current Knicks are not good offensively, defense, and even the team's record has plummeted.

Although before the start of this game, the Knicks owner Dowland Jr. asked Don Cheney to destroy the Pacers with a mercury dip offense, but Don Cheney is not an idiot, he doesn't believe that the Knicks he leads can destroy the Pacers with offense, and the current teams with the best offense in the league, except for the Mavericks and the Pacers who are tied with one win and one loss, the rest of the Suns and Warriors, and even the Kings in the game with the Pacers, the TM that was beaten by the Pacers does not know, let alone his own Knicks. And his only chance of winning is to pray that the back-to-back Pacers will be physically exhausted and in poor condition in today's game, so that he can defeat the Pacers with the weak, and if you want to beat the Pacers, you must first stabilize your defense, especially the defense of Meng Xu, if Meng Xu can continue to maintain the state in the previous games, then the Knicks have a few more chances of winning. But Don Cheney's wishful thinking was obviously wrong, Meng Xu was in a very good state in this game, the Pacers' four offenses after the opening were all completed by Meng Xu, and Meng Xu's success rate was also terrible, the first four offenses were all scored, not only that, but also made Coat-Thomas and Ocella Hanington two fouls each, less than two minutes into the opening game, scored 10 points in a row, leading the Pacers to a 10-2 lead over the Knicks.

"Michael, you replace Cotter, after you come on the court, take over from O'Sella as center, Osera, you have to cooperate with Michael to protect our basket, don't let that kid continue to wreak havoc on our basket, as long as he dares to rush to the basket, you have to teach him a hard lesson, until that kid doesn't dare to approach our basket."

"Ratrier, when the game resumes, don't push him so hard, focus on his breakthrough, Alain, as long as that guy has the intention of breaking through, you go and cover him, as long as you can limit that kid, our hopes of winning will be greatly increased."

"Victory, victory, victory!" Just over two minutes into the game, Don Cheney called a timeout, and immediately after arranging a new defensive strategy, the Knicks' bench burst into a chorus of passionate chores.

"Ratrier, is that how you defend? Or is this the Knicks' defensive strategy against me right now? After the game restarted, Meng Xu, who was ready to attack with the ball, immediately found a change on the court, as a player opposite himself, Sprewell in this defense, changed the close-fitting pressure on himself after the opening, but always put himself more than half a step away, obviously, Meng Xu after the opening of the continuous breakthrough into the inside after a few dunks, forced Don Cheney to change the defensive strategy, the Knicks' current defensive focus has been put on defending Meng Xu's breakthrough.

Since the beginning of this season, because of the increase in interior offense, Meng Xu's medium and long-distance shots have been greatly reduced, and Meng Xu has not scored more than 25 points in 7 consecutive games, and in these 7 games, Meng Xu's 3-point shooting rate is only 23%, which is 20 percentage points lower than the average shooting rate of the whole season. Therefore, after Meng Xu continued to break through the inside line to score, the Knicks defended Meng Xu's breakthrough and the defensive strategy of putting shots seems to be a correct way to defend, after all, compared with the breakthrough dunk with a very high shooting rate, medium and long-distance shooting is more dependent on the feel, when the hand is not good, it is normal to shoot 1 in 10, or even 0 in 10 shots, and the Knicks are now betting on Meng Xu's bad hand. , after all, Meng Xu's hand has not been very good for 7 consecutive games.

"This kind of defense is enough for you, I can't wait to see for myself, our scoring champion is once again 4 of 14 shots, slashing 11 points, of course, if you shoot 4 of 24, or 4 of 34, I won't mind, hahahaha." The more Sprewell spoke, the more excited he became, and in the end he had already laughed unscrupulously with his mouth open, as soon as he thought of the possible picture of staying in the future, Sprewell couldn't hide the excitement in his heart, he couldn't wait to enjoy the thrill of revenge, and in order to stimulate Meng Xu, Sprewell also made a gesture of invitation to Meng Xu after finishing speaking, and at the same time muttered in his mouth: "You vote, I'll let you vote!" ”

"It's really funny, Ratrill actually used Jordan's way to provoke Meng, hahahaha." In the commentary bench not far from the two, after hearing Sprewell's words, Michaels immediately laughed and leaned back together, Jordan's favorite trash talk when defending was "You vote, I'll let you vote!" And then he will make a very exaggerated gesture of please, many players with poor psychological quality are unbalanced under Jordan's provocation, and now Sprewell is using Jordan's way to provoke Meng Xu.

"It's really interesting, but I don't know if Ratrier's method is useful." Magic Johnson was also amused by Sprewell's exaggerated facial expressions, but Magic Johnson didn't think that Sprewell's move would be useful to Meng Xu, and in the same way, if Jordan dared to use this way when defending Larry Bird, he would definitely be killed by Larry Bird.

Sprewell's purpose now is very clear, that is, he wants to fight Meng Xu through psychological warfare, as long as Meng Xu's throw can't score, then Sprewell will definitely provoke Meng Xu even more fiercely. Therefore, after Sprewell sacrificed Jordan to provoke Meng Xu, all the eyes on the scene were focused on Meng Xu for a while, and the audience who supported Meng Xu naturally hoped that Meng Xu would respond to Sprewell's provocation with practical actions, and the audience who supported the Knicks naturally hoped that Meng Xu would make a fool of himself, so as to add a little joke to tomorrow's after-dinner dinner, and the local media in New York were already a little impatient, they were already desperately hoping that Meng Xu would not shoot, and even looked forward to Meng Xu in this game. Strike iron twenty or even thirty times, and then in tomorrow's newspaper, the big black is very black, so as to relieve the hatred in his heart, the reporter of the New York Times, seeing the current situation on the field, has even laughed,

"In that case, then I will grant your wish." After Sprewell made the gesture of please, Meng Xu immediately took a step back and retreated directly to a distance of half a step outside the 3-point line.

"A very decisive shot, this is the Meng Xu we are familiar with!" After Meng Xu's 3-point shot, Michaels excitedly began to wave his arms, in the face of Sprewell's provocation, Meng Xu immediately chose to shoot back at him, although Meng Xu's state after the All-Star Game and shooting feel bad, especially medium and long-distance shooting, but Meng Xu still did not hesitate at all, and shot very decisively.

Since he has already released a big word, after Meng Xu jumped out of his hand, Sprewell could only stay where he was, watching the basketball in Meng Xu's hand fly towards the basket behind him, at this moment, Sprewell didn't dare to look back at all, this kind of moment is too testing people's heart endurance. Sprewell, who was still full of expectations, dropped to freezing point the moment Meng Xu landed, because when he saw Meng Xu after landing, a smile rose on the corner of his mouth, this ball Meng Xu must have hit, and he once again became a laughing stock.

When Meng Xu, who landed on the ground, turned around, opened his arms to the Knicks' bench, and once again used his gesture of celebrating in advance, the basketball thrown out by Meng Xu happened to brush up and fell into the basket, and the Pacers' bench immediately boiled.