Chapter 369: Don't give in
"Richard, maybe you're really right, it looks like this young team does need a lot of work to be done right now."
In the live broadcast room of the North American Sports News Network's "Daily Live" program, Howard Jefferson, one of the guests invited to participate in the live broadcast, conceded defeat to another live broadcast guest, "Big Mouth" Richard.
The "Daily Live" program will broadcast each NBA game with hot spots, and the host of the show, Sals Olovocandi, will also invite two influential guests to join him in the live commentary.
On the third NBA game day in November, the league will play ten games, after all, it's a weekend, which is also the day with the most crowds.
Among the 10 games, there are many East-West powerhouses such as the Los Angeles Lakers away to the Miami Heat, as well as the Boston Celtics and Washington Wizards, but the "Daily Live" program ultimately chose to broadcast the matchup between the Sacramento Runners and the New York Knicks.
Sals Olovocandi is arguably the most influential and professional basketball commentator on North American TV shows, and he is also a host who is very good at seizing opportunities.
Needless to say, Richard is one of the "celebrities" of the Knicks, although many New York fans are eager to kill Richard, but Sals also knows that Richard is now the one who hugs the thigh of the league management.
And Howard Jefferson is also a very controversial figure, when the morale of the Sacramento Kings was at its peak, Howard was the main player of the Kings, and he finally fell out with the Kings because of a big contract, and then left the Knicks, which also made the Kings team with the most gorgeous offense at that time completely fall apart, and completely cut off the Kings' championship dream.
As for Howard, who came to the Knicks, he finally won the second championship in Knicks history with Big Mouth Richard and others.
Such two topical commentators have undoubtedly increased the attention of this program to a great extent.
At the beginning of the game, Howard and Richard started the ring, and he said that he was more optimistic about the Runners, because Howard felt that the current Runners played a lot like the Kings team he was on back then, and Richard was single-mindedly playing the "opposite" role, and he said that it was impossible for the Runners to maintain this kind of high-intensity and high-speed tactics in every game for a long time.
However, when the first quarter ended, Howard was a little tempted to throw in the towel, because the Runners were already 11 points behind the Knicks, and their core Blair Bowman was out of the game due to injury.
Although the Runners maintained a good offense after Blair Bowman went off, Blair's injury and retirement had too much impact on the Runners' defense, and without Blair, the Runners' current lineup simply could not stop the Knicks' multi-point offense.
I have to say that the Knicks have too many offensive points now, although their tactics are chaotic like a high school team, but they are not short of stars who can fight alone, and after Blair retired from injury, the Knicks' various singles made the Runners more and more difficult.
Wang Lei does have the ability to detect potential injuries of players early, but this ability cannot completely let his players avoid injuries, because anything can happen on the field, maybe just an inconspicuous jump and landing will cause serious injuries to players, unfortunately Blair is so unlucky, he directly injured his knee in the collision at the beginning of the game, which was indeed an accident.
Although Turgun adjusted the team's tempo immediately after Blair's injury, and then increased his outside shots at the same time, the young men of the Runners were still greatly affected by Blair's injury.
In response to Blair's injury and retirement, Wang Lei didn't say much during the interval, the team doctor's diagnosis was very bad, probably need surgery, and the specific situation can only be determined after a detailed examination, so Wang Lei doesn't plan to let the young people of the team think about this matter anymore, and the most important thing now is to let the players bring up the rhythm of the game and let them focus on the game.
"Little bunny, you play a little more this time, bring up the rhythm and morale, we need to win this game."
Wang Lei said his intentions very directly, after Blair retired from injury, he needed Turgun to take over the core burden of the team.
Although Wang Lei's tactics do not pay attention to the core or the like, but the players on the field need a backbone, although Salish is good, but his will is not firm enough, of course, even if he is firm enough, Wang Lei will not choose Salehi, who is light and who is heavy, Wang Lei still sees it very clearly.
After the start of the second quarter of the game, Turgun did not rest again, but he was replaced by Wang Lei to the position of scoring guard, the rotating point guard is the "small boss" Francis, Francis's defense is more hardworking, which can well limit the Knicks's "random play", and Francis has no big problem even if he defends small forward.
Turgon, who started playing without the ball, soon gave New Yorkers at Madison Garden a good taste of what it meant to be "open-hanging."
Although many players on the Knicks team want to let this Oriental see how powerful they are, and then step on Turgon's current fame, Turgon's frightening three-point shot still makes many Knicks players gasp.
Francis Leonardo's original nickname of "Little Boss" is now showing signs of loosening, and many people in the team have begun to call Francis "Black Hand", firstly, this guy is originally of Italian descent, and secondly, Francis is indeed playing more "black" now, although his kraft candy-like defense looks average, but it will definitely make the defender extremely irritable.
With Francis' limitations, and Turgon's on-board three-pointers, the Runners were able to tie and overtake just over halfway through the second quarter.
By the time the two starters started to return, the Runners players had found their old rhythm, and Turgon, who had regained possession, began to keep the whole team running normally as the "core".