Chapter 347: Let's Cut It, Roy

The Chicago Bulls are really good friends of the New York Knicks, and they always lend a helping hand every time Big Brother New York is in trouble.

I still remember that at the beginning of the NBA season, the Knicks also suffered a terrible four-game losing streak, seeing that Phil Jackson was facing dismissal, and Roy was about to be driven away by Anthony and Mills, but the Bulls gave the Knicks a life-saving victory at home at this time.

Today, in the absolute unfavorable situation of the Knicks suffering a six-game losing streak, at the critical moment when Roy and Hornacek were criticized by the media and fans, it was the Bulls who stepped forward and handed over the life-saving straw to ensure the stability of Hornacek's position and help Roy get out of the predicament.

The Chicago Bulls are really old friends of New Yorkers, and I believe every New York Knicks fan will be grateful to the Bulls like this.

But there are old friends like the Chicago Bulls, and naturally there are old rivals like the Toronto Raptors, and after playing the game with the Bulls, Roy and the Knicks rushed from Chicago to Toronto to challenge the Raptors away.

This is the second time this season that Roy and the Knicks have come to Canada, and Roy certainly remembers his crazy performance here in the first round. In that game, he staged an incredible super reversal, not only beating the Raptors by 1 point, but also beating the opponent's ace player Lowry all over the ground, and it was after this game that Lowry and Roy were able to tie the knot.

It was after this game that Lowry joined the mighty army of "Roy", and in many of Roy's activities in the future, in various tweets and Facebook statements after that, Lori fanned the flames of Roy and added fuel to the fire.

Of course, Kyle Lowry can't forget that unforgettable night, his Raptors team was not only miraculously reversed by the Knicks with a 20-point lead, but he was also beaten by Roy and couldn't recognize the south, south, west, and north.

So, for him, it's been a long time since he waited for this match to get revenge on Roy.

However, Lowry has been in a good mood lately, and after winning Roy's New Year's game against the Rockets, Lowry was still depressed because the Knicks' record was about to catch up with his team.

But then, the situation took an incredible turn, and the morale-boosting Knicks suddenly suffered a jaw-dropping six-game losing streak, losing to young teams like the Magic and the Bucks, and they also lost to old powerhouses like the Pacers, and they even lost to teams like the Pelicans and 76ers, and the Knicks' six routs were simply incomprehensible.

What's even more incomprehensible is that Roy, who had just played against the sky in Houston, suddenly plummeted, from superstar stats to the level of role players, which made Lowry feel even better.

Coupled with the fact that Roy was disqualified from the NBA All-Star voting by the league this year, and he couldn't threaten his All-Star Game appearance at all, all of this made Lowry feel too smooth and cool.

Take advantage of your illness to kill you.

Kyle Lowry also seems to have won the essence of Chinese dogfighting.

Before this game, Lowry inevitably provoked Roy on the Internet to take advantage of a little bit of lip service, such as the Knicks' poor record, such as Roy's crazy statistics, such as the kind of rumors that are not favorable to Roy.

In the face of Lowry's provocation, Roy didn't see it, he must learn to be low-key, play low-key, show people in a low-key manner, survive the darkness, and the dawn will naturally come.

In fact, it is not easy for the Knicks to beat the Bulls in the absence of Porzingis in the last game, and today they went to Toronto to face the Raptors, the second strongest team in the East, and they don't know how to play, so all Roy can do is to endure, anyway, there are still 7 games in the end, as long as they get through it.

It turns out that Roy's worries are not groundless, it may be that the away game is not adaptable, or it may be that the last game consumed too much passion from everyone, and the Knicks fell into a comprehensive passivity at the beginning of this game, with Rose, Crowder, and Farid all kinds of iron, and they directly brought the game into a one-sided situation at the beginning.

The team felt cold, and Roy, the locomotive, couldn't bring it with him.

After trying a few strong attacks, Roy simply changed his style of play: he no longer focused on the stats, but instead put pressure on Lowry, he wanted to suppress Lowry's performance with all his might, anyway, no matter whether the game was won or lost, at least Roy would not make Lowry, a nasty guy, comfortable.

Don't say it, Roy's goal has really been achieved, on the Raptors' side, although DeRozan has opened the pot, Carroll has opened the pot, and even Powell has opened the pot, but only Lowry is all kinds of uncomfortable and passive. Roy didn't have much of an offensive stellarity, but his defense against Lowry was a leak. Lowry was about to be driven crazy by Roy, whether it was his breakthrough or shooting, he would be ruthlessly blocked by Roy.

Roy's hard-working defense worked, but the two fists were hard to beat the four hands, even if Roy froze Lowry, the Knicks still couldn't avoid the fate of being slaughtered by the Raptors, the halftime score was 69:54, and the Knicks had shown a hint of a rout after 24 minutes.

In the third quarter, the game became more difficult, and the Raptors suddenly strengthened their defense in this quarter, and their efforts made the Knicks completely fall into a scoring drought, and the score was pulled away at once.

In the entire third quarter, the Knicks only scored a pitiful 8 points, while the Raptors continued to score 27 points, and at the end of the third quarter, the Knicks fell behind by a staggering 34 points at 62:96.

Seeing that the sky was weak, Hornacek simply conceded, and he sent all the substitutes in the fourth quarter to announce the loss of the game.

The Knicks suffered their 20th loss of the season, with a final score of 89-116, another bloody defeat.

For the Raptors, DeRozan had 23 points, five rebounds and five assists, Powell had 21 points, Carroll had 20 points, Valanciunas had 12 points and 16 rebounds, and Lowry had 16 points and nine assists after Roy's fourth-quarter hiding.

On the Knicks' side, the top scorer was Derrick Rose with just 16 points, and only Holiday and Farid put their scores in double digits in garbage time, and everyone else scored in the single digits, including Roy.

Roy only scored 9 points, 8 rebounds and 9 assists in this game, the statistics are not too ugly, and when he was targeting Lowry, Lowry was embarrassed to score only 2 points, which can be regarded as a performance.

However, no matter what happened to Roy, the Knicks lost badly again.

Regarding this defeat, the fans in New York are of course very unconvinced.

The arrogant New York fans have been getting a lot of anger lately, not only having to endure losing to teams like the Magic and the 76ers, but also to see the team lose to their former rivals, the humble Canadian "Dragons".

The higher the expectations, the greater the disappointment, you know, after the Knicks' away victory over the Rockets before the New Year, New York fans were clamoring around the world to wrestle with the Cleveland Cavaliers and grab the dragon chair, but now the 21-20 record can give them a heavy blow.

The last big win at home didn't wake up the Knicks' fighting spirit, and that victory now looks more like a flashback, and perhaps for Roy's scoring as well.

Since the beginning of the new year, Roy's stats have dropped to 22.9 points, 6.1 rebounds, 6.9 assists, 1.4 steals and 1.1 blocks per game, and his average of 10.6 points, 7.5 rebounds, 8.6 assists, 0.8 steals and 0.5 blocks per game in the eight games he played after the new year has been even worse.

Roy's low scoring is undoubtedly an important factor in the Knicks' losing streak, and although he has contributed a lot to the team in rebounds and assists, fans only hope that Roy can score and score a lot of points.

Slash off, Roy, we just want to see you keep shooting.

This is a poll initiated by a fan group on the Knicks fan forum, in this poll, 80.14% of fans believe that Roy's poor record is related to Roy, while 72.56% of fans believe that Roy's lack of desire to score is the biggest reason for his poor performance.

Let's cut the score, Roy, we really need you to score, and with the high hopes of the fans, Roy welcomes another old rival Atlanta Hawks at home......