"Hugo stepped up when the team needed it, and he broke the momentum of the Trail Blazers." D'Antoni lavished praise on Wu's performance after the match, "In a close game like this, you need the best players in the team to step up, and Hugo did that, and we knew they were good for singles, so we tried to make Hugo play like that. ”

In the whole game, Wu Huang scored 22 points, 4 rebounds and 7 assists, and he said after the game: "Once you score one or two goals, you will feel that the basket is getting bigger, and that's how I felt tonight." ”

The key man for the Knicks today was Andre Iguodala, who had 20 points, seven rebounds and six assists and eight points in the final quarter.

But the first brother didn't talk much about himself after the game, and he attributed his team's victory to a ferocious start.

"We started aggressively, we kept scoring goals and didn't let them score," Iguodala said, "The Trail Blazers averaged 26 points per game in the first quarter, and today we limited them to 18 points in the first quarter and we scored 29 points ourselves, which had a big impact on the rest of the game." ”

D'Antoni didn't forget to praise Iguodala either: "Andre did a good job of guarding Roy and allowing him to try jumpers from the outside most of the time. You know, he's so cunning, he's hard to stop when he gets into the box, he's got a good view and he can share the ball, so we know it's a lot easier if we can keep him on the perimeter. Andre did a good job of that, and he only allowed Roy to score 12 points. ”

In the game, Roy made only 4 of 14 shots, scored 12 points, 5 rebounds and 6 assists, and Iguodala was very successful in his defense. There is also part of the credit of Emperor Wu. He can also cause problems for Roy when he switches.

Knicks though after the trade. It was a three-game losing streak right away, but if you compare it closely, you can see that their perimeter defense is getting better and better.

The backcourt combination of Wu Huang and Iguodala has almost no shortcomings, even if the team itself does not have an excellent defensive system, but with the individual defensive ability of these two, it can make it difficult for ninety percent of the backcourt combinations of teams in the league to attack.

The Trail Blazers are not a weak team, but the Knicks still have an all-round advantage in this game, not only allowing fans to see their potential. It also gave the Knicks players more confidence themselves.

After the win over the Trail Blazers, the Knicks got three days off. The team's training will naturally not stop, and the main training content of the Knicks at this stage is not to strengthen the technical or physical fitness of the players, but to conduct a lot of tactical training sessions, that is, running tactics.

D'Antoni is best known for his pick-and-roll offense and quick transitions.

Both of these pay attention to the word "fast", but fast requires the players to have enough tacit understanding, otherwise the mistake alone is enough for them to drink a pot.

A team wants to develop a sense of understanding. There are not so many shortcuts, just non-stop rehearsing tactics. Keep finding mistakes and correcting them.

On Dec. 13, the Knicks traveled to play the New Orleans Hornets on the road.

In this game, the Knicks continued their recent recovery momentum, Wu Huang contributed a team-high 24 points, and 7 rebounds and 7 assists.

Despite a double-double of 18 points and 10 assists, Chris Paul struggled to extend his winning streak.

Iguodala had just 15 points and four rebounds on the offensive end, but on the defensive end he scored just five points on 2-of-10 shooting from Stojakovic.

Harrington and Lee also scored at least 20 points, and the Knicks shot 14-of-26 from three-point range as they relied on a second-half comeback to beat the New Orleans Hornets 114-98 on the road. The Knicks are on a three-game winning streak, and the Hornets' three-game winning streak was snapped.

The Knicks victory convinced the Hornets coach after the game, and although Hornets coach Jeff Bowen was ejected for a technical foul due to his dissatisfaction with the referees, he was still unstingy about his praise for the Knicks after the game: "You have to give high praise to the Knicks and D'Antoni, they played a tough game, and we didn't shoot well and didn't take the pace of the game into our own hands, which made it difficult for us to fight back in the game." ”

In this game, the Hornets made a whopping 19 turnovers, six more than the Knicks, and Chris Paul also believes that mistakes led to the team's loss, "We paid a big price for the mistakes in this game, but after this game, we will find a solution, we were really careless in handling the ball, and we will not let this happen again." ”

After the Knicks' victory over the Hornets, New York Times expert Da Saby wrote: "In a sense, we should no longer treat the Knicks as a team that exceeds people's expectations. They were already good, and 10 weeks later, we couldn't help but admit that what we saw was real.

I think the Knicks' success comes from the team, the energy and the talent, from their tenacity and their intelligence. In today's game, the Knicks showed us that they are not only a team, but also a team that can stand up at any time.

We have to admit that although their defense was not very pretty, and there were a lot of mistakes and fouls in the game, they did a good job overall, especially on the offensive end, they often played an offensive that was difficult for the opponent to handle, and their counter-attacks would make any team have to be careful.

Just like this game, the Knicks used the fast break to score 28 points, while the Hornets only had 8 points.

Are there any celebrities in New York? I'm glad you asked, it's something they've been unable to solve in recent seasons.

The Nix has been like a pair of top-of-the-line Hifi headphones all these years, but all along, it can only be driven by the onboard sound card on the PC. But since Hugo joined the team, he has been like an energetic headphone amplifier that has completely activated this pair of flagship headphones that have been unable to eat.

That's what makes D'Antoni so appealing, and even though he and his coaching staff have made the playoffs multiple times and qualified for the Western Conference Finals twice, it may only be one day when he coaches the Knicks will be his true moment of glory.

"Coach D'Antoni did a fantastic job," Knicks fan Spike Lee said after the game, "and he has players he likes, and they've caused a lot of problems because they're playing so hard." If you have tenacity, then many times, the size of the body does not matter. Those guys are tenacious and they will never back down. ”

The media and fans in New York seem to have touted the team too much after the Knicks won another three-game winning streak. So two days later, the Bobcats immediately made it clear to the Knicks that they were still a mid-table team and that the playoffs weren't something for them to hammer in.

The Charlotte Bobcats regained their winning feel at home, with Stephen Jackson scoring a game-high 24 points and Gerard Wallace also having 22.

Wu Huang had 16 points, 3 rebounds and 9 assists, Iguodala had 18 points, 10 rebounds and 2 assists, David Lee had 18 points and 10 rebounds and Harrington had 20 points.

Jordan gave a nirvana order to the Knicks in this game, and the gang leader is still thinking about the humiliation he received in the trade some time ago, so in this game, the Bobcats are only allowed to win and not lose!

Of course, things in the business field have always been like this, and there are people who take advantage of them, and if someone takes advantage, someone will definitely suffer, but the helper is used to taking advantage, and if he suffers a little loss, he will feel that someone else must be rebellious.

In the first three quarters, the Knicks had been leading the Bobcats, and then they thought of a three-game winning streak, which made them once again make the mistake of being careless.

Stephen Jackson scored eight points in the fourth quarter and led a 12-2 winning surge in the fourth quarter that allowed the Bobcats to come from behind and beat the New York Knicks 99-94.

The Bobcats ended a two-game losing streak in this game, Larry Brown led the team to defeat his old club, Jordan also avenged with one arrow, and the Knicks' three-game winning streak was ended.

The Knicks' losing journey is not over yet, and they must now realize that the cost of underestimating an opponent is not just a win or loss in one game, it can easily have a ripple effect.

Two days later, the Knicks had another away game against the Chicago Bulls.

In this game, the Chicago Bulls managed to bounce back at home.

Although trailing by as many as 17 points in the first quarter, Luol Deng and Salmons led the team to a strong comeback in the second three quarters, and the Bulls withstood a late New York Knicks counterattack to beat the Knicks 102-96 at home.

The Bulls ended a two-game losing streak in this game, and the Knicks suffered two consecutive defeats, and the ending was happy again!

Wu Huang only scored 15 points, 5 rebounds and 6 assists in this game, and his performance in the last game was not very good.

Well, that's awkward to sound like!

On December 18, the NBA officially announced the second round of voting for the 2010 All-Star vote, and the guard of the New York Knicks, Wu Huang, won 1864501 votes, still ranking first in the league, Los Angeles Lakers guard Kobe Bryant (1380383 votes), Cleveland Cavaliers forward LeBron James (1251292 votes) two or three, and the Houston Rockets' Maddie has been surpassed by Steve Nash of the Phoenix Suns, Allen Iverson's return to the Philadelphia 76ers has also skyrocketed, and he is now ranked third among Eastern defenders.

The 2010 All-Star Game will be held at the Cowboys Stadium in Dallas on Feb. 14 and is expected to be attended by more than 80,000 spectators, making it the largest All-Star Game ever held by the NBA.

According to the results of the second phase of the vote count, the starting lineup of the East and West All-Stars should be:

East: Wu Huang, Dwyane Wade, LeBron James, Kevin Garnett, Dwight Howard.

West: Steve Nash, Kobe Bryant, Carmelo Anthony, Dirk Nowitzki, Amare Stoudemire. (To be continued.) )