"Here we go again, pretty, very nice layup." In the exclamation of Madison Garden Plaza, Meng Xu, who was caught by Sprewell and Alan Houston, rushed directly to the basket under the cover of Jermaine O'Neal, and after two consecutive levers in the air, after avoiding the blocks of Tyrese Knight and Kurt Thomas, he sent the basketball into the basket, and while hitting the layup, he also caused a foul on the defensive Kurt Thomas.

After Meng Xu hit the free throw, Jeff Van Gundy immediately called a timeout, and this timeout was the third timeout he called in the first quarter, but the Knicks never found a way to deal with Meng Xu, and they were led by the nose by the Pacers from beginning to end. At the beginning of the first quarter of the game, Meng Xu continued to break inside, or make layups or fouls, forcing the Knicks to give up the defensive tactics formulated before the game, and began to shrink to the inside, while wrapping Meng Xu, but the Knicks just began to shrink, and they were taught to be a man by Reggie Miller's two 3-pointers. Van Gundy had to pause again, continue to adjust, continuous adjustments, not only failed to contain the crazy Pacers, but caused the situation on the court to become more and more chaotic, and now the Knicks have fallen into a dilemma, shrinkage is not, no contraction is not, no package is not, no package is not.

"It's no wonder that in the middle and late stages of Michael's career, there are fewer and fewer dunks and breakaway layups, and more and more jump shots, which is too physically exhausting." Sitting on the bench, with a towel on his head, panting heavily, Meng Xu hadn't sweated so much in the first quarter for a long time. From the louder and louder MVP cheers in Madison Garden Plaza, you will know that Meng Xu will soon conquer here again, but this offensive method is too much of a physical drain.

"Meng, then you can rest for a while, the game has just started, don't worry." At the time of the pause, Larry Bird had already decided to replace Meng Xu with James Posey, what Meng Xu wanted to do in this game, Larry Bird was very clear, but Larry Bird didn't want Meng Xu to fight too hard in this game, after all, now the Pacers' elimination of the Knicks is basically a foregone conclusion, if the Knicks are forced to rush, they will lose more than they lose by giving Meng Xu a black foot.

With Meng Xu's offensive ability, as long as the firepower is full, Larry Bird believes that in two quarters of the game, the Knicks will definitely be spent, and once the game enters garbage time, according to Meng Xu's previous style, he will definitely not continue to play. So if you want Meng Xu to get a high score, you can't let the game enter garbage time so early, otherwise even if Meng Xu cuts 60 points, he will be said by others to be scoring in garbage time, so it is necessary to artificially control the score of the two sides, and the rhythm of the game, neither let the Knicks catch up, nor can the score be pulled too much to beat the Knicks to death, so as to create a scorching game atmosphere and the effect of turning the tide, and as a former big brush, Larry Bird can be said to be well versed in this, so in the first quarter, After the Pacers led by more than 10 points, Larry Bird broke the routine and let Meng Xu go to rest.

After Meng Xu left the court, although the Pacers were still running in an orderly manner, and the offensive end was also flowering more, but the Pacers who lacked Meng Xu had greatly reduced their dominance at both offensive and defensive ends, so the Knicks were also led by the backcourt double guns, eating away at the Pacers' lead little by little, and by the end of the first quarter, 24-31, the Knicks, who were once 13 points behind, narrowed the gap to only 7 points.

"Meng, it's your turn." In the second quarter of the game, when it was 4 minutes into the game, Alan Houston scored 7 points in a row, bringing the score of the two sides to 39 draws, looking at the high-morale Knicks players on the court, Larry Bird immediately called a timeout and replaced Reggie Miller with Meng Xu. ，

"Reggie, see me deal with them." After high-fives with Reggie Miller, who walked to the sidelines, Meng Xu ran into the field in small steps, and after resting for more than 10 minutes, Meng Xu regained his full physical strength again.

"Shut up, idiot." Meng Xu, who was holding the ball near the middle circle, saw Spike Lee on the sidelines, muttered and yelled at himself, and in the process of accelerating the start and rushing towards the top of the arc, Meng Xu turned around and swept past Sprewell with a back, and shot directly half a meter away from the 3-point line, after the shot was hit, Meng Xu put his index finger to his mouth and made a closed expression at Spike Lee. This guy is like a fly, chattering non-stop throughout the game, not to mention that Reggie Miller can't help but scold him, Rao himself can't stand this guy anymore.

After Meng Xu returned to the court, the Knicks, who were about to take off, were quickly extinguished, and the combination of Meng Xu and James Posey almost locked up the pair of Sprewell and Alan Houston, Alan Houston and Sprewell couldn't open, and the Knicks' offense was directly abolished, and the current Knicks are not the Knicks who once had a group of All-Star players. At the same time, due to James Posey's excellent defensive ability, Meng Xu can also transfer more energy to the offensive end while ensuring that the defensive intensity does not decrease.

So just turned the situation a little bit around the Knicks, they fell into the quagmire again, the half was over, 58-50, if it wasn't for two minutes before the end of the half, Larry Bird replaced Meng Xu again, the difference between the two teams would definitely be widened to more than 10 points. In less than 15 minutes of playing time, Meng Xu shot 10 of 17, 2 of 5 3-pointers, and 5 of 7 free throws, scoring 27 points, 4 rebounds, and 4 assists.

"Larry's doing something." Seeing Larry Bird, who was holding his chin with one hand on the sidelines, pretending to be deep, Magic Johnson thought very darkly in his heart, unexpectedly, Larry would be this kind of person, obviously he could kill the Knicks with a stick, but he had to hang on his breath, so that the Knicks couldn't catch up, and he couldn't give up directly, and he always left a little hope for the Knicks.

"Alas。。。。。。" Looking at the owner James Dowland not far away, Van Gundy sighed, turned around and walked into the player tunnel, a question that Van Gundy has been thinking about in the past few days, that is, if last season, Dow Ranken agreed to Meng Xu's request and made Meng Xu the only tactical core of the Knicks, then what would the current Knicks look like? Will it be the same as the Pacers and become the first in the East? And make it to the division finals, or even the finals? Judging from this season's performance, Meng Xu's value is far greater than Alan Houston's, and even Alan Houston Gasprewell is not as good as Meng Xu, but it's too late, this is the second time that James Dolan has buried the future of the Knicks because of his personal likes and dislikes, fortunately, he should be able to get rid soon.

"Herbert, Malvern, you've built a great team, from the manager to the players, and maybe in the near future, Indiana will have their first championship in history." In the best box in Madison Garden Plaza, David Stern looked at the Simon brothers, the owner of the Pacers, with a smile on his face, and then glanced at Charles Dolan on the side, David Stern tried hard to create the best matchup of the Finals in New York and Los Angeles, but it turned out that the Knicks just couldn't hold up the wall.

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