Chapter 266: The Knicks Need Instant Combat Power!

On Nov. 27, the Knicks defeated the Atlanta Hawks with their fourth triple-double of the season, and D'Antoni was going to rotate in this game, but he clearly underestimated the physical strength of Wu and Small.

The Knicks' firepower on the offensive end finally dropped below 100 points in this game, and they scored just 96 points in four quarters, which is a very low score for D'Antoni's team.

During the 12-game winning streak, the Knicks' defense continued to deteriorate, not only because D'Antoni has always emphasized offense, but also because the players could not maintain "offense" and "defense" in all aspects under the perverted schedule, so even Queen Wu did not contribute too much on defense, and the Knicks' winning streak was bombarded back with fierce offensive firepower.

But this doesn't mean that the Knicks players can't defend, the big guy doesn't feel good today, Wu Huang led the team's outside line to block the Hawks' guard attack group with defense again, and the two teams played a playoff-style battle, but this time the side with the advantage on the inside became the Knicks, and Xiao Si's offensive ability on the inside completely overwhelmed Josh Smith and Horford, and saved Wu Huang from being repeatedly assisted and caught by the Hawks' interior line.

Bibby felt Wu Huang's progress, and last season he showed his life's energy, and he used a defense that was close to fouling to make Wu Huang feel a little uncomfortable. But this season, he can no longer do such a little defensive effect, Wu Huang's weight has only increased by 5 pounds, but the confrontation ability has increased by a full notch, Bibby's physical confrontation has been unable to shake Wu Huang, except for fouls, he has no way to limit Wu Huang.

To what extent has Emperor Wu's current confrontation ability improved? If you divide the physical confrontation ability of all point guards by level, Wu Huang's strength has reached B in the No. 1 position, and Rose and Westbrook are between B+ and A-, and the gap between them is not large. Considering that Wu Huang has been working his core muscles, his ability to maintain balance after the confrontation is even stronger than these three. Now, who wants to bully him with his body again, although it can't be said that it is completely ineffective, but Emperor Wu already has many ways to break this defense.

There are a lot of such shots in this match, when Bibi squeezes Wu Huang with his body, Wu Huang will not stop his breakthrough move, he will use his explosive power and speed to force Bibi through, not giving the opponent time to fully exert force. And last season, he had to take a step back to stabilize his body after being hit, at that time he lacked self-confidence in physical confrontation, and his strength was indeed much worse, and it was easy to lose his body balance under the confrontation when he forced a breakthrough, so he had to take a step back to adjust his balance, but the opportunity to break through and score was also lost.

Wu Huang scored 21 points, 12 rebounds, 14 assists, 3 steals and 2 blocks in this game, and scored a triple-double in two consecutive games, and the Knicks also successfully completed a 13-game winning streak.

On November 28, after the Knicks' victory, they felt Detroit non-stop, and the opponent was the declining Pistons.

The Pistons have a 6-10 record this season, and ESPN has derided them as "a team of shooters who don't know how to shoot at all." Motor City is now paying for last summer's mistakes, and in the 2009 offseason, General Manager Dumas made a complete mistake in signing Ben Gordon and Villanueva in the first place with more than 20 million salary space in hand, two deals that not only left the roster unbalanced, the Pistons' backcourt too bloated, but also completely deprived the team of salary space in 2010.

This summer, the Pistons failed to trade Prince or Hamilton, which is tantamount to prolonging the team's rebuilding period and testing the patience of fans. The immediate priority for the Pistons is to get out of the contracts of at least one of Gordon, Hamilton and Villanueva in the next two years, otherwise they will have no salary space even if they wait until 2012.

The Knicks have been taking advantage of the Pistons, and they have several expiring contracts that the Pistons desperately need. Prince and Hamilton are also the pieces of the championship puzzle that the Knicks need, and the two sides have been bargaining since the summer and are still discussing the feasibility of a trade. It's just that one side wants to take advantage of it, and the other side doesn't want to suffer, so it hasn't made much progress until now.

For the Pistons, Dumas wants to trade Hamilton or Prince with a young player + expiring contract. But of course, the Knicks can't suffer like this, the Pistons are interested in Gallinari and Monroe, and the Knicks don't intend to pay too much price for these veterans who can only maintain the level for one or two seasons, but whose wages have reached the level of tens of millions.

Donnie Walsh has proposed two trade options, the first of which is: Gallinari + Reggie Evans/Radmanovic/Ronnie Turyaf to trade Prince Prince Jr. Prince and the top five protected first-round picks. The second option is: Danny Green + Reggie Evans/Radmanovich/Ronnie Turyaf any two of the two trade mask man Hamilton.

These two packages are acceptable prices for the Knicks, but the Pistons feel that they can't take too much advantage, especially since the Knicks' request for draft picks is difficult to accept, so the trade has not been able to go through. However, as Gallinari's performance has become more and more impressive during this time, the Pistons have been somewhat relieved about the first trade plan, but they want to change the draft pick to a second round. But D'Antoni jumped out again, and he has been against trading Gallinari. So the mustache became the biggest obstacle to the deal, and general manager Donnie has been advocating for Gallinari in exchange for a defensively solid and experienced Prince.

Wu Huang didn't say anything for the time being, he was waiting for Donnie to come to him, if the Pistons were really willing to trade, of course Wu Huang agreed! He also thinks Prince is a better fit for this Knicks, and the team's outside lineup will be - himself + Iguodala + Prince, which is enough to make any team in the league scared.

No one found out in this game, Wu Huang consciously fed Gallinari in the game, and finally the Knicks defeated the Pistons 108-99, Wu Huang got 17 points, 3 rebounds and 13 assists, Gallinari 28 points and 9 rebounds, and Stoudemire 22 points and 10 rebounds.

The most stable general manager of the NBA's 30 teams is Joe Dumas of the Pistons, who spoke with Downey on the phone for nearly ten minutes after the game, and the two carefully exchanged views on the Gallinari trade plan, although there is still not much substantive progress, but Downey can already hear that the Pistons are beginning to have the intention to accelerate the trade.

How much is Gallinari worth now? Most people will admit that he is worth a lot of money, at least for a No. 4 to No. 7 draft pick in an average year, and he has the potential to be a quasi-All-Star, enough to be the third leader of a championship-caliber team and the second leader of a normal team.

This season, Gallinari can contribute an average of 14.8 points, 4.6 rebounds and 1.6 assists per game, considering that he only averages 29 minutes per game, such a performance is very comprehensive, if you play in a team like the Pistons, it is no problem to brush up on an 18+6+3 data this season, even if you use a No. 5 pick, you may not be able to select such a player, sometimes even Bangyan and Tanhua often can't play.

So, the Knicks' chips aren't too harsh, and they want Prince not because he's better than Gallinari, but because of his instant power and defense. Gallinari is good, but it will take at least two or three seasons for him to reach full maturity. If it's with the Knicks, it's even longer, because the Knicks don't give young players room to grow slowly, they need instant power that can be used, like Iguodala and Jr.

On the Pistons' side, it's the opposite, they need to get rid of Prince's and Hamilton's contracts as soon as possible, this season is the best time to trade, the longer it drags on, the more the trade value of these veterans will shrink, their competitive state can be maintained for two or three years at most, and the salary is high, the most painful thing is that the Pistons now want to rebuild, want to mess up, and keep them on the team will face a very embarrassing situation, because although these people can't help the team make the playoffs, they can make the Pistons compete for the lottery championship year after year, At the end of the season, it is the most embarrassing to get a ranking of 9th and 10th, and you can't play the playoffs and get a top draft pick!

The Knicks are not in a hurry, Gallinari is getting better and better now, and they have many other trade targets, and they don't necessarily have to trade with the Pistons.

In the final game of November, the Knicks faced the Kings, a Western underdog team with a 4-11 record, and it was another game without much suspense.

Cousins is not much better off than the Knicks' Monroe, the Kings, the most talented rookie on the inside, except for the first five games, was squeezed out of the starting position by Damham Porter, and now he is averaging only 9.5 points and 7 rebounds per game, which is similar to Monroe's statistics.

Although Monroe can't learn defense in the Knicks, he can at least learn how to attack, and playing in the Knicks' mature offensive system, Monroe must have learned more than Cousins in the Kings without the slightest system.

In this game, Cousins still did not start, but he scored 20 points and eight rebounds on 9-of-16 shooting in his limited 23 minutes of playing time. This result is much better than Monroe's 27 minutes of play, which only scored 10 points and 6 rebounds on 4-of-8 shooting.

Wu Huang faced Tyrek Evans who changed to point guard today, in a head-to-head confrontation, he handed over a 21-shot 14-shot report card, this season's Wu Huang and Evans who still only keep breaking through the point of shooting opened a big gap, the core of the Kings only shot 5 of 15 in this game, the Knicks' interior paid a little attention to the defense, and the supernova who handed over 20+5+5 data in his rookie season was limited.

Evans' performance is no longer qualified to be compared with Wu Huang, Wu Huang has increased from an average of 24 points per game in the first season to an average of 30 points per game now, which is far more difficult than increasing from 20 points to 25 points, so now no one is comparing Evans and Wu Huang, compared to Wu Huang's rapid progress in the second season, Evans actually regressed bizarrely in the second season, which is really a bit unbelievable!

When Wu Huang got 40 points, 6 rebounds and 5 assists to easily end the Kings and led the Knicks to a 15-game winning streak, the live broadcast camera was given to Agali who was watching the game on the sidelines.

New York reporters have long been ready to follow Agary after the game, and they are ready to see if this little Indian beauty will become another object of scandal for the emperor of New York.

But after the game, these reporters were disappointed, Wu Huang did not meet with Agali, his harem had already pulled up the yellow alarm, and as soon as the game ended, Wu Huang was almost divided by a phone call at the same time! In the end, even he didn't know where to go, so he had to hide in his villa and wait until it got dark to decide where to spend the night.

Speaking of which, Emperor Wu spends less than a third of the night in his villa every month, and his house is a bit idle and redundant.

In fact, Wu Huang has no time to flirt with his sister now, he pays more attention to the Player of the Month award issued in a few days, although he knows that no one in the East this month should be able to compete with him, but he still looks forward to winning the "Player of the Month" for the first time in his career.

As we all know, the selection of MVP is the top priority of the regular season, but the "unspoken rule" of this award is to select the strongest player of the strongest team of the season, so the MVP controversy has always been the biggest, and the strongest player of the strongest team may not be the best performance in the entire league. But there is no way, the team's record does not meet the minimum requirements for the first place in the division, then it is difficult to compete for this award, even if you can achieve 30+10+10 data, there is not much hope.

There is now a new perception among the fan base that the player who wins the most "Monthly Awards" each season is the real MVP!

Wu Huang agrees with this statement, but he didn't win a Player of the Month last season, although his 60+ made him almost the youngest "Player of the Month" winner in history, but the Knicks' record that month dragged him down. Fortunately, this month, he has no flaws in both personal data and team records, and winning the award is already a certainty. However, Wu's ambition is certainly not as simple as winning the Player of the Month once, and he now hopes to replicate and even surpass James' record of winning the Player of the Month four times in a single season.

This month, Wu Huang's rival is the Magic's Howard, who averaged 21.8 points per game and shot 59.4% from the field this month. In addition, Howard's 12.1 rebounds per game rank fourth in the league. He helped the Magic to 11 wins in November. Against the Timberwolves, Howard played an amazing game on the defensive end, getting eight blocks.

Howard's performance is still very stable, but it is still inferior to Wu Huangxiang. As for James, who has long dominated this honor, now in the core of the competition between the Heat and Wade, it will inevitably affect the statistics, and he will not even be selected for the November nomination.

Wu Huang helped the team to a 15-win record this month, averaging 30.4 points, 6.8 rebounds, 10.9 assists, 3.4 steals and 1.3 blocks per game. He shot 52.9 percent from the field, 44.2 percent from three-point range and 90.5 percent from the free throw line.

The most worthy of boasting is Wu Huang's perverted three-point shooting skills, in 16 games, Wu Huang can shoot an average of 4.1 three-pointers per game, so far this season, he has shot 70 three-pointers. Running at this rate, many people are secretly speechless: Could it be that Emperor Wu plans to shoot 300 three-pointers in a single season? That's a horrific statistic.

In the current scoring list, Wu Huang leads with an average of 30.4 points per game, and he is also the only player in the entire league who has averaged more than 30+ points per game. If the Western Conference in November presented a situation where Anthony and Durant stood side by side, then in the Eastern Conference, with his individual performance and team record, Wu Huang has left all his competitors behind.

On top of that, fans and the media are equally interested in how long the Knicks' winning streak can last.

For the time being, the Knicks' 15-game winning streak is the third-highest in their franchise history, but when it extends to the entire league, it's not a remarkable achievement. In recent seasons, more than one team has won more than 15 consecutive games each year, and there has even been one example of more than 20 consecutive wins.

If the Knicks are to make their winning streak a real headline, they'll have to raise their winning streak to 19 games, and that's when they're starting to get closer to history.

Only six teams in the league's history have won 19 or more games in a row, compared to 16 teams that have lost at least 19 games in a row, so it's fair to say that losing 19 games in a row is much easier than winning 19 games in a row.

In recent seasons, the league has had two teams that have won more than 19 in a row, the Houston Rockets and the Boston Celtics.

In the 2007-08 season, the disorganized Rockets created a miraculous 22-game winning streak, a feat that shocked the league. The Celtics had a staggering 19-game winning streak in 2008-09, after the Greens had completed a six-game winning streak with just one win in between, meaning they were close to the great 26-game winning streak.

The Knicks now have a chance to challenge both teams, and their schedule is about to start to improve in December, when they will face the Hornets, Raptors, Timberwolves, Raptors, Wizards, Nuggets, Celtics, Heat, ...... This schedule is good for the Knicks, who only had the first game of the first six games in December and the sixth game of the Nuggets more difficult to play against, but the Knicks are still stronger than the Hornets led by Chris Paul and the Nuggets led by Anthony.

In such a schedule, as long as the Knicks can beat the Hornets first, their remaining four games are against the belly of the fish, and the schedule is relatively easy, the Knicks will basically lock up the record of 20 consecutive wins, and they will become the only team in history to win more than 20+ consecutive games.

After that, the Knicks have a chance to continue to extend their winning streak, and the victory over the Nuggets is a little easier, but the next two opponents are the top teams in the league, and each game is not easy to play. Moreover, even if the Knicks can beat the Green Army and the Heat, they will have to play against the Heat again at the end of the month, and there are also top teams such as the Thunder, Bulls, and Magic. All in all, the Knicks have a slim chance of breaking the Rockets' 22-game winning streak in December, but they have a good chance of completing a 20+ winning streak.

In an interview, Wu Huang took the initiative to relieve the pressure on the players, he said: "The Lakers' 33-game winning streak is no less difficult to surpass than Chamberlain's 100-point myth in a single game. We're only on a 15-game winning streak right now, which is still far from those records, and for me, it's not so much that the Knicks are on a winning streak, it's more of a fight to push the envelope. Yes, I think that's sports, a field that celebrates pushing the envelope. Victory, on the other hand, is an unshakable dominance. (To be continued.) )