Chapter 112: Mini-games
Wu Huang played 38 minutes in the game against the Pacers, cutting 38 points, 9 rebounds, 10 assists, 2 steals and 2 blocks, not only breaking his single-game scoring record, but also almost got another triple-double.
Blake. Griffin was originally considered to be the first enemy of Wu Huang to compete for the best rookie, but I don't know if the Clippers really suffered an inexplicable curse, all the high-pick rookies they selected, basically none of them had a good end, Griffin is no exception, the body of the white monster has always been great, but the preseason has not started to announce the season reimbursement, which made the words "Auden the Great" immediately appear in the minds of fans.
The Pacers have always been the best team in the East, and it's no surprise that the Knicks can win, and the real challenge is in the next game, when the New Yorkers will face the Cleveland Cavaliers, the real top team with 66 wins last season.
"Is this guy amazing?" Taylor. Swift sent the peeled orange into the mouth of Emperor Wu, who was posting pictures of gorillas walking on his newly built trumpet in James's forum.
"Awesome, but I'm even better, especially at ABC." Wu Huang closed the notebook, picked up the little singer and rolled to the bed. Just now, his trumpet and a guy named "Kobe Steak" in Japanese were locked up in a small black room, and the two of them had been scrolling through someone's walking pictures in James's posts before, and they were now being whipped by countless administrators.
"I wish you a great victory in the game the day after tomorrow!" Wu Huang is holding Taylor. Swift rolled on the bed, and the mobile phone he threw on the ground suddenly rang, and Kobe Bryant didn't know what nerve to send, so he actually sent a text message of encouragement to Wu Huang.
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The next day, the Knicks team mainly had recovery training before the big game, and D'Antoni had a lot of ideas for this game. The Cavaliers have also been slow this season, with only a 3-3 record so far. The key point is that the Cavaliers just played a big game against the Bulls, and in the end, the Cleveland Men lost to the Chicago Bulls 85-86 at home, and James' last shot made the team lose miserably.
The Cavaliers' game tomorrow will be a back-to-back on the road, and the players are bound to have physical problems, and the Knicks are sitting at home to play at ease. Coupled with the recent three-game winning streak, they have every chance of beating last season's East No. 1 at home.
"Kill them!" Knicks players are very motivated in training, and they naturally want to sprinkle a handful of salt on the Clevelands, and there are not a few people in the league who are unhappy with the little emperor, and there are many in the Knicks team.
D'Antoni also scheduled a switchback run at the end of the session, where he divided the defenders into a group and the forwards into a group, with the rule that the two groups of players complete three switchbacks at full speed, with the two worst finishers taking care of buying drinks for the rest of the week.
This is not a small punishment. No one was willing to run errands, and Wu Huang didn't care much about this kind of competition, but as soon as he heard that he was going to run errands for free for a week, he immediately dispelled the idea of releasing water.
The defenders of the team played first, except for the injured Eddie. Howes, Wu Huang, Du Hong, Danny. Green, Bill. Walker and J.R. Giddens all participated, but Hughes was stopped by D'Antoni, and the mustache knew that this guy would definitely lose if he went up. In the end, he will think that he is deliberately making things difficult for him.
The Knicks' guards didn't care about it, and it could be Mike. Brown's younger brother's Mike. Woodson acted as a referee for the game. After a whistle blew, Wu Huang was the first to rush out like an arrow from a string, and it only took one lap to throw off half a court distance from other teammates.
D'Antoni couldn't help but nodded, Wu Huang's explosiveness and speed are definitely the top level in the league, if he runs these three laps with all his might, he can at least pull down the distance of one lap of others.
Emperor Wu wouldn't do that. Seeing that he had a huge advantage, he decisively slowed down on the second lap, and finally finished the race half a lap ahead of his teammates.
Bill. Walker accepted himself as the team's slowest defender with a sore face, but he was second fastest in the first half of the race, but his 225-pound weight allowed him to overtake him after the halfway point. It's a game that doesn't treat a player like him who relies on explosiveness and power.
"I'm better to buy it, Beal should be a striker, I'm the youngest, I'll just go for this kind of job." Danny. Green's score was the second-to-last, and at this time he took over the errand job very well.
The Knicks' players praised Green for his righteousness, and then it was the turn of the forward group to compete.
Danilo. Gallinari, Al. Harrington, Wilson. Chandler, Channing. Fry, Milišić, Jared. Jeffries was asked to participate in all of them, and only David was asked to participate in the competition. Lee excused himself with muscle soreness and wittily avoided this inevitable battle, and he was a center in the Knicks' position, so it was right not to participate.
Wu Huang watched this group with great interest, he had already seen the athleticism of the two white forwards Gallinari and Milicic in training, Milicic should be considered a center forward technically, but it didn't matter, he now wanted to see what the outcome of the two against the equally athletic Chandler would be?
This "result" did surprise Wu Huang in the end, it stands to reason that the running and jumping ability of blacks is generally higher than that of yellow and white people, and Chandler is a swingman with outstanding athletic ability, but in this Knicks team, this phenomenon is completely reversed.
Gallinari shot out after the whistle, and it seemed that the explosiveness and reaction were not much worse than that of Emperor Wu, you must know that he was better than David. Li is also a tall big man, and this athleticism can be called a pervert.
The player who won the title of "the most talented player in the history of the Italian men's basketball team" is not in vain, and after a lap he is far ahead of the others, Chandler is even half a lap slower than him, and the latter is only one position ahead of Milicic, the Serb is a tall interior lineman, and he is about the same speed as Chandler, which is perverted enough.
Gallinari's flamboyant personality saw that he was shaking the lead, and then simply ran a little bit and turned around and ran a few steps backwards, which made the rest of the people angry, but they couldn't catch up with Gallinari even if they tried to eat hard, and this underbeat Italian ran two backwards from time to time, and finally finished this small race with an absolute advantage.
The second player in the forward group to finish the game was Wilson. Chandler and Milicic were third, with more speed and endurance than Harrington and Frye, and Wu and the rest laughed at Gallinari's moves while marveling at the athleticism of their team's two white forwards.
D'Antoni naturally knows that Milicic has outstanding athleticism, but the Serbian has basically not participated in training on time since coming to the Knicks, the nightclub has become his second home, and he has several conflicts with his teammates, and as soon as he joined the team, he almost made a move with Gallinari in training, and he just ended the team's ban today.
Wu Huang has never won over Milicic, he knows that this kind of person is not able to play because he entered the NBA at a young age, and even the Knicks' Gang of Four is unwilling to associate with Milicic, which is purely a matter of character and character.
If it weren't for the fact that this thing's physical fitness was too tempting, no team would want him at all, and even D'Antoni couldn't stand Milicic's various character flaws, and refused to put him in the 12-man squad, basically leaving him to fend for himself.
Jeffries reluctantly became the bottom of the forward group, and he was next up to a team with Danny. Green has been serving you for free for a week.
NBA teams often play this kind of mini-game, and the worst players often have to carry bags or buy water for everyone at a certain time, but such games will not cause disharmony within the team, but will improve the team's morale and chemistry.
The Knicks' players have relaxed a lot after this game.
However, as the head coach, D'Antoni still has too many troubles at the moment, the first of which is: how to limit James tomorrow?
No team can say that they are sure to solve this problem now, and James has been getting closer and closer to being unsolved in recent seasons, and if he has a good hand in the game, it is really unsolvable. At this time, the only way to beat him is to rely on the superstars on his team to play at a higher level than him, but not to mention that there are not many active players who can do this, even if not many in the entire history of the NBA.
Kobe Bryant is already 30+, and now he wants to rely on the superstar of his own team to defeat James, this task may not be able to be done for the time being, but relying on the strength of the entire team to defeat the Cavaliers is not impossible. This Cavaliers team doesn't seem to have any particularly outstanding players other than James.
O'Neill is already old, Xiao Mo has no courage and no strategy, and he can't take charge alone, while the Brazilian actor has no offense...... The Cavaliers can only rely on James now, so D'Antoni's strategy will come out: no matter how many points James scores tomorrow, as long as the Knicks score more points than the Cavaliers, they will naturally win. So this game is no more than spending too much energy on James, as long as the Cavaliers players other than James don't score too many points, the Knicks have a good chance of winning.
This is actually the "Jordan Rule", and the players in the league who are eligible for this kind of tactic can be counted in a single slap, and James is undoubtedly the representative of it. (To be continued.) )