Although Li Wei is called a defensive colander by the media, in fact, his level has been steadily improving throughout the season, and as for his confrontation ability, it is even more different from the beginning of the season!

How strong is his confrontation ability now?

He himself estimated that if Tyronn Lue's confrontation ability was 100 points, how could he have 85 points.

Why and Taryn Ruby?

Because now Li Wei's confrontation ability can only be compared with marginal players, such as a guy who is against the sky like the old fish Fisher, he can't compare if he wants to, the gap is too big!

Therefore, Li Wei is still a colander!

But Li Wei is missing, but what he is afraid of is the kind of power player who is tall and big, such as the Knicks' first-round opponent Bucks point guard Cassel, who is 1.91 meters tall and weighs 84 kilograms.

Li Wei was very afraid of him, so he greatly reduced his playing time!

Compared with Kassel and others, Iverson is only 1.83 meters tall and weighs 75 kilograms, and his farts are not too big, Li Wei is really not very afraid!

So he's going to take advantage of his speed and put pressure on Iverson!

The 76ers still started the game in the second half: Eric Snow, Allen Iverson, George Lynch, Teylon Hill, Theo Ratliffe.

The Knicks have made a big change in lineup, and the five players on the court are Nash, Li Wei, Houston, Garnett, and Ben Wallace.

"Dual point guards?" Larry Brown's pupils shrank sharply when he saw the Knicks' lineup.

This season, the Knicks seem to be fielding a dual point guard lineup of Nash and Lee Wei for the first time, which is too surprising.

Then again, Li Wei doesn't dare to play like this in normal times, Nash's defense is bad enough, plus a colander like him, both of them are on the court, and any team's backcourt can blow them up!

That is, when he met the 76ers, there was Iverson, a super short scoring guard, on the opposite side, and Li Wei dared to give it a try!

"Double point guards, Houston plays small forward, and the head coach of the Knicks changes lineup, which is still as bold as ever!" Larry Brown sighed.

There are usually two consequences of temporary large-scale changes, one is that the enemy is not familiar with your routine and is confused, and the other is that your own players are not familiar with the routine and make themselves confused.

The odds of both scenarios are about the same, the 76ers' defensive system is tried-and-tested, and Larry Brown doesn't think he's going to suffer.

The 76ers serve, Eric Snow advances with the ball, and Nash steps forward to defend.

Mike Brin, the Knicks' home commentator, said in surprise: "Nash is defending Snow, and Coach Lee is going to defend Iverson." ”

Walter Fraser smiled: "David wants to challenge everything!" ”

Mike Brin said: "Are we giving up the game? Although I fell behind by more than 20 points, I shouldn't have given up so early! ”

Madison Garden fans are also lamenting when they see this.

Iverson's state today is too good, Maddie can't prevent it, Bowen can't prevent it, Li Wei is a defensive colander, and he must be delivering food if he gets up!

The big picture has been decided, and the game can't be watched!

When Iverson saw Li Wei coming, he casually provoked: "Yo, you guard against me?" Do you think I'm better at 50 or 60 today? ”

Li Wei said: "You can't get any points!" ”

Iverson snorted coldly: "I scored 30 points in the first half." ”

"That's all there is to you, boy." Li Wei said as he stuck to him.

Iverson didn't care and reached for the ball, but Eric Snow hesitated a little and passed the ball anyway.

Immediately afterwards, everyone saw Li Wei rushing to the ball!

Mike Brin said: "Coach Lee has performed his signature magic trick, gambling steals!" ”

Walter Fraser said: "Come up and grab it like this? If you can't grab it, then give Iverson points! ”

said that it was too late, it was fast, Iverson saw Li Wei coming to grab it, and hurriedly protected the ball, but it was still a little slow!

The ball was snatched by Li Wei!

Seeing Li Wei's successful gambling steal, the fans on the sidelines cheered together!

Mike Brin said: "He really snatched it, and he came up to steal Iverson, amazing!" ”

Walter Fraser said: "Balloon, Iverson was just careless! ”

Larry Brown frowned and pointed at Iverson and yelled.

The ball just now was indeed Iverson's carelessness, if he hadn't leaned on Li Wei so blatantly to ask for the ball, Li Wei would have been completely impossible to grab it!

Hearing the head coach's angry rebuke, Iverson was also very depressed, frowning and chasing Li Wei!

The offensive end has already conceded the ball, and the defensive end he can't leak anymore!

Alan Houston and Nash also hit the fast break at this time!

Nash's position was very good, Li Wei divided the ball in time, but the Canadian who received the ball did not shoot it, and lost it to Alan Houston!

Houston was standing one step away from the three-point line at this time, raising his hand and hitting a mid-range shot!

At 60:39, the Knicks chased the difference to 21 points!

Mike Brin said: "It's our style, Coach Lee fights and everyone is fast attacking. ”

Walter Fraser said: "But playing the 76ers, we can't treat this as a regular tactic, Iverson's ball control is very stable, Coach Lee can steal once, not necessarily steal the second time, but the possibility of leaking is almost 100%!" ”

The 76ers attacked again, but Iverson was cautious this time and took a cover to receive the ball!

But as soon as the ball reached his hand, Li Wei pounced again!

Iverson adjusted his center of gravity, leaned against Li Wei's side, and rushed inward with a "swish"!

Li Wei did not show weakness and pursued the defense closely!

The two kept tangling outside the paint area, and Iverson still couldn't get rid of his opponent!

Seeing that Big Ben was also rushing towards this side, he could only force his hands to jump out.

At the beginning of the season, Li Wei's height was only 1.68 meters, but he reported 1.73 meters. Now more than half a year has passed, and he has grown to 1.74 meters, and if you put on shoes, it will be 1.77 meters.

Like most NBA players, Iverson's official height of 1.83 meters is also wearing shoes, and if he does not wear shoes, he is only 1.80 meters.

So although Li Wei is short and suffers a little loss, it is not much worse, the gap between the two is about 5 or 6 centimeters, as long as he works hard to defend and waves his hands, he can still have a strong interference with Iverson!

Under the interference of Li Wei, Iverson shot iron!

Garnett grabbed the defensive rebound, and Nash held the ball to push the fast break.

Li Wei turned around and ran back, and Iverson chased after him!

Under Iverson's defense, Li Wei didn't have any chance to catch the ball!

However, the Knicks' offense obviously didn't count on Li Wei, Garnett and Nash played a very good match, and Nash finally scored the ball!

At 60:41, the Knicks' margin was reduced to within 20 points.

Mike Brin said: "Garnett, Nash, and Coach Lee, the three most playmaking players in the Knicks are all on the court, and we definitely have no problem on the offensive side, just look at the defense." ”

Walter Fraser said: "Don't say it, David has been very successful in defending Iverson in these two rounds, let's see if he can continue to play like this next!" ”