The day before the game, Wu Huang was still the focus of the world's praise, but after a game, he became a loser in the media, making many fans think that the Knicks were eliminated.

The Hawks were relieved after winning the first game, they weren't as easy as they were during the game, and it was clear that they were having a tough time with the Knicks, so head coach Larry Drew said after the game: "That's what we're going to do, we seem to have come a long way, but the good thing is that we achieved our goal." ”

Wu Huang was expressionless after the game, and when he was asked, he cherished the words like gold, and he just said in a formula about the result of losing the first game of the playoffs: "It's nothing, we know that the first game will be difficult, it is better to lose badly, it will make us lose all the baggage and pressure, and we will play at our true level in the next game." ”

"Yahoo Sports" reported in red after the game: 9 points in a single quarter, the Knicks were almost nailed to the pillar of shame!

The report wrote: There is an unwritten saying in the NBA, that is, the regular season and the playoffs are not a game at all, and the difference between them is too far. And this Knicks vs. Hawks game perfectly interprets this statement for us.

In the first game of the playoffs, many of the Hawks' tactics were not seen in the regular season, and the playoffs were the real battlefield for Atlanta.

The New Yorkers returned to the playoffs after a five-year absence, and they were confident heading to Atalanta to win at least one away game, but it was the home team who won by 35 points.

In this game, the most important thing for the Hawks to solve is to clamp down on the opponent's top scorer Hugo, which will undoubtedly rely on the help of Josh Smith and Horford, but the problem is. Bibby must give his team's interior teammates time to help defend.

In the four games of the regular season, Bibby couldn't even delay Hugo's breakthrough a little, but in the playoffs, Bibby, a veteran, finally completed the task.

As soon as the game began, Bibby stepped up to defend Hugo closely, using his strong body and the movements allowed within the playoff defensive intensity to delay Hugo's breakthrough. Successfully buying time for his teammates to help defend, this trick seems to work.

But then, Hugo took advantage of his teammate's high cover to score back-to-back jumpers and scored four points on 2-of-4 shooting in the opening game. Judging from the state at this time, Hugo even has the meaning of breaking out at any time, which is a very dangerous signal for the Hawks, once he brings the team's offensive rhythm up, the Hawks will be difficult to resist the crazy bombardment of New York.

At this time, the Hawks chose to attack instead of defending. They opened with a double-digit lead as a whole, trying to "warn" the youth army in New York not to act rashly. And defensively, the Hawks made a bold gamble at a critical moment, they shrunk the defense in time to target the core of the Knicks when Hugo had a good opening hand, betting that the rest of the Knicks players could not get into the groove as quickly as their core, so the Hawks' defense quickly moved closer to Hugo. Forcing him to pass the basketball to his teammates.

The gamble worked out, and Gallinari and Frye didn't even hit a single goal in the first quarter. This made the psychological pressure on the Knicks' young players soar, and the Hawks took advantage of the unstable mentality of the young players, continued to contain Hugo in the second quarter, and played offensive climaxes one after another, and the first half confirmed the victory of the game.

During the game, the experienced Eagles players showed off their style. Their breakouts, ball-splitting, long-range three-point shots, and daring to shoot and attack with the ball also make the Knicks' young players more impetuous and unbalanced in disguise.

In addition, from the perspective of defensive intensity, Bibby's foul in the third quarter can be said to be a vivid example: Hugo made a strong three-pointer. Bibi knew that he couldn't stop it, but he still rushed up like a hungry tiger, preferring to use a technical foul to make Zhuangyuanlang look good, and the result was that the opponent's nose turned red.

But to Hugo's dismay, the referee didn't show a single technical foul, only a normal defensive foul, and he had to hold his head and sulk and go off the court for treatment. Although the foul did not cause any harm, it sent a message to some extent - want to fight back? Sorry, it's absolutely no fun!

Yahoo Sports believes Bibby's key foul is a testament to his sophistication, even if he gets a technical foul for it.

Although the Knicks trailed by 20 points in the first half, Hugo was still full of fighting spirit, and if he was allowed to use the three-pointer to play an offensive wave at the beginning of the third quarter (in fact, that three-pointer did go in) to inspire the confidence and fighting spirit of the Knicks players, then any miracle could happen to a team like the Knicks.

Bibby has been through a lot of battles, so he used a malicious foul to extinguish the opponent's possible counterattack, which is a sure deal.

Although Hugo scored 15 points throughout the game, as the leader of the team, his breakthroughs, team-mates and attempts to win fouls all failed. This is of course thanks to the Hawks' strong defense and home-court advantage, especially Bibby's iron-blooded defense, which made Hugo's first-quarter surprise a flash in the pan, but he had to "buy" for the team's youth.

Instead of focusing on the game itself like other media outlets, ESPN dug up a series of histories to report on them, as if to make them appear more professional.

Knicks vs Hawks, this should be the series that is most likely to play seven games in the first round, but the result of the first matchup was unexpectedly disparity, and the Knicks, who were already extremely frustrated in the fourth quarter, even scored only nine points.

However, the New Yorkers are not the team that stands at the top of the historical shame column of the NBA playoffs, and the lowest score in a single quarter in history was the 1999 series between the Utah Jazz and Portland Trail Blazers, although the Trail Blazers eventually advanced 4-2, but they were defended by the Jazz in the fourth quarter to score only five points in the first game.

The Knicks and Hawks combined for just 25 points in the fourth quarter today, compared to the previous record of 23 points in a single quarter for both teams in the playoffs.

At that time, the Jazz defended the Trail Blazers to only 5 points in a single quarter, which could only be regarded as a little bit of face for their ugliness in 98, and the team's lowest score in a single game in the history of the playoffs was also maintained by them - in the third game of the 98 Finals, the Jazz were limited by the Bulls to only 54 points in the whole game. It's a shameful record that Jazz fans still haunt and forget.

In that game, the Jazz shot just 30% from the field on 21-of-70 shooting and a miserable 11.1% from three-point range. Except for Karl Malone, who scored 22 points and played normally, the highest score of the other players was actually the best Shanton Anderson in the dragon set, who scored 8 points.

The playoffs are about defense, and low-scoring games are not uncommon. The lowest-scoring game in history between the two teams combined was the 2002 Meat Grinder Battle between the Pistons and Celtics, where the two teams combined for just 130 points. The Pistons lost 64-66. The team that holds the record for the lowest score in a half is somewhat surprising, with the Suns scoring just 23 points in the first half of the 2000 Sun-Lakers series. However, their 65 points per game surpassed the joint lowest half-time scoring record for the Jazz, but the team's record of only Todd Day scoring in double figures is really not impressive.

"I feel like they're cheating!" Emma Roberts's rumors on Wu Huang's Twitter after the game made people laugh and cry, and it was estimated that it was the sequelae of CS playing too much, but a bunch of otaku followed behind to support his goddess, which made Wu Huang feel a lot of pain.

"You must have gone to see a striptease." Chloe Moretz sent him a text message after the game, so angry that Wu Huang wanted to go upstairs and slap the dead girl a few times.

Fortunately, Taylor Swift and Christine called one after another to comfort him, although Wu Huang himself was not too discouraged. The mainstream media in this game ridiculed the Knicks, but his personal evaluation was still good, especially Bibby's malicious foul did not blow a technical foul, which made the New York media protest repeatedly, and the Knicks officially complained to the league about Bibby's foul after the game.

Wu Huang also felt that his teammates' performance in the first game was too bad, but at this time, smart people should know that they should not complain about their teammates, they are a **** by themselves. I already blame myself, and then the core players criticize again. These young players probably won't be able to slow down until the next game, and that's all over.

After the game, Wu Huang showed his maturity and IQ, although he was already angry and scolded his mother, but as soon as the game was over, he immediately stepped forward to comfort his teammates one by one, and told them after returning to the locker room. It doesn't matter if you win or lose one game, it's a battle to win the first four games in the playoffs, and it's important not to let a poor performance in one game affect the next game.

At the same time, immediately after losing the first game, the coaching staff instructed everyone not to watch any news after the game. It's best not to even go to the net, the players go back to take a cold bath, receive a massage from the team's masseur, and then watch the video the next day to summarize the mistakes and shortcomings of the first game, and prepare for the second game the day after tomorrow.

As for the day of the game, the coaching staff did not let the players watch the video, as if the game had not been played, and everyone did not even mention it, this is time for the players to heal themselves.

In fact, whether it is a basketball or soccer game, or an entertaining CS game, the most annoying thing is often the type of person who chatters and speaks badly after a teammate's mistakes and poor performance, they don't know that such a move will affect the teammate who is not playing well, causing serious follow-up reactions.

The next day, Wu Huang came forward again to encourage his teammates, "Guys, don't be discouraged, we have two away games in Atlanta, and the goal is only to win one." Yesterday we could have lost the game, we were prepared for it, so it's time to take a good look at the reasons for the loss, but the most important thing is that we can't lose the confidence to win, we have the quality to beat them, and if we believe that, we can achieve what we have set beforehand. ”

Wu Huang has been cheering for his teammates since the loss, and so has the Knicks' coaching staff, and Iguodala is telling his teammates about his previous experience in the first playoff game under the 76ers, of course, he deliberately said that he was terrible to encourage his teammates.

The Knicks' group of young players are really lucky to have such a losing environment, but not all the core of the team can do this after the team's heavy defeat, but the core of the team that blames their teammates accounts for the majority of the league.

Some media also questioned in the report why D'Antoni did not use Maddy, and the Knicks naturally will not give any explanation for this, but Maddy may be able to find some of his shortcomings when he was the team's boss through all aspects after the Knicks lost.

After watching the video the next day, the Knicks players can easily summarize the reasons for the loss, the biggest problem is that the offensive end is not playing well, and after the players miss the shot, the confidence and awareness on the defensive end are also gone, resulting in a total collapse!

However, yesterday's other game results quickly put some of the burden off Knicks players, as many of the powerhouses overturned in the first game of the playoffs.

First of all, the Mavericks vs. Spurs and Nuggets vs. Jazz in the West, the favored Mavericks and Nuggets both overturned at home, and Anthony and Nowitzki were also criticized by the media and fans after the game.

That's basically it, as long as you lose, you're the most rubbish player in the world, no matter how many games and honors you've won before.

This is because normal fans will not come out after the team loses and complain, those fans who come out after the team loses are basically gamblers and pseudo-fans, at this time the players can only hear the voices of these people, so most players will not read newspapers and TV after losing, because there are useless things.

The worst is the Cavaliers in the East, they are the team with the best record in the league this season, and the only team with a record of more than 60 wins, but the first team in the league also overturned at home, they actually lost to the Milwaukee Bucks, who were not favored before the game!

It was an eye-popping game, and at the same time, James managed to attract the attention of most of the media and fans, and the loss of Wu Huang and the Knicks quickly went unnoticed. In any case, it is normal for the Knicks to lose the first game, but it is definitely not normal for the Cavaliers to lose to the Bucks.

"LeBron is really righteous, in order to squeeze us off the headlines, he started directly in 7th gear and drove up the mountain, and sure enough, it overturned!" Wu Huang said jokingly to his teammates that the Cavaliers' loss made the Knicks regain their vitality, and if the gorillas knew the effect of his loss in Cleveland, eighty percent would be angry and vomit blood!

On April 19th, the other four playoff teams also started their first game, and the results still broke out!

Although the Lakers simply took out the Thunder, the Suns overturned on the Trail Blazers, and the Portlanders became another team to win on the road.

In the East, the Magic, with their indestructible defense, did not let the Heat turn the sky on their home court, and Howard, the veteran driver, drove the car steadily with five big hats.

But the Celtics were beaten at home by the equally hard-nosed Bobcats, and Larry Brown's side were unfazed against the Green Shirts, and several of their players were seasoned players who didn't play the playoffs like the Knicks.

As a result, after the first game of the first round of the playoffs, a total of five teams overturned at home, which may be the most serious "playoff collective rollover incident" in NBA history.

Western Conference - Lakers (1) VS (0) Thunder; Mavericks (0) VS (1) Spurs; Suns (0) VS (1) Trail Blazers; Nuggets (0) VS (1) Jazz.

Eastern Conference - Cavaliers (0) VS (1) Bucks; Magic (1) VS (0) Heat; Hawks (1) VS (0) Knicks; Celtics (0) VS (1) Bobcats. (To be continued.) )