Chapter 262: Unintentional Willow Insertion

After the Knicks lost two in a row, they naturally received some criticism from the media, but considering that the Lakers and the Heat have a record of 2 wins and 2 losses, the Knicks have not received much firepower from the media for the time being.

A champion team, first of all, must meet the prerequisites of strong hardware strength, and strong strength means that there are many offensive firepower points, and the core of both inside and outside is the basic premise, sometimes three cores or even more cores are possible, which will inevitably encounter some troubles about the right to shoot and tacit understanding in the early stage of the team, it will take a while to solve these problems, during this period of time, someone's right to shoot will decrease, and someone's right to shoot will increase, this process is usually not too short, It takes time for players to find a new position for them, and if they can't find a place they like, then trading is the only way to go.

A team like the Heat Big Three, in fact, in the first half of the regular season, there are hidden items to compete for the core of the team, Wade and James have more balls in one game and less balls in one game, and they are obviously also competing in secret.

On November 5, the Knicks returned to their home court against the Washington Wizards, Wu Huang had to face the new champion of the season, John Wall, which was the biggest highlight of the game, and there was not much suspense about the outcome of the two teams, and the Wizards wanted to beat the Knicks on the road at the beginning of the rebuild, which was a bit too whimsical.

However, this game was considered to be a disparity of strength and weakness, and it was not decided until the last 6 seconds of the game, and the Knicks rang out with the shout of "MVP" at home, but this praise was not given to Wu Huang or Stoudemire, but to rookie Monroe, who received Wu Huang at the free throw line and hit a key shot to help the team seal the victory.

In the first home game of the 2010-2011 season, the Knicks won not easily, and the Wizards danced against the Knicks' inside and outside core today, and finally relied on Monroe's excellent play to defeat the Washington Wizards 116-111 at home, sending the opponent two consecutive defeats.

Rookie Monroe scored a game-high 20 points and had nine rebounds and two assists, 10 of which came in the final quarter, as his three consecutive jumpers killed the Washington Wizards' hopes of a comeback.

After the win, Wu Huang stepped forward to knock on Monroe's chest and celebrated with his teammates, and Xiao Si also came over to hug him. It was only the fourth game of Monroe's career. In the draft, he entered the league with the 6th pick in the first round and became the main backup for the Knicks center.

"You'll be proud of moments like this and grow from them." Monroe couldn't hide his excitement after the game.

In the Knicks' interior and exterior core, Wu Huang chipped in 30 points, 5 rebounds and 10 assists, Stoudemire chipped in 25 points and 11 rebounds, and Iguodala and Gallinari also scored 18 and 14 points. However, Monroe still stole the edge of Wu Huang and Stoudemire.

Wu Huang disagreed, Jean said: "No matter who is on the field, we will have full confidence." He hit those shots and played a good game, which gave him plenty of confidence. ”

Wizards coach Philip Saunders also praised the opponent's rookie, "He's very savvy, and the New Yorkers have picked up a big baby. ”

Knicks coach D'Antoni was even more vocal about his disciples: "Even though it's only been one week, he's already earned the respect of his teammates. He's very pure and fully committed to the team. When his teammates are in the open position, he can feed them the ball and he can hit the open shot, which is of course very popular. ”

Compared to Monroe, the Wizards' champion Lang is more depressed today, and this is the first time that Wu Huang has played against the legendary point guard who is more physically gifted than Rose. In fact, this guy is indeed worthy of such praise, although in the first season, his physical fitness has not reached the level of Ross and Wei Shao, but the explosiveness, speed and confrontation ability are not inferior to last year's Wu Huang, after a season or two, he should surpass Rose and Westbrook in many physical conditions, and his height is about the same as Wu Huang, taller than those two, but the arm span and flexibility are still much worse than Wu Huang.

Wu Huang let John Wall know in this game that physical fitness does not mean everything, today in just 23 minutes, Wall got 6 fouls, and finally fouled and was ejected, he had a total of 8 turnovers in the whole game, and was completely played by Wu Huang between applause. In fact, if it weren't for Wall's poor performance today, the Knicks would have been killed by the Wizards carelessly.

The Knicks still had the same problem as they did last time - they couldn't score.

Today, New York had a lot fewer turnovers than the Wizards, and the rebounds were also leading, almost playing around the opponent, but they were unable to lead the opponent by a large score, and the score was short-lived by the Wizards' counterattacks several times.

Wu Huang is still in place in control of the field, but the team's inability to score must have something to do with him, who calls him the brain of the team, he is the core of the team, whether the team wins or loses, regardless of the quality of his personal data, he is the one who has the most to do with it. But the problem is that Wu Huang's data in these games is so good that not only is it difficult for others to find out that this is his problem, but Wu Huang himself does not believe that it will be his own problem that the team has become difficult to win and lose this season.

On November 7, the Knicks continued to play at home against the 76ers, and the Knicks still dragged the game until the middle of the fourth quarter to break the opponent with consecutive three-pointers. In the first three quarters, the two teams with a huge disparity in strength actually played back and forth, and the Wizards led the Knicks by 3 times in the whole game.

In addition to the Knicks' difficulty on the offensive end to play last season's wave, they also seem to have problems on the defensive end, with "positivity" bearing the brunt, and Smalls and Gallinari's lack of motivation on the defensive end, which led Wu Huang to question the team's defense after the game, pointing the finger at Stoudemire and Gallinari.

This kind of criticism is necessary, but Wu Huang has not figured out the core key, that is, why is there a problem with the defensive enthusiasm of the two? The point is that they can't hold the basketball in their hands. There are quite a few players in the NBA who are not happy to play, it will affect their defensive attitude, they need to play on the offensive end to have defensive motivation, and such players can not have too many players on a team, because there is only one basketball, and it is impossible to satisfy everyone.

In the first five games, the Knicks players always felt uncomfortable playing, but they couldn't find the key to the problem, which is actually a run-in problem, which every team will encounter, and it will not be a problem of Wu Huang alone, but a problem of the whole team, everyone has to adapt to the new lineup, and even change some of their roles and playing styles to adapt to the new teammates. The difference is that the strong team can still win if it has problems, and the weak team will completely become a fish belly and cannot turn over.

Wu Huang first started to look for change, he started to increase the proportion of his ball, he felt that since I am not playing well now, then I should simply play well like last season. He went the opposite way.

On Nov. 9, the Knicks played away against the Milwaukee Bucks.

Since Yi Jianlian left Milwaukee, the Bucks have gradually faded out of the attention of Chinese fans. This team in the extreme cold has gone through a lot of backs and struggles in recent years, and finally kept the clouds open and saw the moon, and the new season is also expected to make the playoffs, thus becoming one of the strongest teams in the Eastern Conference.

Last season, Hammond, the Bucks' general manager, was named the league's best manager, while head coach Skells was also the favorite to be the head coach of the year. Clearly, the Bucks have been able to make the playoffs despite the loss of five major players – Jefferson, Villanueva and Sessions – Michael Reed – Michael Reed – and Andrew Bogut – who suffered a serious injury at the end of the regular season, and the cooperation between the general manager and the head coach is crucial.

Wu Huang personally admires the close relationship between the management of the Bucks, and the two are also rare in the league to cooperate tacitly, and there is no estrangement between the general manager and the head coach, the specific division of labor between the two:

Head coach Skells is tasked with reinforcing the team's winning model, which is to lead the attack with defence. The team conceded just 100.9 points per 100 possessions last season, which was among the top three in the league. If that's not enough, then put it this way -- just two years ago, Coach K.'s palm-printed Bucks' defensive efficiency was at the bottom of the league. Leaving aside Bogut's career masterpieces, Skels does have a bit of a knack for tweaking the defence.

As for the effect of general manager Hammond, it is to cooperate with the head coach to open a series of reinforcements. The Bucks have gradually become clear in February, but they are not yet a balanced team on offense and defense, and the number one problem is the lack of one-on-one active offensive players. Hammond reacted quickly and brought in a frustrated John Salmons from the Bulls. What is the character of "Salmon"? He's never been a top-tier player, and one of the hallmarks is that the head coach's performance is very different, and in 2008-09 he played as a regular and off the bench for the Kings, but the Bucks entrusted him with a handsome return of nearly 20 points per game, and the Knicks fell in the hands of him once last season.

Hammond has also continued to bring in reinforcements this summer, acquiring two big players in Corey Margeti and Drew Gooden. There is a lot of criticism about Margeti and Gooden, but it is hard to deny that they both play very decently in their respective strengths. The tough problems that the Bucks once faced will no longer be a headache because of the destructive power injected by Margeti; As for Gooden, it should be the most suitable backup tire for the center before Bogut recovers.

In the latest ESPN team report, data expert John Hollinger also called the Bucks "the team with the most depth and the most available players", although this team is not well-known, but it can be the number one obstacle for all the giants, they have also won against the Celtics and Heat before, so the Knicks must be careful to watch out for rollovers when they encounter them.

The Knicks did roll over in the first half, with Drew Gooden and Boykins teaming up for 26 points, which hurt the Knicks as a team, trailing the Bucks 47-54 in the first half.

Wu Huang was no longer calm in the second half, and decisively used Stoudemire as David Lee. In this way, Xiao Si suddenly became the team's third or even fourth point of attack, and Wu Huang was full of personal firepower, scoring 16 points in a single quarter in the third quarter, helping the Knicks overtake the score.

It's not good to play so well, at least in the regular season, it will not be seen in the regular season, even if the strong teams have countermeasures for Wu Huang's personal offense, they will not use it in the regular season, some killer weapons at both ends of the offense and defense will only be used in the playoffs, each team is playing around in the regular season, basically: four percent of the stars play alone, three percent of the small range of cooperation, and finally three percent is one or two sets of more commonly used tactics, like the Spurs and Celtics, teams like the Spurs and Celtics, generally use three or four sets of tactics to fight the world, there will be no more.

In the fourth quarter, it was Wu Huang who stood up at a critical moment and scored 7 points in a row to help the team stabilize the win. His hard work in the summer was fully displayed for the first time today. In the second half of this game, only Wu Huang was shining alone, and everyone else became a supporting role.

The final score was 109:101, the Knicks defeated the Bucks away, and Wu Huang scored 28 points in the second half, scoring 45 points, 7 rebounds and 6 assists.

After the Knicks defeated the Bucks, he played four games this week, winning three of them, and Wu Huang averaged 32.8 points, 5.5 rebounds, 9.8 assists, 4.0 steals, 1 block and 4 turnovers in four games, becoming the "Player of the Week" in the third week of the 2010-2011 season, which was also the fourth weekly award in his career.

This "personal hero" victory also made the Knicks receive a lot of praise from the media, and Wu Huang has naturally become a strong contender for this season's scoring title, he is currently ranked second on the scoring list with an average of 30.2 points per game, only 0.5 points less than the Thunder's Kevin Durant, the season has just begun, and he may complete the comeback at any time.

Wu Huang is indeed tempted by the title of "Scoring King", and he feels that it is very comfortable to beat himself like this, as for whether others are comfortable? He can't control it for the time being, he has to make sure the team wins, and at the same time his stats look good. This was the case in this game, he was always deliberately feeding his teammates the ball in the first half, and he played tirelessly. But in the second half, it was like he was freeing himself from the shackles, and it was the most enjoyable game of the new season. At the same time, he is even more reluctant to believe that Xiao Si can help him share the pressure, or make Xiao Si a power forward who can take more shots than David Lee, but there is no need to think of him as an interior core.

On November 10, the Knicks played back-to-back games against the Warriors at home, and David Lee happened to be traded to the Warriors, and this game became the game that Knicks fans and Wu Huang fans were most interested in.

In the 2006-07 season, the Dallas Mavericks were very popular, but they suffered the "Black Eight Miracle" of the Golden State Warriors. In hindsight, the odds of an upset are surprisingly small, as they have only managed to qualify for the playoffs once in the last 16 seasons. So it's not too much to say that the Mavericks should be unlucky to get home, they played such a playoff game in 16 years, and then they killed the league's No. 1 who just created the best record in the regular season. Interestingly, the Warriors didn't seem to get much out of it, and "Mad Scientist" Don Nelson went on to get even more crazy until this year, when he was unsealed this year, and there were countless failures.

In the past three years, there have been a lot of "famous generals" who have left the Warriors. The reason why this famous player has to be put in quotation marks is because most of them are really not superstars in the top ranks. For example, Jamal Crawford didn't taste the playoffs before last season, and Corey Margety didn't like Mike Dunleavy during his time with the Clippers, but it doesn't make sense that this group of players will not be with Nelson Sr. for a long time.

Why? Because whether it is Crawford and Margetty, or the likes of Jason Richardson or Al Harrington, they are all players with average passing and defensive ability, but their individual combat ability is unquestionable. If Larry Brown or Jerry Sloan didn't bite the strings with them, there was a reason for that, but Nelson Sr. had brought in these musketeers after tailoring them to their tactical appetites, so why did they all go unhappily?

Here's a quick look at how they got along and what happened next: Richardson was deemed unfit for Nelson Sr.'s tactics and had a mediocre performance during the Black Eight, moving to the Suns after the Bobcats and playing bravely in the playoffs last season; Harrington was left cold by the coach before leaving, but after going to the Knicks as the sixth man, the scoring efficiency is still the same, and he also played well in the playoffs last season; Crawford played well but was rumored to have a bad relationship with the coach, so he switched to the Hawks to hold the best sixth man; The latest case is Stephen Jackson, who left in a big deal early last season and immediately helped the Bobcats make their playoff debut.

During their time with the Warriors, there are several commonalities that cannot be described as coincidences. First of all, they brush the data very beautifully, which is in line with the requirements of the old Nelson, and it is also what they can do within their ability, so being idle often seems to have no warning at all, and it will also cause conflicts between players and coaches; Secondly, these players have more or less played positions other than their ability, such as Harrington has carried a center, Margeti has played a power forward, and Jackson has played from No. 1 to No. 4, their defense is not good, and the effect of the Warriors taking the initiative to create "misalignment" is definitely worse, which is difficult to say that it is the responsibility of the players; Eventually, these people often return to their jobs when they arrive at a new club, or act as a sixth person who doesn't require much discipline to shine again.

Whether it's ingenious or stubborn, Nelson Sr. does have a different set of ideas from other head coaches, and he dares to implement them on the field. But attacking is not something that can be adhered to by "philosophy", and the execution and discipline of the players are more important. Otherwise, you can't explain why Mike D'Antoni went to New York and couldn't make the playoffs, while his deputy Elvin Gentry was able to lead the Suns to the league Final Four, and then Wu Huang got to get the Knicks back into the playoffs - because Steve Nash and Wu Huang are so much better than Chris Duhon, Nate Robinson and the like.

Nelson Sr. is not without his own Nash, Byron Davis was the Warriors' commander of the "Black Eight", but the beard was later snatched by the Clippers, and the "Mad Scientist" began a long trial period. How crazy is this trial? Well, in the last two seasons alone, in 162 regular season games, the elder Nelson has used a total of 96 starting lineups. No matter how serious the team's injuries are and how often personnel come in and out, there is still some impatience to change the main team once in two games. With this half-hearted way of employing people, not to mention that the Warriors later found a good commander Stephen Curry, even if Johnson or Hardaway reincarnated would not be of much use.

In fact, the Warriors do deserve praise, that is, they play the role of the NBA's offensive talent pool well, and here we have to admire the team's vision for second-tier players. In addition to those scorers in the 20-point range, the likes of Clenna Azubuuk, C.J. Watson, Reggie Williams, Anthony Tolliver and Anthony Morrow were all unknown before joining the team, and the new season has found a good new home except for Williams to stay with the team.

Just by looking at Azubuuk's experience, you will know what the way the warriors educate their talents. This person tried out for the Houston Rockets in his early years, but his basic skills were not solid and he couldn't get into Jeff Van Gundy's eyes - the basic skills mentioned here are nothing more than teamwork, rebounding protection, defensive cooperation, etc. But Nelson Sr. had a unique understanding of basketball, never felt how important these things were, and let him join the team with a stroke of the pen.

It's also interesting to say, it stands to reason that Azubuike and his ilk learning basketball from Nelson Sr. will only infinitely magnify his strengths, and will not help to make up for his weaknesses - he can't be expected to learn defense from the Warriors, right? However, the NBA is also a league where confidence and reputation are very important, regardless of whether the player's statistics in the Warriors are brushed by rhythm and playing time, as long as they can score about 15 points per game, it is a significant improvement in self-confidence internally, and it attracts the attention of other teams externally, thus forming a virtuous circle.

The question is, how much does this benefit the Warriors themselves? Nelson was very willing to give a chance, but after giving a chance, he found that his record was not so satisfactory, and began to look for a new batch of musketeers. With the depth of his obsession, he would never feel that there was a problem with the entire strategic direction, so he had to go back to making a break with the main general, and turn his head to find other players who were heavy on offense and light on defense. Those Warriors veterans are not to say that they are in charge, at least they have found a suitable position and a suitable role in the new club, but there are very few people who remember the "grace of knowing" of the old Nelson. It's a bit funny that this team has done all the good things but is not seen as a "good guy", and can only struggle at the bottom of the league all day long.

This season, the Warriors have just rebuilt, because they have just decided to take Curry as the core, and David Lee has been recruited because he has a good partnership with Wu Huang, and Curry is also known as the low-profile version of "Wu Huang", so the Warriors think they have made a safe deal.

Although Wu Huang felt in his heart that Xiao Si's title of "inner core" should be won, this team should have only one core, and that was him. But in this kind of game, he must feed Stoudemierdo, otherwise it will be too embarrassing for the opponent.

The Knicks brought in Smalls this season in favor of David Lee, and the Knicks interior is seen as a replacement, especially for coach D'Antoni, David Lee is far less handy than Smalls is used to. Therefore, David Lee, who was abandoned, must want to prove himself in his heart, and Xiao Si must also prove that he is indeed better than David Lee.

In this game, Wu Huang passed the ball to Stoudemire more, and no matter whether the opponent's opportunity was good or good, as long as he could pass it, he would not hesitate to pass the ball.

Xiao Si didn't attack as soon as he got the basketball, because he thought a lot in his heart, if he attacked as soon as he got the ball, it seemed that he had no overall situation, and he was easily criticized by Knicks fans who were all Wu Huang fans.

In these games, many Wu Huang fans, and even Knicks fans, have thrown the pot of the team's difficulty in winning to Stoudemire, citing the fact that they played better last season than they are now, and they have repeatedly brought out the weaknesses of Xiaosi's defense and poor passing.

So today's Xiao Si played very selflessly, and it was rare to pass the ball when he broke through, which was actually forced by 60E.

Such a game that is extremely important to Xiao Si himself has stimulated him to make some choices that are not in his style, he is actually deliberately passing the ball to his teammates, deliberately playing unselfishly, but the effect is surprisingly good, because the opponent did not expect him to pass the ball when he breaks through.

It's so fun, Wu Huang suddenly didn't hold the ball and dribbled it for more than ten seconds before passing the ball, and Xiao Si didn't look at both sides without getting the ball...... The deliberate and slightly clumsy style of play of these two made the Knicks' inside and outside cores really connect for the first time, and Wu Huang actually received Xiao Si's three-point shot twice in the first quarter, which made D'Antoni think that it would be Gasol wearing Stoudemire's skin on the court today? (To be continued.) )