At the beginning of the 21st century, there were only two point guards who averaged more than 20 points per game and more than 8 assists per game this season, one was Gary Payton and the other was Stephen Marbury.

Payton is over thirty years old and is destined to decline, among the young generation of point guards, Marbury and Xinke assist Wang Kidd are the most popular!

Kidd is more evil and doesn't like to score very much, the Suns are in the west, which can be called the West Evil, while Marbury's temperament is more poisonous, and the Nets are in the East, which can be called East Poison.

The evil in the west and the poison in the east, for a while!

Because of this, in the previous life 01, the Suns exchanged Kidd, who had one team and assist king for three consecutive years, for Marbury, and also took a powerful veteran Chris Dudley.

Of course, the Suns' main purpose in catching Dudley is to match the salary. As mentioned earlier, Kidd signed a nine-year, $54 million contract in his rookie year, which seemed sky-high at the time, and now it is a cabbage, which cannot be compared with Marbury, who has the highest salary. The Nets also took a second-round show, and they didn't let the Suns suffer too much, so in general, this deal can be regarded as a one-for-one!

So the West Evil became the East Evil, and the East Poison became the West Poison!

The media unanimously agreed that the king of the alliance's point guard will be the East Evil or the West Poison, and the future will be theirs, but no one expected that the situation would change suddenly after this!

Kidd came to the Nets and led the team to the Finals for two years in a row, and he really won the future. But Marbury, who went to the Suns, although the data is still bright, the team's record is not very good!

"Marbury can't do it, it's not as good as Kidd!" People are thinking so.

It's nothing less than Kidd, after all, at that time, Kidd was not only the league's No. 1 point guard, but also the MVP favorite. But Marbury was not convinced, he felt that he was the No. 1 point guard in the league, and Kidd was just lucky.

Then, something even more devastating happened, in '04 the Suns traded Marbury and signed Nash!

The following season, Nash soared with the Suns!

Fans: "......"

Marbury: "......"

Objectively speaking, Marbury is indeed one of the few excellent point guards in this era, but he met Kidd first, and then met Nash, and was compared to two historical super point guards, and his status in the hearts of fans plummeted!

Then, there were the years of the Knicks, the vitriolic New York media, which ruined Marbury I's reputation in New York.

Of course, unlike other players, coaches, and general managers who have been ruined in New York, Marbury is very lucky, he left the NBA and went to China, accepted the transformation of the Ten Societies and Ten Principles, and since then he has changed his mind and become the political commissar of Ma admired by all the people, and he also got a Chinese green card!

Marbury is a great player, but he has to be divided into different periods, and now he is still the "lone wolf" Marbury, not the horse commissar. Just as the current Friends of Panda is Artest, not Charity, World Peace.

Marbury, who was in full swing, saw that Li Wei really dared to defend him, and immediately became angry from his heart, and he wanted to beat Li Wei and prove himself!

When advancing with the ball, Marbury didn't even bother to make passing moves, ready to run Li Wei forward!

But as soon as the old horse stretched out his hand, he saw Li Wei "snap" and fell more than two meters away!

"Huh?" The star of the Nets was slightly stunned, and then shouted: "You fake fall!" ”

Of course, Li Wei would not admit to fake falls, and retorted: "You push people!" ”

Whether it is a fake fall or a push, no one can tell clearly except for the parties involved, but the Knicks fans on the scene booed Marbury together!

Seeing this, the referee blew the whistle decisively and awarded Marbury an offensive foul!

If it was before, needless to say, no one would care about the real fall, but this year's whistle has become stricter, and Marbury did have a move in his hand just now, plus this is the home court of the Knicks, the referee will inevitably blow the whistle, and he can't get along with the 20,000 fans on the scene!

In fact, the referee's brain was yelled at by the fans, today's game is not the home of the Knicks at all, but the home of the Nets, this is New Jersey, not Manhattan!

This is the sadness of the Nets, at least when they play the Knicks across the river, it is so sad!

Li Wei successfully won the ball with a fake throw, and in terms of effect, the value is about equal to a steal. However, this kind of contribution will not be reflected in the statistics, at least not in the preliminary statistics.

The Knicks served, Li Wei advanced with the ball, and Marbury defended tightly, trying to snatch the ball back from Li Wei!

Lao Ma's stealing ability is not bad, but Li Wei's current ability to protect the ball is also very strong, in terms of ball protection, small players have a natural advantage, that is, the dribble height is low, and it is not easy to be broken!

Li Wei saw that Marbury wanted to try to steal several times, and understood that he was a little impatient, so he deliberately sold a flaw.

Lao Ma found that Li Wei actually came to a slow body front dribble, and he was overjoyed, so he rushed over directly!

He still underestimated Li Wei too much, and just as he rushed forward to make a gambling steal, Li Wei suddenly accelerated and passed him in one step!

Then, the Knicks coach rushed to the three-point line and came to a sharp halt and came to a long-range two-pointer!

"Bang!"

"Huh!"

The ball went in, 74:70, and the Knicks continued to lead!

Nets head coach Don Casey frowned: "Stephen, don't gamble on steals, if you defend normally, he will definitely not be able to pass you!" ”

“OK！” Marbury nodded gloomily.

If every player can gamble on steals, then many guards won't have bad steal numbers, but most of the time, players who make gambling steals will definitely be reprimanded by the head coach like Marbury!

The commentator of the Nets team is Ian Iger, a top student who graduated from the journalism department of Syracuse University, graduated in '90 and has been a commentator on the Nets since '95.

"Coach Cassie is reprimanding Marbury, he was just passed by Coach Li in one step, it shouldn't be!" Eagle Dao.

Ian Eagle's partner is Bill Laftree, the all-time leading scorer at Santa Cecilia High School in New Jersey and was drafted by the New York Knicks in the 1963 draft, but unfortunately never played in the NBA.

Later, Lovetree coached Philley Dickens University and then Seton Hall University, a prestigious NCAA school, before retiring in the 80s to become a commentator.

At this time, the old coach who was very influential in New Jersey chuckled: "Haha, Marbury just made a gambling steal, it really shouldn't, gambling steals are Coach Lee's patent, because the Knicks are making up for Coach Lee's leaks, but Coach Casey can't create a defensive system where the whole team makes up for Marbury's leaks!" ”

Ian Eagle: "Coach Ralphtree, in the first two seasons, everyone said that Knicks head coach David Lee was actually a puppet, and the real manager of this team was the historic coach Chuck Daley sitting in the assistant coach's seat.

But this season, Coach Daley has stepped back from management and no longer interferes in coaching, but Coach Lee has led the Knicks to the longest opening streak in team history with nine consecutive wins, and also became the best coach in November, what do you think of this young coach? ”

Bill Lovetree said: "Coach Lee is a person who loves basketball very much, we all know that he is very rich and doesn't care about the NBA's salary at all, but he coaches and plays very hard. Maybe he's not a good basketball player, but I think he's a good coach and Chuck Daly certainly played a lot of a role in New York, but don't forget that Li Wei is the real coach! ”