Nelson's performance today was still very brave, and after scoring a three-pointer on Wu Huang, he helped the Magic regain the score.

The Knicks and Magic were battling it out on the offensive end, and Iguodala came on the court and hit a jumper after stealing Carter, and the Knicks tied the score at 37.

Wu Huang later made Anderson foul and finally scored another 2 points on free throws, but back to the Magic offense, Nelson immediately blasted a three-pointer, and the Magic team took the lead again 40-39.

The pace of action at the beginning of the second quarter was extremely fast, with you coming and going, and the goals kept coming.

But from the seventh minute onwards, the two sides began to take turns to play iron, except for Iguodala and Carter's piecemeal scores, the others rarely contributed, and Wu Huang played four irons in the following four minutes, becoming the king of blacksmiths today.

In the 3:06 mark, the score was 44:43, and the Magic still led by one point.

D'Antoni made a substitution, and Wu Huang was replaced by Du Hong.

The Knicks' substitution was requested by Wu Huang himself, and the shooting percentage of 2 of 10 shots finally calmed him down, and he decided to go down and think about why he played so badly today?

Wu Huang was replaced this time, and the Knicks did not immediately overtake the score as in the first quarter, Gortat and Carter played a pick-and-roll cooperation, and the Pole continued to cut to the basket to use the height advantage to cause David Lee and Harrington to foul, and also played a key 2+1.

Gortat is a little better at blocking pick-and-rolls than Howard, who doesn't like to play this kind of offense, but the Pole doesn't have that mentality. Gortat's focus on the Magic is mid-range shooting and pick-and-roll, and he doesn't practice much in the low post because he doesn't have the opportunity to attack in the low post. That's where Warcraft can live.

Lee wants to come back on the offensive end. But soon the embarrassment was felt. Because he found himself unable to handle the Magic's backup center.

This is not unexpected, although David Lee's back play in the low post can squeeze Gortat, but the latter's height advantage and strength are not bad, and he can still complete interference and even block when he shoots.

Wu Huang saw David Lee beating Gortat with his back on the court, and finally squeezed near the penalty area line with his strength, and after two and a half turns in a row, he still didn't shake Gortat's center of gravity, his steps were already messed up, and finally he could only force his shot. But this goal is to avoid Gortat's block. In the end, Gortat snatched the rebound himself, a successful defense.

It can be seen from this confrontation between the two that Gortat's lower body strength is not particularly good, he can't withstand David Lee's squeeze in the low post, but the Pole's defensive awareness and blocking ability are good, and he is not very shaky, and he can still have a great impact on David Lee's shooting by using his height advantage.

David Lee has good power in the lower game, and his back-to-back skills are also qualified, but his low feet are not good enough. The two consecutive turns were not realistic enough to shake Gortat's center of gravity. I don't have a height advantage, so it's hard to guarantee the success rate of shooting. At this stage, as long as he encounters an inside line that does not shake, David Lee's low-post back play will basically be scrapped.

D'Antoni is also analysing the strengths and weaknesses of the two, with David Lee and Gortat both bright spots and shortcomings at the same time. For the Knicks to be a championship-winning team, they can only have one such interior player in the starting lineup at most. So whether to renew David Lee's contract next season, or poach an inside line like Gortat, really needs to be carefully analyzed.

If Wu Huang was to choose, he would choose an inside player like Gortat, after all, an inside player still needs to have a certain height. Gortat, while not as good as David Lee on the offensive end, is not too bad. Defensively, the Poles are much better than David Lee, and as long as they are paired with one or two substitutes with excellent defense in the low post, the starting lineup will be considered to have no weaknesses.

At the critical moment, Iguodala helped the Knicks complete a thunderous dunk, but unfortunately this dunk did not stop the Magic's offensive, and in the last 3 minutes of the first half, the Magic's three-point firepower was turned on, and Carter first broke through the needle to create an opportunity for Lewis, who hit a three-point shot.

After the Magic turned around and defended the Knicks for another round, they returned to the offensive end, this time it was Carter who hit a three-pointer that made D'Antoni look helpless.

At halftime, the Knicks trailed the Magic 49-56, and the Knicks had 12 turnovers in the first half alone, four of which were contributed by Wu Huang.

Wu Huang only had 6 points, 2 rebounds and 2 assists in the first half, but contributed 4 turnovers, shooting only 2 of 10 from the field and 0 of 4 from three-point range.

In contrast, the Knicks' second-in-command played a superstar level today, in the case of Wu Huang and Gallinari a slump, a reimbursement, the team's ball-holding breakthrough task is mostly on Iguodala, a brother handed over 16 points, 4 rebounds and 4 assists in the first half of LeBron-style data, shooting 6 of 10, 3 three-point shots 1, this data is no worse than the usual Wu Huang.

The Magic's stats were more balanced, with Nelson having 12 points and three assists, Carter contributing 12 points and two assists, Gortat 10 points and five rebounds, and Lewis having eight points and three rebounds.

Wu Huang was also dissatisfied with his performance in the first half, in fact, D'Antoni was even more dissatisfied, especially at halftime, Wu Huang still did not have the idea of staying on the bench, but pulled several of the team's inside lines to discuss how to cover for his run.

D'Antoni sighed secretly, Wu Huang was planning to let his teammates increase his positioning cover to create scoring opportunities, but considering his shooting percentage in the first half, even if the chances were really created, could he throw them?

"That's it, it's up to him to get to the second round this season, and he can play as much as he wants." D'Antoni didn't intend to go against Emperor Wu's wishes, but he was more determined to dig up Xiao Si in the summer, and then there would be more than one core in the team, and he wouldn't even dare to breathe in front of Emperor Wu, and the most unhappy thing for a coach was that he couldn't arrange the troops according to his own ideas.

Wu Huang didn't know that his coach and general manager wanted to take advantage of the summer to bring in a superstar as a way to increase his voice and reduce Wu Huang's status in the team.

The current Knicks are the dominant family of Wu Huang, and if he gets nervous one day, it will be difficult for both the general manager and the head coach to compete with him. Basically who he wants to get out of here. That person won't be able to stay. But if there's a superstar like Stoudemire or Anthony on the team. Emperor Wu can't cover the sky like he does now, and James Dolan has to take into account the opinion of another superstar.

In the second half of the game, the New York fans still gave him warm cheers after seeing Wu Huang continue to start!

Fans are not stupid, it is normal to play badly in one or two games, and those stars who are not injured often play ultra-low shooting percentages, not to mention that Wu Huang is still fighting with injuries, which is even more forgivable.

Wu Huang had already decided at halftime. No more pressure on yourself in the second half. In the first half he wanted to score too much, and this mentality was very problematic, not to mention that he had injuries, even if he didn't have injuries, it would be easy to make a humiliating battle if he continued to play like this.

"I've been good enough, and the guys who want to find fault with me are either sensationalism or have other purposes, and has any Hall of Fame superstar in history performed better than me in his rookie season? In my first year, I took the second-to-last team from last season into the second round of the playoffs, and who's to say I didn't play well? "It's rare for Wu Huang to be sluggish throughout the game, whenever he plays a bad half. He will quietly begin to change, including his personality and playing style will become different from before. It's like a different person.

In the first half, he was obsessed with shooting and attacking, but in the second half, Wu Huang decided to play in a different way, he first had to sort out the team's offense, and let his teammates break the Magic's defense first, and then he would attack it was a matter of course.

In the third quarter, the Knicks took the lead in attacking.

Wu Huang dribbled the ball to the front court and David Lee executed a high block and pick-and-roll cooperation, the latter covered and went down, received Wu Huang's ground-hitting pass and went straight to the layup.

Gortat had a good explosiveness, turned to keep up, and used his height advantage to block the basketball.

When Lee got the rebound and tried to get back on the ball, Carter went back to the basket and slapped the ball down.

Wu Huang saw the basketball flying in his direction, and immediately stepped forward to grab the basketball and wanted to throw.

Lewis pounced on from the bottom corner to block the ball, Wu Huang collected the ball and passed it behind him, and once he passed the ball without looking at anyone, Frye hit a three-pointer in the bottom corner.

New York fans immediately gave applause to Wu Huang's second pass, this kind of freewheeling way of handling the ball, very ornamental, fans feel that this ball has no chance, but Wu Huang can effortlessly find a way beyond their imagination to handle the ball, this kind of ability has always been only seen in Paul and Nash, who are full of spiritual point guards, and their passing is so often beyond the expectations of fans.

Wu Huang usually does not have this style, he more directly uses difficult shots to solve problems, but when the shooting is inaccurate, New York fans can always see Wu Huang have a similar performance.

After a 20-minute break, Wu Huang could feel his back more relaxed, and he could still feel some stiffness at the beginning, but the first half of the game allowed him to move his body completely, and Wu Huang even felt more flexible.

Of course it was a delusion, he was just more flexible now than he was in the first half.

Wu Huang began to use his faster pace frequency to maneuver with Nelson, and soon used David Lee's cover outside the three-point line to quickly make three shaking moves behind his teammates, and after the continuous shaking of his shoulders and the realistic foot feints, Nelson's steps were completely messy, and he didn't know which way Wu Huang was going to break through.

Emperor Wu seized the opportunity and entered the inner line with a change of direction.

Gortat hurriedly changed his defense, his explosiveness and speed were good, but the speed of his feet was too slow, or his ability to adjust his steps was not good enough, which was actually one of the manifestations of lack of coordination, his first step had already kept up with Wu Huang's breakthrough, but the latter couldn't keep up with him with a sudden stop.

After Wu Huang hit the penalty area, he completely disrupted the defensive formation of the Magic team, Lewis also rushed back to the basket, the opportunity in the penalty area at the moment is not good, in normal times, Wu Huang is naturally looking for a chance to play 2 + 1, but today his vision is bigger than usual, David Lee received Wu Huang on the weak side, and hit a mid-range jumper.

Big Van Gundy hurriedly called a timeout, he felt that this rhythm was not quite right, although he didn't know what was wrong, but the third quarter only played for less than two minutes, the Magic's defensive formation had been torn apart by Wu Huang's breakthrough, and several defenses were given to the opponent to shoot in the open space, and it was easy to collapse if he continued to play like this.

Wu Huang delivered two wonderful assists in a row. The commentators from all over the world who broadcast the game. Originally, there were many people who commented on Emperor Wu with a yin and yang tone. Now these people finally stop making fun of him casually, these two attacks have fully explained that Wu Huang made adjustments at halftime, and it is okay not to boast about such a performance, and to criticize it is really naked.

The Magic's timeout didn't improve their defense, and after the game restarted, Wu Huang still used his teammates' cover to shuttle back and forth through the Magic's defense.

Nelson wasn't nimble enough to keep up with the seemingly aimless Wu Huang, whose breakthrough was like lounging. But as long as the Magic team has a pack of clips. Wu Huang will immediately play the ball to his teammates, and he will continue to find a way to get rid of the defense, waiting for the opportunity to catch the ball and shoot.

Wu's erratic style of play left the Magic exhausted, but their offense improved after the timeout, or the Knicks' defense was as bad as ever.

Carter hit the basket twice in a row, and JJ Redick hit a three-pointer after coming on the court, and the two teams began to stalemate again.

At 7:45 in the third quarter, Wu Huang seized an open shot opportunity and hit the first three-pointer of the game from 24 feet out, and his score also came to 9 points. The number of assists has long since become five.

After Wu Huang scored three points, he still did not obsess about scoring. In the next round, he tricked Nelson into losing his center of gravity, but then chose to play the ball and distributed the basketball to David Lee, who was in the open position under the basket, and the latter also played a 2+1 on Lewis, who was on the defensive back.

The score was 62:63, and after David Lee hit a free throw, the Knicks only trailed the Magic by one point.

The Magic faced the morale-boosting Knicks, and it took several hits to break the scoring drought by Nelson, but Harrington fired two consecutive shots from the outside, and the Knicks instantly overtook and led by as many as 5 points, and the Magic was beaten to a temperless point.

The Knicks' offense has come and gone, but last season's Eastern Conference champions have never been the under-educated Hawks, and the Magic have always been able to mount a fierce comeback when the situation is unfavorable.

At 5:54, Carter showed off as a former superstar when he singled out Andre Iguodala and scored a difficult step-back jumper. Although there was an element of luck in this shot, it was this ball that the Magic players used to launch a counterattack.

The Magic's comeback is not like the average team that just plays on the offensive end, they seem to be more aggressive on the defensive end. Iguodala's later driving layup was taken straight down by Gortat, and the fierce but lacking variety of breakthroughs didn't take much advantage against the Polish Hammers, whose upper body strength is not to be underestimated, and he is also a tough interior defender.

Iguodala's offense was in trouble, Gortat didn't deal with him alone, after Barnes and Petrus came on the court at the same time, the Magic team paid special attention to the defense of the inside breakout, Iguodala often had to face two or three people to defend when he went in, which was originally a special gift for him by the Magic team before the game.

After the Knicks failed to attack three times in a row, Wu decided to take possession of the ball, and his style was able to counter the defensive tactics of Gortat and the Magic, who has always been a perimeter projection guard.

At 4:40 seconds, Wu Huang began his offensive performance, first using the cover to kill near the free throw line and immediately stop the jump shot, rushing to shoot the ball before Barnes and Petrus assisted, and the basketball obediently fell into the frame this time.

This goal was just the beginning, Wu Huang still played with David Lee in the next round, but this time he got a little space to shoot with the help of cover, and immediately started shooting one step away from the three-point line, and the basketball passed through the net again.

Big Van Gundy was hesitating to call a timeout, and the Knicks were already stealing defensive rebounds and playing what they do best, with Wu Huang, Iguodala and Harrington forming a trio of arrows to charge the Magic halfcourt.

Magic's return defense was already very timely, but Wu Huang did not choose to shoot on the outside this time, in the face of Nelson's defense, he once again used his flexible footsteps to shake off the opponent, and did not slow down directly to the basket, attracting Barnes's supplementary defense and throwing the basketball into the sky, assisting Iguodala to stage a violent tomahawk split!

Van Gundy can't call a timeout at this time, Wu Huang has found his form, and at the critical moment, he single-handedly provoked the Knicks' offensive responsibility, and after scoring 5 points alone, he assisted his teammates to stage a violent dunk, his personal data quickly rose to 16 points and 7 assists, and the shooting percentage gradually rose, hitting 6 of 16 shots. That's not too bad a hit rate.

Wu Huang played the third quarter. D'Antoni had long forgotten about Emperor Wu's injury. Anyway, he doesn't look like he's injured on the field at all. Wu Huang himself forgot that he was playing with an injury, and he completely focused on the game in this section, and he didn't have time to think about other things at all, and he didn't even talk about trash, this preoccupied appearance was very different from his usual appearance.

At the end of the third quarter, the score was 76-71, and the Knicks led the Magic by five points into the final quarter.

Wu Huang had 20 points, 4 rebounds and 8 assists, and he scored 14 points and 6 assists in this quarter. Broke down the entire defense of the Nelson and Magic.

In the fourth quarter, Wu Huang rested for four minutes off the court, and the two teams of substitutes played the court!

In the 7th minute and 30 seconds, when Wu Huang and David Lee came on the court together, the score was 83:79, and the Magic team narrowed the gap to 4 points.

The benches of the two teams are evenly matched, but it is mainly Harrington who scores for the Knicks during this time, this sloppy guy is really in good shape today, and has scored 24 points so far, and has unknowingly become the Knicks' highest scorer in this game.

"Wait. Isn't this sloppy sloppy for his next contract? "Wu Huang suddenly thought of something, these two rounds of the series. Although Harrington had a few sluggish games, his overall performance was stable, averaging 15 points and 4 rebounds per game, and his three-point shooting rate reached 38%.

As the sixth man, his performance can be rated at least a B+, and the personal data in the playoffs is much higher than usual, with this season's performance in the playoffs, it is not difficult to want an 8 million-10 million contract next year, and now inflation has also driven the player's salary, and the Knicks will give it if they don't give it to other teams.

Wu Huang thought of this, and after he got on the court, he began to take the initiative to find Harrington to deliver shells, if this thing really wants to brush up data for the new contract, then it will definitely not be more outside offense as before, he will definitely have to create damage under the basket.

He guessed correctly, Harrington received the pass and kept breaking through to the Magic restricted area, once such an all-round big man attacked, the Magic interior line without Howard would soon be unable to hold up, Harrington also weighed 240 pounds, and his height and athleticism were not bad, and it was a bit unrealistic to expect Lewis or Anderson to guard him.

The Knicks are not alone in Harrington playing for a new contract, David Lee first played against Horford in these two rounds of the series, and then slammed the current No. 1 center, although the two alignments are at a disadvantage, but his progress and output on the offensive end are still very good, after all, he is in the misalignment against these two opponents, and it is completely reasonable to get a 10 million annual salary next year in this era of withering inside.

The interior line formed by these two guys became the offensive arrow of the Knicks in the fourth quarter, and Wu Huang gave the two of them the ball when he had the opportunity, and the Magic's original strongest interior line was actually collapsed by the Knicks.

Gortat finally received his fifth foul in the 6th minute, Lewis was even more like a blank on the court, Harrington and David Lee could blow him up at both ends of the offensive and defensive ends, Mr. Yuan Yuan had already been sprayed by Magic fans at the moment, and with so much salary, he couldn't even get the Knicks' famous interior line, it was really useless to die.

The Magic struggled to survive in the fourth quarter with Carter and Nelson, with the two guards barely keeping the team behind by single digits.

The real drama started 2 minutes and 30 seconds before the end, with a score of 97:90, after Nelson broke through Wu Huang and hit a layup, the Knicks temporarily led by 7 points.

Wu Huang stood up at this time, although Nelson couldn't prevent him today, he also let the other party get too many points.

After Nelson hit the layup, he scored 25 points and was an eye-catching performance on the offensive end.

He can forgive himself for being a little dehydrated on the defensive end due to a back injury, but on the offensive end he had to respond with a better performance, this time with a difficult step-back jumper from inside the three-point line at the top of the arc to give the Knicks a nine-point lead.

Twenty seconds later, Lewis hit his fifth three-pointer of the game with his outside pick to help the Magic close the gap again. Looking back, when Wu Huang had 3 seconds left in the offensive time, he pressed the defender on the right side and forced a shot to equalize the score.

There was a suspicion of a foul on this goal, but the home referee blew the home whistle and did not award a foul on Wu Huang.

Just 12 seconds later, Nelson forced his way into the box and hit high-arc jumpers over the head of David Lee and Harrington, and the Knicks' rush inside height once again paid the price on the defensive end.

Both Lee and Harrington were great on the offensive end today, but defensively they were hard to make up for.

The Knicks' offense played at a high level again today, and if it weren't for their poor defense, the Magic would have been on their knees long ago.

Another 20 seconds passed in the game, and Wu Huang was powerful again, only to see him receive a pass from Iguodala, first feint and shake Nelson, rushed into the basket and threw a one-handed throw farther than Nelson's shooting position just now, and the basketball drew a high arc and fell into the net.

In the last two minutes, Wu Huang and Nelson teamed up to stage a suffocating battle of points, the two went back and forth, each scoring 4 goals, and all of them were classic and difficult. In the final critical moments of the game, both sides can maintain such high morale and efficiency, which is the charm of the NBA playoffs.

But this kind of battle is extremely unfavorable to the Magic team, they are already close to ten points behind, and they must chase the score as soon as possible, but Wu Huang can always hit a variety of difficult shots, not allowing the Magic team to narrow the score gap.

In the final 55 seconds of the game, the score was still 106-98, and the Magic were never able to narrow the gap to less than 5 points.

Many New York fans thought of the key stage of the last game, when the scores of the two teams were not far apart, but in this similar stalemate, they missed key shots several times in the last game, but today's Wu Huang did not disappoint them, despite the poor performance in the first half, but he did not relent, even if Nelson played at such a high level, he did not fall behind.

In the end, with only 36 seconds left in the game, the Magic still trailed by 8 points at 100-108, and they basically had no chance to turn the game, and they didn't even use foul tactics. Even if you shoot two three-pointers, you still lose, and the use of foul tactics will not have any effect at all except to keep the opponent on the score.

When the final whistle blew, the New York fans shouted "MVP" and "MVP" in unison. Wu Huang only made 2 of 10 shots in the first half, and swept away the slump in the first half of the second half, contributing 34 points, 5 rebounds, 10 assists and 1 steal, shooting 13 of 25, 3 of 8 three-pointers, and 5 of 5 free throws.

Wu Huang finally breathed a sigh of relief after the game, and finally was not swept by the Magic, but in the next game they are going to Orlando to play away, and that bastard should come back at that time, whether they can drag this series to their home stadium, Wu Huang actually has no confidence in his heart.

The Knicks played almost their best today, but they couldn't beat the Magic who lost their interior core. In the final stage, the Magic even had a chance to fight back, but fortunately he had a good hand and just stopped, but this also said a lot of problems, the biggest of which is that if the Knicks want to win, they must ensure that everyone is in good shape.

Andre Iguodala stepped up in the first half, David Lee and Harrington were the team's offensive arrows in the second half, and he was the finishing touches in the final period, with all four Knicks leaders playing well. But it's almost impossible to have a slump in the remaining three games without any of the key players, and even he can't guarantee that he will score 30+ points in the remaining three games, let alone anyone else. (To be continued.) )