At 7 p.m., the Knicks players attended the pregame press conference, after which they had to go to the venue for a 90-minute warm-up before returning to the locker room for the final pregame setup.

Earlier today, the production team of Sports Illustrated came to Atlanta to take a photo of Wu Huang, but was told by Wu Huang's agent that it was only ten minutes, and it was still at the pre-game press conference and the reporter interview, which was a great challenge for the photographer, because Wu Huang sat in a chair and chatted with reporters while acting as his model.

Wu Huang is not playing a big name, but there are too many media that want to interview him every day, first of all, the New York Times, as his number one supporter, must arrange a certain amount of time for them; The film crew sent by CCTV is also their own people, and they will also get a certain amount of interview and filming time, and Wu Huang will of course treat his compatriots better; Finally, the interview and filming of the NBA's official website, of course, he can't shirk it; There are a whole bunch of other influential media outlets that will also ask for interviews and photos, ESPN, Hoop World, USA Today, and so on......

Therefore, the famous "Sports Illustrated" only got ten minutes of shooting time, and it had to be synchronized with the pre-game press conference.

The CCTV film crew was treated much better, and when the Knicks came to the scene to warm up at the end of the pre-game press conference, the CCTV film crew was allowed to conduct some interviews with Wu Huang during the break, which was his privilege again, and generally few film crews could film the team's pre-game warm-up.

Not only was Wu Huang interviewed during the warm-up break, but the CCTV crew also wittily interviewed other players and team staff, and filmed several sets of Knicks' small tactics, one of which is very interesting......

"Shoot!" Wu Huang gave orders to Iguodala, who was holding the ball.

"But I'm executing tactics." Iguodala responded.

Wu Huang roared back strongly: "Throw that damn ball!" ”

Iguodala could only shoot but didn't get the ball in, and he then came to the sidelines. "It's funny because you're going to feel guilty, but he'll say, 'Next time I pass the ball to you, you'll shoot again, if you don't score.'" That's not going to be good. But this ball should be shot, it's your point again, next time. ’”

The 26-year-old Iguodala said, looked at Wu Huang, who was giving orders to Gallinari in the field, and continued to say to the CCTV film crew: "It's really interesting, because I'm here to teach him and be a leader, but you find that there are times." He was teaching me. When I was 20 years old, I was the youngest player on the team, and I was still learning how to play with AI. And he is 20 years old and is already a star of the NBA second team. ”

The first brother may not be clear enough about the changes of Wu Huang, because he only came here in the middle of the season, Al Harrington has the clearest feelings about the changes of Wu Huang, the original second leader of the Knicks told the CCTV film crew: "When Hugo first joined the team, he didn't like to say too much. But by the middle of the season, his words became more and more numerous. Yes. He will make suggestions on tactics at timeouts and also have the freedom to adjust defensive alignments at any time. So, when the audience saw him misplaced to defend scorers like Kobe Bryant and Roy, it was his decision, not that of head coach D'Antoni. ”

Iguodala commented: "As the game progresses, Hugo knows when it's time to switch to the scorer. It was part of his leadership qualities. ”

Chris Duhon, the substitute for Wu Huang, also said: "I think Hugo will probably coach one day because he understands the game so well that people talk about him being like 'Magic', like Michael, when you have that kind of mind. When you have a talent like him, you can do whatever you want. ”

Knicks assistant coach Mike Woodson was asked on the sidelines what he thought of Wu, and he described: "When we analyze the game, Hugo sounds more like a coach than a player. Yesterday we were analysing a moment in the regular season game against the Hawks, when he was playing Bibby with the ball on the left wing, but when he parsed the scene, he didn't focus on how he was going to deal with Bibby's defense, saying, 'My main focus is not on the guy who is defending me, it's on the second layer of defense, because I feel like I can get past the first guy who defends me.' But then, someone on the weak side might come over and wrap me up, and I'm staring at Horford and Josh to see if they're staring at me, are they anticipating my movements? Now, they may not be clear about what I'm going to do next, but I have to know what they might do next. ”

Mike Woodson thinks he's never seen such a great sense of awareness, and like playing chess, he analyzes the next many moves at the beginning, which makes Hugo a difficult player to defend, so he doesn't encounter the so-called rookie wall at all, and that kind of thing doesn't come to him.

Wu Huang himself didn't hear this kind of exaggerated praise, otherwise he would have secretly muttered in his heart: "If I really have such a hanging, then why is it always interfered with by Josh Smith's defense when playing the Eagles in the regular season?" ”

Mike Woodson is still touting Wu Huang: "A lot of scorers have a narrow field of vision, you can go over and help defend, they will just stare at you and wait for the opportunity to slip away." But Hugo, if you go to help, he's going to kill you. He makes you think he doesn't know where you are, and then he rushes to you, attracts you over, and then distributes the ball to your defender. It's like watching a magician back in the day, thinking about it in your head before the action is completed. ”

The Knicks' trainer then replied to some news about Wu Huang's strength training, saying that Wu Huang has always stayed away from bench press and other exercises, and he will choose to work on the core muscle groups, that is, the important muscle groups responsible for protecting the stability of the spine by wrapping the abdomen around the front and back of the body, and will also work on lower body strength and yoga. In addition, Wu Huang is not the kind of person who is willing to be at the mercy of the trainer from beginning to end. "I've got to start with the ones he wouldn't think were too stupid, you know what I mean?" The Knicks' trainer seemed a little dissatisfied when he said this, because Wu Huang always didn't train his way, and he also had a bullshit personal trainer.

"Hugo needed to gain at least 10 pounds, and he needed to use a protein supplement, but he wasn't willing to do that. I know he likes to eat Chinese food. We all know that the food tastes good, but he should only eat four to five low-fat meals a day, eat less each time, eat more foods like oatmeal, chicken, salmon, and occasionally have some sweets, but he should try to eat less Chinese food. "This trainer obviously has a lot of resentment towards the disobedient Wu Huang. But hearing the tone of this angry little daughter-in-law, how do you feel that this training is also a?

Wu Huang still weighs less than 185 pounds, but his bare foot height has grown to 192cm, of course, he has not grown taller in the past three months, the team trainer thinks that Wu Huang's height should be set, and at the age of 20, it is a bit abnormal to continue to grow taller.

"I look a little skinny, and that's because I'm not old enough to gain muscle, at least until I don't grow taller. Otherwise, it won't do me any good. "Although Wu Huang has been training his strength, he has not been eager to gain weight and confrontation ability, and this aspect has to be cyclical and gradual.

At this stage, he has been building up his flexibility and core muscles, and continues to expand his skeleton, which can be expanded by training until the age of 30, so NBA players will be stretching for almost their entire careers.

Don't look at Emperor Wu's thin body, but his core strength is not bad. Because his skeleton is gifted, muscles are just a by-product for him. As long as you have a good skeleton, even if you don't have many muscles on your body, your strength will not be bad at all.

Wu Huang's current strength is not too bad, and the increase in muscle strength is actually far inferior to his naturally good skeleton, so Wu Huang will have a situation where his strength is not inferior to DeRozan in college.

It's like laying a foundation. Wu Huang was born with an excellent skeleton, and it was not difficult to fill the muscles on it, but the core muscle groups had to be practiced first, and at the same time, he had to wait until his body was completely developed.

The most incredible thing that the Knicks team doctor felt about Wu Huang was his ability to recover, every time he encountered a minor injury. Wu Huang's recovery time is amazing, "Oh, his recovery time is much shorter than most players. The Knicks' team doctor has a say in that: "He's different, very different, and I think he's three times as good as a normal person, because of some injuries that take three or four days to recover, I can't see him the next morning." ”

The team doctor thinks that Wu Huang's control of his body is also bizarre, he can always find the most comfortable way to land when he is hit, even if he is hit in the air, it is difficult to see him lose his balance and land, he can always find a way to land safely without being injured.

This is the benefit of Wu Huang's yoga, core muscle groups, and waist and abdominal strength, which control the athlete's body balance. Especially in a sport like basketball, the core muscles are often the most important area on the player's body, protecting him from injuries and maintaining balance and stability.

Wu Huang even thought about whether it really worked to make his body exaggerated like Margeti without doing any traditional strength exercises? Anyway, Emperor Wu was not interested in this at all. When he does lift weights, he usually lifts them with one foot on a balance ball, and from the beginning he took these core exercises seriously and believed that they would prolong his career. "Some people may forget that balance is what you always need to maintain in a game, not the size of your muscles. For me, that's a big part of the game. ”

Domestic fans are very concerned about his bounce, but Wu Huang himself and the team don't care much about this kind of thing, maybe the bounce is very meaningful to players like Dwight Howard, because Superman is always bouncing around in the penalty area, but for players like Wu Huang, his lethality is mostly caused in sports, and generally does not need to be in contact with people, what he needs most is the ability to maintain balance, and the ability to not fall or get injured after being maliciously collided by defenders is the most important thing for him.

Therefore, Wu Huang said that he never measured how much he bounced, because it didn't make any sense.

A year ago, during the rookie tryout before the NBA draft, Wu Huang measured the vertical jump height of about 80cm or 85cm, and now his vertical jump may be between 90cm and 95cm, but which is true, even Wu Huang himself has no answer, it depends on who you believe. Even if it's only 85cm, that's a pretty big number, especially for a yellow person.

When the Knicks players were asked by the film crew: "Which part of Wu Huang do you want to steal the most", Gallinari immediately said: "I want to steal his lower body work the most......" Of course, this interview was cut by CCTV mercilessly afterwards.

Livingston wanted Emperor Wu's legs the most; Du Hong wanted Emperor Wu's brain the most; David Lee wanted Wu Huang's speed the most; Maddie wants Emperor Wu's recovery ability the most.

"I want his magical hands." Iguodala naturally envies Wu Huang's shooting ability the most. This is the talent he lacks the most.

Wu Huang's hand is not only excellent at shooting, the CCTV film crew specially gave a close-up of his palm, measured it with a ruler, and found that from the bottom of the palm to the top of the middle finger, it is about 23.3 cm long. According to Wu Huang himself, from the 9th grade. He was able to catch the ball with one hand, which allowed him to not only swing the ball around on breakaways, but also to grab a decent number of rebounds with one hand. At the same time, it also allows him to pass the ball at an incredible speed, "At first, I had to take time to get used to it because he would scare me. Teammate Gallinari said, "Hugo is sometimes on the other side of the pitch, suddenly. 'Bang' and the ball will be delivered to your shooting point. ”

As the person who organizes the team's offense, Wu's strategy is to support his teammates in every shot they should make, but never tolerate any poor shot selection. "There's no room for a bad shot," he said, "and a bad shot selection is not good, and you have to tell them right away that you can't have a littering guy around." ”

The CCTV film crew seemed to want to study Wu Huang's whole body. In the end, they even went to measure Wu Huang's sneakers and found that Wu Huang's feet were not particularly big. At least for an NBA player. However, his ability to move both feet quickly and effectively is impressive.

"Most players go from one end to the other at full speed, about 11 to 14 steps, and Hugo is no exception, but he's done it much faster," the Knicks' trainer said. His cadence is very fast. ”

This is especially valuable defensively. For most players, drawing a circle with a radius of 6 feet centered on him is about how far he can defend. We can call 6 feet their "defensive radius." And on Emperor Wu, the circle you want to draw has a radius almost twice as large, and you don't know when he will pounce in front of you.

Mike Woodson, who is in charge of defense for the Knicks, said: "He can be in the middle from start to finish, and when the opponent moves the ball widely, he can save to defend the shooters on both wings. And it's not people like me who pounce on me, it's like, 'Damn it, a steal king is coming at you!'" ’”

Wu's surprise selection to the defensive second team this season shows that he's become the coolest toy any defensive coach can imagine — he's tall, fast, and smart enough at point guard. For example, when the Knicks played against the Celtics, head coach D'Antoni often asked Wu Huang to defend Allen. In this way, when Ray Allen is all over the court, there is no so-called "misalignment" for the Knicks. Unlike Du Hong, or the smaller Robinsons in the past, Wu Huang switched to Ray Allen or Crawford, and his height did not suffer at all.

Mike Woodson said: "Do you understand how painful it is for a team [opponent]? Celtics coach Doc Rivers even said that Wu Huang is a rare player who can "defend from 1 to 3".

But Wu Huang himself said that he couldn't guard everyone, "In this league, there are some players that you can't defend one-on-one, like Kobe, Chris Paul, Dwayne Wade. You can't have too many hand-checks (i.e. put your hands on the opponent when defending) and you can't defend too hard because you'll be blown foul. Sometimes, you have to ask for help. Wu Huang also said that purely from the perspective of height and strength, there are some big men that he can't guard, which mainly refers to Billups and Delon.

This pre-game interview made domestic fans look very cool, there has never been a Chinese who has received so much respect in the NBA, Yao Ming's low position in the Rockets a few years ago was not low, but compared with today's Wu Huang, the gap immediately appeared, the Knicks' attitude towards Wu Huang is almost the same as that of the Cavaliers towards James, it is really afraid of melting in his mouth, afraid of falling in his hands, and afraid of touching it in his arms.

But it's a pity that today's game didn't reflect Wu Huang's awesomeness, because the Knicks played like on the road!

This is the Knicks' return to the playoffs after five years, but they are greeted not by a victory, but by a complete fiasco!

As soon as the New York players entered the stadium, they felt a completely different atmosphere at home, and the lighting seemed to be very different from the regular season. The oppressive atmosphere came over as soon as I walked out of the players' tunnel. The subsequent malicious slogans and photoshopped humiliating photos of Atlanta fans, coupled with loud decibel noise, made the Knicks' young players a little uneasy.

Andre Iguodala and D'Antoni have repeatedly stressed the difficulties of playing away from home in the playoffs before the game, but the young players who have not been through a few playoff games will not be able to adapt to the atmosphere from the experience of older players and coaches alone.

Emperor Wu is a very rare exception, he has seen big scenes. So this kind of away atmosphere in the first round of the playoffs can't scare him.

However, the defensive intensity of the playoffs made him a little uncomfortable, and many of the regular season were foul actions, and the referees were not willing to blow too many penalties today. And this is someone's home court, and it's normal to be a little biased, so many of the Hawks players' ramming moves don't get penalized, and these moves affect shooting teams like the Knicks.

Wu Huang failed to get the support of his teammates in the game, and it was difficult to compete with his opponent on his own, and he made 5 of 16 shots in the game. He only had 15 points, 4 rebounds and 3 assists, and he also had a whopping 6 turnovers. Iguodala had 18 points and six rebounds, and no one else scored in a double-double, and the Knicks scored a measly nine points in the final quarter.

Last year, the Hawks beat the Miami Heat in the first round of the playoffs and caused a lot of problems for the later Cavaliers.

After the start of the first quarter, the Hawks players got into the game significantly faster than the Knicks players. As soon as it came up, it bloomed more and quickly took the lead. Halfway through the first quarter, they took the lead at 18-8. The Knicks struggled with only Wu Huang, who scored eight points in the first quarter, but the Knicks still trailed 15-26.

Wu Huang's shooting percentage in the first quarter was not high, and he failed to make an outstanding performance in the second quarter, and the Eagles gradually pulled the score away.

With 8:15 left in the quarter, the Knicks trailed 26-32 with Iguodala's play. However, they failed to score for the next three minutes, and the Eagles scored eight straight points to give a 14-point advantage.

The Knicks still couldn't find their groove after that, and after Wu Huang was trapped, his passes failed to convert into assists. The Hawks took advantage of another 12-4 run to take a full 20-point lead at 56-36 with 1:40 left in the quarter.

At halftime, the Hawks led 60-38.

Bibi was blown up by Wu Huang in the regular season, but in the playoffs, he used a bunch of small actions to annoy Wu Huang enough.

Wu Huang shot a three-point shot at the beginning of the third quarter, but Bibby's defense deliberately pretended to be unable to contain it, and slapped his nose with a palm, which directly made Wu Huang red, and finally let his teammates do it for him even after the free throw, and it took him more than two minutes to stop the bleeding.

The Eagles were also very successful in his bag today, Bibby used brute force and small movements to fight him in close quarters today, and used the movement of wandering on the edge of foul to make Wu Huang unable to play his speed advantage, creating time for his teammates to help defend and make up for the defense, which limited Wu Huang's breakthrough.

In the third quarter, the Hawks quickly extended their advantage to 25 points. With 1:08 left in the quarter, Josh Smith grabbed an offensive rebound and scored on a dunk to give the Hawks an 83-53 lead.

The Knicks had given up a little bit of resistance, and Wu Huang also made only one shot in the quarter and scored three points, and the Hawks led by 30 points at 85-55 after three quarters.

After the start of the fourth quarter, Wu Huang missed 3 consecutive shots, and the Knicks were completely desperate, after which he was also substituted off the court.

With 9:09 left in the game, Josh Smith and Bibby scored on a dunk in the air to give the Hawks a 90-59 lead. Since then, the two teams have replaced their respective main forces, and the outcome of the game has long been out of suspense, and the Eagles have easily passed the test at home.

The Hawks scored 14 points in the final quarter, while the Knicks scored only 9 points, the lowest score in a single quarter this season, and lost to the Hawks by 35 points with a total score of 99-64, almost creating the team's largest single-game loss in the playoffs.

"It's all CCTV that hurt me, this interview is too disgraceful!" Wu Huang mentally threw the pot to the CCTV film crew after the game, and told his agent Brandon that he would not give any interviews until he won a playoff game. (To be continued.) )