Chapter 282: Is He Playing Tricks on Us?
The highlight of the game between the Knicks and the Heat is the performance of the stars.
James had 16 points, 6 rebounds and 4 assists in the half, Wade had 15 points, 4 rebounds and 3 assists, and Bosh had 8 points, 2 rebounds and 1 assist. There is a phenomenon in the first 30 games of the Heat, the Big Three rarely bloom in full swing, generally two of them perform well, and the other will be slightly mediocre, and this mediocre person, most of the time, is poor Bosh, and today is no exception.
Some fans have also discovered that the rebounding data of the Heat's interior players is not good, just like today's Knicks, as for the reason needless to say - the outside line has stolen so many rebounds, and the inside line has grabbed an egg?
In the first half, he was stunned as a big center, cutting 14 points, 12 rebounds, 4 assists and 3 steals, while Xiao Si, who was in the center position many times, only grabbed 3 rebounds, and his performance of 12 points and 1 assist was mediocre.
The only problem in the first half of the Heat was that they lost a lot of backcourt rebounds, but fortunately, Wade started the second quarter and scored 12 points in a single quarter, otherwise it would be difficult for Miami to lead so much.
"Let them taste the sweetness first." Wu Huang said at halftime.
"I don't want to be reasonable!" Wade covered his filler position that was elbowed by Emperor Wu in the locker room, and said with hatred.
"Don't treat me like a monkey!" James remembered that Wu Huang teased him in the game, "I can play in the Knicks in the future", and he was very unhappy!
"Veterans never die!" O'Neal sulked from the sidelines, unhappy with his playing time.
After the first half, many people seemed to be dissatisfied, which is normal, and if there is unhappiness, it is good to vent it in the game, and Wade continued to use actions in the second quarter and the second half to make the villain in his mind pay the price.
When Wu Huang was hacked before, he once said that "I may not be a good person, nor a bad person, but I am certainly not a villain", which is a line in the classic American western film "The Golden Three", but many people don't see it that way, they think that Wu Huang "is not a good person, a bad person, and definitely a villain." ”
But regardless of whether Emperor Wu is a good person or not, Dian Wei's madness is not trivial, as soon as the second half comes up, there seems to be a red light on the big cheeks, first shouting in his heart, "Noon has arrived", and then three consecutive offensive hits, in a blink of an eye, the difference was widened to 15 points.
The Knicks immediately asked for a timeout, and Wu Huang saw that the morale of his teammates was a little low, and immediately said: "Keep calm, let me come!" At this time, of course, he had to stand up and return Wade to a wave of death. However, he forgot that in this game, he chose to shoot casually, and his hand was "holding the arrow" instead of "scattering the gun", but the ultimate CD was not ready for a long time, and the hard result was that the shooting percentage quickly dropped to 4 of 17 shots, and then there was no movement.
D'Antoni didn't expect the team to collapse so quickly, Wade was like a hanging, and he scored 10 points in less than five minutes in the third quarter, widening the difference to 20+ in one go, and it is estimated that he has shouted "noon has arrived" several times in his heart.
Knicks fans are going to be wailing that if they continue to play like this, their 27-game winning streak will be over!
Emperor Wu felt very bad today, and he shot for a long time with fate, but he didn't shoot a few red hearts, which was really embarrassing!
Xiao Si also tried to stand up as a savior, but after the "new challenger debuted" still had no effect, when Wu Huang once he couldn't shoot accurately, the Heat could go to the inside to pinch Xiao Si, once Bosh had a helper, he could make Stoudemire feel uncomfortable eating two aspirin, not to mention that his hand was also bad today.
"What can I do?" Seeing that the point difference was getting wider and wider, and the two cores were unable to help the team turn the tide, the mustache was pacing back and forth on the court, and it didn't occur until the start of the fourth quarter that it seemed that they still had Iguodala and Gallinari to use? Well, these two can also occasionally play the main attack point.
This is his on-the-spot strain problem, but after the Knicks have a partner of Wu Huang and Xiao Si this year, it is indeed rare for the two to be dumb together. The sight of One Brother and Gallinari stepping up to help the team last season is no longer visible this season, and many fans may have forgotten that their roster depth is deeper than that of the Heat.
When the Knicks let Iguodala and Gallinari charge forward, Wu Huang and Xiao Si naturally became strategic heroes, and neither of them was a superstar who couldn't play without the ball.
D'Antoni completely ignores the many tactics that can be derived from this roster, and he will only find the right players to match his philosophy, but will not fully explore the all-round players of the players, and the depth of the Knicks' roster is rare in history, and if you meet a coach who really knows how to use people well, it is completely possible to develop a kaleidoscopic strategy with these all-round players.
But after the first three quarters of the game, the score was 68:86, and the Knicks trailed by 18 points, and it was difficult to catch up at this time.
Iguodala stood up first in the fourth quarter, and his hand was also average today, but his simple and savage breakthrough style made the Heat, who were accustomed to Wu Huang's smart and fast style, very uncomfortable, and was made four free throws by a brother as soon as he came up, and the difference was quickly narrowed to 15 points.
When he was in danger, Wade continued to go crazy and actually hit a three-pointer outside the three-point line, which provoked a wave of cheers from the "American Airlines Center"!
The only player on the Knicks team who had a good touch today was Gallinari, and when Iguodala gave him the ball again, the Italian shot a big shot into the basket.
The Heat's defensive strength has always been around Wu Huang and Xiao Si, when Iguodala and Gallinari opened, they had no more troops to deal with, the difference was narrowed to 12 points in 9 minutes and 20 seconds, and the situation of the Heat became dangerous at this time, once a team like the Knicks succeeded, the horror of the firepower was enough to recover a dozen points in a few minutes, even the Heat was difficult to prevent this terrifying offensive.
Spoelstra made a quick decision, he couldn't think of a way to make the Knicks attack dumb in a short time, and he didn't dare to transfer the defensive forces to Iguodala and Gallinari, which would easily release Wu Huang and Xiao Si from the cage, at this time, it was necessary to go one way to the end, and must not sway from side to side.
Defensively, however, they can add a bit of force on the offensive end, and they still have a 12-point lead that will be enough for them to hold out until the end of the game as long as they don't collapse on the offensive end. In other words, the best thing the Heat can do right now is to attack for attack!
The Heat's Big Three is not in vain, and Bosh finally grabbed a frontcourt rebound and hit a rebound at a critical moment. But it seems that he grabbed the first frontcourt rebound today, at most it will make him less scolded after the game, because the pseudo-center opposite has grabbed 6 frontcourt rebounds and 10 backcourt rebounds at the moment.
Wu Huang didn't care about the shooting percentage today, but this rebounding record was very broken, he grabbed 15 rebounds after the third quarter, and now he has 16, and he is likely to get 20 rebounds today.
Halfway through the fourth quarter, Wu Huang finally received Gallinari's ball on the run, made a three-point shot from the outside, and the basketball stumbled on the basket for a long time before finally falling in.
"Haha, if you want to play well, you can't run without the ball!" Wu Huang laughed out loud after hitting this three-point shot, and secretly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, his three-point shot had already hit 1 before, and he was really going to be hacked after the game again, and it was easy to be scolded as a "chicken".
But it didn't take long to be happy, James quickly returned a three-pointer, and today's Heat Big Three really annoyed Wu Huang and Knicks fans!
The score was 80:94, and James' goal brought the difference to 15 points, which was a key goal for the Knicks.
The Knicks still didn't give up in the final half of the quarter, but the Heat triumvirate was like a full battery today, and they could always keep the difference down to single digits after the Knicks scored.
Especially when the game entered the final three minutes, Knicks fans had given up, and they felt that the Heat in this state was really difficult to beat. Even if Wu Huang and Xiao Si's state can recover, it is useless now, the points behind are difficult to fill, and the attack of the Big Three is not restricted, they will not be able to catch up with the point difference. But if you want the Knicks to defend against the Heat's offense, it's better to let them increase their power and get high!
Wu Huang grabbed two rebounds at the last moment, but it didn't help the overall situation, today he is destined to be hacked, who told him to grab 19 rebounds, but the score is only 18 points, and the score is not as much as the rebound, is this what the player who ranks first in the scoring list can do? If you don't hack, who are you hacking?!
In the last two minutes of the game, the difference was still around 15 points, and D'Antoni finally sighed and replaced Wu Huang and Xiao Si and other main players in advance, officially announcing that they had finally lost after 27 consecutive wins!
The New York fans who came from afar were very discouraged at the moment, and many of them left the stadium early, and they also announced that their plan to occupy the American Airlines Center had failed, so of course they had to leave quickly, otherwise they didn't know how to be ridiculed.
"It's your own doing!" Wade said brightly when Emperor Wu was replaced.
"Is that what it can do?" said James, who also came up to sprinkle salt.
"We'll see!" Wu Huang snorted, but he knew that this was just a piece of cake, and at the post-match press conference, he didn't know how many people were waiting to embarrass him.
He guessed right, the Knicks won for almost two months in a row, and finally someone ended their winning streak, at this time, of course, there are countless news that can be capitalized and featured, and many reporters don't even know which question to use to embarrass Wu Huang, for so long, they have prepared too many harsh questions waiting for the day he loses to come in handy, so that there are too many questions to prepare, and they don't know which one to use.
"Failure is a patient teacher!" Wu Huang was first asked how he felt about losing after the game, and replied very forcefully. Then someone mentioned his hit rate today, and Emperor Wu continued to pretend: "I may not be a perfect marksman!" Later, a Miami reporter, when asked, jokingly called this the Knicks' grave and buried their winning streak, to which Emperor Wu responded: "Their grave can't hold me." Another reporter asked him a little strangely, isn't he angry after losing? Emperor Wu smiled slightly: "You won't see my anger. In the end, a reporter directly asked him the reason for the loss, and Wu Huang replied without thinking: "Heroes will never wither, but I will make up for my mistakes." ”
The faces of many reporters have become not very good-looking, Wu Huang, the bastard, actually has a set after losing, and what the hell is "heroes never wither"? Is this playing tricks on them?
"I can't imagine what they're going to go through!" Less than half an hour after the Knicks lost, ESPN made a brief temporary check-in.
The Knicks, who have won 27 in a row, caused a stir after losing the game, which was no less than a bombshell in the sports world.
The longer and longer winning streak, the higher and higher attention, and the closer and closer record have changed the mentality of the Knicks, from the anti-expectation and excitement at the beginning of the winning streak to seriousness, nervousness, and coldness, but fortunately, it is all over.
Half an hour ago, the Knicks lost 91-105 to the Miami Heat on the road, and the second-longest winning streak in NBA history came to an abrupt end, but the Knicks were relieved after the loss, and Hugo said bluntly, "I'm glad that the winning streak was terminated." Looking back at the Knicks' more than 50-day winning streak, the game process is no longer important, but the change in the mentality of the players is very interesting, from 8 consecutive wins to 15 consecutive wins to 22 consecutive wins, what kind of mental ups and downs have the Knicks experienced?
8 consecutive wins, for many teams, it seems that it will never be out of reach, such as the Bobcats, and also such as the Warriors, but for the Knicks, who are aiming to win the championship this season, it is like a commonplace, not a big deal at all, and these eight opponents are all weak teams in the league. So when the Knicks won 8 in a row, most teams in the league reacted with just "Oh, it's only 8 in a row"!
But even so, no one could have predicted what they have achieved today. At the time, everyone treated them as a strong team, and the Knicks as a team had greatly improved their self-confidence after winning eight games in a row.
The number of winning streaks of more than 10+ is not uncommon in the league, so when the Knicks won 15 in a row, everyone was a little curious, how long will their winning streak last? Will they be able to break the 22-game winning streak set by the Rockets four years ago? And the Knicks obviously breathed a sigh of relief, because compared to the Lakers' ethereal 33-game winning streak, the Rockets' 22-game winning streak is still palpable. So, they worked harder to prove themselves.
The Knicks' winning streak didn't begin to attract attention from all teams until the 20-game mark, as they had the third-longest winning streak in history. This is actually a kind of pressure for themselves, and for the opponent, the game against the Knicks is the "Finals", and everyone wants to be the side that ends the winning streak.
After a 27-game winning streak, the Knicks met Miami on the road. "You're definitely going to want to beat the Knicks." "They're on our second-longest winning streak in history, and if we're going to redeem ourselves, we've got to finish them and be number one," James said before the game. ”
The Knicks, on the other hand, are in a state of loose on the outside and tight on the inside, but they are actually under a lot of pressure. In this game, the two teams also played with sparks, and there were several dangerous malicious fouls, and Hugo escaped the referee's penalty with two elbows, but this also angered the whole Heat team, and in the end they successfully defended their home court.
But ending the winning streak is not a good thing for the Knicks, and Hugo said that now they can focus on the playoffs and march towards the championship. (To be continued.) )