Chapter 165: Maddie's Counterattack

The Hawks' reliance on off-ball offense in positional warfare is unmatched in the league, and sometimes even the Spurs have had to bow down.

This team places a strong emphasis on returning the ball to the interior after high pick-and-rolls, and there are only two teams in the league that have a higher percentage of big blocks and scoring rates than the Hawks, the Mavericks with Nowitzki and the Suns with Smalls.

The Hawks, with the exception of Horford and Josh Smith, who can play both high and low positions, have a range of 15 feet from the front.

Horford scored 19 points and 7 rebounds in the first half, and Josh Smith had 15 points and 5 rebounds, and the two combined for 34 points to deal an almost devastating blow to the Knicks' interior.

Of course, the Knicks' outside line also bloodied the Hawks, Iguodala let the Hawks' outside core Joe Johnson hand over 15 shots in the half of the game, and Wu Huang also made Crawford only 6 shots 1 of the bloody performance, if you add Bibby's 2 points and 2 assists, today's Hawks' outside theory is no worse than the Knicks' inside, at least Channing Frye's performance on the offensive end is not bad, that is, David Lee was abused a little bit.

"I will continue to strengthen the attack in the second half, everyone pay attention to help me cover and defend the players......" Wu Huang did not directly point out that he wanted to score points at halftime, but this is what he meant, and if he doesn't understand this, he should test his IQ.

After the halftime break, Wu Huang and Bibi returned to the starting line-up.

"You gave me 29 points today." Emperor Wu made a simple provocation as usual.

Bibi pretended not to hear, the first half of the game was simply torturous for him, and he had no way to break through Wu Huang.

The Eagles are now unavailable, Jeff Teague has not performed as well as Bibby since he went up, and Crawford has also been ineffective against Wu Huang's defense, and using him will affect his team's offense.

It's not just this game. If the Hawks can't solve the point guard problem this year, I'm afraid they won't be able to go far into the playoffs.

Wu Huang was overjoyed to see Bibi, and shortly after the start of the third quarter, he received an assist from David Lee from 24 feet out in the bottom left corner and shot a three-pointer into the net to score his 32nd point. Joe Johnson missed again with a throw-in shortly after. Wu Huang picked up another rebound under the basket, turned around and played a chase counterattack, and hit another dry pull-up jumper from 18 feet out on the right wing, which was the 34th point.

Larry Drew rushed to the sidelines and called a timeout, and now they are not a problem on the offensive end, but on the defensive end, they must prevent Wu Huang from continuing to score, otherwise no matter how big the advantage is inside, they will not be able to win against the Knicks.

Their chain defense failed in the first half, and the Hawks didn't hold on to that in the second half, and this time they used a double bag. Even three people wrapped up to deal with Emperor Wu.

When the game restarted, Wu Huang found that as soon as he dribbled to the three-point line, he would be immediately caught by Joe Johnson or Josh Smith, and sometimes even two people working with Bibby to cover him.

Iguodala was let go by the Eagles, Wu Huang naturally chose to pass the ball when he saw this, and the first brother missed two consecutive three-point misses, and the Eagles chased the score again.

"Breakthrough!" Wu Huang motioned for Iguodala to hit the basket, and the latter thought the same. His three-point shot was not much better than Josh Smith on the opposite side most of the time.

The Eagles put their defensive focus on Wu Huang, which can certainly limit his scoring. But the Knicks' rally didn't slow down, as Iguodala used the break to make two fouls in a row, and before he knew it, Josh Smith and Horford also committed three fouls.

Just when D'Antoni wanted his players to add to the breakaway, the Hawks did the job first, with David Lee picking up his fourth foul in the face of Joe Johnson's breakaway. can only return to the court to sit again, and the Knicks have no center again.

"We don't want a center, it's useless anyway." D'Antoni was much calmer this time, directly replaced with Maddie, and the lineup on the field became: Wu Huang, Iguodala, Maddy, Gallinari, and Fry.

Wu Huang didn't have much time to partner with Maddie in the first half. With him present, there is generally nothing to do with Maddie, who can only become a pit dad outside shooter who can't run, can't shoot the ball at the first time, but has to dribble twice.

To be honest, Wu Huang hated Maddie's behavior, because this guy had to dribble twice more when he received his pass, and in the end, even if he threw it, it had nothing to do with him, and he didn't have an assist at all.

"It's just a big rebellion!" Emperor Wu could not tolerate such behavior.

As soon as Maddie came on the court this time, the Knicks' rhythm began to get off the ground — one less man on the fast break, one less man on defense, and one more person who didn't move in positional battles......

Marvin Williams only scored five points today, but he began to explode after Maddy came on the court, scoring three consecutive mid-range jumpers, and after a 7-0 shockwave, the Hawks quickly caught up 64:68, and the two sides began to fall into a stalemate.

Wu Huang was very unhappy, Larry Hughes, who had just been traded, didn't like to move without the ball, but now he knows what it means to really watch a show, and Hughes can be regarded as positive if he compares to Maddie.

The most annoying thing is that Maddie actually stretched out his hand to ask him for the ball from time to time, and as soon as he got the ball, he began to direct him to run, Wu Huang felt that this matter was even more unbearable!

"Is there something wrong with this guy's head? Did he really figure out the reality? Wu Huang was very dissatisfied with Maddie, and he played nearly halfway through the third quarter, and he didn't score another point after Maddie came on the court, because he didn't pass the ball to Maddie, and the Hawks players completely let Maddie go to contain him, in which case it was naturally difficult for him to score.

D'Antoni sighed, Wu Huang played a little temper, this is a blatant expression of dissatisfaction with the team, just now Maddie obviously has a vacant position he didn't pass, preferring to pass the basketball to Gallinari, who has no chance.

Gallinari said that he was innocent of lying on the gun, and receiving this kind of pass from the pit father could only increase his iron record, but he couldn't help but shoot, let alone pass to Maddie, this is when he stands on the wrong team, once he stands on the wrong team, the problem can be big or small, and he must not be sloppy.

Maddy was replaced by D'Antoni less than four minutes after he played, and if he is not replaced, the Knicks should account for this game.

The live camera immediately focused on Maddie, and the fans in front of the TV could see that his face was obviously blue, and after leaving the game, he ignored D'Antoni's outstretched hand, and went straight back to the bench to cover his face with a towel to prevent people from seeing his expression.

Wu Huang didn't know that he would be scolded by the 6 billion Maddie fans in China, he didn't pass the ball to Maddie, everyone could see it, and for a while, "selfish", "narrow-minded", "lone wolf", "squeezing out new teammates" and other complaints pressed on him.

But no matter how you scold, the fact is that as soon as Maddie played, Wu Huang immediately broke out!

With 4 minutes and 55 seconds left in the third quarter, Wu Huang's left wing was still 1 meter away from the three-point line, and he unreasonably directly pulled out a jump shot into the net, not giving the opponent a chance to trap him at all. At the end of the entire third quarter, the Hawks had no way to take Wu Huang's long-range shot, and in the last two minutes, Wu Huang scored three points from a long-range shot and a five-point shooting during the run, leading the Knicks to maintain an eight-point advantage and end the third quarter with 80:72.

Wu Huang has 42 points, 9 rebounds, 7 assists and 5 steals after the third quarter, and he only needs to score 8 more points in the final quarter to break the record of the youngest 50+ set by Jennings not long ago.

This task is not difficult to complete logically, he feels so good today, it should be a piece of cake to get another eight points.

But I never expected that in the fourth quarter, Wu Huang rested off the court, and the situation on the court changed abruptly. As soon as Maddie came up, he pulled out a three-point shot from the outside with a fire in the air, and when his eyes were blocked, the basketball smashed into the basket like a cannonball!

"it!" Wu Huang was taken aback by this ball, especially when he saw Maddie viciously waving his arm at the Knicks' bench, Wu Huang always felt that this was coming at him?

"This is a demonstration, how can it be justified!" Wu Huang was slandering in the abdomen, Maddie's performance had just begun, and 20 seconds later, under the cover of David Lee, he pulled out a step horizontally and pulled out his hand again, and actually hit another three-pointer!

The Hawks' backup forward Maurice Evans, who was also a fortune boy, went on to send Maddy to the free-throw line, who made both free throws to lead the Knicks to an 8-0 run.

Lee then hit his second goal of the day, and the Knicks stretched the deficit to 18 points in one fell swoop.

"Poof!" Wu Huang almost spit out the energy drink in one gulp, with such a blink of an eye, is the game about to enter garbage time?

Larry Drew called a long timeout, not to mention that Wu Huang didn't expect the current situation, the Eagles players and fans were equally dumbfounded to witness all this, they didn't take the current Maddie in their eyes at all, but they didn't expect that it was this sleepy bug that gave them the fatal blow at the critical moment!

With 10 minutes and 41 seconds left in the fourth quarter, that is, less than one and a half minutes of effort, the Knicks launched a 10:0 attack wave, such firepower is too ferocious, and the Hawks have no choice but to replace all the main forces and try to make a last stand!

D'Antoni took a timeout but did not make a substitution, and he only played less than two minutes in the fourth quarter, and of course he could not replace Maddy, who had just made a great contribution, and if he did, he would inevitably be criticized after the game, regardless of whether he won or lost.

Wu Huang secretly cursed Maddie in his heart, he had a great chance to break the record in this game, but if Maddie continued to go crazy like this, once the score difference reached more than 20 points, he would not have to play again, and this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity would come to naught.

"Bang dang!" Wu Huang was thinking about it, Joe Johnson, the biggest blacksmith in the game, hit another iron outside the three-point line, and the basketball smashed far and fell directly into the hands of Maddie.

"What a waste!" Emperor Wu scolded in his heart! I saw Maddy get the basketball and quickly dribble to the frontcourt, and suddenly a ground-hitting pass assisted David Lee to hit a layup, and the Knicks led by 20 points.

"It's over, how can I do this friend, hurry up and *** trade!" Wu Huang waved the towel fiercely off the field, but his heart was dripping blood, his 50+ was in the soup again, Maddie must get out! (To be continued.) )