Wu Huang said in front of people that he didn't care about the winning streak, but of course he didn't think so in his heart, no one in the Knicks team wanted to lose at the critical time when he had completed a 21-game winning streak.

Now every time the Knicks win one more game, their position in history is one point higher, as long as they win over the Celtics and Heat, surpassing the Rockets' 22 consecutive wins, they will set a record second only to the Lakers in ancient times, and all teams in the future will have to mention them as long as they mention the topic of "winning streak", and they have to mention who led this team to accomplish such a feat.

There is also one point to consider, the Lakers' 33-game winning streak history is too long, and the gold content of the records and data of that era is actually shrinking, just like Chamberlain's 100 points in a single game, few people will think that Kobe Bryant's difficulty in scoring 81 points will be lower than Chamberlain's 100 points, on the contrary, Kobe's difficulty in scoring 81 points in a single game should be above Chamberlain's 100 points in a single game.

The same goes for the Knicks' winning streak, as long as they overtake the Rockets and take their winning streak to more than 23 games, they will not be inferior to the Lakers' 33-game winning streak.

However, they also know that this month's schedule is lighter, but the quality of the opponents is several notches higher than in November, and most of the opponents they will face are teams that are qualified for the title. So don't say if you can hold on to a 23+ winning streak, the Celtics, who are about to play against now, won one game against them at the beginning of the season.

The Knicks now have a 22-3 record, and some pundits are not optimistic that the Knicks can surpass the Rockets' 22-game winning streak precisely because they lost games that happened to be against the Celtics and the Bulls in the near future.

Many neutral fans also believe that the Knicks' long-term victory against the underdog team has greatly overestimated them, and 60% of the Knicks' 21-game winning streak are the bottom of the league, 30% are ordinary teams hovering on the edge of the playoffs, only 10% are teams that have entered the playoffs consistently, and only the Hornets and Nuggets can rank in the top three of their respective divisions.

Looking at the three teams they lost, all of them were in the top three teams in the division, with the exception of the Trail Blazers. In other words, the Knicks' win rate against strong teams has not improved, but has decreased, and the Knicks have not won against a real strong team this season.

This analysis is well-founded, the Knicks did not meet a few times during the winning streak in the top four teams in the Eastern and Western Divisions, and the total number of games was only four, one of which was won by the Hornets and Trail Blazers when they were in the top four, but both teams were squeezed out of the top four positions in the West for only a few days.

So strictly speaking, the Knicks met the Celtics once and the Bulls once at the beginning of the season, and that was the only two times they faced a really strong team, but to their embarrassment, the Knicks lost both times.

On December 23, the league announced the previous week's Player of the Week, and Wu Huang won the award again with one triple-double and two 40+, which is his fifth Player of the Week award this season.

Wu Huang has been in the limelight lately, and Wizards guard John Wall, who he just coached not long ago, called out on Twitter that "Hugo should be the best player in the league." The major media in the United States are also full of praise for Wu Huang's fifth weekly performance in a single season.

This season, compared with James and Kobe, the first people in the East and West, as well as the new generation of Durant, Rose, and Westbrook, Wu Huang is considered to be more efficient and aesthetic, and the evaluation of "Fox Sports" is: "Hugo's phenomenal performance in the opening stage makes the MVP no longer suspenseful? ”

After playing the first 25 games, Wu Huang averaged 40.5 minutes of playing time per game, and could score 30.7 points, 6.9 rebounds, 11 assists, 3.4 steals and 1.3 blocks. He shot 52.9 percent from the field, 43.6 percent from three-point range and 90.6 percent from the free throw line.

This kind of data is indeed phenomenal, except for James, no one has been able to play a balanced and demonic data like Wu Huang in the past ten years, and he is only a sophomore, James was in the second year, and the average data per game was only 27+7+7, which is still slightly inferior in terms of personal performance and team record.

O'Neal, who has seen the most in the world on the Knicks team, once told the media: "The aura and aura of the two of them are very similar." But if anyone in this league can come close to, or even surpass, Michael, I think Hugo is the most promising. He's clearly a worldwide phenomenon right now, a global favourite, and you can see thousands of people watching him warm up before the game, or you can see hundreds of people standing outside the visitors' hotel at 2am, trying to get his autograph. This is very similar to what Michael Jordan had in the first place. ”

"Shaq was right, he was the closest thing I've ever met to Michael Jordan during my time in the league, and even though a lot of people say this, and a lot of people say that, he's the answer in my mind." The Knicks' next opponent, Ray Allen, also complimented Emperor Wu before leaving for New York.

In fact, Ray Allen and O'Neal are not the only players who agree that Wu Huang can match Jordan of his time. Recently, he has been running to North Korea, a bit like a stupid Rodman, who is surprisingly optimistic about Emperor Wu, I don't know if this guy who is really stupid or fake stupid or pretending to be crazy and stupid is also interested in making a fortune in China.

But regardless, Big Bug fought alongside Jordan as a player, and he naturally knows the most about the superstar. Rodman was a recent guest on ESPN radio, saying: "Obviously, Jordan is the brightest star in the entire history of human basketball, and his influence is all over the world, and he is sought after everywhere he goes. And the meaning of the big insect is that now Emperor Wu also has such a momentum.

Rodman said James was expected to surpass Jordan as the greatest player before, but after he left the Cavaliers to go to the Heat and changed his jersey to No. 6, he no longer qualifies. Rodman also said that Jordan is the greatest scorer of all time, and Hugo is the most well-rounded player, he is even more comprehensive than James, because he may become the only player after the Big O to average 30 points + 10 assists per game, which is unimaginable in the current league, and his three-point shot is also the most accurate in the entire league.

As soon as several big-name players boasted about Wu Huang like this, the media that had been reluctant to report on Wu Huang finally followed, and ESPN followed up with a report before the Knicks and Celtics battle-

How difficult it is to surpass Jordan, Jordan is the god of basketball in the world, he has become one of the greatest, although he is also a human being, but he is given a lot of time the meaning is far more than the meaning of a superstar, and even people think that Jordan is equal to basketball, it is Jordan who has opened the basketball dream of countless people, including those rising stars in the NBA, and the greatness of God is insurmountable, but there are still many people trying to catch up with Jordan's greatness, all the time, Kobe, James, Carter, Maddie and Hill and the like were so close to Jordan

Many people say that Kobe Bryant is the closest person to Jordan, after all, Kobe Bryant, who now has five championship rings in his hand, is only one crown away from Jordan, as long as the Lakers successfully defend their title this year and successfully win a second triple championship of great significance, the time for Peter Pan to match Jordan has officially come.

Kobe Bryant has always said that he will fight for a second triple championship, although he is always reluctant to compare with Jordan, he has also repeatedly revealed his ambition to win the sixth crown, and the significance of the sixth crown and the second triple championship may only be known by Kobe Bryant. But at least, Kobe Bryant hasn't done it yet, and without two triple-wins and at least six crowns as a basis, no one can really match Jordan.

A few years ago, Carter was the player most associated with the word Jordan. Carter turned the dunk into art, and since his intervention, the dunk has entered a revolution, and after the revolution, it seems that he is the only one on the basket. But after a while, people slowly realized that maybe Carter could only represent a dunk, not a substitute for basketball itself. At one point, Carter became the most controversial of Jordan's successors. In fact, as early as when Carter first became famous, he was very disgusted with the endless involvement of himself with Jordan. And Jordan always accused Carter of lacking defensive motivation in media interviews. And the Flyers also hinted that Carter was a product of the NBA's star-making movement, and that he shouldn't have such a high status: "You can't create Magic or Larry Bird, they created themselves." ”

After that, the talented Maddie was also considered the player closest to Jordan, but because Maddie was unwilling to be Pippen and wanted to be Jordan, he left the Raptors and left his cousin Carter, and in the Magic and Rockets, Maddy's amazing talent was also recognized, but he couldn't find Jordan's defensive ability and game toughness in him, Maddie has never been an excellent defender, and his training attitude and weak character have also been questioned, of course, injuries are one of the reasons for Maddy's fall, but among them, It is inseparable from his own personal factors.

Of course, a little earlier than Carter, there's also what everyone sees as an alternative, "I don't want to be Jordan, I don't want to be a big bird, and at the end of my career, I want people to know that I'm going on my life my way!" That's what Iverson said in an interview when he was in his prime. Yes, Iverson ended his career in the NBA in a special way. Perhaps, it's not over yet, but Iverson has now disappeared from the NBA arena, because of personality, injuries and team reasons, the former legendary Iverson has become a thing of the past, although Iverson does not have a championship to name himself, but this is also destined to be recorded in history.

If you say who is Jordan's earliest successor, Grant Hill, who entered the NBA as a tanhua in the 1994 draft, is Jordan's first successor, Hill at that time can be qualified for any position on the basketball court except center, his passionate style of play determines that he is also a player who plays on the basket, Hill is a humble gentleman on and off the court quickly became popular, when Jordan retired for the first time in 93, Hill was called Jordan's successor by the media, and even Jordan himself agreed with this statement. But God did not favor this gentleman on the court, and after a few years of infinite glory, God took back Hill's aura and reduced Hill to a mundane player. Hill began to get injured in a row, to have surgeries, to recuperate, to come back and forth, but never to find the feeling he once had.

And in the 03 generation, Jordan first took a fancy to Carmelo Anthony, not the James who had the same number as him. In the first two seasons, Cameron was not as popular as James and Wade, but Jordan was always optimistic about Anthony. Many times, Anthony would receive a call from Jordan, and the old man would give Anthony encouragement or criticism on the phone. On March 19, 2004, Anthony refused to play due to the early garbage time of the game, and he was scolded by "The Flyer" on the phone.

In fact, the one who is most like Jordan should be Wade, but no one could have imagined that he could be as radiant as James and Anthony when he first debuted. But he was the first player in the 03 generation to taste the championship. Even Michael Jordan would be jealous of this. As the No. 5 rookie in 2003, Wade was not qualified to be Jordan's successor, and at that time people didn't even believe that he would be better than the Serbian black Milicic. But what is remarkable about Wade is that after more than two seasons of honing his game, he has finally proved how wrong those who underestimate themselves are. In terms of technical moves, Wade and Jordan have a lot of similarities. Bizarre breakthroughs, clever changes of direction and incredible ways to score goals. These earned him the reputation of The Flash, and his breakthrough steps were better known as "Lost Steps". Like Jordan, Wade's long-range shooting is not a strong point. However, as the game has progressed, Wade has paid more and more attention to crafting his shots.

But no matter how people compare and discuss whether Hugo will become a successor to Jordan, Jordan, who has long since retired, continues to enjoy golf and has no quarrel with the world.

On December 15, when people were discussing whether Wu Huang was Jordan's successor, the party responded at the pregame press conference of Knicks vs Celtics-

"No kidding, all the guys who are complacent about the 'Jordan successor' will not end up very well, those players who can really compete for the top ten in history, the players who really make history, who will be willing to be someone else's successor? I'll never admit it anyway, but now my goal is to be in the top 5 of history and the top 10 of all people after retiring. ”

Wu Huang's words are no less than a bombshell, usually when he is so arrogant and high-profile, he basically just snapped with the little singer, so he immediately added: "Actually, I still want to move the ranking of this goal further, but I am afraid that you will say that I am carried away and that I don't know the height of the sky, so I am a little modest." ”

Wu Huang is really a lot more modest, because he originally wanted to say "after retiring to become the top 3 in history in the minds of most people, the top 5 choices in everyone's history", if you look at it this way, he does not know the height of the sky, even whether Jordan can rank in the top three in NBA history, many people may still have some opinions, his goal is a bit of a taste of breaking through the sky.

Against the Celtics for the second time this season, D'Antoni will definitely feel speechless when he says the tactics, and the Knicks coach has proposed a super simple five-point winning factor like a pseudo-fan - Wu Huang will try his best to score more points than his opponent on the premise of defending Rondo; Iguodala defends Pierce and gets as close to scoring as he is; Tony Allen defended Ray Allen and tried his best to reduce the opponent's score; Smalls played against Garnett and did his best to score more points than his opponent; Bench players must outscore their opponents in terms of scoring.

This winning strategy seems to be the favorite thing for beginner pseudo-fans to do, but sometimes the game really doesn't have to be that complicated. These five requirements, as long as the Knicks do three, they can basically win this game, because they still have the advantage of location, this is their home court.

With such a clear goal, and then thinking that after winning this game, they will get the same 22 consecutive wins as the Rockets, the Knicks players are all excited before the game, and the desire to play is unprecedentedly high.

Wu Huang has been very conflicted recently, the Knicks have been on a winning streak, he has no chance to challenge D'Antoni at all, and the mustache is still very competent most of the time, in addition to being paranoid about offense and ignoring defense, and not being quick enough to respond to strong teams and not enough routines, his ability to play against midstream and fish belly teams is indeed very extraordinary, so it is too difficult to get rid of him during the regular season.

Their opponent today, the Celtics, has a record not much worse than their own, with 19 wins and 5 losses so far, and they are also on a six-game winning streak, and one of the two teams will definitely have to stop their winning streak today.

The good news for the Knicks is that Perkins will continue to be sidelined, with the top interior engineer who suffered a serious injury in last season's playoffs returning a few games at the start of the season, but then relapsed and has missed more than a dozen games. The lack of this barrier under the basket by the Celtics is good news for Smalls' offense, and Rivers can only use Garnett and "Big Baby" Davis as a partner most of the time, and the Knicks will have an advantage in interior height and talent.

Wu Huang is also confident that he will complete his task, and Rondo has grown into a top point guard around the Big Three, and in a sense, he is a more important star than the Big Three. Today's media calls the current NBA the era of point guards, and Rondo is a representative of the NBA's speed-oriented point guard, good at breaking, but his shooting is a hard injury.

Yahoo Sports earlier divided today's point guards into several categories, with Rondo, Rose, Westbrook, Billups, and Wall as representatives of the breakaway speed point guard, Wu Huang and Nash as the representatives of the shooting point guard, and Paul, Delon and Kidd as the representatives of the strategy point guard.

In fact, such a report still has the meaning of black Wu Huang, he can not only shoot, this season Wu Huang's breakthrough ability has improved significantly, in terms of breakthrough ability, he is not inferior to Rose and Wei Shao, but his shooting skills are incomparable to these breakthrough point guards.

Rondo played his own characteristics in today's game, this guy is a big player, and he can exert 120% energy in every time such a focus battle, Wu Huang found it difficult to stop this guy's breakthrough, but if he put it too far, he can actually throw a few balls.

However, Wu Huang still completed the task assigned by the coach, even if Rondo played at a super level on the offensive end, but to score with Wu Huang, he was still a lot worse, and Wu Huang could still suppress this opponent on the offensive end.

Smalls has also done his job, and he has been very good at bullying Duncan and Garnett in the past two seasons, which is why the media has a high opinion of him, and the Knicks get Smalls to at least guarantee that he will have an advantage on the inside against the Celtics, which is very important for the final result.

But Iguodala and Tony Allen, the forward pair, did not complete their tasks, Ray Allen was blocked by Tony Allen last time, went back and summed up a lot of lessons, today in the running position is more erratic, and consciously changed some of his running habits, and even strengthened the ball after coming to the Green Army has become less than the ball breakthrough, which makes Tony Allen a little unguarded, did not complete his defensive task well.

Iguodala caught up with Pierce's explosive seed, and for this kind of All-Star-caliber player, once they catch up with their explosive seed, it is difficult to ask the defense to do more.

The Knicks are only halfway through the final winning condition, because there is a New York veteran Nate Robinson opposite, and the little potato has been playing the sixth man role in the Celtics this year, and he can contribute more offensive firepower than fans expected when he plays, and his play is one of the key factors for the Celtics to stick to the top four in the East.

Gallinari was the key to maintaining the tie in the fifth winning condition, and the Italian, who played the role of sixth man today, also showed his offensive firepower, helping the Knicks' bench to level the balance with their opponents, and the two teams were tied in this regard.

Two wins, two losses and one draw, what should I do at this time?

Fools know, of course, it depends on which side wins more and loses less.

Wu Huang didn't win much in the matchup, Rondo played very well today, the former cut 23 points, 7 rebounds and 10 assists, the latter got 16 points, 8 rebounds and 14 assists, in fact, it is difficult to say that Wu Huang defeated Rondo, after all, they won four in assists, which should be considered equal.

Tony Allen didn't lose much, he only allowed Ray Allen to score 16 points, which is basically the average of Ray Allen this season, although Tony Allen did not succeed in limiting the opponent, but also did not let Ray Allen play beyond his level.

Iguodala lost a bit today, giving Pierce 28 points, 10 rebounds and 4 assists, which is far more than the 19 points average of "The Truth" this season.

In the end, it was Stoudemire who decided the outcome, and the Knicks' recruitment played a decisive role today, as Garnett only allowed Garnett to get 20 points, 10 rebounds and 3 assists, but he scored 39 points, 11 rebounds and 2 assists, almost double the score of his opponent, which laid the foundation for the Knicks' final victory.

The Knicks did the final requirement of "win more, lose less" in this game, and with the bonus of having a home whistle at Madison Garden, the Knicks went on a 12-4 offensive wave in the fourth quarter to take away the biggest rival in the division and get a crucial 22nd straight victory. (To be continued.) )