Charles Barkley laughed at halftime and commented: "Before the start of the Christmas game, Madison Square Garden was in a festive mood. At the beginning of the game, the Knicks maintained extremely high efficiency on several consecutive offenses, but on the contrary, the opposite Heat team was still a little nervous and couldn't let go of the game. After the first quarter, they were 4 points ahead of the Heat, and everything seemed to be going well, and I am afraid no one expected that they would be 11 points behind after halftime, and they were outscored by the Heat by 15 points in this quarter. ”

Kenny Smith said: "The Heat have a more reasonable style of play and a better defense, and not only is Dwyane Wade unstoppable under the basket, but his wide court vision has also benefited his teammates, and Wade is more mature and stable than Hugo. ”

At half-time, D'Antoni was faced with a choice, should Wu Huang participate in the second half to help defend Wade?

He also found that playing a full half of the game is overloaded for the current Wu Huang, so he didn't give Wu Huang too many defensive tasks in the first half, and only needed him to take care of his opposing players.

In the first half, Wu Huang couldn't fault his defensive performance, with Arroyo and Chalmers both scoring just two points. Wu Huang in the second half still has to focus on offense, although his shooting in the first half is iron, but if Wu Huang does not play today, it will be very difficult for them to defeat the Heat.

D'Antoni thought about it for a long time, but decided to let Wu Huang not participate in the defense of Wade and concentrate on attacking.

The mustaches can only put their treasure on Wu Huang now, and as long as their core can find the form of the first quarter in the second half, they have hope of turning defeat into victory.

Iguodala is in good form today, and if their backcourt combination can play together, Wade alone will be difficult to beat the duo of Wu Huang + Iguodala.

After the trade, the Knicks have surpassed the current Heat team in terms of potential, Iguodala's play can now determine the team's lower limit, and Wu Huang's play will determine the team's ceiling. And when the two of them play together, the Knicks are a proper playoff team.

As soon as the second half began, the Heat gave the Knicks a dismount!

Knicks veteran Richardson hit a three-pointer from 25 feet out on the left wing to give the Heat a 14-point lead.

"Oh no!" Knicks players know at the moment that they're off to the worst possible start of the second half.

D'Antoni was so angry on the sidelines that he stood on the pitch with one foot and shouted at the team's defence.

At halftime. D'Antoni deliberately emphasized the importance of the first defense in the second half, and as a result, the Heat created open shooting opportunities with three passes and two leads, how could he not be angry?

"Calm down, we have an advantage in height, they lack athleticism and height on the inside, so we try to play inside." Wu Huang's shooting today is a little iron, but his observation is still there, and he feels that the Heat's interior may have room for a breakthrough.

Of the Heat's three interior lines this season, O'Neal Jr. is not short in height. But the defensive deterrence on the interior may not be as good as David Lee's right now; Haslem's defensive deterrence is good, but he is too short to help defend and harass, and cannot be the main defender; As for the dual-energy peak Beasley, this is similar to Gallinari, the two are not highly motivated on the defensive end, and their defensive skills are terrible. It's okay if they don't take the defense seriously, but when they get serious. I didn't know how to get beaten down by a man-made foul in a few minutes.

The arduous task of breaking through the Heat's inner line, Wu Huang naturally handed it over to Iguodala to complete.

He's not physically strong enough right now. Already over 190cm tall but weighing only 180 pounds, this body type is clearly fast and agile. Anyway, before his weight increased to 190 pounds, Wu Huang's breakthrough tried not to collide with his opponent, reduce physical contact, and prevent being injured by those blue-collar muscle sticks.

Iguodala is different. His exaggerated upper body muscles are obviously used to fight people, who will he go up to die if he doesn't go up at this time?

The Heat's lineup for the third quarter is: Arroyo, Wade, Richardson, Beasley, O'Neal Jr.

Iguodala took the ball and used the cover to shake off Wade and go straight to the basket down the middle, just as he was about to shoot. Suddenly I felt like I was hitting a wall. That's right, O'Neal Jr. was standing there, and the referee didn't blow a foul on the ball, which was already taking care of the home team, and Iguodala tilted his body and threw the basketball very badly, and the basketball bounced off the edge of the basket and quickly rebounded downward.

Emperor Wu is like a loach, no one knows when he got under the basket.

The rebound rebounded too fast, Beasley was unstable, and Wu Huang stretched out his long arm from the side and poked it, and the basketball was out of Beasley's control.

At this moment, there were three or four people under the basket rushing to the basketball at the same time, Wu Huang was the fastest, his first step was now faster than Wade, who had been injured several times, he picked up the basketball as soon as he could, and half-turned to face Beasley to shoot strongly.

"You go down for me!" Beasley yelled and flew up.

Wu Huangxin said that you are brainless, and secretly showed his elbow and leaned on Beasley, who not only paid for a foul, but was also plotted by Wu Huang.

"You...... This one...... Bastard! Beasley was almost spit out by Emperor Wu's secret blow, and after the attack, even such a simple sentence had to be divided into three paragraphs before he could finish it, and Emperor Wu's elbow was right on his stomach.

"It's funny, you go look in the mirror yourself and see which of us is more like a bastard?" Emperor Wu took advantage of it, and teased two more words in his mouth.

Little O'Neill was next to him, and when he heard this, he took two steps forward, and suddenly stood in front of Emperor Wu, his eyes were hideous, and he said loudly: "What did you say, do you want to fight?" ”

"It scared me, I thought it was Big Ben." Wu Huang's complaint came as soon as he opened his mouth, and then quickly asked, "That's right, do you still want to fight?" Emperor Wu sneered, little O'Neill still wanted to scare him, and now he borrowed his two guts, and this guy didn't dare to make a move.

After Wu Huang finished speaking, he also pushed forward with his chest, although he didn't bump the other party, but his tough attitude had already been passed on - you have the ability to hit me!

Little O'Neill was embarrassed now, he just wanted to bully Wu Huang young, but he didn't expect that he would not be able to step down.

Wu Huang hit him with his chest just now, this action may not be punished as a foul, but if he returns it now, it will definitely be a technical foul. But if you don't fight back, your reputation in this life will be gone.

There seemed to be a clash on the pitch, and both players leaned over when they found out, but they were still a step slower.

Little O'Neill really couldn't pull it down, so he reached out and gently pushed Wu Huang, but his strength made it very light. I want to keep the foul as normal as possible without losing face.

Wu Huang smiled in his heart, he just hit little O'Neill with his chest, if the other party doesn't fight back, his action is not big, and he may not be punished for a foul.

But O'Neal Jr. has now pushed himself, and the referees will definitely end up playing fifty dozen boards each.

And in this way, won't he suffer?

In the NBA, many times the conflict between players is also a battle of wits.

Wu Huang was gently pushed by O'Neill Jr. Immediately rushed before the players of the two teams came up to pull the rack, and pushed back hard, so that the strength was much greater than that of O'Neal Jr., but not beyond the scope of technical fouls.

The players of the two teams joined the battle group at this moment and pushed each other in a small area, you pushed me. I'll arch you, Gallinari is even more scolding. The field was in chaos in an instant.

Three referees rushed into the crowd in time, separating the players from both teams.

"Madison Square Garden" has resounded at this moment with earth-shattering shouts, New York fans are loudly greeting O'Neal Jr.'s immediate family, and countless letters starting with "F" instantly fill the entire arena......

Charles Barkley laughed and said, "That's right, the game between New York and Miami would be too tasteless if there was no conflict." I also saw Larry Johnson and Mourning both asleep on the sidelines. I even wondered if two boring guys on the sidelines would have gone up and put on a boxing match if there had been no sparks in this match. ”

Referring to the 1999 "Madison Garden Battle of the Century", when Mourning and Johnson finally turned their faces after years of bumping, the two fists and kicks. Finally, with the help of Van Gundy's thigh. Johnson opened his bow left and right, and attacked Mo Ning with punches and kicks, and Mo Ning was beaten to the point that his nose was blue and his face was swollen, and he was defeated!

In the end, the "King of Fighters" greatly boosted the morale of the New Yorkers, and they stepped on the corpses of the Heat, Hawks, and Pacers to reach the finals. When it comes to the battle between Johnson and Mourning, PJ Brown, a blue-collar worker known as the "Iron Warrior", also participated, and PJ Brown still admires Larry Johnson's combination when he recalls it afterwards.

The scene that Emperor Wu is making now can really only be regarded as trivial compared to back then.

During that period, there were several similar skirmishes between the two teams every time they met, and it was not uncommon for scenes to be bigger than this.

And for fans on both sides, conflicts and pushes on the field are not a matter, even if the two sides really fight, the first thing they care about is whether their own people take advantage of it?

Wu Huang said: "Lao Tzu took advantage, you see he didn't push me, and I pushed him out one step, this is a big victory!" ”

The referee also said that you did win, and Ken Mauer first showed a technical foul to O'Neal Jr., and then turned to show a "first-degree malicious foul" directly to Wu Huang.

"Madison Square Garden" burst into loud boos for a moment, no doubt directed at the referee.

Just kidding, what's the point of giving O'Neal Jr. a technical foul and only giving their prince a malicious foul?

"yes, why did you give me a malicious foul?" Emperor Wu was immediately unhappy, forgetting that he was still complacent not long ago, and was proud that he had taken advantage.

Ken Maur glanced at him with a "you don't know what to do" look, and Emperor Wu's complaint stopped abruptly, and he immediately obediently closed his mouth.

He knew the meaning of this bastard referee's eyes, which was to tell him to get out of the way, or make up another technical foul, and completely let him say goodbye to this game.

The "technical foul" only makes one free throw, but the "malicious foul" has two free throws, and the ball is now awarded to the Heat, which is not a little bit worse. Not to mention, Wu Huang has now been deducted another point, this is already his second "first-degree malicious foul" this season, according to the league's regulations, players must be deducted one point for every "first-degree malicious foul", he has now been deducted two points, and once he gets three points, he will be automatically banned for every "first-degree malicious foul" he gets next.

No matter how unhappy Emperor Wu is, he can't help it, it's no wonder that he took advantage of him too much, it seems that he is still young!

He made two free throws of his own, both of which he hit.

The Heat sent Wade to make two free throws for Wu Huang's malicious foul, but the big cheeks only hit one of the two free throws under the wild boos of the fans in the audience.

Wu Huang played again, this time he was going to take a free throw for a technical foul by O'Neal Jr., and in the cheers of the fans in the audience, Wu Huang hit the free throw again.

The New York fans immediately gave all the biggest cheers they could give to Wu Huang, who they thought had been wronged.

Wu Huang enjoyed the comfort of the home fans, and after three free throws, he raised his hands and thought to himself: "My hand seems to have recovered." "He felt a lot better than he did in the second quarter, and hopefully it wasn't an illusion.

The Knicks continued to attack the basket, 7 minutes and 25 seconds in the third quarter, and the same scene almost happened again, only this time it was Wu Huang who killed the basket along the right side, and it was O'Neal Jr. who stood there like a wall, for Wu Huang, this time it was not so lucky, he was not only capped by Wade behind his back, but also did not cause anyone's defensive foul.

"This bastard's defensive position is so good?" Wu Huang couldn't believe it, he forgot that O'Neal Jr. averaged more than 2 blocks per game in his career all year round, and even if his knee failed in the past two years, he could still maintain an average of about 1.5 blocks per game. The former "Nine Giants" not only means that the offensive end is dominant, but also that there must be no shortcomings on the defensive end, and O'Neal Jr.'s strength on the defensive end is still above the average level of the league's interior line.

After that, the mood of the Knicks players has fallen into impatience, the hot scenes on the court appear frequently, the players of both teams are focused on savage defense, the score begins to stop, and the number of fouls is "rubbing" up!

Gallinari first received a technical foul for fouling Beasley and was dissatisfied with the referee's decision. Chalmers also received a technical foul for bringing down Wu Huang. Then the referee made a misjudgment, and the ball that originally belonged to the Knicks was awarded to the Heat, which caused Wu Huang to be very angry and came forward to nag at the referee.

This is a scene that occurred at 4 minutes and 40 seconds in the third quarter, Wu Huang first broke through from the wing to the basket, only to be caught by the Heat duo and lost control of the basketball near the baseline.

Wu Huang first rescued the basketball that was almost out of bounds, and then wittily smashed the basketball on Wade out of bounds, but the referee awarded the Heat the ball.

At this time, the score has come to 74:58, the Knicks are 16 points behind, this offense is very important to them, Wu Huang is desperately sent off the game and has to complain in front of the referee.

His gamble was successful, and Ken Maul was not going to send the new New York favourite off the court in the Christmas game, and after discussing it with the two assistant referees, he reversed the original decision.

Wu Huang secretly wiped the cold sweat on his forehead at this time, he was scared just now, NBA referees have a very tough attitude towards stars in recent years, even a brother like Kobe Bryant complained to the referee that he would be shown a technical foul, and it couldn't be easier to clean up a rookie like him.

"I'm calling it a catastrophe and immortal...... Wu Huang glanced at the scoreboard, and the latter sentence was too embarrassed to say, worried about losing his character. (To be continued.) )