Walter McCarty is actually very embarrassing in the Cavaliers, he is 2.08 meters tall, weighs 104 kilograms, and is good at the position of power forward, but the team now has the world's unparalleled star Sean Kemp, and he can't play big forward if he wants to start.

Center or small forward?

Cavaliers coach Fraltlow has been thinking about this for a long time, McCarty is light at center and struggles with heavy tanks, but he is slow to play small forward and can't keep up with the small man.

Playing the Knicks today, Flatlow did not hesitate and directly put McCarty in the small forward position, because the Knicks' small forward is the taller Kevin Garnett!

In the last game against the Knicks against the Pacers, Garnett played how helpless the old Mullin was, but he saw that the Cavaliers can't suffer in height today.

The Knicks' starters today are Charlie Ward, Houston, Garnett, Buck Williams, Herb Williams.

That's right, Big Z is resting again this time, and Li Weike has always been thinking about his fragile Achilles heel, and generally won't let him play back-to-back. Herb played a pseudo-starter, and it was Big Ben who actually supported the inside line.

The inside line of the Cavaliers is not high, Walter McCarty, Sean Kemp, and Vitaly Portapanko are all 2.08 meters, and if Big Z is not up, Big Ben can also withstand it, after all, Big Ben's official height is also 2.06 meters.

As for Oakley, the schedule of five days and four games is also a big drain for the 34-year-old veteran, so he is also rested, and Li Wei hates the coach who the players to death the most.

The center jumps the ball, and the old Herb miraculously wins against Potapanko on the opposite side, and then the game is very dull.

Five minutes later, Li Wei replaced Big Ben, Bo Outlaw, and Bowen for Herb, Buck, and Houston, and the scene was so miserable that people couldn't look at it directly.

McCarty is trying hard to prevent Garnett, although his speed is not fast, but he dares to hit, in this era of hand check and no fouls, thin people are usually helpless when they encounter this kind of bump and pull play.

Why was the beginning of the century a prosperous era of split guards, and then it became a prosperous era of point guards?

This also has something to do with hand check.

In this day and age, only taller and stronger shooting guards can withstand the push and pull of opponents, so it is easy to score high points, and skinny playmakers suffer too much in terms of breakthroughs, with the exception of talented wizards like Iverson.

When the push foul is redefined, the shorter, faster, and playmaker who has the ball at the same time has a big advantage, because the defender can't blatantly pull it.

Garnett is a very good player, with good ball control, dribbling, ball protection, and passing ability, but now he is still a little hot in combination with sudden shooting, and his dynamic shooting after breaking through is not very stable, and his offense mainly relies on air cuts and jump shots.

When McCarty pestered him with a rogue play, he didn't have a good way to deal with it. After all, people are not much shorter than him, and it is easy to eat hats when he shoots strongly, and he shoots suddenly, as long as he doesn't break through to the basket, he himself is not sure how sure he can score.

What makes Garnett even more depressed is that now the Knicks' two interior ranges are zero, and they can't open up space at all, and the Cavaliers' center and big forward are waiting for him under the basket, even if he passes McCarty, it is a dead end!

Seven minutes into the game, Sean Camp gave Garnett a blood cap, and the fans at the Quickloan Arena cheered in unison.

Garnett's face was grim and he kept spewing trash talk at McCarty.

"Aren't you going to adjust it?" Mike D'Antoni leaned over to Li Wei and asked.

"No, you don't." Li Wei shook his head.

D'Antoni saw that Garnett was restricted, and he definitely wanted to add offensive methods such as off-ball screens and blocking and pick-and-rolls to make Garnett easier to score.

But Li Wei's definition of Garnett is not a star in the ordinary sense, but a superstar!

Garnett needs to strengthen his offensive ability instead of letting the team adjust his tactics for him, and if he can't solve McCarty in the regular season, how can he carry the burden on the team in the playoffs and go far?

The Knicks want a championship, not a first-round tour. If Garnett is a good knife, he is not afraid of a whetstone like McCarty!

Pass, pass, pass.

After a setback, Garnett's first choice was to trust his teammates.

But whether it is Big Ben, Bo Otello, or Bowen and Ward, they are all good at eating cakes, and they don't have much independent offensive ability, and Garnett passes the ball to them, and they are also staring.

The Knicks' situation is getting tougher and tougher.

Fortunately, on the other end, the Cavaliers are also having a very hard time.

Sean Camp was taken care of by Big Ben and Otero and wanted to scold his mother, others play for money, and these two play for life!

Outside of Kemp, the others are even worse at scoring, especially McCarty. Garnett didn't play well on the offensive end, and the defensive end must have to get back on the court, and McCarty was very embarrassed, shooting 0 of 3.

At the end of the first quarter, the score was a dismal 17-15, and the Knicks took a two-point lead.

Li Wei sat down next to Garnett and chuckled, "Kevin, this can't be done. At the beginning of the game, you can tell me that you want to kill McCarty, but it seems that someone on the field has slipped you to death. ”

Garnett frowned and said, "I didn't have a good hand today, David, can I play more pick-and-rolls and without the ball?" ”

Li Weidao: "In this game, I can arrange some tactics to make it easier for you to score, but what about the playoffs? When it comes to the playoffs, a lot of tactics don't work.

Kevin, you're the core of the team's future, I need you to have a stronger ability to score on your own, you can't get past an opponent like McCarty, and it's hard for us to go far in the playoffs in the future. ”

"But ......," Garnett continued to frown.

"It's nothing, you take a break first, and then you have to use the most manly way to solve him one-on-one. Don't always think about receiving the ball comfortably, scoring in a comfortable way, a lot of times, the enemy won't make us comfortable. ”

Garnett seemed to want to say something, but in the end he didn't say anything, only nodded, "Okay." ”

Later in the second quarter, Garnett returned to the court and then singled McCarty.

After failing to break through twice, he looked back at Li Wei, who made a gesture lightly: Continue!

So, he continued to rush.

Li Wei looked at the thin figure of No. 21 on the field and smiled lightly.

Now Garnett, the three-point is getting more and more stable, as long as he improves the stability of the frame breakthrough, emergency stop jump shot, etc., he can become a more accurate letter brother in shooting.

In his previous life, he didn't grow up in a day, but he made progress every year. Garnett has already laid some foundation in the Timberwolves, and as long as Li Wei continues to cultivate, he will definitely make him more perfect than his brother of the same age.