The Bucks serve.

Sam Cassel advanced with the ball, and when he saw that Nash was sticking very tightly, he didn't care about the tactics, and squeezed the opponent with his huge farts and slammed in!

Garnett saw that Nash couldn't prevent it, so he hurriedly came over to make up for it, but unfortunately he was one step too slow!

Kassel hit a mid-range shot and scored two points!

2：2！

The Knicks attacked, Garnett was on the inside, and Darvin Ham was on his back.

Elvin Johnson saw that the situation was not good, and retracted the inside line in time to help defend, but Garnett saw Johnson coming over and immediately shared the ball!

Da Yao received the ball outside the three-point line and shot, and a three-point shot went into the net!

2:5, the Knicks at home lead!

Bucks offense.

After a few screens, Glenn Robinson received the ball inside and tried to back-play Maddie.

Maddie defends desperately, but Glenn Robinson is the top show, naturally he has two brushes, and after turning around flexibly, he has to wipe it under the basket!

At the moment of crisis, Garnett pounced and took out Glenn Robinson!

Walter Fraser, the home commentator at Madison Garden, said: "Beautiful defense! ”

Mike Brin said: "Garnett made a mistake for the big dog!" ”

The Knicks quickly counterattacked, and Nash hit a mid-range shot!

At 2:7, the home team continued to lead.

In fact, it is impossible for a team with only three points to win, because the opponent can interfere with your shooting as much as possible by expanding their defense.

So how can a small-ball lineup win?

The first is to try to score as many points as possible in the transition between attack and defense, which is easy to score and can easily determine the victory of a game.

Second, if you get caught up in positional warfare, you have to combine sudden throws.

If you don't shoot out, the opponent can limit you by expanding the defense, so when the opponent is defending outside, you must rush in and catch him off guard.

Once you can break through to the basket and score, the opponent's defense will not dare to expand too much, and the team will get more opportunities to shoot from the outside!

Every coach understands this, and as an attacking coach, George Karl certainly understands it. So the concept he came up with with the Bucks was a "three-10" strategy – preferably 10 free throws, 10 three-pointers, and 10 two-pointers per game!

Everyone understands 10 three-pointers, but where do 10 free throws come from? Of course, it's to break through to the basket, find a confrontation, and get a whistle!

In the previous life, why was the Bucks able to fight the Pacers in five bloody battles and almost black eight?

Because the Pacers' center Rick Schmitz is not fast, and he is old this year, he can't keep up, and it is difficult to help defend in the face of the Bucks' three musketeers taking turns to break through, and Antonio Davis was traded to the Raptors by management.

But the Knicks are different, the two top defensive giants in the league, Garnett and Big Ben are on this team!

Against super tanks, they may suffer if they are more flexible but one is not tall enough, and the other is underweight, but against a team like the Bucks that relies entirely on the outside, it is simply a nuclear weapon!

In addition, Da Yao is also young now, has no weight gain, and has flexible steps, and can also make quite a good contribution when making up for defense!

Therefore, in the face of the Knicks, even if the Bucks break through and pass the defenders in front, they will encounter a fairly timely supplemental defense, which is very uncomfortable. If there's one team they're least willing to play, it's the Knicks!

After eating a few big hats, Ray Allen and others can only play more and more outward, and the Knicks' defensive system is also expanding, pinching their three-point and long-range shots, and interfering with shooting to the maximum, and the Bucks can only watch the sky to eat.

If the Bucks feel particularly good today, everyone eats dumplings, how to shoot, then they can still fight against the Knicks, but the problem is that this situation is not available.

When everyone's state is average, and they still want to win, they can only hope that the defensive end will also make the Knicks uncomfortable.

It's a pity that Garnett played crazy inside after the opening, using his height advantage to eat the poor interior of the Bucks!

After half a quarter, Garnett was a little tired, and Li Wei immediately replaced Nowitzki!

Nowitzki is more direct, cutting to the basket and jumping on the head of Darvin Ham and others, even saving the breakthrough, anyway, I can't shoot you!

The Knicks led by 10 points in the first quarter, and Li Wei came on the court in the second quarter, and was blown up, and the Bucks recovered the score.

In the third quarter, the Knicks returned to the court and re-established the lead, and then Li Wei came back on the court at the end of the quarter.

This time he was not blown up, but against him, maintaining the team's lead!

At the final whistle, the Knicks won 105-95 against the Bucks!

Ray Allen scored 26 points, but only 40 percent from the field, and Da Yao and Big Ben each covered him. Sam Cassel scored a lot of points because he beat Li Wei, and finally had 28 points and 6 assists.

Glenn Robinson, the big dog, has been under the defense of Maddie and Bowen, playing very hard, plus Garnett, Big Ben and others have to help defend from time to time, and finally scored only 11 points on 4-of-17 shooting.

Darvin Ham scored nine points on 4-of-6 shooting and grabbed eight rebounds, but he had no range to drag down the team on the offensive end, and Garnett and Big Ben could drop him at any time to help defend others.

On the Knicks' side, Garnett dared to play and kill, scoring 26 points, 6 rebounds and 6 assists, Nowitzki came off the bench to score 21 points, Da Yao scored 12 points and 9 boards, Big Ben scored 4 points and 11 rebounds, Maddie scored 12 points, Houston has been standing outside to make space for everyone, didn't shoot much, and only scored 6 points.

Li Wei himself played 15 minutes, scoring 11 points, 4 assists and 2 steals on 4-of-8 shooting, judging from the data, it is still very good!

After the game, various experts commented that the Bucks were not the opponent of the Knicks, and New York was likely to sweep Milwaukee to qualify.

Fans also believe that the most suspenseful games in the first round are the 76ers vs. Hornets and the Spurs vs. Suns.

The Spurs really have too much suspense about the Suns, because in the Spurs vs. Kings game at the end of the season, David Robinson was dunked on the head, and Tim Duncan wanted to return it with a dunk, but he injured his knee when he landed, and he needed major surgery, and the season was reimbursed!

Coincidentally, the core of the Suns, assist king Jason Kidd is also injured, although not as badly injured as Duncan, but the first round of the playoffs is likely to be absent!

So the confrontation between the strong and the strong has become a rookie pecking each other!

Of course, it's a bit too much to say that rookies peck at each other, and the Suns also have superstar Penny Anfernee Hardaway, as well as Clifford Robinson, Luke Longley, Sean Marion and other giants.

Although Hardaway is no longer as brave as he used to be, he still has a little gas in the tank, and this series in his previous life was also his last star, averaging 19 points, 6.5 rebounds and 5.8 assists per game, leading the team to eliminate the Spurs in Kidd's absence.

But the following season, he continued to suffer serious injuries, and if you don't know what an angel with broken wings is, just look at Penny.