The starting line-ups on both sides were soon revealed. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

On the Knicks' side, they put Love in the starting lineup, and it seems that Love has run in quite well after arriving at the Knicks.

On the Lakers' side, Cousins did not appear in the starting list, and it was the veteran Gasol who started in place of Noll, and I don't know what Billups was having.

After the start of the game, the Knicks' offense played quite ferociously, especially LeFou, who had just joined, and it seemed that he was very unhappy to be traded by the Cavaliers, and he wanted to prove himself in the game.

After Lefu lost weight in the knight, his skills were still there, and his movements were more flexible, and he was like entering no man's land in the low post, whether it was Yi Jianlian or Gasol, it was difficult to restrain him.

On the Knicks' offense, Love hit a low post back, turned and sent the ball to the basket.

After this goal, the Knicks had a six-point lead of 13-7, and Love alone contributed nine of those points.

Seeing this, Billups got up and called out from behind him for Cousins, who was already eager to try.

Seeing Cousins in action, the fans at the scene let out a burst of cheers.

Cousins also seemed a little excited, rubbing his hands back and forth from time to time while waiting on the sidelines.

The Lakers' offense, Don Shuai's layup caused Lee's defensive foul to go to the free throw line, and the game then went into dead-ball time, with Cousins coming on to replace Gasol.

Tang Shuai made two free throws steadily, helping the team close the score.

The Knicks' offense, after Rose advanced to the front court with the ball, still signaled Love to ask for the ball in the low post, and Yi Jianlian held it to the end.

Lefu shook a few feints, taking advantage of Yi Jianlian's unstable center of gravity, after one turned around, followed by a small throw with a low hand to make a layup.

This sequence of movements is skilful and fluid.

But as soon as he made a move, a black shadow came up.

"Smack!"

Cousins walked around and single-handedly rolled a layup from the court.

The scene erupted in cheers.

Although Cousins is large, he has long legs and big steps.

The sideline ball was sent out, and Lefu wanted to play again, this time Cousins directly switched defenses with Yi Jianlian, Lefu topped several to no avail, and he was forced to turn around and make a step-back jumper.

Cousins pounced directly, although his hands were short and couldn't cover it, but his huge size still scared Lefou.

The ball was directly short, and the rebound was picked up by Yi Jianlian.

The Lakers took advantage of the situation to launch a fast break, and Tang Shuai scored a stop-up throw in the fast break to help the home team chase the score to 11-13.

Rose saw that the Lakers had the momentum of counterattacking, turned around and signaled his teammates to pull away, and directly chose to force Tang Shuai.

Tang Shuai was pressed to the inside line and retreated, and Rose saw an opportunity, and accelerated to squeeze past the cylinder that followed the change of direction for a layup.

The movements are light and elegant, and you are going to enter when you look at it.

But just as he was about to make a move, Cousins came out of the diagonal side and directly blocked it again.

Rose was about to dodge the block, but he moved in the air, dodged the angle of the shot and lost it, and the shot slid directly on the basket, and the rebound was grabbed by Cousins with a back.

Once again, the Knicks' offense came up in vain.

The Lakers launched a fast break again, Westbrook hit the ball with a beautiful shot to Tang Shuai in the fast break, Tang Shuai suddenly slowed down under the basket, and then shook the ball to Cousins, who followed up, Cousins held back his strength, held the ball through Lefou's defense, and pressed the ball into the basket fiercely.

With a loud "bang", the emotions of the audience were completely ignited.

After Cousins came on the court, the Lakers improved significantly on both offensive and defensive ends, especially for Tang Shuai's co-defense, which played a considerable threat.

The Knicks were forced to call a timeout, and Cousins seemed very excited, and turned around and hit Tang Shuai directly on the chest.

Tang Shuai also breathed a sigh of relief when he saw this scene, and the calm Cousins was definitely a top-level interior presence at both ends of the offensive and defensive ends.

With such an inside line, when the outside feel drops, the team's firepower can be fully continued.

Rose also wanted to continue Snyder's method to force Tang Shuai on the offensive end, but his shot after the breakthrough was still supplemented by Cousins' defense, and once again went out of the basket, and when he chose to make a pull-up jump shot or a throw, Tang Shuai's presidential defensive package still limited him very much.

Cousins' arrival represented many possibilities, but no one expected that Snyder's secret tactics would be cracked.

In fact, Tang Shuai himself didn't expect that he had watched many of Cousins' games before, and he was sent off at every turn, thinking that he should be a person with poor defensive habits.

But now that he really got in touch, he realized that it actually had a lot to do with Cousins' attitude.

When he was in the Kings, Cousins' teammates always missed the defense, and even if he was blocked, the next shot might still be missing, and after a while, his mentality collapsed, and he gave up on himself, but the Lakers are different, Billups has a mature defensive system, although Tang Shuai's defense is weak, but after all, he is working defense, and his defense is naturally easy to work.

Cousins' arrival changed the course of the game between the two sides, as the Lakers led by a whopping 18 points at halftime at 60-42, giving fans a sense of how terrifying this team is.

The Big Three played quite well in the first half, Tang Shuai contributed 14 points, 3 rebounds and 2 assists, Westbrook 10 points, 2 rebounds and 5 assists, especially Cousins, who contributed 12 points, 11 rebounds and 3 blocks in more than a quarter, like a dominant interior statistic.

The most excited at this time are the home fans, who have not seen such a hearty home team in such a hearty game for a long time after a long 18-game winning streak at the start of the season, which is simply overwhelming.

Coming back in the second half, Billups directly put Cousins into the starting lineup, and in the first two minutes, the Lakers played another wave of 6-0 attacks, and the score was directly stretched to 20 outside.

The fans at the scene watched the laughter and began to watch the game while chatting.

But at this moment, the situation on the field changed abruptly.

The starting center for the Knicks was Joakim Noah, a center who was adept at exploiting the weaknesses of his opponents, and after seeing that his team couldn't recover the score no matter how hard he tried, he began to use his brain.

On an attack by the Lakers, Cousins received the ball under the basket, turned around and carried Noah to make a strong dunk, but Noah was ruthless enough to hit him directly in the arm.

The armpit is a very fragile place in the human body, and Cousins was hit by this, grinning in pain, and he was about to fight with Noah.

Noah raised his hands to signal that he had not committed a foul, and Cousins went up and pushed several times, only to receive a technical foul.

There was a boo at the scene, and Noah ran away early as if he hadn't heard it at all.

One penalty and one throw.

When it came to the Knicks' offensive round, Noah received the ball on the inside, and he didn't know what to say when he turned around, Cousins was furious, and directly pushed Noah out.

Noah stood up and still raised his hands to show that he hadn't done anything, and Cousins was itching.

Tang Shuai watched from the outside, and he also had a headache.

Noah was a little dirty, but it was very targeted, and Cousins's hairy temper was provoked at once.

Noah hit both free throws to help the Knicks recover some scores, and Cousins went to the frontcourt and asked Westbrook directly for the ball, and turned to beat Noah.

Noah pushed forward a few times and then suddenly withdrew from the bench, Cousins was unstable in his center of gravity, and threw the ball before losing his center of gravity, but he didn't touch the frame directly.

After the rebound was snatched by Love, the Knicks launched a fast break, and Rose assisted Porzingis to hit a chase three-pointer from the outside, helping the Knicks chase the score to less than 20 points at once.

And that's not even counting the fact that on the other end of the court, Cousins had another off-ball foul on Noah.

Tang Shuai frowned when he saw this, this Cousins is really a god and a ghost, dominating the game in the first half, and after being provoked by Noah in the second half, he directly brought the team's rhythm to collapse.

When he retreated to half-time, he hurried up to his side to signal him to calm down.

However, this did not work, Cousins did not seem to listen to anyone's words, and after eating a small move from Noah on the offensive end, he threw an elbow directly in the face.

There was no suspense in the result, and after another T, Cousins was directly sent off with a double T.

The fans at the scene, like the other Lakers players on the court, suddenly felt their heads bigger.

After Cousins went down, Love restarted to give in on the inside, and Rose also continued to play against Tang Shuai.

There was no way, the Lakers could only play offense with half abandonment.

Fortunately, Tang Shuai and Westbrook had fierce outside firepower and won the game by relying on their confrontation.

When the final whistle blew, the fans were not as excited as expected, but they were indescribably resigned, leading by 18 points in the first half, but in the end only won by four points, 116-112.

It seems that Cousins' personality problem is really not just a team problem, which is one of the reasons why the Kings chose to trade him before the trade deadline.

At the post-game press conference, Cousins was directly absent, and after taking a shower in the locker room, he left with a backpack on his back, leaving a bunch of stunned Lakers players.

Tang Shuai came back and saw that Cousins was not there, and then asked the others, and suddenly felt a big head, he really had a thorn in the head, Kupchak's gamble, not to mention the record, is a great harm to the locker room.

What Tang Shuai and the other team members didn't expect was that in the training session the next morning, Cousins came to the arena early and apologized to all the players for what they had done in the game yesterday!

Tang Shuai couldn't help but scratch his head when he looked at it, and he couldn't control a thought in his heart at all: Ya, this guy must be a Gemini! (To be continued.) )