Chapter 429: A big victory over the Spurs
Chaki Brown is a veteran of the Spurs' base salary signing this summer, Mario Elie's former teammate, and a hero who helped the Rockets win championships. He is 2.01 meters tall, weighs 97 kilograms, has no offensive ability, and is mainly responsible for pushing, pulling, pulling, pulling, and holding and falling on the field, and is blown a foul by the referee from time to time.
That's right, Chaki Brown is a defensive titan and many people may think of Bowen, of course Brown is not as good as Bowen, he has no three-point ability, Popovich certainly doesn't expect him to shoot, what Maddy, Garnett and the like, as long as he dares to run up on the court, he can hold forward.
In the past, people like Brown would be very useful even if they weren't involved in the offense, but this year the rules have been changed to allow strong side defense!
Spurs point guard Avery Johnson didn't have three points, plus one Chaki Brown, two of the three outside can be ignored, and the Knicks are as happy as they can wrap Duncan and David Robinson, it's not too cool!
Popovich frowned when he saw the Knicks' local defense play so slippery, and after half a quarter, he replaced Brown with Jaren Jackson.
Jaren Jackson, who was born in the draft, is accurate enough to shoot and play hard enough, but his talent is too poor. With a height of only 1.93 meters, he suffers from defending Maddie or Houston.
At the end of the first quarter, with the excellent ability of Duncan and David Robinson, the Spurs only trailed by 5 points, and Li Wei appeared in the second quarter!
The little general Johnson is short, lightweight, and has no range, and he is really someone Li Wei wants to defend very much. Li Wei didn't mind the little general breaking through, because Big Ben and Garnett on the Knicks' inside line were waiting to fill in the gap, and it was hard for the little general to break through without eating a hat.
Swish! Swish!
On the first appearance, Li Wei scored two three-pointers, the Spurs were blocked for two rounds, and the Knicks stretched the score to 10 points!
Popovich shouted at Johnson to keep him focused. The Spurs coach has no idea of replacing his favorite, because on the defensive end, junior Johnson is certainly the best person on their team to limit Li Wei.
However, after Li Wei left Johnson twice and packed Duncan and made a steal, Popovich changed his mind and replaced Johnson with Terry Porter.
Trail Blazers legend Terry Porter is the backup point guard that the Spurs brought in with a middle-class exception this offseason, and the biggest player they can find on the free market.
Porter is not only the all-time assist leader of the Trail Blazers, but also second only to Drexler in total points, ranking second in the history of the Trail Blazers. The only problem is that he is too old and tall, with 1.91 meters, I am afraid that he will not be able to keep up with Li Wei on the defensive end.
Choosing to let Porter play, that means that Popovich has given up defending Li Wei and is ready to attack the Knicks!
As a team that stands defensively, the Spurs are definitely better at defending than attacking, and they are really passive when they choose to attack!
"David, you have to fight more!" D'Antoni was afraid that Li Wei would not fight, so he stood up and reminded.
"Okay." Li Wei nodded.
In the following time, Li Wei took advantage of Terry Porter's aging pace, shooting inside and out, and scoring crazy points. Although Terry Porter also took advantage of Li Wei's poor defense weakness to attack the city and seize the ground, but when he shot outside, he was not as good as Li Weizhun, and if he hit inside, the Knicks would make up for the defense like crazy, and the efficiency could not be compared with Li Wei at all!
Because he played very comfortably, Li Wei was on the court at the beginning of the second half, and when he got off the court, the Knicks were ahead by 20 points!
In the last quarter, it was basically garbage time, Li Wei didn't play, and Kerr led Nowitzki, Lewis and others to brush up. However, even after only two quarters, Li Wei still scored 30 points with amazing efficiency, the highest in the team!
The Spurs' best performance was of course Duncan, with 33 points, 15 rebounds and 5 blocks, and Terry Porter, who came off the bench, also scored 18 points. But it didn't work, judging from the game process, it was Li Wei who blew up Potter, not the other way around!
Li Weihao scored 30 points, led the team to defeat the Spurs, and made the headlines of major newspapers in New York the next day!
Because Duncan scored 33 points, many people quoted Li Wei's original words and said that they were the peerless double pride of the 97 generation!
Back in the finals last season, Li Wei always compared himself with Duncan, which was a humorous joke, and anyone who listened to it would laugh, but this season, the two can really compare!
Of course, purely in terms of the role on the field, Li Wei is definitely inferior to Duncan, but it is also amazing to be able to compare with each other in a game!
Duncan is a talented champion, and Li Wei is just a failed draft!
When more and more media praise Li Wei, more and more experts can't get used to Li Wei.
They directly accused Li Wei of being a brush, brushing points, brushing assists, especially steals, which is terrible on the defensive end, five people play the game, and four people have to help him wipe his fart!
Skip Bayless, an expert at the Chicago Tribune, said bluntly: "Coach Lee should stop his boring, data-brushing game, and let him control the ball, which is harmful to the Knicks team, and the Knicks will definitely be discouraged in the long run." ”
A reporter even broke the news that the whole Knicks team is now angry at Li Wei's data, and the atmosphere in the locker room is getting worse and worse!
However, the reporters who broke the news are actually unscrupulous rumor-mongering reporters, after all, now that the Knicks are leading the league, it is too eye-catching, and everyone wants to make a big news.
Garnett now earns the most money in the NBA and doesn't mind brushing up on the coach's stats at all, and Nash is also fulfilling his new contract. Da Yao, Nowitzki and others are all in their second year of rookies, and they have just adapted to the league, and they have not yet had the idea of grabbing the ball, let alone grabbing it with the coach. As for Hornacek, Curry, and Kerr, they are all here to retire, so how do you mind how many points Li Wei scores?
The Knicks now care most about the stats are actually Big Ben and Maddie in the contract year. However, Big Ben didn't score at all, he wished that Li Wei would shoot indiscriminately, grab a few more frontcourt rebounds, and also wish that Li Wei would miss a few more people, so that he could show his super defensive ability!
If anyone has an opinion about Li Wei's score, it can only be Maddie. But so many big brothers in the team don't speak, even if Maddie has an opinion, he can only hide it in his heart, and it is impossible to talk to the media.
On January 23, the Knicks returned to New York, and on January 24, they hosted the SuperSonics.
The SuperSonics, which has always been the top team in the league, did not even make the playoffs after George Karl was fired, which is really surprising!
Although in the draft, they unexpectedly used the 13th pick to harvest Corey Margety, who was predicted to be the eye, but Margeti is not an instant combat force, and the SuperSonics hope to take advantage of Gary Payton's still being at his peak to play excellent results, rather than rebuilding and training newcomers!
Just as the Magic team was preparing to rebuild, the SuperSonics traded Margeti to the Bulls' first three-game giant Cobra Hores Grant, in addition, Chicago wanted to empty salary space and sign big names in the summer of 00, and the SuperSonics traded the expired contracts of veterans such as Jose Hawkins for the talented Brent Barry.
It can be said that this season's supersonic team has been strengthened and has regained the capital to compete with the strong teams in the league!