Chapter 64: Communication
Lenny Wilkens talked to Lehi and Marbury separately, and Lehi just told him to calm down, focusing on Marbury's side. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
Teammates know there's something wrong with Marbury, and the coach certainly doesn't know about it.
Marbury is now the boss of the Knicks, and if the team leader has a problem, how can the team's results be good.
The two sides talked for a long time, and when he came out of the coach's office, Marbury's face was still stinky.
On January 8, the Knicks visited Cleveland.
Several consecutive defeats have dropped the Knicks to the bottom of the Cavaliers.
When the team had problems, Lehi wanted a win to lift people's hearts.
Due to the constant problems on the inside, Coach Wilkens used Wen Baker and Bralo Sandev, who had not played for a long time, in the hope of some surprises.
But in fact, rushing to the hospital didn't help, and instead it was Cavaliers' rookie Anderson Vallejo who was doing well.
The inside line is not an opponent, and Li Hai is almost used to it, but what makes him angry is Marbury's attitude, a 28-year-old man, he is like a child, and his anger is even more serious, not only with outsiders, but also with his own people.
If you don't break through, you don't shoot, and it's almost become an ornament on the field.
If he doesn't play, he can be angry, but on the court, the ball is in his hands, and he doesn't do anything, and the Knicks can't do anything.
Defended by Tim Thomas, James played with ease.
It took only three quarters for the Cavaliers to solve the problem, and in the fourth quarter, both sides sent benches to run out of time.
79:104, a big loss to the Cavaliers, which is definitely not the true level of the Knicks.
Back at home, the Knicks are going to play back-to-back games against the Portland Trail Blazers.
Lehi remembered the head coach's previous instructions and did not go to Marbury and asked them to deal with Marbury's knot.
The Trail Blazers have had a rough run in both seasons, and the team's record has been even worse after abandoning Rasheed Wallace to focus on developing Zach Randolph.
However, as long as there is an inside team, it seems that they can bully the Knicks.
Zach Randolph turned the river over on the inside, and the Knicks couldn't limit it at all, but fortunately, his defense was not good, and the Knicks' interior line would not be unable to score.
Marbury looks a lot better than he was on the court, actively passing, actively breaking, and not shooting indiscriminately, a standard point guard, but directly from 20+ shots per game to a few times, which is too exaggerated.
I don't know how the team communicated with him, but Lehi felt that Marbury was still angry, but it was not so obvious, and he didn't have the same desire to win.
Lehi can't solve other people's problems now, and the Knicks' guard physical fitness is just average, and he simply scores like crazy.
He didn't know if it was the right thing to do, but it was the only thing he could do right now.
Even if Marbury doesn't attack much, the ball is still in his hands, and he is still doing the work of organization, and when Lehi usually receives the ball, there is not much time left, and he can only complete the attack quickly.
With Lehi's crazy slashing, the main lineup did not suffer, and the Trail Blazers' defense was not very serious.
But when it comes to the bench lineup, the Trail Blazers have a rotation player like Damon Stoudemire who has a strong scoring explosion, but the Knicks don't, and Lehi can't help but miss Crawford.
If the team can adjust the hearts of the players and let Crawford play the sixth man, it will obviously be more effective than him playing the sixth man, and the team's sixth man is the guy who needs to score explosively.
At 105:113, the Knicks lost again, and the team suffered another injury.
Although Tim Thomas is an unqualified starter, as a big man who can shoot, he can also give the team some help, to put it in layman's terms, after all, he is a guy with an annual salary of tens of millions, and the skinny camel is bigger than the horse, and he is still better than the forward guard player on the Knicks bench.
On January 11, the Knicks played the New Orleans Hornets at home.
The Knicks are now full of injuries and unavailable, but the Hornets have two rookies, JR Smith and Trevor Ariza, who have already played remarkably.
Marbury is still a Kidd-style point guard and doesn't shoot much.
At 82:88, the Knicks were completely caught in a losing cycle, and Lehi fought on the court for 45 minutes, scoring a new high in shots, but the shooting percentage was the lowest record.
At this time, he finally felt tired.
This time he finally couldn't take it anymore and found Marbury alone after training the next day.
"Boss, what do you want, the team's results have fallen all the way out of the top eight, do you want to die with the team, this is meaningless, and the biggest loss in the end will only be yourself."
Marbury said sourly: "What's wrong with me, I'm trying to play according to the coach's instructions and teammates' expectations now, don't say I didn't pass the ball, I passed you a lot yesterday." ”
Lehi immediately became angry, "Marbury, what about your winning and losing hearts, where did your winning and losing hearts go, you were defeated when you encountered a little setback, are you a man?" ”
Marbury said excitedly: "You know a fart, when you have been in the league for ten years, I will say something like this, I am not a man, I am not a man and I will be away from the game for a long time, you have been scolded all the time." ”
"Afraid of scolding, you are just a coward, if you are a man, you will find a way to lead the team to victory, that is the best response to the scolding, you will only be looked down upon by people now."
"How about one failure, how about two failures, even if you fail many times, as long as you don't give up, you're a man, as long as your leg is not broken, you will be able to defeat all doubts one day."
Lehi was also very excited, he had experienced failure in his previous life, so he hated failure, he hated giving up, and there were some things that he said to Marbury as well as to himself.
Marbury saw Lehi's appearance, and was stunned for a moment and smiled bitterly, "What a rookie, if I didn't know that you usually train harder than your mouth, I would definitely beat you." ”
"You want to talk, right, go have a drink with me, I'll have a treat."
In a bustling city like New York, there is definitely no shortage of various nightclubs, Lehi does not have the habit of going to nightclubs, and the money in his pocket is not full.
Taking a sip from his wine glass, Lehi frowned, "It doesn't taste good." ”
"Do you understand, Lao Tzu prescribes good wine."
After a few sips, Marbury sighed, "Even if you are a man, sometimes it will be uncomfortable." ”
"A lot of people play for money, but making money and winning don't conflict, and I understood that very early on, and now I don't lack money, I lack win."