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After the Celtic timeout, Pierce realized his problem and had no other thoughts on trying to help the team win.

In the end, it basically became a scoring battle between the two.

At 3:20, Pierce rolled over and hit a jumper to tie the score again.

But then the Knicks' offense Lehi sent Wally Szczebiak six fouls, Pierce tried again but missed, and Lehi hit a three-pointer from the outside after being caught in the low post and passing to Crawford on the perimeter.

Then the Knicks suddenly made a mistake on Pierce's bag, and Lehi hit a two-point shot steadily, 102:95, and the Knicks led by 7 points at once.

Celtic took another timeout, but it didn't make much of a difference.

In the end, the Knicks won 106-100, and Li Hai returned to the court with amazing efficiency, scoring 27 points in 26 minutes, along with 6 assists and 6 rebounds.

Two days later, the Knicks played the Rockets again at home.

The Rockets also added to the team this summer, in exchange for Battier, the signing of Wells, and Spanoulris, who has performed well at the World Championships.

It's just that the integration of new players and the team is not so smooth, but fortunately, Battier is the kind of plug-and-play type, and the mini interior Chuck Hayes they bought last year has also grown well, and the Rockets have still increased their strength.

In the face of the Rockets, the Knicks' interior offense is different from other games, more about letting Channing Freila come out to shoot, Eddie Curry is completely ineffective when he meets Yao Ming, and Gortat can't defend Yao Ming, but fortunately, after Lehi returns, their small lineup has become sharper.

The Rockets' main defense of Lehi is Battier, and Lehi is very familiar with Battier's defense, and what he has to do is to make the offense more concise and directly solve it with physical advantages and shooting.

This trick has proven to be effective enough at the World Championships, and it is no different against the Rockets.

And Battier rarely plays with the ball on the offensive end, which also allows Lehi to save some physical strength.

As for McGrady, Lehi will not defend him when he is suspended, he has just returned, unless it is the last moment of the game, the Knicks are basically team-oriented, and McGrady's dry pulling, many times also rely on hand feeling, after the injury last year, McGrady's strength has gone downhill.

In the first quarter, due to poor interior play, the Knicks fell behind by one point at 20:21, and it can also be seen that their defense is still better than before.

In the second quarter, first the Knicks came off the bench to overtake the score, and then after the main team came on the court, Yao Ming turned the river on the inside, Eddie Curry fouled three times early, and Gortat was also pressed to the ground and rubbed.

Lehi immediately carried the banner of attack, and it was easy to be interfered with by Yao Ming when the Rockets broke in, and if he attacked from a distance, he still had an advantage in position, like Marbury to fight against McGrady, it was too much of a loss.

Lehi played this point differently, after he hit Battier twice, he immediately distributed the ball to Marbury on the perimeter, allowing the latter to hit a three-pointer.

The three people in the Knicks backcourt, Li Hai is the axis connecting the inside and outside, after the ball is out of his hands, the offense is completely alive, even if Yao Ming knocks down the two of them in the 5 position on the inside, they are also dead on the score.

At halftime, the score was 47:48, and the Knicks were still one point behind.

For Yao Ming's defense, the Knicks can only attrition and pinching, so at halftime, the Knicks' arrangement for the second half focuses on offense.

At the beginning of the third quarter, the Rockets started with Yao Ming again, and Eddie Curry failed to surprise people, which was another foul.

The head coach directly replaced Eddie Curry and went directly to Crawford to play a small lineup.

In this case, Channing Frye plays center, defends Yao Ming around the front when he has no ball, Yao Ming receives the ball and hits, and in the offense, he hits Yao Ming and can't defend it, so that Channing Frye shoots on the outside.

The Knicks' style of play worked wonders, and the Rockets could only put the main battlefield of the offense on the perimeter, but McGrady and Alston had a mediocre touch, and the two hit only one of their seven three-point shots.

The Knicks' outside line was impressive, Channing Flaira came out to shoot and scored 8 points in the quarter, Lehi hit two three-pointers, plus 10 free throws, and the Knicks overtook the score and led by 5 points in the quarter.

In the fourth quarter, McGrady finally found his groove, not only hitting a three-pointer from the court, but also making a couple of subsequent passes turn Channing Frye's front around the table into a decoration.

The Knicks quickly replaced Eddie Curry with normal defense.

At 5:33, the Rockets' Luther Hyde hit a three-pointer to chase the score to just one point.

Next, the Knicks attacked, and Lehi suddenly rushed to the basket under the cover of his teammates, causing Yao Ming's foul, and he did not dismantle the ball this time, nor did he choose to jump shot, which caught the Rockets a little off guard.

At 4:32, McGrady broke through and caused a foul on Channing Frye, and the Knicks adjusted their defensive strategy, allowing Lehi to keep an all-out focus on McGrady in the final minutes.

Under Lehi's close defense, McGrady's attack was blocked and he was organized.

Like Lehi, although his passing is not top-notch, he is often able to deliver the ball to teammates who have offensive opportunities because of his height and long arms and good offensive awareness.

At 2:55, McGrady assisted Alstom, who hit the second three-pointer of the game, 93-93, and the two sides were tied in the final minute.

The Knicks called a timeout, returned to the court, and switched to a small lineup.

After arriving in the frontcourt, the ball passed to Lehi, Channing Frye came up to block the demolition, and when Lehi pressed inside with the cover, Channing Frye dismantled it out, and Crawford ran quickly to the outside of the three-point line on the weak side.

Lehi made a pass, but he started straight at his feet.

The other party realized that it was a feint, and Lehi had already squeezed past Battier, and when Yao Ming rushed over to make up for the defense, Lehi threw the ball relatively rarely, and the basketball passed Yao Ming's long arm and fell directly into the basket, 95:93.

At this time, the Rockets were McGrady dribbling directly across the half court, Yao Ming came up to cover, McGrady wanted to pass Lehi in one step, but his speed was as fast as before, Lehi accurately judged McGrady's intentions and stopped in front of the opponent steadily.

McGrady saw that there was no chance, jumped up and crossed the ball to Yao Ming near the free throw line.

This time, the two passed the ball relatively closely, and it was a little sudden, and Yao Ming almost didn't hold the ball steady.

Just as Yao Ming was about to raise the ball to shoot, a hand slapped over. (To be continued.) )