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After Cassell hit two three-pointers in a row, he didn't choose to make a third three-point shot, which is the mentality that the Clippers had to chase points before, but now it doesn't matter if they score two points.

It's just that Cassel is no longer young after all, and the pull-up jump shot that goes in is not as sharp as it was at its peak.

In the face of Lehi's rush to assist the defense, Cassel hit the ball with iron.

After the Knicks protected the rebound, Lehi wanted to come over the ball and start controlling the time unhurriedly.

If you run out of time, your opponent will have less than 5 seconds left to attack.

The Clippers didn't opt for foul tactics, they believed in their defense.

Pressing the clock to the end, Lehi and his teammates did a pick-and-roll, rushed inside and then went outside to Jalen Rose, who hit a two-pointer to 84:80, and the Clippers had few chances.

In the last ball, Cassel didn't get a chance to catch the ball at all, Mobley missed a three-point shot, and the game ended, and the Knicks won.

With 25 points, 12 rebounds and 9 assists, Lehi went on to record a quasi-triple-double.

The next day back-to-back, the Knicks went to New Jersey to play the Nets.

This match made Lehi feel the skill of the Kidd organization, and even if he scored 20+9+9 data, he could not prevent the loss of the game.

On February 10, the Knicks challenged the New Orleans Hornets away, and the inside and outside combination of Chris Paul and David West gave the Knicks a losing streak.

On February 12, coming to Houston, the Knicks' Lehi assisted Crawford to beat the Rockets with a three-point kill, completing the double kill against the Rockets.

In this game, McGrady hit a wild 20 iron, and almost gave the victory to the Knicks.

And Lehi scored 19+10+10 when Crawford was not in good form and cut a triple-double again.

On Feb. 13, Lehi, who had traveled to Dallas, missed a double-double for the first time of the season under Josh Howard's defense, and the Knicks lost to the Mavericks.

After the Mavericks played against the Mavericks, the Knicks' four-game road streak also came to an end, with a dismal 1-3 record, but it was not surprising that the two back-to-back road games were no joke.

On February 15, the Knicks were finally able to play at home, and it was the Raptors who came to New York to challenge them.

The Raptors had a poor record some time ago, and after trading with the Knicks, they put on a set of long starters, except for Mike James at the No. 1 position, the other positions are big men over 2 meters, and the small forward position is placed with 2.11 meters rookie Charlie Villanueva.

Facing Villanueva, who was 11 centimeters taller than him, Lehi didn't feel too bad, the opponent's strength was not enough to eat him, but when defending, Villanueva couldn't keep up with Lehi's pace at all.

The Raptors can still rely on Chris Bosh, as well as Mike James and Maurice Peterson on the outside, at the beginning of the game, Bosh continued to score points on the inside, and created opportunities for outside players to shoot from a distance, and Morris Peterson ambushed outside the three-point line and hit consecutive shots.

Seeing that the Knicks had a tendency to collapse, Lehi stood up and stabilized the situation by playing 2+1 twice in a row, and the Knicks also chased down by only 4 points when they were up to 13 behind.

The Raptors' offense struggled with player rotation time, they didn't have great bench players, and the team's sixth man, Matt Bonner, couldn't even create scoring opportunities on his own.

In the second half, Bosh was still very good, but the others were in trouble under the adjustment of the Knicks' defense, and against Bosh, the Knicks also adopted a wheel battle.

The Knicks now have a large number of sub-role players both on the outside and inside, and they will have to show a ferocious defense to get playing time, or head coach Larry Brown will be able to put them on the bench.

Therefore, those cannon fodder role players are all good at hand-to-hand combat, and generally the players that the opponent focuses on are defended by these people for a round, and they can get a lot of free throws, but those who are not strong enough will almost be consumed too much.

Before the break, Lehi hit a three-pointer to help his team overtake the score.

In the fourth quarter, the Raptors replaced Matt Bonner for Antonio Davis and turned it into a bunch of tall men shooting from the outside.

Seeing this situation, the Knicks simply let Lehi go to the power forward position to play a small lineup.

The Raptors' on-court players are tall, but if they are all shot from the outside, the height is not so significant, and several of the Knicks' outside players, Crawford, Jalen Rose, Quentin Richardson and Lehi, only defend the shots of those tall players is no problem.

At this time, Bosh, who had been overturning the river and the sea on the inside, had no chance to make a move, and he would attack on the inside, unless Bosh also went to the outside to shoot, but there were already too many people on the outside.

At this time, the Raptors got more opportunities to shoot Mike James, who had the ability to break through, and Mike James was also the kind of scoring vacancy, seeing that his teammates couldn't run any vacant positions, he simply stopped passing the ball and began to play consecutive singles.

His singles success rate is not bad, except for missing three-point shots, the pull-up jump shot after the breakthrough is very sharp.

In fact, although Eddie Curry can't prevent Bosh, it is not easy for Bosh to prevent him, after all, Eddie Curry's tonnage is there, and there are dozens of pounds more meat than Bosh.

With five minutes left in the game, the Knicks still had a narrow two-point lead.

But then Bosh was caught in the middle and split the ball to Matt Bonner and Villanueva from the perimeter to hit a three-pointer, and although the Knicks also hit a two-pointer on offense, the slight two-point advantage was lost all at once.

The Knicks called a timeout first, and Larry Brown once again emphasized the defense, as long as the defense is in place as required, the Raptors' open three-pointers will not get a chance, comparing the speed of a few big men's shots.

After coming on the court again, Lehi received the ball with his back in the low post, and passed Matt Bonner with a turn, and when Bosh made up for it, Lehi had already passed the ball in his hand, and Eddie Curry received the ball and dunked easily.

The biggest problem with the Raptors' lineup is actually defense.

Mike James continued to play alone, but after a miss, the Knicks immediately launched a quick counterattack, and the Raptors' bunch of big men simply couldn't keep up with the Knicks' counterattack speed.

With a 4-point lead, the Raptors couldn't catch up this time, the Knicks didn't give the other side a chance to shoot three, and the Raptors couldn't defend their small lineup at all. (To be continued.) )