Chapter 57: Five Consecutive Victories
The All-Star Weekend came to an end, and Wang Zhuo's Coca-Cola commercial finally met the audience after three days of post-production, and once it came out, Coca-Cola's sales increased significantly in just one week. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
The audience was very interested in the creativity of the advertisement, especially the addition of Chinese Tai Chi elements, and at the same time, it also allowed more foreigners to appreciate the style and true meaning of Guoshu.
"Uncle, hurry up and give me 100 autographs, take a photo by the way, and when you turn purple, I can make a lot of money by selling autographs!"
When Wang Zhuo, Lin Yao and Anne sat in front of the LCD screen and saw the new Coca-Cola advertisement, Anne was so excited that she ran behind Wang Zhuo with her mobile phone, took a group photo with a "click", and then took out a thick sticky note paper and put it in front of Wang Zhuo, asking him to sign 100 signatures in a row.
"Annie, it's not that exaggerated, I'll give you as much as you want!"
Lin Yao pulled Anne back, pressed her down on the chair, and said angrily, she knew that with Annie's family background, she didn't care about that little money at all, and her performance was more about the pursuit and worship of stars.
Wang Zhuo laughed twice speechlessly, picked up the pen and signed 10 first, and Anne put it away very preciously, just like receiving a Cartier diamond ring from the male god.
The All-Star Weekend ended on February 15, and the Knicks' first game after the All-Star Weekend was on February 19, at home against the Orlando Magic.
In the first quarter alone, the Knicks led the Magic by double digits, but after the start of the second quarter, the Magic's powerful center Ucevic began to exert his power, facing the slightly thin Lopez, and kept hitting single shots under the basket, coupled with Oladipo's inside and outside shots, at the end of the first half, the Magic chased the difference to only two points.
In the second half, Wang Zhuo sent Jerian Grant to target Oladipo, and under the basket, he resolutely implemented a trap tactic against Ucevich, while Anthony once again took on the role of organizing the offense on the offensive end, and cooperated with Porzingis to block and dismantle.
Under Wang Zhuo's tutelage, Anthony's organizational ability has been greatly improved, not just a powerful offensive machine, but more and more like an all-round warrior like LeBron James, and the Knicks' blocking and dismantling tactics are becoming more and more proficient, and a 15-2 attack wave was directly played in the middle of the third quarter, which made the game lose suspense in advance.
At the beginning of the fourth quarter, the head coach of the Magic, Jacques Vaughn, did not give up, and continued to send the main team on the court in the hope of chasing back the point difference, but Wang Zhuo did not give him any chance, and once again commanded the Knicks to play a 9-2 mini-climax, making the game completely enter garbage time.
The two sides tried their best to come off the bench to practice in the remaining time, and the Knicks finally successfully broke the magic at home and completed revenge, Wang Zhuo also won two consecutive victories since taking office, plus the previous victory over the Timberwolves, the Knicks completed three consecutive wins in a short period of time after Fisher's dismissal.
After the victory over the Orlando Magic, the Knicks defeated the downing Washington Wizards at home, and although the Wizards' golden duo John Wall and Bradley Beal combined for 56 points, Anthony and Porzingis also exploded, scoring 63 points and rebounding a full 15 more than the Wizards.
The next day, the Knicks moved back-to-back to the Barclays Center of the Brooklyn Nets, and the previous two games each achieved a record of one win and one loss, but recently after the change of coach, the Knicks team has a strong momentum and has played with momentum from the beginning of the game, especially the bench players perfectly make up for the lack of physical strength of the main players, and the firepower is full of firepower, and the bench players in normal games score a super high 50 points, helping the Knicks to retreat from the Barclays Center.
With less than two months to go and two-thirds of the way through the playoffs, the Knicks are 28-29 and in ninth place in the East, two wins away from the eighth-place Detroit Pistons and only one win ahead of the 10th-place Chicago Bulls.
After the All-Star, each team in the NBA has basically determined the goal, to be able to enter the playoffs to sprint forward, and those who have no hope began to try to mess up, striving to draw a higher pick in the draft next season, originally the Knicks' 8-game losing streak almost buried all the hopes of the playoffs, but Wang Zhuo was ordered to complete the Knicks' longest winning streak this season after the All-Star, and pulled the Knicks back from the cliff.
Soon, Wang Zhuo appeared on the first page of New York's "Sports Illustrated", and the media devoted a lot of space to reporting how young and promising, calm and calm, and even compared him with Luke Wharton, who led the Warriors to 24 consecutive wins, and fans agreed that Wang Zhuo was better than Wharton, after all, the Warriors are the defending champions, and the talent and run-in of the lineup are much higher than this Knicks team.
Not only that, Wang Zhuo also appeared on the cover of Time Magazine in the United States, you must know that when "Lin Crazy" swept the United States, he only appeared on the cover of the Asian edition of "Time Magazine", and Wang Zhuo was from the United States.
The influence in the United States is still so great, let alone domestically, if the domestic media still maintained a cautious attitude before, then now they have completely let go of the worries in their hearts, and some directly blew Wang Zhuo into the sky, Rao is so, the mainstream media still reminds the Chinese people to be cautious, to avoid a situation like Yi Jianlian and Jeremy Lin who drive high and go low, and eventually become a laughing stock.
"Wang is an eclectic coach, although he is not as old as me, but I have always carried out his decisions without doubt, but his decisions never seem to be missed."
Calderon, who has always been low-key, was questioned by the media and sincerely revealed what kind of head coach Wang Zhuo was in his mind, and finally made a joke coldly.
Surprisingly, the management of the Knicks seems to be calm, and the Zen master does not seem to have any reaction to Wang Zhuo's performance, but everyone understands that Wang Zhuo's emergence is gradually reversing the media's perception of the Knicks management, whether from the draft to the change of coach, they have slapped those doubters in the face with practical actions.
Wang Zhuo himself behaved very low-key, refusing to accept any media interviews, shooting the cover of "Time Magazine" or taking two hours out of his busy time, he felt that the reputation he has gained now is just the beginning, if he can't get a good record, he will only end up with Fisher and leave, only by leading the Knicks to the playoffs and finally winning the championship, his name will be written into the hall of honor.