Antonio Davis didn't return to the team after the suspension ended, and the Knicks made a trade directly. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

On February 3, the Knicks challenged the Raptors on the road, and on the same day, the two teams also announced the details of the trade between the two teams, and the Raptors traded Jaren Rose and a 2006 first-round pick for Antonio Davis of the Knicks.

The Raptors want to find a coolie partner for Chris Bosh, and although both are seriously declining in strength, they are both on expiring contracts, and even if something goes wrong, it won't be a big problem.

In this game, the two sides could not replace the new club, the Knicks Lehi and Marbury were not there, and the interior was completely blown up by Chris Bosh, and the game was simply lost.

On Feb. 5, the Knicks returned to their home court, and Lehi decided to make a comeback for this game.

Marbury felt very strange, and Lehi persuaded him to do so, only to ask for an early comeback in the blink of an eye.

Lehi didn't make a blind request, he had already passed the test, and he was indeed recovering, thanks to his strong body.

Their opponent in this game is the Rockets, who have had a bad season this season, Yao Ming and McGrady have missed the game with injuries, and their record has not even entered the top eight in the West.

However, in this game, both of their core players are there, on the Knicks' side, Jalen Rose, who has just been traded, also appeared in the starting list, and players such as Lehi also welcomed the new members.

On Yao Ming's side, Li Hai also nagged well, just like an old mother, Yao Ming said that he was very aggrieved, this time it was a toe injury, and it was impossible to predict it.

At the beginning of the game, both sides played inside, and Eddie Curry's first two goals were also full of fighting spirit, but the last thing he was used to was playing against a high school forward like Yao Ming, and after being hatted two in a row, Eddie Curry died down.

This is also the reason why Lehi can't identify with Eddie Curry, who has some shooting in training and lacks a strong desire to fight on the court, and is not the same kind as several other core players of the Knicks.

On Lehi's side, facing McGrady, perhaps affected by injury, Lehi feels that the other party does not have the aggressive momentum of last season, especially on the defensive end, McGrady is not so dare to fight, and the offensive end is more dependent on jump shots, and under Lehi's interference, the shooting rate is not high.

But the Rockets still relied on Yao Ming's 100% shooting rate to lead the Knicks by 4 points in the first quarter.

This is Yao Ming's fourth season in the NBA, and his strengths and weaknesses have been known by various opponents, and Larry Brown has also loudly asked Eddie Currido and Yao Ming to have a physical confrontation, draining Yao Ming's physical strength.

However, it is also difficult for Eddie Curry, first, he can't defend strongly, and second, his own physical strength is not good, if he consumes Yao Ming, it is estimated that he will be tired first.

The Knicks also thought of other ways, letting Gortat and Channing Frye go up and try to play against Yao Ming one after another, one can consume Yao Ming on the defensive end, and the other can shoot from a distance on the offensive end, Yao Ming can't defend it.

In the second quarter of the two sides, the situation was much better, but the Knicks' scoring was still mostly concentrated on the outside, and Jalen Rose also began to cut points after getting acquainted with his teammates, and he, Crawford, and Lehi basically supported the team's entire score.

And Quentin Richardson after becoming a starter again, his state is not good again, and he often can't shoot in empty positions, and now there are a lot of people who can play in the Knicks, but Larry Brown is still not satisfied, in the two positions of scoring guard and power forward, the Knicks have tried multiple people, and they always feel a little bit worse.

Of course, there are also Marbury's complaints that he wants to emulate Iverson and play shooting guard, which cannot be resolved now.

At halftime, the Knicks pulled back one point and trailed by three points at 42:45.

In the second half, the Knicks' wheel battle worked, and Yao Ming's physical strength dropped and there was a problem with his shooting percentage.

The Knicks took the opportunity to attack aggressively to increase the breakthrough, Yao Ming's physical strength decline was just a good time to make him foul, Lehi is now very experienced in making fouls, as long as he gets up to speed up and leans on the defender, the defender can't keep up with his movements and is easy to be taken by him to shoot, and it is easy to foul.

This trick is better for the inside line with physical strength problems, after all, the outside player is likely to be squeezed by him and give up to let him break in, but the inside player is often unavoidable, and Yao Ming has no one around him to help him do the dirty work, Zhu Wan Howard is a jump shot inside, and the defense is not good at all.

When the whistle blew, Yao Ming opened his hand and explained to the referee innocently, and Li Hai was smiling all over his face in the back.

The explanation is useless, it is definitely a foul, when Li Hai rushed over, Yao Ming didn't have time to move at all, if he had good physical strength, he might give up a step and then send a big hat over, but when there was a problem with physical strength, it was often too late to move this step.

After Yao Ming went to rest after four fouls, the veteran Dikambe Mutombo, who came up, moved more slowly, did not have the ability to attack, and was also a big tall man who could stand inside to defend.

However, McGrady, who was playing iron continuously in this quarter, suddenly came to feel, and when McGrady came to feel it, his pull-up jumper was difficult to defend, and Lehi was not in a hurry, trying to squeeze McGrady farther away from the basket to shoot.

McGrady, who was one of eight in the first half, shot 60 percent from the field in the third quarter, and an All-Star player is an All-Star player, and it is difficult to stop it even if he defends hard when he explodes.

It was also McGrady's late burst of the third quarter that allowed the Rockets to regain the lead and head into the fourth quarter with a three-point advantage.

This was the first game of Lehi's comeback, and he had more time to rest than before.

When he was off the court, the Rockets' backup power forward Stromeyer Swift relied on his excellent physical fitness to score consecutive points, and their shooting guard David Wesley also made consecutive kills, and the Knicks' interior defense ability was indeed worrisome.

Lehi didn't play until seven minutes remaining, by which time the Knicks were already trailing by five points.

He immediately completed a perfect combination with Crawford, assisting the latter's three-point shot.

What Lehi brings to the Knicks, scoring is only part of the story, he can defend well, he can pass good balls, and that's what he can't replace for the team.

In the few games he missed, I believe both the team and the fans have seen it clearly, although he is not perfect, but unconsciously, he has become an indispensable core player for the Knicks.

When he returned to the court, the atmosphere on the court suddenly changed, and even the cheers of the surrounding fans became louder. (To be continued.) )