Chapter 80: Halfway Through the Season

In the final moments, the Lakers also hit a three-pointer, but it was to no avail. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

117:115, the Knicks beat the Lakers in overtime, and Lehi had 35 points, 7 rebounds, 5 assists and 3 steals, once again showing a strong possibility.

The feeling of defending Kobe Bryant was something that Lehi pondered in the next few days of training.

How to become stronger, maybe you can only understand by competing with the top level masters of the league.

On March 4, the Knicks went to play the Magic on the road.

Lehi also got what he wanted, Grant Hill and Steve Francis were both tough guys to play on the front line, but when the interior was blown out by 20-year-old Dwight Howard, he fell behind by 20 points in the third quarter, and Lehi's defense of Hill just came a little bit and felt that the game was going into garbage time.

He couldn't defend Howard, and there was really no way to go wrong on the inside.

Thinking that the reason why he was able to play so well with the Lakers in the last game was completely because the other party had no inside line, Lehi was a little depressed.

On March 6, the Golden State Warriors, who came to New York as a guest, were also a somewhat lackluster team on the inside.

Because of the unsatisfactory results, the Warriors also made a trade some time ago in exchange for All-Star guard Byron Davis, and now Byron Davis has not fully integrated into the team, playing sixth man in the Warriors, and the main point guard is still Derrick Fisher.

The Warriors are an outside team, and the star "dunk king" Jason Richardson ushered in a scoring explosion, but did not lead the team to win more games.

The two big men on the front line, Mike Dunleavy and Troy Murphy, are also pitchers, and center Adonal Foyer is a standard blue-collar who is okay but no other threat.

The Warriors' interior line can be said to be worse than the Knicks.

It's cool for an outside player to have an inside advantage from the start, and although Troy Murphy bullied him at the beginning, the Warriors' interior defense is just too average.

Including Lehi, the Knicks' three forward players kept hitting shots in the first quarter, and Marbury brushed up seven assists in the first quarter.

When it came time to rotate, the Warriors' Byron Davis played remarkably, but they couldn't stop the Knicks' three backup power forwards from taking turns on the inside.

In the past, it was other teams who killed all sides on the Knicks' interior line, but now that it's their turn, it feels really refreshing, and Lehi is also looking forward to the Knicks being able to upgrade the interior line.

The Knicks are not the top on the outside, but they are also at the top of the league, and they have been in control from the beginning to the end of the game, and finally won 115-99 easily.

Lehi also scored 21 points and 10 baskets to get another double-double.

During this time, the Knicks entered a relatively easy schedule, with less intense games and most of the time at home.

Bruce Baker is also in contact with several advertising agencies interested in Lehi, and the domestic media contacted Lehi to make a feature film for him, and after getting the MVP of the Rookie Challenge, his popularity in China has caught up with Yao Ming, but not many people know about Lehi's experience before entering the NBA.

Things that can interest fans and may also bring business opportunities, Lehi is not averse.

But it certainly can't affect his game and training, the most important thing for a basketball player is always the result, if the ball is not played well, everything else is a bubble.

In terms of business activities, Lehi has asked his agent not to take it anymore, and in March, it is already time to start sprinting towards the playoffs, and he is not as embarrassed as he was a few months ago.

On March 8th, it was home again, and this time the opponent was the Wizards.

The Wizards are currently doing better than the Knicks, but they lost a big man in their last game, and All-Star Antoine Jamison is injured and won't be on the court today.

Without Jamison, the Wizards are obviously very unaccustomed to it, and they are suppressed by the Knicks in normal games.

At 95:83, the Knicks finally won the opponent at Madison Square Garden.

After the longest period of the season, on March 13, they hosted Western Conference powerhouse Seattle SuperSonics.

The SuperSonics team suddenly rose to become a strong team in the West this season and played very well.

They have two All-Stars, Ray Allen and Rashad Lewis, and they are partnered with Luke Ridnow, who played in the Rookie Challenge, and they have strong substitutes like Vladimir Radmanovic and Antonio Daniels on the bench who can score in double figures, and rookie Nick Collison has also been impressive.

The SuperSonics are also a pure perimeter team right now, with both starting interior players being the kind of blue-collar players who focus on defense, and the backcourt has excellent scoring ability both as the main player and off the bench.

The most dangerous player for the SuperSonics is definitely Ray Allen, but the Knicks need Lehi more to defend the 2.08-meter Rashad Lewis.

Originally, Lehi didn't think the errand would be difficult, he had a successful previous experience defending big man pitchers, and Tim Thomas of the Knicks was also this type, although this guy is a bit depraved now, but this kind of shooter often has limitations.

A very important point is that the physical confrontation ability is not strong, as long as it is tightly attached, the shot will be affected.

When Lewis hit the shot in front of Lehi, Lehi realized that some of his previous impressions had flowed.

The current Lewis, who is obviously at his peak physically, is not only able to shoot three-pointers, but also has a very good back-to-back technique, which is enough to throw off Tim Thomas a few streets.

It's no wonder that the contract of 100 million yuan has been flickered later, and it is not possible to have some real skills.

Compared with the three-point pointer, Lewis's high-altitude turnaround jumper is what Lehi finds the most troublesome.

Lehi desperately stuck to Lewis, but he was not able to limit the opponent well, this kind of shooting opponent had to be physically confrontation throughout the game, consuming the opponent's physical strength, and it was successful to reduce the opponent's shooting rate at the last moment of the game.

Worse still, it's just Lewis, and Crawford's side can't guard against Ray Allen at all.

Fortunately, Luke Rednow couldn't stop Marbury, and if Tim Thomas pulled out to shoot, Reggie Evans couldn't follow.

In the first quarter, the game became a contest of offensive shooting percentages between the two sides.

However, when it came to the bench, the Knicks suffered, the problem of squad depth was as helpless as the problem of the inside, sometimes the opponent who clearly felt that he had a chance to win, the main force went down to rest for a few minutes, and when he came up, he found that the game had been spent.

No matter how hard Lehi tried, he could only do the work of one person.

Less than a year after entering the league, he experienced the depression of some stars.

When he came back on the pitch, he also started attacking mode.