Chapter 270: Dugu seeks defeat
"We can lose, but we can't make low-level mistakes, it's okay to break the winning streak, after all, not everyone can do such a long streak, but we don't need to take the opponent lightly, we should focus on winning every game"
Lehi spoke loudly during the timeout, also a little dissatisfied with the team's defense. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
When he came back on the court, he also led by example and tried his best on the defensive end, but at this time Kobe's hand also rose, and the Lakers became extremely difficult to deal with.
At 3:10, Lehi hit a three-pointer to tie the score.
But just 13 seconds later, Bryant hit a step-back shot to give the Lakers the lead again.
At 37 seconds, Lehi attracted the defense and distributed the ball to Crawford on the outside, and Crawford hit a three-pointer with a knife, and the Knicks led by one point at 115:114.
In the final moments, Lehi stood in front of Kobe Bryant, and his defense was almost leakless.
By the time the offensive time was running out, the Lakers had not yet found a suitable offensive opportunity, and the ball was back in Kobe's hands.
At the last moment, Kobe Bryant squeezed hard inside.
Lehi had long expected the other party to move, and his footsteps moved quickly and steadily stopped in front.
Kobe Bryant took the opportunity to lean into his arms, it was too late for Lehi to retreat, Kobe Bryant forcibly jumped up, and then the referee's whistle blew, and Kobe Bryant scored the goal.
This ball can be blown or not, when this is the home court of the Lakers, and it is a foul made by Kobe Bryant, the referee still gave it.
Bryant hit a free throw with 15 seconds left and the Knicks trailed by two points.
After a pause in the tactical arrangement, Lehi took the ball, his teammates came up to cover, and he rushed forward with one acceleration.
What he didn't expect was that the Lakers had already anticipated his move, and Kobe Bryant and Wharton quickly wrapped it up.
Lehi was unexpectedly caught in a rare way, Kobe's hand quickly cut over, and Wharton put his body against Lehi, with small movements in his hands.
At this time, the referee did not think about the whistle, Lehi desperately controlled the ball, and still relied on his strength to not let the opponent take the ball away.
He squeezed Wharton past Marbury and passed the ball to Marbury, who had no chance and time was running out, so Lehi ran over and got the ball back.
He also took a shot from the three-point line, and Bryant and Wharton pounced at the same time.
However, Lehi's ball is a feint, not because of how realistic his feints are, but because he is Lehi, he has killed several times outside the three-point line, plus time is almost up, the Lakers don't dare to let him shoot.
Lehi nodded, and as soon as he was short, he rushed in, and began to ride a horse and shoot arrows.
The ball went in, just one of the red lights on the rebound, and the whistle hit, 117:117, and the two teams went into overtime.
In overtime, Li Hai never gave the opponent a chance again, he first pretended to hang the inside line, but when the defensive team subconsciously turned back, he pulled the ball back, and accelerated past the opponent to the free throw line to shoot.
Relying on his performance of scoring 10 points in a row, the Knicks won the tough battle 129-124.
The 25-game winning streak, the Knicks' winning streak continues.
Without any respite, the Knicks went to Utah the next day to challenge the Jazz.
The Jazz are not easy to gnaw on and belong to the kind of team with a relatively complete roster structure, but their defense is not good enough by the standards of a strong team.
Moreover, they lack a core player like Lehi.
Whether it's Boozer or Deron Williams, it feels a little worse.
At the beginning of the game, Randolph and Boozer exploded each other on the inside, and Oku often went outside, although he didn't care about it, but he still had an advantage in rebounding.
In the offense, the Knicks are desperately rushing inside, and the Jazz's interior defense is scum, and they have rushed each other to pieces from the first quarter.
The Jazz were initially able to play against the Knicks offensively, but soon their players fouled too much and were taken away by the Knicks in the third quarter.
At 109:90, the Knicks were unrelenting back-to-back, winning 26 consecutive victories in one fell swoop.
On February 1, the Knicks visited Portland again against the Trail Blazers.
The Trail Blazers had a miserable season, and the top pick Greg Oden was reimbursed without playing.
However, they are not bad at the moment, after all, Roy and Aldridge have both played, and trading Randolph is a win-win game.
But the former Knicks players who came to the Trail Blazers had mixed joys and sorrows, Richardson became a starter, Channing Frye became a substitute, and there was no environment like the Knicks, but the data declined a little.
Channing Frye also poured a lot of bitterness when he saw his old teammates, but with his technical characteristics, no one wanted it, and his agent had already started to work for him to find a new way out, but he didn't know if he could succeed.
In the face of the young army of the Trail Blazers, the Knicks still have an advantage, the opposing leaders are a little tender, and their interior has a big rebounding advantage.
The Knicks had the advantage from the first quarter, and although the Trail Blazers kept catching up, the Knicks' sophisticated defense and sharp offense didn't give them a chance.
At 108:94, the Knicks also won 27 consecutive victories, making the outside world smack.
Lehi was as efficient as ever, scoring 45 points on his own when the bench players didn't perform well.
The final game of the Western Road Tour was Seattle, and it was also a back-to-back.
Consecutive away games, consecutive back-to-backs, is the most tired time for players, but also the time to test the team's quality, as an ambitious team, the first four stops have survived, and will never be defensive vigilance in the last stop.
Moreover, hypersound is also the weakest of several opponents.
In fact, everyone in the Knicks game didn't feel good at the beginning, and even Lehi was a rare continuous iron.
But reporters on the sidelines didn't dare to think that the SuperSonics would end the Knicks' winning streak, because although the Knicks couldn't score, their defense was suffocating, and the SuperSonics with Durant as the core were simply difficult to score.
At 15:17 in the first quarter, you can imagine how far the defense has been.
By the time the Knicks started to warm up in the second quarter, the SuperSonics were all blocked, and Durant almost knocked out the basket under Lehi's defense.
So after the Knicks returned to normal, the SuperSonics still only scored 17 points.
The rhythm is set, the supersonic can't find a second point at all, and after Durant is limited, it is impossible for them to beat the Knicks, even if the Knicks are mostly sloppy.
The defensive victory, 90:77, Lehi 24 points, 10 rebounds, 7 assists, 4 steals and 2 blocks, the Knicks won 28 consecutive victories.
With five away games in the West and two back-to-backs, the Knicks were able to keep winning them all.
The media exclaimed that the Knicks were lonely and sought defeat, and the bookmaker even offered high odds on which team could end the Knicks' winning streak.