The next game was very good, and on December 9 they played at home again. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

It's the third day after a big game against the Wizards, and their physical strength is well recovered, but there is no way to get excited about some players.

The visit was to the Bucks, who officially started the team after the Bucks traded TJ Ford for Charlie Villanueva in the summer, and even though last season's big man Bobby Simmons was injured, they have no shortage of attacking talent.

It's just that their defense is also a bad type, and although Andrew Bogut has grown, it is not enough to help the Bucks' defense.

The outside combination of Morris Williams and Michael Reed also came up with crazy scoring, shooting good three-pointers, a bit of the flavor of the previous Wizards.

It's just that there is still a difference between the Bucks and the Wizards, and it's certainly easier for the Knicks to limit the two backcourts than it is to limit Arenas and Jamison's pseudo-interior linemen.

So they couldn't score as many points as the Wizards, but they were on par defensively, and Lehi was almost in a no-man's land against defenders who were shorter and slower than him.

In the first half, the Bucks relied on Morris Williams' efficiency to barely compete with the Knicks, and in the third quarter, the Knicks adopted targeted defense, and the Bucks collapsed all at once.

The fourth quarter was completely garbage time, and Lehi clocked out early, sat on the bench and watched the team beat the opponent 115-97, and the Knicks' winning streak also came to fifteen games.

At the same time, due to the loss of the Jazz, the Knicks' record has come to the top of the league.

Victory is a sign of strength, and the Knicks' notion that they won the championship by luck has slowly become less common with their winning streak.

On December 11, the Knicks met the Celtics again at home.

The Celtics have had a dismal season and a changing roster, and this time they have put Al Jefferson, a more attacking interior lineman, and Tony Allen, who has a strong perimeter defense.

Eager to prove himself against a strong team, Pierce is one of them.

Under Lehi's defense, Pierce proved his determination at the beginning, hitting a three-pointer directly after his teammates covered, which is not a way that Pierce is good at, and the opponent's resoluteness also made Lehi more vigilant.

Pierce has a lot of offensive means, and it is more difficult to completely restrict it, and Lehi can only consume the opponent first, after all, the basketball game is a 48-minute thing, and it is good that things have to be slow to see the effect.

However, what makes the Knicks feel uncomfortable is the Celtics' interior line, Al Jefferson can attack and grab rebounds, plus the very desperate Ryan Gomez, who has faintly suppressed the combination of Eddie Curry and David Lee.

This is also where the Knicks are dissatisfied with the interior, several interior lines have baskets, but they have never been able to satisfy the team on defense, otherwise they would not often ask Li Hai to go to the No. 4 position.

When the opponent played at a level both inside and outside, the Knicks lost by 10 points in the first quarter at 21:31.

However, Crawford didn't have a good hand when he came off the bench, while Celtics' role player Brian Scala Bryan hit three three-pointers in a row, and their rookie Rajon Rondo also scored six straight points.

Competitive sports is full of all kinds of accidents, the substitute lineup that was originally the advantage was completely exploded, and Li Hai found that the team was 25 points behind when he played, and it was the first time this season that such a situation occurred.

When he got on the court, the first ball broke through to the basket to complete the score.

If he doesn't step up at this time, the second half of the game will become garbage time.

Although it was the opponent's hand that exploded, it was clear that the Knicks also had problems.

They underestimated the enemy and did not find the problem in time to solve it when the Celtics were on the rise.

"Defend well, defend well." Lehi reminded loudly.

He has to lead by example and lead the team to do better, and the Knicks' winning streak has changed the mentality of some players, who think they are a strong team and sometimes go apathy, which is going to go wrong.

Led by a few key players on the team, the Knicks quickly returned to normal.

This is also the benefit of a change in mentality, even if they are more than 20 points behind, they don't think that this game is over, there are two sides to everything.

So when it came to the main lineup, the Celtics played a lot worse.

Pierce saw that his teammates were being guarded to death and began to play a lot of singles, even though Lehi stuck to him very tightly, but Pierce didn't think Lehi could defend him.

Pierce still scored 8 points after coming on the court, and Lehi also paid the price for two fouls, but Pierce didn't shoot well and took up almost all of the team's shots.

The 25-point deficit turned into 20 points, and the Knicks trailed 41-61 at halftime.

"What are you thinking, did you all spend last night in a nightclub?"

Dealing with a team like the Celtics, who knew the roots, was playing like this, and Lehi couldn't help but get angry.

Everyone's faces are a little unsightly, and it is really shameless to be beaten like this.

They're not belly fish, they're the defending champions.

"Cheer me up, otherwise, the coach will definitely not mind doubling the training intensity to help you, everyone reminds each other in the second half, you also supervise me together, I am not a person who plays tricks."

At the beginning of the second half, the Knicks behaved completely differently, starting with Eddie Curry attacking on the inside, followed by pressing defense to make the opponent miss, and Lehi counterattacked.

"It's not that easy to chase points."

Pierce immediately realized the change in the state of the Knicks, and snorted coldly at Lehi.

"It's nothing, it's the game, and after the win belongs to the last leader."

Lehi focused on not thinking about the things around him, just staring at Pierce.

"We won the game."

Pierce gave Lehi a covert push with his arm, and moved to the three-point line in two steps to catch the ball and shoot.

He can't wait to kill the Knicks, if the other party doesn't admit defeat with 20 points, 30, even if the Knicks are strong, they can't do it.

Pierce shot quickly, but the height of the shot was not enough, and Lehi had long been on guard against his move, and when he made his move, Lehi's arm had already blocked it.

There was no block, but the success interfered, and Pierce wanted to win, but he was still in too much of a hurry.

The Knicks were more calm, this time they didn't play the fast break, but waited until the team was in position to hand over the interior first, although Al Jefferson had a good offense, but he couldn't limit Eddie Curry defensively.

In this way, the Knicks combined inside and outside, played steadily, and gradually mastered the rhythm in their hands. (To be continued.) )