Lenny Wilkens called a timeout and swapped Lehi up. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

You can expect Lehi when you get into trouble, and the Knicks have slowly developed this kind of thinking.

'It's going to break up a point in their defence and then we'll have a lot of chances, like in the first half, to show your quality, lads.'

How to disrupt, the only way is to score and find a way to improve the success rate of the offense.

If they miss, the Knicks are likely to collapse, unlike the Pistons, Ben Wallace grabbed the frontcourt rebounds a few times, making it easy for the Pistons players to shoot the basketball.

They have to withstand the pressure and really get the ball into the basket.

Lehi received the ball, and Prince left a gap of half a step between the two to prevent Lehi's breakthrough.

In this position, if Lehi breaks through, the Pistons' interior defense will also have time, and if he shoots directly, Prince's long arm can also interfere.

However, it was just a distraction, and Lehi jumped firmly.

With his bounce power, the opponent can shoot at a height that the defenders can't reach as long as they leave him a little space.

The basketball arcs gracefully in the air and falls steadily into the basket.

The Knicks had a scoring drought in athletic battles, and as soon as Lehi came up, he broke it strongly.

The Pistons' defense, which focuses on point-to-point coverage, has Billups on the outside, Prince in the middle, and Ben Wallace on the inside, Lehi breaks one of those points, and the Knicks' offense comes alive again.

And the Pistons' attack is still strong, except for Ben Wallace, who will not attack, the other four points have been opened.

It is not easy to feel this thing, close it when it is opened, or open it when it is closed.

For the Knicks to stabilize the score, in addition to trying to defend as much as possible, there is also scoring continuity.

Lehi's medium and long distance alone is not enough, even if there is no way to do it on the inside, all the points on the outside must be opened.

He kept running off the ball and, like Hamilton, tried to tear apart the opposition defence.

Lehi slipped past the baseline to receive the ball, and a shot feint changed Prince's defensive center of gravity, and he rushed inside as soon as he was short.

Rashid Wallace bared his teeth, "Tyshawn, let him come over, he can't come in and make a move." ”

Lehi squeezed past Prince and jumped up at Rashid Wallace, who grinned and blocked Lehi's shooting route.

But by this time, the basketball was no longer in Lehi's hands.

As he jumped, he flicked the ball behind his back and into the hands of Kurt Thomas, who jumped up and hit the mid-range shot without Rasheed Wallace in front of him.

Breaking, shooting, passing, this is Lehi's current offensive path, simple and practical.

Then in the Knicks' offense, Crawford, who had a good hand in the first half, also scored, and Marbury also scored, and their restricted offense came alive again.

Not to be outdone, Hamilton hit back-to-back two-pointers, and he shot very fast, as long as his teammate's pick-and-roll created a little space for him, he could hit a jumper.

When the two sides play to this extent, it is completely more stable than the offense.

If that team wastes the chances they have worked so hard to create, they will lose in a stalemate.

At 73:71, at the end of the third quarter, the Knicks' lead was only 2 points, and the two sides were almost on the same running line again.

At the beginning of the fourth quarter, the Pistons rotated McDyce inside, and in the first half, the former All-Star interior played well, but after all, his physical fitness has declined due to injuries.

Not long after he came up, he was rushed by Lehi to grab a frontcourt rebound in front of him, and after only a little while, the Pistons were forced to replace the main force.

At this time, the Knicks saw hope and only let Marbury go down for a minute to rest, and the others did not let him go off the court at all, and the Pistons also left Hamilton on the court, constantly creating a threat.

On both sides, you bite a ball and I bite very tightly, and the scene is getting more and more intense.

Lehi is also gradually feeling a lot of pressure, the Pistons are acting like machines, feeling that no matter what, they can't break them, and the Knicks only need to make a small mistake and this game will be lost.

"It's Hamilton again, he's got the timing of his move too well."

'Crawford also hit the shot, he was very good in his positioning, and he and Hamilton were rivals in this game.

"Billups got the ball into the hands of Rashid Wallace very well, and Rashid's classic straight-arm shot was completely undisturbable by Kurt Thomas."

"Lehi's breakthrough caused a foul on Prince...... He made both free throws to keep the Knicks in a two-point lead, and the Pistons were never able to get past that point. ”

"Billups has a shot in the middle, can the Knicks take this opportunity to expand the score...... It's a pity that Lehi's shot was also a little off, and by the last moment of the game, the physical strength of both sides had reached a critical point. ”

As the end of the game drew nearer, Lehi used his physical confrontation to weaken Prince's role in the offense, and he focused some of his attention on Hamilton, who would be safer if he could prevent Hamilton from scoring.

Hamilton's hand was so good in this game that Crawford had just completed a throw, and Hamilton was immediately in a similar position to complete the mid-range shot.

The 2-point advantage was not safe at all, and Marbury's mid-range shot was missed, but they almost ran out of offensive time, with more than 30 seconds left.

It would have been Hamilton, and as he ran toward the Pistons and two Wallaces, Lehi knew that Crawford, who was following him, would be blocked by one of the two, and he saw the time and moved.

However, he was wrong this time, and Billups actually shot directly from outside the three-point line.

Billups made the first three points of the game and directly overtook the score by one point.

After a timeout, the Knicks served in the midcourt, and after Marbury received the ball, Lehi covered him, Marbury bypassed Billups to the direction of the basket at 45 degrees, and Lehi went straight down.

Marbury made another mid-range shot, and the moment he made his shot, Lehi jumped.

He was too familiar with Marbury's way of shooting, and if he missed the shot at 45 degrees, he must have lost power, and he didn't care whether the ball went in or not, he chose the position and jumped.

missed, Ben Wallace also accurately judged the landing point.

The other party's huge body squeezed over, and Lehi only had time to use his fingertips to push a little out.

Marbury, who had just dropped the ball, rushed over, picked up the basketball and threw himself on Ben Wallace.