Chapter Thirty-Nine: The Bad Quadruple

Back at home to shoot the New Orleans Daigo, the Knicks won two in a row, and the winning rate returned to more than 50 percent, which is still quite dangerous in the East today. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info

However, Wang Zhuo has not thought about it for so long for the time being, after all, there are still more than 60 games to play before the playoffs, and the most important thing is to take the road under his feet and deal with every game step by step.

The team's winning streak also gave the Knicks players confidence, and in the next home game against the Charlotte Hornets, Porzingis swept away the sluggish form against the Pelicans, scoring 29 points and 13 rebounds to help the Knicks complete their revenge on the Charlotte Hornets.

Jeremy Lin revisited the old place, helplessly felt cold and in no state, and finally handed over 12 points, 5 rebounds and 3 assists, as a bench player, such data is unsatisfactory, but for the "Lin Crazy" who once played a high-profile performance at the Madison Square Garden Arena, it is obviously far from enough.

Wang Zhuo understands Jeremy Lin's technical characteristics, and the natural physical fitness of the yellow race determines that he cannot become an excellent outside defender, and Jeremy Lin also knows this, so he constantly improves his offensive means, and the "Lin Madness" back then is more due to D'Antoni's run-and-gun tactics, which can give full play to Jeremy Lin's offensive advantages.

Intellectually speaking, Jeremy Lin is really not suitable to be the team's starting point guard, he will become a colander on the defensive end, but he can play better on the bench and become the most important firepower support for the team's bench.

Although the current Knicks are also playing run-and-gun tactics, if Jeremy Lin returns to the Knicks, Wang Zhuo will also choose to let him as a substitute, because he is inferior to Jerry Grant in speed and strength, and he is not as good as Chalderon in terms of stability and overall situation.

Such a player gives the impression that he is "meatless and discarded", and he can still play a good role as a surprise soldier on the bench, of course, but otherwise, Jeremy Lin is working very hard and has been improving.

The league's schedule always seems to be pitted against the Knicks, and after a good three-game winning streak, the team is about to leave Madison Square Garden for a string of road trips.

On November 20th, the Knicks first went to the Pepsi Center on the Colorado Plateau to challenge the Denver Nuggets away, due to Denver's unique plateau climate, the first rookie to enter the NBA came here, and there was a slight altitude sickness, even Wang Zhuo suddenly felt that he couldn't breathe, but he was in good physical condition and quickly adapted to this climate.

And Carmelo Anthony is like coming home, not only is there no discomfort in the climate, but even the home fans at Pepsi Center have expressed a warm welcome to him, just like the heroes who have gone out have returned to their hometown and enjoyed the warm support of the people, but Anthony has not yet returned home, because he has not yet worn the coveted championship ring.

Sure enough, the Knicks swallowed their first loss on the road in the extremely depressed Pepsi Center arena, and even Anthony, who scored 32 points, was still powerless.

After losing the game, the Knicks didn't have a chance to rest at all, flying directly out of the Colorado Plateau and rushing to the Chesapeake Energy Arena in Oklahoma to take on the Oklahoma City Thunder on the road back-to-back.

Due to the injuries of Durant and Westbrook, the Thunder were blocked from the playoffs last season as the ninth in the West, and the team's head coach Scott Brooks was also fired.

Wang Zhuo has never been afraid of a team with a single core player, since Westbrook can't stop it, then simply don't block, let him perform alone, and concentrate on preventing the other four people, which not only cut off Westbrook's passing route, but also completely stifles the overall offense of the Thunder team.

In the end, Westbrook alone got 34 points, 7 rebounds, 7 assists and 4 steals, but the entire Thunder team only had a pitiful 12 assists in the whole game.

Leaving Oklahoma, the Knicks will fly back to the East to face the Florida-based Miami Heat and Orlando Magic on back-to-back road games, and when they take on the Heat at the American Airlines Arena, the Knicks played their ugliest game of the new season.

Although the Miami Heat team has withdrawn from the championship race, with Wade and Bosh as the core, Riley signed Dragic, and Whiteside's counterattack, the Miami Heat still maintains a strong competitiveness.

Even if the overall strength is not as good as the Heat, but such a poor performance is really incomprehensible, throughout the night, the diameter of the basket in the American Airlines Center Arena seems to be reduced by a circle, no matter how Fisher stands on the sidelines shouting and roaring, the ball seems to be deliberately against the Knicks players, just not falling into the basket.

In the end, the Knicks swallowed an ugly loss at the American Airlines Center with an ultra-low shooting percentage of 28 of 87 shots.

This defeat is not a bad end point, if the overall lack of strength and the absence of all the players are forgivable, then the loss to the underdog Orlando Magic at the Amway Center is definitely unforgivable.

Wang Zhuo's self-taught bench group was almost single-handedly beaten by the Magic's chief bench Victor Oladipo, and the final statistics show that the Knicks' bench scored a total of 12 points in the game, while the Magic's bench scored a total of 43 points, and Oladipo scored 24 points alone, twice as many as the Knicks' bench.

Throughout the game, the Knicks have been stuck in a cycle of starting leads, bench digging, starters chasing points, and substitutes digging holes, which is really hard to describe in words.

The poor four-game road trip ended with a 1-3 record, and sitting on the plane back to New York, the Knicks players collectively drooped their faces, like children who had done something wrong, and Fisher had a gloomy face and didn't say a word the whole time.

Wang Zhuo did not show particularly intense emotions, he believes that the team's state has ups and downs are the whole game, no team will win forever, and no team will always fail, a temporary failure may become the team's motivation to move forward better, and shame and courage can stimulate the fighting spirit of the players.

However, there is a limit to Wang Zhuo's patience, and if he continues to be in such a bad form after returning to his home stadium, I am afraid he will not be as merciful as he is now.