Chapter 114: A Perfect Combination
Iverson is still the same Iverson, and he scored 8 points alone in overtime, but unfortunately the 76ers only scored 8 points in overtime. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
Iverson scored 40 points, but this time it was Marbury who laughed, and the Knicks won 105-102, and 33 points were enough to prove his offensive power.
On Nov. 28, the Knicks arrived in Miami, where big sharks were waiting for them, and their little sharks still couldn't play.
The Heat finished first in the East last season, but fell to the Pistons in the playoffs, and they also worked actively in the summer, adding a lot of strength.
They acquired Jason Williams, Antoine Walker and James Posey in a big trade involving five teams of 13 players, and signed Gary Payton and Jason Capono in a big deal.
After being abused by the opposing team on the inside, the Knicks have been chasing points since the first quarter.
At the last moment, the Knicks offered a small lineup, Lehi, Marbury, Crawford and Nate Robinson together were indeed very scary on the offensive end, but the problem on the inside was a hard injury, and they were also powerless to recover and finally lost to the Heat by 13 points.
As Quentin Richardson was getting worse, the Knicks simply tried to start Nate Robinson when they returned home against the Bulls on Nov. 30.
Because of the trade between the two sides in the summer, the Bulls have corrected Tyson Chandler this season, and the power forward position has started Michael Svetney, who was traded, and Tim Thomas, an important figure in the trade, has been passive and has fallen out with the team.
While Eddie Curry isn't particularly reliable either, the Bulls-Knicks trade now looks set to be a loss for the Bulls.
However, the Bulls' fighting power is still very good, and they now have the team's two main firepowers, Ben Gordon and Lore Deng, on the bench, and the team will not lack offensive power at any stage.
Although the Knicks are not in line now, the team is still much better than last season, at least they will not suffer in height, and there are people on the inside.
Chandler's defense is good, but it's also hard to meet Channing Frye, and he can't defend at all.
At the beginning of the game, the Knicks were Channing Frye who came out and hit a 2-pointer from the ball.
Next, Lehi hated Andres Nocioni, who was already very experienced against the Argentinian Lehi, and had an advantage against him, and the opponent's attack had to be limited when he was in a defensive position.
The Bulls' current most firepower is Ben Gordon, who is also a type of offense and defense, and he came off the bench just to meet Crawford, and the two of them exploded each other.
Ben Gordon hit three three-pointers and hit a buzzer-beating shot to give the Bulls a three-point lead over the Knicks.
Nate Robinson's starter, when he met the veteran Hinrich, played a little uncomfortable.
The key is that his style of play is also biased towards scoring guards, and his organizational skills are not good, and it is unrealistic to rely on him to release Marbury's attacking power, and put him and Marbury on the court at the same time, no matter which team he is playing against, the backcourt must be shorter, this lineup can only be used as a surprise soldier, but it is a little inappropriate as an official starter.
Both sides are dominated by outside scoring, and even interior players rarely attack under the basket.
Starting in the second quarter of the game, the Knicks, at the behest of their coach, specifically targeted the weak points of the Bulls' defense, with Lehi, Marbury, and Crawford all stepping up their breakouts.
The scores of the two sides are still very close, but the foul problems of the Bulls' players are more prominent, and the Knicks' tactics have had an initial effect.
The Bulls' strongest scoring ability was Ben Gordon, and Lehi basically missed the opponent, and he played Nocioni and Lore Deng, both of whom were extremely uncomfortable defending the opponent.
In the third quarter, the two sides still felt like they were half-hearted, the Bulls were the kind of team that blossomed more, and the Knicks strengthened their defense, and the results were not obvious.
Before the start of the final quarter, Larry Brown put all the fouls on the playboard.
His relatively rigid offensive tactics, using various ways to pass the ball to the interior to score, or jumping shots when he catches the slightest opportunity, has several talented players with Lehi, in fact, he can play in some details.
Larry Brown said in an interview in the summer that the Knicks' players are right for his tactics, and that several of the Knicks' outside players are jump shooters, and they can play on the inside now, and the media is right to question them, and the same people, whether it is Lehi, Marbury and Crawford on the outside, or Eddie Curry on the inside, are not the kind of players who play with one board and one eye.
So the Knicks have been running in, and even the winning players and coaches are not particularly satisfied.
But while winning, the two sides are slowly making small changes.
Only if he can win the game, Larry Brown is not as stubborn as rumored to be, and even a player with personality will make compromises.
Among them, Lehi is considered the type of concoctor, and he is able to accept both ways.
At the beginning of the fourth quarter, Chandler received his fifth foul, and then Marbury deliberately bumped into the opponent and knocked Chandler down.
Without Chandler sitting on the Bulls' interior line, after Li Hai came up, the Knicks played a small lineup again.
Without a defensive gate to help defend inside, Larry Brown is always dissatisfied with defense, and after Eddie Curry can't play, he sees Lehi's ability to help defend, and he will love this small lineup.
But this time, it played a lethal role in the offense.
After Lehi received the ball in the low post, he hit Nocioni with his back, but Nocioni couldn't stand it at all and could only foul.
Not even halfway through the fourth quarter, Nocioni also fouled six.
Now the height of the Bulls on the court is getting lower and lower, and the three guards in the backcourt, Dujon, Hinrich, Ben Gordon, and the Knicks have become the same small lineup, and they don't have the "small man" of 2.11 meters like Channing Frye.
At the last moment, the Bulls couldn't get in on the inside at all, and when they were all small lineups, Lehi was sitting on the inside, and they couldn't break through, so they could only let Ben Gordon throw it outside.
Ben Gordon is also a ruthless character, shooting without mercy in key moments, but this monotonous offensive style Knicks are not afraid right now.
It's that Lehi is not easy to deal with the opponent on the inside, and no one can defend him if he doesn't pinch it, and if he hits Lehi inside, he can pass Channing Fry, and outside Marbury, Crawford, and Nate Robinson are all waiting, and the Bulls' defense will collapse all at once.
From the start of the tactical advantage to the final outburst, this game can be described as a smooth and drenching game.
110:99, 11 points is not a lot, but for the Knicks, it can be regarded as a victory with a perfect combination of tactics and player talent.