Chapter 209: The Alliance's First Sight
After the successful victory of the flag, the Knicks started their winning streak again, defeating the weak Nets one after another, and then in Cleveland, Bow Feng once again started a new battle with LeBron...... Now the positions of the two people are really the same, LeBron in his rookie season is indeed in the position of the core guard, especially the Cavaliers after the Cavaliers sent Ricky Davis away, there is no more suitable position than LeBron, but Gong Feng will definitely not defend this little monster.
Well, I forgot to mention that Gong Feng is actually two years older than LeBron.
The Knicks, who returned to their home court, did not have a very dense schedule for the next time, and even started a five-game home trip in a row, but the opponents in these five games were somewhat strong, and the Rockets and Mavericks were both playoff teams.
After No. 10 comfortably defeated the Bucks, No. 12 will face the challenge of the Mavericks, and the Knicks are also fighting for their 17-game winning streak.
After a big trade in the summer, the Mavericks' current main lineup is Kidd, Josh, Walker, Nowitzki and Mutombo, but the Mavericks' results after the start of the season are not very good, only 20-16, which is decent.
At the beginning of the season, Kidd continued to integrate with his new teammates and accept the old Nelson's system, although Kidd and the old Nelson have a lot of differences in thinking on this matter, but let Kidd play the offense of the current main lineup of nearly 70 million, Kidd can still do it.
As for defense? With Mutombo's help, Kidd can still do what he wants, and with the intervention of Cuban, that is, management, Nelson Sr. can only arrange defense according to Kidd's ideas. Although the aging Mutombo can no longer be compared with the past. But he's also the league's top box protector.
For example, Yao Ming was very unhappy with Mutombo's defense in this game. Also at the beginning of this game, the first attack was not opened.
Kidd confronts Bow Peak...... The two of them are now competing when they meet each other, although they still follow the rules to fight Yao Ming first, but it would be a strange thing for Kidd to let Gong Feng do whatever he wanted.
Ray Allen is up against an undrafted rookie and Hill is up against Walker, and the two still have a good chance of winning the matchup, which was the beginning, but let Bosh defend Nowitzki...... Although the two are very similar in size. Konowitzki's strength and offensive over the years are not comparable to the current Bosh.
The position attacked, and the two sides fought equally, but when Yao Ming and Mutombo fell off, the Knicks suffered a big loss.
However, Mill still followed the regular rotation, and when the time came, he replaced Cotter and Battier to start the attack of the small man lineup...... Old Nelson saw that the Knicks were playing big in front of him, so he paid it back, directly let Nowitzki serve as the center, replaced Jamison, and started the attack between the two sides.
Against the Bulls, the Knicks were constantly tearing at the bulky bull. It can be played against the Mavericks, and that's a different world.
Fans who love the Knicks have been a real perk this season. Now the Knicks' season ticket sales make the other 28 teams deeply jealous, and the sales price of the bulk tickets is also slowly increasing, it is the team with the highest attendance rate and the best operation in the league, and the Knicks' performance has improved greatly this season.
In the recent period when the Knicks decided to play fast break, the bulk ticket sales were sold to a high price by scalpers...... This has already caught the attention of Mir.
Of course, if the Knicks' game against other teams is worth the ticket price, then this matchup with the Mavericks is a great value for the ticket.
For seven minutes in the second half of the first quarter, the two sides went on a 20-21 scoring spurt, and Cotter had some trouble defending Nowitzki, but the Knicks' ability to create space was the first in the league.
The Mavericks' singles ability can also be ranked among the top two in the league, and with Kidd's support in the back, the Mavericks' offense is not easy for the Knicks to defend, and the two teams are also in the process of understanding the tactical system...... That's a playoff problem.
In the second quarter, Mir seemed to have discussed with Nelson, and did not replace the main team, but kept replacing the players on the court, Jay replaced Gong Feng, and Gerrard replaced Allen......
The Mavericks are not far behind, and the main players are at the age of play, it doesn't matter if they are changed or not, winning this game with the Knicks is the biggest focus, anyway, Kidd was in the pre-game discussion with Nelson Sr., saying that he wanted to play the whole game without the score being opened.
Since Kidd didn't get off the court, Gong Feng wouldn't go down, as long as he touched Kidd, Gong Feng began to stick to the ball, especially after seeing that Kidd didn't get off the court, Gong Feng rarely told Mir that he wanted to play immediately.
Mir was a little strange about Gong Feng's request, but looking at the 'sparks' in Gong Feng's eyes, he still gave Gong Feng this privilege.
So at the end of the first half, Kidd had 9 assists and Gong Feng had 10 assists, but Kidd scored 17 points in the half, which was much higher than Gong Feng's 12 points.
At the beginning of the third quarter, the two sides continued to run wildly, and such a game experience was an invaluable experience for both sides, knowing that the two sides did not have no defense in the game, but could not defend each other.
The Knicks need to know where their limits are in this game, players need to adapt to such tactics, and the Mavericks need to know what their side needs to strengthen, whether their side's offensive ability can be integrated, and what the chemistry between Kidd and Nowitzki will be.
What if you lose a regular season game in such a situation?
After the end of the third quarter, all the main players on both sides are a little tired, you must know that Gong Feng and Kidd collided directly, that time is red, although now it seems that Kidd's strength is stronger, but Gong Feng, the 'system' player encounters the most suitable strong teammates to partner with Gong Feng!
In the fourth quarter, the two sides unconsciously began to attack the position, slowly slowing down the tempo, and the victory or defeat of the game was changed from the battle between Gong Feng and Kidd to the battle between Nowitzki and Hill.
Before this season, Kidd also accepted some suggestions from the league's most popular third-party treatment agency, changed some playing styles, also changed shooting postures, added a lot of three-point shooting, and more importantly, Kidd is now cooperating with the treatment of medical institutions, and he is paying more off the court, otherwise how could the Mavericks with Kidd struggle so much at the beginning of the season?
You must know that before this game, Kidd's average playing time per game was only about 26 minutes, so it was impossible to avoid that in the contest between this game and Gong Feng, it would consume Kidd's current physical strength too much, and the players on the Knicks' side were not very suitable for running wildly all over the court.
This is different from the function and quality of the players, it is a big change from their own rhythm, except for Gong Feng and Allen, who consciously adapted before the start of the season, everyone else is slowly adapting.
When Cotter came off the floor, it was Bosh who came to defend Nowitzki, but Bosh quickly committed five fouls and had to go to the rest in the first half of the fourth quarter.
Gerrard was ordered to defend Nowitzki, and Yao Ming also had to face and then face Mutombo's defense, and the two sides also began to compete defensively, but today's Nowitzki's hand was really hot, so hot that whoever defended him was blown up by him, and he even cut 40 points, 12 rebounds and 4 assists in the whole game.
It was a very hot scoring show, Kidd scored 24 points, 16 assists and 14 rebounds, and got another triple-double under Gong Feng's defense, but Gong Feng also got a super double-double of 21 points and 20 assists.
Hill only played 28 minutes under the control of Mill's time, which was not that Hill felt any discomfort, but that Mill began to consciously control the playing time of all the Knicks' main players according to the Knicks' previous arrangement of all the players.
However, this approach still made Hill a little uncomfortable in the face of the "strong" Walker's "long-awaited aggressive" defense, and the whole game "just" cut 18 points, 9 rebounds and 9 assists, and then lost the fourth quarter of the game.
Allen's three-point shooting can only be regarded as average today, and the three-point shooting rate of the whole game is only 40%, which is false to say that there is no factor to underestimate the second-round rookie defense, and the old Nelson is very handy in cultivating various types of players.
The Mavericks all had excellent performances under Kidd's active efforts, with Jamison scoring 18 points, Walker 19 points, and Mutombo's 8 points and 11 rebounds, which allowed the Mavericks to win 123-121. (To be continued.) )