On April 17, 04, the Knicks welcomed their first playoff game at Madison Square Garden.

The starting lineup of the Knicks is Gong Feng, Allen, Hill, Malone and Yao Ming, which is a lineup that has been established in the media, but this lineup is also the first time that the establishment of tactics has been confirmed in the way of the main team.

Or in the later stage of the Knicks, in order to confirm some things, Malone and Gong Feng did not appear at the same frequency, Gong Feng was only responsible for dribbling the ball to the front court, handing the ball to Hill, and he used it as the terminal to deal with it, and the cooperation between Gong Feng and Ma Long did not appear in the eyes of the public.

After the All-Star break, the Knicks were more of two game systems, with the main individual ability, simplistic small cooperation, and the potential shown by each of them after being led by the bench Li Gongfeng, rather than using complex tactics to maintain their victory as in the past.

The reality is that Malone's low-post offensive ability cannot be compared to Hill's breakthrough and the same low-post offense, and the Knicks will not let Malone take on too many heavy responsibilities, once confirmed, it is not certain whether Malone can become the main force.

This is the invisible cruelty that comes from the arena, not the players who choose how the team should treat them, but the team to see if the players are capable of what they should be able to afford.

And Jordan, the coach on the Wizards' side, also released his five main players at the beginning, Kwame, Carter, Arenas, Jerry and Haywood.

Mill smiled when he saw this lineup, and for the first time he looked down on his opponent, the coach who replaced Collins has not yet figured out the difference between the regular season and the playoffs.

If it weren't for Kwame's strength growing rapidly this year, Collins was angry with Jordan because of his familiar assistants, unfamiliar with everything, and Pauline's anger towards Jordan. These are under the coincidence of this. The coach of the Wizards will definitely not be at this level.

This kind of lineup has a strong single offensive ability. However, the shortcomings of this lineup are too obvious, or in other words, Eddie still thinks that he has won the Knicks once with this lineup, and he wants to win the game with this lineup the second time.

Kwamei didn't know what expression to show when he saw his main lineup like this, but his expression became very serious and he was ready to start jumping.

On the Knicks' side, there is really no one who is Kwame's opponent for the jump ball alone. Kwame has now reached a certain level of ability to use his body, and his judgment of some things has reached the top level of the league.

Arenas controlled the ball and came to the halfcourt, and the bow peak was tightly attached to Arenas's body, giving him the greatest dribbling pressure in the first time, which made Arenas pouted very uncomfortably, and his expression became serious, but after thinking of something, he still handed the ball directly to Kwamme who asked for the ball in the high position.

Kwamei took the ball and directly faced Malone's defense, which was also the first time Kwame had a serious defense from Malone in the playoffs, and the two had collided three times. Familiar, right? But the first time Kwamei got the ball, his expression became extremely serious.

If you say in the first three games. Kwame is facing a charity beast, and the moment she catches the ball, she feels like she is facing a predator at the top of the food chain who has awakened and is ready to bite her opponent.

In fact, if you think about it, you can also know why Malone has this change, in the regular season, the Knicks joined by Malone are four wins ahead of the Pacers, who are second in the league, that is to say, as long as the Knicks maintain their level, they are already the first in the league, and what Malone needs is no longer to win the game, but to adjust his state to the best.

But in the playoffs, Malone has completely changed his relaxed mentality, needless to say that Malone is in good shape now, even if Malone's physical condition is not good, he will do his best to fight for that ring.

Kwamei's current style of play is almost the same as Olajuwon's, the same frame-like forward center play, Kwamei has spent a lot on Dameng in recent years, and has been sweating on the court almost all summer.

But who is Malone? As a rookie in '85, after Malone became the main player, he had to play four games against the Rockets almost every year, plus playoff matchups, if you say who knows Olajuwon best in the entire league, he is no longer the second choice.

Don't forget that Kwame is only in his twenties now? The body is not yet fully developed Kwame, and it is impossible to be in the mature stage now, you must know that the maturity period of the center is generally around twenty-six to twenty-eight years old, of course, this must exclude offensive monsters like Abdul-Jabbar.

Kwamei is another little monster, it also takes time to grow, Kwamei who has just led the team into the quagmire on his own is how fast he grows, and it also takes four years of rookie time, especially when Kwame is facing a Knicks who have been completely tuned by Thibodeau.

The moment Kwame got the ball in the high post, the Knicks had already completed the defensive alignment of the two triangle formations.

It is impossible for Heywood to be on the same side as Kwame, Kwame's offense needs space, and the second is that Heywood's offensive means in the face of Yao Ming are too lacking, and other Wizards players also need Heywood to cover.

The Knicks' defensive formation is based on Yao Ming to establish, Hill defensive Carter and Yao Ming form the first defensive lineup, of course, Carter's offensive ability is not the type of catch and shoot, when Kwamei holds the ball, Carter is standing on the other side with Kwamei in a corner, this kind of defensive lineup is temporarily put down.

The second is the other defensive formation formed by Gong Feng, Allen and Ma Long, but this set of defensive lineup is not fixed, but depends on how the opponent team wants to attack, Thibodeau's defense pays attention to the control of space, and your Kwamei's offense needs space, so do a good job of individual offense or the ability to organize passes at any time.

This is the Knicks' real serious 800 to use their full strength on defense, the previous Knicks mostly said that they used this kind of defensive lineup for most of the half, not because of anything else, but Thibodeau's lineup needs too much strength in the forward and center positions, and the Knicks now meet the requirements of a lot of forwards, but the center is only Yao Ming.

Boy's height of 206 cm is really not suitable for Thibodeau's strong center defensive system, and Boy's age has some other reasons that make Thibodeau reluctant to let Cotter be a core of the defense.

Kwamei made a mistake in the first round of the attack, Kwamei, who had just broken through, was squeezed by Ma Long, and at a moment of pause, Hill had already made up for it, and at the moment when Kwamei wanted to pass the ball and stopped the ball, Gong Feng had already stopped at an angle that Kwamei couldn't see, and directly stepped forward to break the ball.

It was the moment when Gong Feng successfully broke the ball, the Knicks outside trio began to go fast, Gong Feng went directly to the middle line, Hill and Allen were on the other two sides, and the three formed a three-line attack, which was extremely fast.

At the moment of breaking the ball, Kwame began to accelerate, closely following behind Gong Feng, Carter, Arenas, and Jerry also followed closely behind, defending the route of passing to Allen or Hill, Kwame also believed that once Gong Feng wanted to score a layup, he would definitely give him a pegboard hat that he would never forget.

Gong Feng really killed under the basket as Kwamei wished, Kwamei also watched Gong Feng jump up in front of him, after seeing this, Kwamei jumped up without hesitation, ready to completely cover all of Gong Feng's shooting routes like a shield with both hands.

But what Kwamei didn't find was that the speed of Gong Feng was actually not very fast, but he kept running, and after jumping, Gong Feng did not hold the ball high and shoot, but as if there was a pair of eyes behind him, after making a shaking feint, he immediately passed it to Hill, who was already in the hands of Hill behind Gong Feng.

Hill, who got the basketball in the acceleration, didn't care about his side, Arenas, who was a lap younger than him, scored the ball directly at the moment when Kwame fell.

In the face of such a situation, when the center and big forward have no way to go fast, even a passing expert of Gong Feng's level can only wait for the opportunity to organize the team's position to attack, but when Gong Feng's fast break teammates are Hill and Allen, it is a different concept. (To be continued.) )