Chapter Twenty-Three: Chauncy Billups' debut
"Good evening everybody, this is the live broadcast of the NBA regular season New York Knicks home game against the Boston Celtics, I'm NBC commentator Kevin Harlan, and I'm my partner Walter Frazier, and it's another exciting night, against both teams that are strong in the league, the Celtics just won two games in a row, and the Knicks lost one game, but their strength is undoubted."
Kevin Haraland's voice sounded again, and the NBC still arranged for him to comment on the game, but his partner was replaced by Walter Fraser, the live commentator at Madison Square Garden Arena, as a Knicks legend, Walter Fraser chose to become the live commentator at Madison Square Garden Arena after retiring.
The starting lineup on the Celtics' side has been adjusted, and the starting point guard has become this year's star show Chancey Billups, Chauncy Billups did not get even a minute of playing time in the first two games, and this game Rick Pitino chose Chaunci Bilupus as the team's starting point guard. The other four Celtics starters are shooting guard Jonny Lee, small forward Bruce Bowen, power forward Tim Thomas, and center Ben Wallace. is still a small lineup, and in the first two games, the Celtics relied on a small lineup to win two in a row. Will they be able to continue the magic in this game? ”
The game started quickly, and Ben Wallace, whose height disadvantage, unsurprisingly lost the jump ball, Patrick Ewing won the ball effortlessly, and the Knicks made the first wave of offense.
Charlie Ward took the ball and advanced to the front court, and the two sides settled in half court. Jonny glanced at Alan Houston, who was defending against him, and a look of disdain immediately appeared on his face. And Alan Houston obviously has no opinion on Jonny's disdainful expression, and now the gap between Jonny and Alan Houston is getting bigger and bigger, Jonny is already the boss of a team, and he played against Michael Jordan in the Eastern Conference Finals last year, but lost the Eastern Conference Finals because of the strength of the team.
On the other hand, Alan Houston, the Eastern Conference semifinals are the Bulls vs. the Knicks, but Alan Houston is completely lost under the Bulls' defense, and the Knicks can only rely on Patrick Ewing to support alone. In the end, it was swept away. And after the start of this season, Alan Houston is still the second Knicks old. Perhaps Alan Houston blushes now when he remembers what he said at the University of Tennessee last year.
The Knicks' first wave of offense finally gave the ball to Patrick Ewing on the inside, and Ewing Sr. beat Ben Wallace to complete a close-range jumper and score two points.
Then, Jonny immediately turned around and returned a mid-range jumper, which also hit.
The New York Knicks, who are almost unchanged from last season, still only use Alan Houston, who is at an average level of defensive ability, to defend Jonny. The result can only be a tragedy, in the next game. Knicks fans can only see Jonny constantly wreaking havoc on the heads of the Knicks' outside players, constantly throwing in various mid-range jumpers and three-pointers.
At the same time, the tank-style breakthrough that has just been developed this season has also made it difficult for Alan Houston, who is defending Jonny, and Jonny's assists have also made several teammates slowly throw hands.
On the defensive end, Jonny, who is no longer a colander on the defensive end, perfectly completed the task of freezing Alan Houston, and when Jonny dropped Alan Houston's shot with a crazy big hat on the defensive end, Knicks fans on the sidelines instantly thought of the same scene last season. Jonny Hooded Alan Houston & John Starks!
And Angelina Jolie, who came to the scene of this game, screamed with excitement, which also made Johnny, who was still very excited, sweat profusely.
"Jonny Lee's block, the Celtics' fast break started again, Jonny grabbed the basketball and ran straight to the frontcourt! With lightning speed, he directly shook off Alan Houston, who had been following him. In this game, Alan Houston suffered a complete explosion from Jonny Lee! Wow! Buckle! Jonny Lee's Violent Buckle! The entire Madison Square Garden arena is silent! Oh no, there's a voice, let's see, it seems to be Angelina Jolie, she looks very excited! ”
"Haha, Angelina Jolie looks very excited, does she have a leg with Jonny?".
Soon, more and more people found out about Angelina Jolie's appearance, and this abnormal excitement made many people start to imagine, and at this time, Jonny had 10,000 grass and mud horses running through in his heart, according to this trend, I am afraid that Jonny's body will really not be able to be saved
With Jonny's dunk, the Celtics unexpectedly led by 10 points on the road, and Jonny's first-quarter runaway took up a large part of the reason. In fact, Jonny himself felt a little strange in this game, it was too easy, both offensively and defensively.
In fact, if someone could analyze Joni from the factors of his opponent, Jonny would understand. The defense of Jonny in this game is Alan Houston, a defense can only be regarded as an average player, and Michael Jordan and Doug Christie in the first two games are certainly not comparable, Jonny feels that it is very normal to be relaxed on the offensive end.
On the defensive end, Jonny's opponent is still Alan Houston, a player who can only shoot, and Michael Jordan, who can shoot well, and Darryl Armstrong, who is also well-rounded, are naturally incomparable.
Soon, the first quarter of the game ended, Jonny sweated profusely and took the towel thrown by Chauncey Billups, this game was Chauncey Billups' debut, but Chauncy did not play well, only played 5 minutes in the first quarter, and scored 3 points on 1-of-4 shooting. And Rick Pitino also replaced him early.
With the team's momentum good and hopefully a win before half-time, Rick Pitino naturally won't let Chauncey Billups waste time on the pitch like this, and replacing Danabaros can establish the win faster, and then let these young players come out in the second half to practice.
Looking at Chauncey Billups, who was a little downcast, Jonny comforted him, after all, Jonny is still very optimistic about this point guard, in the team's training game, Chauncy Billups's performance is still very good, all kinds of running three-point shots are very slippery, if Chauncy Billups can adapt to the NBA as soon as possible, it is obviously a perfect complement to the Celtics' existing lineup.
At the end of the first quarter, the Celtics led by 8 points at 33:25, and although Chauncey Billups did not perform well, Jonny's outburst, as well as the excellent play of Dana Barros and Ben Wallace, allowed the Celtics to maintain the advantage on the court. Although there are many such fast-break teams in the NBA now, it is still very rare for the Celtics to seize every opportunity to play fast-break, or shoot regardless of whether the opportunity is the best or not.
Especially when Jonny throws with a feel and throws no matter what, it is the time when the opponent has the most headache.
In the second quarter of the game, the Celtics replaced Jonny and Dana Barros, and put Chauncey Billups and Di Brown in the backcourt, and this adjustment made the Celtics fall into a slight disadvantage on the court, and Chauncey Billups's still poor performance made Rick Pitino constantly shake his head on the sidelines.
However, the Knicks, who were chaotic in the first quarter by the Celtics, failed to find the right letter, and they failed to recover the score halfway through the second quarter.
Six minutes into the second quarter, Rick Pitino reintroduced Jonny and Dana Barros, and the Celtics still led by seven points.
"Jonny counterattacked with the ball, his speed was getting faster and faster, Alan Houston was almost exhausted, maybe Jeff Van Gundy should consider replacing John Starks, Jonny Lee's dunk! Buckle! Storm buckle in fast attack! As soon as he got back on the court, Jonny made a violent dunk. ”
On the first ball back on the court, Jonny completed a fast-break dunk by stealing Alan Houston's ball, widening the gap to 9 points. The Celtics' sharp fast break made the Knicks slowly lost, and the Knicks, who were mostly veterans, quickly collapsed under the young style of play of the Celtics.
When the timer beeps at the end of the half, the scoreboard shows 72:52, and the Celtics lead by 20 points, which is obviously not expected by many people before the game, but compared with the first two games, people are not so surprised, the Celtics' special style of play will indeed cause such a situation, and the strength of the Celtics is not as bad as people think!
In the second half, Jonny played the third quarter again, fixing his data at 39 points, 8 rebounds, 15 assists, 3 steals and 2 blocks, and the Celtics have a lead of 27 points, the suspense of the game is gone, and the two sides sent full benches in the fourth quarter, Chauncey Billups re-played, but the performance is still struggling.
For Chauncey Billups, he obviously needs more time to adjust to this league.
However, Jonny had no time to comfort Chauncey Billups' frustration, because when the timer beep sounded at the end of the game, the woman chased after him, and Jonny saw Angelina Jolie looking around from a distance, which made Jonny have to rush to the players' tunnel in a panic and rush towards the locker room. (To be continued......)
ps:The second update,It's two changes today.,I'm going to save some manuscripts later.,In case there's only one chapter like this Tuesday.