Chapter 137: Defeat Minnesota

In Liang Xiao and Sprewell they led the Knicks to a wave of scoring frenzy, in a small 7-0 attack wave to close the score, Liang Xiao scored 11 points in about 10 minutes of playing in the second quarter, such efficiency is also amazing, TNT commentator Kenny Smith made a high evaluation of Liang Xiao's performance, saying that if Liang Xiao has been in such a state, it is like a robot, but Liang Xiao cannot maintain such a good state without change, Liang Xiao will only get such an effect after opening a series of his own natural skills, Liang Xiao's natural skills continue to strengthen, and the opening time increases, but the physical consumption is also very fast.

Liang Xiao has been lying in the locker room at halftime, such a talent skill is really life-threatening, it seems that he must be added to the top of the physical fitness to maintain a better state, otherwise, it will really be able to withstand the physical fitness of the first half in a few minutes, but this has advantages and disadvantages, now the halftime fifteen minutes can still maintain a good state in the second half, if you use the skills in the first quarter, then you will soon have no physical strength to carry out the following game,

Van Gundy was more satisfied with the performance of the second quarter just now in the locker room, even if he loses now, it will not be ugly in this state, but this is the limit of the Knicks, the Knicks cannot use more energy to get more rebounds, more scores, the current situation in front of Van Gundy is that the Knicks' team is old and lacks firepower,

The status quo is helpless, but the Knicks' game has to continue, and now the Knicks can't take more energy to bring in players, Van Gundy wants to get more help in this, waiting for the current lineup to use the existing lineup to do a good job, the Knicks can only tinker after Ewing can't play, and now the Knicks still have the Knicks to reorganize under the recent situation of the Knicks and the Knicks' two guns, Liang Xiao knows that the Knicks will start to rearrange the lineup next seasonAfter the Suns got Marbury, the lone wolf, Mutombo, the African uncle and even Jamal Clifford next season, the effect received was not obvious at all,

"Now the Knicks have gotten a ** to chase the wind in the first half, but the role of the bench on the court is huge, and the Timberwolves' bench is still a little weaker than the Knicks, but it is estimated that it will be difficult to make achievements in the next second half." Kenny Thomas said at halftime,

Barkley also said: "I said a long time ago, the Knicks are impossible to win this game, and the strength of the two teams is still very different, and in the team's power rankings, the Knicks are seven or eight places lower than the Timberwolves in the entire league." ”

Van Gundy is still in the locker room to the Knicks players to make the second half of the layout, everyone is not very optimistic about the current situation of the Knicks, with Garnett's Timberwolves and a group of good stops, the Timberwolves are superior in strength, but Van Gundy will never admit defeat, there is no absolute guarantee in the NBA, that is, the strongest and most luxurious lineup is likely to encounter Waterloo, otherwise the Black Eight Miracle will be created in the history of the Knicks,

The break at halftime is coming to an end in Van Gundy's chattering words, Liang Xiao has been thinking about how to get more scores in the limited playing time now, his physical consumption in the second quarter is relatively large, and it is really hard to say that he can't maintain such a state in the third quarter, now the Knicks have been pressed and beaten by the Timberwolves, Van Gundy will definitely compress the time on the bench, Liang Xiao is also the object of compression, it can be seen from the first half,

"Now that the third quarter of the game has officially begun, and the main players of the Timberwolves have almost time to rest, I think if the Knicks don't have a good firepower point in the second half to continue to put pressure on the Timberwolves, the suspense of this game is not great at all." Barkley watched the players on the court ready, the cheerleaders left the court in time, and the Timberwolves' Cool Wolf Qi interacted with fans and friends on the sidelines.

"Okay, since you said that there is no hope for the Knicks now, but I still have great expectations for that Chinese player, I think he will surprise us, eleven points in the first half, and I hope he can still score nine points in the second half, Charles, you can eat a microphone with your big mouth, and I will prepare it for you." Kenny Smith said with a smile, thinking about Barkley eating the microphone,

"Well, we're going to see what we're going to do."

After the opening, on the court of the Knicks, Thomas still did not play, Harrington has been supported for a long time on the inside, Easley was replaced by Liang Xiao, Sprewell was rested, Anderson and Houston were two firepower points on the court, and Witherspoon on the inside replaced Thomas who fouled too much,

After the Knicks kicked off, Houston faced the opposing guard Jill on the inside, and shot at a 30-degree angle on the left side, and the Timberwolves immediately kicked off, hitting the inside, and Garnett used his long arm to return the shot, so that the Timberwolves' score advantage has been maintained.

After Liang Xiao advanced to the front court in the backcourt, the opponent's point guard Hudson consciously stood not very close, in the first half, observing Liang Xiao's movements, knowing that Liang Xiao's breakthrough ability is stronger than his own, in the current situation, there is no need to push Liang Xiao too close, and there is a high-quality power forward on the inside, with a center to fill the position, such a worry is still not necessary,

Seeing that Hudson didn't push himself too hard, Liang Xiao thought that this was not intentionally letting go of himself, and didn't believe that I would shoot three points, after the second quarter of the game, Liang Xiao knew that this Hudson was definitely the type of player who went crazy, if he felt good, he could help the team a lot, if he didn't feel it, the hands were like taking them out of the refrigerator, cold, this game, Hudson has been decent since he came on the court, and his score has maintained his current situation, and he has scored 8 points so far, Five assists, such a statistic is actually okay, but for a starter, it's not so good.

Liang Xiao looked at the other party and put himself far away, the more Liang Xiao was going to break through, now what the Knicks lack is this kind of momentum of sacrificing his life, the more he is afraid of something, the more he will come to the door, Liang Xiao's center of gravity is lowered, a cross-step dribble, and then change to a left-handed feint, Hudson was brought to the left, Liang Xiao has a change of hands and then another feint to swing on both sides so that the other party can't touch the direction, and finally Liang Xiao from the right 30-degree angle, holding the ball and slipping to the bottom line, I want to open the inside line that is handled by Garnett and the opponent's center,

After arriving at the three-second zone, Liang Xiao found that it was really too crowded, a few players who were waiting for the inside line plus the recent outside line, Liang Xiao had no way to spread it out, and after reaching the edge of the three-second zone, he saw that his head was covered by palms, at this time Liang Xiao slowed down and found Anderson, a diagonal pass, Anderson hit a three-point shot in the top arc,

Anderson's three-point shot was considered to boost the morale of the Knicks, and the players on the bench stood up to celebrate the ball, which was considered a good situation in the second half, but it didn't take long for the opponent's Szzambiak to receive the ball from the interior center, which was also a three-point shot.

In the third quarter, Liang Xiao's playing time was compressed, and in the fifth minute, Liang Xiao was rotated off the court, without the support of natural skills, Liang Xiao dropped in the shooting rate, and only hit two of the six shots, which is also the reason why Van Gundy rotated Liang Xiao off the court, plus Liang Xiao's help on top of the assist is not very big, sending three assists, but Liang Xiao is not pure born in point guard, and there is still no Easley in place in terms of technical and tactical grasp, don't look at Eisley's scoring and defensive ability can not be compared with some high-quality point guards in the league, But years of experience are not in vain,

However, Anderson got two three-pointers on the outside, and the assists he got on the breakthrough point were much stronger, Houston as a relatively stable firepower point for the Knicks, and most of the ball market was handed over to him after Anderson's breakthrough, and there was not much chance of two points.

Looking at the Timberwolves, Szzebiak plays the role of deputy on the outside line is very good, three three-pointers play his advantage in accurate shooting, plus Garnett's power on the inside, the Timberwolves have been leading the Knicks,

After Liang Xiao got off the court, Thomas played, Sprewell replaced Anderson, Easley as a point guard, the Knicks returned to the starting lineup, but there were still not too many breakthroughs in scoring, near the end of the third quarter, Thomas fouled again, Thomas was the target of Garnett's bullying in this game, and became cannon fodder, he could get 14 points per game, he didn't get ten points, and there was not much achievement in rebounding, and in the end he could only rely on the bench to supplement the lack of Knicks,

At the end of the third quarter, the Knicks trailed by five points, 82-77, entering the fourth quarter, the Knicks were still backwater, the Timberwolves were getting bigger and smoother, Joe Smith replaced Garnett's position in the big front, and the Knicks' bench supply was beaten into a sieve, this champion show was still not weak, in the fourth quarter Liang Xiao played three minutes after two minutes on the bench, got three minutes and rotated down, and got 18 points, 5 assists and 3 rebounds in the whole game. But Liang Xiao's playing time has always maintained a high level, which has to be said to be lucky, but the Knicks finally lost, Garnett got the best player of the game with 27 points, 13 rebounds and 4 assists,