Chapter 109: Bear Slaughter (2)

The game was about to officially begin, and the atmosphere of global spectatorship reached a climax, with all the fans standing up and waiting for the players to play. As the lights dimmed all over the field, DJ's voice began to rise, and the players took to the field one by one. Liang Xiao waved his arms at the stands, as if announcing his arrival.

"If the Knicks don't make mistakes in this game, the victory is certain. The starting lineup for this game is center Lorenten Wright, power forward Pau Gasol, small forward Sean Battier, point guard Wesley Persson, and point guard Jason Williams. You see, of these guys, only the power forward and point guard are some of the threats to the Knicks. Zuo Qiang looked at the Grizzlies players on the court and said to his classmates in the dormitory.

Now there is no change in the starting lineup of the Knicks, for the Knicks, whether it is on the outside or on the inside, there will be no big problems as long as Liang Xiao does his part.

The Knicks' Harrington stood on the center circle to make a jump ball, which was not much of an advantage for Harrington, and the ball was slapped directly in front of Wright after the jump. The opposing point guard, Williams, took the ball in his hands. At this time, the fans who watched the game in front of the TV began to be unhappy, and they talked about how Harrington did this goal, which could not be snatched.

"What do you know, don't underestimate this Wright, he's a player in the lottery area of the 96 golden generation, and he is also a high-ranking player, is he so easy to bully?" Zuo Qiang despises these pseudo-fans in the dormitory. "Now that White Chocolate has the ball, I don't think Easley will be able to defend it."

Jason Williams, a '98-year-old lottery pick, has a gorgeous offensive dribble and assists, and has the nickname "White Chocolate" in the league. Taken away by the Sacramento Kings with the seventh pick in '98, during his time with the Kings, he combined a strong lineup with players such as Chris Webber and Peja, and the smooth offense and flashy rotation of the Kings every night are something that Kings fans talk about. At the beginning of the season, White Chocolate and Mike Bibby swapped owners and came to the Grizzlies.

Perhaps the only thing that makes White Chocolate feel happy is that when he was on the Kings, he could only exist as a supporting role just after becoming a green leaf, the Kings were one of the best teams in the league under Adelman's Preston system, and when they got to this fish belly team, they could exist as the team's first brother and have more ball possession.

White Chocolate is one of the best players on the team, but Williams is used to making assists. Directly to Pau Gasol on the inside, Gasol played a back-to-back single, leaned on Thomas, and after turning around, he made a mid-range shot.

Although Gasol has not been in the league for a long time, as a player from Spain, a strong basketball country, Gasol has a soft touch unique to Europeans, and as a man of more than 2.10 meters, he has a delicacy that American players do not have. It can be seen from the mid-range shot after this back-to-back single that Gasol has a deep foundation. Otherwise, Kobe Bryant and Gasol would not have teamed up to win a championship ring in the future.

"Hadron, this Gasol is really strong, look at his height, look at his skills, not those black people in the United States like the rough brother performance!" The classmate next to Zuo Qiang said to Zuo Qiang.

"That's it, Gasol will definitely be a superstar in the future, look at how much he's favored by others during the draft, plus his excellent technique and height, there's no problem at all!" I have to say that Zuo Qiang's playing is okay, and his vision is also good.

The Knicks attacked, and Easley didn't get any chance against White Chocolate, so he could only give the ball to Houston, and he was the main attacker for the first ball. Defending Wesley Persson is 31 years old, and he is not too young, but for Houston, he doesn't have such good skills, and Houston makes a mid-range shot under the breakaway, and gives color to the Grizzlies.

The Grizzlies don't handle every ball very well, on the basis of eight consecutive defeats, now that they have changed the head coach, they still haven't improved on the offensive end, many times the ball is in the hands of the players, there is no discipline, and they only know that they blindly score, but the Knicks' defense is not papery, so that the Grizzlies have fallen into the offensive predicament again and again, so that the Grizzlies' physical energy is also consumed quickly.

On the Knicks' side, there are more flowers, and Harrington, as a center, chooses to pull outside the paint area to make mid-range shots, and Wright on the other side has no good defensive means.

Although Thomas suffered a little against Gasol, and his scoring ability was not as strong as Gasol, Thomas, who was rich in defensive testing, brought a lot of trouble to Gasol.

Sprewell, on the other hand, had some scoring restrictions, and defending him was Sean Battier, who was also a lottery pick, and he was all too familiar to later Chinese fans. When he was in the Rockets, he worked with Da Yao to lay a solid foundation for the Rockets' 22-game winning streak, and no one didn't remember his face, and he could be seen in advertising endorsements on the imperial court TV in later generations for a long time. Battier is a player who has just become a green leaf, an excellent blue-collar worker, and he can't do the dirty work of defending and grabbing the ball. Someone once said that for a team to win a championship, a player like Battier is an indispensable shield. Battier, who has only just entered the league, is still not his strong point, and his current defensive ability is beginning to show.

As a point guard, the Knicks may have a weaker advantage, and when it comes to connecting teams and making rotations, Easley is obviously not as dynamic as white chocolate.

In the first quarter, the Knicks established a five-point lead from the first three minutes, the Knicks were more frequent in the rotation, and Van Gundy knew to maintain the fitness of the main force more when playing against such a team, so that the bench could get more opportunities to play.

Liang Xiao was rotated by Van Gundy in the first six minutes, and in the face of the Grizzlies, Liang Xiao did not relent, and was full of firepower. Throwing off the baggage, he received more instructions from Van Gundy to play at a better level on the offensive end. As soon as Liang Xiao came on the court, Gordon Girisek, who was on the court in rotation with the Grizzlies, was a step back, and Liang Xiao's super back skill was not far from reaching the C level, and now the proficiency is getting higher and higher. Gordon Girisek was drafted by the Spurs in '99, but he didn't log directly into the NBA and didn't come to the NBA until this season. In later generations, Girisek was finally selected for the second team of the rookie lineup, and it can be imagined that this person's strength is also okay.

The players on the court of the Knicks were directly replaced by substitutes on the outside, against the Grizzlies, the Knicks' benches did not show weakness, the bench players led by Liang Xiao began to exert their power, Anderson continued to break through, and Liang Xiao was mostly offensive, breaking through from time to time to disrupt the Grizzlies' position.

When the first quarter of the game reached 8 minutes and 32 seconds, Liang Xiao had been on the court for three minutes, and this time Liang Xiao scored 5 points.

Under the Grizzlies' timeout, they brought on a young Drew Gooden, a rookie who was drafted by the Grizzlies with the fourth pick, and overall Gooden is a blue-collar player with a more balanced technique. has a hand-to-hand shot, offensive skills and footwork under the basket are also good, and the style of play can also be called strong. Defensive ability can only be considered mid-range among the league's power forwards. Later, Gooden was constantly roaming around the teams, and the blue-collar worker was now one of the best rookies in the Grizzlies, and was later selected to the rookie first team with Da Yao.

During the timeout, Van Gundy kept emphasizing that he had to play harder and not let the Grizzlies have the power to parry.

After Liang Xiao came on the court, he strengthened his breakthrough and layup, facing the Grizzlies' inside, Liang Xiao This is the best training for himself. For the Grizzlies' inside, the strength is average, but most of the players are newcomers, which is an opportunity for Liang Xiao to better establish his own psychological quality, not just as a player who walks on the outside or relies on the middle shot, of course, this is a means of scoring, but it is necessary to strengthen all aspects of becoming a superstar. At the end of the first quarter, Liang Xiao continued to impact the Grizzlies' interior line, and his score also rose to nine points, so that he got so many points in more than seven minutes in the first quarter.