Zhang Chen ignored Reed's complaints, and didn't listen too much to the crowd's laughter at Reed's shake down, he just retreated to the half court to participate in the defense. The Knicks' defensive lineup is also relatively neat, and they have retreated to the half court to participate in defense in an instant, and their defense can still form a scale very quickly.

The Bucks' offense had to go through the Knicks' defense to finally work, and this time their offense finally paid off.

The ball is back in the hands of the Knicks, Zhang Chen doesn't seem to intend to let go of Reed, the guy who spoke wildly before the game, he slowly controlled the ball, and the impact of the basketball and the floor also sounded in Reed's heart, impacting his fragile heart again and again, making his heart go up and down, and I don't know when it will be broken through by Zhang Chen.

The psychological pressure of Zhang Chen shaking him down just now has been lingering in his heart, which has slowly turned into a psychological shadow of Reed, and he is a little unsure of what he wants to do when he looks at Zhang Chen.

Zhang Chen suddenly kicked his legs, and then his body turned into a white lightning bolt again, and after the eyes of the people watching were dizzying, he had immediately entered the inner line. Reed saw that Zhang Chen was about to break through again, and he knew that if he really defended, he would probably bring humiliation on himself, but if he didn't defend, he really couldn't say anything, so he still took a step back to defend Zhang Chen.

However, he once again suffered the loss of Zhang Chen's feint, Zhang Chen's right leg just stepped into the three-point line, and his whole body was directly retracted from the state of rushing forward, and his body instantly stopped in the three-point line, and then he withdrew from the three-point line while collecting the ball, and calmly jumped and shot.

"I've been deceived again!" Reed didn't look back and heard the crisp sound of the net and the basketball rubbing against the basket coming from the basket, and suddenly sighed in his heart that Zhang Chen had once again deceived him with his cunning damn feint. Now to Reed, Zhang Chen is like a dummy, and you can never figure out what he wants to do next.

Thinking of this, Reed already felt a little helpless, but he still managed to calm himself and prepare for the next attack.

Then, after the Bucks' offense, Zhang Chen once again began to possess the ball across the halfcourt.

Reed felt that he was a little bad at the moment, and when he saw Zhang Chen killing towards his half again, he felt a little upset in his heart, afraid that Zhang Chen would give him a big insult again, and he would really not be able to let go of his face at that time. However, what relieved him was that when Zhang Chen controlled the ball and came to the halfcourt, he immediately passed the basketball in his hand to Du Hong, and then he himself walked slowly towards the three-point line.

"Fortunately, fortunately......" Reed didn't care about the next thing, he wanted to pat his chest and secretly call it a fluke, but his vigilance against Zhang Chen still didn't disappear, after all, Zhang Chen's shooting skills were there, and they didn't dare not pay attention to it.

Sure enough, Zhang Chen came to the three-point line, and then suddenly accelerated towards the inside line, Reed was shocked, and hurriedly outflanked from another direction, and finally achieved his strategic goal, in his intentional or unintentional collision and blocking, Zhang Chen's forward route was finally forced to the side of the basket, and the two stopped at the zero degree angle of the basket, a big step within the three-point line, and began to confront.

Du Hong saw Zhang Chen asking for the ball at this time, although seeing Zhang Chen's situation did not seem to be the best choice for passing the ball, he knew that Zhang Chen naturally had his reason for asking for the ball, so the basketball in Du Hong's hand quickly broke through the air and appeared in front of Zhang Chen. Zhang Chen stretched out his right hand and scooped the basketball down, and then pushed Reed with his back.

Reed felt the impact force from Zhang Chen's back, and his heart sank for a moment, ready to deal with Zhang Chen's next move, but Zhang Chen just hit it like this, and then he immediately jumped up, and the moment his body was in the air, his direction also changed, and he used his front to face the basket.

Zhang Chen adjusted his shooting posture in the sky like this, and then the basketball left his hands and flew towards the basket.

Reed noticed that something was wrong when Zhang Chen just jumped, but because of the misjudgment just now, there was a little problem in the process of his jumping up defense uh, after Zhang Chen shot, Reed's right hand climbed to his highest point, and at this time Zhang Chen's basketball had already flown into the sky.

Zhang Chen's pull-up jump shot is crisp and neat, and Reed's defense can only be described in one word is hasty, and the words to describe Zhang Chen's jump shot are calm, and the corners of his mouth have a kind of self-confidence from beginning to end, which is also the reason why basketball can be so crisp.

Zhang Chen's jump shot helped him score two points, and at this time, there was only the last half minute of the first half of the game.

The Bucks dragged their time to end the offense, but they still didn't get much relief from their trailing points, and the first half ended with the score at 46:35, and the Bucks still trailed by 11 points heading into the second half.

When he walked into the locker room, the head coach of the Bucks had a gloomy face, he walked in front, the players basically followed behind without saying a word, they were ready to withstand the head coach's wrath, in fact, the game just now could not be said that they did not work hard, it can only be said that the enemy was too cunning. The Knicks are always well organized on offense and defense, and they also have an offensive maniac named Zhang Chen, and every time he starts, the Bucks usually have to usher in the end of a back-to-back turn.

At the end of the first half, Zhang Chen had 18 points, 2 assists and 2 rebounds, which also indicated that he would not let his high scoring momentum end today. At the same time, his two assists also prove that he is now more and more tacit with his teammates.

Reed looked frustrated, and he now hated the outrageous words he had uttered before the game. In fact, he said that sentence only to pander to the public opinion of James and Wade, and he wanted to use it to deceive people into believing that he was Wade and James, their faction, and their class. Who knew that when they really started the game, Zhang Chen let those words turn into a mouth to hit Reed, Reid is quite frustrated now, but as the star of the team, he still put on a calm look, as if he was stable in the game just now.

At the end of the first half, Reed's score was 10 points, which is not much, but it is not a lot, but compared to his bold words to suppress Zhang Chen, such a score is indeed a bit shabby, not to mention that his shooting rate is two-point shooting rate: 33.3%, three-point shooting rate: 20%, this data makes him feel ashamed. After all, Zhang Chen's shooting rate seems to be two of three three-point shots and five of seven two-point shots, which is enough for many outside and even interior players to be ashamed. Reid squatted in the locker room with self-pity, and it seemed that the manager had given up on the game, he just told the players to hurry up and rest for the next game, and he didn't make any plans for tactics. When he heard the news, Reed's mouth was full of bitterness, and he felt that he was dragging down the entire Bucks.

The fact that the Bucks, who finished ninth in the East this year, fell to this point today was a surprise to some of the team's observers, as well as reporters and commentators who came to check out the games. The Knicks' fighting ability and defensive will in the first half were surprising, and it seems that the Knicks have now basically mastered a strategy of balance between offense and defense.

Observers recorded their results in notebooks, and several of them wrote: "Zhang Chen of the Knicks played a central role, and when he wanted to charge, no one could stop him." ”

Compared with the lifeless atmosphere in the Bucks' locker room, the atmosphere in the Knicks' locker room is much more relaxed, everyone is giggling and joking, D'Antoni didn't say something encouraging to everyone in order to avoid being bored, and he didn't boast about himself, but talked to everyone about the tactical arrangement for the second half, and only when he talked about the tactical arrangement, his players would listen to him carefully.

D'Antoni was annoyed by this phenomenon, but unfortunately he also knew that there was no way to stop it - that is, Zhang Chen, who was also a disciple and friend of his descendants, always chose to chat with the people next to him by his surname or use other ways to escape D'Antoni's chatter when he heard his tirade, and D'Antoni had no choice but to sigh when he saw that his beloved disciples were like that.

The second half of the game started with both sides playing their best role, and the Knicks were ready to implement their strategic showdown plan at the beginning of the quarter, and they wanted to completely solve the opponent in this quarter. Of course, this idea would be a bit ridiculous if others looked at it - how to say that the Bucks are also in the top 10 in the East, so it seems a bit exaggerated to settle the opponent in three quarters, right?

However, the Knicks really launched a strategic general offensive just after the start of the third quarter, with three-point rain pouring down, and the sound of breakthroughs was endless, and suddenly the inside and outside line of the Bucks became a scorched earth in the Knicks' indiscriminate bombardment. Reed and they were all stunned - the third quarter had just begun, the first ball was in the hands of the Bucks, but unfortunately they couldn't break through, the rebound was grabbed by the Knicks, and then launched a counterattack, Gallinari hit a three-pointer, and the score situation became 49:35, and the Knicks led by four points. Then the Bucks launched a counterattack, but still missed, but fortunately grabbed the rebound and allowed them to pull back two points.

Then, the Knicks' offense struck again, Zhang Chen controlled the ball and passed the ball to Du Hong in the half court, Du Hong hung directly into the inside, and David Lee hit a dunk, and the score became 51:35.

Then the Bucks failed to attack, the rebound was snatched up by the Knicks, Zhang Chen quickly starred in a fast break, and when the opponent intercepted, he passed the basketball to David on the other side who was straight down in two lines with him? In Lee's hands, David Lee howled and dunked again, hitting two consecutive slam dunks, which raised his score in the game to 8 points.

Zhang Chen and David? Lee quickly dropped back into the half, and their high-fives were efficient and brief. And then the Bucks hit a mid-range shot, and as a result, the Knicks gave them a three-point return in the hands of Zhang Chen, so the score became 56:37, and the Knicks were close to leading by 20 points!

The Bucks panicked! This gap is really a bit terrifying, and their shooting percentage today is quite low, which leads to their scoring is also quite low, and if this continues, it is estimated that they will be slapped in the face in the Knicks today, and they will be swollen!

The head coach of the Bucks hurriedly called a timeout in the fourth minute after the start of the third quarter, which was quite timely, and he quickly called the demoralized players back.

"Bang Bang!" The Knicks players returned to the bench and high-fived in celebration, Zhang Chen and David Lee high-fived, and then Randolph, and D'Antoni also said with a smile: "Good job, guys, you did start a strategic showdown just now...... Now their score gap has been forced to close to 20 points by us, in this case it is difficult for them to turn the tables, the next thing we have to do is to further maintain their lead, we have to strengthen our own attack, of course, we can't forget the defense, the next main attack will be handed over to the inside, if you encounter their fierce counterattack, Zhang Chen on the outside, you can get unlimited firing rights, snipe them on the inside and outside. ”

Zhang Chen nodded, the pause was indeed very short, and D'Antoni didn't have time to arrange too many things, and the pause was already over.

Glancing at his team's dismal score, as if that kind of score was a kind of irony, Reed clenched his fist, at this time he had to stand up, whether it would succeed or not was another matter, but at least to appease the Bucks' current scarred morale. Reed, who had made up his mind, was ready to do his best, and after getting ready, Reed's body also looked a little miserable.

After returning to the game, Zhang Chen also noticed that Reed seemed to be resolute this time, so when he was defending Reed, who was in possession of the ball, he said a little teasingly: "Hey, Michael, have you decided to save the team yourself?" Do you want to experience that feeling of being a savior? ”

Reed didn't speak, Zhang Chen was too cunning and scheming, he still tried to avoid too much verbal communication with him. So he continued to dribble silently, and then finally fought his way out of Zhang Chen's control under the cover of his teammates, which allowed him to easily gain a wider range of movement.

Du Hong immediately came up to make up for the defense, but at this time Reed seemed unusually calm, and his choice of shot was quite in line with the actual situation, he faced Du Hong who was 1.85 meters, and directly jumped and shot, the basketball left his hands across the sky, and finally fell into the basket, Du Hong also had no impact on the ball because of his height and rhythm.

The feeling of "...... Huh" outside the three-point line made Reed's eyebrows fly, and his mood was comfortable, and this feeling of provoking the team at a critical moment made him feel very comfortable and more confident.

However, Zhang Chen's words were like a scoop of cold water, extinguishing his passion: "Michael, this feeling is good, isn't it...... But I have to say, you're still 16 points behind, which is a big gap. ”

Reed shuddered, and hurriedly ran across the half court to participate in the defense, they must prove that this season's Bucks have been reborn, and the previous Bucks team is not at the same level as the previous Bucks team that was slaughtered by others. But today in front of the Knicks, they touched a nose, and the hope of finding the court at the last moment was on his shoulders.

Zhang Chen faced Reed's defense, used two consecutive body forward changes, and saw that he hadn't even gotten rid of him, so he tried to use a shaking technique again, his shoulders matched his head, and the cooperation of his legs and feet made Zhang Chen's movement look erratic.

"Damn, it's this trick again......" Reed was extremely annoyed, but there was still no good way to defend Zhang Chen's false and false movements.

Zhang Chen finally interspersed a real move among countless feints, that is, this action helped him directly use his speed to kill the inside line, which looked like a fluttering lightning, and in a blink of an eye, it was the inside line of the Bucks' heavy defense.

Zhang Chen used his nimble footsteps to toss and turn at the moment when the Bucks had not fully retracted the defense, and only the last enemy in front of him, Bogut, who was ten centimeters taller than Zhang Chen, was always a little flustered when he stood in front of Zhang Chen, because he felt that he didn't know what method Zhang Chen would use to break down his defense.

Zhang Chen took a brute action, because he could see that after Reed's three-point shot, the morale of the Bucks was boosted a lot by this kind of blazing three-point shot, and what he wanted to do was to completely melt the morale of the opponent brought by the three-point shot just now. For this goal, Zhang Chen jumped high directly against the European center, after all, Zhang Chen has not shown his strong strength to them since this game.

As a result, Bogut's newborn calf was not afraid of tigers and Zhang Chen's flying body collided violently in the sky, and this guy who thought that Zhang Chen would be knocked backwards by him flew back in the sky without any basis, because he never thought that Zhang Chen would hit him like this, so his flight had no basis at all, and he was like rootless duckweed in the sky.

"Bang!" The basket trembled slightly, Zhang Chen's slam dunk was like a scoop of cold water, smashing down in front of the opponent's high morale and scorching military heart, and the victim was Bogut, a center who was slowly getting up on the ground, and his face was full of puzzles.

"One more crash!" The two referees who ran over with the team on both sides of the court saw each other's shrugging of their shoulders, and they also noticed the helplessness in each other's eyes, there have been many such air collisions this season, but it is obvious that Zhang Chen did not foul, he just collided with the opponent in the air and could not avoid.

Reed, who witnessed this scene not far away, sighed, and his heart sank to the bottom......

(To be continued)