The Hawks' lead was pulled back by the Knicks by three points in the final moments of the first half, and in this situation, the situation of the Hawks immediately took a turn for the worse. Zhang Chen glanced at Randolph, and after coming on the court in the second quarter, the fat man's performance was not bad.

The first ball after the start of the second half was in the hands of Zhang Chen, he controlled the rhythm of the game, dribbled the basketball to the front court, came to the place outside the three-point line, and immediately passed the basketball to Chris Duhong next to him, Duhong slowly controlled the ball and then directly began to dribble in, his speed was fast, but the effect was not very good, and he was stopped by the opponent in the place where the inside line was not reached.

At the critical moment, he also saw the vacancy in the direction of Randolph, so his right hand shook, and the basketball flew directly into Randolph's hand with a poignant arc, Randolph jumped up in the air proudly, and smashed the basketball into it, and suddenly, the Knicks were only 1 point behind.

Seeing that there was only one point left to the score gap, the crowd began to cheer enthusiastically, and this ball immediately hit their momentum, and everyone in the Eagles saw that precarious lead and was a little anxious. However, despite the hurry, there was still no ambiguity in their marching formation, and the basketball later came to Johnson's hands.

Zhang Chen's defensive skills have improved to a certain extent, and now he can rely on his strength and agility in his footwork to match the attacking player Zhou Xuan. It's just that after playing the first quarter and the second quarter for a few minutes, Zhang Chen's physical strength is also being consumed rapidly, and the consumption of physical strength does not allow him to defend some inconsequential balls too seriously.

However, the current ball is a key goal for Zhang Chen to surpass the opponent, which is extremely important to the morale of the Knicks, so Zhang Chen still spared no effort when defending Johnson, following Johnson's body, skillfully changing his steps and steps, and for a while he was able to block in front of the opponent, and Johnson couldn't let Zhang Chen get aside with a few feints.

However, Johnson still has a trick, he used the opponent's blocking, and then passed by Zhang Chen's right hand side with a smoke, although Zhang Chen said that the speed was fast, but when Johnson slipped down he himself had to bypass one of the opponent's players, Zhang Chen couldn't catch up with Johnson, even if he caught up, his bounce power was not enough to support him to use a back jump or something.

Therefore, Zhang Chen could only watch Johnson enter the inside line, and then pass by the fat Randolph - Randolph greeted him with his eyes, and also turned his body to block Johnson's forward line, but Johnson was more flexible than Randolph, he cleverly used a small jump step, jumped directly away from Randolph, plunged under the basket, and completely left Randolph behind, and then he used a layup to let his team score two points at a critical moment.

"Good shot!" The Hawks went up to high-five Johnson, and at this critical moment, Johnson's performance reassured them and gave them plenty of morale to resist the Knicks' vengeful offense.

Zhang Chen controlled the ball over half the court, the top priority is to recover the score, and then bite the score, now the Knicks' lineup is quite scattered, they can only use morale and their own ball control and Du Hong's organization to maintain the situation, at this time the morale of the big drop or big rise in morale has a vital role in the team's victory or defeat.

Zhang Chen's dribble stopped outside the three-point line, and the Hawks' interior line was completely in place, and Zhang Chen basically had no chance to score a layup on the inside line. There is only one way left for him now, and that is to forcibly break in and smash Huanglong in one go. But that doesn't solve too many problems right now, Randolph has enough dunks, and what is needed now is a three-point shot that will set the mark.

David Lee on the inside tried his best to finally get out of a good position to grab a rebound, Zhang Chen saw this situation, and suddenly let the basketball pass through the crotch, to the right finger, his hands are wonderful, delicate and soft between the swings, the basketball is obedient like a butterfly by the flower under the control of his soft hands, dancing and dancing.

Zhang Chen's crotch dribble immediately made Johnson's alarm bell ring, after all, he had already discovered after a few fights in front of him, and Zhang Chen's crotch dribble was often a precursor to his start of attack.

Zhang Chen immediately dribbled the ball with a crotch, and then forced it to start, seeing that he was about to insert directly into the inside line, thinking of his frightening speed, Johnson immediately took a step back, preventing Zhang Chen from easily breaking through his defense. Johnson's big stride retreated very quickly, and Zhang Chen also followed behind him, taking a big step forward, which strengthened Johnson's idea that Zhang Chen was going to break through, so he retreated with peace of mind.

However, Zhang Chen withdrew the basketball at the moment when Johnson took a big step back and was about to take another step back, which made Johnson's idea quickly bankrupt, and Zhang Chen withdrew directly from the three-point line with this step. Zhang Chen's trick has been tried and tested repeatedly, and the key lies in his fake movements that are difficult to distinguish between real and fake, even if he yawns, and his brilliant ball control skills.

Zhang Chen retreated outside the three-point line, the space in front of him was open, and Johnson knew that something was wrong at this time, he knew that morale had an important impact on a team, if the ball could not prevent Zhang Chen and was tied, the morale of the Hawks would immediately plummet. And at that time, the Knicks were in full swing, and the players reached mutual understanding, and it was really a big deal.

Thinking of this, Johnson hurriedly raised his legs to keep up, but his center of gravity had shifted at that moment just now, and trying to catch up with Zhang Chen at this time was tantamount to a fool's dream, and it also aggravated his unstable center of gravity.

So-poof-Johnson sat directly on the ground, feeling ashamed and angry, and Zhang Chen calmly in front of Johnson who sat down, slowly let his body leave the ground, the basketball was lifted above his head, and at the moment when the body reached the highest air, the basketball left his hands and flew towards the basket!

"Huh!" The sound of the basketball tearing the hoop was nothing short of heavenly for the Knicks, and the ball hit neatly, and most importantly, equalized the score!

Zhang Chen's three-point shot equalized the score, and at the same time put Johnson on the ground, which was tantamount to a chicken blood for the Knicks' morale, and the fans at the scene left their seats one after another, and Zhang Chen's performance made them completely recognize this teenager who was hyped as the king of New York some time ago, and his performance was enough to take on this important responsibility.

So far in this game, Zhang Chen's data has been 24 points, 4 assists and 4 rebounds, this data is quite gorgeous, although several of his assists are a little inadvertently suspicious, but after all, the data is placed there steadily, and he has scored 24 points directly and 8 points indirectly through his hands.

"Aeolus, Aeolus!" The uniform cheers made Randolph jealous, and he felt that he also needed to find the support of the audience's faith. So he started to run and immediately ran to the Knicks' defense, ready to grab a rebound or a big hat that covers the sky and let the big guy get to know him well.

Randolph began to guard the interior, and the Eagles ball was once again back in Johnson's hands.

This is the responsibility of the leader, when the team is in trouble, they stand up is indispensable, Johnson controlled the ball, slowly approached Zhang Chen, and after two crotch dribbles, finally let Zhang Chen's center of gravity loosen a little. Speaking of which, Johnson also had a headache with the fact that he was shaken down by Zhang Chen just now, and now although he knows that he can't shake Zhang Chen, it is still possible to get rid of him directly.

Zhang Chen still has some headaches for the shaking of these players, and his current defensive skills can be regarded as beginners at most in NBA-level offense and defense, and his defense relies on his flexible footwork, speed and strength. When the opponent uses delicate work such as butterfly walking through flowers, Zhang Chen's defensive skills are very insufficient.

Johnson shook Zhang Chen again, and finally broke through to him, Zhang Chen stretched out a hand and pulled at him, pulling his pants, which was judged a defensive foul by the referee. However, Johnson's efforts to save his team's morale were greatly compromised, and he hit one of two free throws in hatred when he stood at the free throw line, and then the ball was back in the hands of the Knicks.

Zhang Chen broke through the inside line in a flash of inspiration this time, and at the moment when his opponents came up to wrap up and blocked all his paths, he threw the pull ball out of the inside line and into Gallinari's hands. The rookie also lived up to Zhang Chen's hopes this time, he hit a jumper outside the three-point line, allowing the Knicks to overtake the score by two points!

“**。” Seeing that the score was already two points behind, Johnson's face was full of frustration.

Then it was not until the sixth minute that the initiative of the game was controlled by the Knicks for the first time, they relied on the ferocity of Randolph and Zhang Chen, as well as the efforts of everyone under the maintenance of morale, and finally expanded the score gap to 4 points, at this time the Hawks had to call a timeout, and their timeout was quite sad.

Back on the bench, Zhang Chen sat on the bench all of a sudden, he felt that his current physical exertion was too serious, and then said to Du Hong: "Hey, Chris, the next task of ball control is up to you...... To be honest, I don't want to use even a finger on my body right now. ”

Du Hong nodded: "Chen, maybe you can take a break and let us take responsibility?" ”

Zhang Chen shook his head and said, "This is our game, we want to win together!" When D'Antoni heard this, he looked at Zhang Chen's eyes with a strange look. He found that Zhang Chen was still more able to bring himself into the role, in fact, Zhang Chen experienced something different here in the Knicks.

When he was with the Suns, although he was able to average more than 20 points per game and had a lot of good friends, including the high-powered Steve? Nash and Amare? Stoudemire, but his teammates didn't listen to him, at least in their eyes, he was just a rookie, even if he behaved against the sky. But here with the Knicks, he experienced a different feeling — as if the team was already his.

First of all, from the point guard aspect, Du Hong is more elegant, and he is also relatively gentle on the leadership of the team, Zhang Chen's performance has made him decide to belong here, he will not oppose Zhang Chen, on the contrary, Zhang Chen can help him take on a certain ball control task and is not greedy for merit, in this regard, he is still relatively satisfied with Zhang Chen. Secondly, on small forward and shooting guard, Wilson? Although Chandler has the idea of leaving, he will still weigh what he says to Zhang Chen now, and Gallinari regards himself as the backbone, after all, Zhang Chen was the best rookie last year, and he is also like a fish in water in the Knicks system. On the inside, Randolph and Zhang Chen often quarrel, but there is no delay, after all, they are still from the same team.

David Lee made his attitude clear on the first day - I will give you a rebound, as for Eddie Curry, although that guy is a slacker, this also leads to his attitude that more is better than less, and he can try not to contradict Zhang Chen.

As for the other players, they didn't have a good position in the team, and when they saw that the other main players were basically respectful to Zhang Chen, and Zhang Chen seemed to have a leg with D'Antoni - they knew what they should do. So, on the whole, Zhang Chen already has a kind of status in this team, although Randolph wants to gang up to make a small mountain, but unfortunately when he wants to rebel, the rest of the Knicks still stay away from the league's quite famous bad boys, so at most, Randolph can scratch his hair and fight with Zhang Chen, and he still can't do it if he really wants to be powerful.

This is the reason why Zhang Chen really put himself into the role, this is his own territory, a territory that he can slowly operate here.

After the timeout was over, the game resumed, and the Eagles were demoralized after a bit of guidance from the head coach, and their scoring was well founded. And the Knicks were the biggest problem with this game -- their offensive and defensive lineup was not in order, and that was their biggest problem.

In this case, the Knicks have certain problems both offense and defense, first of all, the defensive problem, their defense is like a mess of sand, fighting on their own, but unfortunately they do not have any exceptionally good defensive players, which leads to their lack of defensive efficiency. On offense, they couldn't achieve a well-founded and organized offense, so the Knicks were once again in a tough battle.

The Hawks are targeting the weaknesses of the Knicks, and their defensive policy is to try to divide the Knicks' players to the point of fighting separately, and at the same time, the Knicks' main players have also begun to adopt joint defense, packing, etc., in this case, Randolph and Zhang Chen's offense has been hindered to a certain extent.

Although Zhang Chen's offensive efficiency is still quite amazing, his physical consumption is now quite rapid, which reduces his feel and offensive efficiency, so it has decreased a little compared to his peak, on the other hand, the opponent is also paying more and more attention to his defense, which also makes Zhang Chen's offensive efficiency even more backward.

The Knicks were really in trouble.

Zhang Chen controlled the ball again and came to the frontcourt, and then shook off the defender after two consecutive shakes, and then pulled up a jump shot outside the three-point line, the basketball swayed on the rebound, and was rebounded back, at this time the Knicks' inside David Lee jumped up and grabbed the rebound in the sky, but unfortunately the opponent clicked again, and the basketball flew out of bounds.

David Lee is such a desperate player, seeing the basketball flying out of bounds, his people also flew out, intercepted the basketball in mid-air and then threw it back, Zhang Chen took advantage of his strength, forced the opponent to grab the rebound into the palm of his hand, facing the basket that showed light in the distance, and jumped again.

However, at the last moment of the shot, there was a feeling of inadequacy in his body, and then, the basketball lost its momentum like this, swayed in the sky and flew leisurely, and finally still flew out of the basket, so Zhang Chen threw a jump shot again.

Zhang Chen fell from the air, couldn't help but gasp, he made an apologetic gesture to David Lee, David Lee didn't care too much, to be honest, this is a good young man, and the degree of love he has for rebounds is what Zhang Chen and they quite like. He can also bring more contributions to the Knicks' secondary offense, but unfortunately, Zhang Chen's physical condition is no longer enough to support a high-intensity offense.

The Hawks grabbed the rebound and launched a fast break, which the Knicks fear the most right now, and this kind of fast break can perfectly exploit the Knicks' current shortcomings, leaving them exhausted but unable to find a solution. So, the basketball got out of the gap next to the Knicks players, went back and forth in people's hands a few times, and finally came to the hands of the players closest to the basket, and after the sound of the basketball and the Nets rubbing, the Knicks' trail had expanded to 8 points.

The third quarter of the game ended in this situation, although every player on the court of the Knicks worked hard and made their own struggles, but unfortunately the opponent's offense was a snake every time he hit seven inches, which just made the Knicks' offense and defense unable to move. Therefore, the end of this quarter made the Knicks' players feel quite breathless.

Zhang Chen sat on the stool, sweating down, he now felt that his strength was completely drained, he played the first and third quarters, and played nearly 6 minutes in the second quarter, which made his already precarious physical strength close to the brink of collapse. Therefore, after his score rose to 32 points, his physical strength also reached a critical value.

The score is now 71-62, and the Knicks are already trailing by nine points.

(To be continued)