The Knicks have been a string of powerhouses after they met the Magic — Kings, Hornets and so on — and they had to play five road games before they could return home to host the Portland Trail Blazers.

This string of games is sure to exhaust the Knicks, and their condition is cause for concern.

The first day of road games began, and now the Knicks hold the second place in the East with a record of three wins and one loss, and the game against the Kings is played on the road, which is an unusually tight game. Zhang Chen was also turned by the opponent's center and almost hung up, but fortunately there was no big problem.

The game was a battle between the two sides from the first quarter, and although the Knicks had been a bit of a siloed, they played quite tenaciously today, allowing the Kings to make several of their charges ultimately fruitless.

Throughout the first quarter, Zhang Chen was a little sluggish today, and he missed three three-pointers throughout the first quarter, which made his game even more difficult. The Kings' shooting percentage was quite amazing, especially Martin, who not only deceived Zhang Chen's foul, but also shot two three-pointers, and with his help, the Kings slowly gained the lead.

Zhang Chen's performance in this section was not too good, and the rest of the Knicks were all seven, seven, eight, eight However, after the start of the second quarter, the Knicks' bench lineup suddenly caught everyone's eyes - after a few fast-break impacts, plus some three-point shooting, they vaguely played a little bit of the style of the fast-break Suns team back then, and the small fast-moving became the main feature of this team.

Under the impact of their morale and speed and cooperation, the Kings' lead was slowly chased back, and then the rest of the Knicks came on the court and did their best, and now the main lineup is no longer as weak as in the first quarter, but has begun to work hard. At the same time, after so many days of training, they finally gained some effect, and their cooperation slowly played out, and with their efforts, the Knicks finally established a lead at the end of the first half.

The counteroffensive frenzy of this quarter of the game was kicked off by Zhang Chen's two consecutive three-pointers, and then everyone slowly began to give up, and their cooperation was endless, and after cooperating again and again, they finally took a sufficient lead. At the beginning of the third quarter, the Knicks did not collapse as the home court crowd on the side of the basketball court expected, on the contrary, they also played a pretty good offense, and everyone worked the defensive end, and they finally found their own way of playing and style of play.

By the end of the third quarter, they had built a seven-point lead.

The final quarter of the game began, and it was clear that the Kings didn't want to be beaten by a team like the Knicks at home, and they all did everything they could to completely ban the Knicks. Fortunately, at the critical moment, Randolph finally stepped up for the first time, grabbed two rebounds in a row, shot a three-pointer, and an inside dunk, which boosted morale. Then Zhang Chen assisted Gallinari to shoot a three-pointer, and then broke through into the interior and dunked successfully. In the end, David Lee also succeeded in dunking on the inside, and the pinched lead became something that the Kings were quite annoyed but could not do, and in this game, the Knicks won the game with a score of 108-103 on the road.

In the whole game, the Knicks can be said to be in full bloom: Randolph scored 21 points and 11 rebounds, David Lee scored 10 points and 10 rebounds, Gallinari scored 14 points, Dujon sent six assists, and Zhang Chen scored 30 points, 2 rebounds and 2 assists.

This game turned their record into a four-one record, and they still fell behind the Cavaliers for the time being, but it was about the same, and the Knicks were already gearing up, sharpening their knives and preparing for a big fight, only to be immediately hit in the face by the next opponent, the Celtics.

The Knicks' fifth game of the regular season of the season was an away game against the Boston Celtics, and they fell into an all-around disadvantage from the start, both defensively and offensively. Although Zhang Chen scored 11 points in two minutes in the final moment, he could not save the Knicks' defeat.

The Knicks lost to the Celtics by a bloody 13-point margin of 104-91 on the road, and everyone went from being frustrated before the game to being annoyed now. However, the Jazz they challenged next gave them another hard lesson, losing 110-101 to the Jazz in Salt Lake City, and they have lost two straight on the road.

Zhang Chen's performance is in everyone's eyes, in this game, Zhang Chen still has red eyes, especially in the last minute against the Jazz, in the face of his old enemy Brewer, Zhang Chen is up and down, and his eyes are blood-red. He hit three three-pointers in a row to score nine points in the final minute, but as against the Celtics, Zhang Chen's madness failed to reverse the Knicks' decline.

In these two games, Zhang Chen scored 48 points, 6 rebounds and 3 assists in the loss to the Celtics, and 40 points, 3 rebounds and 2 assists in the loss to the Jazz.

Zhang Chen played a little badly in the fourth game away, maybe a series of crazy scores in front of him made him a little tired, he was quite sluggish in this game, and the performance of the whole team was not too good, but they also struggled back in the fourth quarter, Randolph and Gallinari took turns to play power, and for a while it was a little bit of a feeling that the opponent was in a hurry, but this did not last long.

They still lost this game, making it three straight defeats on the road, and Zhang Chen scored the lowest score of 20 points in recent times, which is not quite consistent with his usual performance. After the analysis of experts, everyone also put forward their own opinions on Zhang Chen's performance that has declined a little - the first is that Zhang Chen has been too tired recently, and he is really tired. This led to his inability to face this game in the best condition, in addition to the fact that he was too tired, it was the problem of other teams, and they gradually found a lot of clues that Zhang Chen had not solved this season, but let them study something that made Zhang Chen's scoring more difficult.

This is how a player goes on to fight against himself, against the defensive tactics that the coaches have worked out, and then after fighting again and again, if the player can finally break down those obstacles, he can go to the real Walk of Fame. It's just that history has proven that there are not many people who can break out of the cocoon into a butterfly and phoenix nirvana like this, and there are really not many.

The next game, the last of their back-to-back road trips, didn't want to lose all but one of the Kings, everyone was working hard in this game, they tried to stand on their feet, and in fact they did something to do so, at least they were leading in the first half of the game.

However, this was only the first half, and in the second half, the Knicks players were already tired after four consecutive away games, and in the second half, the total contradictions accumulated in these consecutive away games suddenly broke out, and then the Knicks' collapse began.

They fell apart and lost their last away game, and Zhang Chen only scored 18 points in this game, which surprised everyone.

The Knicks players were quite sluggish in this game, and after the game, they stepped onto the plane. Zhang Chen sat in his corner and stretched - the away game is finally over! This damn away game is finally over completely! He's got the urge to sing out loud right now, and it's just too torturous to play away games like this, especially when they've had two of their five consecutive away games back-to-back.

But anyway, they still survived, but unfortunately their results were so unsatisfactory, and the Knicks' performance added a very bad impression to the fans, which was very bad for the Knicks.

The other teammates on the plane also slowly leaned back in their chairs and prepared to fall asleep, and Zhang Chen also planned to squint for a while.

At this time, D'Antoni, who was sitting in front of him, suddenly turned his head and said loudly: "Guys, don't be busy sleeping yet...... I have something to tell you. ”

Hearing that something was wrong, everyone slowly pricked up their ears, and D'Antoni said: "In the last few away games...... We played passively...... One of the reasons is that the schedule is too tight, so that our time and energy cannot be fully arranged, but more importantly, it is because we can't fully find our own rhythm, and we often can't find the feeling that we should have...... We're going to have three days off when we get back to New York, and within those three days, we'll have one day off on the first day, but for the next two days I want everyone to be in the gym on time or even early...... That's what we're going to do, it's almost midway through November and we've got to hurry up and get our rankings back. ”

Everyone nodded, and then they all silently thought about their own thoughts, everyone was indeed exhausted in the past few days, and the team was punished a lot for it. They now have a record of four wins and five losses, and their win rate is even below 50%, and they are now quickly falling to seventh place in the rankings.

The first team they welcomed after returning to their home stadium was the Trail Blazers, this game will definitely not be easy, the opponent is a team with full troops and morale in addition to Oden, especially with the support of Roy's demon star, the Trail Blazers will definitely become a rather difficult bone to gnaw, but no matter how hard it is, they must bite it down, risking their teeth being broken...... Because their morale has been at its lowest, and without stimulation and help, they will be completely destroyed, and no one wants to see that.

After D'Antoni finished saying this, he suddenly said: "Chen, your form has dropped a bit in the last two games, do you know what the reason is?" ”

Randolph immediately laughed next to him and said, "I know, because I see that Mr. Backdoor's eyes are always staring at those beautiful female cheerleaders...... That's why, because he was distracted...... "After five games of struggling with Zhang Chen in a dire away situation, the relationship between Randolph and Zhang Chen has improved a little bit.

Zhang Chen immediately threw the towel next to him to Randolph's position, and then said to D'Antoni: "There are two reasons, the first is physical strength...... My stamina was an issue in the first place, and it has always been there and has been bothering me to keep going, and the back-to-back of two back-to-back away games has been a serious drain on my stamina these days...... I should be able to find a way to deal with this after a few days of rest; The second point is the defensive problem of the opponents, and I find that the coaches in the league have reacted a little bit against me, and I have become difficult to move in their defense at times...... For these two reasons, I believe that when I have enough stamina as a guarantee, I will be able to solve the problem naturally. ”

D'Antoni nodded with a deep groan: "Okay, you can summarize it yourself, I hope you can recover your ability in the new competition...... Because the Knicks can't exist without you. ”

Zhang Chen smiled at him and nodded, the last two consecutive away games Zhang Chen did play the first suffocation, this kind of suffocation makes him feel very uncomfortable now, no need for D'Antoni to say, he has long wanted to recover his scoring ability. Besides, the Knicks need themselves the most now.

D'Antoni also helped the other players to give a review, he knows them well, and he can clearly see their performance under the pitch, so he is more confident. No one refuted him, they all listened silently, and when D'Antoni finished preaching, everyone fell asleep, and slept in New York, Zhang Chen stepped off the plane and rubbed his naked eyes, New York in November blew a cold breath, so that Zhang Chen couldn't help but shiver.

Zhang Chen had a casual meal outside, and after returning to his residence, he fell down on his bed without hesitation, and then fell asleep, the rapid physical exertion in the past few days made him feel quite uncomfortable, and he slept until more than ten o'clock in the evening when he entered the study space before waking up, and the night sky was dark.

In the early morning of the next day, Zhang Chen had a rare lazy sleep, and in the early morning, the sun crept in from the window, climbed to the head of his bed, and climbed onto his face.

After stretching his waist, Zhang Chen went to the bathroom to wash, looking at his mobile phone as he walked, and then saw more than a dozen missed calls from Avril, and saw her threatening text messages in an increasingly stern tone, and secretly screamed in his heart, I slept too hard last night, and I didn't hear it.

Zhang Chen lamented in his heart, and then was scolded by Avril Lavigne on the phone for more than twenty minutes, Zhang Chen looked at the time, and he could eat in about an hour, so he spread himself on the chair in a fairly comfortable position, opened the laptop on the table and browsed the web.

Slowly, I clicked to the official website of the NBA and looked at some necessary information on it.

Then, the two posts that were pinned to the top of the Knicks section were quickly clicked by the cursor controlled by Zhang Chen's mouse, and then a piece of text was spread out and presented in front of Zhang Chen's eyes.

Part 1 – Nix, how are you going to make good on your promise to be strong?

"In five consecutive away games, the Knicks finally stumbled through the whole process in everyone's expectations, and it can be seen that every player has played quite hard, and these five consecutive opponents are not easy to mess with, and they also have their own well-known positions in the league. But I don't think that's the reason for the Knicks' four-game losing streak on the road, they've lost so badly. ”

"Of course, we can't always focus on the winners and losers, we have to look at the specific situation of the winners and losers, and the root causes of the wins and losses. This is a team of many disasters, it was once a basketball mecca, but now this basketball mecca is falling apart again and again, and their prestige is gradually eroded by time. At the start of the season, their three-game winning streak at home was eye-catching, putting us in a dreamy dream of a powerhouse where we thought we had Zach? Randolph and Zhang Chen's team will definitely be a strong team in the league. ”

"But that's not the case, they played so badly away from home, they were able to lose confidence in their performances, they were trying hard in these games, but they couldn't reach the level they wanted, and their performance was gradually overwhelmed by physical strength and time, and they became incapable of coping. In these games, they have fully exposed their weaknesses, which are still lacking in run-in, and this weakness may have been known to many other coaches in the league to respond more...... We need to think carefully about the reasons for the defeat so that we can find the right path in the next games. ”

"Regardless, the Knicks are at a crossroads, and we're looking forward to them surprising us and delivering on that promise to be a strong team. They are now at a crossroads where they are either gradually moving towards glory or returning to dead silence, and we do not know when we will see the light of day, but we all look forward to it so eagerly. ”

This article is written quite sincerely, and it can be seen that the author of this post has a fist love for the Knicks, but what he said is also true, and the Knicks really need to really reflect on themselves now and find their motivation for further development. Otherwise, everything is likely to be just a joke.

(To be continued)