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Zhang Chen finally barely avoided a fire in his backyard after all his efforts, and at this time he was also ready to start real playoff preparations, at this time the Hawks were ready to directly overturn the Knicks in the first home game, in their eyes, the current Knicks team is' It's unreasonable that it's a team that looks stronger, but doesn't actually have much fighting, and the Hawks don't think it's too difficult to win this Knicks team even if they don't have a home-court advantage right now. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

When Johnson, the Hawks of the Hawks, faced with the current situation of being swept by the Knicks this season, he said directly to the camera: "Hey, we'll prove it!" We're going to show the Knicks rookies what the real playoffs are! "It's true that the Knicks haven't experienced the playoffs too many now, and there is a Zhang Chen, and the Hawks don't know what bad intentions they are holding back to clean up Zhang Chen.

In the face of the direct provocation of the Eagles, Zhang Chen did not hesitate to say what he responded to when facing reporters: "I don't know the rest, all I can say is that everything depends on strength!" A team that was squeezed out of the top four by us, which is not too scary for me! After Zhang Chen said this, he never answered this question again, and people had to put their own questions on other aspects.

This year's playoffs, as you can imagine, will still have a lot of traction. Now, the pattern of being strong in the west and weak in the east has long been broken, and even gradually changing to a weak west and a strong east. At this time, the war between the east and the west is worthy of people's attention, and the palms and backs of the hands are full of meat.

And in this year's Western game, the most embarrassing thing is the team that Chinese fans were looking forward to before the game - the Houston Rockets, and the current Big Three are basically close to falling apart. Atai and Maddie decisively fought with each other, abandoning the hypocritical performance of being a group of people at the beginning of the season who wanted to create a grand blueprint together, and the two began to provoke each other again and again, and Maddie was addicted to it after scolding some and then lay down in the hospital again, Yao Ming's legs and feet are now inconvenient, and there is also some faint pain.

The Big Three are basically fighting on their own, and the Rockets have undoubtedly been quite dangerous this season.

Among the teams in the East, the Knicks and the Hawks are naturally the ones with the most attention, and Zhang Chen came to the Knicks this season, not only achieving his reputation as the scoring champion, but also making his scoring ability continue to improve, but also began to improve in other aspects. The most important thing is that after Zhang Chen came to the Knicks, he directly helped the Knicks get out of the existential crisis brought to this team by Isaiah Thomas, and D'Antoni and Zhang Chen turned the Knicks into a brand new team.

Of course, the reason for the most concerned game is naturally that Zhang Chen's identity as a Chinese is stained, Chinese fans are the largest group of people in the world, and the support for Zhang Chen is naturally beyond the reach of other players.

Zhang Chen's performance is getting stronger and stronger, and the performance of the whole season has also made Chinese fans completely begin to identify with Zhang Chen, although there are still inverted Zhang factions in China, but these people can basically only survive behind Zhang Chen's fans.

On this day, the playoffs officially began, and the three women who were invited by Zhang Chen - Lena, Taylor, and Avril Lavril also came to the scene to watch the game.

The game, which was played at Madison Garden, the mecca of basketball, drew nearly 20,000 spectators who cheered for the Knicks in unison. Obviously, the Knicks, who haven't made the playoffs for several years, have this opportunity again this year, and all the fans are quite excited.

The starting lineups of both sides have been lined up - Knicks: Zhang Chen, Gallinari, Randolph, David Lee, Du Hong.

Eagles: Forward Josh? Smith and Malvern? Williams, center Al Horford, guard Joe? Johnson and Bibby. This lineup has also been tempered by the fire of the 08-09 season, and the lineups of the two teams can be said to be comparable.

Of course, if you want to discuss individual ability, the Knicks still have an advantage - Zach, who averaged 17.4 points and 11.2 rebounds per game in the regular season? Randolph, and David, who averaged 10.8 points and 10.3 rebounds per game? Lee, as well as Duhon, who averaged 5.2 assists per game, and Gallinari, who averaged nearly three three-pointers per game.

Of course, the most threatening is Zhang Chen, who can get an average of 40+7+5 super data per game, this person is already difficult to understand him with the inherent basketball logic of human beings, he is like a data madman, no one can avoid his light.

The game started in the cheers of the audience, first of all, the jump ball near the center line, the basketball rose high in the sky, and the two people in charge of the jump ball also instantly jumped into the sky, in the sky after a period of competition, Zhang Chen jumped high and grabbed the basketball into his arms. Then, when the people waiting for the Hawks and Knicks to pair were basically gathered in the Hawks halfcourt, Zhang Chen also began to possess the ball and close outside their three-point line.

Today's offense and defense are one-on-one from king to king, and Zhang Chen and the eagle king in front of him have started to align again, which is not the first time this season. When he saw Zhang Chen standing outside the three-point line and seemed to have some bad intentions, Eagle King Johnson also began to stick to Jian Chen as much as possible, not allowing him to make easy jump shots - Zhang Chen's 55% three-point shooting rate was no joke.

Although sticking to the opponent's defense can make the opponent be constrained in many actions, things in the world are often a double-edged sword, and there are good and bad. Such a close defense can easily cause the opponent to break through and enter the catastrophe.

Zhang Chen used a crotch ball to change direction as a warm-up before he began to break through, the basketball passed directly through the crotch from his left hand, and instantly reached the right hand side, at this moment Zhang Chen did not stop, but grabbed the basketball with his right hand, and directly turned around! After such a turn, his body was originally very tall, Johnson was the same height as him, after being turned around by Zhang Chen, Johnson's close defense was basically broken, and when Zhang Chen turned around, his ball control skills were not less, in short, Johnson couldn't be tackled at all.

After Zhang Chen made such a turn, his speed also increased to the peak, and he turned his speed in the direction of the basket.

"Defend!" Johnson hurriedly yelled at the inside, and then the Eagles' interior defenders, together with a few guys who ran in from the outside, began to block in front of Zhang Chen. As soon as Zhang Chen entered the inner line, he was surrounded by several people at a more ingenious angle.

This kind of encirclement is not a trap, but a kind of ingenious joint defense, anyway, everyone has to become a stumbling block on Zhang Chen's way forward, everyone can form a line of defense against Zhang Chen alone, and they also pay attention to their defensive players, not allowing them to have any chance to open up the vacancy. Zhang Chen's subconscious had a slight stream of consciousness passing by these guys who were defending well, and in the next second, he had already used his speed to directly pass the first defender.

At this time, Zhang Chen has come to the effective defensive range of the second defender, this guy is Horford, he just captured Zhang Chen's meaning dynamics, anyway, just when Zhang Chen passed the first person, the moment when the rear strength was exhausted, he came up to block the place that made Zhang Chen feel more disgusting, so that Zhang Chen's offense had problems. The defensive arrangement of these people is indeed quite good, the snake hits seven inches, even if Zhang Chen is strong, it is difficult for him to pass this kind of defensive network one after another.

It's just that Zhang Chen still has enough methods, facing the second defender, he directly used his shoulder to knock him away, so that another guy in his way was directly cleaned up by him. Sure enough, he saw the third defender of the opposing team rushing up.

In this way, he has now passed two defenders in a row, and he must already be at the end of the crossbow, and the opponent coming up to defend may become the last straw, sealing Zhang Chen directly in it. However, Zhang Chen was prepared, he jumped directly to the right at this time, and then used a small throw, the basketball smashed on the rebound and bounced into the basket, and the opponent's block did not work.

Although he lost a lot of dunk viewers, as long as it was Zhang Chen's goal, the audience was quite happy.

"Anemoslav!"

"Anemoslav!" All Knicks fans are using this word to express their love for Zhang Chen's goal, Zhang Chen's goal was successful, and he scored the first point for the 2008-2009 season Hawks vs Knicks!

Zhang Chen scored two points, and then retreated towards the half court to participate in the defense, and the eagle king Johnson had also come to Zhang Chen at this time. Of course, the Knicks have also launched a corresponding defense on their offense, and in the interior, the Knicks have lined up and are ready to accept the opponent's offense.

It's not just other teams that will perform differently in the playoffs, the Knicks will, after all, Zhang Chen and D'Antoni are both people who have experienced the playoffs, not to mention, people like D'Antoni can be said to be experienced in a hundred battles, and with the help of some assistant coaches and defensive coaches, he can naturally arrange some effective defensive methods.

"It's my turn......" Johnson said to Zhang Chen, and then his footsteps moved slightly, followed by two headless and brainless successive changes of direction, which were very tests of the skills of the school's defensive players. It just so happened that Johnson met Zhang Chen, a member of the NBA Defensive Team of the Year this season, Zhang Chen's defense has been tested by practice and many players, and he is quite tough. Johnson's headless offense quickly went wrong.

Because Zhang Chen's defensive ability has improved more and more, and now it has reached the stage of level ten, it can be said that it is more than enough to prevent this guy, Zhang Chen opened his hands, and then his legs also began to move in a more rhythmic way, trapping Johnson in his defensive network.

"Pick-and-roll!" After Johnson made such a gesture, Josh? Howard hurriedly ran out and came to Zhang Chen and Johnson's side, Johnson took advantage of this time to rush directly into the inner line like a joy. Zhang Chen fully reacted, and in the blink of an eye, he accelerated again and defended his side again. Zhang Chen's defense is quite fast, keeping up with his pace and speed, and in the blink of an eye, he can form an encirclement trend against Johnson again. Johnson was so shocked that he could only hoist the basketball straight inside.

Horford on the inside received the pass, and then began to work hard with David Lee, after a battle, David Lee finally was slightly inferior, allowing Horford to directly complete a violent layup on his shoulder, and the Hawks also pulled back two points.

Joe? Johnson used an assist to return Zhang Chen's layup after the breakaway, and it was obvious that he had fallen into the bottom line, and Zhang Chen's strength was vividly displayed at the beginning of the game. Zhang Chen received the pass again near the baseline, and then the ball reached outside the opponent's half, and the ball was outside the three-point line.

"Defend and defend!" Johnson hurriedly beckoned his teammates, Zhang Chen was just able to directly fight out of the encirclement in that situation, which already made these people feel a little powerless, and this ball had to defend him directly no matter what. Zhang Chen stood outside the three-point line, controlled the ball with his right hand, and then used his left hand to send out his fingers, directing the placement of his teammates, and it looked like he really had the demeanor of a point guard. Then, Zhang Chen directly used a crotch dribble, ready to accelerate the impact.

"It's not so easy to ......" Johnson hurriedly came up to defend, although Zhang Chen's current offense and defense are close to the point of insolvability, but this is the playoffs after all, and it is not easy for him to score like a bag like the regular season, so his charge after this sudden change of direction was not successful, Zhang Chen crashed into Johnson's body, fortunately he collected it quickly, otherwise he might have been directly caused an offensive foul by the opponent, but Zhang Chen still insisted on not having a chance to tell the truth at the moment of the last moment.

Johnson saw that Zhang Chen was blocked by himself in the first wave of attacks, and he also had a smug look on his face, after all, just now Zhang Chen defended him so that he should not be called ineffective, and now he saw that Zhang Chen finally got retribution, and he was quite comfortable.

It's just that there is a disdainful smile on the corner of Zhang Chen's mouth, although it is said that his attack just now has been blocked, but if this little obstruction makes it impossible for him to continue, it is absolutely impossible.

Zhang Chen used two changes of direction in a row, and then used a direct step, and then his speed had increased to his peak, and in a blink of an eye, he came to the place near the free throw line, at this time, the Eagles once again started their last kind of defense against Zhang Chen, layer by layer, so that if Zhang Chen wants to succeed in attacking, he must peel off their defense layer by layer.

At this moment, Zhang Chen suddenly jumped high inside the free throw line, and in the blink of an eye he was already in the air, and it looked like it would be a sharp jumper.

"Defend!" The three people on the inside line can't care about anything else now, and it is serious to hurry up to prevent Zhang Chen at the moment, so they also came up to block it, and the door behind a few people was already wide open. At this moment, Zhang Chen's shot was like lightning, and the hands that were originally going to jump shot instantly lowered down, and the basketball was instantly hoisted into the inside line from his right hand!

Randolph on the inside line has basically been completely empty at this time, receiving Zhang Chen's pass, he already has a sense, and immediately pulled up a slam dunk shot, the basket was shocked, this was a successful assist.

"Bang dang!" The basket was torn out of shape by the violent element Randolph, and the audience began to shout when they saw Zhang Chen and Randolph's strong cooperation:

“dcupdcup~！”

"Damn it!" Randolph, who was quite happy to hear the audience's emotions getting higher and higher, was quite happy when he realized that the group was shouting that damn nickname to him, and his mood had already flown out of the clouds. His nickname was accidentally revealed by Zhang Chen in a dispute with reporters, so people soon discovered that Randolph, who is eight feet tall and has a waist circumference of eight feet, still has such an appropriate nickname, so from then on, Randolph's nickname can no longer escape, and many fans and viewers affectionately call him so.

This made him resentful deeply, so Randolph ran over directly to the right hand that Zhang Chen was about to high-five him.

Zhang Chen knew what Randolph's reason was, so he also laughed, and then ran across the half court to participate in the defense.

At this time, there are many people who are thinking calmly, one of them is D'Antoni, D'Antoni watched Zhang Chen assist Randolph to score, and suddenly had a strange feeling in his heart. That is, Zhang Chen's assist ability has improved again! And so on - it doesn't seem to be the ability to assist, it's his big picture!

In the past, although Zhang Chen and Randolph had a wonderful state of cooperation, that is, the kind of wonderful tacit understanding that can often predict where the opponent will appear in the next second. But in this case, in the situation where Zhang Chen's vision is blocked, if his overall view has not improved, this situation is still not easy for him to find.

After all, Zhang Chen is not a point guard, and he can't grasp every point guard well, so Zhang Chen's ball quickly attracted D'Antoni's attention.

Zhang Chen is indeed improving, he has seen Zhang Chen's progress, and he is more confident in the future of the team.

In the next ball, there was a problem with the Hawks' offense, and the Knicks' David Lee, who defended Horford, hit a big luck this time, just smashed Horford's layup from the sky, and the basketball was grabbed by Zhang Chen, who rushed in behind him, and Zhang Chen immediately began to organize a counterattack.

Outside the opponent's three-point line, Zhang Chen had stopped his possession of the ball and was ready to think about it in the long run, and at this time, among the Knicks' inner line, several people began to go directly to the inside line, Zhang Chen's eyes were like torches, and the basketball was passed directly to Du Hong who came to the basket under the basket, Du Hong deftly avoided the opponent and hit the layup!

Zhang Chen made another fast attack! D'Antoni nodded.

(To be continued)