345 Revenge
The Knicks always have a bit of a winning flavor in this game, but if you think about it carefully, Durant was hit so badly by Zhang Chen, isn't it because they are not as good as others? In this case, it is not a question of victory or not, it is just an accident.
In the whole game, Zhang Chen's assists set a career high, reaching an unprecedented eight, and his total data for the whole game was 35 points, 8 assists and 4 rebounds. In fact, Zhang Chen has also been widely criticized in some places, the most important of which is his stats, he has never obtained a double, let alone a triple-double.
Zhang Chen's rebounds are also getting more and more these days, and his rebounding ability will gradually strengthen after the improvement of defensive skills.
Durant's early departure gave people a reason to attack Zhang Chen, but Zhang Chen quickly came to the front of Durant after the game, and Durant stood up with a smile. Zhang Chen was still a little guilty: "I'm sorry...... I didn't expect things to turn out like this, I'm really sorry. ”
Durant patted him on the shoulder: "It was just an accident...... However, you won't have it so easy in the next game, and I'll give you a taste of my progress! ”
Zhang Chen smiled, and then said: "Then I'll wait, I'm afraid that you will be defeated by us at that time." ”
Durant waved his hand: "That's naturally impossible." He quickly retraced in his mind the process of himself and Zhang Chen from realizing to the present, people are often so strange between people, some people feel that they have nothing to say even if you have known each other for a lifetime, and some people are as if you have known each other for a lifetime. This wonderful feeling constitutes Durant's special affection for Zhang Chen, so even if he is knocked away by Zhang Chen, he only has some troubles about his lack of strength and some surprise at Zhang Chen's rapid progress, and he has no resentment towards Zhang Chen.
Now seeing that Zhang Chen took the initiative to find himself to apologize, Durant naturally has no complaints.
"Alright! See you later! Zhang Chen heard Durant say so categorically, and he said goodbye, it seems that the next time he meets him again, he will not be so easy to get along. At that time, it is estimated that it will be a dumbfounded and jaw-dropping battle, and it will be fought until the two sides are scattered.
The Knicks are on an road trip as they beat the Thunder in Oklahoma on the front foot and head to Dallas to take on the Mavericks on the back foot.
The Mavericks are a difficult opponent, and the Knicks lost to the Mavericks in the last game, they are going for revenge this time, and they can't let the family keep winning you, right? So the day after the game, everyone couldn't wait to get into the plane to Dallas, ready to deal with this gritting opponent.
After the Dallas Mavericks' last game, the Mavericks' big-mouth manager looked nonchalant when someone asked what to do with the Knicks: "I'll show up in the arena on time for the next game and wait for the Knicks to fall!" ”
"Do you think you're going to win?" This is a reporter's question, and they also feel that Cuban's words are a bit too arrogant, not to mention that it can also lead to mutual bombardment to earn eyeballs. Sure enough, after hearing the reporter's question, this guy from Kuban quickly raised his hand and waved Fang Xuan arrogantly: "That's natural...... What does the Knicks have? Do they have anyone who can win? …… I know you want to talk about Zhang Chen, but I think it's just a guy who is obsessed with a woman's belly, maybe you don't see it clearly...... I could tell that his face wasn't very good, and that was because he was wasting energy. In fact, when he first entered the Alliance, I predicted that he would one day let the world know him again because of the woman's affairs, and from now on, this prophecy has been fulfilled. "Kuban is pretending to be the Emperor of Prophecy, in fact, he has never said such a thing, but now everyone wants his boasting, but no one has come forward to refute him. Kuban looked at the following piece of the nod with satisfaction, even more proud:
"We're going to teach revenge a lesson for New Yorkers who want revenge!" This is Cuban's final fist shake as a summary of the words, which made the Mavericks players feel a little bit that this guy is exaggerating? And the reporters in the audience wrote on paper: "The Mavericks manager threatens to take out the Knicks effortlessly, and they think the Knicks are just a team that can be easily eliminated." ”
When this news reached the ears of the Knicks, it was naturally annoying, so they were even more imaginary about this revenge.
Re-arriving at the Dallas Mavericks, Cuban occasionally visited the Knicks' locker room and reiterated his point: "I'm going to let you go around without food!" ”
This caused the unanimous contempt of everyone on the Knicks, and Randolph, who was grumpy and large, also approached Cuban's face with his fist and said loudly: "Hey, old man, do you want to taste the fist?" ”
"You brute fellow...... You'll learn a lesson on the pitch! Cuban said cruel words while retreating, and at this time, what made him hurt was that Zhang Chen also came up and stretched out his right middle finger: "Get out...... Damn old man. "There are not many opportunities for Zhang Chen and Randolph to share the same hatred, the brothers work together to break the money, Cuban is driven away, and then the locker room is filled with laughter.
The Mavericks were one of the culprits in their various losing streaks last time, so this time the Knicks are going all out to take them down.
At the beginning of the game, the basketball was jumped by the Mavericks after just starting to jump the ball, and the person who was opposite Zhang Chen today was Josh. Howard, Zhang Chen followed him and immediately ran through the half.
The person in charge of controlling the ball is naturally the Mavericks' leading point guard, the legacy of the traditional point guard, Jason. Kidd, this guy had the ball for half the court, but he was a little gloomy in his heart. Because there was a woman next to him who was yelling at him, and this person was his ex-wife Marina.
Kidd used to be very afraid of his wife, when he was still in the Nets, there was a thing that happened that his ex-wife instructed his daughter to steal Kidd's mobile phone, after checking some of Kidd's ** inside, she immediately jumped out of the backstage, jumped to the front row and started all kinds of scolding, Kidd received a strong pressure that day, under the huge pressure of his wife, he also lost the game. Time has passed, he has broken up with his ex-wife, but today his ex-wife is here again to scold the street, which makes his face very difficult, and his teammates are also helpless against the opponent of the hardest working home player in the stadium.
Kidd's possession is still very calm, Kidd is a legacy of the traditional point guard and the league's current triple-double king, passing the ball is unpretentious, but he can always punch the flesh just right. He chose to pass the ball through a pass to Nowitzki, who made a flip inside jumper and basketballed the basket to give them the first shot.
The Knicks' first offense in this game began, and it was still Zhang Chen who controlled the ball, and the Mavericks were used to Zhang Chen's possession of the ball, but no one tried to come up and make a desperate steal, so Zhang Chen controlled the ball through the half without waves. Then passed to Du Hong, Zhang Chen can now get a lot of assists in every game, but he doesn't dominate the team too much.
Basketball is in Du Hong's hands, Du Hong's face is cloudy, facing such a point guard senior, although he has respect, he also knows that he must go all out. The basketball began to hit the ground again and again with Du Hong's body in his hands, and Zhang Chen shook off the restraints of Josh Howard next to him, and shook off the defender after a few clever running feints.
It is not easy for Dujon to break through an experienced defender like Kidd, who has not only not completely degraded due to age, but has become more and more rich over the years and with the accumulation of actual combat experience. His defense was on full display against Duhon, who was blocked by his defense.
Du Hong also saw Zhang Chen's vacant seat at this time, and he secretly praised in his heart, after all, it was Zhang Chen, who could always save him from fire and water in times of crisis. So, the basketball in Du Hong's hand came out in the direction of Zhang Chen, Zhang Chen immediately jumped after receiving a pass on the outside, and the basketball easily hit for him to take the lead in scoring three points, and also let the Knicks open the prelude to the revenge war with a three-point shot.
Zhang Chen got three points first, which also allowed Du Hong to brush out an assist, and the ball was once again back in the hands of the Mavericks.
Then, today's game fell into a state of tearing at the beginning, and the Knicks couldn't completely open the score as they imagined to make the Mavericks afraid, and the Mavericks didn't use their offense to make the Knicks' revenge impossible to talk about as they thought, so the two teams have been fighting each other in the situation of alternating scores. After all, the Mavericks are also a strong team in the West, with good tactical literacy, well-founded advances and retreats, and well-organized offense and defense, not to mention that they also have an experienced old point guard like Kidd.
There is no doubt that the Mavericks are a strong team, and it is not easy for the Knicks to want revenge, what they need is more effort.
First of all, Zhang Chen's three-point shot and Nowitzki's mid-range shot opened up the situation between the two teams, and then Kidd assisted his teammate on the inside to score again, making the score 4:3, and the Knicks also used David Lee's layup on the inside to make the score alternate by one point.
The next two teams accepted a brief scoring drought, with Zhang Chen missing two three-pointers and Nowitzki missing a mid-range shot, leaving both players a bit out of shape. That continued until the second minute and a half minutes when Kidd of the Mavericks reopened the game with a mid-range shot, and the game returned to normal.
Not to be outdone, the Knicks were not to be outdone after Kidd's mid-range shot, and Zhang Chen assisted Gallinari on a jumper near the free throw line with a base pass to cut down two points, and the Knicks once again maintained their lead. Then, the game was forced into an endless cycle of overlapping scores.
Neither side allowed the other to have a two-point lead anyway, and in the eighth minute, the ball was in the hands of the Knicks, who are now one point behind. D'Antoni called a timeout outside the basketball court, and the players from both sides returned to the court after being coached by him.
The Knicks controlled the first ball, and Zhang Chen has scored 5 points and 2 assists so far in this game, which is also normal. He once again possessed the ball past half court and was outside the opponent's three-point line, and Josh Howard, who came up to defend him by the Mavericks, nervously moved his feet. So far in this game, Josh Howard has not found that Zhang Chen has shown a particularly strong score, but he does not dare to relax at all, you must know that he was abused by Zhang Chen in the last game, and now he naturally does not dare to relax in the slightest.
Zhang Chen began to move his steps, and then he suddenly drove full horsepower to the inside line and quickly cut straight in, Zhang Chen's terrifying speed has long been left in Josh Howard's memory, and now seeing that Zhang Chen is about to fire at full power, he quickly pounced in the direction of Zhang Chen, and Zhang Chen when Josh Howard was about to touch him, lifted the weight of the basketball in his right hand to the left and took it away, and his body also came to the left with a big retreat, standing in the other direction, Then the basketball was held firmly near his forehead in the grip of his own hands.
The basket was waiting for the basketball to enter in the distance, and Zhang Chen's jumper also flew closer and closer to the basket in Josh Howard's somewhat panicked expression, and finally flew directly into the basket in the fear in the eyes of the Mavericks players. Zhang Chen raised his score to eight points, while also giving the Knicks a two-point lead.
Being two points ahead of the Knicks is already a dangerous sign, which means that if the Mavericks' next goal is just a decent mid-range shot, they are likely to be pulled away by the Knicks, and then slowly pulled away from that gap. They also had to fight back with three-pointers, so the basketball came into Nowitzki's hands, and he tried a three-point shot.
Nowitzki's shooting ability is not just in his mid-range shooting, his three-point shooting is also capable of ensuring a high level of efficiency, and his three-point shooting percentage this season is 36.9%, which is also a relatively good statistic in the league. Therefore, it is understandable that he chose to save the team at such a time, but it is a pity that the basketball did not play its due role in his hands and bounced off the basket with a bang. Fortunately, at this time, the Mavericks' interior reacted, grabbed the rebound, grabbed the rebound, and after grabbing the rebound, he made a layup and hit a layup, allowing the two sides to achieve the first tie since the beginning of the game.
While missing a three-pointer disrupted the Mavericks' scoring plan, hitting a two-pointer also bought them time and created opportunities.
The basketball came to Zhang Chen's hands, Zhang Chen controlled the ball over half the court, and the Mavericks immediately faced a big enemy, and Josh Howard wanted to make up for it, but he once again blocked Zhang Chen's face.
The two of them were entangled and came to the three-point line, at this time Zhang Chen held the basketball with his right hand, turned his body sideways to press Howard's chest, and then he suddenly took his left foot as the axis, and then his body rotated towards his right, seeing that he was going to use this spin to get rid of Howard's spin, at this time Howard woke up like a dream, and hurriedly guarded in front of Zhang Chen's eyes.
However, Zhang Chen's jump shot did not appear in front of him as Howard imagined and flew towards the basket at the same time, on the contrary, Zhang Chen quickly retracted his body, and then he used his left leg as the axis again, and his body rotated to the left this time, Howard shouted that he was fooled, and quickly changed his center of gravity again to block Zhang Chen.
However, he made another swoop, because Zhang Chen used two consecutive turns, and after these two turns, the opponent was quickly completely shaken away by him, and he was already able to jump outside the three-point line without worry.
The basketball shot, made a trajectory in the sky, and flew towards the basket again, and the basketball crashed into the net after the flight.
"It's another three-pointer!" Kidd was annoyed in his heart, and after returning from the timeout, Zhang Chen immediately came to two three-pointers, which made their wishful thinking all come to naught, and now that the Knicks have a three-point lead, let's see how they will face it.
"Hoo ......" The audience booed loudly, and some of the audience members urged Kidd to catch up with the score as soon as possible and slaughter the Knicks, all of whom expressed panic about the three-point shot. Kidd was unhurried with the ball, and when he came to the three-point line, he immediately jumped and shot, Dujon didn't have time to defend in front of him, not to mention that there was a big height gap between the two.
The basketball left Kidd's hands and flew to the basket, but unfortunately the ending of the ball was exactly the same as the one that Nowitzki had just thrown, and the rebound was hugged by the Knicks' David Lee. David Lee, who was holding the basketball, immediately passed the ball to Zhang Chen, Zhang Chen controlled the ball and ran across the half court, and the Mavericks hurriedly called the defense.
Howard is really going to atone for his sins this time, Zhang Chen's two three-pointers just now make him feel full of anger in his heart, he must guard Zhang Chen this time, and this is also similar to the guidance style of the Mavericks superstructure. So Howard directly came to Zhang Chen for a close defense.
Before the Mavericks' defense could fully contract, Zhang Chen suddenly pulled out in front of Howard, and Howard followed when he saw Zhang Chen's movements, and he was able to block Zhang Chen.
And Zhang Chen is a feint, his real action is to pass the ball to Gallinari on the side, Gallinari jumper, three-point shot steadily, the Knicks lead by six points.
The Knicks' three-point rain is often launched by Zhang Chen and Gallinari, and it turns out that although the combination of these two people's chaotic punches cannot directly kill the master, they can also beat the master.
(To be continued)