November 9th is just around the corner, Zhang Yu has not been to nightclubs in the past few days, his body is not particularly good, there are still three months to reach the 19-year-old Zhang Yu, the body is on the rise, the NBA's devil schedule is a test and a hone for him.

D'Antoni has always been intentional about his playing time, not just in the preseason but also in the regular season, and he has played more than 30 minutes in almost none of the five games, which is the playing time of most rookies, unless the rookie enters the NBA in his junior or senior year.

The game against the Jazz is about to begin, and D'Antoni is setting up his tactics in the locker room, and he is still confident of winning against the Jazz. The Jazz had a terrible defense last season, conceding an average of 99.3 points per game. On top of that, the Jazz are known in the league as "home dragons, away bugs", with a 17-24 record on the road last season. The Jazz's poor defense and lack of away games make D'Antoni have full confidence in winning this game!

Jazz starting lineup: point guard Deron Williams, shooting guard CJ Myers, small forward Ronnie Brewer, power forward Carlos Boozer, center Memet Oku.

At the beginning of the game, Brewer's defense had a great impact on Zhang Yu, the opponent had an excellent defensive sense, strong strength, long arms, and explosiveness. Fortunately, this guy doesn't talk trash and doesn't make any small moves, otherwise he would be even more difficult to deal with than Stevenson.

Ronnie Brewer's rise has been rapid, and this season he suddenly topped Kirilenko as the starter. Zhang Yu originally thought that the opponent would use Kirilenko, who is famous for his defense, to deal with him, but he didn't expect to be sent such a black and hard, and his defensive skills are not bad.

"No wonder Kirilenko was able to be squeezed to the bench."

Zhang Yu secretly thought in his heart, he has always faced players with outstanding defense in these games, if it weren't for his scoring ability being better than normal rookies and his outstanding vegetable abuse skills, he might have encountered the rookie wall. However, Zhang Yu has also slowly found a way to deal with excellent defenders, and the most effortless is to use his teammates to cover.

In the NBA, as long as you are the star and the core of the team, then no matter which opponent you face, the enemy will send the best defensive players to defend you. Each star will have their own different ways to deal with it, and Zhang Yu chooses the one that best suits his strength at the moment. If he wants to force points like Kobe, he can do it now, but that will undoubtedly increase his number of shots and reduce his shooting percentage.

Moreover, Zhang Yu knows that once he has more shots, the number of shots by his teammates will decrease, and the score will also decrease, and the team is destined to be not harmonious in the long run. Zhang Yu currently averages about 12-15 shots per game, and his good hand will increase a little, with a shooting rate of just over 50% and a three-point shooting rate of more than 40%, which is a very high shooting rate.

The high shooting percentage allows him not to occupy too many shots, and his average points per game can be maintained at 18 or 9 points, while keeping his teammates scoring at a high number, and the harmony of the whole team is unprecedented, and his teammates have long forgotten that the team has a Marbury who is receiving the highest salary of 20 million.

Kenyon Martin received the ball with his back in the low post, and instead of giving him a distance, Zhang Yu passed the ball out of the way, but cut in his direction and into the basket. Brewer didn't expect Zhang Yu to have this move, and was immediately got rid of Zhang Yu. Kenyon Martin understood and leaned on Boozer to block him and step forward to make up for it, handing the player to Zhang Yu, who stepped under the basket and raised the ball to Oku with a big lever, causing a foul on the opponent.

The center of the Jazz is the Turkish Oku, who has excellent individual defense ability, and can even defend against ruthless characters such as Yao Ming and Duncan, but his ability to help defend is limited by his own weight, and it is a terrible mess. Oku was a step slower in the inside defense this time, not only did he not stop Zhang Yu, but also paid for a foul!

Zhang Yu's wonderful goal made the fans cheer constantly, and New York's number one fan Spike Lee also became Zhang Yu's number one fan, Zhang Yu has been invited to dinner by the black director several times, and Spike Lee has specially invited Chinese chefs to entertain Zhang Yu every time, which shows the great director's love for him.

The Jazz team's offense is not fast, especially since neither of them is a speed type, and when they encounter the Knicks who attack for less than five seconds, they are immediately a little overwhelmed.

Zhang Yu knew what he should do in this situation, frantically broke through to the Jazz inside, came by himself when he had the opportunity, and passed the ball immediately after attracting the defense when he didn't have the opportunity, Kenyon Martin and David Lee frequently received the ball and staged explosive dunks, and Sloan called two timeouts in five minutes but it was still ineffective.

Halfway through the first quarter, the Knicks led the Jazz by 10 points at 18:8, allowing Utah from afar to experience what a "Kombat whirlwind" is.

At the end of the timeout, Sloan stopped using Brewer's misplaced defense, and simply replaced Kirilenko with the shooting guard position, and used the AK47, which was faster and more agile in his footwork, to limit Zhang Yu. Although Kirilenko does not have Brewer's explosiveness, he is not bad, the important thing is that he is more flexible than Brewer, and a pair of 228CM perverted arm spans make him better than ordinary players in both blocks and steals.

Zhang Yu has never seen Durant, and when he heard that his arm span is even more **, he can't imagine what it will be like for the time being. Because he was shocked enough when he saw Kirilenko's perverted arm span, there should be no more perverted arm span ratio in the NBA than this Russian, right?

Zhang Yu's own arm span is already very outstanding among NBA players, with a height of 201cm and an arm span of 216cm, which makes many stars envious. But he didn't expect that there was someone more perverted than him, who was really more popular than him!

How much help a pair of long arms can bring to the player, Zhang Yu knows best. First of all, in defense, under Kirilenko's pair of ape arms, Zhang Yu didn't dare to deliberately move the ball forward as before, and the defenders made a steal, maybe someone reached out and fished the ball away. Glancing at the opponent's equally weak figure, Zhang Yu chose to use a breakthrough to deal with the Russians.

With the cover of Kenyon Martin, Zhang Yu entered the inside line.

Kirilenko's nimble footsteps were useful at this point, and he quickly dodged Kenyon Martin's block and followed Zhang Yu a step behind.

The two were only one step apart, and Zhang Yu was afraid of the opponent's arm span and did not dare to go to the basket, so he passed the ball to Crawford on the outside.

Crawford faced Brewer and also used his nimble breakthrough to score a goal with a jumper.

For the rest of the first quarter, Zhang Yu reduced his offense under the defense of Kirilenko, and most of the passes after the breakthrough, and got 3 assists in the first quarter of the game, once again incarnating the big Nash.

D'Antoni now really has the urge to let Zhang Yu play point guard, his passing is really helpful to the team, and he is the best guard player for the Knicks to pass the ball now.

In the second quarter, Zhang Yu rested for a long time, and after taking advantage of Kirilenko's dismissal, he used his "abuse method" again, scoring 7 points in a row in a short period of time, increasing his score to double digits.

After Kirilenko came up, Zhang Yu began to play the role of point guard again, brushing assists

The star of the Jazz, Deron Williams and Zhang Yu are reversed today, because Kenyon Martin and Anderson take turns defending Boozer, his blocking partner didn't get a few decent opportunities today, and the little fat man chose to attack himself most of the time.

At halftime, the Knicks led the Jazz by as many as 16 points at 64:48, and the Jazz offense was fine, but the defense was just restrained by the Knicks' speedy play, just as their interior configuration also restrained the Rockets.

Zhang Yu had 10 points and 7 assists in the first half, Crawford 11 points, and David Lee 10 points. On the other side, Deron Williams had 15 points and 2 assists, and the point guards and points of both teams were a bit out of place today.

In the second half, Delong continued to score and Zhang Yu continued to assist, but the difference between the two teams did not narrow at all.

At the end of the third quarter, the difference had expanded to 20 points, Zhang Yu also brushed his assists to 10, and Delong Fat raised his score to 25 points.

In the final quarter, D'Antoni took all of his main players off the court in preparation for a trip to San Antonio the day after tomorrow.

Popovich's Spurs were not as easy to deal with as the Jazz today.

Zhang Yu had 13 points and 10 assists in this game, and he had two doubles. The New York media and fans were very excited, feeling that if their core continued to play like this, this year's best rookie would basically not be able to run.

"No, the ability to break the defense is still not enough, and the assists are mostly because you can't score, why do you have so many assists if you can score?"

Zhang Yu knows that he is not so good at counting, Kobe can still score 30+ in the face of Kirilenko, and James has to "set up" to deal with it, (small ones can also be used) But to deal with him, only one defensive striker like Kirilenko or Iguodala can have a big limit on him, so do you want to challenge Jordan?

After the game, he and Deron Williams exchanged jerseys, and there are rules for exchanging jerseys after NBA games, basically exchanging jerseys with players of the same status as himself. Delong took the initiative to exchange jerseys with Zhang Yu, which is equivalent to admitting that the other party is the boss of the team and a player of the same status as himself.

Zhang Yu didn't know this rule in the first game, and ran to exchange jerseys with Beasley, which made Wade very embarrassed and almost couldn't get off the stage.

Looking at Deron Williams' fat body, Zhang Yu was very envious, and couldn't help but want to cut a piece and press it on himself. He's trying to gain weight now, but it's still not working, and he's still only 200 pounds.

The Knicks coaching staff believes that increasing his weight to 210-215 pounds will not reduce his agility and speed much, but his confrontation ability will be greatly improved, and his offensive ability will be completely improved to a higher level. Just like tonight's clash with Kirilenko, if he has a stronger confrontation ability, many of the attacks after the breakthrough can be carried by the opponent. But his current small body can't bear it at all, and the chance of injury is too great if he comes hard, which also causes some media to bully him and be afraid of hard, and they don't look at how many pounds he has.

The goal of adding 10 pounds is probably enough for this season!

Zhang Yu thinks that by the time the playoffs come, it would be good for him to gain 205 pounds, and he wants muscle rather than fat. At the moment, he must master a difficult defensive scoring technique, he will have too many offensive moves, and the excessive offensive skills make him not particularly good at it, and he can't rely on increasing the number of shots, right?