Chapter 164: Stalemate (Part II)

David Lee meets Randolph and forces a shot from inside the box.

He felt that even if he was interfered with, at such a close distance, the hit rate would not decrease much, and it was worth a try.

"Bang!"

As it turns out, imagination is often the opposite of reality, with the basketball popping off the hoop.

Zhang Yu stayed under the basket after passing the ball, and he didn't have the idea of picking up the miss, and the lost basketball flew towards him. He was overjoyed, and was about to grab the basketball to start a fast attack, but Nene used his strong body to squeeze beside him, and without saying a word, he directly rolled him to the floor.

The referee did not blow the penalty, and this kind of physical contact with Cheng Dù was not enough to commit a foul.

Zhang Yu was furious! Consciously lost his face in front of the two girls, and was knocked over so easily, wouldn't it seem that he was powerless?

Billups receives the ball and goes to the frontcourt quickly, and the Nuggets have the opportunity to play the same fast offense, and they have a good point guard who can be fast or slow at the tempo.

Anthony rushed to the Knicks half court this time, shook off Wallace, who was defending him, and received a two-handed dunk from Billups!

The score was 69:70, and after the Nuggets took a timeout, it only took two offenses to overtake the score.

D'Antoni did not call a timeout, and on the offensive end of the Knicks, Zhang Yu broke into the penalty area again, but was still intercepted by layers and could only passively choose to pass again.

David Lee received the pass, and Randolph once again used the agility that did not match his body to make up for David Lee's side. David Lee missed the last shot, and this time he didn't dare to shoot again, so he turned the ball to the outside.

Crawford didn't care so much, when he received the ball, he hit a three-pointer against Billups, and with a "clang", the basketball smashed out of the basket!

Zhang Yu found that the basketball was flying towards him again, and Nene was also standing next to him.

"I'm cāo, is this going to play me?"

Of course, Zhang Yu knew that he couldn't grab Nenei, but let him stand stupidly, seeing the other party snatch this rebound, he was not reconciled!

At the same time, he secretly hated that the Brazilian had just made a fool of him, and this time he leaned towards Nene and, in the confusion of the Brazilian center, quickly elbowed the opponent's lower abdomen, and then jumped up at the moment when the opponent was in pain and grabbed the rebound.

This time, Nene was furious, the Chinese kid is so hateful, he actually plays yin?

Nene suffered a loss, of course he had to fight back, and took advantage of Zhang Yu's unsteady landing, and once again knocked Zhang Yu to the floor with his strong body.

"Toot ......"

The bald Crawford can't help but foul Nene at this time, the last time it was a reasonable collision, this time Zhang Yu just landed, and the Brazilian center deliberately hit it with his body behind him, and he could even be sentenced to a technical foul, this action is dangerous in the eyes of the referee.

Nene was not satisfied with the penalty, lifted his jersey, showed the referee his lower abdomen, and was red with an elbow from Zhang Yu. Crawford didn't see the process, of course he didn't pay attention to him, who knows if this was Zhang Yu?

However, the bald referee still discussed with the two deputy referees, mainly because Zhang Yu's reputation is not very good, and maybe he is really black.

The three of them walked to the technical table to watch slow motion, but from several angles, although Zhang Yu had an elbow movement, it seemed that he also pushed up to Nenei, but it was difficult to determine whether it was intentional? In the end, it was still over, and the original decision was upheld, and the Knicks had the ball.

Zhang Yu was secretly proud in his heart, Lao Tzu's iron elbow had been practiced to perfection, to the point where the blue is better than the blue. Even if you look at slow motion, it's not easy for us to catch pigtails.

The Nuggets fouled and the offensive clock was turned back to 14 seconds. Zhang Yu received the serve, and immediately broke through along the bottom line after getting the ball. His sudden attack this time, the Nuggets were a little caught off guard, and Zhang Yu was directly killed under the basket. But Randolph and Nene were both clubbing under the basket and still didn't have much of a chance.

Zhang Yu doesn't force the shot, that's looking for a hat! He shifted the ball wide to outside the weak-side three-point line, Wallace caught the ball and hit a three-pointer, and the Knicks finally got the score.

The two teams went back and forth, and Zhang Yu was substituted with 3 minutes left in the third quarter, and the score of the two teams was 73:74, and the Knicks trailed by one point.

Zhang Yu had already scored 29 points and 5 assists when he left the game, and after he went off the court, the Knicks obviously began to be unable to parry, and the situation began to develop in a bad direction.

Crawford's crosshairs today were good and bad, and he didn't take over the scoring load after Zhang Yu went off the court, and by the end of the third quarter, the score had become 76:81, and the Knicks trailed the Nuggets by 5 points.

The Nuggets scored 81 points in the third quarter, and the powerful offensive firepower made the Knicks unable to resist.

Anthony scored a team-high 30 points, Randolph 20 and Billups 13.

In the fourth quarter, D'Antoni put Zhang Yu on the court as soon as he started, which was his own request, and he didn't want to lose today's game, why? It's purely a matter of face. But it's not reckless, occasionally playing a game for thirty-seven or eight minutes, and it won't cost his life. Especially after a four-day break on Christmas, now his body reserves are sufficient.

George Karl didn't expect D'Antoni to replace Zhang Yu as soon as he came up, and in the third quarter, the Nuggets triumvirate played the entire quarter and are now resting off the court. However, Lao Shuai is not worried, can Zhang Yu alone beat them in two or three minutes?

Two minutes later

George Carr's throat began to hurt again, and Zhang Yu really didn't hit them, but Crawford's nerve knife suddenly attacked, and at Billups's substitute, Anthony Carter threw two three-pointers in a row, instantly overtaking the score.

J.R. Smith is very depressed right now, and today he shot 0-of-4 from three-point range and 2-of-9 from the field, and his shooting percentage was a mess, and his appearance was far inferior to Crawford, who was in the same role as him. Who likes to be compared? But the more anxious he was, the more he couldn't shoot, and his mentality was about to be unbalanced.

George Karl quickly called a timeout and used the second team's Lithuanian striker, Linas Kreza, as the team's main point of attack, unlike J.R. Smith's convulsive, Kreza has been playing steadily.

After restarting, Kreiza hit Chandler in the low post. Krezza, who is 203cm tall and weighs 245 pounds, is a player with a vague position in the third or fourth position, he has good interior skills, facing Chandler, he also sits and plays inside, squeezes until he reaches the restricted area, turns around and crosses and shakes Chandler to make a layup.

Zhang Yu took a three-pointer on the offensive end through the cover, but unfortunately missed, and Reinado Balkman grabbed the rebound.

In the next few attacks, Zhang Yu deliberately strengthened the offense, but he didn't feel good and missed two consecutive shots.

The third time, he didn't make a strong shot, and he made a foul on the opponent's bench center, and finally scored two points.

At 9:15 of the fourth quarter, the Nuggets replaced Anthony first, and Kreiza was pushed to the No. 4 position.

The score of the two teams was 83-86, and Kreza's several attacks made the Knicks temporarily fall behind by three points.

With Randolph and Billups both sitting on the sidelines, Anthony was tasked with taking on the scoring task when he came on the court. In fact, Kreiza has done a good job in the past few minutes, and he has scored 5 points in less than three minutes, which is very efficient. But these are all floating clouds after Anthony comes on the field, is the boss still called the boss if he doesn't take the initiative to attack?

D'Antoni also brought on Wallace, a defensive stalwart who was full of body, with Anthony up and him resting when Anthony was down.

As soon as Melon takes the field, he catches the ball on his favorite wings and makes his trademark probe move.

The Knicks' interior player is Kenyon Martin, who has increased his scoring to five points during this time, and he also knows Wallace's defensive approach and is ready to help defend inside.

Neither of them expected that Anthony had been off the court for a while and had found a way to deal with the opponent's inside pack, and the easiest way was not to go to the basket and shoot directly.

Wallace stepped back after Anthony's step, and Melon jumped straight to shoot, his hand was good, and the basketball went into the frame.

The Knicks attacked, Zhang Yu saw that the Nuggets were standing under the basket with substitute centers Johan Petro and Kreza, and the defensive intensity was much worse than Nene and Randolph before, especially Kreza's height can make a fuss.

Kenyon Martin came out to cover, Zhang Yu accelerated to break through, rushed into the interior and ignored J.R. Smith who was chasing behind him, and forced a close-range cricket kick against Creza.

Kreiza didn't expect Zhang Yu to have such an offensive option, ignoring his block and throwing the ball high, but he stretched out his arm after jumping hard and realized that he really couldn't reach the basketball. Zhang Yu's bounce height plus arm span is beyond the range of his block, and it is undoubtedly embarrassing for an inside line to encounter this kind of thing, but his natural height, arm span and bounce make him helpless.

Zhang Yu's shot, the basketball hit the board into the basket, and Shun Lì scored two points.

Anthony doesn't care much about this, his task is to score, not to defend, and Zhang Yu is not his opponent.

In the next round, he faced Wallace again and continued to do what he had to do.

Wallace is in pain, it's too difficult to defend such a superstar, the opponent always has a way to score the ball, and the attacking methods are endless. This time he stuck up to defend the opponent's shot, but Anthony threw the basketball into the basket again with a turnaround jumper. His block was in place, but the opponent had a good hand and there was nothing he could do to stop Anthony from scoring.

J.R. Smith and Wallace have the same idea, and Zhang Yu's offensive means are also endless, even if this Chinese seems to have a bad hand during this time, but it is also impossible to prevent it from breaking through.

Zhang Yu used Kenyon Martin's cover as a cover this time, and his body broke through in the opposite direction, how could JR Smith think of this, and he was directly cleaned.

Kreiza faced Zhang Yu again, and this time he simply did not block the basketball, but directly blocked Zhang Yu's eyes in order to interfere with his shooting crosshairs.

Zhang Yu caught a glimpse of Kenyon Martin on one side in the air and cut into the penalty area, unguarded in front of him, turned his throw into a pass in the air, and sent an aerial relay to his teammates.

Kenyon Martin jumped up, received the pass comfortably, his arms bulged out, and he grabbed the basketball with both hands and smashed it into the basket!

"Bang!"

Kenyon Martin roared to the sky after landing on the ground, venting his frustration of being suppressed by Randolph today.

With 7 minutes and 30 seconds left in the game, the Nuggets and Knicks both made their starters.

The score was 89-90, with the Knicks trailing by just one point.

As soon as Randolph came up, he wanted to beat Martin again, but this time it may have been sitting on the court for too long, and the basketball brushed out of the basket and was taken by David Ricka.

The Knicks grabbed the rebound and once again tried to unleash the quick counterattack they do best.

Zhang Yu received the ball and rushed forward, and J.R. Smith used a foul in the midfield to destroy Zhang Yu's possession.

George Carr sighed, this foul is not very necessary, as long as he follows up, Billups has returned to the defense in place, and the Knicks may not be able to make this fast break. But this foul, their foul count has reached 3 in this quarter, and it is not far from the number of free throws. George Karl thought of Zhang Yu's 90% free throw shooting rate, and the muscles in his face twitched unconsciously.

Zhang Yu received the ball two steps away from the three-point line, and when he saw Wallace gesture to him, and then suddenly accelerated to the basket, he immediately understood and threw the ball to the basket......

All eyes were on the orange basketball in the sky