In the next game, Lefu can make Chen Jiyuan feel uncomfortable every time he defends, and every time he catches the ball, if Chen Jiyuan wants to play alone, Lefu will limit Chen Jiyuan very well, although even so, Chen Jiyuan still scored 14 points in 5 of 9. However, it is true that it is uncomfortable to play and consumes more body. This will affect the shooting rate in the fourth quarter, and for this reason, Chen Jiyuan began to reduce his ball holding in the third quarter, blocking and dismantling as much as possible, or attracting the defense, and then passing.

In the face of Chen Jiyuan's passing, Lefu had no choice but to watch Chen Jiyuan pass some wonderful passes, Chen Jiyuan's passing ability was overestimated in the first season This is a fact, but Chen Jiyuan does have considerable passing strength, as long as Chen Jiyuan has the ball in hand, Chen Jiyuan's overall view is really good. After coming to the NBA, Chen Jiyuan has exercised his passing ability, and his strength and technique are trained by special people.

Today, in order to save the body and prepare for the fourth quarter, Chen Jiyuan deliberately chose to pass more in the third quarter, and in the blue team, in addition to Chen Jiyuan, there are still people holding back their strength. That man was Crawford. Because Crawford felt that Starkey was looking at him with a bad look, and it was obvious that he was playing for real. I don't see that I'm looking for form, I feel like I'm playing a real regular season. Crawford is not very happy with Stucky, this, people in similar positions, generally speaking, will have a little sense of competition with each other, Starkey and Crawford are positioned as scoring experts, that is, the first scorer on the outside, only one is enough. In the end, this person is Crawford or Starkey. It depends on the table of the two people on the field. Whoever can show stronger strength will get more playing time. You will also be able to get more opportunities to make more shots, and you will be more valued by the head coach. And in the end, you can get a more feared contract extension. You'll be able to get more money.

During the period when Chen Jiyuan was not playing, Starkey and Crawford were on the same page, but fortunately, Crawford and Robinson had a good relationship, and Sessions was also a player who focused on the overall situation, and would not pass the ball to him because of the change in Starkey's attitude towards him before.

I saw Starkey and Crawford going back and forth, after Starkey rushed into the inner line, he chose to collide more physically, and then made a shot, and on the other side, Crawford's style of play is more elegant, and more literary, which is also something that can't be helped, who made Crawford's body thinner, and Starkey has gained weight this offseason, and his confrontation ability is stronger.

Therefore, Crawford is powerless when defending Stucky, because Starkey is completely crushing play, and Starkey is not very easy to defend when defending Crawford, mainly because Crawford is faster, and Crawford does not have to break through. Because Crawford's outside line has a certain amount of accuracy, at least the Cheng dù that can be shot. At this point, it is much stronger than Starkey.

Now that there is such a situation of competition between the Knicks team, Chen Jiyuan is not worried, after all, the more competition. The more both sides will progress. Such a result is good for the team, so healthy competition is what Chen Jiyuan and Thibodeau are willing to see. However, if this competition becomes vicious, then the result will be different.

This 5v5 is no different, but for Chen Jiyuan, the biggest difference is that Chen Jiyuan found that this Lefu is different from the Lefu in his impression. It's not the original defensive hole, it's not the Lefu that is not very efficient despite the number of blocks. Now Chen Jiyuan is facing Lefu's defense, and every attack is very difficult.

Lefou's defense of Chen Jiyuan can do so well, mainly due to Thibodeau, a person who is very "grudgeful". Since the last time Chen Jiyuan got such a score under his ** Celtics Big Three defensive system, Thibodeau has studied Chen Jiyuan's offensive habits and offensive means after he went, so he is very clear about how to defend Chen Jiyuan, and originally planned to let Garnett use this information when defending Chen Jiyuan, but he didn't expect to use it much, but now he uses it here. Lefu listened to Thibodeau's advice, and when defending Chen Jiyuan, he tried not to jump, and after research, Thibodeau found that when Chen Jiyuan was on the left side, he chose to turn over and jump more often, and when he was on the right side, he obviously turned around and broke through the redundant flip jumper. Therefore, in this case, when he was on the right side, Lefu chose to defend and turn around more under Xibodeau's Jian, and always blocked Chen Jiyuan's breakthrough route in advance, and when he was on the left side, he didn't go to block, because if he wanted to block Chen Jiyuan, it would be quite difficult to rely on Lefu's defense alone. For this, both Thibodeau and Lefu know it. Therefore, what Lefu needs to do every time is to push Chen Jiyuan out of the three-second zone as much as possible, and as far as possible to interfere with Chen Jiyuan near the waist, under this smart defensive method, Chen Jiyuan is really very uncomfortable to be defended by Lefu, but, even so, Chen Jiyuan can still get 18 points at the end of the first three quarters, although the shooting rate of 6 in 11 is not very high, but the number of free throws in 6 of 7 is passable. However, in the third quarter, Chen Jiyuan, as an All-Star center, was forced to choose more passes by Lefou, a guy who had never played in the NBA, and at this point, it can be seen that Lefou's ability to execute Thibodeau's meaning.

The fourth quarter of the game was about to begin, and the players of both teams were getting ready to play, and gradually, it was evident that more and more people were getting serious about this practice game.

Chen Jiyuan is also a bit up, wanting to score more points under Lefou's defense, and on the other side, Starkey wants the head coach to prove that he is a player who can become the core of the outside line. Whether the opponent is Sessions or Crawford, Starkey doesn't want to lose, especially after the end of last season, when Starkey was asked by a reporter what he thought of Sessions, although Starkey was praising his teammates, but he didn't think that Sessions would be his opponent, and when the reporter said to Starkey very silently, "Then do you think that both of you are guards who started in their rookie seasons, who will play a greater role in the team?" ”

Starkey didn't even compare Sessions, a second-round rookie, with himself, and now that the reporter asked, it was natural that Starkey's self-esteem was a little unbearable. Starkey didn't have such a big animosity towards Sessions and Crawford last season, but after this season, the Knicks' lineup became more and more complete, and on the guard line, Nate Robinson also had more opportunities to play in the preseason under the signal of head coach Tom Thibodeau, and also got more opportunities to shoot. That's a lot of good things for Robinson, but it's not a good thing for Starkey. There are more and more competitors on the guard line, and because of the arrival of Tony Allen, there is no need for Crawford and Quentin Richardson to play as small forwards, so Quentin Richardson and Crawford are back at the guard position. That said, the Knicks now have more and more people on the guard line. Sessions, Robinson, Starkey, Crawford, Richardson. With so many people sharing playing time, it is natural that whoever is stronger and who can bring more wins to the team will have more playing time, which is something that everyone in the galaxy knows. Among these guards of the Knicks, there are no old, weak, sick and disabled, and their strength is not weak, although they are not the top strong. Well, who will play is a big deal. Starkey wants more playing time and he needs to prove that he was drafted with the 13th overall pick in the first place, and Sessions was not drafted until the second round for a reason, and he is by no means a parallel import.

Many people don't care about these public opinions and rumors, but in the same way, there will be many people who care a lot. Starkey is clearly the latter.