The second game between the Knicks and the Lakers was still held in New York.

The momentum is still so huge.

Die-hard fan Spike Lee is bound to be there, and how many years have been waiting for this series, and nothing can make Lee miss this series of up to seven games now.

Tianda's work also has to wait, and wait until Li has finished watching these games.

Before this game, Li still came over to chat with Chen Jiyuan, and there was nothing substantial, basically encouraging Chen Jiyuan to play hard. Defeat your opponents.

The starters on both sides have not changed much, and the Knicks are still Chen Jiyuan, Love, Sessions, Iguodala, and Stephen Jackson.

The Lakers' starting five are also the same as the first game, Bynum, Gasol, Kobe, Artest, Fisher.

Although the people have not changed, I don't know if the Lakers' defensive routines have changed, in the last game, the Lakers lost to a large extent because of the poor defensive end, especially the defense of Chen Jiyuan, which made Chen Jiyuan angrily cut 36 points, when Chen Jiyuan's score is 30+, the team's chances of winning are often very large.

It's the same when playing against the Celtics, the Celtics have fought quite hard to defend Chen Jiyuan, but with a little luck, the Knicks still quickly eliminated the Celtics.

And now, the opponent is the same as the Lakers, if the Lakers can't prevent Chen Jiyuan well, the team will still not be able to win.

And for the Knicks, the task is the same, if you can't defend Kobe Bryant well, it's hard to win. The last game was because the shooter felt so good. Therefore, it is possible to guarantee an advantage of about 10 points until the end of the game.

In terms of defending Kobe, the Knicks' defensive strategy is relatively simple, that is, relying on the individual defensive abilities of Iguodala and Stephen Jackson, Sessions and Barnes to entangle Kobe, and once it comes to the critical moment, Kobe will be mercilessly trapped.

This is what Thibodeau's research on Kobe Bryant has found over the years to be a relatively effective way to defend.

After all, when Kobe Bryant fell into singles, the originally good passing vision would become narrow. The ball that can be passed will not choose to pass. The determination to play singles will also become even greater.

At this point, in fact, Chen Jiyuan sometimes has this kind of problem.

It's just that when he is different from Kobe, Chen Jiyuan at this time can still listen to others, but Kobe Bryant may not be.

Chen Jiyuan and Bynum jumped the ball, and Chen Jiyuan still got the opportunity to attack first.

After Sessions dribbled the ball past half court, he passed the ball to Chen Jiyuan in the low post on the left side, and Chen Jiyuan just received the ball, and the package was in place in an instant.

It seems that the Lakers have indeed chosen a similar tactic as the Celtics. From the very beginning of the game, Chen Jiyuan was sandwiched, so that Chen Jiyuan couldn't find the feel of shooting from the beginning. In this way, Chen Jiyuan's hand can be avoided, and there is no way to defend it.

Bynum behind him was holding Chen Jiyuan, and on the other side, Artest quickly came to Chen Jiyuan's side to wrap up.

Chen Jiyuan just got the ball, Artest stretched out his hands to pull Chen Jiyuan's injured ball away, and at the same time, in the place where the referee on the bottom line could not see, Artest slapped Chen Jiyuan's leg and arm with his right hand.

It's already a big move in a small move.

Chen Jiyuan held the ball high and then passed it to Stephen Jackson in the bottom corner.

After Stephen Jackson received the ball, he adjusted slightly and shot directly on a three-pointer.

Three-pointer. It seems like it's been a while since Stephen Jackson averaged 20 points per game this season.

3:0。

The Lakers offense, in the first quarter of the game, were more for Iguodala to defend Kobe.

Iguodala clung to Kobe. On foot, Iguodala can still keep up with all the strikers.

No one can rely solely on speed to get rid of Iguodala's defense.

Gasol came up to Kobe Bryant to block and dismantle, and the person who defended Gasol was Chen Jiyuan.

After blocking and dismantling, Chen Jiyuan delayed Kobe's forward route for a while, and Chen Jiyuan went back to defend Gasol. And Iguodala here is also running for Kobe.

Iguodala hadn't arrived yet, but Bryant had a three-pointer before that.

Today Kobe Bryant seems to have continued the three-point shooting feel of the previous game, three-point shot.

3:3。

On the Knicks' side, the ball was still passed to Chen Jiyuan on the inside, or the position of the previous ball, when the ball was flying forward, Artest let go of Stephen Jackson, and then came over to wrap Chen Jiyuan.

However, after Chen Jiyuan landed, he hit Bynum, and Artest began to run for the ball at this time.

And Chen Jiyuan was waiting for this opportunity.

Chen Jiyuan looked like he was shooting, and then when the referee behind him couldn't see anything, he pretended to be hit by Artest, made a very exaggerated move, and the ball flew to the basket blindly.

The referee's whistle sounded as soon as it came. Blows for a foul on Artest.

Artest is very wronged, the dog is a dog, Lao Tzu didn't foul this ball at all. You can feel better when you blew the ball before, but this Lao Tzu was blown for a foul when he was a good citizen. Referee: Do you want to die or don't want to live?

However, even if Artest has a very bad temper, he will not directly beat the referee at this time. I can only raise my hand to signal.

Chen Jiyuan walked to the free throw line and hit both free throws steadily.

5:3。

Chen Jiyuan looked at Artest with a smile of unknown meaning. Make Artest even more popular.

However, after the first two balls, the Knicks' offensive style has also changed.

Chen Jiyuan motioned to Sessions to come over and help him block and dismantle him, Chen Jiyuan mainly discovered that the Lakers' defense is particularly serious in protecting the low post, and it seems that it is to limit Chen Jiyuan's containment in the low post.

Chen Jiyuan also tried to organize offense in the high position, but Gasol came up to defend Chen Jiyuan in the high position, Gasol's height and arm span are very advantageous, especially when defending passes, when Gasol's weight has increased and his strength has been strengthened, on the defensive end, he really did a very good job, and he was in the first year of the finals trip. Gasol and Garnett's confrontation was comprehensively suppressed, but last year, Gasol was already able to make two direct moves with Garnett. Hit the sound and colorful.

This is Gasol's growth, while ensuring his soft hand and footwork under the basket, Gasol has also strengthened himself to a certain extent.

This made Gasol's defense better.

For example, in this ball, after Chen Jiyuan received the ball in a high position, Gasol quickly stepped up, and then stretched out his arms and swayed back and forth, interfering with Chen Jiyuan's passing route and passing vision.

In this case, the ball carrier will naturally choose to break into the inside. Chen Jiyuan is also like this, Chen Jiyuan directly shot the ball to lower his center of gravity and burst in from Gasol's side.

However, the next thing I saw was Bynum in front, Chen Jiyuan was helpless, almost, Chen Jiyuan hit Bynum, a forced reluctant pass, wanted to pass to the vacant Lefou, but there was a mistake in the pass, the strength of the pass was not enough, the angle was not good, and it was easily stealed by the opponent.

The Lakers took advantage of this to play a wave of fast breaks, and Bryant dodged the defenders and made a successful layup.

Then Chen Jiyuan chose to let Sessions hold the ball, and he stepped forward to block Sessions, Fisher had already seen Chen Jiyuan who was coming, so before Chen Jiyuan was in place, he went around it, which could only delay Fisher's action, which did not cause substantial results.

There is not much time, and it can only be Sessions individual singles Fisher.

Sessions dribbled the ball, swaying from side to side, and suddenly, Sessions accelerated and raced past Fisher.

Fisher's defense is largely supported by experience, but that experience is enough for Fisher to be successful in many situations.

No way, age is an opponent that no one can defeat, and time is a pig-killing knife. Fisher has turned from a small fish to an old fish, and as long as he hasn't become a dead fish, then he has a way to establish himself in this alliance. Just by his own mind, by his own intelligence.

Sessions' sudden acceleration made Fisher a little unable to keep up, but after Fisher's center of gravity started to speed up, Sessions suddenly stopped, and then jumped directly to shoot.

The ball slowly flew towards the basket, and Fisher could only watch dryly.

The ball bounced twice around the neck of the basket and finally went in.

In the entire first quarter of the game, Chen Jiyuan made a total of 3 shots, and spent most of the rest of the time blocking and dismantling his teammates, concentrating on defense, and scrambling for rebounds in the front court.

This is what Chen Jiyuan can do but many team brothers can't, Chen Jiyuan is willing to give his teammates a hand at a certain time, and will not willfully force himself to prove that he can break through the opponent's double bag, and he can break through the opponent's defense.

As long as he can put enough pressure on his opponent, then Chen Jiyuan thinks it's okay.

Otherwise, what you have to do is to believe in your teammates, although many times Chen Jiyuan also believes in himself more.

Chen Jiyuan has made enough contributions to his teammates, but this cannot simply give the Knicks a lead.

At the end of the first quarter, the score between the two sides was 19:19, Chen Jiyuan came up to block and dismantle Sessions and Iguodala, although the effect was okay, but the Lakers' defense was not so simple that it was easily broken by the block.

Otherwise, you won't be able to enter the finals. Seriously, any team that can make it to the Finals is at least the strongest team in the East and the West, although I dare not say that it is the top two strongest teams in the league. But that's also very strong, okay?

However, the Knicks have also done a pretty good job defending the Lakers.

So the scores of both teams in this game are relatively low. And it looks like it's very likely that this momentum, this defensive battle, this low-scoring game, will continue until the end of the game.