Chapter 150: Return to the fourth in the East
After the victory over the Pistons, they will go to Chicago to face the Bulls on the day off, and this year's Bulls have improved a lot from last season, 10-9 and ranked 6th in the East, and the Ross is also expected by the whole city, and the Chicagoans regard him as the cornerstone of the team's revival.
Rose himself lived up to expectations, and although his numbers were not as dazzling as Zhang's, the team's improved record is the most obvious evidence of his contribution and importance to this team.
The Chicago Bulls are a very young team, with the starting five of Rose, Gordon, Rohr Deng, Noah, and Gooden, with an average age of only 22 years old, and the oldest Gordon is only 25 years old.
Young means inexperienced, and in the face of the Knicks' whirlwind play, the young Bulls were unconsciously driven into the rhythm and followed the Knicks to play a quick offense, and both sides started running. No matter how the Bulls coach pauses the arrangement, he will still be led by the Knicks as soon as he gets on the court, and the rhythm just can't be slowed down.
Although the Bulls players are young and not afraid to run, there may be few teams in the entire league except for the Suns and Warriors who are the opponents of the Knicks at this moment, so the ending naturally ended in a fiasco for the Bulls!
With a final score of 124:109, the Knicks set the highest single-game score of the season in Chicago, and once again won two in a row after two straight losses.
Zhang Yu finally played well today, so that both teams will not work defense in a game, just see who has the stronger attacking ability. All the players took the opportunity to brush up on high scores, among which, of course, Zhang Yu, the "brush", was the most handy.
Zhang Yu played 34 minutes in the game, scored 39 points, 6 rebounds, 5 assists, 3 steals and 1 block, only 2 turnovers, 14 of 23 shots, 6 of 9 three-pointers, and 5 of 6 free throws.
Now the media that always blackens Zhang Yu has summed up the experience and figured out what kind of virtue Zhang Yu is.
As long as you play a weak team, don't expect this guy to play abnormally. The ending is definitely either a high score or a high assist! If you want to hack him when he is in the doldrums, you have to wait until the Knicks meet a strong team, when they meet a hard stubble, and they have to be away from home
But after thinking about this, everyone found that there are only a few stars left who seem to be able to not be hacked by this standard?
The next game of the Knicks is back-to-back, Zhang Yu is always skeptical, the league is not happy with them, and they will come back-to-back every few days, and this time it is even more fatal away back-to-back, they finished the game with the Bulls, and they are going to challenge the New Jersey Nets non-stop.
The Nets have a poor record this year and are a typical rebuilding team, that is, fish belly!
So the media who plan to black Zhang Yu are sighing in unison, it seems that even away + back-to-back can not prevent Zhang Yu from scoring high scores again, if you want to hit this Chinese face, you still have to rely on the 16th away game against the Lakers, and then let the boss elbow is not a good lesson for this first-year rookie
The media was right, Zhang Yu showed no mercy in the face of college teammate Brook Lopez and national team teammate Space Yi, and once again scored 31 points, 6 rebounds and 4 assists to lead the Knicks to a 105-96 victory over the brothers.
Brook Lopez scored 13 points and 7 rebounds, Space Yi scored 15 points and 5 rebounds, and Carter, who was opposite Zhang Yu, scored 28 points and 5 assists.
One is that I don't want to waste my body to defend, and the other is that I really don't have the energy to defend, anyway, the final result is a happy ending!
The main purpose of the Nets this year is to develop new talents, and the old guys in the team have no desire to win, and the team's record is very poor, and they are destined to miss the playoffs.
With back-to-back wins over the Nets, the Knicks finally had two days off, but on the 13th, they still have to travel to the Sacramento Kings to challenge the Sacramento Kings, which is their third consecutive away game, but the Kings are now the bottom of the league, so they should not have much difficulty on this road trip.
The star of the Kings is Kevin Martin now, but this is clearly just a transition, not a real ideal rebuild in the eyes of Kings executives. Despite this, there is only one player in the Kings team this year who can be regarded as having some strength and can take shots, and the rest is a group of old, small, and injured injuries
The Knicks defeated the league's biggest fish belly on the road, because the only player the Kings can take the shot, Kevin Martin, happened to be injured, which made Zhang Yu a little embarrassed to make a dead hand, and played 28 minutes in the game to get 30 points, 5 rebounds and 6 assists, without a single mistake, easily and happily helped the team complete three consecutive wins, and finally not two consecutive wins immediately after two consecutive wins.
With the win over the Kings, New York fans got the good news that they were back in fourth place in the East. So far, the team has a 15-8 record, one win behind arch-rivals the Celtics and two wins behind the Cavaliers.
In their next game, the Knicks will continue their road trip to where their head coach has made a name for himself as Phoenix, taking on the Suns. This game is important for D'Antoni who is back to his old place, and the players will also want to give their manager a face, and they will be bound to give the victory to their coach.
The Suns are now like sunset, two-time MVP winner Nash and the toughest center in history O'Neal, they sound, but they can't resist the sadness of old age and decay, just like the sun next to the rooster that is about to set, struggling but having to fall.
Aside from age, which is a natural law that no one can violate, the tactical system left behind by D'Antoni is still influencing the Suns. When it comes to the Suns, everyone's first impression is to run and bang! However, the Sharks and current head coach Terry Porter want to erase all of D'Antoni's legacy, but there is one person they can't bypass, and that is two-time MVP winner Nash.
Facing Nash: I'm shelling right here. As well as Xiao Si's: Bombardment in my point of view. The Suns were suddenly plunged into civil unrest, and their results plummeted.
At this time, D'Antoni returned to Finetez, and the Suns fans and players looked very conflicted, without boos or cheers, like an unimportant preseason game.
D'Antoni knew that neither of his disciples was having a good time right now, but he was a lot like bringing Nash and Smalls to the Knicks, and he was trying to do so. Especially since Nash will be a free agent next year, D'Antoni has been privately talking about the Son of the Wind leaving the Suns to join the Knicks and co-create his unfinished championship career with the Suns.
Basically, as long as Nash becomes a free agent next year and joins the arms of the Knicks, it is conceivable that when Smalls' contract expires in 2010, it is very likely that they will join the New York camp with the two. At that time, the F4 combination of Nash + Xiao Si + Zhang Yu + Wallace is too beautiful to watch
However, although the F4 combination is beautiful, it depends on whether the uniform team in New York next summer can give it a good hand, whether it can bring Nash ** to the Big Apple first, and then talk about it, and the two sides are still opponents today.
Nash and Smalls communicated with their mentor for a long time before the game, and the Suns' top management saw the three of them standing together, and they were all worried for fear that their two cores would let D'Antoni go.
In today's game, Terry Porter's tactical set-up was completely different from the team's play, and Nash and Smalls completely ignored Porter's tactics and played their best bombardment and pick-and-roll, just like D'Antoni standing in front of the Knicks bench was still their head coach.
Suns head coach Porter's face was pale, and even fans could see that Nash and Smalls had completely torn their faces with the new coach, which was the rhythm of the break, and the two sides had a showdown.
Shaq O'Neal is the most embarrassing right now, can you imagine what it's like for a 300-pound 36-year-old fat guy to turn around and run back and forth on the field? All O'Neill is doing now is creaking the floor with every step
You know, rotten tofu that is at its peak and is a lap younger than O'Neal can't stand the bombardment, how can O'Neal keep up with the speed of Nash and Xiaosi? Within a few minutes, he secretly signaled to the head coach to change himself, and Uncle Shaq couldn't stand it.
Besides, O'Neal is only running for nothing on the court, Nash is not willing to pass the ball to him at all, and the big shark is in the same camp as Terry Porter.
No team is going to end well once it is in civil unrest, as evidenced by the fact that the Suns have fallen to 11th place in the West this season.
Nash and Smalls are firmly playing the run-and-gun tactics that have been etched into their bones, relying entirely on the tactics left by D'Antoni to play on the spot.
Not all players in the Suns team dare to offend the head coach, as long as Porter is still in the Suns for a day, Nash and Xiaosi dare not move, but others Porter can press him to the bench without any scruples, so the five players of the Suns have been disjointed, and the tactical system is very chaotic.
In the face of such an opponent, Zhang Yu was still polite to the other party, originally thought that it would be a bad battle to meet the throat master Laga Bell, but Bell was also disturbed by the civil strife and had no intention of playing, so that Zhang Yu unscrupulously brushed points on his head, which felt too cool.
By the end of the game, many Suns fans had already left the sad spot, as their team trailed by 20 points in the third quarter and turned the game into garbage time early.
In the last quarter, both teams replaced the main team, Nash and Xiaosi did not shake hands with the head coach, and the conflict that originally broke out after the All-Star was induced by the Knicks' excellent record, which broke out in advance, and this is also an important fuse to change where Nash will go after the season.
Zhang Yu only played 26 minutes in this game, which is less playing time than the last game with the Kings, because tomorrow is the Knicks vs Lakers game broadcast live in the United States, and fans all over the world are waiting to watch the "Iron Elbow Battle" or the monkey stealing peaches or something, which is the real wonderful game.
It's a damn away back-to-back again, the Knicks are really devilish schedules this time, counting tomorrow's back-to-back games against the Lakers, they have experienced five consecutive away games, including two back-to-backs!
After the game, the New York media and fans were very proud that even in the face of such a devilish schedule, they actually won four in a row and improved their record to 16-8. This was something that no New York fan dared to fantasize about before the season.
And Zhang Yu, who directly brought this qiē, now does not dare to walk on the street at will, because he is afraid of being swallowed up by the phone number of female fans
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