On November 27, the Knicks sat at home to face the strong Utah Jazz.

The Jazz are full of outside players this season, and they are facing the same dilemma as the Knicks inside, that is, there is not enough rotation time.

Undrafted Wesley. Matthews was reused under Sloan, squeezing CJ Myers and Kyle Korver to the water cooler, snatching the starting point guard spot from Ronnie Brewer, squeezing the defensive stalwart into the No. 3 position and indirectly squeezing Kirilenko to the bench.

Now there are five players in the Jazz backcourt: Ronnie Brewer, Kirilenko, Matthews, CJ Myers, and Korver, and these five people are not enough to score 96 minutes equally, and their personal data has declined to varying degrees due to the impact of playing time.

The Jazz are on a menacing streak this time, having won five in a row and are in equally good form and capable of taking out the Knicks, the league leader, on the road.

Sloan sent out for this game: DeLong. Williams, Wesley. Matthews, Ronnie. Brewer, Carlos. Boozer, Memet. Oku's starting lineup.

At the beginning of the game, Delong. Williams and Boozer continued to block and dismantle, trying to be the main opponent.

The Knicks' unbeatable record made the players a little careless, Zhang Yu was a little inattentive on the defensive end today, and he didn't look down on Matthews, the undrafted pick, from the bottom of his heart, and as a result, the latter made a successful breakthrough to play two plus one. It was Yao Ming who paid for his leakage, the little giant was fouled by Boozer at the beginning, and now he was killed by Matthews breaking through, and he could only rest in less than three minutes of the opening game.

The Jazz started the game with a blistering start. Or rather, it was the Knicks' underdog that got the Jazz into the groove faster, and they hit a series of shots in the opening game to quickly pull the score away.

7 minutes and 30 seconds. D'Antoni called a timeout, and the score was 5-13, leaving the Knicks eight points behind.

The start was not good, and the New York fans were not too worried, believing that their team was just taking a nap, as long as they got serious for a while, and cleaned up the Utah Jazz piece of cake.

That's right. Now New York fans are even more arrogant than Knicks players. Lee was still bragging to the fans next to him, and he thought the Knicks would be able to play a burst in the third quarter. It probably won't take the third quarter for them to unleash a wave of attacks that would take out the Utahs.

After the timeout, the Knicks players took their attitude a little more seriously, and D'Antoni harshly criticized the players' attitude problems during this timeout. Zhang Yu was even criticized by the mustache.

D'Antoni is very principled on this point. Zhang Yu will be criticized for doing something wrong!

After Zhang Yu came on the court, he shot a three-point shot on the outside with the help of positioning cover, and hit the iron decisively with a "bang"!

Delong. Williams broke through the ball on the offensive end, Matthews also hit the iron under Zhang Yu's defense, but they didn't control the rebound, Buzelka was in the main position, grabbed the rebound on the head of Birdman Anderson, and then feinted to shake Anderson. Another two-plus-one.

With a score of 5:16, the Knicks are really bad now. They are already double digits behind the Jazz, and even if they outperform the Jazz, it will not be easy to catch up with the 10-point gap, and the Jazz are also strong teams in the West, not those easy to kill in the East.

Zhang Yu now knows that he is lazy, he is the core of the team, he is serious, and other players dare not be serious; But as soon as he is lazy, everyone is lazy; Besides, the Jazz are not weak, the top four teams in the West are far stronger than those in the East, and they will not have such a good winning rate in the West.

D'Antoni called another short timeout and had 20 seconds to quickly set up a breakaway strategy. The Knicks must now get the points as soon as possible, otherwise they will really be taken away by the Jazz in a wave, there are All-Stars on the opposite side inside and outside, and there must not be the slightest carelessness, they understand a little late.

Spike. Li Xian couldn't sit still anymore, a minute ago he was blowing the conch to the fans next to him, and now he has begun to scold Zhang Yu's teammate CBA!

All right...... As Zhang Yu's brain-dead fan, everyone's attitude is the same, as long as the team falls behind or loses, it must not be a rabbit who does not give up, it must be a teammate who does not play well!

The 20-second timeout quickly passed, and players from both teams returned to the court.

The Jazz players still look as serious as they did before the game, and they don't dare to be careless when they are ten points ahead, which is exactly the quality that a team that defeats the strong with the weak should have.

Zhang Yu broke through with the outside dribble, and after blocking and dismantling with Birdman Anderson, Oku and Matthews all pounced on Zhang Yu, and the Jazz doubled up.

Anderson received Zhang Yu's ball, his position was on the free throw line, and there was no way for the Birdman to receive the basketball in this position, he had no mid-range shooting ability, so he could only pass the basketball to Tai who received it from the outside. Lawson in hand.

Great. Lawson gets the basketball and simply changes direction to try to break through DeLong. Williams, but unfortunately the latter kept a good defensive distance and left only Thai. Lawson took a step away and stuck tightly on the main breakthrough route, which allowed the breakthrough to rely mainly on speed. Lawson doesn't have much to do, his breakthrough is simple and straightforward, lacks variety, and is easy to target.

Most of the offensive time passed quickly, and the Knicks' tactics did not work. Lawson didn't dare to force his own shot, and passed the basketball to Zhang Yu again.

Zhang Yu did a few crossovers against Matthews, the latter was unmoved, and Zhang Yu could only pull out from the outside, and the result was another iron!

Throughout the first quarter, the Knicks were in no state as a team, not performing like the first in the league, but like a big joke in the league two seasons ago, they created the lowest score in a single quarter this season, and in the first quarter under the strict defense of the Jazz, the Knicks only scored a pitiful 12 points.

With a score of 12:26, the Jazz led the Knicks by 14 points in the first quarter.

In the second quarter, D'Antoni was replaced: Duhon, Marcus. Thorton, Carl. Landry, Channing. Fry, Yao Ming.

Yao Ming played only three minutes in the first quarter, and in the second quarter, he attacked in the low post, hitting two consecutive shots that caused Sloan to immediately call a timeout.

Madison Square Garden resounded with the half-quarter cheers, Yao Ming was in foul crisis today, and there was not much performance on the court. But as long as the big man is back on the field, he will be as stable as ever.

The score was 14:26, and Yao Ming scored two goals in a row. The Jazz missed two consecutive shots, and the margin was about to be pulled back to single digits.

Coach Sloan clearly knows that playing the Knicks must not be boosted by them, otherwise there are many advantages in don't look at it, and it is just an advantage that will be eliminated in a blink of an eye.

Boozer was brought on early, and the anti-bone boy was substituted in the last three minutes of the first quarter, and now he can't be allowed to rest any longer. Must go up and defend his old rival.

Yao Ming was very upset to see Boozer, there are few players in the NBA who can make him uncomfortable, and this Boozer happens to be one.

Boozer is only 208cm tall. But he is one of the few players who can resist Yao Ming with strength, Boozer's bottom plate is as solid as a rock, and the defense does not use the front but the back hard top, mixed with all kinds of small movements.

The lineup of jazz is also very luxurious. Boozer, Kirilenko, C.J. Myers. The most uncomfortable thing for Yao Ming is that in addition to Boozer, Kirilenko, the Russian's long arms and flexible feet, as long as he holds the ball for more than two seconds, he will inevitably be trapped, and when the time comes, with his height, he will either be forced to pass the ball or be caught and make mistakes.

"Cut in without the ball...... Incise! D'Antoni shouted from the sidelines that the best way to deal with the Jazz's offer is to cut back and forth to the basket, whether he gets the opportunity or not, first of all, the Jazz players can no longer be unscrupulous to contain Yao Ming, it is enough to be able to do this.

Landry and Dujon immediately went to the basket. Thornton and Frye roamed around the perimeter waiting for an opportunity, and the Knicks' offense began to take shape. It is completely operated with Yao Ming as the axis.

Thorton received Yao Ming's ball from the outside, and the Jazz players rotated, and Thorton didn't have a chance to score again immediately.

Dujon is a point guard after all, receiving the basketball is already close to the restricted area, and continues to dribble to the basket to break through, immediately attracting most of the Jazz's energy to himself, and then stealthily passing......

Landry had just cut to the basket and didn't get a chance to spin it out again, this time he received the ball from Duhon, stepped into the reasonable collision zone, and immediately jumped high like a roc spreading his wings, and a powerful double slam buckled to set Madison Square Garden on fire!

"Well done, you're like a big bird!" Zhang Yu threw a towel on the field and shouted at Landry.

Landry slapped himself the chest when he landed, and he played about the same amount of time with the Knicks as he did with the Rockets, but the coaches here clearly preferred his style, and Landry felt that if he could play better, he might get more playing opportunities.

D'Antoni does prefer a player like Landry, who has great physicality, mid-range shooting ability and can hit the basket, which is tailor-made for him to run and shoot, and if Landry and Frye were on his roster last season, it is still unknown who they will play against the Celtics.

At 8 minutes and 50 seconds in the second quarter, D'Antoni replaced Zhang Yu and Wallace, and the lineup became: Du Hong, Zhang Yu, Wallace, Landry, Yao Ming.

Landry had a brilliant second quarter, slicing to the basket and scoring five points in a row.

With a score of 21:31, the Knicks have narrowed the gap to 10 points.

Players like Landry can boost the morale of a team, and they can change the course of a game by playing a few exhilarating dunks, and they are no less powerful than the main core.

After Zhang Yu came on the court, he played blocking and dismantling with Yao Ming on the offensive end, broke through to the free throw line and made a shooting posture, causing Matthews to jump up and block......

"Rub, it's so easy to be fooled?"

Zhang Yu originally planned to learn the boss's feints, stop the feints and then dribble to the inside to kill, but he didn't expect Matthews to be fooled in the first link, so be polite to him?

"Toot!"

The referee blew the whistle, Zhang Yu leaned on Matthews, scored two points with one hand, and successfully completed a two-plus-one!

Zhang Yu fell to the ground after shooting, this is to ensure that his foul will not be confiscated by the referee, and it is also to take the opportunity to unload to protect himself.

Yao Ming waved his arm under the basket, Wallace hurriedly stepped forward to help Zhang Yu, and the whole Knicks team came up to celebrate the goal.

Zhang Yu's free throws don't need to be watched, the chance of missing is too small, and they are equivalent to narrowing the score to 7 points in advance.

Madison Square Garden remembered the tsunami-like shouts of the fans, and Spike Lee turned into a villainous arrogant appearance at this time, and continued to brag to the fans around him: "What do I say, in the first half, we can play a wave of attacks and take out the Utahs!" ”

Zhang Yu hit the penalty in the cheers of the fans.

In the second quarter, there were 8 minutes and 20 seconds, and the score was 24:31, and the score gap was only 7 points. (To be continued......)