Chapter 627
Sessions has really been out of the limelight during this time.
This season, Sessions has become completely famous.
Although the season is not over yet, anyone with a head knows that after the end of this season's contract, Sessions is about to become the object of competition among various teams.
Originally, everyone was saying that the one-year contract that Sessions signed with the Knicks during the offseason was a bad deal. It was a decision that Sessions had put a lot of mush in his head. But now, no one is wondering if their minds were full of mush.
At that time, Sessions was a restricted free agent, and the Knicks' offer was actually quite good. A lot of teams don't even want to make that offer.
As a thriving team, the Knicks have just gotten Iguodala, and the future of the team is still relatively optimistic about everyone, and Chen Jiyuan is gradually occupying a pivotal position in this league. Being able to cooperate with such an inside player must be the ideal of countless outside players.
Sessions is so ruthless, so confident in himself, that he asked to sign a one-year contract with the team, which is like putting five million dollars in front of him, but Sessions didn't take it.
Still, Sessions' audacity paid off.
At the end of this season, Sessions will be a complete free agent, and at that time, Sessions will definitely receive the maximum salary offered by the Knicks. Based on Sessions' performance during this period, it's worth the price.
Sessions has missed a lot of games in the last 48 games, but he has played very well in those games he loves to play.
Sessions is averaging 16.9 points, 7.7 assists and 5.0 rebounds per game so far. As a guard, Sessions has little to say about his stats in terms of steals and blocks. But isn't that 15+5+5 statistic, and the mastery of the big picture, enough to make Sessions a top-paid player?
There may be a lot of people who doubt this and think that giving Sessions a contract of more than 10 million is enough.
However, what you need to pay attention to is, how many seasons is this for Sessions? At this time, such data was played, and all those who used to say that Sessions had no future had a swelling on their faces that could not be swollen.
Therefore, no one can say whether Sessions will grow into a 20+10+5 super All-Star player in the future.
If Sessions is given a maximum salary at this time, it is gambling, betting that Sessions' future will be brighter and brighter.
A lot of the NBA deals are gambling. When the Lakers chose to trade Kobe, how was it not gambling, exchanging All-Star center Divac for Kobe, in case Kobe didn't play, wouldn't the Lakers also get injured all of a sudden.
Therefore, if there is no gambler's heart, it will definitely not work in the NBA, and it will be difficult to get good players if you worry about this and that.
Therefore, after the end of this season, the contract that Sessions got and the contract given by the Knicks before was definitely not at the same level at all.
Chen Jiyuan feels that he is still relatively lucky, because the players selected by the team have performed well, Curry, Thorton, Ibaka, and Ty Gibson have all shown good competitiveness after entering the team.
A person like Chandler's downfall has not yet appeared a second. This made Chen Jiyuan really happy.
This is also the reason why Chen Jiyuan is extremely eager for the championship this season.
Even if Sessions didn't accept that contract, everyone, including Chen Jiyuan, felt that Sessions just wanted a bigger contract and wouldn't leave the Knicks, but things often change a little bit, so it's interesting.
Eyes back to the game, because of Sessions' goodness, uh, no, because of Sessions' super bull performance, allowing the Knicks to regain the initiative on the court. Forced the knight to ask for a timeout.
After the timeout, the Cavaliers made a substitution, but instead of replacing Mo Williams, they replaced the interior player, replaced O'Neal, replaced Anderson Vallejo, JJ Hickson continued to play the team's No. 4 position, and Anderson Vallejo played the team's center.
And the outside line is still James, Gibson, and Mo Williams.
The Knicks didn't have any personnel changes at all.
The game started again.
The effect of the knight's pause was immediate. After James broke through the ball, Mo Williams received the ball and shot a direct three-pointer, and the ball went in. 55:57。
However, the Knicks attacked, Sessions and Chen Jiyuan blocked again, and this time, the Cavaliers' interior player was Anderson Vallejo, and Anderson Vallejo and Mo Williams switched defenses.
Sessions has scored consecutive goals before, and it is easy to burst with confidence at this time, and then he will not choose to pass. Many times, this heart is easy to grasp. However, Sessions once again proved his strength and overall situation, Sessions hoisted the ball high to Chen Jiyuan who cut inside for the first time, Mo Williams couldn't reach the ball at all, and naturally couldn't stop Chen Jiyuan from receiving the ball.
Chen Jiyuan held high. is to use the absolute advantage of height to bully Mo Williams. After receiving the ball, bounce forward two steps, and then directly make a one-handed split. Although there is no momentum, the result of the two points will not change.
Mo Williams dodged after seeing Chen Jiyuan start, and it is obvious that Mo Williams does not look like he has become Chen Jiyuan's backstage player.
57:57。
Sessions made the right choice.
In the third quarter of the game, although Brown and James had worked hard to find a way to crack it, it was still useless.
Sessions and Chen Jiyuan's frequent blocking and dismantling cooperation made the Cavaliers fall into a state of exhaustion but unable to defend.
In the entire third quarter of the game, the Knicks scored a total of 32 points, of which Sessions and Chen Jiyuan combined for 24 points, and Sessions scored 11 points and 6 assists, which was the data in a single quarter.
Chen Jiyuan scored 13 points in the third quarter, almost all of which were assisted by Sessions, and with the excellent play of the third quarter, the Knicks successfully widened the score gap to double digits.
And this also made the knight's mentality collapse a little.
So, in the fourth quarter of the game, the Cavaliers played a little messy.
It's not just the rhythm that's messed up, it's also the mentality.
Although Gibson played well in the second quarter. However, in the third quarter of the game, the Cavaliers did not resist the Knicks' shockwave. At that time, the winner or loser of this game was already set by eight points.
And the sideline of the game in the fourth quarter gave this win or loss to a complete fix. The knight didn't have the strength to turn over.
With five minutes left in the game, the knight decisively surrendered.
In the game, Gibson made 10 of 15 three-pointers and scored 34 points with a very high shooting percentage. That's just three points shy of Gibson's career-high.
In one game against the Timberwolves, Gibson made 20 wild three-point shots, hitting 12 of them. The game scored 37 points. It was Gibson's career-high score, and it was also the game that allowed Gibson to tie the NBA record for the number of three-pointers made by an individual player in a single game, previously held by Kobe Bryant and Marshall. Now we have to add a Gibson to the list. Gibson's 20 three-pointers in a single game also tied Michael Adams' record for three-pointers made in a single game.
That game was arguably the highlight of Sessions.
Gibson's performance in this game is completely in place, and all the contributions that can be made have been made.
But the team still lost the game, so the black pot can't be given to Gibson anyway.
James' performance in this game can't be said to be bad, but it's not good either. James contributed a quasi-triple-double of 25 points, 9 rebounds and 11 assists. Such data, don't you say luxurious? It's sure to be enough, but if you lose, it's meaningless.
On the Knicks' side, the top scorer was Chen Jiyuan, who scored 36 points, and also had 12 rebounds and 2 assists.
However, if you want to talk about the best person on the Knicks' side, it is still Sessions, Sessions contributed a triple-double of 23 points, 11 assists and 10 rebounds in the whole game, such a strong record, Sessions just wants to say strongly - and SEI, ah, you tell me there is SEI, wahaha
Winning this game, the Knicks extended their winning streak to fifteen consecutive wins, which is quite high.
The league's second-longest winning streak is just 22 games away, just seven games away.
Now people's attention is here, and they all want to see when the Knicks will lose, and who will break the Knicks' winning streak this time.
The NBA's longest single-season winning streak was set by the Lakers, not the Lakers we know well, and the Lakers who set this record were still quite old Lakers in the era, the Lakers at that time, the leaders were Jerry West, Chamberlain, and Pat Riley.
Under their leadership, the Lakers completed a terrifying record of two months of complete victory.
Thirty-three games without defeat. And that season, the Lakers also easily won the championship that season.
And now, the Knicks are going to attack this record, although it is a bit early to say, but if the goal is not the record of 33 consecutive wins, it will also hurt morale.
Therefore, in an interview after the game, Chen Jiyuan was also blunt about this.
"That's right, we are just going to hit the record of 33 consecutive wins, and the records left by our predecessors are not used to break? Isn't it hard to bring the old old-timers who used it to surpass? ”