Chen Jiyuan has never been the kind of person who gives face to his opponents.

In front of a defensive player like Kostic, Chen Jiyuan certainly won't miss such an opportunity.

Kostic is too skinny and has good defensive awareness, but sometimes he doesn't like to defend. There is a weight difference of more than 20 kilograms between Chen Jiyuan and Kostic.

How could Chen Jiyuan not take advantage of this.

As a result, the first quarter of the game became Chen Jiyuan's bullying exhibition match against Kostic.

Chen Jiyuan used his body to crush Kostic again and again, took rebounds on Kostic's head again and again, and impacted Kostic's strong heart again and again. Until this strong heart finally couldn't stand it anymore.

Now how to defend Chen Jiyuan has become a question that the Thunder can't find an answer to.

Kostic's defense was not only weak, but also lacking awareness, and the Thunder's interior was gone, with Ibaka snatched by the Knicks first. Although the Thunder have always been aware that their interior line is a weakness, but then the Thunder simply wanted to take the small-ball route. It's just that Scott Brooks doesn't seem to have figured out a small-ball style of play that suits the Thunder.

The team's starting power forward, Jeff Green, is only 2.06 meters tall, which is not as tall as Durant. Let Jeff Green defend Chen Jiyuan, the gap between Chen Jiyuan is really huge, Durant's shooting level is very high, but Chen Jiyuan's is not a parallel import.

If you let this Jeff Green, who has a difference of 7 centimeters in height with Chen Jiyuan, defend, Chen Jiyuan will not show any mercy.

In the final analysis, Jeff Green is not the kind of defensive warrior who starts by relying on defense, you know, although the height gap is large, but in that world, Durant has no way to face Tony Allen's defense, and the level of defense is greatly lost. If it weren't for the help of the league, it was really uncertain whether the Thunder would be able to break through the Grizzlies.

Now the Thunder is really beaten without a move.

It can only be sent to the super small lineup of Durant, Westbrook, Seflosha, Jeff Green and Harden. It seems that he is ready to fight with the Knicks to attack.

On the defensive end, the intention is to let the players play.

But anyone who underestimates the power of the Knicks on the defensive end will pay the price, you know, is Thibodeau's authority so easy to challenge?

Westbrook was able to barely find an opportunity to shoot with his super explosiveness and breakthrough ability under Sessions' defense, although there was no guarantee of shooting percentage and goal percentage.

But Harden was miserable. Under Iguodala's defense, Harden has a thorough understanding of what it means to live rather than die.

Iguodala's defense is very tight, so tight that Harden deeply doubts whether he is not suitable for this league and whether he should not participate in the draft. Harden is wondering if he should retire, and he can make a record for the fastest retirement.

Harden, a little rookie who had high hopes from everyone, was abused in front of Iguodala, an old thing who didn't want a B-face.

As a result, Harden scored a total of 3 points on 9 shots and 1 shot in the first half. It's just miserable.

Although Durant played well and his scoring data was okay, but under Stephen Jackson's defense, it was not so simple to score, and if he wanted to get rid of Stephen Jackson's defense, Durant also needed to consume considerable physical strength and time.

However, on the other side, Chen Jiyuan exploded. In the first half of the game, under the defense of Jeff Green, Durant, and Kostic, no one could defend it. Chen Jiyuan made 15 shots and hit 12 goals. Got 29 points.

The Thunder later switched to attacking with the Knicks, but the effect was not very good, under the strong defense of the Knicks, with the addition of Chen Jiyuan's invincible attack point, the Knicks led by 12 points in the half.

It seems that wanting to count on the Thunder to end the Knicks' winning streak seems to be a bit mysterious.

In the second half of the game, the Thunder strengthened the team Chen Jiyuan's bag, the bag was more resolute, and the person in the bag was stronger and more fierce.

Originally, Durant and Jeff Green were asked to wrap Chen Jiyuan, but when Kostic was on the court, it was Kostic and Jeff Green, but now it's different, the Thunder team changed to let Jeff Green and Sefolosha wrap Chen Jiyuan, as long as Chen Jiyuan looks like he wants to catch the ball, the two of them immediately stepped forward to wrap Chen Jiyuan. Although the height of the two people is at a disadvantage, however, Severoza dares to fight, and he doesn't care about how strong and tall Chen Jiyuan is, who doesn't care about his defense, is playing with his life to not let Chen Jiyuan get strong, facing Severoza's defense, Chen Jiyuan can barely protect the ball, but if he wants to attack under the defense of Kostic and Severozha, it is too reluctant.

However, such a resolute and thorough bag will naturally leave a lot of sequelae.

On the other side, Iguodala, who was supposed to be Sefolosha's defense, did not let go of this opportunity easily, and decisively showed his scoring strength at this time. It seems that Iguodala, who is not cutting points, makes people mistakenly think that this guy is no longer capable of scoring.

Iguodala regained his form with the 76ers during Sefolosha's absence, hitting a three-pointer, a layup, and a dunk. That's a total of seven points, all in the first four minutes of the third quarter.

This allowed the Knicks to stretch the advantage to nearly 20 points. At the same time, this also forced the Thunder to ask for a timeout again.

I have to say that one of the key points in the collapse of the Thunder team today is Chen Jiyuan. And the root of all this, in fact, should be said to be because the Thunder's interior line is too weak.

The Thunder didn't have many interior players, and the strength was not good, and the Thunder in that world gradually grew up until the team's selected Ibaka, and the Thunder also traded Kendrick Perkins in exchange.

The interior line composed of Perkins and Ibaka has taken the Thunder's defense up a notch as a whole.

Perkins is a good defensive player in his own right, otherwise he wouldn't have been able to occupy the starting center position on a championship team like the Celtics, who have a big three.

Perkins is a very stocky defensive player on the defensive end and is not afraid of any physical confrontation. Or should I say that any physical confrontation is welcome. Perkins is definitely a defensive center, but the reason why the Celtics will trade Perkins is for a reason, first of all, Perkins's movement speed, Perkins, who basically has no contribution on the offensive end, and when he is on the defensive end, his ability to assist and supplement defense is not very strong, and in the case of such shortcomings, Perkins is asking for a big contract, which is unacceptable. Perkins's contract, in terms of wages at the time, compared with Perkins's contributions, Perkins became a high-paid and incompetent, and this contract law will become a bit of a garbage contract. With a four-year, $34 million contract, Perkins has turned a bit of a disadvantage. It also gave Celtic the idea of a trade. Perkins asked the Celtics for such a contract, but the Celtics did not agree, what kind of person is Angie, it is a person whose work is work, feelings and everything are considered later, of course, he responded without hesitation and traded him away in the last of Perkins.

And this also made the three elders of the Celtics very difficult to accept, the relationship between the Big Three and Perkins is obviously very deep, and they all express their longing and reluctance to Perkins.

After Perkins went to the Thunder, he added the flexible Ibaka to help the opponent defend and complement the defense, which finally improved the team's interior defense and improved the team's overall strength by a considerable amount. And it is precisely because of the qualitative leap on the inside that the Thunder team successfully reached the finals.

Otherwise, how could a team that relied solely on the lame legs of outside players enter the highest level of the league.

Now that the Thunder, without Ibaka and without Perkins, do they want to rely on a Jeff Green to support the interior? Then Chen Jiyuan is really drunk. Drunk on this naïve idea of the Thunder management.

The Thunder's timeout didn't have much effect and they got back on the court. Thunder still has no way to restrict Chen Jiyuan, so there is no way to cancel the ruthless and resolute entrapment of Chen Jiyuan. This leaves the team obediently leaving Iguodala empty. And Iguodala isn't the kind of person who drops the chain when he needs him.

As a result, the Thunder has been passively beaten, although there have been several counterattacks, wanting to reverse this passive situation on the court, but how could Chen Jiyuan allow it.

Every time the thunder was about to take off, Chen Jiyuan would intervene in the thunder's advance, and then let the thunder fall. It's so bad.

In the end, the Thunder had no way to break Chen Jiyuan's offense, and finally lost the game. The only desire to end the Knicks' winning streak is to leave it to the next person.

After winning against the Thunder, the Knicks' winning streak is getting stronger and stronger. Let's not talk about whether we can break the Lakers' first winning streak of 33 consecutive wins, but looking at the current situation, it is obvious that they are going to the record of the Rockets.

With a 19-game winning streak, the Knicks are already the fourth longest winning streak in a single season in the league. Now, the teams ahead of the Knicks are the Lakers' 33-game winning streak, the Rockets' 22-game winning streak, and the Bucks' 20-game winning streak.

With just three wins, the Knicks will have a second-game winning streak in a single season in the league. And the rest is to go straight to the first record effort.

In the game with the Thunder, Chen Jiyuan once again shined, although Chen Jiyuan played a little uncomfortable under the high-pressure defense of the Thunder, but Chen Jiyuan still scored 41 points, with 14 rebounds, Lefu was very happy in this game, and no one in the Thunder could withstand Lefu on the inside, which not only allowed Lefu to protect every backcourt rebound. It also allowed Love to often grab rebounds in the frontcourt, and although Love couldn't keep up with Jeff Green's pace on the defensive end, it wasn't a fatal problem. As long as you win the game, it's no problem.