Chapter 431: A Two-Minute Small Outburst
In the last two minutes of the third quarter, someone on the Knicks' side stood up and roared, and everyone stopped playing. Lao Tzu wants to come to 1V5 to save the world.
At this time, the five people on the Magic court are a tall lineup of Howard, Turkoglou, Lewis, Alstom, and Mirisic.
On the Knicks' side, although Nate Robinson was pretty good, he was replaced by Starkey and went to rest. The Knicks' five players on the court became Starkey as point guard, Crawford as shooting guard and Stephen Jackson as small forward. This position is immovable, because the Knicks only have such a strong person in the small forward position. Power forward Kevin Love, center Chen Jiyuan.
In the face of magic, in fact, Lefou's defense is a bit of a loss, because Lefu is still relatively heavy now, so it is naturally slower in terms of movement speed. On the Magic side, it's the opposite, and both Lewis and Mirisic are pure speed and footwork. This made Lefu very sad. silently left a tear, and vowed in his heart that he must lose weight. Don't get me wrong, the weight loss of NBA players is not like what the majority of sisters say, the weight loss that those sisters say is basically not successful, and NBA players are different, because NBA players lose weight is basically equivalent to the guarantee of being able to make more money, lose weight to enhance the speed of movement, enhance the speed of movement to be able to sign a larger contract, sign a bigger contract to be able to make more money. It's such a cause-and-effect relationship.
Lefou's movement speed is his current flaw, which cannot be improved in a short period of time, and it must take time to lose weight in order to be able to stop suffering in footsteps and speed.
In the last two minutes of the third quarter of the game, after Chen Jiyuan received the ball, he was forced by the Magic's bag, Chen Jiyuan had to pass the ball to Starkey on the outside, ready to let Starkey reorganize the attack, after Starkey received the ball, he didn't care so much, after the ball reached Starkey's hand, Starkey was directly a very fast disguise, and then successfully asked Alstom's defense, Starkey rushed to the inside, Howard and Chen Jiyuan were in the bottom corner of the left side at this time, Milicic stepped forward to help defend the ball, but it didn't work well, Starki cleverly dodged Milicic's block with the ball, scored the ball and caused Mirisic's foul. A 2+1, achieved by Starki. Such a goal to break the long-standing scoring drought is indeed quite exciting. This can be seen from the fact that Starkey waved his arms at the crowd on the sidelines after he landed.
Starkey was starting to get restless now. Of course, Chen Jiyuan also discovered this, and it seems that Starkey has a more and more correct understanding of his own strength. Gradually, I felt that I could be the boss of a team. Although he didn't dare to compete with Chen Jiyuan for the position of the Knicks' boss openly, Starkey's dissatisfaction with his current position can be seen on many tables. The current Starkey is neither a leader nor a so-called second-in-command in the Knicks. It can be said that although many people are saying that Starkey is a well-deserved second-in-command of the Knicks, Starkey himself does not enjoy the treatment of second-in-command. Not enjoyed in every way.
Starkey's penalty hit safely. 57:50。
Not to be outdone, the Magic also wanted to return a three-pointer, and after Lewis received Howard's split shot from the outside, he shot a three-pointer directly, but now the person who defends Lewis is not Lefour crawling on the ground. It's Stephen Jackson running on the ground. Stephen Jackson's speed is definitely faster than Lewis, and Stephen Jackson is definitely not at a loss in physical confrontation, or Stephen Jackson has an advantage, but Lewis's height advantage is a bit obvious. Therefore, Stephen Jackson can only interfere with this three-point shot as much as possible, not cover the ball. However, Lewis is also an All-Star no matter how he says, and it is still very clear whether there is a danger of being blocked. If it is found that there is a possibility of being blocked, then I believe Lewis will not shoot this three-point shot.
Although Lewis's shot was quite chic, the result was still a pity, and the three-point shot was not only. Today's Lewis is completely out of the picture. No matter how you shoot, you just don't score. This is also very normal, anyone will have a cold hand, and Chen Jiyuan is also like this.
This ball Howard wanted to grab the rebound in the front court, but how could Chen Jiyuan let Howard succeed, Chen Jiyuan squeezed Howard with his back and didn't let Howard grab a good position, but Howard instantly used his footsteps to come to a position parallel to Chen Jiyuan, and then the two of them jumped almost at the same time, and after jumping up, it was a duel between bouncing and bounce speed and control of the ball.
This ball is still a little closer to Chen Jiyuan, after all, Chen Jiyuan has seized a favorable position, and Chen Jiyuan successfully hugged the ball back into his arms.
After landing, Howard, who did not give up, also reached out and broke the ball, wanting to break the ball, but Chen Jiyuan controlled the ball very tightly with both hands, such a break is basically impossible to succeed, if the ball is broken in this way, then this center needs to go home and practice again to fight in the NBA.
However, Howard's offense delayed the Knicks' fast break, and Chen Jiyuan gave the ball to Starkey near the midfield, and at this time, the Magic team had basically returned to their own half to defend. Starki didn't have a good chance, and he wasn't in a hurry to play inside. After all his teammates had arrived, Starkey began to prepare for the attack.
This ball, Chen Jiyuan stepped forward to block and dismantle Starkey, Starki quickly bypassed Chen Jiyuan's side, and Chen Jiyuan's very good quality block and demolition successfully blocked Alston on this side, Howard had to follow in the footsteps of Starkey, defending Starkey's shot, Starkey started all his speed and rushed inside, Howard used cross-steps to maintain the distance between the two people.
Starkey suddenly stopped, a stop-and-go jump shot, and was about to shoot, Howard quickly pounced forward, ready to block Starkey's shot, but Starkey's ball was a feint, and he didn't shoot at all, and when Howard was in the air, he found out that Howard knew that the bad Howard had made an evasive action in the air, but he still couldn't escape the consequences of an intimate hug with Starkey. At the same time, I can't escape the referee's whistle. and his own fourth foul.
The ball was so critical that Howard, who had committed four fouls, needed to go down and rest. The remaining foul opportunities had to be reserved for Pisa in the fourth quarter, otherwise the fourth quarter would basically be half lost. Thankfully, there is just over a minute left in the third quarter, and that's the only thing Stan Van Gundy can console himself with.
Stan Van Gundy certainly can't risk keeping Howard on the court, and has to replace Howard and then Kurtney Lee, so that the Magic's roster doesn't have the absolute height advantage as it did just now. Lewis became a power forward again, and then Milicic took the place of center.
However, Stan Van Gundy soon realized how wrong he had been in thinking that the last minute or so was nothing. Starkey's actions broke Stan Van Gundy's heart.
First of all, although Starkey only hit one of two free throws, and the Magic team also successfully protected the rebounding ball in the backcourt, Starkey cut off Alstom's pass, and then quickly launched a fast break and successfully dunked a basket. 60:50。
The ball helped the Knicks build a double-digit advantage.
And that's not all.
After the steal, the Magic's offense was once again defended by the Knicks, Kurtney Lee broke through the ball, Alston received the ball and shot a three-pointer directly, Starkey didn't dare to take it lightly on the defensive end, otherwise, on the temper of Big Brother Thibodeau, teach you to be a man in minutes. Seconds make you a cold bench. No matter who you are, under Thibodeau, if you dare to disobey, then it is the rhythm of being replaced in minutes.
So on the defensive end, Starkey, who wants to do his best to improve his status in the team, will not dare to relax at any time.
Starkey naturally went to defend Alstom's three-point shot quickly, but Alstom's three-point shot was not a housekeeping skill, although he could also score, but it was extremely unstable, and the ball did not score. This time, Chen Jiyuan competed with Mirisic for this rebound without Howard, and Mirisic was squeezed by Chen Jiyuan at all and couldn't find a rebounding position. This rebound was naturally very easy and was accepted by Chen Jiyuan.
Chen Jiyuan passed the ball to Crawford, after Crawford received the ball, he brought forward, after half time, all of a sudden, it was a three-point shot, Crawford was a big step away from the three-point line, and directly shot this three-point shot, although the distance was very far, but the goal actually went in. This is Crawford's strength, Crawford often shoots such a ball coldly, although the hit rate is not high, but it can improve morale in a certain way. Because such a ball is very difficult.
After Crawford hit this three-pointer, the Knicks' lead was even more obvious. 63:50。
But soon the Magic returned a three-pointer, and Courtney Lee made a three-pointer from the outside, 63-53.
But that three-pointer didn't help the Magic close the margin to single digits. Because with 38 seconds left in the third quarter, the Knicks made an offensive attack, Starkey made a big two-pointer but didn't score, and the Magic got a two-pointer from Alstom's layup. After Alstom's goal, the third quarter was played with 2.7 seconds.
Originally, such a time would normally pass like that. But there are occasional surprises. Take this game, for example.
Starkey ran forward after receiving the ball, and then ran to the place close to half court, Starkey directly shot the ball, and then, the very awesome thing is that the ball actually hit the board and entered the basket like this, which is really speechless and helpless. How can such a goal be broken. What's more, when he saw that the Knicks still had the intention of shooting the ball, the Magic side also carried out a certain amount of defense, but still did not succeed in blocking the ball into the frame. The magic classmates were also drunk.
Starkey finally ended his crazy performance in the third quarter after scoring this super nonsensical three-pointer. Within two minutes, Starkey managed to score nine points in a row. Helped the team widen the gap to double digits in one fell swoop. Let the Knicks enter the final quarter with a double-digit advantage.