Chapter 63: Big traffic jam and big gamble
Back on the court again, the Knicks and a group of bench lineups chased the remnants of the Kings who had no intention of fighting for a while, and saw that they were embarrassed by the bench, and the Kings did not delay the time of both sides, and directly admitted defeat and replaced their main force, in the words of CCAV Sun's whole bottle guidance: "Both sides have replaced garbage players." ”
With an eight-game winning streak, the Knicks easily stripped off the king's new clothes and sent him home in disgrace. Kings head coach Keith Smart didn't even say a few words of "cruel words", and led the team to leave in a hurry.
Wang Xiaomu patted the generals on the shoulders and hugged them one by one and praised their players, and then waved with the players to pay tribute to the more than 25,000 people in the stands who have been supporting the team since the beginning of the game, and took the opportunity to enjoy the treatment of heroes together! Why does the manager have to be the one behind the players? Behind it is their wife.
When Jeremy Lin was asked about the drop in scoring stats in a post-game interview, he said soberly: "I think as a point guard, it's not really a good thing to score too high, and it's more about putting the team together and controlling the team's rhythm." ”
But Jeremy Lin is still the talk of the town throughout New York, and for now, the NBA jersey sales champion is no longer Derrick Rose. According to NBA official statistics, Jeremy Lin's jersey sales from the 4th to the 12th of this month were the first in the league, and his outburst was like a blast, blowing up all the unfavorable factors before the Knicks this season. The New York Knicks have injected fresh blood again, and the team's winning streak has made the team unprecedentedly united and excited. Today will be the second of their five consecutive home games, and with the benefit of playing at home, the Knicks don't want to give up on winning nine in a row.
Unfortunately, an accident shook everyone down.
On February 18th, although it was the Saturday NBA live broadcast day in China, the national station still did not arrange the live broadcast of the Knicks, and even arranged the Heat vs. Cavaliers competition, which made many Knicks fans in China call it brain-dead.
Fortunately, X-Wave arranged a live webcast, so that everyone could have the opportunity to enjoy this focus game for the first time, and the reason why it was the focus was because only 8 players from the Knicks came to the court on time.
The New Orleans Hornets recently snapped a two-game winning streak to improve their last 10 games to 2-8, placing them in the league's second-to-bottom with 6-23. The biggest concern for the Hornets is injuries, they have almost lost an entire starting lineup due to a knee injury, with Jarrett Jack, Emeka Okafor, Karl Landry and Eric Gordon all unavailable at the moment.
'We're still fighting, it's the best league and we have to have the courage to lose.' Hornets head coach Monty Williams was very low-key in his pregame interview and was almost ready to lose, but when he got the Knicks' roster, Williams couldn't even know how to thank God.
The audience at the Knicks Garden court was also dumbfounded when they looked at the sparse Knicks team seats, just now they were waiting to cheer for their favorite players, but they didn't expect the DJ on the court to just shout the names of 8 people and get stuck.
This matter has to start with Wang Xiaomu's leave incident this morning.
The first is the bearded Davis, and it is a secret that the bearded man is leaving the Knicks, but how to go and where to go, he still needs to have a good talk with his agent. After explaining the situation to Wang Xiaomu, Coach Wang put him on the injury list with a big wave of his hand and allowed him to rest for a game.
In fact, Mike Bibby has been in terrible form lately, and he flew to Atlanta to find his Hawks trainer to adjust his condition. Seeing that his disciple was so motivated, Wang Xiaomu naturally granted leave.
may be seeing that Wang Xiaomu is very easy to speak, and a large group of people will come to Wang Xiaomu for a while.
A bunch of youngsters like Landry Fields and Jared Jeffries wanted to go to the Super Bowl championship New York Giants celebration in New York.
Rub, this team has moved out of New York, and it has something to do with you! But this group of young hammers is easy to talk about, soft grinding and hard bubbles, humming and chirping, greasy and crooked, so that Wang Xiaomu really has no choice but to make a compromise, after all, this celebration ceremony is carried out at noon, starting at 10 o'clock and ending at 3 or 4 o'clock in the afternoon.
Unexpectedly, these young guys all ran away at once, but fortunately, Wang Xiaomu was agile and quickly dragged Jeremy Lin off Bill Walker's big off-road vehicle.
"What are you going to do! It's all a bunch of little guys. "Wang Xiaomu hates that iron does not become steel.
"But, Chandler is gone!" Jeremy Lin innocently pointed to Tyson Chandler, who was secretly driving away.
Chandler didn't wait for Jeremy Lin to sell him completely, kicked on the throttle and ran off with a Range Rover limited edition with black and red interiors, and ran away in a blue smoke.
It's that Cameron didn't slip away, not because he didn't want to go, but because he was always scared by Wang Xiaomu recently, and he didn't dare to speak freely without the permission of the head.
Everything was going well, but too many fans and friends attended the Super Bowl celebrations, and everyone had a good time, and when they came back to their senses, they found that it was almost 6 o'clock.
A group of guys who knew that they had caused a big accident drove back in their cars, but they didn't want to have more than a dozen car accidents on the way back to the city from the suburbs, and the whole road was blocked.
Seeing the gang of guys in front of them lift the top cover of their smoking front machine, and then sit on the sidelines, laughing, laughing, and smoking with cigarettes in their hands, the Knicks guys can't wait to rush up and strangle these bastards to death one by one.
But people said that the car was broken, and at the same time, there were indeed a lot of cars lined up on the road, which really had a bit of a sense of Shijie war and escape.
After several unsuccessful negotiations, these guys had to obediently call the head coach to inform Wang Xiaomu of this sad news.
Coach Wang can't wait to cut off all the little dings of these guys as punishment, grandma's, this is also a strange thing in NBA history, what I know is that you are free and loose, and those who don't know think that Lao Tzu has no way to lead the army!
Ci is not in charge of soldiers, Ci is not in charge of soldiers! The ancients did not deceive me!
Wang Xiaomu, who was depressed, had no choice but to let these grandchildren stop coming on the grounds that everyone was sloppy.
Before the game even began, the New York Times website called the incident a disaster:
"The Knicks had collective food poisoning! Only 8 people escaped! The home game against the New Orleans Hornets may be unexpected. ”
Encountering an accident, Nima, fortunately Wang Xiaomu did not see this report, otherwise it is very likely that a big move will make the "New York Times" directly unpredictable!
Wang Xiaomu, who was standing at the 28-foot mark, was really glad that his team's roster was "full of talents", at least enough to make up the minimum number of appearances in the NBA league.
The league stipulates that each team should have at least eight players in their uniforms ready for the game per game, otherwise the game will be cancelled or postponed, and teams that do not meet the participation criteria will be subject to hefty fines.
The Knicks, who were supposed to laugh at the defeat of their opponents, actually put out their own remnants, which was a large number of four small starters, so much so that it was not until 10 minutes before the opening that the Knicks handed the name and number of each starter to the scorekeeper.
Head coach Wang Xiaomu took the list of his registered players, he couldn't cry or laugh, and after pondering for a long time, he had to put out a speed-type lineup:
Big man Stoudemire plays at center, along with four smaller players: Carmelo Anthony, Jeremy Lin, Tony Douglas and Steve Novak.
It's not that the Knicks don't have big men, it's just that the remaining three players who can play are all big men, they are: 31-year-old 2.11-meter-tall veteran center Jarred Jeffries, 26-year-old 2.13-meter-tall high school forward Jerome Jordan, and 23-year-old 2.08-meter-old rookie center Josh Harrrelson.
The reason why they were not scheduled to start is that the combined playing time of the three this season is less than 48 minutes, which is simply a special training player, isn't this a duck on the shelf.
In order to keep himself from falling into passivity at the beginning, Wang Xiaomu chose Douglas and Novak to play the starters. It was Steve Novak's second ever start. The last time he was with the Rockets was in November 2006, when Novak replaced Hayes as the starter against the Suns, and that was because the Rockets' main roster needed to rotate and rest.
This time he was ordered to be in a situation similar to the last time, the last time his debut was scorched by the sun, it depends on how he survives this time.
Don't look at the Knicks only have 8 players, but Hornets head coach Monty Williams really didn't guess that New York would send this lineup. To be on the safe side, the Hornets still sent their current most powerful Liliang into the game:
The playmaker is Graves Vasquez from Venezuela, the scoring guard is Italian Marco Belinelli, the Knicks veteran Rockets fans familiar with Trevor Ariza (who wore Maddy's No. 1 jersey at the Rockets), Mexican center Gustavo Ayon, who played for the German team at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, and the American German Chris Kaman, who represented Germany at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. (Isn't it very winding, but Xiaoshi has tried to use a concise introduction to let everyone be familiar with the players, otherwise more book friends will use them as a word symbol.) )
At the beginning of the game, the Hornets implemented the inside attack tactics under the temporary adjustment tactics of the head coach, and even did not score the ball, just to create a foul on the Knicks, as long as the Knicks were sent off, it was obvious that the game would be much better.
In the face of the opponent's shameless tactics, Wang Xiaomu was not in a hurry, and waved his big hand to signal the players to let them go, so that they could shoot on the inside.
Soon, the Hornets head coach understood the Knicks' tactical intentions.