The Knicks came over again and found that the Bulls couldn't play Howard, and it was really two teams. When I wasn't on Howard, the Bulls' box was very empty, and I could get in whenever I wanted, but now with Howard.

He seemed to have completely occupied the space in the penalty area alone, and Li Feng took the ball to see that the Bulls' penalty area was actually stuffed.

In this situation, Li Feng immediately passed the ball to Jones, who was pulled out on the right side, and Jones missed the shot from distance.

The rebound was grabbed by Radmanovic and the Bulls immediately pushed in, and this time the Knicks were targeting Howard's defense.

As soon as Howard reached the low position, Li Feng immediately teamed up with Vucevic to wrap Howard, this kind of Cheng Dù's bag Howard could be easily defeated at his peak, but now Howard really can't do it.

Caught in the bag, he was immediately inflexible and could not get the basketball, in this case, Okaforma passed the ball to the vacant Rademanovic, who took the ball and shot a three-point shot.

At this time, Li Feng hurriedly went out to save Radmanovic, and Radmanovic's three points were not shot under Li Feng's interference.

But the basketball jumped out, and Howard under the basket knocked Vucevic to the side, and then Howard, the old guy, jumped up and actually came to a two-handed dunk.

"Bang!"

Howard made up for it!

Howard, who made a successful dunk, took his trademark overlord step to show off his record at Madison Square Garden.

In this case, Jeff Van Gundy said:

"Although Vucevic is very talented, but his experience is still too little, and the lack of a card master position gives Howard the opportunity to perform like this, and now the Knicks should be on the starting inside, I think this situation will be much better!"

Just when Jeff Van Gundy said this, Tyberdeau really made a substitution, and Tyberdeau didn't replace the older Cousins at this time. Instead, he was replaced by Diop. This substitution was not intentional by Tyberdeau, but a fixed substitution routine by Tyberdu, after Vucevic, Cousins, Jones, and Monroe all played, a certain amount of time was fixed for Diop.

Howard came up and played, scoring continuously, and Vucevic, who was very good before, was beaten silently by Howard, and at this time the Knicks replaced the Congolese uncle Diop.

The Knicks come up with a substitution. Li Feng got the basketball first in this round, and now that the team has lost points in a row, it should be time for a main scorer like Li Feng to jump out and score and stabilize the situation.

Now that Li Feng took the ball and saw that the Bulls' basket was very crowded, he first denied the idea of breaking through.

Playing on the court is to be sensible, and most of the time you can't force it. So at this time, Li Feng immediately called a Diop cover, and Diop came up to cover it was still very unrealistic.

After shaking for a while, he ran back, and under normal circumstances, this cover is not of high quality. Li Feng will be more difficult.

But Li Feng looked around, and Li Feng himself smiled in his heart.

It turned out that Howard was not serious than Diop, and he didn't save at all, so he squatted under the basket.

In this way, Diop somewhat blocked Hamilton who was chasing after him. Li Feng took a step forward, got a little into the free throw line, and then got up to a mid-range.

Li Feng usually shoots more pumped, but at this distance. Li Feng is relatively stable.

Because this distance is so close to the basket, the shooting thing is very sensitive to distance.

Nearly half a step, nearly a quarter of a step feels completely different. Now that Li Feng is approaching the free throw line, the stability of his shot is already extremely high, and he scored two points with his shot.

After scoring these two points, Li Feng immediately thought of one thing, this Howard is famous for his bad defense.

Why don't you take advantage of this and make small shots at this distance frequently!

Li Feng made this decision, and then immediately returned to the defensive end, Howard had just exposed his weaknesses on the defensive end, and after returning to the offensive end, he immediately cheered up and wanted to play again.

But now the Knicks' interior substitution has been replaced, from Vucevic to Diop, Diop is much more stocky than Vucevic, and the whole person is an African interior figure, tall and strong, and the lower plate is stable.

And he doesn't eat feints, so it takes a lot of effort for Howard to take the ball over and hit Diop.

You must know that Howard can't do it anymore, and he has been playing for a few minutes, and his physical energy has been depleted, in this case, Howard did not eat Diop at once.

Encountering this situation, Belineri watched the situation from the side, and he immediately chased after him to interfere with Howard.

Howard barely managed to make a shot in the middle of the pack, but it missed.

Jones grabbed the rebound with ease in the back and then turned back to Belineri, who has changed his style of play since being stimulated by J.R. Smith. How to say it! Now Belineri is simpler, but also crazier.

In the Bulls half, Pelineri steadily passed the ball to Li Feng's hands, and Li Feng took the ball.

The old trick was repeated and called Diop's cover, Diop and Howard just fought twice, and he also understood that it was difficult for him to hit the other party today, and he would be much more serious when he came to cover again, and used this cover.

Li Feng drilled into the Bulls' restricted area in one step, Howard is a demonstrative hand to defend, in the face of this kind of defense, Li Feng is not beating or panicking, slightly raised the arc of the shot, and easily shot again to score two points.

Li Feng's shot once can be said to be an accident, but Li Feng hit it twice in a row.

Phil Jackson knew that Li Feng was grabbing the Bulls' death hole and hitting him to the death, so Phil Jackson immediately jumped out and shouted to Hamilton to let Hamilton squeeze through the block to defend Li Feng.

Phil Jackson's command is very hilarious, facing the opponent's high block, the best defense is the big man to pounce, while cutting off the connection between the ball and the man without the ball.

But Howard was too heavy and too slow, and he had to let Hamilton pounce out. From a tactical point of view, Phil Jackson's defense is a helpless move with weaknesses, but if Phil Jackson wants Howard to be on the court, he can only play like this.

Howard was tossed back and forth for a while, and his body dropped a little bit as he ran over.

At the same time, Fang just fought Howard once. Diop was also more prepared, coming up behind Howard and not letting Howard get too close to the basket. Howard couldn't go up at this time, so he could only turn around and pass the ball to Radmanovic.

Radmanovic took the ball and shot a three-pointer, but unfortunately missed.

At this stage, Howard, who had been very beautiful before, was found a way to contain it by the Knicks.

Jones took the rebound again under the basket, and Jones has been extremely efficient with rebounding lately.

Don't look at Jones as short, but he has big hands, moves quickly, and can scramble. Grabbed the rebound.

Li Feng really hit the Bulls' weakness to the death, and when the Bulls arrived at the Bulls' half, he still called Diop's cover, and he still had to make a jump shot.

At this time, Hamilton could only pounce aggrievedly, Li Feng came over with the ball and saw Hamilton pounce, he just hit hard.

But looking at Diop on the side and his warm eyes looking at himself, although Diop is tall, but a pair of big eyes are very cartoonish, very comic style.

Li Feng really couldn't bear it and didn't pass the ball to him. I had to turn around and throw the basketball to Diop. Diop took the ball in the corner position and threw a direct throw into the middle distance.

Not to mention, Diop's shot felt so soft, and the basketball got into the Bulls' basket cleanly as soon as he shot.

After Diop hit the shot, Phil Jackson was a little stupid.

Why? Because Diop, who said on his face that Lao Tzu would shoot baskets, and old sows would go up trees, Brother No. 1 had all shot! Suddenly, Phil Jackson felt a little unbearable.

began to argue on the sidelines whether to replace Howard. Small-ball tactics before resuming fù.

Just when Phil Jackson hesitated here, the Bulls came over again and finally shifted the focus of the offense from Howard to Paul, and CP3 took the ball and rushed left and right. Messed up the Knicks' defense in a row, and then suddenly scored two points on a layup.

CP3 finally scored, but saw Li Feng arrive at the Knicks' half and called a high cover.

This time Phil Jackson is going crazy! He screamed and told Hamilton to stop Li Feng. Hamilton also really threw himself out.

But when Hamilton was completely attached to Li Feng, Li Feng changed direction and jumped to the other side of Diop's body, so that Li Feng completely dodged Hamilton.

Hamilton posted too hard, Li Feng easily passed him, passed Hamilton Li Feng faced the slow-moving Howard, used a European step to play Howard easily, and then easily made a layup to score 2 points.

Li Feng really uses Howard as an ATM machine here, he can play casually, and he can score points every time he plays.

And all the parts that Howard can't defend at all are playing the soft underbelly, and Li Feng is not only hitting Howard's soft underbelly, but also the soft underbelly of the Bulls.

The Bulls' original defense was not very good, and now they have been caught in the soft underbelly and beaten to the death, and Phil Jackson is shaken.

At times like this, Phil Jackson's actual best option was to let Howard off, but at this point Howard didn't play for long.

He didn't dare to make such a decision, so he had to keep Howard on the court while Radmanovic and Okafor pounced to help defend a bit.

Radmanovic has no complaints, Okafor has no complaints, and the Bulls are completely dragged down by Howard at this time.

Offensively, Howard can't withstand Diop's top defense and the bag of other Knicks players, and he can't save defensively, as long as the Knicks play high blocking, they can play very high.

So it was up to the Knicks to score different points using this loophole, starting with Li Feng, and later Belinelli and J.R. Smith also learned. also called Diop's pick-and-roll, and then easily scored from Howard.

As a result, in the second half of the second quarter, the Knicks had a 10-point lead over the Bulls at 47-37.

10 points is a line, and a two-digit gap and a single-digit difference have a very different feeling.

When the Knicks led by 10 points, the pressure on the Bulls was very high, and the Knicks led by 10 points from the players to the coach, and they were suddenly much more refreshed.

It was also at this time that Jeff Van Gundy finally began to talk about the black bull again.

"As I said, the Bulls bringing in Howard is a huge disruption to the offense. At the same time, the Bulls didn't get any better defense. Howard has not made great strides in the Bulls' offense and defense. ”

Phil Jackson saw that he couldn't hold it anymore, he called a timeout, and finally replaced Howard, who had played 7 minutes.

Then he was replaced by Gibson, who can fight and grab and pass, and when Phil Jackson replaced Gibson, Tyberdu replaced Jones and replaced Monroe, who had a 10-minute break.

The Knicks now have a lot of internal resources and can play in rotation, which is a capital that many teams do not have.

Immediately after the bull came back, the style changed, and the bull became a complete Paul's bull.

CP3 comes over with the ball. The ball was passed to Gibson, who was playing high first, and Gibson took the ball without moving, waiting for CP3 to get behind him before returning the ball to CP3.

CP3 dribbled the ball to the Knicks' basket, but he couldn't get in, so he could only pass the ball to Jimmy Butler who just came up outside, Jimmy Butler didn't play the ball randomly, looked at it and waited for Paul to run out and then passed the ball to Paul.

At this time, CP3 took the ball and finally found an opportunity. Jimmy Butler passed the ball and immediately ran to the baseline when it was empty, and he immediately passed the ball to Jimmy Butler.

Jimmy Butler picked up the ball in the middle of the march and threw his hand at the saved Diopgao to score two points.

Diop had made a great contribution to Howard before. But now that he is a defender, his ability is a little worse.

The Bulls' overall Paul-centered system is also on display, and with this system, the Bulls' scoring is not a problem.

But now the Knicks are ahead. And the Knicks have also caught the pulse of some bulls.

The Bulls' lineup is unbalanced, especially in interior defense, as long as you hit the Bulls' weakness to the death. The bulls also have no way.

So Li Feng came over and got Livingston's pass and immediately gave it to Monroe on the inside, letting Monroe and Okafor go head-to-head.

Okafor and Monroe are two types of power forwards, although they both have very rich offensive skills, but Okafor's style is more open, and Monroe's style of play is delicate and tactful, and many detailed skills can only be seen in past tapes, but there is still a legacy in Monroe.

At this time, Monroe got the basketball, and it was also very retro in the back seat, and then immediately shook his left and right shoulders, and suddenly threw a throw.

Monroe used this delicate style to play, and Okafor didn't expect it!

Monroe scored two points lightly, and the Bulls' previous score was completely in vain.

The ball is back in the hands of the Bulls, and the rhythm of the Bulls holding the ball at this time is different from before.

After getting the ball, the Bulls immediately pushed in, Paul seemed to be the wind in the middle, Paul suddenly rushed to the Knicks' half, when the Knicks players gathered around Paul. Paul turned around and passed the ball to Jimmy Butler, who followed up behind, and Jimmy Butler made a solid three-point shot from beyond the three-point line.

"Huh!"

Jimmy Butler's three-pointer was immediately shot, and after getting off Howard, and after switching to the Bulls' previous small ball, the Bulls' score was immediately out. The speed is very fast, the scoring is very easy, and at this time, the Knicks have seized the weakness of the Bulls' interior defense.

After coming over again, Li Feng didn't break through or make a small jump shot, but suddenly reached the position of the main player on the bottom line, and changed to a back-to-back attack.

Li Feng got the ball with his back, sat in the Bulls' restricted area with two sits in the back, and then suddenly turned over and got under the Bulls' basket to score two points.

Without Howard, the quality of the Bulls' interior defense has plummeted, or the Bulls' original interior defensive quality is not very good.

Okafor and Gibson are flashy on the inside, but not firm enough on the defensive end.

For the rest of the second quarter, although it is not difficult for the Bulls to score, they can't defend against the Knicks. There is no way to chase points without defense, so at the end of the first half, the Bulls just managed not to widen the difference.

At the end of the first half, the Knicks still led the Bulls by 10 points at 53-43.

At the end of the first half, players from both teams returned to the dressing room.

It's the same on the Knicks' side, Li Feng led the team to a big reversal in the second quarter, and all the players on the team were naturally happy.

Coming back in the second half, because there was a 20-minute break at halftime, Howard's strength was almost gone, and Howard should be able to play the advantages of Warcraft.

On the Knicks' side, at this time, according to the combination of personnel, the inside line is still a combination of Cousins and Monroe, and the outside line is Li Feng, Belineri, and JR Smith.

The styles of the two teams can be said to be completely different, and in the second half of the game, the opening game was still the Bulls who kicked off first.

After the Bulls took a screen, Jimmy Butler hit a three-point shot.

It was the Knicks' turn to attack, all pulled away, Li Feng ran all over the court, got rid of Iguodala, Howard made up for it, Li Feng pulled Howard sideways so hard and suddenly couldn't keep up.

Li Feng took two steps horizontally, then changed direction, and shook off Howard in one fell swoop. Throwing off Howard, Li Feng was about to rush to the Bulls' basket, but Howard, who was behind Li Feng, suddenly stretched out his hand and directly grabbed Li Feng.

Howard used fouls to stop the Knicks' offense, and Li Feng did not relented at this time to the free throw line and hit both free throws. (To be continued......)