Chapter 129 Mercury Drops

Last season's Kings were arguably the least promising team, with limited talent and injuries to Kevin Martin and Garcia, who were 17-65 and a laughing stock for everyone.

Garcia has just undergone surgery and will not be available for the next four months, and the Kings really don't see any light this season, and their best option is to swing and fight for the top pick next season to speed up the rebuilding process.

Former coach Reggias' performance last season was so terrible that management couldn't tolerate the fact that the team, which had been all the rage in previous seasons, became a reservoir dog that everyone beats, so they terminated his contract in a fit of rage, and Westfaal, who had been out of the NBA for nine years, was eventually replaced.

Paul Westfaal's last NBA head coach was in 2000 when he was head coach of the SuperSonics. In the years that followed, he traveled all over the university, the NBA studio, and so on, and now he is finally reemployed by the Kings, and he is also the fourth head coach of the Kings in the past three seasons.

Although it is difficult to compare with the team that has been in the limelight in previous years, the current roster configuration of the Kings is not as good as it could be, averaging 100.6 points per game last season, and the team has a top scorer like Kevin Martin who averaged 24.6 points per game. Last season, the Kings traded Salmons and Brad Miller to the Bulls in exchange for Nochioni and Gooden, a debatable deal. Nochioni is somewhat unaccustomed to filling Salmons' 18.3 points per game.

The competition in the West remains fierce this season, and each team will show their progress with regular season records. The Kings still have a lot of work to do, and with their current roster, there is no hope of making the playoffs.

Their focus is still on developing young potential players, including Evans, Hawes and Thompson, to rebuild their future rise, and their final destination this season can only be to finish bottom of the West.

Therefore, this game is not much attention, and the most attractive part is the battle between Li Feng and Evans, the two rookies.

The media also racked their brains to pull Li Feng and Evans together, although Li Feng and Griffin are the best rookies that everyone is most optimistic about, and after Li Feng and Griffin fight, Li Feng won the best rookie with the highest voice.

They don't care about that, as long as they can attract people and sell it, this is a victory.

As a result, the headlines of various media outlets were talking about Evans and Li Feng, and both teams were subtly ignored.

The strength of the two teams is still half a pound or two, the Kings have more people available, but the bad heart is unstoppable, and the Knicks want to impact the playoffs, but the team has no one available.

The game began in such a situation.

The Knicks' lineup remains the same, with Hughes replacing Harrington's position, and the center is still Corey, power forward Li Feng, small forward Hughes, scoring guard Gallinari, and point guard Chris Duhon.

Kings, center Spencer Hawes, Spencerhawes, also SD, but unfortunately not Spencer Haywood, Spencerhaywood, he belongs to a weakened version of Brad Miller, passing strategy shooting is relatively good, the big forward is the jumper Jason Thompson, the only difference is that Thompson's skills are comprehensive and solid, cutting an average of 20+10 per game in college, the small forward is the former Bulls' fierce player - Argentine Nocioni, and the scoring guard is the main Kevin Martin, Point guard Terek Evans.

However, the game did not go as smoothly as the Knicks imagined, and the Kings may have found the "soft persimmon" of the Knicks in this game, not like a bad team, Hawes made a scalpel-like accurate pass outside the three-point line, and Kevin Martin, who cut in at high speed, received the basketball in the air.

Martin didn't hit the basketball, and with a flick of his fingers in the air, the basketball just came to his fingertips and flew in the direction of the basket. …,

Swish!

The basketball falls into the hoop and brings up a white wave!

The Kings played in the opening game, although the head coach was not Adelman, the Kings still continued the Princeton tactics, Hawes's ability to respond and Martin's ability to intersperse with running was perfectly played, and in the opening five minutes, the Kings beat the Knicks a 14-5 small high. Tide.

For the backward situation, the Knicks have no worries.

Then Li Feng broke out, and the Arco Arena became a free corridor for the Tyrannosaurus Rex.

Defending him is last year's lottery rookie Thompson, Thompson's strongest is physical fitness, but he and Li Feng are not in the same world at all.

didn't even need a feint, Li Feng relied on speed to force a breakthrough through Thompson's defense and hit the inside.

At this moment, it caused the whole team of the Kings to be trapped, and they were like sharks smelling blood, rushing towards Li Feng.

Li Feng's face did not change, with Hoyce in front and Nocioni on the left, a jump, forcibly squeezed out of the middle of the two, and the strong force made the closing of the two in vain.

Then, the basket was unguarded, Li Feng jumped high, and a big windmill came with both hands, clang, and the basket kept shaking, as if it would fall down at any time.

Li Feng's performance continues, this time the Knicks scored the hero is still Li Feng, but this time it has become a cooperation, Li Feng broke through Thompson after the chuck real pass, a back pass, Gallinari slipped the baseline layup and easily put the basketball into the basket, that leisurely look, as if it was not a game, but just walked there.

Throughout the first half, the Knicks and Kings maintained high morale, with small-ball tactics and Princeton tactics becoming the two tones of the game, and offense being the main theme of the game.

At halftime, the Knicks trailed the Kings at home 62-67 on the road.

The difference of 5 points cannot be called a gap in the face of two such mercury attacks.

The offensive basketball throughout the first half was very spectacle, and just when the fans at the Arco Arena thought they were going to witness another offensive battle, the two teams suddenly died down.

In the second half, it was not the Kings who took the initiative to reduce the tempo, but the New York Knicks, who were better at playing fast, which was also a matter of no choice, the Knicks were available to those few people, and D'Antoni only liked a set of rotation lineups, with fewer players, the playing time naturally increased, and the physical exertion was much more serious.

Fortunately, the Knicks now have Li Feng and Corey, positional battles, Duhon can control the rhythm, Gallinari becomes a battery, Hughes keeps interspersing empty cuts, and the Knicks' positional offense is also impressive.

As for the Kings, Princeton's tactics also relied on running without the ball, requiring non-stop passing and running, looking for the best single opportunities, and the speed had nothing to do with the speed, and in the last 7 minutes of the fourth quarter, the two teams with nearly 70 points at half time only scored 92 points and reached a tie.

The last 7 minutes became the key to deciding the victory!

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