Monday, Tuesday, and both morning holidays were canceled due to the loss of the previous game, and the Knicks held their breath to welcome the Warriors at home

Ellis led the Warriors' outside three, with gunmen Stephen Curey and Reggie Williams giving him a lot of help

Coupled with the signing of Smalls instead of David Lee in the summer, the current Warriors are quite a strong team, but in Madison, they can only return disappointed

Li Feng walked out of the short slump in the previous game, and once again cut a big triple-double performance of 36 points, plus 21 rebounds and 13 assists, dominating the whole game, what made Li Feng even happier was that the Knicks performed a lot better overall, Cousins and Monroe and Ibaka three-man wheel defense, Xiao Si let Xiao Si only score 8 points, and hated the strength of the inside, which also made a good start for the next home game against the Thunder

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Today's New York on the 19th is destined to be another sleepless night

"The Battle of the Supernovas" – USA Today and The New York Times media outlets have their eyes on Madison Center this evening

So far this season, the Knicks and the Thunder have shown their own eye-catching style, and the battle of the fish belly in the past has become one of the most watched games in the league today

The battle between Li Feng and Durant is of course the biggest highlight of this game, but the current situation of these two is not the same

The Knicks' massive uplift has kept them in top of the East, and despite a surprise loss in Los Angeles, they quickly silenced the doubters, and Lee pulled Durant off the scoring spot after the last game

And he's been firmly in the spot for assists from the start of the season, and the young man's overall outside dominance in the new season has made everyone realize that he's making a strong push for the regular season MVP title

Durant and his Thunder team have suffered three consecutive defeats in the last four games, only to stop the losing streak in the home game the day before yesterday from the weak Rockets without Yao Ming, Durant has clearly become the only threatening player on this team, which allows opponents to focus on defensive strategies against him, and perhaps he can still score a lot of points

There will be a lot of 30+ or even 40+ scenes, but the performance of the whole team will not improve much

And this game has another layer of significance, today coincides with the league's season All-Star voting campaign kicked off, good days, the Thunder's Durant and Westbrook are undoubtedly on the shortlist, the Knicks' Li Feng and rookie Cousins also won the award, can they lead their respective teams to play All-Star level performance

It's our home stadium and we're going to give them another taste of defeat tonight

Cousins directly stated his intention to dominate the game in an interview with the New York Times before the game, and the rookie currently maintains an average of rebounds per game, surpassing all the rookies in the tournament, and the Wizards guard John Wall who is in the limelight is also overshadowed by Cousins

He and the whole team can't wait for the derby to begin

Durant has very few people who can stop him, but we also have an equally good Li Feng, and this season I will not only help the team make a historic breakthrough, but also help Li Feng win the title of regular season MVP, and he already has the quality

There is already this strength

The reporters who interviewed Cousins and other reporters around him did not doubt this statement, and the current Li Feng did have this strength, and they also thought of the former big Oscar Robinson, who once played a god-like triple-double per game throughout the season

Li Feng seems to be heading in this direction at the moment, and he is very likely to accomplish such a feat this season, and the current Knicks team is undoubtedly accelerating the rebuilding around Li Feng, Li Feng needs to take more responsibility in the process, his statistics throughout the season must be very beautiful, if he can continue the performance since the start of the season, there is no such possibility...,

The reporter of the "New York Times" also interviewed some fans of the two teams on the spot, and Wang Li, a Chinese teenager on the side of the aisle, became the first fan interviewed by the reporter, wearing Li Feng's No. 0 jersey, and smiled happily at the reporter:

I'm very optimistic about the Knicks' performance this season, they will get home-court advantage in the playoffs, when the leader of this team, Li Feng, is very likely to win the regular season MVP title for the first time, and we can all see Li Feng contribute to the team every night with a consistent double-double or triple-double, and I love his all-round and selfless performance

We're stronger, Durant is more mature

Kanter, a Thunder fan, was very simple and very positive when a reporter heard Durant's reason for competing for the regular season MVP

Durant has always been a leader on the court, he lacks enough helpers around him, he can only keep scoring, this way of winning games is very right, and he is also very well-rounded, not inferior to the Chinese kid of the Knicks in this regard

The big game is on the verge of breaking out, and this game is undoubtedly more eye-catching than the big game in Los Angeles a few days ago, Cousins' pre-game insolent remarks, at least in the eyes of the Thunder team, have made the atmosphere of this game tense in advance, and fans of both teams have silently supported their idols in various ways

Li Feng still leads the Knicks' lineup, Cousins, Monroe, Sandton and Lowry continue to be stable in the lineup, but the position of Thornton and Monroe is not stable, and Tyberdu does not have a fixed lineup, but fine-tunes depending on the opponent, facing a strong team inside, the Knicks will let Cousins and Monroe start at the same time, facing the outside-based team, and the Knicks will let Harden replace Monroe, and today Tabberdu obviously sent an unexpected start from the Thunder, disrupting the opponent's arrangement

The Thunder's roster has also remained stable in the new season, with Scott Brooks not having too many personnel available, Durant Ray can't play small forward, point guard Sefrosa and point guard Westbrook on the outside, and Jeff Green and rookie Cole Aldridge on the bench, Da Quan Cook and young player Mullens on the bench have not yet gained enough trust

Slowly walking out of the player tunnel, Li Feng's excitement before the game gradually returned to calm, and after the routine pre-game shooting practice, he silently returned to the bench, looked around the entire Madison Center, and easily found Natalie from behind the team's bench...... There are also countless well-known Knicks fans

One...... Two...... Three...... Come on

The Knicks' bench roared before the start of the game, and a youthful force was slowly pouring into this stadium with a glorious history

You've been waiting for this game for days

Tyberdu looked at the love general with a look of eagerness on his face, patted the latter's arm, and said with a slightly serious face:

It may have been an ordinary of the eighty-two regular-season games, but now it seems to have been given too much meaning by the boring media, just ...... I hope you don't forget your style of play

Li Feng nodded thoughtfully, the object he was responsible for marking in this game was Jeff Green, and Durant was handed over to the Thornton team, which has improved a lot in defense now, and now the offensive firepower is sufficient, Thornton obviously has more energy to devote to defense, and his defense can also relieve Li Feng a lot of pressure, although he was dizzy by Kobe's offense, but this situation does not happen every night

Kerry just get stuck in position when he marks Russell, and get involved more in the offense, just like in the last game, play your breakthrough ability when the striker is being targeted by the opponent, don't forget your strengths...,

After explaining Li Feng and Taberdeau, he once again told Lori a few words, although this young man has average offensive ability, he has the ability to become a stable scoring point for the team, which is also what Taberdu and Li Feng and others expect Lori to do outside the organization

Jump ball

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Cousins and Aldridge, the two centers went head-to-head, and the temporary winner belonged to Cousins

Li Feng received the ball and steadied himself, signaling his teammates to move forward, to his surprise, the person who stood in front of him was not Durant, but Green

It seems that the old guy Brooks has also started to reduce the burden on Durant

Bang Bang Bang ...... Li Feng changed direction and accelerated, carrying Green in an arc to approach the three-point line, the right wing observed the running position of his teammates, and then lifted the ball to Cousins, who was stuck in the basket, no matter what, this big man is still Li Feng's first choice for passing, and the rookie confrontation between the University of Kentucky and the University of Kansas also has a certain look, and he leaned back sharply after receiving the ball

Cousins showed the simple side of the game, half-turning, squeezing Aldridge to force a jump, hook the board and easily win

Brooks looked at the sidelines and shook his head, but the two rookies who are also this year's rookies had very different interior performances, and Aldridge was completely relying on brute force on defense, so it was really difficult to contain Cousins

But...... He turned his head to look at the young Mullens and others on the bench again, and looked at the defense on the court for the time being, and it was difficult to improve on the defense, so it was up to Durant to perform offensively

Durant asked for the ball in the low post on the left side, and in the face of Thornton's close defense, he suddenly turned and swooped down the baseline towards the basket, and after encountering Cousins' help defense, he jumped up and passed the basketball with a low hand

Aldridge, who was on the front of the basket, received the ball and shot immediately, but was disturbed by the door on the weak side in time, and the latter turned around and grabbed the rebound

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Offensive and defensive transitions, Cousins received the ball again and tried to attack the ball on the inside, dribbling half-turn, and lifting the ball, but was also defended by the Thunder's interior line

A whoosh thud pushed the basketball to the perimeter

swish

Seeing that Green was standing a little behind, Li Feng received the ball and immediately shot three points, and the comfortable shooting rhythm made his whole movement appear very smooth, and before Green stepped forward to defend the basket, the basketball flew over his head and hollowed into the basket

Looking at the cooperation between Li Feng and Cousins, Durant's cold trot forward, the strength of his teammates is really difficult for him to trust, so use his own offense to awaken the competitiveness of his teammates

With the ball on the right wing on the outside, he once again pressed the defense against Thornton

After Durant jitted twice and wobbled

He changed direction and accelerated into the three-point line

Thornton, who was in charge of defense, did not show weakness at all, and the moment Durant started

took the initiative to step forward and leaned in, and immediately crossed steps back and stuck to Durant again, while constantly interfering with Durant's dribbling rhythm with both hands

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Stop-and-go step-back jumper Durant forced his shot wide of the basket under Thornton's pressing interference

Cousins grabbed the rebound before Aldridge and passed it to Li Feng who retreated and responded with one hand, who did not pause at all after receiving the ball, turned around with a slight dribble, avoided Green's interference, and once again grasped the ball, and violently pushed the basketball high diagonally to the frontcourt

Lowry's fast-break awareness is very good, just the moment when Durant broke through and forced a shot, and Cousins and Cousins under the basket were already stuck in position, he immediately slowly retreated to the outside, and after seeing Cousins get the rebound, he immediately turned around and rushed to the front court, marking his Wei Shao, who was slow to shoot, lost the opportunity to catch up

Receiving the ball in three steps, getting into the basketball, Lori's fast break was easy to achieve, he slapped Li Feng hard when he retreated to the backcourt, and Li Feng's pass just now was too comfortable, just let him run into the three-point line before receiving the ball, and it was also very comfortable when receiving the ball, and the rest of the task was much simpler

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After more than two minutes passed, the Thunder still didn't score, but Brooks on the sidelines didn't mean to call a timeout, he still sat calmly on the bench, the current game situation, he had already expected a few points behind, it's not a big deal...,

Breaking through, Durant's breakthrough this time appeared more resolute, accelerated and shook off Thornton's defense, rushed into the sideline of the three-second zone, and jumped to Cousins, who came to help defend him, and at the same time threw a basketball, bang bang on the edge of the basket, and still didn't get into it

force

Cousins blocked a foul, and Durant hit both free throws

Tyberdu was also not in a hurry in the face of Durant's counterattack, Li Feng and the Knicks played normally, and there was no need to interrupt the team's rhythm at this time

The Knicks' offensive teammates received Li Feng's gesture and opened up the space in the middle

Bang Bang Bang ...... Li Feng bowed his body and changed hands at the top of the three-point arc continuously, changing hands and dribbling at the same time, the shaking upper body also made Green dare not stick too close, snapped and dribbled again, Li Feng suddenly collected the ball, stood up and shot, and the feint action of shooting made Green still stick up

Squeak

With his right foot, he stepped on the ground and dribbled past Green's defense, who tried to stick to Li Feng to reduce his breakthrough speed, and Li Feng changed slightly to his amazing speed, and immediately grabbed the space to continue to break through, and rushed straight across the free throw line along the right side of the middle

Durant on the right wing contracted his defense at the same time, blocked in front of Li Feng sideways, and at the same time reached out to the basketball in Li Feng's hand

Sou

Under the attack of Green and Durant, Li Feng immediately made a choice

Snapping to the ground, he stopped the basketball with one hand, swinging his arm and passing the basketball to the baseline

Thornton swam near the baseline at the same time after Durant moved, and when he received the pass, he was ready to raise his hand to shoot, and stepped forward with a pop, calmly dodging Aldridge who pounced

Easy shots

force

Brooks motioned to Durant in a hurry, calling a timeout, and it was now clear that the Thunder needed to play more and contain the Knicks' threat from the outside

Calm: Absolute calmness on the pitch, this is the biggest change that the striker has brought to the team

Wright, on the bench, and the substitutes around him happily welcomed the triumph of the main players, while his eyes were more focused on Thornton

12-2 The Knicks completely dominated for nearly four minutes (to be continued, if you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendations, monthly passes, your support is my biggest motivation)