Chapter 470: The Outer Line (The Third Update, Added to the "Ink String Curtain Cool")
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As the most profitable team in the league, the Knicks have always had a very good attendance, even when the team is playing badly, they still have a very good attendance.
This season, the Knicks' record is not good, Phil Jackson became the Knicks as management, the old fish Derrick Fisher became the team's head coach, Knicks fans were still very confident in the team at the beginning of the season, but so far in the season, the Knicks are 4-20 and ranked second to last in the East, which is really surprising to them.
Injuries are certainly a big factor, including Anthony, and a number of Knicks players were injured at the start of the season, but the lure of a metropolis like the Knicks keeps players from focusing on the game, which is also a big reason.
Of course, such a reason is naturally impossible to find from the management level, so there is news that the Knicks have begun to make a trade to adjust their roster.
In fact, the Knicks team's lineup is not bad, although it can't be called a strong team, but if it is understood normally, it will not be reduced to a fish belly team.
The starting lineup for this game is the Knicks with center Cole Aldrick, power forward Amare Stoudemire, small forward Carmelo Anthony, shooting guard Iman Chambert, and point guard Jose Calderon.
The Knicks, on the other hand, continued their starting lineup from the previous two games, with Whiteside, Salinger, Jeff Green, Lee Yang, and Smart.
Whiteside beat Aldryk to help the Celtics take the lead in attacking the ball, Li Yang dribbled to the half, and it was Shanbert who stopped him in front of him, Shanbert is the best player on the Knicks' outside defense, so after the game started, it was directly used to deal with Li Yang, who has been in excellent form in recent games.
Of course, with Li Yang's current scoring ability, it is just a matter of talking to let Shanbert limit Li Yang's attack, but at this time, Li Yang is not in a hurry to directly break through the opponent's defense.
Starting from the pick-and-roll, after Li Yang and Jeff Green completed a pick-and-roll cooperation, Green cut inside to score 2 points.
Like the Celtics, the Knicks' first ball was also handed over to the team's top scorer Anthony, but Anthony did not choose to pass the ball at this time, and after receiving the ball from the baseline, he turned around and made a jumper with two points.
In the first round of the opening game, both sides played well offensively, which seemed to indicate that the offensive state of both teams in this game was quite good, and it seemed that this was indeed the case after the first quarter of the game.
The Knicks' defense is completely incomparable to the Celtics' previous two teams, the Bulls and the Wizards, especially in terms of interior protection after the opening.
With such an opportunity, Li Yang naturally will not forget that he constantly fed the ball to his teammates who entered the interior to score after attracting the defense of the Knicks team.
"Li Yang's and Sallinger's blocking, hitting the ground pass, Sallinger's two-point shot from close range from the baseline, hitting ......"
"Li Yang and Whiteside blocked and dismantled, threw the ball directly to the inside, and Whiteside caught the dunk in the air, beautiful!"
Throughout the first quarter, the domestic Celtics fans listened to Ke Fan and Shu Qun, who were in charge of the commentary, and kept shouting for Li Yang's pass, Li's pass in this quarter of the game did bring a lot of opportunities to the Celtics players, after a quarter of the game, although Li Yang scored only 2 points, but in addition to the free throw opportunities created by the pass for his teammates, only the assist has been 7.
Under the leadership of Li Yang, the Celtics scored 30 points in this quarter.
However, the Knicks' offense played equally well in this quarter of the game, although their record was poor, but there were not many people in the team who could score, and this quarter of the game seemed to have a good shooting touch, although the Celtics couldn't attack inside, but relying on excellent outside shooting, they scored 31 points in this quarter, but they were 1 point ahead of the Celtics after the first quarter of the game.
"Shrink, everybody shrink defense, we need to guard the interior, we can't get the basket easily with those guys on the other side. ”
After the first quarter, Derrick Fisher shouted to remind his players that the Celtics' defense in the first two games was no secret, and Fisher naturally knew it, in fact, he also arranged it this way before the game, but the Knicks' execution was very average.
At this point, Fisher once again reiterated his defensive strategy, and even replaced Stadmichael, whose movement speed had dropped significantly due to injury, with a blue-collar interior lineman.
There is nothing new about Fisher's defensive strategy, but the effect is really good, and the Celtics are really weak on the outside right now, except for Li Yang, they now have few consistent outside scorers.
When the Knicks contracted their defense, the Celtics immediately got a lot of shooting opportunities on the outside, and Li Yang was able to pass the ball to his teammates in a timely manner, but the continuous thumping sound wasted Li Yang's passes again and again.
Once the Celtics don't attack, the Knicks will naturally get a lot of opportunities to counterattack, the Knicks' offense in this game is very good, this counterattack is played, and the difference between the two teams is suddenly completely widened.
By the end of the second quarter, the score had become 52-61, and the Celtics were nine points behind.
This situation made Stevens start to think deeply, as the game progressed, the Celtics' problems were being exposed step by step, before the interior defense, Whiteside's appearance just blocked this problem, and now the outside offense is troubled again, it seems that the lineup needs to continue to adjust or excavate.
Li Yang didn't think of it so far, he was still thinking about this game, he got high scores in the first two games, won one game and lost one, Li Yang himself knew very well that the team couldn't rely on himself to keep scoring high scores to win, if he wanted to make the game easier, if he wanted to improve the team's record and strength, he still needed to involve his teammates more, so that they could hit more shots on the outside.
But judging from the second quarter of the game, the effect did not seem to be too good, and the team's outside offense was really unstable.
Li Yang had to make up his mind at this time, if he tried his teammates once or twice in the third quarter and still had this offensive feeling, then he had to turn on the scoring mode again, and he couldn't watch the team lose.