Chapter 353: Cut 50+ Again
As soon as Li Kaiming came up, he scored 5 points in a row, and D'Antoni was a little shaken, doubting whether his single defense strategy was right.
Li Kaiming: It's too right, brother, it's too right, don't change, I, the all-star starter, have to rely on your defensive strategy!
Of course, Li Kaiming's strong desire to attack also made the Knicks' players begin to use the strength of the team to help Gallinari fight against Li Kaiming.
The shift is natural, and even if D'Antoni doesn't say it, the players will spontaneously list Gallinari for help and packing.
The main thing is that I can't stand it, Gallinari is about to be beaten and cried on the field!
However, even if the Knicks carried out a small range of defense and packing, Li Kaiming did not pass the ball out as usual, unless the opposite side directly released his outside teammates, otherwise the ball would stick to his hands tonight!
Of course, looking back, the Knicks' offensive was not weak, and Xiao Si found that he couldn't prevent Li Kaiming's breakthrough, so he began to make a fuss about the offense and spread fire with Bradge.
At the end of the first quarter, the score was 32-33, with the Knicks trailing by one point.
Among the 33 points of the Wizards, 16 points were scored by Li Kaiming alone, and the others had almost no sense of participation, the only one with a sense of participation was the vacant Hinrich, whose role was to receive the ball on the baseline, control the ball over half the court, and then hand it to Li Kaiming and pull away from it.
To say that it sounds good, it is called to be ready to receive the ball on the outside and open up space, and to say that it is not good, it is to watch a play on the court.
When the game came back in the second quarter, D'Antoni still adhered to the defense of the first quarter, because he found that the two sides still played like this, unlike those previous teams, and Li Kaiming was directly beaten by the Wizards with three points!
As long as the rest of the Wizards team is guarded, even if Li Kaiming scores a high score, the winner of this game is uncertain!
D'Antoni was on the sidelines with his hands on his chest, looking bright, and he thought he had found a way to crack the Wizards' offense.
But history tells us that the only thing people can learn from history is that people don't learn anything from history.
Many teams have tried D'Antoni's method before, that is, to bet that you Li Kaiming alone can't kill me!
However, the endings of those opponents proved in the end that one person can really kill a team!
Tonight is no exception!
In the face of Gallinari's single defense, Li Kaiming in the second quarter completely turned on the furious mode, he had a stronger offensive desire than the first quarter, more aggressive, and played more violently!
In the face of Gallinari's one-step defense on the outside, Li Kaiming did not hesitate directly, his hand was up and down, and he hit a three-point shot!
If Gallinari chooses to defend a three-pointer close to him, then he will pass the latter in one step, and then dunk under the basket, or make a direct pull-up jump shot from the middle range, or use a breakthrough probing step to shake Gallinari into the three-point line, and then step back and shoot another three!
In this case, Gallinari has been beaten by Li Kaiming and completely lost confidence!
He'd never seen someone so hard to defend!
Li Kaiming was 7-of-10 in the second quarter, 2-of-3 three-pointers, 4-of-4 free throws, and scored 20 points and 4 rebounds, without an assist!
This may be the most unique game Li Kaiming has played since he played the regular season, and he didn't have an assist in a single quarter, all of which were made by himself.
Generally speaking, if someone on a team plays this way, the team is likely to be difficult to win.
However, at halftime, the Wizards led the Knicks by 5 points at 61-56!
It's not that you can't win with this style of play, but it depends on whether the person who plays in this way is strong enough!
If a person takes less than half of his 10 shots and then goes crazy and doesn't pass the ball to others, it's normal to lose the game.
But although Li Kaiming shot a lot, his shooting rate was very high, the overall shooting rate in the second quarter was 70 percent, if it was really a shooting rate, his true shooting rate had exceeded 90 percent!
With this kind of unnatural hit rate, not letting him shoot more is hurting the team!
What is the ultimate goal of a team, is to win, if a person can score with a shooting percentage rate that is dozens of percentage points higher than others, the only thing that a coach has to think about is how to give the ball to this person, and relieve him of all worries.
That's what Sanders thinks now, standing in the middle of the dressing room, his marker in his hand constantly drawing on the tactical board.
"Wait for you to go up to Lee to cover here, if you can't do it, you can cut close to the inside, and you, don't stand in the bottom corner, run up, and take the defender away from where Lee is......"
After explaining the tactics, the whole article is to guide the Wizards players on how to create the best singles space for Li Kaiming.
Saunders: Xiao Li, I've already given you the opportunity, and I'll leave the rest to you!
Li Kaiming: Okay!
And Li Kaiming's performance in the second half did not disappoint Sanders, in the third quarter, he faced the Knicks' single defense policy, and with the help of his teammates, he directly started a ruthless stick single!
Gallinari is numb!
Aren't you tired buddy? Others are tired of training and throwing so much, but you still have the physical strength to throw like this in an official competition?
Li Kaiming: What is tired? Dude didn't sweat it?
Of course, it's still a bit exaggerated to sweat, but this game is played very easily, mainly because the pressure on the opponent is too small, and Li Kaiming is "famous", so Gallinari doesn't dare to defend with small moves......
At the end of the third quarter, Li Kaiming had already scored 48 points!
At this time, the fans of Madison Garden Plaza finally realized that something was wrong!
Because on the big screen, under the avatar of the guy who booed them all the time, the score column has come to 48 points!
48 points in the third quarter, if nothing else, Li Kaiming may score 60 points in this game, or even 70 points!
The commentator on the commentary bench doesn't know what to say, the guy who was too rampant by them at the beginning is really going to rule this basketball mecca now!
D'Antoni, who was next to the Knicks bench, finally reacted, and he said to the Knicks players with a serious face, "The next two tasks, first, win this game, and second, give me the No. 0 on the opposite side, don't let him score!" ”
The Knicks' players all nodded, and their faces weren't very good-looking.
Especially Xiao Si, he has scored a double-double of 23 points and 11 rebounds, and he has a good chance to get a double-double of 30 after the whole game, but unfortunately this data is nothing compared to the guy opposite!
And Gallinari breathed a sigh of relief, and was played a game by Li Kaiming, and now he finally doesn't have to face that pervert alone!
The players on both sides returned to the court, and at the beginning of the fourth quarter, the Knicks served to the frontcourt, and Filton and Smalls blocked and dismantled, attracting the attention of the Wizards' inside, and then distributed the ball to Landry Fields, who received the ball and shot directly, but unfortunately did not hit.
Li Kaiming pushed away Xiao Si and picked up the rebound, what the Knicks didn't expect was that Li Kaiming did not pass the ball to Hinrich, but dribbled to the front court by himself, Gallinari, as the pioneer of Li Kaiming, immediately pasted it, afraid that Li Kaiming would attack a dragon quickly, as long as he slowed down in the front court, the rest of the Knicks would come directly to help him.
However, Li Kaiming didn't bother to wait for his teammates to be in place, and several of them were even in the backcourt, he took a step outside the three-point line in the front court, and directly pulled it up to be a three-pointer!
Gallinari's face was bitter, and he tried his best to pounce on Li Kaiming, but it still didn't have any impact on the final result.
Lewis and Nick Young, who were in the bottom two of the Wizards, looked at each other after seeing Li Kaiming's direct goal, and then turned around to defend together.
In this process, the two of them didn't even step on the floor in the front court, and Li Kaiming's shot was completed.
D'Antoni, who was standing on the sidelines, directly dropped the tactical board, "FxxK! Give me snacks, and from now on, don't let him catch the ball! ”
After this three-point shot, Li Kaiming has scored 51 points, and there are still a full 11 minutes before the end of the fourth quarter.
At the same time, the Madison fans didn't boo Lee anymore, and even Spike Lee, who was on the sidelines, sat down and then looked up at the data on the big screen from time to time.
Everyone wants to know what kind of data Li Kaiming can play tonight!
When the Wizards served, Xiao Si and Gallinari, who had just scored, directly blocked Li Kaiming and did not give him any space to receive the ball at all.
Hinrich dribbled through the half, and after finding that Li Kaiming was being stared at, he dribbled to the mid-range shot, but unfortunately he didn't score, Xiao Si got the rebound, and Filton took the ball and broke quickly, giving it to Fields on the outside, who seized the opportunity and converted three-point hits!
98 to 107! The Knicks managed to stop the bleeding.
The Wizards served to the frontcourt, and Hinrich looked at Lewis, who was unguarded on the outside, stunned for a moment and passed the ball over.
Lewis, who received the ball, was also in a trance, and after he adjusted his posture, Xiao Si over there reacted, but unfortunately it was too late, and Lewis hit three points easily!
98 to 110!
In the next half of the game, the Knicks defended Li Kaiming like this, and Li Kaiming was also very simple, seeing that the opposite side seemed to be determined to prevent him from catching the ball, so he put away his mind and obediently acted as a bait on the outside to create opportunities for his teammates.
As for the task of conquering Madison, to some extent it has been accomplished, don't you see that no one is booing him now?
The two sides played the game at this pace, and in the end, the Wizards won 124-110 against the Knicks.
Li Kaiming played 41 minutes and scored 51 points, 9 rebounds and 1 assist, which was the lowest record since he entered the NbA, which shows how unique he played tonight.
It's a pity that he didn't break his single-game scoring record tonight, in fact, he still has a feeling, mainly because later the Knicks would rather let his teammates throw empty positions than let him shoot, which shows that a regular season victory is not as good as the record in Madison.