Chapter 426: Hum Ha Second General Breaks New York Tactics
Hearing the news of Rose's knee injury, Li Kaiming was also stunned for a moment!
Rose is one of his true friends in NbA, and Elliott Williams is left besides Rose.
A few months ago, Rose was still the youngest mVp in history with high spirits, the training maniac who didn't hesitate to get up at two o'clock in the middle of the night in order to win Li Kaiming, or the good senior and senior who hated iron when he saw Williams practice without working hard......
And that all changed when he landed on a layup on the court!
Li Kaiming tried to call Rose's mobile phone, but no one answered the phone after ringing for a long time, it may be that he was still in a coma after the operation, or he may have woken up and saw the call but didn't want to answer it.
Li Kaiming knows Ross well, he is a representative of speed on the court, and he plays with passion.
But off the court, Ross is a stuffy gourd, he has very few friends, and even very good friends are hard to see Ross talking like a chatterbox.
He likes to keep everything on his mind and take it on his own......
Li Kaiming sighed, deleted the large text messages that had been edited, and then rewrote a short sentence, and after hesitating for a moment, he clicked send!
"Come on! I'll be waiting for you back at the stadium! ”
In just a few words, it turns from an image into a string of code, and then passes through the hardware device into electromagnetic waves, and spends quickly in space towards Chicago......
Inside a hospital room in Chicago.
Drip!
The phone on the bedside table beeped.
The man on the bed stared out the window in distraction, he had beautiful eyes, shaved short hair, and his knees were thickly wrapped in layers of bandages.
Looks like the surgery is done!
Rose was awakened by the ringing of his phone, turned his head to look at the phone on the cabinet, hesitated, and still tried to reach the phone in his hand.
The phone screen lights up, and countless missed call records and text message prompts are flooded in front of you for a while.
There are coaches, team managers, teammates......
But Rose's attention was immediately drawn to the text message at the top, the content of which was so short that he didn't even have to click on it to see it.
"Come on, I'll be waiting for you to come back at the stadium!"
The sender is: Li Kaiming!
Seeing the news of Li Kaiming, Rose instantly recalled the days when he trained with Li Kaiming and Williams in the summer, when his knee was still healthy......
His gaze turned to his wrapped knees, his brow furrowed, and a pained expression appeared on his face......
This pain is not only the physical pain after the numbing force has passed, but more importantly, his psychological pain!
As a professional footballer, he knows all too well what a big knee injury means!
How many talented young talents have fallen at this hurdle, and now, is there another Derrick Rose on the injury list?
Rose turned his head, closed his eyes and tried not to let himself look at the position of his knee, and a tear slipped from the corner of his eye......
The sunlight outside the window suddenly dimmed, and the sky, which had been sunny just a moment ago, suddenly became cloudy.
There is something in the wind!
Li Kaiming can't put too much energy into caring for Rose, and if it's the offseason, he will definitely fly over to visit the latter as soon as possible, but now the Wizards are in the playoffs at a critical time.
As the boss of the team, he can personally have any emotions because of Rose's affairs, but he must not let such emotions affect his state and cause damage to the performance of the Wizards.
This is irresponsible to the team, teammates and coaches!
So what Li Kaiming has to do at this time is to turn his grief and anger into strength and walk to the end of the playoffs with Rose's wishes!
At eight o'clock in the evening on April 30, the first round of the Eastern Conference playoffs Wizards VS Knicks G2.
This year's Wizards have a better record than last year, and the team has few weaknesses on both offensive and defensive ends, so since entering the playoffs, some media have begun to refer to the Wizards as a potential team to win the championship.
Fans in Washington were also very enthusiastic and bought tickets to watch the game live.
Of course, there are only a limited number of seats available to watch the game in person, but in order to better support the fans in Washington, the Wizards will also broadcast the game live on the square outside the stadium, and many public screens in Washington, D.C. have begun to broadcast the Wizards' games.
Before the game started, the mcI center was already crowded, and there were no empty places at a glance.
There was also a large crowd of fans gathered in the plaza outside the arena, many of them wearing the jerseys of the Wizards, but most of them were Li Kaiming's No. 0 jerseys.
At half past eight in the evening, with the referee's whistle, Bradge and Tyson Chandler jumped the ball, and this time Chandler won.
The Knicks attacked first, the Wizards' five men returned to the frontcourt in an orderly manner, and the Knicks' starting point guard, bearded Baron Davis, dribbled the ball across the half court and began to direct the team's runs.
The core of the Knicks' team is undoubtedly the two heavyweight forward combinations, Smalls and Carmelo Anthony.
Barang Davis is no longer in his prime, so his main job is to play some simple balls and then pass the ball to the team.
The point guard and power forward are obviously more relaxed, with Xiao Si coming over to block and Hinrich successfully blocked by him.
Davis dribbled to break through the inside, and Li Kaiming blocked Davis on the inside.
The latter slowed down slightly, and then suddenly a pass was made to the pick-and-roll of the pick-and-roll.
Li Kaiming hurriedly turned around to find his opponent, Xiao Si chose to go to the basket after receiving the ball, but at this time, Brach was also ready to protect the frame, and Xiao Si missed the layup.
Leonard, the robot who had been waiting for a long time, jumped directly to grab the rebound, and Li Kaiming had rushed to the front court after Hinrich wanted to pass the ball.
Hinrich made a long pass to Li Kaiming, who received the ball and went directly to Xiao Si's defensive layup!
Xiao Si's defense is still a lot worse, and while being scored by Li Kaiming, he also got a chance to add a penalty with the blessing of the home referee!
The Wizards came up and played a 2+1, which made the audience excited!
Li Kaiming added a penalty and hit it steadily, starting the game 3-0.
The Knicks served to the frontcourt, and Anthony, who had been disgusted by Leonard for a whole game in the last game, took the initiative to ask for the ball from the outside.
In the face of this guy who has a paralyzed expression no matter what, although Anthony hates it, he knows that now is not the time to play personal heroism.
Barang Davis came over to block him, and the Knicks looked like they were going to let the No. 1 position cover Anthony, and then force the Wizards to switch defenses and let Anthony use his physical advantage to play the wrong position.
Naturally, the Wizards will not change their defenses, Leonard and Hinrich chose to wrap Anthony, the latter immediately passed the ball to Davis, and then went inside with Hinrich!
This is to force the Wizards to choose between two people, whether to let Davis go or give Anthony a misposition.
Leonard made the decision instantly, defending Davis at the top of the arc, while Hinrich pinned his legs to the floor and kept pushing Anthony with his lower handicap.
But the two are too misaligned, and Anthony's strength is considered the top category among small forwards, Hinrich is still pushed to the waist position.
Barang Davis passes the ball to Anthony, who beats Hinrich to the basket and takes advantage of his feet to turn and shoot!
3 to 2!
After the heavy defeat in the previous game, Knicks head coach D'Antoni learned the hard way and decided to change tactics in this game.
Although there is no cooperation between the Knicks and the two stars, even if two people play alone, they have to score about 50 points to be considered normal.
If you can't even play two All-Stars, what's the use of playing as a team? Can't win again!
So this time, D'Antoni changed the norm and no longer launched tactics at the back, but directly used two strikers as the starting point and let them play first.
Of course, how to get Antony to avoid the facial paralysis on the opposite side is also the top priority of D'Antony's tactics.
The tactic of letting Anthony come up and play the wrong position did work well, and without Leonard's restrictions, Anthony swept away the malaise of the previous game, scoring 13 points on 4-of-6 shooting in the first quarter.
But Sanders is also changing very quickly, aren't you trying to create a dislocation? I won't change the defense, you Anthony has the ability to pass the ball to the Wizards?
It's a real disservice, and Anthony's biggest criticism is the field vision, he's a 100 per cent one-on-one guy with little passing ability.
The Wizards did not change the defense, and Anthony could only find that the bearded Davis who was playing with him was vacant at first glance, but unfortunately Leonard and Hinrich communicated very quickly on the defensive end, and the two returned to their opponents as soon as the package ended.
Even if Davis is given a chance to go outside, the latter has no threat outside the three-point line, and breaking to the basket with Li Kaiming and Bradge protecting the basket can't create any threat at all.
Davis is no longer the Davis he was back then!
After finding that the tactics were blocked, D'Anthony also reacted immediately, Davis's outside threat was not enough, so the Knicks' starting point guard Landruffelz's outside firepower was very strong, so why not let him and Anthony block and create a dislocation?
The idea is good, but D'Antoni doesn't seem to have one thing in mind, if the Knicks play the pick-and-roll at the No. 23 position, why would the Wizards switch defenses?
Klay Thompson, who is 201 tall, is not only an excellent off-ball shooter, but his tough undercuts and counter-attacking ability can even allow him to play against certain No.4 positions without falling behind.
Although Anthony played Thompson much easier than Leonard, it was not the kind to be wanted, at least not as easily as it was to beat Hinrich.
Anthony gave up this style of play after trying to play a few rounds, and it was okay to single out Thompson for a few rounds, but if the whole game was over, he wouldn't be exhausted!
As a result, D'Antoni pondered for several days to launch a forward tactic, and before he could play more than half time, he was directly broken by Sanders with a hum two generals!
What makes people feel strange is that while Anthony, one of the Knicks' core players, is less efficient, the other Stoudemire doesn't get many shots.
After an attempt to attack the basket with the help of blocking and dismantling in the opening game, Xiao Si only made 4 shots in the next half of the game, which made Li Kaiming, who was against Xiao Si, a little strange!
Could it be that my defense is too good, and Xiao Si doesn't dare to hit me?
In the end, the Wizards won G2 103-86 at home, rewriting the score to 2-0, with only two wins left to advance to the second round and 14 wins left to lift the final O'Brien Cup.
Li Kaiming played 38 minutes and had a triple-double of 28 points, 14 rebounds and 14 assists, Thompson scored 11 points on 2-of-4 three-point shooting, and Leonard scored 7 points, 8 rebounds, 3 steals and 1 block.
However, after the game, the most eye-catching thing was not the post-game interview with the Wizards, but the big melon from the Knicks!
Xiao Si was dissatisfied that he only made 9 shots in the whole game, and after leaving the court, he smashed a fist on the glass of the fire hydrant, and then blood stained the mcI center, which made all the reporters smell the hot news.
The Knicks look like they're going to have a problem in the locker room!