On January 1, 1997, the NBA league announced the Player of the Month for December, and the Lakers' Shaquille O'Neal successfully won the award;

The Lakers had an 11-3 record in December, with O'Neal averaging 27.6 points, 12.6 rebounds, 4.0 assists, 1.1 steals, 3.4 blocks and 2.9 turnovers in 39.9 minutes per game.

He averaged 21.0 shots per game and shot 52 percent from the field and 10.2 free throws per game and shot 55.9 percent from the free-throw line.

Aside from the free throws that are as good as ever, the Sharks' stats are impeccable!

December's Rookie of the Month award went to Lee Woo, and the Knicks finished the month with a 13-2 record;

Li You played an average of 26.4 minutes per game, averaging 15.9 points, 2.6 rebounds, 7.3 assists, 1.3 steals and 1.5 turnovers per game;

He averaged 10.3 attempts per game and shot 48.4 percent from the field, 6.0 attempts from beyond the three-point line and 39.5 percent from three-point range, and 3.6 free throws per game and 74.3 percent from the free throw line.

This statistic is not only the leading new player, but also definitely among the No. 1 players in the league.

The media in New York has started a new round of blowing X, and they haven't seen the award of the best rookie of the month for some years.

However, if Li You wants to get the trophy, he has to wait until the 5th to return to his home stadium.

Just after his birthday at the end of the year, Li You departed for Washington on the first day of the new year with the team, and on the evening of the 2nd, they will challenge the Washington Bullets away.

The new John Wallace looked at Li You with envious eyes when he got on the plane, this unlucky guy has been resting for half a month with a calf strain, and has only recently fully recovered:

"This is the Rookie of the Month, a player can't win it a few times in a lifetime, Lee, aren't you excited? It's really cool! ”

Walter McCarty was also envious to death.

People are more angry than people!

The best rookie of the week and the best rookie of the month, winning these two awards already shows that Li You has almost gained a firm foothold in the league, as long as he maintains his current level, a million-dollar contract in the future is not a dream.

"It's just a small award for a rookie player, and Grant Hill was the All-Star vote champion in his rookie season, and that's really cool!"

The veterans were a little unhappy when they heard Li You mention the name of Grant Hill, and the successor of True Jordan was stepping on the old guy to take the position.

The budding new John Wallace didn't care about Grant Hill, that kind of genius was too far away from him, and at this time he still maintained his excitement and said loudly to Li You:

"Lee, can I touch your trophy when I get back? I want to take more pictures! ”

The corners of Li You's mouth twitched, and he hurriedly restrained his divergent thinking:

"No problem, you can leave it there for half a month, shoot whatever you want!"

“...”

On the night of the 2nd, at the US Airways Arena, the fans who bought tickets to watch the game that night were a little depressed, and the game was extremely dull.

The last time the two teams met, the Knicks won easily, and Jeff Van Gundy's repeated instructions before the game didn't help, and everyone underestimated the enemy.

Oakley and Larry Johnson were all 1-of-6 in the half and almost smashed the rim.

Although the Knicks were pulling offensively, the opposite Bullets were in worse shape, scoring only 12 points in the second quarter...

Juwan Howard was 3-of-13 in the half, Chris Webb was 3-of-9, and the two combined for 16 points, and they had already smashed their own basket...

At 45:34, after halftime, the Knicks still led by 11 points.

Lee Woo's performance was also mediocre, mainly because Rod Strickland, who was opposite him tonight, was like a doping, and he didn't leave an inch on the defensive end, almost growing on him.

"Welcome to the NBA, Lee, you're going to be enjoying this kind of defensive treatment from this month onwards!"

"If you're still a nobody, no one cares about you, but now it's different, you get an award, everybody wants to step on you, that's the NBA!"

When the midfielder returned to the locker room, Starks smiled and introduced the current situation to Li You, and the lemon essence was about to start a counterattack.

This is known as the "rookie wall", and only well-known rookie players encounter such situations.

No team would look at a 12-man who played less than five minutes, and the prime example is the angry bag Walter McCarty, who didn't even have a chance to hit the wall...

Charles Oakley doesn't care about Li You's defense, and the old guy cares more about his own face.

Sitting on the bench on the Bullets bench is his younger brother Ben Wallace, who doesn't want to lose face in front of the newcomer:

"A few more blocks, Lee, right in the elbow area, a few more passes, I feel like I've regained my touch!"

As soon as Oakley's voice fell, the "aunt" on the side also set her eyes on Li You:

"No problem, we're still leading by double digits anyway, so there's plenty of room for error!"

Li You nodded and agreed, Ewing doesn't like to eat cakes, that's because the boss has to be responsible for tackling tough problems, and others don't have these concerns, and brushing points is everyone's favorite.

In the second half of the game, Charles Oakley still couldn't find his touch, couldn't shoot, and finally regained some face by relying on fierce frontcourt rebounds.

On the bench of the Washington Bullets, Ben Wallace showed an envious gaze, who didn't look at Oakley at all and focused on Lee Yow most of the time.

A rare transition attack, Li You quickly advanced along the right sideline after receiving the ball, and suddenly dribbled behind his back in the middle of the move, lowered his center of gravity, and shook his body to the left.

Taking advantage of the opposite Rod Strickland to slide to the right, Li You changed direction sharply in advance, and after switching to his right hand, he accelerated to break through.

The old guy who has been in the league for many years has a lot of defensive experience, adjusts the center of gravity of his body, pulls covertly on his hands, and continues to slide to try to complete the defense.

Li You had already prepared, dribbled across the middle line and suddenly made a sharp stop, and then his body shook to the right, misleading in disguise, and quickly dribbled under his crotch.

Rod Strickland didn't resist this time, subconsciously slid to the left rear, made a wrong defensive prediction, and then tried to chase the defense, but he stumbled and completely lost the defensive position.

Li You's rhythmic shaking made the fans at the scene exclaim and accelerate towards the paint area, and the defense line of the bullets subconsciously contracted.

Breaking through to the free throw line, Li You suddenly threw the ball behind his back during the march, and the ball flew straight to the left wing, and Alan Houston received the ball and threw it!

"Huh!" Three-point shot hollow into the net!

Alan Houston was at his best tonight, making three three-pointers including that shot.

"Shhhhh

Jeff Van Gundy looked relaxed, ignored the boos from the scene, stood on the sidelines and applauded constantly, and didn't need to shout tactics, just shouted loudly:

"That's it! Keep up the offense like this! ”

On the bench, assistant coaches Thibodeau and Don Channey glanced at each other, both reading what they meant:

"Our head coach is used to hosting tactics..."

In the daily training of the Knicks, the most practiced routine is to switch offense, how to play counterattacks efficiently and score easily, which is also a technical job.

Jeff Van Gundy, who was already bald, didn't know that the assistant coach was orchestrating him in his mind, he just felt that the hosting tactic was very useful, and when he saw the team defending the next round, he shouted with great devotion:

“Move！ Move！ Go！ Go！ Go！ ”

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