Chapter 646 Knicks running and bombing

   "Brian, long time no see, how are you?"

  On the sidelines, a confident D'Antoni smiled and walked towards Colangelo Jr., extending his hand.

"I'm very good."

  Junior Colangelo stretched out his hand and shook it without anger, and quickly let go.

   "Congratulations, Jeff."

  D'Antoni still had self-knowledge, and Colangelo wanted to kill him with a single shot, so he sneered and extended his hand to Fan.

"Thank you!"

  Xiao Fan nodded and shook hands.

   "Thank me?"

  D'Antoni froze for a moment, and soon realized that Van Gundy really had to thank him. If he hadn't left, how could he have a chance to be in the top position?

   At this time, the first game starts, the home team is the finale, and the visiting team goes first.

   "Old K..."

  After seeing Old K appearing on the field, D'Antoni, who was waiting on the sidelines, extended his hand with a smile, and wanted to say something.

  Old Wang didn't seem to see D'Antoni, and walked straight over. D'Antoni's face froze, and he withdrew his outstretched hand in embarrassment.

  Old Wang understands Stoudemire's choice, and D'Antoni's choice to leave the team, but he will never agree with D'Antoni's behavior of hollowing out the Suns.

With his current status, he doesn't need to give D'Antoni any face at all, and he doesn't even need to maintain superficial politeness. It will only give people a hypocritical feeling. His image has never been a gentleman, but a villain. Violence.

   "Tom, Monica, Jessica..."

  He hugged and shook hands with some friends on the sidelines. Many stars came tonight.

   At 8:30, the game officially begins.

  Kenyon Martin and Stoudemire jump the ball, the Knicks attack.

  Seeing that Stoudemire got the ball first, Lao Wang immediately turned around and returned to the defense, and quickly retreated to the basket.

   At this time, the Knicks' offense had already begun.

Marion made an air cut from the left wing, Zhu Fangyu was not as fast as Marion, and was thrown off the next step. At this time, Nash passed the ball quickly, and Marion caught the ball and took a step outside the paint area. Seeing the old K coming from the basket, he immediately stopped and made a jumper .

"brush!"

   Splashes appeared, and the mid-range shot hit.

  Old Wang was about to turn around to grab rebounds. Seeing that Knicks center Mohamed also rushed to the basket, he paid attention to this short center.

  He has studied the Knicks lineup before, and he also knows Muhammad. This is a very good blue-collar player.

   Suns offense.

   Lao Wang entered the basket, and the others pulled away.

  Kenyon Martin can't shoot well, and his ability to stretch is average. Stoudemire is guarding the right waist and can return to the basket at any time.

White Chocolate feels that he will bury his own abilities in the Suns, because everything here is centered on the old K, and there is no need for so many fancy breakthroughs and passes, just pass the ball in, so in fact, he also understands why Kidd and Nash are like this An excellent point guard, he will choose to leave the Suns.

However, he still tried his best to show his ability. When he saw the old K entering the basket, he immediately pulled to the left. When Nash caught up, he suddenly pulled back, and Nash in front disappeared, before the end of three seconds. , before passing the ball in.

   Obviously got rid of Nash and could pass the ball directly, but he used a fancy backhand pass.

  Pharaoh was almost swearing at the basket, didn't he know how to attack for three seconds? You throw it in and it's over, what are you doing here and there, can Nash have the ability to stop you from passing the ball?

  He hurriedly took a step forward and jumped up to catch the ball before Stoudemire came in to double-team. At this time, Muhammad behind him took a step up and got behind, and Stoudemire also stuck to the left side.

  The next moment, as soon as he landed, he immediately turned right, avoided Stoudemire's double-team, put his right elbow against Muhammad behind him, and hit the ball with his left hand to hit a frontal hook.

  Mohammad tried his best to take off and block the shot, but he was helpless because he was not talented enough, and he was pushed outside again, and his defensive height was far behind.

"brush!"

  The ball goes hollow into the basket.

   "Beautiful! Old K hit a hook near the basket." Barkley shouted.

   Before the words were finished, the Knicks' offense had already begun.

D'Antoni's seven-second offensive theory has been realized in this Knicks team. When the old K received the ball at the basket, Nash, Marion, and Alan Houston outside were retreating. When the ball entered the basket, they Has turned around and is about to go down.

   At the basket, Muhammad also picked up the ball for the first time, and after retreating to the bottom line, he was ready to make a quick shot.

However, Lao Wang is too familiar with D'Antoni. When he rebuilt his body in 2002, he chose the direction of rebuilding with equal emphasis on strength and agility. He just wanted to try small **** and different styles. He is very familiar with small ball tactics. Running and gunning also knows a lot.

  The first step of D'Antoni's running and bombing is to send and pass quickly, so that the ball can be sent to Nash's hands at the fastest speed.

  So after discussing with Xiao Fan, his defensive task during the transition is not to quickly return to defense, but to prevent the Knicks from making quick passes.

Muhammad is only 208 centimeters, and his shoes are still high. His wingspan is much worse than that of Lao Wang, and his mobility is also much slower than Lao Wang. When Lao Wang stood in front of him, he cut off his arms while waving His passing space.

   There is no need to cut off for a long time, one or two seconds is enough. This time is enough for the Suns players to catch up with Nash and Stoudemire and complete their defense.

  Two seconds later, Lao Wang didn't care about Muhammad, so he calmly turned back to defend.

   "The Knicks didn't hit the fast break, and now they fall into positional warfare, losing speed and running and bombing, is it still running and bombing?" Barkley asked with a smile.

   Before he finished speaking, the Knicks' offense was completed.

  Marion suddenly made a reverse run on the left-wing three-point line, and after getting rid of Zhu Fangyu, he quickly moved to the top of the arc.

  Nash passed the ball at this time, Marion caught the ball and made a jumper, Zhu Fangyu flew from one side to block the shot, but it seemed that he didn't touch the ball, and the ball flew to the basket.

   "Rebound!"

  Zhu Fangyu shouted loudly, he knew he had touched the ball.

"boom!"

   Sure enough, the next moment, the basketball hit the basket and rebounded, and it was short.

  Muhammad wanted to bypass Lao Wang and rush to the basket to grab an offensive rebound, but Lao Wang quickly got stuck, protected the backcourt rebound, and handed it to White Chocolate Williams.

  The positional battle began, Lao Wang entered the basket again, and when he received the ball, he fell into the double-teaming of Stoudemire and Muhammad again.

   "Boom!"

  Under the arch of his back, Muhammad collapsed.

"boom!"

  The next moment, he easily shook Stoudemire with a fake rise, then got up a second time, and smashed the ball into the basket with one hand.

  4:2, the Knicks attack.

   After the dunk was successful, Pharaoh still stood in front of the baseline, like a mountain, preventing the Knicks from making a quick move.

  The others quickly returned to the backcourt and man-to-man.

  In positional battles, Stoudemire's low-post ball-holding offensive ability is a little bit, but he hasn't practiced it yet. He is used to eating cakes.

   And Muhammad, just a blue-collar.

  So in positional warfare, the Knicks' offense mainly relies on outside jumpers or sudden points.

   This time, Nash broke through with the ball, entered the paint area and attracted Martin's defense, and then passed the ball to Stoudemire.

   Stoudemire caught the ball and made a jumper outside the paint area, Josh Howard rushed down to cover the defense, and flew under the block, affecting the former's shot.

"boom!"

   Missed, Lao Wang protected the backcourt rebound, and the Suns attacked.

  Pharaoh hit the basket twice, this time he pulled to the left wing and made the basket empty.

  White Chocolate took the ball to the left wing. At this time, Kenyon Martin got rid of Stoudemire and was implementing a weak-side cut.

"boom!"

  Kenyon Martin catches the ball and it is a dunk.

   This time, Stoudemire quickly picked up the ball and retreated to the bottom line before preparing for a quick serve. Kenyon Martin didn't stop it in time, and the quick serve was successful, and the ball was passed to Nash.

   Nash quickly moved forward after receiving the ball, and Marion and Alan Houston had already stepped off from the left and right wings respectively.

  Zhu Fangyu and Josh Howard chased and defended with all their strength, but their speed was not as good as others, a little slower, and they both fell behind.

  Old Wang also returned to the defense from the left wing, and continued to accelerate towards the backcourt, chasing one step behind Zhu Fangyu, and quickly shortened the distance.

   "Whoosh!"

  Nash moved forward a few steps and saw Marion on the right wing crossing the three-point line. Suddenly, he made a long pass and the ball flew to the front of Marion.

  Zhu Fangyu felt someone approaching from the left, turned around and saw that it was Wang Tiejun, immediately slowed down, and Wang Tiejun rushed into the paint from the right elbow.

   At this time, Marion received the ball, took off from the right waist position, held the ball in his right hand, and slashed towards the basket like a battle axe.

  Almost at the same time, Pharaoh took off and blocked the shot.

"Snapped!"

   Under the giant palm, amidst the exclamation of Madison Square Garden, the ball flew into the sky.

  The next second, Lao Wang took off for the second time and caught the ball.

   "Beautiful! Old K chased from the frontcourt to the backcourt, sent a clean chasing cap, and destroyed a run and bomb attack by the Knicks." Barkley praised.

   "As a heavy center forward, this kind of defensive ability against fast breaks is rare, which is what the big dream of the year can do."

  Kenny Smith praised, and then said in a puzzled tone: "So I don't understand, with the speed of old K, D'Antoni can play small ball in the Suns. Why did he come to the Knicks?"

"Because the old K and the Suns management did not allow him to play running and gunning in the Suns. This is a different concept. His running and bombing should not be defensive, but the old K and the Suns management do not think that kind of running and bombing is right. ’” Barkley said.

  The Suns advanced to the frontcourt unhurriedly, and Lao Wang went directly to the basket again to take a position.

"boom!"

   "Beep!"

   After receiving the ball, Lao Wang fell into a double-team, forcibly stood up and dunked. While scoring, he also knocked over Stoudemire and caused Muhammad's thug foul.

   Extra penalty hit, 9:2, the Suns lead and the Knicks attack.

   This time, send it quickly.

Muhammad received the ball from the basket and retreated to the bottom line at the first time. Kenyon Martin went up to stop it, but the ball was sent out and passed to Marion who came down to meet him. After Marion quickly got rid of Zhu Fangyu, he passed it to the frontcourt nash.

  White Chocolate chased after him, Nash made a backhand pass, and the ball flew to Alan Houston on the left-wing three-point line.

  Alan Houston feinted a shot from the three-point line, shook Josh Howard, quickly started, and rushed to the basket with the ball.

  But during this time, it was enough for Lao Wang to return to the defense from the free throw line, and Stoudemire, who started to get off from the basket, fell a few steps behind him.

"Snapped!"

  Alan Houston made a layup, the ball had just risen, and was pressed on the backboard by two giant palms, and then grabbed it directly.

   "Cap grab? Beautiful!" Kenny Smith roared excitedly.

   Barkley laughed and said: "Look, I'm right, old K will not only explode on the offensive end today, but also on the defensive end."

"boom!"

  At the transition of offense and defense, Pharaoh took the Knicks to go down with all his strength. When the backcourt was empty, he made a long pass and assisted Kenyon Martin to complete a dunk.

  11:2, the Knicks attacked.

   After serving, D'Antoni finally called a timeout.

  After the timeout, the Knicks still ran and bombed as before.

  The Suns played man-to-man, White Chocolate chased too tightly in the backcourt, Nash passed a long pass to Marion, but Zhu Fangyu squeezed Marion, made a wrong catch, the ball flew directly out of the left line, and the offense and defense switched.

  The Suns are still in positional warfare.

"boom!"

Lao Wang still entered the basket, Mohammed couldn't stop him at all, and Stoudemire's double-teaming strength was no more than that. The defense was just pretending, without confrontational strength. Two, score another goal.

  After succeeding, he immediately defended on the spot to prevent the opponent from making a quick move, and once again strangled the Knicks' running and bombing from the source.

"boom!"

  Looking back, the Knicks played positional battles, with Pharaoh sitting in the penalty area, and the inside offense was weak. Alan Houston missed a mid-range shot, Kenyon Martin protected the backcourt rebound, and the Suns got the ball again.

   Barkley laughed: "This is running and bombing. As long as they lock their fast pass and fast pass buttons, they can suppress their fast break to a large extent."

   "The Knicks' positional warfare is outside shooting, how to hit the old K inside?" Kenny Smith said.

   By the 8th minute of the first quarter, 26:8, the Suns had led by 18 points, and the Knicks called the third timeout of the first quarter.

   "Old K is now 7 of 7 shots and 5 of 5 free throws. He scored 19 points, 4 rebounds, 1 assist and 3 blocks. Both offense and defense exploded!" Su Qun said excitedly.

"The Knicks averaged 111 points per game this season. Their offensive firepower ranks first in the league. Now they only score 8 points in 8 minutes. The offense has been completely destroyed. This kind of running and bombing, after entering the playoffs, can go How far?" Zhang Li shook his head and said.

   In front of the Knicks' bench, D'Antoni, who was full of confidence before the game, was already sweating profusely.

  He arranged for Nash to catch the ball in the backcourt, not allowing him to advance to the frontcourt, and let the other three play a fast break, and told him: "Remember, you must send the ball as soon as possible."

  After the timeout ended, the Knicks replaced Alan Houston with Quentin Richardson, and the others did not change.

  Have a huge score advantage, the Suns are all on the bench, Varejao, Kurt Thomas, Ariza, Jamal Crawford, Smush Parker.

"Five substitutes, two rookies, Smush Parker is also a sophomore, and he was still undrafted, and his strength is slightly equal to nothing. The Suns really have a big heart, aren't they afraid of the Knicks running back?" Kenny Smith Tucao Road.

"Don't be afraid. With Crawford, although he is not efficient enough, he still has the ability to grab points from the bench. Although the Knicks are still the main force, they don't plan to defend at all, and it will not affect Crawford's scoring." Barkley laughed.

   "Haha..." Kenny Smith shook his head and laughed.

  But Barkley underestimated D'Antoni's running and bombing. In the next two minutes, the Knicks made 5 offenses and scored 3 of them.

  Among the 5 attacks, the longest one took only 10 seconds, and the shortest one took only 1.8 seconds. Nash served directly from the baseline, and after a long pass, Marion hit an open three-pointer.

  The Knicks used a round of running and bombing, scored 7 points in a row, and used their whirlwind offense to disrupt the Suns' offensive and defensive rhythm and stupefied the Suns' bench lineup.

  Crawford's rhythm was also skewed. He made 0 of 4 shots and scored no points. The Knicks scored 7 points in a row, 26:15, only 11 points behind.

  With two minutes left in the first quarter, Xiao Fan removed the rookie Varejao, and Lao Wang played again, taking over the offense of the Suns.

   "Keep them on the defensive end, don't follow them on the offensive end."

  As soon as he came on the court, the first thing he did was to stabilize the rhythm. With him as Optimus Prime, the Suns' bench lineup immediately stabilized.

  Going to the basket, without him asking for the ball, Crawford, who was holding the ball, saw him stop, and immediately obediently lobbed the ball in.

  This is his status. No matter who is by his side, even Kobe, who has begun to reach the peak in the late stage of the Lakers' three consecutive championships, the first choice is to give him the ball.

But every advantage has a disadvantage. This is the reason why Nash and Stoudemire left the Suns. Except for Xianyu, there is no one with potential and ability who is willing to be a green leaf that sets off the red flower. They only want to be a red flower and a protagonist. .

  When the ball was passed in, Stoudemire wanted to go around and steal the ball, but his strength and tonnage could not be compared with that of Lao Wang, but he was pushed aside with an elbow.

"Snapped!"

  Take off, grab the ball with both hands, and when it lands, the body adjustment has been completed, from the front basket to the side, and then violently rises again, in the double-team, forced to stand up, dunks with both hands.

"boom!"

   "Beep!"

  The sound of smashing the basket and the sound of the whistle sounded at the same time, and Muhammad and Stoudemire fell to the floor at the same time.

  The referee came over and pointed at Muhammad, making a gesture of a thug foul and an extra penalty.

   "Beautiful! I guess Stoudemire will not dare to double-team Old K like this after two more visits." Su Qun shouted excitedly.

"His defense is indeed a paper tiger. He can hardly support any low-post players who can attack with the ball. When he was in the Suns, the low-post defense relied on the Iron Army. This time, the willingness to defend will definitely drop significantly, and the quality of double-teaming will indeed be worse next time." Zhang Lili laughed.

  (end of this chapter)