Play with your brain

Chapter 298 The Second Back-to-Back
After defeating the Warriors in an away game, the Knicks continued their Western Conference road trip, which is another new 'back-to-back' start.

On November 11th, the Knicks will challenge the Kings away, and then they will challenge the Nuggets away on the night of the 17th.The following game is the last battle of the season between the Knicks and the Nuggets.

In the words of Lao Hu, this is simply a cheating schedule, and it can no longer be cheating!
But this game has to continue, you can't do it if you don't play, so the Knicks and the Kings started the battle on time on the night of the 17th.

In terms of status, the Knicks are still very poor, which doesn't seem to have changed much.Although they won the Warriors in the last game, it was mainly because the opponent's basket was not accurate.But this time against the king, Lao Hu is already praying that the opponent should be as inaccurate as the warrior.

Of course, there is also good news. Just before the game, Abdul Rahim, the famous star of the Kings, was injured.Lao Hu knows that if there are no accidents, this 'all-round striker' will miss the entire regular season and announce his retirement next year.

There is a little bit of gloating in it, but for the sake of his own team, Lele is also normal.

But the game started as usual, and the Kings seemed to be unaffected by Raheem's injury, and it seemed that nothing changed.

The reason is very simple, because the king's power forward is still topped by someone, Ron Artest, this troublesome guy can finally play well after he came to the king.

At the beginning of the game, the Knicks launched a mad attack under the leadership of Lao Hu.This time Lao Hu didn't control the rhythm, but speeded up and increased the frequency of shots.

The reason for doing this is because the Knicks players are not in good condition. Since the condition is not good, it is better to take advantage of the good physical strength at the beginning of the game and shoot more shots.Once the feeling is found, then everything will be easy to handle.

As for the Knicks who started fighting as soon as they came up, they were completely anti-customer, and the Kings were a little uncomfortable.The Kings themselves are not a very fast team. They are indeed an offensive team, but they are not fast.The Kings are famous for their positional offense, which is the 'Princeton system' of the Adelman era. This is a standard positional warfare system with smooth and gorgeous offense.Even if the current head coach is no longer Adelman, the rest of the team hasn't changed much.

Therefore, the Knicks attacked quickly like desperately when they came up, which really made the Kings a little at a loss.

By the end of the first half, 57 to 42, the Knicks led the Kings by 15 points.

This is a pretty good point difference. Although it is not very big, it is definitely not small. However, what many people did not expect was that the situation in the second half of the game changed suddenly.

At the beginning of the third quarter, the Kings started to attack. They seemed to wake up and finally knew that they should fight back.

And the starting point of the counterattack is their outside line, to be precise, it is Mike Bibby, Kevin Martin and Francisco Garcia!
This is an outside formation that the Kings often use, but this time their three-pointers have an amazing performance.

Swish!Martin seized the opportunity, and he hit a three-pointer again at a 45-degree angle.

"Oh ho ho ho!..." The fans who threw Lamento were extremely excited, because this was Martin's third three-pointer in the third quarter, and it was also the Kings' fifth three-pointer recently.

At this time, the scores of the two sides are already 67 to 65. The Knicks only have a two-point lead.

The biggest question facing Lao Hu now is, which one should we guard against?
This is mainly because Nate is not tall enough. Once the opponent's shot finds the sight, Nate is a defensive black hole.

It was fine before, and Nate's defense against Bibby was still effective, but once the 'White Devil' stopped driving and chose to catch and shoot, this problem came.

The three-pointer just now was Lao Hu's attempt to help, but Bibby's vision was quite good, which immediately allowed Martin to play.

This is a difficult problem to solve. Nate is just a microcosm of the Knicks' defense. The entire Knicks' perimeter defense for shooting is not very good.As long as the opponent is accurate, the Knicks will suffer a lot, just like the game against the Magic.

In fact, coaching is also difficult. The Knicks really have defenders, such as Balkman and Devon Green, but their defense is deformed.These two guys are the type who can't attack, and it's impossible for Coach Tuo to let them appear on the court at the same time.

Therefore, Lao Hu still has to go to the left to help and make up for the right. In this way, the King's outside players are all happy.

Until the end of this situation, the Kings have been very hot. Even if the Knicks counterattacked a few times under the leadership of Lao Hu, people once saw the hope of victory.But the King's three-pointer was like heavy rain, which directly extinguished the fire of hope for the Knicks.

118 to 123, after a free throw shootout before the end, the Knicks lost to the Kings away.

It was just a little bit, but I still lost. It is indeed a bit depressing, but this is a game.

Lost to the Kings, don't forget, the Knicks will go to Colorado to challenge the Denver Nuggets tomorrow, so they immediately flew to the nature reserve on a chartered plane.

There was no time at all to appreciate the beautiful natural beauty. The Knicks simply adapted to the venue and started the night's battle.

However, what Lao Hu didn't expect was that this away game was even more depressing.

Beep!The referee's whistle blew again, this time they were referring to David Lee.

"Ahahaha!..." The home fans were naturally extremely happy, because the Knicks' white forward should be leaving the field.

Lao Li's expression was very innocent, and Lao Hu, who had a panoramic view of the foul just now, was also helpless.There is no way, this kind of body hair foul is really dumbfounding.

This is just 6 minutes into the first quarter. The Knicks' inside player had a two-foul, and Curry also had a foul, and even Lao Hu was called a thug just now.

Although this game has not been played for a long time, Lao Hu has a hunch that it seems that the Knicks are about to suffer retribution.

Sure enough, this premonition was very accurate.

Beep!The whistle sounded again, this time it was Curry, and the referee blew an offensive foul!
"Oh ho ho ho!..."

"Let all the New Yorkers go home! . . . "

The fans are booing, they are really satisfied with the referee's performance.

By the time the game reached the third quarter, Lao Hu was already very convinced that the Knicks had encountered the NBA's 'home call' this time.

That's no surprise, since the Knicks get special treatment in New York, and the Denver Nuggets can enjoy it, too.

Moreover, head coach George Karl is not stupid, he immediately changed his style of play when he saw the strength of the referee, and immediately arranged for his men to charge the Knicks inside.

Don't forget, the Nuggets are now in the era of "Golden Two Guns", that is to say, they have two superstars, and they just want to enjoy the treatment of superstars this time!

The referees were very cooperative, and they gave the Knicks a good feel of what the Nuggets felt when they were in New York.

Therefore, the entire fourth quarter of this game was a big garbage time. The key point is that the Knicks have been unable to resist. Even players like Lao Hu who have a good control of fouls have been sent off, let alone others. .

90 to 115, the Knicks lost to their opponents away, and Lao Hu contributed to his first ejection in the NBA.

"This is simply disgraceful! This game is simply unacceptable! I felt insulted to my eyes watching the game from the sidelines! Is this NBA pizza? This is simply a farce!..." After the game At the press conference, coach Toto was furious, and his meaning was obvious, that is, the Knicks were treated unfairly in the away game.

However, the Nuggets' reporters are very good. They immediately cited what happened to the Nuggets in New York and used this to refute Thomas.

Who is Lao Tuo, he is a generation with a brilliant tongue, how can he be defeated by such a small problem?

"The game in New York was a classic game. Our Knicks and the opponent Nuggets dedicated a high-quality confrontation to the fans. This can be seen from the fan comments after the game. Everyone Most fans are still very satisfied!…”

This rebuttal is well-founded, who makes the Knicks more fans!

However, even if Coach Toto didn't directly mention the referee's problem, the NBA officials still issued a ticket after the game.Laotuo needs to pay for his words and deeds, and the price is [-] US dollars.

Fortunately, the number is not very large, because Lao Tuo still knows some details of the NBA, and he thought he would not be punished.But looking at it now, pointing at Sang and scolding Huai should be done less.

After two consecutive back-to-backs, and it was still an expedition to the West, it really made the Knicks physically and mentally exhausted.But fortunately, the NBA schedule is not designed to exhaust people, and the Knicks will soon be able to breathe.

On the 11th and 19th of November, the Knicks did not play. They will not have a game at their home court until the 20st. The opponent is the Golden State Warriors who just won not long ago.

The home game should be no problem, right? The home game, and two days of rest, plus the Knicks have already defeated their opponents away, almost all the conditions are telling the fans that the Knicks will definitely win this game, This is even beyond doubt. If this game cannot be won, it is simply too unreasonable.

But the game is to be played, not all the conditions are laid out, the result of the game will be out, otherwise everyone just needs to compare which team has more stars, the bigger the star, it will be fine, why bother.

So, how did the game go?
82 to 108, the Knicks lost their opponents by more than 20 points at home!
　Regarding the update, Fox will talk about it here.After this month, there are more than 28 characters every day. To be honest, it is really unbearable.Fox is a newcomer, and the speed of coding is really not fast, and Fox asked himself, the quality of this book has not declined much.The fox also knows that February is only 6000 days, but that's it, the fox has lost a lot of hair, and after staying up all night, he said that the coffee has killed two large cans.Therefore, in March, Fox should return to the relatively stable word count of [-] per day.Thank you for your understanding and thank you for your support.

　　
　
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