basketball player

Chapter 190 188: Tormenting Wang Hensen
The appearance of Lance Stephenson is like pouring water on the dry land, adding lubricating oil to the worn out engine, adding special effects to the dull movie, and removing the mosaic from the passionate picture!

2 points and 2 assists, plus a successful defense against Jeremy Lin.Stephenson brought the Pacers' offense back to life, and the Knicks' five-point advantage was wiped out in a blink of an eye.

However, Mike Woodson did not call a stoppage.Maybe he doesn't think the difference of 1 point is dangerous, or maybe he thinks it's impossible for Stephenson to have such a stable output all the time.

But no matter what he thought, Stephenson would tell the new Knicks coach: "You're wrong!"

Anthony must now carry the banner of the Knicks' offense. Jeremy Lin was defended to death today, and Stoudemire didn't show much. JR Smith is now entangled by George, and it is difficult for the "Champion" to protect himself when he meets "Birdman".Therefore, Anthony feels that he has returned to last season, and returned to the season when he could only rely on individual singles to solve problems.

No, Anthony is very clear.If he insists on playing singles, it will fall into Henson's hands.This time the team was infinitely close to winning, and he didn't want to ruin this chance of winning because of his recklessness!
When Paul returns in the next game, it will be even harder for the Knicks to win!If the game cannot be won today, then the Knicks will very likely swallow the bitter fruit of two consecutive losses!

For the Knicks who have just ended their 6-game losing streak, and for the Knicks who are already hovering on the edge of the playoffs, the price of losing 2 games in a row is still a bit too high.

So Anthony turned the arrow and passed the ball to JR Smith who ran out of space.As soon as Smith received the ball, he found that George had already posted it.In fact, George's defense against JR has been very tight today.It's just that JR, who was feeling twitchy just now, didn't care if there was defense in front of him.

But now, JR will definitely not act like this.After hesitating, the ball was returned to Anthony.
"The Knicks' offensive tactics can't run at all. It's basically passing back and forth between several scorers. Anthony hit Green with his back and made a jumper! Hit! Although the goal was scored, the Pacers didn't give the opponent any room to score. I'm afraid it will be very difficult for the Knicks to win the game with this kind of offense."

While the offense was revitalized, the Pacers' defense did not relax at all.And you must know that the "Gibbon" Leonard of the Pacers is still resting on the bench at this time.When Anthony is exhausted by Green's torture, Henson will definitely replace Leonard to continue to torture the "social melon".

Relying on Anthony singles?I'm afraid Woodson is really unreliable.

In this way, the two sides, which were evenly matched in the first two and a half quarters, finally showed a gap in the second half of the third quarter.

The Pacers' offense was smoother and more efficient.Whether Stephenson scored independently or passed the ball, he made the Pacers' offense more dynamic.

Although in the third quarter, Stephenson also made two excessive pass errors, one pass to Jeremy Lin without looking at the person, and one pass to Henson behind the back. At that moment, Henson felt that he had the urge to take off his shoes again to slap someone.

But Stephenson is not a pure point guard after all, let alone a master of field control like Paul.So even though there were two mistakes, it can be regarded as a flaw.Therefore, Henson wore his leather shoes well.

At the end of the third quarter, the Pacers went from being 5 points behind at the beginning to leading by 8 points.There is no doubt that the Knicks are very anxious, everyone is very anxious.If you don't seize the opportunity to win without Paul, do you still want to win with Paul tomorrow?

Don't want to swallow the bitter fruit of the two-game losing streak, the Knicks must find a way to fill the 8-point gap.

So in the fourth quarter, it can be seen that Mike Woodson still made some changes on the offensive end.He increased the players' passing and cutting cooperation, emphasizing the sharing of the ball, and the ball will pass the hands of many people in one attack.There is no doubt that Woodson wants the Knicks to play more blooming effects.

However, this "flower" doesn't just bloom if you want to.The Pacers' multi-point blooming focuses on opening up space and players shooting accurately.

The Knicks obviously don't have these two characteristics. They can't open up space inside and shoot. It's hard to say.

Legend has it that Jeremy Lin's good teammate Fields hit two irons as soon as he came up on his sofa. Afterwards, Jeremy Lin made two emergency stop jump shots and only hit one.

After that, Melon tried another three-point shot.But under Green's pressure, Anthony couldn't comfortably throw the ball in.

"Cameron always seems to be in trouble whenever he plays against the Pacers." Mike Breen couldn't help but shook his head. Anthony met the Pacers, or he had a high score but was empty-handed.Or just like today, the shooting percentage and scoring data of being defended are appalling.

With the Knicks' offense still desperately unable to find the north, the Pacers have silently opened up the score.Knicks fans must have cursed Stephenson thousands of times after seeing his arrogance after scoring or assisting.

But that's useless, how should Stephenson "hate" or "hate".

After playing 4 minutes in the fourth quarter, Henson replaced Danny Green, who had played a lot of time and was already a little tired.When Green was replaced, he had scored 11 points, 3 rebounds and 3 assists. Most importantly, he was very solid on the defensive end.

Even Green, who is not heavy on the offensive end, is so tired, and Anthony, who enjoys "VIP treatment", is naturally even more exhausted.

Seeing the Pacers make a substitution, Anthony couldn't help but take the opportunity to put his hands on his knees and wipe his sweat off the collar of his jersey.Then, in despair, he saw that No. 2 "Gibbon" with an expressionless face, huge palms, and slender arms appeared again.

Anthony was gasping for air, feeling hopeless in life.

"Henson is really a king of torment. He didn't intend to give Anthony a second to breathe!" Brin looked at the close-up of Anthony's face on the big screen. His desperate expression seemed to make Brin feel the collapse of Anthony's heart at this time.

After that, the tired Anthony used his superb post-up skills and turnaround jumper to hit the iron frantically under Leonard's long arms.

Anderson must be the happiest, because Anthony's blacksmithing allowed him to easily harvest a lot of rebounding data.

On the offensive end, Leonard has not been idle.As the season progressed, Leonard has slowly begun to occupy a certain proportion of the offensive end from a pure defensive player before.

His offensive methods are certainly not as rich as Anthony's, but the cut-in after a big stride is still quite threatening.

One is that Leonard knows how to get rid of the defense, and the other is that his slender arms make layups that are held high are not easy to be blocked.

In order to prevent Leonard's cut, Anthony must run wildly with the expressionless No. 2 all the time.There is no doubt that this will greatly consume Anthony's almost bottomed out physical fitness.And this is why Anthony doesn't like to defend.

However, Anthony must now insist on playing.Because without him as the top scorer, the Knicks will be completely cold in this game.

But Anthony was there, and I didn't see much help to the Knicks.Although Leonard will not be able to block Anthony, but Anthony's low scoring efficiency will not play a role in chasing points.

Seeing his top scorer being locked up so badly by Henson with a rookie, Mike Woodson already looked sluggish.

The offense can't score, and the defense can't defend.How can this kind of ball win?Hit the pause button and restart the game?
It's a pity that there is no pause button in reality.Sometimes, you have to accept failure as a fact.

In the last 1 minute and 45 seconds of the fourth quarter, Mike Woodson still replaced Anthony.Anthony, with his hips akimbo, walked off the court slowly without even high-fiving the teammate who replaced him.

16投4中，12分7篮板5助攻。安东尼的数据别说是球迷，就连他自己肯定也是无法满意的。

Sitting back on the bench, Anthony took the towel from the staff, covered his head, and buried his head deeply in his hands.

Losing this game means that the Knicks are basically "connected" with their two-game losing streak.

Anthony's downcast expression and today's struggling performance made Brin shake his head.

"Henson is really a king of torment." Breen said casually, which gave Henson a new nickname from then on.

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