The strongest champion puzzle

Chapter 186 Consecutive Away Game Begins

Anthony Davis is in trouble, and the Pelicans are in big trouble.

During the rotation period, Zhang Xiaotian, Wade and Ray Allen played a wave of sharp offense.

James played another 3 minutes to summarize, and the Heat's lead came to 20 points, and the game entered garbage time.

A team supported by a young core is prone to collapse, and Anthony Davis has accumulated experience.

On January 1, the Heat went to New York to challenge the Knicks.

The Knicks were also quite active last summer, spending money to get Andrea Bargnani and other players, ostensibly upgrading the lineup.

But they started this season in a mess, and they don't know what the evil is.

Obviously last season was so sharp, but after only a few months, it suddenly feels like it's not good enough.

The Knicks' current starting lineup is also considered a small lineup, if you don't care about Bargnani's height.

But they did not take the initiative to change, but the team's main center Tyson Chandler was injured.

Another insider, Amare Stoudemire, has been playing as a substitute since his comeback last season. Stoudemire is not too old, but his injury made him lose his style back then.

In this game, JR Smith, who won the best sixth man last season, will not play because of the "untying shoelace" incident.

The team's record was not good, and this guy did some stupid things. The team's head coach Mike Woodson had the urge to kill people.

It may also be because of this personality that JR Smith, who has had good statistics since his rookie season, has never received a lucrative contract.

But facing the Heat, the Knicks didn't play badly.

At the beginning, the defense was changed. Anthony went to the fourth position to face James, J Bargnani played to Bosh, and Kenyon Martin, the most authentic insider, actually switched to Zhang Xiaotian.

Fortunately, Kenyon Martin is old, otherwise Zhang Xiaotian would definitely be in trouble, and the level of physical confrontation of inside players is still different.

But Kenyon Martin can be considered a false starter, Amare Stoudemire has more playing time.

After Stoudemire came up to partner with Bargnani, it became him to mark Bosh, and Bargnani went to defend James, so Zhang Xiaotian would face Anthony.

I have to say that Anthony is too difficult to guard.

The opponent may be lamenting that James is not easy to defend, and James entered the state relatively quickly in this game.

That is, Bosh's side is crushed to death no matter which one is facing up.

Speaking of state fluctuations, Zhang Xiaotian felt that he was far inferior to Bosh.

The team and Zhang Xiaotian have three ball-holding points. Bosh is more and more like a pitcher, and he is also depressed.

As for the defense, Bosh really needs to review it, he is still at the peak, how can he be bullied so often.

Without JR Smith, Anthony took most of the shots.

The Knicks have not performed well this season, and the distribution of ball rights may be a big problem. Anthony is different from James. He is a purer end point, and he needs a good No. [-] to cooperate.

In the first half, the Heat maintained their advantage by relying on James and three-pointers from the outside, and everything seemed normal.

There is a gap between the Knicks and the Heat, and they should be in control of the situation.

But did not expect the sudden change in the third quarter, the Knicks found that Kenyon Martin had no effect on the court, and decisively replaced Stoudemire in advance.

Although Stoudemire didn't have the strength before the injury, he still exploded the Heat on the rebound.

The Heat's rebounding is really pitiful. In comparison, the Spurs' internal weakness is probably fake.

After Stoudemire came on the court, the Knicks' outside opportunities also came out, but the Heat's outside lines suddenly failed.

Zhang Xiaotian was suppressed by Anthony, Bosh continued to slump, only James and Wade could score, but the Knicks played very well as a team, as if the two sides had changed teams.

And because there was no one on the bench for the Knicks, the main players were fighting against each other, so they didn't give the Heat a chance at all.

They overtook the score in the third quarter, and when James rested in the fourth quarter, the Knicks immediately expanded the score advantage to more than 10 points.

Of course Zhang Xiaotian started to play, but his skills are not invincible.

You know, during the Knicks rotation period, several strong points did not rest.

When the main players of the Heat team played again, Zhang Xiaotian got some opportunities.

One is that Anthony switched to James again, and the player he faced became Bargnani.

He took the opportunity to break through the opponent a few times, and he did a good job defending.

But because the team failed to restrain Anthony and the rebound was exploded, the game was still lost.

The current Heat seems to have recovered from a super strong team to an ordinary strong team. They can win consecutively, but they will miss in a few games.

Although the Knicks have a poor record, they are indeed a capable team, and it is normal to lose to them.

This time they are actually the beginning of a six-game streak, and they fell in the first game, which is really a bit unlucky.

But it is not without good news. Several players on the team who have been affected by injuries plan to come back and have already participated in confrontation training with the team.

Not to mention Battier, James Jones and others, the key is that Greg Oden also has this plan.

You must know that last summer, the person the Heat expected more was not Zhang Xiaotian, but Oden the Great.

The current embarrassment on the inside makes the team desperately hope for some changes.

Before that, they had to fight against a ruthless player with an unsatisfactory record.

This ruthless character is naturally the Nets who spent a lot of money last summer and had the highest luxury tax in the league.

The Nets brought in the Five Tigers generals, but the record is as poor as the Knicks, and it is also extremely depressed.

In addition to running-in, the biggest reason should be that the youngest of the five big men, that is, Brook Lopez, was injured.

The general in his prime was injured, and the Nets were also out of luck.

The rest of the old All-Stars are no longer at the peak, the money was spent, and the results were not bought back.

This has always been the case in the NBA. It doesn't take rich people to be successful. There are countless people who died on the beach.

Compared with football, the field of basketball is too small. It is really not enough to succeed by stacking stars, especially when the thighs of the stacked stars are not thick enough.

However, the Nets are still a tough nut to crack, especially for the back-to-back Heat.

If Wade doesn't play back-to-back, the Heat's rotation is already a little bit worse.

The Pacers are watching from behind. Although the regular season is not that important, the Heat don't want to lose the No. [-] throne in the Eastern Conference, and they don't want to lose streak.

As the public enemy of the alliance, they have enough pride.

With Ray Allen starting instead of Wade and Norris Cole starting instead of Chalmers, the Heat's lineup has also changed somewhat.

The Nets are also one big and four small. Pierce followed James to play the fourth position, and Garnett was on the inside, just planning to fight the Heat.

(End of this chapter)