NBA: This flower path is a bit strong.

After the "defection" of Shaq, the New York Knicks management obviously wants to fill the gaps in the team's roster.

During this offseason, they actively recruited Alan Houston, the former Nuggets "assassin" who has excellent three-point shooting ability.

He is famous in the basketball world for his textbook shooting movements and high hit rate, and is praised as the "mid-range shooting king".

He was also the biggest contributor to the buzzer-beating victory over the Miami Heat in the last 1999 seconds of the decisive game in the first round of the 0.8 playoffs, creating the black eight miracle and helping the New York Knicks advance to the NBA Finals that year, no doubt about it!

But now that he has just arrived in New York, Alan must face a reality:

That is, in the Knicks, he can no longer be the center of attention like he was in the Pistons, even though this "gorilla" in front of him had been criticized by many fans last season.

However, Alan must first learn to play a supporting role on the court.

"It's not time yet, let's wait another year!"

What we are saying is, a man who can accomplish the "Black Eight Miracle" must have ambition!

Hanamichi was envious as he watched the "mid-range shooting king" with standard shooting posture demonstrating what a "textbook" shot was during the warm-up.

"It's such a shame to pair it with [Gorilla]!"

The two positions in the Raptors' starting lineup that never change are Hanamichi and Das.

This pair of twin stars has demonstrated their strength throughout the entire season. Now they have broken away from the title of rookies and become "veterans" in the team's starting lineup!

In addition, the Raptors' center position is still the aging but still strong Charles Oakley.

"Big Ben, I'm going to go up there and show you an example. Watch out, you can't be timid even in the NBA!"

Daben looked at his master's words and deeds with a serious expression!

The small forward position is Walter Williams, a former Heat player who just joined the Raptors. He averages 13 points per game and shot 45.5% from three-point range last season.

Doug Christie was promoted to the regular shooting guard position. Last season, Doug Christie averaged 14.5 points, 5.3 rebounds, 3.9 assists and an amazing 2.5 steals per game, even surpassing the team's point guard Stoudemire in this regard. However, he only averaged 3 fouls per game.

It can be said that the future best defensive player has already shown his fangs to the other 28 teams in the league.

That's not all. The Raptors also have Ben Wallace, who is eager to try, and Puig-Jones, who is Hanamichi's substitute and averages 11.3 points and 10.8 rebounds per game, sitting on the bench.

Looking at the crowded locker room, Raptors head coach Landon Malone felt that the team was strong and blurted out:

"I never thought that I, Old Lan? Old Ma? No~ Old Deng, would also have a day to fight a rich war!"

Hua Dao thought to himself:

"If it weren't for us, you would have been fired by the Raptors by now, you old Deng!"

But seeing that the head coach looked confident but didn't have 13 numbers, I decided not to spoil the fun.

So, coach ~ Old Dun sent out his predetermined starting lineup to show his importance to last season's arch-rival, the Knicks!

Then, in the packed Madison Square Garden, another tragedy occurred!

The Raptors were not able to cross the river, they simply beat the Knicks by 30 points!

Hua Dao said that this really can't be blamed on me, after all, he only played for 36 minutes and easily scored 32 points, 12 rebounds and 4 assists.

But a bunch of brothers were clamoring to give me that [slap] in the face in the playoffs!

It seems that he seems to understand the meaning of James playing brotherly basketball!

Brothers these days can really get along well with each other. It can only be said that the plastic brotherhood of later generations, where "you put your brothers in your pockets and your brothers kick you into the ditch", is a thing of the past.

Flying Squirrel Damon Stoudemire played for 39 minutes, scored 25 points, 9 assists and 2 steals, which was a good start to this season.

There's nothing he can do about it. Who made him average just 0.2 points per game last season to achieve the honor of averaging [20+10] in his rookie season?

Doug Christie played as steadily as ever, scoring 16 points and 3 steals. He also defended the Knicks shooting guard Alan Houston, who is known as the "mid-range shooting king", and made only 13 of his 5 shots.

The Knicks center Buck Williams is the worst. He is 203cm tall and weighs 99kg, and is the favorite type of Ben Wallace and Charles Oakley.

"What level of center is this? How dare he stand in the penalty area and confront us head-on!"

"Then let's bump!"

然后，全场出场35分钟的巴克-威廉姆斯被这对师徒俩在禁区防了个6投1中外加6个篮板以及6次失误这样一份另类的666数据！

It can be said that everything was arranged clearly.

The "gorilla" Ewing, who carried the expectations of the whole village, scored 22 points and 10 rebounds, which seemed to be a double-double of "the team lost but I didn't lose".

But everyone who watched the entire game knows that Ewing was basically unable to defend against Hanamichi throughout the entire game. He really couldn't defend against Hanamichi's shooting, passing, and attacks under the basket.

Although Hanamichi occasionally fails to defend against Ewing, he is able to interfere with and restrict him well most of the time!

When facing Hanamichi, Ewing took a total of 12 shots, hit 4 goals, and his true shooting percentage was less than 40%. He did not have any assists, but instead contributed 3 turnovers, and was completely nailed out of the lineup by Hanamichi.

Ewing didn’t know if it was because he was getting old and his physical fitness had declined, or if the red-haired boy had grown up again!

In short, he felt that this guy's defensive skills were becoming more and more sophisticated!

In addition, the loss of control of rebounds was also the reason for the Knicks' complete collapse. Ewing only grabbed 35 rebounds in 6 minutes against Hanamichi.

The [20+10] data was also thanks to Puopeye Jones who came on as a substitute for Hanamichi.

At the end of the third quarter, the score difference was only 17 points. Ewing did not intend to give up the fourth quarter, otherwise it would be confirmed that he, as a superstar in the playoffs last season, could not deal with the red-haired boy, so he deliberately attacked him!

Unfortunately, although Puopeye-Jones, who had no place to display his energy, was not as good as Hanamichi in defense, he relied on his abundant physical strength and rebounding positioning to score an alternative data of 7 points, 9 rebounds and 1 assist in a limited time!

After fighting for half of the fourth quarter, the score difference of 17 points not only did not narrow, but instead exceeded 20 points and headed for 30!

Ewing saw that most of the Raptors' core players had left the court, leaving only the undrafted player with afro, the red-haired substitute player, and Doug Christie still on the court.

"Well, don't go up there anymore. Otherwise, the media will say that you can't even beat the substitutes, and then you won't be able to explain it!"

"I really envy that flying pig. I'll try to learn from him later!"

Alan Houston, the newbie who just joined the Knicks, said, I just changed teams, it’s okay to lose the core position, but how come the opponents have become so strong?

"Is it because he didn't have the ball enough?"

"Am I a ball-handling attacker who needs the ball?"

Alan looked at Ewing, who was sitting beside him and gasping for breath. His broad chest rose and fell with his breathing, and sweat slid down his forehead and dripped onto the ground.

Alan couldn't help but feel a strong desire and ambition in his heart, as if the weeds deep in his heart were growing wildly at this moment.

After a while, Alan took a deep breath and concealed his true thoughts.

"Maybe it won't take a year..."

It seems that the assassin has decided to start his moves early with the New York Knicks.