the great gatsby

Chapter 447 Knicks Big Three?

Coach Vogel was heartbroken. He thought that in the current situation where the Pacers and the Knicks are competing on the same field, the outcome should be [-]-[-].

After all, most of the core of both sides are young people. Relatively speaking, the Knicks are a younger team. Although the Knicks are the defending champions, the previous Knicks and the current Knicks are not the same team at all. Team.

Without Anthony and Stoudemire, the Knicks would be great if they had [-]% of their previous strength, but when it comes to the competition, the gap is so huge!
The Miami Heat are the team that pays the most attention to the Knicks today. They defeated the Nets in the first game. The Heat showed far better combat power than they did last season. Ray Allen Lewis and others joined in this season , Let this Heat become extremely balanced, the Nets do not have enough strength to compete with the Heat.

The Heat have already begun to pay attention to their opponents in the next round.

Pat Riley and coach Spoelstra are paying attention to tonight's game. James and Wade are still preparing for the next game. Pat Riley asked them to rest, just him and Spoel Terra and several assistant coaches gathered to watch the game.

During the halftime break, the faces of the few people present became serious. They knew that this Knicks team might still be difficult to deal with, but they never thought that they could be so strong.

They have seen how difficult the Pacers are. Teams in the same division have the opportunity to play against each other several times a season. The score between the Heat and the Pacers in the regular season is 1:2, and the Heat only won one of the three games.

Because the Pacers have Paul George and a powerful rim protector on the inside, Paul George is good at defending James. Although he can't prevent James, it is okay to make James feel uncomfortable. With Hibbert's height, it is good for him. For the Heat, it is indeed very difficult.

It is precisely because they have a clear understanding of the strength of the Pacers that Pat Riley and Spoelstra were so surprised that the Knicks led the Pacers by 21 points at halftime so easily!

Knicks lineup to restrain the Pacers?
Maybe, Gatsby is actually a very headache for any team. This can no longer be said to restrain the Pacers. If it is restrained, it is restrained to all teams.

Naturally, Gatsby's toughness needless to say, a superstar like this, which one is not a headache, Kobe, James, Wade, which one of these is not a headache, but the crux of the problem is not here, but Leonard's Performance!

Various experts began to advocate that the Knicks have only one core at the beginning of the season, and they are a single-core team. To a certain extent, this is true, but based on Leonard's performance in the first half tonight, the Knicks really only have a core?
"I now understand why Gatsby said at the beginning of the season that the Knicks are not his team, they are not, Leonard and Thompson and Gatsby, they are actually a Big Three team Team!" Spoelstra said.

Pat Riley nodded: "You are right to think so. If they are not considered the Big Three, then the three in Boston are not the Big Three. Ray Allen often exists as a pure shooter.

When Leonard needs the team's best defender to defend, the only one who can defend Leonard is a second-class defender. At this time, Leonard is in that position. Of course, for us, we have the best player at the small forward position in LeBron, and we still have an advantage.

But Gatsby will need Dwayne to defend at that time. Compared with the Pacers, we don't suffer in the matchup. This is probably the best news. laughed Pat Riley.

Coach Spoelstra also smiled and said: "Anyway, our chances of winning this season are against the better team. As long as we are cautious, defeating them should not be a big problem."

After analysis, the atmosphere in Miami is still relatively relaxed. This season, the Miami Heat is already a veritable super team. The great success of the regular season makes them very confident. In fact, they also won this year's total in the original history Champions, they also have such confidence.

The Spurs and the Warriors narrowly won the first game. Curry scored 44 points, 11 assists, 4 rebounds and 2 steals against the Spurs, which shocked Popovich into a cold sweat. After he settled down a little, he saw the Eastern Conference. The game between the Knicks and the Pacers made him worried.

He is different from others. There have been experts looking down on the Knicks throughout the season, but Popovich has maintained the greatest vigilance against the Knicks. When he saw the excellent performances of Leonard and Thompson, he My heart is throbbing, Kawhi, that originally belonged to him!
Of course, this is not the most critical point. Relying on Stephen Curry and a large group of players built around Curry, the Golden State Warriors can play with his team to this level. In Popovich's view, Nick The Spurs are a far better team than the Warriors.

Don’t say that the Knicks’ bench is the strongest in the league, just say that Gates is a much more terrifying role than Curry. He not only has the same accurate three-pointers as Curry, but also has better organizational skills. , with a stronger body and taller height, and a post-up singles comparable to Michael Jordan, that is a more terrifying killer than Michael Jordan!
Facing Curry and the Spurs in such a mess, facing this Gatsby who is even more terrifying than Curry, can the Spurs really win?
For the first time, Popovich expected the Miami Heat to beat the Knicks. He would rather face the Miami Heat with the Big Three than the Knicks with Gatsby!

After the start of the second half, because the Pacers paid too much attention to Gatsby and Leonard, the Knicks' shooters began to play. Gallinari and Thompson both got opportunities, and the Knicks played another wave of 28:16 to close the gap Pulled to 33 points, the Knicks clocked in three quarters and beat the Pacers by 35 points!
Leonard scored 26 points, 5 assists and 10 rebounds in this game, Thompson scored 24 points, 6 rebounds and 1 assist, and Gatsby scored 38 points, 13 assists, 10 rebounds and 3 steals. Facing Pacers’ best defensive player, Paul George, he was chased and intercepted by the entire Pacers team almost the entire game, but he still scored a triple-double. Gatsby’s horror once again showed come out.

Coach Vogel said in an interview after the game: "Whoever said that the Knicks only have one star, come to me and tell him that what he said is all fart/words! Leonard and Thompson are not stars? They can They are all All-Stars, their strength is definitely at the All-Star level, especially when Gatsby is around, we deserved to lose this game tonight, but we will not lose again in the next game, we will get back Come!"

(End of this chapter)