Basketball Dragon

Chapter 218 Horror Substitute

Chapter 218 Horror Substitute

Knowing the Knicks throughout the league, the Suns also know their weaknesses.

Entering the second half, they gave Amare Stoudemire a lot of offensive opportunities.

Gortat is still too young, and he hasn't competed with too many powerful insiders before as a substitute. Channing Frye is too thin, and Stoudemire is constantly fouling both opponents.

Eddie Curry looked a little secretly happy at the bottom. Without him, the inside would not work. If he was on the top, he would not be able to defend. However, wherever he fights with his size, Stoudemire will not be so easy to rush in. .

If the team can't do it without him, the coach will definitely compromise. At that time, his internal status will be greatly increased. How can he increase the championship without the inside?

But the situation on the field was a bit different from what he had imagined. The Knicks couldn't guard Stoudemire, because many offenses were done on the move, and Nash's pass was indeed fast and accurate.

It's just that the Suns couldn't defend against the attacks of Lehi, Marbury and Francis. Not only could they not defend against them, they also couldn't defend against Crawford, Nate Robinson and David Lee during the rotation.

In this case, everyone will score, and the Knicks will still be in the lead.

And even if Gortat fouls down, it doesn't matter, the Suns won't dig inside in the half court, if Gortat goes down, Channing Frye will go up, if Channing Frye fouls too much, David Lee will go up, The Knicks are full of people.

On the contrary, if Eddie Curry plays, he will not be able to keep up with the rhythm of both sides.

Moreover, Stoudemire also made a lot of fouls. At the end of the third quarter, Li Hai broke through Marion's defense under the cover of his teammates, rushed inside and caused Stoudemire's fifth foul.

The two sides entered the last quarter with a score of 88:82, but the Suns Stoudemire was temporarily unable to play, and their attacks had to focus on the outside.
And Li Hai was obsessed with Marion, Raja Bell was also watched by Marbury, and Nash could only shoot himself in the first quarter.

Nash's shooting percentage is not bad, but it is impossible for the Suns to beat the Knicks by relying on him alone.

More importantly, the explosion of the Knicks' bench lineup brought their lead to double digits.

Seeing that time was running out, the Suns could only take the risk of Stoudemire. After Stoudemire came up, the effect was immediate. He scored inside immediately, and the second offense caused a foul by the Knicks.

But the Knicks' breakthrough masters will not let go of this opportunity. At 5 minutes and 18 seconds, Li Hai broke through first, and then passed to Marbury. Marbury accelerated and jumped up to defend Stoudemire. I bumped into each other.

The referee's whistle blew, and Suns coach Mike D'Antoni was so angry that he threw the tactical board on the seat, but Stoudemire still graduated with six fouls.

They had no choice but to replace Barbosa with a small lineup. The Knicks also replaced Crawford. They are really not afraid of small lineups.

At the last moment, the two sides entered into a frenzied offensive battle. You scored one and I scored three points.

The Knicks are not being led by the opponent, but they have this ability. They use scoring to keep the two-point gap unchanged, and even widen it.

At 1 minute and 30 seconds, Francis assisted Crawford to hit a three-pointer. The score gap between the two sides came to 15 points. There was no suspense about the result of the game.

At 127:112, the Knicks won the scoring battle. Li Hai scored 28 points, which is not a lot, but he managed to limit Marion to 15 points, and grabbed 12 rebounds and 8 assists.

Gortat, who replaced Eddie Curry, completed the task with 12 points and 9 baskets. The key is that he is hard enough and has a completely different attitude from Eddie Curry.

The Knicks hiding Eddie Curry also caused an uproar in the outside world, but they can win the Suns without Eddie Curry, which shows their strength.

There are also teams in the league that immediately offer Eddie Curry like the Knicks, but basically they are guys who want to take advantage of the fire and are rejected by Isiah Thomas.

His principle is that it is okay to pick up cheap players, but he must trade for famous players, and only choose expensive ones.

On January 1, the Knicks played against the Heat again, and of course Eddie Curry did not enter the starting lineup.

Both O'Neal and Wade are back this time. Wade is back with full blood. He launched a fierce attack in the first quarter and caught the Knicks by surprise. However, O'Neal is obviously no longer as brave as he used to be, and he has also declined compared to last season. Quite a lot.

So Gortat also had a chance. Although he fouled twice, he also hit three shots, and he didn't lose his momentum inside.

With Wade's outburst in the first quarter, the Knicks trailed by 5 points.

But in the second quarter, when the substitute players were playing above, Crawford suddenly broke out, hitting four consecutive three-pointers, and 20 points in a single quarter stunned the Heat.

Seeing that Crawford was in good condition, the team also gave him more playing time. When they were together on the court, Li Hai and others kept feeding him the ball.

Crawford didn't use any other means, that is, he kept hitting from outside the three-point line. The Heat had no way to prevent this kind of explosion of shots. How could it be impossible to attack outside the three-point line.

So at the end of the first half, the Knicks not only overtook the score, but also led by 20 points.

In the second half, Crawford was still so accurate, and the Heat were speechless. This game was simply impossible to play. Only Wade continued to break through and make kills, hoping for a miracle.

But the Heat is now the only one who can cheer up. At 6 minutes and 59 seconds in the fourth quarter, when Crawford hit two points and scored 52, the game entered garbage time, and both sides replaced the substitutes.

In the end, the Knicks beat the Heat 120:96, and Crawford scored a new high, and it was the second time in his career that he scored 50 points. Among the Knicks who scored 50+ points were Li Hai and Marbury. Other teams can't compare at all, and the players who can score 50 points are just substitutes.

In this game, both Li Hai and Marbury "scraped" 10 assists.

In the post-match interview, Li Hai praised Crawford, "Jamal undoubtedly has the strength of an All-Star. He made a lot of sacrifices for the team's victory. He is the best teammate."

The other teammates were also very excited. Only Eddie Curry was a little depressed. The team played so well without him.

He had already realized that something was wrong, but he still couldn't bear to admit his mistake.

Eddie Curry is still taking chances if the team just airs him out and will let him play in the end.

Then the team played away against the Bucks on the 28th, and he was still not the starter. Eddie Curry finally got anxious.

(End of this chapter)

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