Basketball Dragon

Chapter 61
In the second half, Li Hai launched a crazy scoring mode, and Gerald Wallace couldn't limit him at all.

In this game, he scored a game-high 29 points and shot the Bobcats to death when the Knicks suffered from extremely poor rebounds.

After stopping the losing streak, his heart relaxed a lot.

The next day they went to the away game to play back-to-back against the Magic.

The NBA schedule is so dense, even if Li Hai has a lot of ideas, most of the time he has no chance to confirm them, and can only play one game at a time.

How to adjust during the period depends on personal ability.

The Magic's Kevin Cato was injured and unable to play. At this time, Dwight Howard could not support the inside alone. With less pressure on the inside, the Knicks played a lot easier.

Another very important thing, because of Crawford's absence from the game, Li Hai became the starter for the first time.

The current starting No. 2 position of the Magic has been replaced by "Old Cat" Cutino Mobley, who has a stronger offensive ability. Li Hai is facing him, and he has many advantages in height and weight.

But from the very beginning, Li Hai felt that this kind of pure offensive shooting guard was not as easy to deal with as he imagined. Just like Crawford, even if the defender has the advantage in body, it is still difficult to stop his shooting. Li Hai also felt that Reaching the difference between Mobley's quick start and left-handed attack, he was directly broken by the opponent and scored a jumper with an emergency stop.

Unlike the defense that didn't adapt at the beginning, Li Hai had an absolute advantage on the offensive end. After being hit by the opponent, he immediately fought back and hit a two-pointer against Mobley's defense.

Because the inside line is slightly weaker, the Knicks are used to the two backcourts taking up a lot of shots.

Now Li Hai is also a member of the backcourt, and he has more opportunities to control the ball than before.

To be honest, Mobley's defense isn't too bad either, and he's good at stealing with quick hands and feet, but it's obviously not enough to deal with a forward player of Li Hai's stature.

The Magic have nothing to do with Li Hai and Marbury's COS shots.

The opponent's most powerful weapon is the breakthrough of Francis and Grant Hill, and Howard's ability to draw fouls inside is also very strong, but he is just like a free throw. Mobley's side, after Li Hai got used to his left-handed offense, immediately improved Limit his hit rate.

At 30:24, the Knicks had the rhythm in the first quarter.

Li Hai's offensive and defensive performance in the 2nd position is very good, which fully demonstrates his versatility.

When the rotation time came, the substitute players of both sides performed well, but the starting players were still needed to decide the victory. When Li Hai returned to the court again, the excitement of starting had completely turned into energy.

At halftime, the Knicks extended their advantage to double digits.

In the second half, the Magic put on a desperate stance. The results of the two teams are almost the same. Winning or losing is also related to the rankings of the two sides.

Their backup players Jameer Nelson and Hedo Turkoglu performed well, but Marbury and Lehi never gave each other any chances.

In the end, the Knicks won 119:111, Marbury scored 34 points, Li Hai scored 30 points, and both of them sent 7 assists.

"True New York Twins", a big headline appeared in the newspaper after the game. In fact, the performance of the Knicks in this game was not very good. There were too many fouls inside from the main force to the substitute, which gave the Magic a lot of opportunities. It's just that their scoring masked a failure on defense.

When he went to visit Crawford, Li Hai was also a little embarrassed. The media reporters were afraid that the world would not be chaotic, and they insisted on writing Crawford as a team cancer because of his outstanding performance in this game.

How should I put it, Crawford is definitely helpful to the team, but he has some conflicts with Marbury's type of guard. This guy's ability to win the best sixth man has a lot to do with his style of play. Stable but super explosive scoring.

Back home on the 29th, the Knicks faced the visiting Timberwolves at Madison Square Garden.

There is one advantage of Li Hai playing the 2nd position. He can hit hard but can't shoot indiscriminately. The number of shots is much worse than that of Crawford. It's also much better.

Against the Timberwolves, the biggest problem was the inside, but not long after the game started, the opponent's starting center Michael Olowokandi was accidentally injured.

Although this guy is the number one pick in parallel imports, but on the premise that he is the number one pick, if you compare role players, he is more reliable.

The center was injured, and the Timberwolves played a small lineup directly.

With only Garnett left, the pressure on the Knicks inside has been reduced a lot.

Coach Wilkens completely regarded Li Hai as Crawford in this game. When Marbury went to rest, he even let him play the No. 1 position. As a result, Li Hai surprised the team again and played well. Remarkable.

The tactical small lineup is different from being forced to play a small lineup. Because the Knicks promoted Li Hai to the starting lineup, the rotation in the backcourt was reduced, and they did not follow the opponent to play a small lineup. On the contrary, he has done something. Although Garnett is powerful, he can't restrain the two big men.

At the end of the third quarter, the Knicks led by 69 points 66:3.

When Li Hai came on the field in the fourth quarter, Sprewell said viciously: "Boy Huang, from now on, you will not be able to stop me."

While talking, Sprewell pulled up the shot, intending to catch Li Hai by surprise.

Li Hai has an advantage on the court, no trash talk can distract him, no matter in offense or defense, nothing attracts him more than basketball itself, so Sprewell is a tragedy, Li Hai snapped Just gave him a big hat.

Sprewell, feeling disheartened, loudly asked his teammates for the ball, and must single-handedly fight Li Hai to save face.

Li Hai has a lot of experience in pure singles defense, using his physical advantage to constantly interfere with Sprewell's rhythm, imitating the opponent's several shots.

Cassell was so angry that he stopped passing the ball to Sprewell, and he and Garnett began to lead the team to chase the score.

But Li Hai and Marbury on the Knicks side were still very stable, the Timberwolves were forced to start fouling, Marbury made all free throws steadily, and the Knicks won again 100:87.

The form was very good, and Marbury was also excited. When interviewed by reporters, he declared that the Knicks could beat any opponent. He is the number one point guard in the world, and his goal is always the championship.

This kind of confident declaration is very common in NBA culture. He is not the first person to say this, nor will he be the last, but reporters still like to pick some things and keep letting others express their opinions.

When asked about Li Hai, he just smiled slightly, "Yes, he is the best."

(End of this chapter)