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After Li Kaiming came up, he scored 5 points in a row, which made D'Antoni a little shaken, wondering whether his one-on-one defense strategy was correct.

Li Kaiming: That’s so right, brother, that’s so right. Don’t change it. My All-Star starting lineup depends on your defensive strategy!

Of course, Li Kaiming's strong desire to attack also made the Knicks players begin to use the strength of the team to help Gallinari fight against Li Kaiming.

This change is natural. Even if D'Antoni doesn't say anything, the players will spontaneously ask Gallinari to help defend and double-team.

The main thing is that I really can't stand it. Gallinari was almost beaten to tears on the court!

However, even if the Knicks conducted a small-scale defense and double-teaming, Li Kaiming did not pass the ball out as usual. Unless the opponent directly let go of his outside teammates, the ball would be stuck in his hands tonight!

Of course, looking back, the Knicks' offensive was also quite strong. Stoudemire found that he couldn't prevent Li Kaiming's breakthrough, so he began to make a fuss about the offense and take advantage of Blatche.

At the end of the first quarter, the score between the two sides was 32 to 33, with the Knicks trailing by 1 point.

Of the Wizards' 33 points, 16 were scored by Li Kaiming alone. The others had almost no sense of participation. The only one who had a sense of participation was Hinrich in the open position. His role was to catch the ball from the baseline and control the ball for more than half of the time. field, and then handed it over to Li Kaiming, pulling away from a distance.

To put it nicely, this is called being ready to catch the ball on the outside to open up space, but to put it worse, it is just watching the show on the court.

When the game came back from the second quarter, D'Antoni still maintained the same defense as in the first quarter, because he found that both sides could still fight. Unlike the previous teams, Li Kaiming was double-teamed and was directly defeated by the Wizards in a wave of three-pointers!

As long as he guards the rest of the Wizards, even if Li Kaiming scores high points, the victory of this game is still uncertain!

D'Antoni crossed his arms on the sidelines and looked in high spirits. He thought he had found a way to crack the Wizards' offense.

Yet history teaches us that the only thing people can learn from history is that they don’t learn anything from history.

Many teams have tried D'Antoni's method before, just to bet that you, Li Kaiming, can't beat me alone!

However, the endings of those opponents proved in the end that one person can really kill a team!

Tonight is no exception!

Facing Gallinari's single defense, Li Kaiming completely turned on the violent mode in the second quarter. He had a stronger desire to attack, was more aggressive, and played more violently than in the first quarter!

Faced with Gallinari's defensive step from the outside, Li Kaiming did not hesitate, raised his knife and hit a three-pointer!

If Gallinari chooses to defend the three-pointer closely, he will pass the latter in one step, then go to the basket and dunk, or directly stop the jumper from the mid-range, or use a breakthrough step to shake Gallinari in. Behind the three-point line, step back and shoot another three-pointer!

In this case, Gallinari has been beaten by Li Kaiming and completely lost his confidence!

He has never seen someone so difficult to defend!

李凯明在第二节单节10中7，三分球3中2，罚球4中4，得到20分4篮板，没有一个助攻！

This may be Li Kaiming's most unique game since he started playing in the regular season. He didn't have a single assist after one quarter of the game and all of them were shot by himself.

Generally speaking, if someone on a team plays in this way, it is very likely that this team will be difficult to win.

However, at halftime the Wizards led the Knicks by 61 points 56 to 5!

It's not that you can't win this way, but it depends on whether the person who plays this way is strong enough!

If a person takes 10 shots and the hit rate is less than half, and then takes crazy shots without passing the ball to others, then it is normal to lose the game.

But although Li Kaiming took a lot of shots, his shooting percentage was very high. His overall shooting percentage in the second quarter was 70%. If the shooting percentage is counted, his true shooting percentage has exceeded 90%!

With such an incredible shooting percentage, not allowing him to take more shots would be hurting the team!

The ultimate goal of a team is to win. If a person can score with a shooting percentage that is dozens of percentage points higher than others, the only thing a coach has to think about is how to give the ball to this person and relieve him of the problem. All worries.

That's what Sanders thinks now. He stands in the middle of the locker room, drawing on the tactical board with a marker in his hand.

"Later, you go up and let Li cover here. If that doesn't work, you can cut to the inside. And you, don't just stand in the corner, run. Take the defender away from where Li is..."

After explaining the tactics, the whole article is to guide the Wizards players on how to create the best singles space for Li Kaiming.

Sanders: Xiao Li, I have given you the opportunity, and I will leave the rest to you!

Li Kaiming: Okay!

Li Kaiming's performance in the second half did not disappoint Sanders. In the third quarter, he faced the Knicks' one-on-one defense policy. With the help of his teammates, he directly started ruthless stand-up singles!

Gallinari is numb!

Brother, aren't you tired?Others are tired from shooting so much in training, but you still have the energy to shoot like this in an official game?

Li Kaiming: What is tiredness?Brother, you haven’t even broken a sweat yet?

Of course, it's a bit exaggerated to say that he didn't even break a sweat, but the game was played very easily, mainly because the pressure on the opponent was too little, and Li Kaiming was "famous", so Gallinari didn't dare to use it at all. Small movement defense...

At the end of the third quarter, Li Kaiming had scored 48 points!

At this time, the fans at Madison Square Garden finally realized that something was wrong!

Because on the big screen, under the avatar of the guy who made them boo the entire game, the score column had reached 48 points!

He scored 48 points in three quarters. If nothing unexpected happens, Li Kaiming may score 60 points or even 70 points in this game!

The commentator in the commentary box no longer knew what to say. The guy who was so angry at them at the beginning was really going to rule this basketball holy land!

D'Antoni, who was next to the Knicks bench, finally reacted. He said to the Knicks players with a serious face, "The next two tasks are, first, win this game, and second, double-team the opponent. No. 0, don’t let him score!”

The Knicks players all nodded, and none of them looked very good.

Especially Stoudemire, he has already scored a double-double with 23 points and 11 rebounds. After the game, he has a good chance of getting a double-double of 30 plus points. Unfortunately, this data is nothing compared to the guy opposite!

Gallinari, on the other hand, breathed a sigh of relief. After being tricked by Li Kaiming into playing a game, he finally no longer had to face that pervert alone!

Players from both sides returned to the court. At the beginning of the fourth quarter, the Knicks served to the frontcourt. Felton and Stoudemire picked and rolled, attracting the attention of the Wizards inside, and then distributed the ball to Landry Fields. , the latter shot directly after catching the ball, but unfortunately he missed.

Li Kaiming pushed away Stoudemire and picked off the rebound. What the Knicks didn't expect was that Li Kaiming did not pass the ball to Hinrich, but dribbled to the frontcourt himself. Gallinari, as the pioneer carrying Li, immediately followed up. When he went up, he was afraid that Li Kaiming would break through his own fast attack. As long as he slowed down in the frontcourt, other Knicks would come directly to help him double-team.

However, Li Kaiming didn't bother to wait for his teammates to get in place. Some of them were even in the backcourt. He took one step beyond the three-point line in the frontcourt and directly pulled up and hit a three-pointer!

Gallinari looked bitter and threw himself at Li Kaiming with all his strength, but it still had no impact on the final result.

The Wizards' last two runners, Lewis and Nick Young, looked at each other after seeing Li Kaiming's direct goal, and then turned around to return to defense.

In the process, the two of them didn't even step on the floor in the frontcourt, and Li Kaiming's shot was already completed.

D'Antoni, who was standing on the sidelines, threw down the tactical board and said, "FXXK! Give me something to eat, and from now on, don't let him catch the ball!"

After hitting this three-pointer, Li Kaiming has scored 51 points, and there are still 11 minutes until the end of the fourth quarter. With his scoring efficiency, Madison is likely to be his backdrop tonight!

At the same time, Madison fans stopped booing Li Kaiming. Even Spike Lee sat down on the sidelines and looked up from time to time to look at the data on the big screen.

Everyone wants to know what kind of data Li Kaiming can produce tonight!

The Knicks served, Stoudemire followed the pick-and-roll, received the ball and attacked the basket in one step. When the Wizards served, Stoudemire and Gallinari, who had just scored, directly blocked Li Kaiming and did not give him any chance to receive the ball. ball space.

Hinrich dribbled the ball past half court and found that Li Kaiming was being targeted. He dribbled to the mid-range shot, but unfortunately he missed. Stoudemire got the rebound. Felton took the ball for a fast break and passed it to Fields on the outside. , the latter seized this opportunity and converted a three-pointer!

98 to 107!The Knicks managed to stop the bleeding.

The Wizards served to the frontcourt. Hinrich looked at Lewis, who was unguarded on the outside, and was stunned for a moment before passing the ball.

Lewis was in a daze after receiving the ball. After he adjusted his posture, Stoudemire over there reacted. Unfortunately, it was too late. Lewis easily hit a three-pointer!

98 is better than 110!

In the next half of the game, the Knicks defended Li Kaiming like this, and Li Kaiming was also very straightforward. Seeing that the opponent seemed determined to prevent him from catching the ball, he stopped thinking and acted as a bait on the outside for his teammates. They create opportunities.

As for the task of conquering Madison, to a certain extent, it has been completed. Didn’t you see that no one is booing him now?

The two sides played the game at this pace, and in the end the Wizards defeated the Knicks 124-110.

Li Kaiming played 41 minutes and scored 51 points, 9 rebounds and 1 assist. This 1 assist was his lowest record since entering the NBA, which shows how unique he played tonight.

It's a pity that he failed to break his single-game scoring record tonight. In fact, he still had some touch. The main reason was that the Knicks would rather let his teammates throw open shots than let him take any shots. It can be seen that in a regular season, The victory is nothing compared to the record in Madison.