In the first quarter, Si was still the best player in the entire Knicks. Last season he averaged 23+9 per game with the Suns. Now he scored 6 points and 3 rebounds in the first quarter.
His shooting percentage is also very high. The Wizards' interior defense is still not enough for a monster like Si.
Brac's talent is too poor, and he lags behind Si in everything from reaction speed to explosive power. The opponent Li Kaiming can keep up with the speed, but his inside defensive attributes have not been improved, and he is not very experienced. Si's mid-range shot Several.
The second quarter of the game quickly kicked off with the audience's expectations, and both sides took on the main rotation players.
The Wizards used Li Kaiming and Yi Jianlian to form a space-based inside combination. They couldn't guard Si anyway, so they simply maximized the space. Sanders played two cards at the beginning of the second quarter.
The Knicks' rotation is relatively rigid. D'Antoni is a coach who doesn't like to improvise. He likes to build the team's operating system before the game, and then he can sit on the sidelines during the game and watch the ball he designed. The team operates like a tightly coupled precision instrument.
So his rotation can basically be guessed by anyone who knows the Knicks.
The backup point guard was Tony Douglas, a high-quality player selected by the Lakers with the 29th pick in the first round last year. In his rookie season, he averaged 8 points and two assists per game. After being traded to the Knicks, he quickly became a member of the team. He established a firm foothold and became the best choice as the backup point guard in Anthony's system.
The backup forward is Wilson Chandler, a scoring player who was acquired by the Knicks with the 23rd pick in the first round in 2007.
This guy averaged 15 points, 5 rebounds and 2 assists per game last season. If Gallinari hadn't been placed in the starting lineup by D'Antoni at No. 3, he could have steadily occupied a starting position.
The center was replaced by center Ronny Turiaf, a second-round pick traded from the Lakers, who averaged 4+4 per game last season.
On the Wizards' side, due to Nick Young's war criminal performance in the first quarter, Sanders finally couldn't bear it anymore and directly pulled the former off, then pointed at Nick Young on the bench and yelled.
Of course, criticism is not enough. Sanders replaced Nick Young with Sun Yue, who performed well in garbage time in the last game. As soon as the Wizards started the second quarter, Li Kaiming, Yi Jianlian and Sun Yue appeared on the court at the same time. All Chinese fans stand up!
The game started quickly, with the Wizards serving.
Hinrich dribbled to the frontcourt and used Li Kaiming's cover to break through Turiaf. Li Kaiming pulled out to create space for Hinrich, and several others stood outside.
The Knicks have never seen this kind of offensive formation with five players standing on the outside, and they are still defending on the three-point line according to traditional basketball.
It didn't take long for the Wizards to teach D'Antoni and the Knicks a lesson.
It was relatively easy for Hinrich to break through Turiaf. After reaching the penalty area, Si, who was guarding Yi Jianlian, returned to the penalty area and helped Turiaf suppress Hinrich.
Hinrich threw the ball out and gave it to Yi Jianlian who was in the open position.
Si immediately rushed towards the bottom corner, and shooting guard Landry Fields on the same side also rushed towards Yi Jianlian to defend.
Yi Jianlian did not hesitate and immediately passed the ball to Sun Yue. Fields, who was guarding Sun Yue, was transferred away. Sun Yue made an open three-pointer and took a decisive shot!
In!
28 to 29!
The Wizards lead by 1 point!
Kate, the commentator on the scene, just followed the usual saying, "Substitute Sun Yue, who is also from China, scored his first point on the field!"
But he didn't know what Sun Yue's goal meant to Chinese fans!
In an NBA game, two Chinese people appeared, and one of them gave an assist to the other!
The Huaguo Sports Channel live broadcast room was already filled with cheers!
Tears flashed in Yu Jia's eyes, "Finally, history will remember this. This is a milestone moment in the history of Chinese basketball. In the NBA, for the first time, a Chinese player gave another Chinese player Sent an assist!”
On the court, Sun Yue and Yi Jianlian were also very excited. This was the first time for the two of them to play together in the main game, and they cooperated from the beginning.
Li Kaiming and Sun Yi high-fived in celebration, and then gave the latter a thumbs up!
Sun Yue and Yi Jianlian both laughed!
The Knicks served the ball to point guard Tony Douglas. Douglas was very academic in every move, and it was obvious that he had received good basic training.
Facing Hinrich, who was much more experienced than him, Douglas could not defeat Hinrich alone with his own ability. After all, he was not the kind of defender who relied on his body to play.
Sri Lanka's pick-and-roll is still D'Antoni's tactic to crack everything, but this time the person defending Sri Lanka has become Yi Jianlian.
Si went to the middle after the pick-and-roll, received Douglas' ground pass, and then shot directly from mid-range.
Yi Jianlian was a step slower and Sri Lanka hit the mid-range shot!
30 to 29!
The Wizards' offense still used the era-defining five-way strategy. Sun Yue's three-pointer did not make the Knicks change their defensive strategy. They still defended on the three-point line and did not expand even one centimeter.
After Li Kaiming picked and rolled, he moved outside the three-point line at the top of the arc. Turiaf probably saw that Li Kaiming had poor three-point shooting tonight, so he did not follow him. The most important thing is that Li Kaiming was still one step away from the three-point line. Most people would not choose to take action in this place.
How else could Turiaf be the substitute center, allowing a new Russian center to directly steal the starting position.
He obviously forgot that D'Antoni had to pay attention to Li Kaiming's three-pointer during the pre-game arrangement.
After several games, Hinrich and Li Kaiming's tacit understanding grew day by day. Seeing Turiaf still standing stupidly inside the three-point line, Hinrich swatted the ball back. The basketball hit the ground and bounced to the ground. In the hands of Li Kaiming at the top of the arc.
In a familiar rhythm, Li Kaiming took action directly after getting the ball, not even bothering to take a step closer to the three-point line.
Turiaf seemed to react, but it was too late. Li Kaiming hit a three-pointer to take the lead again!
30 to 32!
Si was a little anxious. The opponent hit two three-pointers in two consecutive rounds. If he continued like this, he would be able to clock out in a few rounds!
At this time, the advantage of three points compared to two points was highlighted.
If it were compiled into a cross talk script, there should be a fat man with big eyes singing on the stage, "Ah, three points, you have one point more than two points!"
The miserable Turiaf didn't even have his turn to be criticized by coach D'Antoni. He was directly scolded by the team's boss on the court!
Of course, this scolding was not really a scolding, it was just to help Turiaf focus his attention back because he didn't defend well.
The Knicks attacked, Gallinari tried to respond with a three-pointer, but unfortunately missed, and the rebound was protected by Li Kaiming.
Leave it to Hinrich, and the Knicks defended the fast break well and did not give Li Kaiming any chance for a fast break. During the offense, the ball would run to the backcourt as soon as it was released, without even looking at the frontcourt board.
D'Antoni's pregame arrangements also played a role to some extent.
The Wizards' consecutive three-pointers finally made the Knicks players start to pay attention to the three-pointers, and then they involuntarily moved their feet a few inches out on the defensive end.
These few inches may not be a big deal to others, but to Li Kaiming, who is good at breakthroughs, it may be the process of turning a quiet path into a highway.
So in the next half quarter, Li Kaiming began to violently break through the Knicks' formation with the ball.
Lu Xun once said that there is no road in the world, but when more people walk on it, it becomes a road.
Li Kaiming's frequent breakthroughs directly opened a hole for the Knicks' perimeter defense. In the second quarter, the Knicks became a team that anyone could break through if they saw it.
Even Yi Jianlian can swing from the mid-range and then hit a layup!
Although Si was still able to get what he asked for on the offensive end, he simply couldn't support a defensive system on the defensive end, which led to a complete collapse of the Knicks' defense in the second quarter.
At halftime, the Wizards led 65 to 53 by 12 points!
