No one knows what coach Norman Thomas said to DeMarcus Cousins and Dwight Howard. In short, after the three returned to the locker room, Cousins and Howard no longer argued.
The next day, the Knicks announced in an official announcement that they would be suspended for one game.
Such a punishment has undoubtedly attracted the attention of the outside world, and many media people are also digging into the matter. However, under the strict control of the management, the inside story of this matter has not been leaked.
The two internal suspensions also put the Timberwolves into a situation where there is no striker available.
Although there are big men temporarily signed from the Development League, this really does not have much effect on the current Knicks.
Soon the Knicks will also face their next opponent.
This time they faced the Cleveland Cavaliers, who also belong to the Eastern Conference.
The Cavaliers' record without LeBron is extremely bad and they are at the bottom of the league. A group of players within the team seem to have no fighting spirit at all, and the leadership position of the team has been handed over to Kevin Love.
As one of the Big Three of the Cavaliers, Love is now no longer in his peak form. Although he is only about 30 years old at this time, he has lost his ambition in a small market team. Ambition.
Anyway, I won the championship!
It looks like his career is complete.
For the Knicks, there is not much pressure to face such a bottom team, but with the team missing inside, no one knows what kind of results the team can achieve.
The two sides started playing smoothly in the evening of the match day.
Things were completely beyond everyone's expectations.
Many Knicks fans thought before the game that the team might lose or have a tough time. But the fact is that the Knicks completely crushed the Cavaliers from the beginning to the end.
After the start of the first quarter, the Knicks fell into a bad situation without core inside support in the first few minutes, but this feeling of discomfort only lasted a few minutes. When the first quarter entered the second half, the team led by Zhao Feiyang The outside core began to attack the Cavaliers' basket.
Zhao Feiyang opened the way with a three-pointer first, and then continued to break through and get to the basket.
Although the substitute players from the Development League are not very skilled, their attitude is very positive. As long as Zhao Feiyang enters the inside, they will definitely find a way to cooperate. Either pick and roll, or block the defensive players around him, or directly enter Prepare to fight for rebounds under the basket.
That positive attitude also kept the Cavaliers from finding holes in the Knicks' game.
Therefore, with the help of the three core players on the outside, the Knicks quickly opened up the score.
By the second half, the Knicks had widened the point difference to double digits.
Zhao Feiyang, LaVine and others considered that the team suffered a losing streak, and in order to improve the team's morale, they also actively chose to stay on the court and continue to lead the team to control the situation.
On the Cavaliers side, a group of young people headed by Jordan Clarkson were unable to resist, and Love inside was completely gone. Even though he supported the Cavaliers' inside line for a period of time, he still couldn't resist the Knicks. The Sri Lankan team's strong output from the outside.
The score almost opened up little by little until the end of the third quarter, when the Cavaliers trailed the Knicks by 15 points.
Considering that the team was able to win the game, the Knicks also decided to send in substitute players in the last quarter. But no one expected that in these 12 minutes, Jeremy Lin, who came off the bench and was not taken seriously, played his best game of the season.
He made many hits in the last quarter, and repeatedly entered the opponent's paint under the Cavaliers' guard. At one point, the Cavaliers needed to double-team.
Although he lacked the explosive performance at his peak in the past, Jeremy Lin's steady and steady style also helped him once again show his "Linsanity" style.
It is precisely because of his performance of scoring 13 points in a single quarter during this period that the Cavaliers' point difference was further widened.
When the game was about to end, the Knicks and Cavaliers were tied at 130 to 100, and the point difference actually widened to a terrifying 30 points!
Beep.
When the timer sounded, fans throughout the Quicken Loans Center couldn't help but sigh in disappointment.
The Cavaliers players seemed a little numb to all this and didn't seem to react much. Many of them were even talking and laughing together, showing no guilt at all for losing.
Love was one of the few players whose faces showed disappointment. He took the initiative to walk up to Zhao Feiyang, high-five and hug him.
"Zhao, congratulations! Now your team is very strong. Maybe you can enter the finals this season... I really envy you! Even if you are older than me, the energy you show is not mine. Comparable..."
"Standing next to you, I look like an old guy... I look sluggish and have no positive feeling at all..."
Le Fu sighed.
He sighed, shook his head and left the court.
Seeing Le Fu's retreating figure, Zhao Feiyang couldn't help but sigh. When LeBron was here, the atmosphere of the Cavaliers was completely different. Both veterans and newcomers showed their desire for a championship and worked hard to play every game well.
And now, the Cavaliers feel like they are in shambles from top to bottom!
Even Love, who used to be very dedicated, has become like this!
The sign of a man getting older is not his age, but his mentality!
If he continues to climb upward, even if it is hard, even if it is full of unknowns and challenges, then he is still young.
But if he has resigned himself to his fate, has fallen into the swamp of life and reality, and has fallen into an inherent and unchanging life, then he will slowly grow old.
There is nothing new he can do in his life!
Even though he is not old yet, his heart is already old!
That night, local media in New York reported news about the game. The media didn't quite believe the Knicks who had just lost the last game, but they didn't expect that not only did they win this game, they also won by a huge 30-point margin.
This game also set a new record for the largest point difference this season.
Zhao Feiyang's performance of scoring 36 points set a new personal scoring high for him this season!
Fans also have a new perspective on this team!
"It seems that the value of DeMarcus and Dwight is not that great... Without them, it would definitely be no problem for the team to play against such a weak team, but it would also be a problem to play against a team with average strength. Not big..."
"If you want me to say that the team signed Cousins it would be better to trade Love! Although Love does not have as good data as Cousins, at least he is obedient, and at least he will not cause trouble in the team's locker room... ....”
