dognovel Chapter 457 The old opponent, too old to be an opponent of the opponent! 【Subscription】
Chapter 457 The old opponent, too old to be an opponent of the opponent! 【Subscription】
The Celtics will meet the New York Knicks, the old rival of last year's Eastern Conference finals, in the second round, and the traditional tyrannical Heat of the Eastern Conference will start a battle with the league's upstart 76ers.
In the west, the Lakers and the Timberwolves meet by a narrow road, and the Spurs will fight against the sun!
8 teams, 4 groups of showdowns, the division semifinals of the NBA playoffs, kicked off again!
This season's Knicks can be said to be unfavorable. Michael Jordan, who they signed with a lot of money last year, chose to retire directly after being defeated in the Eastern Conference finals last year. The whole team lost a team spirit at once. Their true team spirit, Ewing, suffered a serious knee injury during offseason training and failed to play a game for the first two months of the season.
As a result, they kept losing at the beginning of the season, and the ranking dropped to the bottom three in the Eastern Conference.
Until the beginning of the new year, Patrick 31 Ewing finally took good care of his knees and announced his comeback, even though successive knee injuries have taken away all of Ewing's explosiveness and bouncing, making him a complete mid-range handsome boy, scoring an average of points per game. It is the first time in his career that he has less than 20 points and can only contribute 15+10 output per game.
But Ewing's experience and heights are still there, and with him, the Knicks have finally found their core and soul, and finally, under his leadership, they have regained their slump and started a winning streak.
In the end, they made it all the way to the top four in the Eastern Division, and they also won the home field advantage in the first round of the game. In the Hornets' game, they were considered deadly, eliminated their opponents 3:1 and advanced to the second round.
But everyone believes that their road to the playoffs is over!
Last year, the Knicks had Jordan, but they failed to be swept away. This year's Knicks team is one year older, and Ewing has experienced another major injury. It's hard to believe that the team can beat the Celtics and advance to the Eastern Conference finals.
But even if they were ready to be eliminated, New Yorkers never imagined that what awaited them was such a cruel reality!
In the first game of the Eastern Conference semifinals, the old Ewing met the young and hot-blooded Ben and Rashid, who were full of muscles and strength, and became like a 70-year-old gentleman.
Whether it's at the basket or in the mid-range, Ewing can't take even a little bit of advantage from this pair of inside partners, and that's fine. Even if he can't score by himself, Ewing's passing and coping skills are good, and the offensive end is not good at all. will become a burden.
But Ewing's performance on the defensive end completely left the New Yorkers lost.
Taking into account Ewing's injury, little Van Gundy specifically let him guard the basket and match up with Big Ben.
You know, although Big Ben is good at defense, he averaged only 6 points per game in the regular season. In the first round of the playoffs, he only scored 12 points in 3 games combined, barely reaching double digits.
But it was Ben Wallace, who hardly made any shots and didn't attack, and actually blew Ewing up.
Although Big Ben's footsteps, feel, height and range are all at the bottom of the NBA, but under Bird's advice, Lin Long and Billups are doing everything possible to find Big Ben and find opportunities for him to score.
In the case that the other insider was Rasheed, who completely opened up space for Big Ben, Big Ben got a lot of space to play singles.
Although his movements are lame and ugly, there is not even any technical movement.
But Daben is relying on the strength to be able to jump and jump, one by one and Ewing one-on-one.
Although his shooting percentage is extremely low, he is able to grab one offensive rebound after another on Ewing's head, and then take another layup.
For all this, Ewing is actually powerless!
His knees have gone through so many years of ups and downs, and he has long been unable to deal with a young and strong man like Daben.
In the end, Big Ben scored a career high of 27 points and 28 rebounds in this game. Although he only made 11 of 25 shots, he had 16 offensive rebounds in his 28 rebounds! This is also his career high. .
Under Daben's tactical style of bullying the old man with a tactical style of bullying the old man with no technical content at all, Ewing only scored 8 points and 7 rebounds in the whole game. He didn't show his style as the king of New York at all.
The leader of the team is so stretched, and the others are naturally not much better. The Knicks lost the first game cleanly.
Just when everyone thought that the Knicks would make some adjustments to face the next series, at least they couldn't be overwhelmed by Big Ben again, the Knicks also lost the second game.
The way of losing is almost the same as the first game. Big Ben and Rashid, relying on their youth and strength, kept hitting the defense line under Ewing, and then went to grab offensive rebounds.
In this game, Big Ben shot 22 times again, although he still only hit 9, but Big Ben hit 11 offensive rebounds again, and one person blew Ewing and even the entire Knicks 630 rebounds Wire!
So far, the Knicks' morale and confidence have been completely shattered!
You know, they arranged a lot of tactics against Lin Long, against Rashid, and against Sprewell before the game, but in the actual fight, these few actually didn't make much shots, all watching Big Ben's madness to ravage Nick. Inside the team.
Even if the efficiency is not high, the scene is still very ugly, but the Celtics used this trick to bully the Knicks inside.
All of this is of course Bird's plan. He wants to completely defeat the Knicks at home, when the whistle has an advantage in his favor!
It is what the Celtics are worst at and what the Knicks are most proud of!
The first two games, the Celtics ushered in a total of 44 points and 31 rebounds for the Knicks, can be said to be a complete destruction of the Knicks inside.
Especially Ewing.
When he came off the court in the second game, Ewing was on the sidelines with a towel on his head, his eyes were lost, and he looked at the court with a dull look. No one could read his mind from his eyes.
Because there is nothing but emptiness and confusion there.