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The New Yorkers were saved by the Cavaliers in the third quarter and were still five points behind the Cavaliers on the road at the start of the fourth quarter. But this gap is not enough for them to give up this game that they value very much.
Five points has never been a hopeless gap for Mike D'Antoni's side. That's what happened to the Suns before, and it's the same with the Knicks now.
While the Knicks' bench lineup isn't very strong, the team, like the Suns that D'Antoni once led, will have five players playing a lot of minutes. At this point, the Cavaliers are very different from them.
Because he was a substitute player for the team before, Wu Dawei is currently the one with the lowest average playing time per game among the Cavaliers players, only about 30 minutes; The Cavaliers have the most minutes on the roster of Brazilian Andrea Vallejo, but he is only averaging 38 minutes per game.
Compared with the average playing time of 40 minutes per game for the Knicks' main players, it is still a little dwarf.
As soon as the fourth quarter began, the Knicks launched an offensive frenzy led by the team's main point guard, Raymond Felton.
The constant impact on the interior and the sharing of the ball allowed them to quickly catch up with the Cleveland Cavaliers not far in front of them. Although Morris Williams, who returned to the court, tried his best to prove himself to head coach Byron Scott, he could not stop the Knicks from slowly catching up with the difference at home.
On the contrary, during this time, the confrontation with Raymond Felton made it clear that there was a gap between him and the Knicks' main control team in terms of the overall situation.
Raymond Felton, who has an explosive performance this season, is averaging 18 points per game and a career-high nine assists at the same time. Morris Williams, who was selected for the All-Star Game last season, has only 18 plus 6.
Even tonight, with Williams scoring 14 points in the first four minutes of the fourth quarter, Raymond Felton had 12 points and 10 assists! Four of them were in the fourth quarter, and it was because of these four assists that the rest of the Knicks players began to slowly find their groove.
By the time the fourth quarter was five minutes into the game, the five-point advantage the Cavaliers had built up in the third quarter had completely disappeared. Williams tried his best, but he couldn't beat four hands with two fists.
At 88:89, when the New York Knicks playing at home, when Daroni Gallinari received a wonderful pass from Felton on the offensive end, he threw a lethal mid-range shot, and they took the lead in the lead!
During this period, Byron Sterk did not make adjustments, but when the Knicks players played according to D'Antoni's ideas, their offense was difficult to stop.
So, Scott asked for a timeout.
He glanced at the game time, there were less than seven minutes left in the fourth quarter, and the final battle of the game was about to begin. So, he started putting his players on the pitch.
When looking at the number one spot in his team, Maurice Williams and Ramon Sessions made it difficult for him. Williams's previous good attacking form was seen by Byron Scott; But in the end, he chose to put Ramon Sessions on the field.
The same young backup point guard contributed 12 assists in this game! And he also scored 8 points, although his offensive firepower is not as strong as Williams, but the greater responsibility of organizing the defenders is not to sort out the team's offense?
Clearly, Ramon Sessions was the better defender at this point.
When Williams was substituted off the pitch, his disappointment was palpable, and he was even a little annoyed by it. Sitting straight to the very end of the bench, he was a little angry, but now, no one had time to pay attention to his feelings, because the game had restarted. …,