After the game with the Trail Blazers, the Knicks gradually got better, and Li Feng felt hot, scoring 40 points in 5 consecutive games and leading the Knicks to 6 consecutive wins.

Next, we only need to play against the Nuggets on the road, and Christmas will be ushered in, and of course the Knicks will also have a Christmas game arrangement!

Commentating on today's game are two former coaches, one is veteran coach Hubby Brown and the other is Jeff Van Gundy.

Whether in the United States or in China, there are many commentators who eat commentary dinner, and they all have their own characteristics, and there are people with any commentary style!

Jeff Van Gundy sat at the edge of the commentary table and seemed to be talking to himself:

"Today's game is a tough team for both Knicks and Nuggets, so tonight is bound to be hot."

"Yes! Especially the Nuggets' current situation is not very good, it is estimated that the Nuggets will fight to the death with the Knicks! ”

Hubbie Brown has been a coach, so he knows a lot about the mentality of coaching.

"The Knicks are very strong right now, and in my opinion, it will be difficult for the Nuggets to fight the Knicks."

Jeff Van Gundy raised the Nuggets' difficulties, and Hubi Brown also nodded repeatedly.

At this time, the two sides were arranged, and the starters on the Knicks' side changed slightly, or did not change, they were point guard Goran Dragic, scoring guard Mark Belineri, small forward Kirilenko, power forward Li Feng, and center Cousins.

As soon as this lineup appeared, Hubby Brown was surprised and said:

"Tyberdu asked Li Feng to take the position of big forward, is this arrangement a little hasty! Li Feng has been on the outside since his rookie season. ”

Van Gundy was also quite surprised, but he still had a brain, shook his head on the side and said:

"Maybe Tyberdu wants to try some new lineup routines, anyway, Kirilenko and Li Feng's positions can be replaced at any time, Tyberdu should let Li Feng adapt to only one insider, because in the playoffs, there are more fouls, Cousins and Monroe may not always partner with Li Feng."

"It's a bit risky. There are a lot of inside insiders for the Nuggets! ”

Hubi Brown continued to shake his head as the Nuggets' starting lineup came out. The Nuggets' point guard on this side is Tylawson, shooting guard Gallinari, small forward Wilson Chandler, power forward Kenneth Farid, and center Costa Kufors.

Now the Nuggets' inner and outer lines have matured, not the time when they were in the past, the outside core Gallinari's projection ability is stable, and the free throw line single is the Nuggets' means of scoring points.

Kenneth Farid has also matured a lot on the inside and now has some mid-range shots. And you can also play two moves in the low post. And it can be predicted that Kenneth Farid still has potential to be tapped, his growth is far from the end, and the treasure of his physical fitness has not yet been fully developed.

The Nuggets have two solid cores and perimeter role players who are up to the task, and Tylawson is sharp on offense and mature in terms of tempo control and ball sharing.

Wilson Chandler, as a sapper on the outside, is also qualified and has defense. There's a body, and there's a three-point shot.

Kufors moves well and has a well-rounded technique. It's scary to have an occasional outburst.

Such a Nugget is indeed more balanced than the Knicks, who only rely on the outside to break through the ball. This is also a reason why Tyberdu is trying to get Li Feng back to play the No. 4 position.

Starters, Cousins and Kufors stood in the center circle, and the game began, and the Knicks got the first wave of offensive rights.

Dragic had no pressure on Tylawson with the ball. The height gap between the two is relatively large, and Dragic came up and leaned on Lawson, compressing the Nuggets' lineup a little. Then immediately passed the ball to Kirilenko.

Kirilenko didn't play by himself, he immediately hung the pass to Li Feng, Kirilenko's personality is like this, he has different talents, but he doesn't have a strong desire to attack and likes to pass.

Li Feng jumped out on the inside, and as soon as he received the basketball, he watched the Nuggets' Farid and Wilson Chandler quickly organize a defensive trap for themselves.

The two formed a corner to get themselves to the baseline, but Kufors was ready to defend near the basket.

In this way, Li Feng's offensive path was almost blocked by the Nuggets, and Wilson Chandlerby hit on the line, shot Farid came up to block, there was no space to break through, and the low-post offense was still pinched, and he took the bottom line Kufors to block his own route.

The Nuggets really have a deep study of themselves, and as soon as Li Feng got the ball, he encountered this level of defense, which is a playoff-level defense, and now he is being taken to the regular season.

If this is the last few minutes of the game, Li Feng can fight, and I will shoot.

But now that the game has just begun, Li Feng is fighting, which is too much to disrupt the rhythm of the team.

So Li Feng had no choice, he could only quickly pass the ball back to Kirilenko, who had a relatively low brain capacity.

He still hesitated to take the ball, and was immediately blocked by Chandler and could only pass it back to Dragic again.

At this time, fortunately, Dragic had a greater advantage in this point, Dragic took the ball quickly and took a step laterally, and directly shot the middle distance.

The Knicks shot from mid-range, and the game took as many as 23 seconds in a round, and the difference was 24 seconds by one second. It shows the great defensive intensity of the Nuggets and the depth of research on the Knicks.

The so-called Yiye Zhiqiu, just such a round was played, and Hubi Brown immediately said on the sidelines:

"The intensity of the Nuggets is very strong today! And the defense is very targeted. The Knicks scored, but it was difficult. ”

Hubie Brown saw the problem, and Tyberdu saw it, and he saw that George Karl was not only playing with himself, but also with himself.

He was suddenly shocked, and felt that he had been sloppy, and he arranged Li Feng to experiment with new tactics in such a game. The Nuggets don't even have a chance to make Li Feng move, and you still experiment with Shenma's new tactics?

Tyberdu regretted it in his heart, but he regretted that the medicine was not easy to buy, and he couldn't adjust the team's tactics temporarily, after all, the game had just begun.

The Nuggets took the ball and pushed it in neat order, Lawson got to the frontcourt, and the Nuggets were all in position.

Gallinari ran up from the baseline and passed the cover of his teammates, received the pass, and after receiving the ball, Gallinari was not in a hurry to dribble sideways, leaned against Belineri with his shoulder, and then suddenly leaned back to shoot.

Belineri was pressed to the other side by Gallina's shoulder, and he couldn't use his strength. All you can do is watch Gallinari throw the basketball into his own hoop.

Gallinari's shooting offense, not relying on speed or height, just put his body against you, stick to him twice, and you can't foul with a slight move. This offensive method of using the body as a cover shot, Gallinari is a league must.

The Nuggets came over with Gallinari's singles, and the match was very simple. The Nuggets are very quintessential in rotation on defense, but they don't have many skillful combinations on offense. The Nuggets' offense is still mainly based on singles. He has a near-perfect defense, but it's easier to play on the offensive side.

When Dragic took the ball and turned back to advance to the Nuggets halfcourt, he looked at Li Feng for a little while, and there was still a lot of trouble.

The Nuggets arranged a key defense for Li Feng, and Farid followed Li Feng closely, and the opponent obviously wanted to strangle Li Feng. Dragic, who has been mixed for so many years, can not understand this little trick, Li Fengqiu is difficult to get, Dragic looked at Lawson on the opposite side again, he suddenly became interested, and he suddenly accelerated and wanted to force Dragic over.

Lawson smacked Dragic on his chest. Then the Nuggets' help defense arrived right away, holding Dragic from both sides. Dragic couldn't break through, so he could only try his best to pass back to Li Feng, who was being targeted.

He also didn't pass well in a crisis. As a result, Kenneth Faried, who was on the side, took a step up and broke Li Feng's ball.

Then he took a big stride and rushed towards the Knicks' half, with Farid breaking fast and Li Feng and Kirilenko in hot pursuit.

The three got to the Knicks near the free throw line at halftime. Farid flew all of a sudden, and Li Feng and Kirilenko struck left and right to block, but neither of them could touch the basketball. This physicality of Farid is simply amazing. Passing over Li Feng and Kirilenko, Farid "Bang! He smashed the basketball into the Knicks' basket.

This hit was deafening.

It turns out that George Karl not only defended Li Feng strictly, but also made targeted defenses against other Knicks players.

He allowed Dragic to shoot in the middle of the shooting area, but he never allowed Dragic to get a little closer to the penalty area, and his muscle army would completely strangle Dragic as long as there was such a sign.

As a result, all Dragic can do is shoot from the middle, and Kirilenko is treated similarly to Dragic, and he has no chance to get close to the penalty area.

Li Feng simply couldn't do anything, and George Carr's thugs simply restrained Li Feng with iron chains.

The Knicks are locked up on the offensive end, but they can't stop the Nuggets' well-planned offenses on the defensive end.

As a result, only 4 minutes into the game, the Nuggets were already 11-4, leading the Kings by 7 points.

The Knicks came from afar today, and they were hit head-on by the Nuggets when they played, and suddenly the Knicks were a little confused.

Tyberdu also immediately called a timeout and laid out a new offensive strategy, he used J.R. Smith to replace Belineri in an attempt to increase the firepower on the outside.

Smith made his debut on the court and did hit two long-range shots, but immediately after Gallinari's defense, Smith's shots could not score in a row.

The Knicks are still very poor in offense, and they can't catch the firepower intermittently, and the continuation of this situation makes the two teams 15 points behind the Nuggets by more than 9 minutes in the first quarter.

The Nuggets led the Knicks by 15 points at 27-12, and no one expected the game to be such an outcome.

Jeff Van Gundy said incredulously in the commentary seat:

"What's going on with the Knicks today. In front of the Nuggets, it seems that they are helpless at all, as if they are two levels of teams. ”

Hubbie Brown looked at the court from the side, sighed and said:

"The Knicks and the Nuggets aren't two level teams, they're just the mentality."

"Today the Nuggets are prepared, but the Knicks are an unintentional mistake."

The situation is obvious, the Knicks don't know the mother who was beaten by the Nuggets, that is, in the pre-game preparation, the Knicks did almost nothing. The Nuggets, on the other hand, have made sufficient tactical preparations, psychological preparations, and even mental preparations.

The two teams with or without a decisive mentality are fundamentally different, and now the Knicks are paying the price.

For a team like the Knicks, who aren't very good at scoring, 15 points is a huge hole.

With such a big hole, the Knicks fell into anxiety from top to bottom, and at this time, Tyberdu also hurriedly replaced Li Feng.

Li Feng walked down from the court. When he sat on the bench, he began to gasp for breath.

In the face of the Nuggets' airtight defense, Li Feng didn't feel very adaptable, compared to the team defense of the Pacers and other teams, the Nuggets' individual defense was much stronger, and Farid's defense at all costs physical strength was also a bit of a headache for Li Feng.

Unable to find a way, the frustration of failure all exacerbated Li Feng's fatigue. Now that Li Feng has finally come out of the net of the Nuggets, Li Feng is panting while looking for a way to deal with it in his mind.

The coach takes you off and lets you sit on the sidelines. Half of it is to restore your strength, and half is also to sober you up.

Li Feng was trying his best to sober up at this time, and he repeatedly thought about how he could score effectively under the chain defense of the Nuggets, crack the defense of the Nuggets, and finally achieve the goal of revitalizing the whole team.

Breakthrough? Long shot? Attacking in the low post? Li Feng thought about all the ways, but none of them were good.

Just when Li Feng was depressed, he saw it on the sidelines and suddenly thought that it would be good if the team had a shooter who could run without the ball.

With a shooter who runs off the ball. The Nuggets won't be reckless in their containment, and their tight defense will inevitably be disrupted. Because off-ball shooters will frequently run through the baseline, their basket will be a mess at that time.

Li Feng thought of this, and suddenly woke up.

The team does not have a running scorer without the ball. What can you do?

Thinking of this, Li Feng finally smiled in his heart, how could he be confused by the nuggets all of a sudden, it really shouldn't be.

Li Feng was waiting on the bench. Tyberdeau became more and more agitated, as the Knicks conceded another 5-pointer between the end of the first quarter and the beginning of the second quarter. With a 20-point difference, the Nuggets left the Knicks far behind.

At the beginning of the game, there was such a miserable situation. Tyberdu's eyes were red, but George Carr gradually sat quietly in the bench chair.

At this time, the fans in the Pepsi Center Arena were a little bored, but they were all in a happy mood.

Jeff Van Gundy said unwillingly at this time:

"Isn't garbage time starting now, it's just the second quarter of the game!"

From the second quarter onwards, the Nuggets, perhaps due to luck or thinking they had slaughtered enough, began to soften their knives.

The difference between the two teams was also fixed at about 20 points, and halfway through the second quarter, Tyberdu finally sent Li Feng onto the court again.

But this time he didn't dare to put Li Feng in the position of power forward, Tyberdu gave Kirilenko a temporary rest, and then he put Li Feng in the position of small forward.

Li Feng returned to the court, and the first thing he did was to say in Cousins' ear:

"Hey! Cat, you can help me cover for a while, okay? ”

Cousins thought that Li Feng was talking about high-position cover, and he did this job every day, so Cousins nodded seriously.

But as soon as the game began, Vucevic just sent out a basketball on the sideline.

Cousins, who paid attention to Li Feng, found that Li Feng actually ran over along the bottom line, and Li Feng wanted a low cover? Cousins was shocked here, but fortunately he still remembered what he should do, and came up to erect a wall for Li Feng on the bottom line.

Li Feng squeezed past Cousins, and Wilson Chandler was somewhat confused and abandoned by Cousins's side.

Li Feng is finally free, he has not been free in the entire first quarter, and now he finally has the opportunity to receive the basketball smoothly.

Li Feng misses this feeling, when he gets the ball, no one around him sticks to him.

This feeling is very comfortable and free, but Li Feng's freedom came too shortly, at the moment when Li Feng got the ball.

Farid on the inside line was as agile as a leopard stuck behind Li Feng, and he resisted Li Feng to death, and at the same time, the Nuggets' defense system quickly blocked Li Feng. Li Feng knew that he had to handle the ball quickly, so Li Feng didn't have any feints and directly turned around and broke through, the powerful force made Farid unable to turn around, and the bounce made Li Feng turn around and jump up in one step to reach the basket.

Li Feng used the cover of the basket to easily pull the rod on the rebound, and easily put the basketball into the Nuggets' basket.

The Knicks finally completed a smooth sports battle, and with this sports battle goal, Li Fengzhi said that his strategy of running without the ball was correct.

Back on the Knicks' defensive end, the Nuggets' Kufors missed a shot from the mid-range shooting area, which immediately gave the Knicks a rebounding opportunity in the backcourt.

Dragic got the basketball in the backcourt and pushed it forward quickly, trying to play an unstable footing, but the Nuggets' defense was still good.

At this time, Li Feng also ran quickly, and this time Li Feng ran to the bottom corner first according to the method last time, and then gave Cousins a look, and immediately ran to the other side of the bottom line.

Li Feng used the same trick to deal with Wilson Chandler, Chandler naturally will not be fooled, people are intelligent creatures.

Chandler, of course, learned to be obedient this time, and followed Li Feng through Cousins' cover early.

Li Feng saw that this trick was not working, but he looked back and saw that the direction he had just run in was empty.

Li Feng, who was very obscene, grabbed a handful of Wilson Chandler's jersey, and then turned around and ran back from the other side of Cousins in the direction he came from. Li Feng grabbed a handful of Chandler's jersey, and Chandler was stuck behind by Cousins.

Li Feng suddenly ran to the bottom corner where he came, and he was empty again, and at this time, Dragic passed the basketball with a decisive smile.

This time, the person who pounced nearby was not Farid, but Gallinari, and as soon as Gallinari saw that Li Feng was vacant, he immediately helped to defend him.

But as soon as Li Feng looked at Gallinari, he immediately stepped forward and leaned Gallinari under the basket, and then Li Feng turned around and jumped in the air and threw the basketball high.

Basketball went in again. (To be continued......)