The opening score difference was not much, but it looked clear that the Knicks scored a little more straightforwardly. The main reason is that Li Feng's opening two mid-range shots are too smooth, and now the Knicks, both teams are playing the ball, testing each other, and both sides are looking for a feeling at the beginning, and it is not yet time to fight to the death.

The Bucks were pushing in at this point, still grinding in on the tactics, Dunleavy quickly got the ball to 45 degrees with a double cover from the baseline, and then turned around and passed the basketball to Sanders, who was in the main position on the inside.

Sanders is characterized by defense, but it is not that he can't play under the basket, and he can also play twice under the basket.

Sanders, who received the basketball, immediately had bad water in his stomach, took the ball and dribbled a step, and then suddenly turned over and made a shooting feint.

Monroe was a little excited today, not thinking that a rough guy like Sanders would do a job.

As soon as Sanders saw Monroe flying, he immediately posted it to cheat a foul, and then threw the ball in front of him, trying to make it 2+1, but it didn't work.

Sanders cheated Monroe of another foul, and then Monroe got angry and yelled in frustration. It's only been 2 minutes since the opening! He was fouled twice!

As Sanders walked to the free-throw line, Monroe frustrated his back and switched on, this time with Kirilenko.

As a result, the game between the Bucks and the Knicks went into a fixed track, with the Bucks mainly using three fronts to complete the offense, and Jennings occasionally shooting from distance and attacking.

On the Knicks' side, Li Feng and Cousins are the main offensive workhorses, occasionally giving the outside to create opportunities to shoot or break through.

In this state of stalemate, the two teams fought to the second half. At this time, the Knicks also led the Bucks by 3 points, 19-16. But the average level of defense is still relatively tough, and it is not easy for the Knicks to score.

It's not easy for the Bucks to score, because unfortunately the Knicks' strength is also the inside, Cousins doesn't have much pressure to meet Apaidou, and now Cousins' technology has been developed, and it is not simply playing with his body!

By this time, the two teams were almost warmed up, and the Bucks began to change the bench first. The Bucks are a formed team, and they come off the bench at the point, and the rules are very orderly.

That's something that the average team can't do.

The Bucks' first bench was John Henson and J.J. Redick. Two of them must have replaced Sanders and one for Ilyasova.

The Bucks made early substitutions, and Tyberdu on the Knicks' side couldn't keep leaning on each other like this, and he also made substitutions, and he replaced Kirilenko and J.R. Smith when he came up.

The two teams gradually entered the bench time. That's when the gap arises. The Bucks' bench is well-trained and well-tuned by Larry Drew.

So the Bucks came back with substitutions, when JJ Redick ran around the court for half a lap, and Li Feng was blocked by John Henson, the Knicks made another mistake on the defensive end, and no one went up to make up for the defense, and JJ Redick will not be soft as a strategic shooter.

Take the ball and turn around for a three-pointer, and the three-pointer is immediately shot. I caught up with the score all at once.

The two teams are back to the level of 19-19, this time. J.R. Smith controlled the ball and quickly advanced, and immediately passed the ball to Li Feng, who came up to break through the box that squeezed the Bucks, and then turned back and passed the ball to Kirilenko.

Kirilenko shot very close to the basket, but missed.

Then the Knicks didn't seem to feel very good, and in just over 2 minutes, John Henson, JJ Redick, Gooden and the Bucks' bench almost ate the Knicks.

By the end of the day, the Bucks had a six-point lead over the Knicks, 28-22, and the Knicks didn't score much points in the more than two minutes they came off the bench.

Thus, at the end of the first quarter, Gary Payton said:

"Although the Knicks are a promising team, they are still very lacking in details! Just look at the performance of their bench today. ”

Sean Kemp also said:

"Yes! The Knicks are still too young now! ”

At this time, Taberdu didn't say much, but came over and began to say that he should pay attention to how to defend the Bucks' several pick-and-roll misalignments.

The game started with the Knicks' ball, and now the Knicks are 6 points behind, and Tyberdu sent Li Feng to the court at the beginning.

Li Feng came up and got the basketball, and immediately began to direct his teammates to run, let his teammates move, block and run more.

Li Feng played a cameo role as a commander, and suddenly flicked his hand and sent the basketball to the hands of JR Smith who was in the empty space outside the three-point line, and JR Smith got the basketball and instinctively raised his hand and threw a three-point shot.

"Brush"

There was a three-pointer as soon as the fire was fired today. After scoring, J.R. Smith also shouted excitedly:

"Hit! Hit! I finally got it. I hit the mark! ”

"I hit it!"

J.R. Smith, who shot a three-pointer, came over excitedly and shook Li Feng and celebrated with Li Feng.

The Bucks players are not crazy when they look at JR Smith!

An open three-point shot can be happy like this.

But Li Feng understands that in the past two days, JR Smith Yali is very big, and he is not the same rhythm as the starter, and it is better to be free as a substitute, but no player can take the initiative to say that Lao Tzu does not want to play the first and play as a substitute, especially when JR Smith is not yet 30 years old and has not yet reached the age of retirement.

The Bucks' bench lineup is too easy to play the Knicks' bench lineup, so it's a bit careless to come over at this time.

However, the Bucks may have been trained by Larry Deru to play tactics with their eyes closed, and such a group of substitutes, although their attitude is casual, they play a comfortable tactic as soon as they come up.

JJ Reddick was originally hanging on the bottom corner, but Marquis Daniels and Gooden came over and gave him a double-eyed mustache, and JJ Reddick knew how to run with a sweep of his eyes, and came up and ran around the two of them to the other side.

Where is the double cover. Li Feng was suddenly stuck behind, but it didn't matter, Parsons, who was thin on the side, suddenly got through the crack and blocked in front of JJ Reddick, who is a strategic shooter. There's no problem with shooting, but if you want him to play with the ball, he's terrible.

Although Parsons is very thin, but after being instigated by Li Feng, he did everything he could on the defensive end, harassing JJ Redick enough, and finally JJ Redick made a mistake in passing.

The basketball fell into the hands of J.R. Smith. J.R. Smith immediately passed to Li Feng, Li Feng took the ball and dribbled two steps towards the Bucks' half court to see Kirilenko near the opponent's basket, Li Feng passed the ball vigorously through most of the court and fell into Kirilenko's hands.

Kirilenko also made a lot of efforts at this time. Dodge on the left, turn around and dodge, dodge the Bucks' defender, and shoot a jumper.

It's close. The man also dodged away. But Kirilenko's shot missed.

This made Kirilenko angry enough, and it seems that his hand is really not good today. Li Feng shouted when Kirilenko was depressed:

"Start with defense, return defense, quickly return defense!"

Li Feng is the boss of the team, and now he has the highest ability, the highest prestige, and the most salary, so Kirilenko hurriedly caught up with his own people.

Then it depends on the Bucks to the Knicks' half, and they are really not in a hurry. Really able to play something, Ismael Smith passed the basketball to Marquis Daniels. Marquis Daniels took the ball and broke through two steps to see the Knicks' fierce defense, looked back and passed the basketball to John Henson in the back.

If this were a normal team, John Henson would have done it himself.

But John Henson didn't, took the ball and dribbled forward in a small step, and then covered the running back Marquis Daniels, who ran back and John Henson handed the ball to the ball, caught the ball and threw a mid-range shot.

Entered!

The Bucks, you have to be convinced, and the brains that have been trained by Larry Drew are all cooperative awareness and reactions.

A simple ball, when they hit it, can play it with flavor. For Larry Drew's group of disciples, this thing has gone deep into the bone marrow, and a casual hit can play the essence of blocking and dislocation tactics.

Li Feng watched from the side, and he also saw that today's game can't be easy to play, and it is even as difficult as yesterday's game. Yesterday the Celtics were the defending champions, but it was on their home turf, and the defending champions didn't look very favorably on the Knicks. Now the Bucks are different, the Bucks hate the Knicks, and they have home-court advantage, and they themselves play as hard as a rock. The Knicks, on the other hand, have almost no advantage!

Li Feng frowned at this time, thinking in his heart how the game should be played.

The Knicks got to the Bucks' position, and J.R. Smith just crossed the halfway line and gave the basketball to Li Feng.

As soon as Li Feng got the ball, he saw that the three of the Bucks blocked the middle, and suddenly Li Feng returned the ball to Harris, who came off the bench.

Harris is also considered a rookie, when he took the ball and waited, Li Feng went down and made a cross cover with Parsons, Ilyasova went to the top of the arc to get the basketball, Li Feng pushed Marquis Daniels who was leaning on him under the basket, and then ran back.

At this time, Ilyasova also immediately passed the ball to Li Feng, and Li Feng took the ball to look inside at this time, and the Bucks' well-trained position defense was also messed up.

He took two steps down the middle, and when the Bucks were wrapping him up, he hit the ground and passed to Harris, who was also a non-trivial player, tall and strong, took the ball and took the ball to a wipe under the basket, and scored two points along the way.

The Knicks' multi-round pass ball was played, and immediately Gary Payton said in the commentary box:

"The Knicks' offense has a taste! has the demeanor of a strong team, and the most important thing is that Li Feng is calm and does not start playing as soon as he gets the ball. This is important! In the whole tactical operation, the first move is often not a good opportunity to attack, and the second and third tactical moves are good opportunities. ”

Gary Payton is an old man, and as soon as he saw this state, he felt the situation very thoroughly.

After Li Feng himself played such an attack, he also had a little aftertaste.

It turns out that the offense can be fought like this, and smashing the opponent like thunder and lightning is to solve the problem by force, but there is a simpler way to solve the opponent's problem, which is to wait for the opponent to make a mistake.

A look at the bucks. The Knicks and their young men also played to cooperate, and when it came to the Knicks' half, they were a little uncomfortable.

John Henson ran to a big vacancy. Also missed.

The Bucks missed the shot, and the Knicks' opportunity came immediately, and Li Feng took the ball in the backcourt and suddenly accelerated towards the Bucks' halfcourt.

The Bucks quickly returned to the defense, but Li Feng did not play by himself, but immediately passed the ball to J.R. Smith, who followed up behind.

When J.R. Smith was surprised when he got the ball, Li Feng ran without the ball and ran around the court for half a lap. At 45 degrees on the other side, he reached out to JR Smith for the ball, and when JR Smith passed.

Li Feng pointed in front of him. Kirilenko came up to cover, Li Feng took a 45-degree cover and stabbed directly to the basket, and just when the Bucks' people surrounded Li Feng, Li Feng turned around in the air and passed the ball to Kirilenko.

This time Kirilenko didn't shoot. Instead, it didn't kill the Bucks basket. It's a tyranny.

Li Feng began to combine running without the ball and connecting the whole team, which is an extremely dangerous signal. In terms of a short period of time, Li Feng played like this, and really connected the Knicks who were close to the block and dismantle to attack.

So Larry Drew was also very cautious, immediately called a timeout, and then made a substitution.

Larry Drew's substitutions are now step-by-step, and the Bucks' one is orderly and step-by-step. He was replaced by Jennings and Sanders first.

Jennings was replaced to increase the range on the perimeter, and Sanders was also used for defense. And it also increases the height of the team.

Sanders' stout rough guy is simply the essence of Deep Larry Drew's pick-and-roll misalignment tactics.

When Larry Drew made a substitution, Tyberdeau also immediately replaced Jones, Parsons was too thin and was hit in the middle of the rough guys of the Bucks.

The Bucks made substitutions, and they immediately played a low-post tactic, and JJ Reddick's baseline cover ran off the ball to a stretch of the court, and immediately turned around after taking the ball and passed to Sanders, who was in the position of the low-post card.

Sanders knocked Monroe down in the first half and has always been quite proud. Looking back now, the Knicks are another rookie.

The kid immediately shed bad water again, took the ball and slammed two steps into Harris's body, trying to knock Harris away, but Harris's arms were not thin and his strength was not small.

Sanders didn't bump into him in two steps, turned around and threw a feint, Harris is not the kind of stunned boy like Monroe, he doesn't eat his feints at all, Sanders can only pass the basketball out.

Jennings, who was holding the ball outside the three-point line, didn't attack much, and immediately shot himself this round. After swaying sideways, J.R. Smith, who immediately bumped into him, shook a little, and he appeared half of his body in space.

With that half of the space, Jennings got up and threw a throw, throwing the basketball into the Knicks' basket.

Jennings is not a quasi-star player, and he came up to stop the bleeding for the Bucks.

Jennings came up, and the Bucks really began to stabilize, and the tactical coordination was higher, and the stability was better.

The Knicks are now instigated by Li Feng to be tough defensively, and they can sink offensively, and once they can't catch this breath, Li Feng can still stiffen himself.

As a result, the young Knicks actually tied with the Bucks in a short period of time.

Larry Drew accused the Knicks of being fancy and unpragmatic before, but now I see that the Knicks dare to fight defensively, and although the offense is incomplete, it is not their business, but the coach is not right.

Larry Drew suddenly felt that these boys were all manufacturable materials, not in vain. Larry Drew actually began to mentally like young players like the Knicks.

The Knicks resisted a wave of Bucks benches, and then began to stabilize their position, at this time it was Sean Kemp who also nodded to the Knicks:

"The Knicks resisted the Celtics last time out, and they didn't fall to the Bucks today. This team has resilience! Promising! ”

Gary Payton had a different focus at this time:

"The Knicks played better, and the most important thing is that Li Feng played more of a tandem role and brought the team together as a whole, which is very important, after all, they will have to bear the consequences of losing two starting guards in the next playoffs!"

At halftime, the two teams were tied at 45-43, and the Bucks had a two-point lead over the Knicks.

The Knicks are basically satisfied with this result, but Larry Drew is certainly not satisfied, and he will never be satisfied at any time.

So at the beginning of the second half, the Bucks took out their real skills, and the so-called real skills of the Bucks are defensive intensity.

As soon as the Knicks got the ball, they looked at the defensive intensity of the Bucks, which suddenly strengthened, and the Bucks' defense immediately gave the Knicks strong peripheral pressure.

The aggressiveness is very strong, and it is very dirty, and in this case, the Bucks fans also know that the team is going to cheer on the sidelines, so the referee is not easy to blow the penalty.

In the Bucks' dirty, aggressive defense, the Knicks were not afraid after a timeout from Tyberdeau, and after a few consecutive reversals, everyone did not stick to the ball, and three consecutive three-point shots made the Bucks very painful.

At this time, it was the turn of the Bucks to take a timeout, and during the timeout, Tyberdu did not do any special command, and the timeout ended, and the two teams returned to the court.

This time, the Bucks teed off on the sideline, Sanders passed the ball directly to Apaidou in the main position of the waist card, Apaiyudu took the ball, Cousins immediately went up and resisted Apaiedu, at this time the Knicks' defense was on the rise, the defense was very hard, and Cousins was with Apaidou chest to chest.

Seeing that it was too difficult to attack, Epaiyudu immediately turned around and passed the ball to Jennings without a strong attack.

Jennings didn't rush to shoot with the ball at the top of the arc, and saw that Epai Youdu came over before blocking and breaking through to the Knicks' basket.

When everyone was looking at Jennings, Dunleavy ran in a very cunning position, dodged Jones along the baseline and ran to the basket Harris, so Jones was blocked by Harris.

Jennings immediately passes the ball to Dunleavy, who takes the ball and throws a hook to challenge Harris.

This time Harris's shortcomings were exposed, if he hit Dunleavy when he was without the ball, Dunleavy couldn't run, but now Harris is still too "simple", so he gave Dunleavy such a chance. Dunleavy scored points on the baseline. (To be continued......)