Basketball Dragon

Chapter 200 Something went wrong

The Raptors have become an international team this season. Except for the trade to TJ-Ford, the other operations are all related to Europe. They selected the Italian champion Andrea Bargnani, signed the Spanish Calderon and the national team. Teammate Garbajosa, signed Slovenian insider Rasu Nesterovic, and signed Anthony Parker, who played well in the European League, back to the NBA.

So this season, the Raptors' style of play is very European-style, but it makes them have a good record.

They let Spanish power forward Garbajosa play the 3rd position, continuing the three-high style of play.

The Raptors are good at letting the big man out to play, Chris Bosh is a typical example, but now there are more Garbajosa and Bargnani.

At the beginning of the game, the Raptors' offensive was very fierce, and David Lee couldn't prevent Bosh at all.

Bosh's touch is also very good. He even hit a three-pointer after trying one shot, and let David - two fouls return to the bench early.

However, the Raptors may be able to suppress some teams with more big men, but this certainly does not include the Knicks. Although the Knicks are not good at defending Bosh who can shoot from the outside, but the three of Lehi, Marbury and Francis, Basically plugged the Raptors.

And inside, the Raptors couldn't guard Eddie Curry, so even though Bosh scored 14 points in a single quarter, the Raptors were still behind.

Among them, Li Hai must have played a key role. After all, the Raptors let Garbajosa play the 3rd position, so it is impossible to keep up with Li Hai's footsteps.

Like Bosh, he scored 14 points to help the team still lead in the first quarter at 31:29.

The Raptors' bench lineup is also good, with Bargnani, Calderon, Maurice Peterson, who was still the main force last season, and Chris Humphries, who has a good rebounding ability.

This is also the first team since the Knicks won consecutive victories that did not allow them to take advantage of the bench lineup, but when returning to the starting lineup, the Raptors couldn't stand it.

The reason why the first quarter was so difficult was Bosh's outburst. After the Knicks stepped up their defense against Bosh's outside attacks, Bosh could only honestly fight for opportunities inside.

In the interior matchup, although Bosh still has an advantage, his scoring efficiency has dropped a lot, which is not enough to make the Knicks feel threatened.

But Li Hai continued to score points against Garbajosa.

Even with Maurice Peterson and Garbajosa going inside, the result is still the same. For a player like Li Hai, there are only a handful of players who can limit him one-on-one. However, relying on group defense to limit him, the Raptors Not that stuff, they've never been a defensive team.

The Knicks scored 35 points in the second quarter and led their opponents 66:58 at halftime.

The game turned into an offensive battle, and both sides noticed something was wrong when they returned to the waiting room, so the outcome of the fight would feel uncontrollable.

It is necessary to strengthen the defense. The two teams have almost made the same decision.

At the beginning of the second half, the atmosphere of the game was obviously different from that of the first half. The active defense made the shooting percentage of both sides begin to drop.

In the first four minutes, the Knicks scored 4 points and the Raptors scored 5 points.

At this time, someone needs to stand up, and whichever team breaks the deadlock first has a great chance of taking the initiative.

Whenever this happens, there is nothing to say, the Knicks will let Li Hai hold the ball first.

Although they have many capable players, Li Hai is the most stable and has the most dominant physical fitness. The lethality of the playoffs has proved everything.

Li Hai attacked with the ball, and David Lee stepped up to cover. At the moment when the defense changed, Li Hai took two steps forward and directly pulled up and made a hit.

Bosh is not suitable as a player to break the deadlock because of his position. At this time, the backcourt players have a natural advantage, and whether it is TJ Ford or Anthony Parker, they have proved to be worse after trying.

The Raptors, who have no way to break through the defense, can only increase their three-point shots. There are also many players on their team who can shoot three-pointers.

It's just barely, because at the end of the third quarter, the Knicks had already led by 90 points at 77:13.

During the rotation period in the second half, the Knicks' bench lineup didn't feel very good. With the performance of Calderon and Bargnani, the Raptors chased the score to single digits again.

With about 8 minutes left in the game, the main players of both sides returned to the field.

The Raptors are serious about Li Hai, and they would rather let other people have vacant seats than let Li Hai make a move.

But before the Knicks made a shot from the outside, the Raptors had problems.

Eddie Curry exploded with offensive prowess, fouling Rasu Nesterovic three times in a row and knocking the Raptors center off the court.

After replacing Bargnani, the Raptors have maintained the height of the court, but no one can hold Eddie Curry.

So they found out tragically that they had made all kinds of preparations to deal with the Knicks' outside line, but before Li Hai and the others made a move, they immediately died.

Bosh continued to try singles, but the inside is full of people, and his singles success rate is also very limited.

Instead, TJ-Ford hit a three-pointer and caused Francis to foul to help the Raptors stop the bleeding.

It's just that time is running out, and the Raptors need an offensive explosion to recover the score.

The Knicks will definitely not give them this opportunity, continue to strengthen their defense, and firmly take the victory.

At 110:96, Li Hai scored a double-double of 36 points and 16 rebounds, leading the team to [-] consecutive victories.

However, when the team is in good shape, the Knicks have another problem.

On the third day after defeating the Raptors, Li Hai came out of the weight room and saw Marbury and Eddie Curry arguing. If the teammates next to him didn't stop him, Marbury would have hit someone.

Li Hai rushed over quickly. Because of the different cultures, Li Hai and most of the teammates on the team had no personal relationship. Eddie Curry, the problem child, was basically left to Marbury to deal with, and he also had a relationship with him. The injury in the summer has something to do with it. When the new season starts, the job of urging Eddie Curry will naturally fall on Marbury.

Although Eddie Curry is a bit disobedient, he is basically an older child. Marbury has taught him a few times, but this time it is obvious that both of them are really angry.

"Stephen, calm down, is there something wrong with the training?"

Li Hai first took Marbury away. After all, Eddie Curry is so big, if there is a conflict, don't make a big problem, but things are different from what he thought.

(End of this chapter)