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Chapter 158: D'Antoni realizes the happiness of a Zen master

On December 18, the Knicks played back-to-back against the Los Angeles Clippers. This was their first game after returning to their home court. However, the first game back to their home court was back-to-back.

It also has to be said that the Knicks' game arrangement this season is really terrible.

The Clippers' recent momentum is also very good. They just defeated the Timberwolves and won two consecutive victories, and today they met the Knicks who played back-to-back games. They are also bound to win this victory at the Knicks' home court.

Mike Dunleavy also knows that if the Clippers still lose the game despite the favorable circumstances, it is estimated that returning to Los Angeles is not only the fans who will not let him go, but the team management probably will not let him go.

At the beginning of the game, the Clippers put on an all-out offensive posture and gave the Knicks a 4:0 opening.

After Chris Kaman received the pass, he attacked and scored at the basket, and then Marcus Camby grabbed the defensive rebound and handed it to Baron Davis for a layup.

In the interior, the combination of Chris Kaman and Marcus Camby is quite deterrent.

The combination of the two of them is also constantly impacting the Knicks' internal defense.

Because of the back-to-back fights, Lian Dao felt bad for a while at the beginning, and missed two consecutive outside shots.

And as the Clippers showed their power inside, the Clippers played a 7:0 opening climax.

Immediately, Lian Dao also changed his strategy, reduced outside shots, and rushed inside to cause damage.

Althonton couldn't stop Lian Dao's breakthrough at all. After Lian Dao hit the inside line, he was attracted by Marcus Camby. When Liskaman stepped forward to defend, he quietly followed behind, trying to give Lian Dao a big hat.

But Lian Dao had already prepared and passed the ball directly to the open Millsap.

Millsap raised the knife and hit two points.

Under Marcus Camby's continuous leakage, the Knicks gradually narrowed the point difference. Until the end of the first quarter, Millsap made another three-pointer from the outside.

Finally, the first quarter ended with a 3-point lead at 23:20.

At the beginning of the second quarter, Lian Dao broke out completely, using his advantage in height and speed, he kept getting shots from the outside line, making three-pointers with pull-ups, three-pointers with a step-back, and dunks after breakthroughs.

Leading the Knicks to an 8:0 shock wave directly in the second quarter.

The Clippers' Eric Gordon was completely locked out by Lian Dao in the second quarter, and Danilo Gallinari made a three-pointer from the corner with 2:15 left in the second quarter. Take the three-pointer.

Helping the Knicks lead by 17 points at 51:34, Mike Dunleavy was forced to call a timeout again.

Although the Clippers, who came back from the timeout, improved, they still couldn't close the score gap until Chris Kaman used an inside layup to get back two points in the last three seconds of the first half.

The Clippers ended the first half 42:57 behind by fifteen points.

Lian Dao also relied on his excellent performance in the second quarter. In the first half, he made 8 of 13 shots and scored 21 points, 6 assists and 4 rebounds alone.

David Lee had 11 points and 5 rebounds, Millsap had 9 points and 8 rebounds, Wilson Chandler had 6 points, Gallinari had 5 points, and Milicic had 5 points.

After the start of the second half, because the Knicks were in the lead, Lian Dao also sat on the bench to rest.

D'Antoni also found that letting Lian Dao play the full first half and then resting in the first half of the third quarter is currently the best rotation method. The score advantage is established on the field.

Lian Dao rested in the first half of the third quarter to reserve a certain amount of physical strength for the decisive victory in the fourth quarter. Otherwise, the fourth quarter may collapse directly. This is also the lesson D'Antoni learned after the previous game against the Lakers.

At this time, Thornton and Kaman of the Clippers kept jumping to help the Clippers keep approaching the score.

With 6 minutes and 35 seconds left in the third quarter, Eric Gordon made a three-pointer from the outside and the score was 59:64. The Clippers were only 5 points behind the Knicks.

D'Antoni also replaced Lian Dao at this time. After playing, Lian Dao broke through and made a pull-up layup, which stabilized the Knicks' situation.

At the same time in the third quarter, Lian Dao also continued to hit the inside line, attracting Chris Kaman and Marcus Camby to double-team, thus passing the ball to David Lee and Millsap.

At 5 minutes and 05 seconds, David Lee received a pass from Lian Dao and made a mid-range jumper.

At 4 minutes and 25 seconds, Millsap received a pass from Liandao outside the three-point line and made three open shots.

At 3 minutes and 10 seconds, Wilson Chandler cut inside and got a pass from Lian Dao for a layup.

After returning, Lian Dao directly revitalized the entire Knicks lineup. Although Mike Dunleavy kept roaring on the sidelines, gestured angrily on the sidelines, and called two timeouts in the middle, it still didn't help.

And D'Antoni sat on the bench like an old monk, smiling all over his face, as if he had become a Zen master at this moment. At this moment, he seemed to realize the joy of the Zen master Phil Jackson coaching the Bulls and Lakers at that time.

At the end of the third quarter, the Knicks led by 15 points with 84:69.

The Clippers bench was a little bit confused, like we played the third quarter, but didn't seem to…

Could it be that the more you do, the more mistakes you make?

In the fourth quarter, Marcus Camby turned out to be the biggest colander in the Clippers' defense.

In order to block shots and rebounds, he also kept missing people inside.

This made Mike Dunleavy, who couldn't stand it, take him off and replace him with Craig Smith.

In fact, Marcus Camby was also a tough guy who knocked out his teeth and swallowed blood. He was the last pillar of the New York Knicks inside. Scamby's name.

In the 2003-04 season, Marcus Camby was the hardest-working man in the Denver Nuggets. He used his thin body to carry countless fouls and blocked backcourt rebounds, covering up Nene and Melon, who were still immature at the time, and pushed the Denver Nuggets forward. In the playoffs, the league's annual defensive team still does not have his name.

As a result, he gradually changed his game style and became a cunning, cautious, data-oriented insider.

As a result, in the 2004-06 season, he was continuously selected to the second defensive team of the year-even though he only played 56 games in the 2005-06 season, he was still the block leader that year and was automatically eligible for walks.

Marcus Camby, who has tasted the sweetness, no longer believes in his defensive supremacy. Since you can get more honors and bigger contracts by brushing statistics, why should I do some dirty work.

Therefore, in the two seasons of 2006-08, he ushered in a bumper harvest. Two-time First Defensive Team of the Year, 2006-07 Defensive Player of the Year.

In those two seasons, the Nuggets scored more than five in the league per game.

The world doesn't praise you for blocking your opponent perfectly, but it screams that you dominate the game when you catch 15 rebounds, and screams that you guard the penalty area when you see you block five blocks.

Therefore, it is common for him to intercept every opportunity to block or grab rebounds like a hound, pile up gorgeous data, and miss his matchup's inside line.

The reason why he can still serve as a starter at the age of 35 with a salary of more than 7 million is because after the age passed, he understood the way of keeping in good health. Slick as an old gambler.

As long as you care about your offense, UU reading www. uukanshu. com I care about my blocks and rebounds, everyone gets their strengths.

Of course, many older people may not understand Marcus Camby's style.

However, such a person has no right to vote for Defensive Player of the Year, let alone be responsible for paying Camby's salary or opening a new contract-Camby himself knows this very well.

Therefore, sometimes it is not that Marcus Camby is such a person when he first entered the league, but that the form of the league forces him to become such a person.

After Craig Smith was replaced, although there was some improvement, due to Craig Smith's lack of height, the Clippers also lost a lot of rebounds.

Under Millsap's iron-blooded defense, Craig Smith was also tightly restricted, and he didn't have many chances to make a shot.

Unable to reverse the decline, the Clippers finally lost to the New York Knicks by 20 points behind 90:110.

Mike Dunleavy looked at Lian Dao who was high-fiving his teammates to celebrate the victory with complicated eyes. He knew that starting today, his coaching career with the Clippers had completely entered the countdown.