Knicks 116-103 Rocket!
The Knicks won their second victory since December, while the Rockets lost their fourth game in five games after a seven-game winning streak — and the team management was relieved to finally get back on track.
Both sides take what they need, and each has a bright future.
But in terms of game content, New York is far from as easy as it won in the final score: the Knicks led by as many as 17 points in the middle of the second quarter, but were chased by the Rockets to 6 points at the end of the second quarter. The Rockets' small advantage in the third quarter flattened the point difference until 9 and a half points in the fourth quarter, and the Rockets were only 6 points behind.
Texas Xiaoqiang's tenacity and hard work are unmistakable.
So let's take a closer look at the Knicks' two stages of pulling apart, namely the end of the first quarter and the beginning of the second quarter, and the middle of the fourth quarter.
What these two stages have in common is that both sides are bench-based articulation, with New York led by McBride and Quickley, and the Rockets side being Augustine and Shinkin.
The Rockets' 7-game winning streak has said that since Green and Porter Jr. were injured, the Rockets have been two sets of shelves — starting Gordon and Tate, and substitutes Augustine and Shin kyung.
Augustine has experience, Shen Jing is smart enough, and the difference between the two is personal strong attack ability, encountering general substitutes, and can also rely on experience and brain mediation, but when it comes to the defensive strength point that can pinch the two of them one-on-one, there are not many ways.
There happens to be such a player on the Bench in New York, because Thibord is really unusable before the emerging McBride is the same type of American guard as the Warriors Peyton Jr. on the defensive end. With a hard body and bones, the confrontation is extremely strong, and the defensive pressure is extremely great, and the old defender like Augustine is most afraid of this kind of young and strong offspring who will play with you.
At the same time, Mitchell Robinson just happened to face Shen Jing, Robinson's biggest problem this year is slow, but Shen Jing is also slow, he wants to see his teammates have the opportunity to pass the ball. Shen Jing usually has some clever fake moves, but Miro is taller and stronger than him, completely covering Shen Jing and not moving, and his methods are not much.
Shen Jing will definitely become a smarter and better inner line than Wood in the future, but at this stage, against Miro, Wood can kill him without leaving a piece of armor, and Shen Jing can only eat again and again. This is the philosophy of the basketball court, brine point tofu, one thing down one thing.
Augustine and Shin Kyoto were choked, and the rocket's shelf on the bench could not stand up, but Christopher's ability to hold the ball offensively was more comfortable with this situation.
The bench duo counted 5 points, 4 assists and 5 turnovers, and both lost 23 points on the court. The Knicks bench scored a combined 63 points, winning at least 19 points and up to 22 points.
Compared with the two, the main reason for the Rockets' loss is all in it.
But the question that comes with this is, the Minnicks led by 17 points in the second quarter, how did they get the Rockets to chase them back?
There is an interesting phenomenon:
In the first quarter, Knicks star Randall played 9 and a half minutes, the Knicks scored 26 points, and after he went off the court, the Knicks scored 13 points;
In the first 3 and a half minutes of his absence in the second quarter, the Knicks scored 10 points, and once he returned, the Knicks only scored 8 points in the subsequent time;
In the third quarter, he played about 8 and a half points, and the Knicks only scored 17 points, and even at one point they were overtaken by the Rockets. As soon as he played, the Knicks scored 10 points for the team.
Randle only symbolically played a three-minute run in the fourth quarter, and the Knicks scored 32 points throughout the quarter.
So the inner ghost found out, and the Knicks' biggest problem and cancer was their star, Julius Randall.
Randall's stats this season have slipped slightly compared to last season, but they are still good, averaging 19.5 points, 9.9 rebounds and 5.2 assists per game, which is a slight nuisance of 20+10+5 per game.
Below the good-looking data is 42.8% shooting percentage, compared with last season's decline of nearly 3 points, 34.2% of the three-point shooting rate, a decline of nearly 7%, the average of 5.2 assists per game is behind 3.4 mistakes, to ensure that the mistakes at the same time, assists do not increase but fall.
But Randall's problem isn't just about efficiency, he's too sticky. Every offensive round he holds the ball and carries it endlessly, when he can play, when he can't. Teammates came to meet, he looked at the time not much to throw a pot, teammates did not come, he is a move hit rate is not high turned over backward jumper.
Hong Kong Zhen, watching Randall play and watching the Pelicans backcourt is no different, both brain pain.
I said Randall in the playoffs last season, he's a short version of the alphabet, but he doesn't have the top talent of the alphabet. So he looks like he can do anything, but in fact, everything is loose, and a little bit of targeting will go wrong.
For example, he has three points, shooting more than 40% last season, but showing a gradual downward trend. In the playoffs, the Hawks didn't think he had too many outside threats, and was finally forced to shoot, shooting less than 30%.
He has mid-range shots, and last season he shot 43 percent from 3-10 feet. It's 42.2 percent within the 10-foot to three-point line, but by the playoffs, the complete ice shooters, 4-of-32 in both zones, are numb.
His shooting percentage in both zones has fallen to around 30 percent this season, but his percentage of shots hasn't dropped, and I reckon coach Thibodeau will have to close his eyes and wait for trial as soon as he sees him turning over and shooting from mid-range.
He seems to have strength and footsteps under the basket, but the strength is not as destructive as the letters, and today Top Tate and Gordon do not have any advantage. When he is pushed down the next set, it is easy to make mistakes in his steps, otherwise he would not have had many turnovers and shots.
He has passes, but his passes are either for assists or they're really out of the way. Passing to the centre-forward was uploaded to the foot, and One of Fournier's defenders often couldn't pick up his pass, and the accuracy was a mess.
So Randall is a typical regular season player, everyone is not very targeted, he looks OK, once he gives him defensive intensity, he really can't do it.
But this year New York has fallen to 12th in the East, and it seems that the regular season is not working, what's going on?
Because he still has the heart of the child - the heart of the big brother. The New York summer trades for Walker and Fournier seemed to have made Randall feel a crisis, causing him to want to declare that this was his team all the time.
So he dribbled the ball endlessly, not in the hands of a core defender, but in the hands of an interior player who played the number four position. Do you see when Holliday is on the floor, the alphabet will go for the ball?
Last year Randall played like this, because the only one who started was the one who had the ability to attack with the ball, and everyone else was a sapper to help him defend. But this year Walker and Fournier were not defensive sappers, the team's defense was backwards, and Randle's consistent holding of the ball in his arms led to the stagnation of the team's attack.
Attack and defense are not good, so Walker can't play.
Why Walker?
Because Walker is 8.73 million and Randle is 19.8 million, the Knicks also renewed a 4-year, 117 million contract with Randall in the summer.
This is the wisdom of the coach: you must be able to tell the boss that you have changed, but also know how to change to keep your job.
Who says coach Thibodeau is unsophisticated, isn't that the optimal solution at the moment?!
Thanks for reading it all!