Nba: I Really Didn't Come To Fight!

This game is crucial to the Knicks.

They urgently need a victory, preferably a game against a strong team in the league to prove themselves.

Dolan and Thomas need to prove that they are not idiots. After all, although the team’s salary cap is clean and they pay the highest luxury tax in the league, among the top three salaries on their payroll, There are two people who are no longer in the team!

They are "CIC King" Alan Houston's 19 million and "Penny" Hardaway's 15 million. Although they have long been gone, the Knicks still have their legends!

Even Antonio Davis, who ranks fourth on the salary list and can earn 13 million a year, can only contribute 4 points and 5 rebounds per game, plus Morris Davis, who can earn 9 million with 5 points and 2 rebounds per game. Taylor, Jerome James, who has 2 points and 2 rebounds per game but can get 7 million, and Shandon Anderson, who was bought out by the team and is contributing to the Heat, can still take 7 million from the Knicks every year.

Just these high-salary and low-competence, or even high-salary and incompetent guys, can take away more than 60 million from the Knicks every year. Although some people retire and some people are bought out, the actual annual expenditure is not so much.

But does it matter?

Can this show that the Knicks' management is very smart?

Obviously not.

After all, the Knicks' payroll is full of black humor and the exploitation of capitalists by working people. It is the only team in the league that can chase capital and beat them up.

Here, the more you get, the less you contribute. It’s no wonder that all free agents are willing to come to the Knicks for a try. After all, let’s not talk about whether they are champions or not, and whether they are stars or not, people here have a lot of money!

In addition to the management, Marbury also has to prove that he is not a cancer, that he is the number one point guard in the world!

Larry Brown also has to prove that he is not old enough to lead the team to success!

In short, what the Suns are waiting for is a team eager to win and prove themselves!

During the warm-up before the game, watching the crowds of Madison and the spectators with more than 20,000 lives shouting and screaming passionately, they cheered for the players of their home team, hoping to cheer them up.

Lin Zhan couldn't help asking: "Just such a bad team, do they deserve such great fans?"

Nash said with a smile: "Maybe not worthy, but if we play well enough, these fans might cheer us up in the second half!"

Hearing Nash's words, Lin Zhan also remembered that New York fans are indeed the most "not picky eaters" and the most willing to applaud wonderful games and performances!

As long as you play well, no matter who you are, you may get the cheers and shouts from the fans here. There is even such an unwritten rule in the league: Want to know if you are a top star? Then go to Madison and beat the Knicks! If there are massive mvp chants, then you are considered to have stepped into the threshold of the top star.

With such grievances, the game between the Knicks and the Suns is about to start!

For the Suns, although Lin Zhan came back from the ban in this game, D'Antoni still continued his previous starting five and did not change his starting lineup.

For the Knicks, Stephen Marbury, Quentin Richardson, Malik Rose, Eddie Curry and Channing Frye started the game!

As soon as the game started, the Knicks showed their desire for victory amid the cheers of the fans, especially Marbury and Richardson, who faced their former owners, played a long-lost state. Consecutive hit shots.

And when their touch dropped slightly, the Knicks immediately began to show their advantages inside. 'Little Shark' Eddie Curry relied on his huge weight and excellent touch to bully Thomas at the basket. It is also the same to keep scoring points!

Of course, the Suns have the combination of Nash and Marion, plus Bell, who is feeling hot, they are not at all inferior on the offensive end.

Started a wonderful battle with the Knicks!

These two teams are not very good at defense. When they feel good, they play back and forth. The blood-spitting scenes of strong fights keep appearing, and the fans watching are also bursting with adrenaline and cheering non-stop!

In the first quarter of the game, the two sides scored 33:30. In this era when the team scored only about 97 points per game, they both showed their strong firepower and scored more than 30 points.

There is another very similarity between these two teams, that is, their head coaches don't like too long rotation lineups, and both have reduced their regular numbers to 8-9!

Moreover, Larry Brown is definitely D'Antoni's predecessor in terms of the main force of the grass. In the 2001 season, he almost reached the finals all the way to the finals by relying on a 6-man rotation!

When he led the Pistons to win the championship in 2004, he almost only played with 7 players in the playoffs!

And the person who has the most say and feeling about this...is the No. 2 pick in 2003, the talented player Darko Milicic from Serbia and Montenegro! A No. 2 pick in the draft year was used by Larry Brown as a human victory cigar. Except for the team's complete victory and the overall situation, for two full years, Ceci hardly got any consecutive playing time. !

As for D'Antoni, he is also a supporter of short rotations!

Last year's Suns had almost a 9-man rotation since the regular season, and this year is the same, there are only so many players with stable playing time!

Moreover, from time to time, D'Antoni will not adjust at all in the first quarter of the game, let the starting five play the first quarter together, and then make adjustments until the second quarter.

This style of play is unique in the entire league.

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