NBA: This Center Is So Stable

The first time, the second time.

Chapter 81: Defending the first place in the Eastern Conference

November 7!

The Knicks have secured the first place in the Eastern Conference after a big win over the Bulls. Many teams want to win against the rebuilding Knicks and end their winning streak.

The Knicks’ schedule is also very favorable. They can continue to sit in Madison Square Garden to welcome their next several opponents.

The first to attack is the Portland Trail Blazers!

This team has not yet formed the Trail Blazers Five Tigers. The main player in the team is the “Big Black Bear” Zach Randolph!

Zach Randolph’s reputation has spread widely this season.

In the first two seasons, the big black bear in the Trail Blazers has always been a substitute, and this season Pippen’s departure has made the Trail Blazers start a thorough reform.

Randolph is one of the beneficiaries of the reform. He has transformed from a stable rotation last season to the core of the Trail Blazers’ inside line.

In the first five games of the new season, Randolph averaged a double-double of 20 points and 10 rebounds per game.

As a 206-cm-tall swingman at the fourth and fifth positions, it is enough to show his strength to get such results.

In addition to Zach Randolph, the second-in-command of the Trail Blazers is Rasheed Wallace.

This four-position player with a range is an important reliance for the Trail Blazers to open up space for the black bear to create offensive opportunities.

Compared with his peak period, Wallace has declined, but he is also stable.

Now the Trail Blazers’ inside twin towers formed with Randolph are also well-known.

As for the Trail Blazers’ outside core!

That is Damon Stoudemire, the six-time veteran of Portland. Although he has not led the Trail Blazers to achieve excellent results in recent years, his height of 178 cm can also contribute 15 points and 7.5 assists per game, which is the standard data of a starting guard in the NBA.

Overall, the first challenger of Madison Garden is quite strong, especially their twin towers in the interior, which are well-known even in the NBA.

Whoever gets the rebounds wins the world!

It just so happens that the core of the Knicks’ current team is also an inside player.

He is still a rookie!

This makes the game more interesting.

It has attracted the attention of many media and fans, so that reports from all parties have focused on this aspect.

At the same time, a large number of neutral fans who pay attention to the game also want to know where the Knicks’ winning streak will stop?

The game started under such expectations.

Jump ball stage!

Randolph did not overestimate his own abilities.

He had heard that the rookie of the Knicks never lost in a jump ball, and he was 206cm tall and knew his own limitations.

So before the game started, he negotiated with Rasheed Wallace to let him jump.

Wallace, who was 211cm tall, was always better than this black and thick guy!

However, the ending was no different.

Wang Song was still strong in the jump ball stage.

The Knicks attacked.

The Son of Wind and Wang Song showed a wave of Knicks speed.

Damon Stoudemire was cut in by Wang Song after a fake screen, and the 35cm height difference between the two made his defense insufficient.

The Knicks took the lead in breaking the situation!

The Trail Blazers, who were caught off guard, did not rush forward, but turned around and played steadily.

But the ball went back and forth, and in the end, there was only one direction.

That was to hand it over to the inside line!

Because the current Trail Blazers are a team that focuses on inside offense, it is impossible to change their style of play rashly just because the Knicks have excellent defense in the restricted area.

That is unacceptable to Trail Blazers coach Maurice Cheeks, and there is a great risk in doing so.

Maurice Cheeks was also an All-Star and won the championship when he was a player.

He knows very well what a team needs to win!

Just as he was determined about his coaching style and the team’s offensive style, Zach Randolph on the court was trying hard to attack the Knicks’ restricted area.

The skinny Knicks looked so vulnerable that in the last few seconds, the black bear took over the team’s offensive burden.

As usual, Dirty Kurt still wanted to come over to help Wang Song defend.

But Wang Song glanced at Rasheed Wallace squatting in the bottom corner and shook his head.

The big guy in the bottom corner of the Trail Blazers is quite accurate, and it is not worth it to lose one while focusing on the other.

Randolph is indeed the top inside player among the rookies of the 2001 class. Last season, he even pushed the Mavericks into a desperate situation.

The 0-3 deficit gave him a suspenseful situation!

This is also Randolph’s

The reason why the Trail Blazers were willing to promote the Black Bear, who was on the bench last season, at the beginning of this season.

After a series of confrontations, Randolph gained shooting space with his weight advantage and hit a hook shot under the basket.

After the attack was successful, the Black Bear pounded his chest and roared to the sky.

This way of celebration attracted boos, and even a Knicks fan stood up to mock Randolph.

“FUCK, Zach!”

“Love has rules!”

The irritable Randolph was not accommodating, and he directly blasted the fans from a distance.

In the stands.

The security quickly approached the crazy Knicks fan and took him away from the scene.

And Randolph gave a middle finger when the other party left, which forced the referee who wanted to let him go to give this guy a technical foul.

The brief chaos caused the game to be suspended.

The Knicks were delighted to see this sudden situation at the beginning of the game. The Trail Blazers’ main center was fouled at the beginning of the game.

Moreover, the angry Randolph was still arguing with the referee.

It seems that the second technical foul is not far away!

Standing in the frontcourt, Wang Song looked at this scene and felt a little sad.

As he remembered, Randolph was a locker room bomb before he joined the Grizzlies and formed the black and white bear with Gasol.

He was involved in marijuana and drugs, and all kinds of off-court affairs made the team restless.

At this moment, Wang Song began to understand why the Blazers executives had suppressed Randolph and limited his playing time in the past two years.

No one can suppress this kind of time bomb.

Even Jordan’s second-in-command Scott Pippen!

And Pippen’s departure made Zach Randolph lawless, and he completely formed a one-man show in the Blazers.

As for you saying that you plan to let the head coach control him?

Maurice Cheeks, who has just become the head coach for a few years, can’t do this job!

So the tone of this game was set, although Zach Randolph’s offensive effect in the restricted area was still good.

But his defensive attitude was too bad.

Under the basket, Wang Song could do whatever he wanted in the Trail Blazers’ restricted area. The Trail Blazers could not limit him at all.

The irritable Randolph even committed five fouls in the first half.

So he asked to switch defense with Rasheed Wallace, with a tough attitude.

But that did not affect the result of the game. The Trail Blazers, who were on the verge of a big trend, could not stop the Knicks’ attack.

At the end of the game, the Knicks defeated the Portland Trail Blazers who came from afar with an absolute advantage of 107:89.

Even Wang Song himself was a little surprised. He did not expect that this game would be won so easily.

(End of this chapter)