NBA: This flower path is a bit strong

After the "defection" of the "Shark", the management of the New York Knicks obviously wants to fill the vacancy in the team's lineup.

In this offseason, they actively recruited the former Nuggets "assassin" Alan Houston, who has excellent three-point shooting ability.

He is famous in the basketball world for his textbook shooting movements and high hit rate, and is praised as the "mid-range shooting king".

He is also the biggest contributor to the final game of the first round of the 1999 playoffs in the last 0.8 seconds to kill the Heat, creating the black eight miracle and helping the New York Knicks advance to the NBA Finals that year!

But now that he has just arrived in New York, Alan must face a reality:

That is, in the Knicks, he can no longer be the protagonist of everyone's attention like he was in the Pistons, even though this "gorilla" in front of him has been criticized by many fans last season.

However, Alan must first learn to play a supporting role on the court.

"It's not time yet, wait another year!"

Let's just say that a man who can accomplish the "black eight miracle" is not ambitious!

Hanamichi was jealous when he saw the "mid-range shooting king" with a standard shooting posture showing what a "textbook" shooting is during the warm-up time.

"It's a pity to pair him with [Gorilla]!"

The two positions in the Raptors' starting lineup that have never changed are Hanamichi and Das.

This pair of twin stars has shown their strength through a whole season. Now they have left the title of rookies and have become the "old birds" of the team's starting lineup!

In addition, the center position of the Raptors is still the old and strong Charles Oakley.

"Big Ben, I'll go up and show you an example. Watch it. Even in the NBA, you can't be timid!"

Big Ben looked at his master's words and deeds with a serious face!

The small forward position is Walter Williams, a former Heat player who just joined the Raptors. He is a player who averages 13 points per game and shot 45.5% from three-point range last season.

The shooting guard position is Doug Christie, who averaged 14.5 points, 5.3 rebounds, 3.9 assists and an amazing 2.5 steals per game last season, even surpassing the team's point guard Das in this regard, but his average number of fouls per game is only 3 times.

It can be said that the future best defensive player has shown his fangs to the other 28 teams in the league.

That's not all. The Raptors also have Ben Ben, who is eager to try, and Puopeye Jones, who is the substitute for Hanamichi and averages 11.3 points and 10.8 rebounds per game, sitting on the bench.

Looking at the crowded locker room, Raptors head coach Landon Malone felt that he was strong and said:

"I didn't expect that I, Landon? Malone? No~ Malone, would also have a day to fight a rich war!"

Huamichi thought to himself:

"If it weren't for me, you would have been fired by the Raptors by now, you, Malone!"

But seeing that the head coach looked confident but didn't know what to do, he decided not to spoil the fun.

So, coach Malone sent out his predetermined starting lineup to show his respect for the Knicks, the mortal enemy of last season!

Then, in the packed Madison Square Garden, another tragedy happened!

It's not that the Raptors didn't cross the river, they directly beat the Knicks by 30 points!

Huadao said that it really can't be blamed on me, after all, he only played for 36 minutes and easily scored 32 points, 12 rebounds and 4 assists.

But a group of brothers shouted to give me the "slap" in the playoffs!

It seems that he seems to understand the meaning of playing brotherly basketball with LeBron!

Brothers these days can really get along. It can only be said that the plastic brotherhood of "you put your brother in your pocket, and your brother kicks you into the ditch" is a thing of the future.

Little flying squirrel Damon Stoudemire played for 39 minutes, scored 25 points, 9 assists and 2 steals, which is a good start for this season.

There is no way, who made him average 0.2 points per game last season to complete the honor of averaging [20+10] in his rookie season!

Doug Christie played steadily as always, scoring 16 points and 3 steals in the whole game, and by the way, he defended the Knicks shooting guard, Alan Houston, who is known as the "mid-range shooting king", from 13 shots to 5.

Knicks center Buck Williams was the worst. He is 203cm and 99kg. He is the favorite type of Big Ben and Charles Oakley.

"What level of center is this? How dare he stand in the restricted area and fight us head-on!"

"Then let's fight!"

Then, Buck Williams, who played 35 minutes in the game, was defended by the master and apprentice in the restricted area and made 1 of 6 shots, 6 rebounds and 6 turnovers.666 data of the kind!

It was clearly arranged.

The [Gorilla] Ewing, who was expected by the whole village, scored 22 points and 10 rebounds in the whole game, which seemed to be a double-double data of "the team lost but I didn't lose".

But everyone who watched the whole game knew that Ewing basically couldn't defend Hanamichi throughout the whole game, and he couldn't defend Hanamichi's shooting, passing and attacking under the basket in the true sense.

Although Hanamichi couldn't defend Ewing occasionally, he could interfere and restrict him well most of the time!

When facing Hanamichi, Ewing took a total of 12 shots and hit 4 balls, with a true hit rate of less than 40%, and he didn't have any assists. Instead, he contributed 3 turnovers and was completely nailed out of the lineup by Hanamichi.

Ewing didn't know whether it was because he was old, his physical fitness declined, or the red-haired boy had grown up again!

In short, he felt that this guy's defensive skills were getting more and more sophisticated!

In addition, the loss of control over rebounds was also the reason for the Knicks' complete collapse. Ewing only grabbed 6 rebounds in 35 minutes against Hanamichi.

The [20+10] data was thanks to Puopeye Jones, who replaced Hanamichi.

At the end of the third quarter, the score difference was only 17 points. Ewing did not intend to give up the fourth quarter, otherwise it would be confirmed that he, as a superstar in the playoffs last season, could not deal with the red-haired boy, so he deliberately played dirty!

Unfortunately, Puopeye Jones, who had nowhere to play his energy, was not as good as Hanamichi in defense, but with his abundant physical strength and rebounding position, he scored 7 points, 9 rebounds and 1 assist in a limited time, which was an alternative data!

After fighting for half of the fourth quarter, the 17-point gap not only did not narrow, but exceeded 20 points and rushed to 30!

Ewing saw that most of the Raptors' core players had left the court, and only the undrafted player with a big hair, the red-haired substitute player, and Doug Christie were still on the court.

"Well, don't go up again, otherwise the media will say that you can't even beat the substitutes, and there will be no place to explain!"

"I really envy that [Flying Pig], otherwise I will learn from him in the future!"

And Alan Houston, a "newbie" who just joined the Knicks, said that I just changed the team, and it's okay to lose the core position, but how come the opponent has become so strong?

"Is it because I don't have the ball too much?"

"Am I a ball-holding attacker who needs the ball?"

Alan looked at Ewing, who was sitting aside and panting, his broad chest rose and fell with his breathing, and sweat slid down his forehead and dripped onto the ground.

Alan couldn't help but feel a strong desire and ambition in his heart, as if the weeds deep in his heart were growing wildly at this moment.

After a while, Alan took a deep breath to hide his true thoughts.

"Maybe it won't take a year..."

It seems that the assassin has decided to start his action in the New York Knicks in advance.