NBA: Start by torturing Jordan and add points to upgrade

Lin Tian’s condition tonight can’t be said to be bad.

In the game against the Celtics, he was at full power and completely reached his best and most perfect state!
He scored 21 points again in the first quarter!

At the same time, the other players of the Knicks were in pretty good shape tonight. Under the leadership of Lin Tian, ​​they took the lead in the first quarter and gained a 5-point advantage!

Then in the second quarter, after Rivers suddenly changed his strategy and started to double-team him, Lin Tian started to pass the ball continuously, finding loopholes in the Celtics' defense again and again, assisting his teammates to score!

At the end of the first half, the Knicks took a lead of more than 10 points!

No matter how you look at it, this was a game in which all three armies fought hard and united to successfully take revenge!

But when the game entered the second half, the situation on the field changed suddenly!

The Celtics suddenly exerted their strength, and several main players of the team scored points in the way they were good at, making the Knicks' almost non-existent defense even more riddled with holes!
On the Knicks side, their players suddenly lost their touch again and missed shots frequently!
Four minutes into the third quarter, the Celtics tied the score!

Seven minutes into the third quarter, the Celtics successfully overtook the opponent and took their first lead of the night. They began to take the initiative!

As the game progressed, the Celtics held on to their hard-earned lead tightly. From offense to defense, they focused their attention and energy to the extreme just to defend against the Knicks and consolidate their lead.

At this point, the Knicks' players' weakness of only being able to play as surprise and auxiliary players was once again exposed! Facing the Celtics' sudden improvement in defense, the Knicks' role players could not hold on again!
To put it bluntly, after Stoudemire and Anthony were suspended, the Knicks had very few players they could use. More importantly, the players they had left were either single-function and could only do tasks like cutting, fast breaks, and dunks.

For example, Smith and Ariza, and Wallace and Barnes who have now returned from suspension.

Or maybe they are old and have reached the end of their careers. It's okay for them to have an occasional outburst, and it's also okay for them to play 15-20 minutes per game, but asking the veterans to play 30 minutes in a game and expecting them to fill the vacancies left by Stoudemire and Anthony is obviously asking too much.

To put it simply: the remaining players of the Knicks have quite single functions and there is not much they can do. They can support Lin Tian, ​​but they cannot perform stably and their performance fluctuates greatly.

In fact, the best way for the Knicks to play this lineup is defense! Changing to a defensive lineup, playing a positional battle, and competing with opponents on defense is the best way.

After all, Okur has size, Ariza, Smith and Wallace have terrifying physical qualities, and Lin Tian is the best defensive player. They use the existing personnel to form a defensive formation to play defense, and the effect will definitely not be bad!

Even their head coach, old Nelson, won the best coach award for his defense! This old man is a master in both offense and defense!
but……

Old Nelson: I won’t!

The speed has slowed down, how can Lin break the record?
Now that he's slowed down, how can Lin still shock the league?
Also, I said we have to rely on offense to win the championship, so how can we defend?
If we defend, won’t the flag we set back then become meaningless?
Anyway... this stubborn, paranoid and childish old man refused to play defense.

What else can be done?

Just run and fight!

But given the Knicks' current situation and personnel, their offense is quite difficult when the Spurs have Duncan and Howard guarding the basket and attacking the rebounds, especially in the second half, as they lost more and more backcourt rebounds, and counterattacks naturally became more and more difficult, and they couldn't even launch one at all.

In this game, the Celtics relied on their crazy attack on the frontcourt rebounds to keep the initiative of the game until the end!
Throughout the game, the Celtics grabbed 22 offensive rebounds, leading the Knicks by 31 total rebounds!
If Lin Tian hadn't been in such a hot state tonight, scoring 55 points again with an extremely high hit rate, the Knicks would definitely have suffered an extremely miserable defeat tonight!

But it was obviously not enough for Lin Tian to be the only one going crazy in the second half. All Lin Tian could do was to narrow the gap to 1 points with consecutive three-pointers in the last minute of the game.

But the Celtics' stable free throws prevented the Knicks from chasing points, and Lin Tian also missed the final 3-pointer, so the game completely lost its suspense.

The Knicks could only raise the white flag again in this game.

Facing the Celtics, the Knicks lost two games in a row!
The gap between them and the Celtics has widened to 5 games!
In addition, the Knicks are at a disadvantage when the two teams play against each other, so even if the two teams have the same record in the end, the Celtics will be ahead. This means that the Knicks must have a better record than the Celtics and must win at least 6 more games than the Celtics in the remaining season to regain the top spot in the Eastern Conference!

With only half of the regular season left, it is extremely difficult for the Knicks to overtake the Celtics again and regain the top spot in the Eastern Conference!
This is almost an impossible task.

But the good news is: Although they failed to get first place in the Eastern Conference, the Knicks lost these two games after missing two core players, and the Celtics were completely unable to contain Lin Tian’s offensive firepower under such circumstances!
Then when Anthony and Stoudemire come back, won’t we pin you to the ground and beat you up?
So even though the team lost two games in a row, both the Knicks fans and players were quite satisfied with the way and process of losing!
I’ll leave the first place in the Eastern Conference to you, and we’ll see in the playoffs!
After losing two games in a row, the Knicks' confidence is at an all-time high!

There is another reason why everyone associated with the Knicks did not take these two losses seriously.

On January 1st, they will face the Spurs at home!
This game is quite important!
Lin Tian had already made a tough statement more than half a month ago that he would "see the Spurs in New York".

Now that this day has finally arrived, the fans are of course extremely excited!

The revenge version of Lin Tian is online!

Especially since Lin Tian is still holding back on losing to the Celtics twice in a week. Would it be sensible for him not to take it out on you, the Spurs?

Must beat to death!
The fans were extremely excited about this game! The tickets for this game were also naturally selling like hot cakes.

It was so popular that Dolan directly booked another NBA-level arena in New York City, and then he sold another 20,000 tickets.

Although the price of these 2 tickets was only one-third of Madison's, it took less than two hours from the time all the tickets were put online to being sold out, and the fans just wanted to gather together and watch the game on the big screen on site!

Even so, because the Internet speed and online ticket purchasing platform in today's world are not developed enough, many people have to queue up on site or book tickets by phone, which delays the time.

Two hours is the limit of technology, not the limit of New York fans!
If the Internet was more developed, if the Knicks opened enough telephone ticket booking lines, and if Dolan could set up a few more ticket sales channels and windows, New York fans would be able to buy out all your tickets in an hour!
If we can introduce some Chinese ticket grabbing software like 12306, we can buy all the tickets in one minute!

Forget about opening another stadium, even if you open two, New Yorkers will be able to fill them up!

Crazy New Yorkers have plenty of money, they just lack seats!
In addition, for such a highly anticipated revenge battle, TNT of course chose to broadcast it live without hesitation. This kind of high-traffic game was not originally in TNT's broadcast plan. Even if it was not originally in their broadcast plan, under the current circumstances, as long as they are not stupid, they will definitely choose to change the plan!

On this day, how could there be a more exciting, more eye-catching, more anticipated and more exciting game than the Knicks vs. Spurs game?
Two hours before the game started, players from the Knicks and Spurs arrived at the stadium early. Along the way, there were crazy fans and lunatics who kept howling and yelling at the players.

When the players entered the field, Madison's live DJ interacted directly with the temporary field next door.

The two venues played each other's images on the big screens, and the fans on both sides made noises at the same time, as if they wanted to completely suppress the other side from a distance to show that they were the craziest, purest and most passionate group of people.

Double the noise, double the excitement, double the madness and double the passion!

At this time, there were still two hours before the game started, and the fans had already entered the state in advance.

Feeling the sports atmosphere, James, who had just arrived at the stadium to warm up, couldn't help but mutter: "This is a big city."

Whether in San Antonio or when he was in high school in Akron, when had James ever seen so many and so many crazy fans? San Antonio was nice, but everything there was slow and unhurried. There weren't such crazy and passionate fans there, nor such a strong sports atmosphere.

Everything seemed tepid.

"If I debuted in a big city, if I was selected by a team with a top market, I would definitely play better! I might have won the championship a long time ago instead of wasting my career with the Spurs!"

James was practicing shooting while muttering to himself.

This atmosphere and the degree of madness really made him a little jealous.

"If my head coach was Nelson, who advocates liberalism and encourages players to express themselves and develop their own personalities, instead of Popovich, a rigid academic coach, I would have won the scoring title or assists title a long time ago!"

“I have this level!”

"LeBron."

When James was imagining what kind of performance he could achieve if he debuted in New York or Los Angeles, a voice suddenly came over him.

"I'm not a scorer, and I hate being called a scorer." James muttered without reacting.

That was the first sentence he imagined he would say when facing reporters after winning the scoring title.

But he didn't expect that the person who came to see him now was Lin Tian.

A monster who couldn't even use the scorer's positioning, but instead pinned all the scorers except Chamberlain to the floor and beat them violently.

"Long time no see, Lin." James' reaction was still quick. He quickly forgot the slight embarrassment just now and greeted Lin Tian easily.

"Are you ready to get beaten, asshole? I can't wait to let you know the huge difference between New York and San Antonio!" Lin Tian looked at James and played a straight ball.

I have long understood the gap between New York and San Antonio. After James muttered in his heart, he looked at Lin Tian and said, "I don't think we should be hostile to Lin. You are my mentor. I have dreamed of becoming you countless times."

"I still remember the guidance you gave me in the training camp. I respect you very much! The last game was just some misunderstandings. Those things are not something we can control, right?"

"Yeah, those things are not your fault, and those damned calls are not your fault either." Lin Tian nodded, being surprisingly easy to talk to.

This made James, who was originally trying to say a few polite words, completely confused.

What the hell? Aren’t you here to cause trouble?

What are you here for? Are you here to make peace with me?
"But I want to beat you tonight. I want to beat you up, beat your entire team up, and humiliate every one of you!"

"Isn't it okay?"

"That has nothing to do with us. I didn't ask the referee to call the call that way." James spread his hands. He felt that Lin Tian was being unreasonable.

Mr. Lin said: I am here to make trouble, so what? Is it against the law?

"It's none of my business." Lin Tian shrugged and said, "I don't like you, and I want to beat you up, is that not okay?"

"Then go find trouble with the referee! They are the culprits!" James was helpless. It was the first time he realized how childish and unreasonable Lin Tian was.

"If you hit the referee, you will be suspended, but if you hit yourself, you won't." Lin Tian rolled his eyes and looked at James as if he was an idiot.

After observing James's expression of disbelief and confusion with satisfaction, Lin Tian felt relieved.

He turned around and swaggered towards O'Neal, who was lying on the floor receiving physical therapy.

Come one by one, no one can escape.

It’s so cool for all of us brothers!
"The New York fans are so enthusiastic tonight!" Barkley said sincerely in the TNT studio: "Two stadiums! Two stadiums to watch the game at the same time! New York fans are always so crazy!"

"And, with two hours left before the game, the two tubes are already almost full! The fans can't wait!"

"They weren't just in place, they were already there two hours in advance. They were more excited than the players!"

Kenny continued, “If the director is willing to transmit the live footage later, we will be able to enjoy the craziest boos in history from New York fans during the warm-up!”

"They really can't wait to teach San Antonio a lesson! They will pay back all the grievances that Lin suffered in the last game tonight!"

Barkley continued: "The New Yorkers are definitely ready. They want to use a big win to hit back at the Spurs, who relied on the referee and nearly 100 free throws to win the last game."

"They will teach the Spurs a lesson in their own style! They will tell everyone: This is New York! No one here supports you!"

Kenny shook his head and said, "But it may not be that easy for the Knicks to win tonight. The Spurs are in very good shape coming in!"

"They are still ranked first in the Western Conference. Their record is better than the Celtics. They are truly the best in the league! They have 13 wins and 2 losses in January, which is the same record as the Celtics!"

"They are on a 9-game winning streak recently. In their last 4 games, they defeated the Mavericks, Suns, and the Pistons and Cavaliers in the East!"

"The Spurs are now in their best form and with the highest morale!"

"At the same time, we must not forget that the Knicks want revenge, and they are definitely trying their best! But will the Spurs just let them win? Will the Spurs be willing to surrender on the road?"

"The Spurs are just as motivated and determined to win this game! They want to prove that they are a top team even without a whistle! They can beat the Knicks even without a whistle!"

"Especially, the Knicks are still without Stoudemire and Anthony tonight! If the Spurs can't beat the Knicks without the two of them, it will definitely be a huge blow to their morale!"

"So, both sides of this match have definitely made all preparations and will not give in to each other. They will fight and risk their lives at their best. They will fight and collide with each other at their strongest!" (End of this chapter)