"Bang!" Seeing that he had the advantage of height, Crawford directly used his signature back-turnover to force himself to eat Wu Huang.

Emperor Wu looked at him just outside, too lazy to move.

He knew that this guy's hand-changing dribble was too evil, and he could not move his center of gravity with his hand-changing movements when defending, otherwise he would definitely be cleaned.

Anyway, this guy can dribble any way he wants. Anyway, he just doesn't move into the mountain. You either force yourself to break through or pull it out, but you don't even have the goal to shake it.

Crawford made three hand-changing movements in a row, and then changed direction three times, but Wu Huang in front of him looked at him motionlessly, and Crawford immediately closed the ball and shot!

Emperor Wu then stepped forward to block it, his long arms and big hands directly covered Crawford's eyes, and the man with a thrust decisive shot of the ball!

Harrington immediately made a long pass after grabbing the rebound. Crawford was still regretting that he missed the shot. When he turned around, he realized that Emperor Wu was about to make a comeback.

The Knicks scored another two points with a quick counterattack, and Wu Huang's 18th point was easily obtained. Crawford was definitely here to give him points.

Atlanta fans were completely silent now. Their two strong points on the outside line seemed to be invisible today!

Wu Huang has his own way to defend players like Crawford. He only wants to affect the opponent's shooting efficiency, not to block the opponent or make fouls. If he deals with such demons who are prone to explosion on the offensive end, he will only give the opponent a chance to play.

The two Knicks' defenders have a big difference in defense. Iguodala is better at close-fitting defense, which belongs to the category of people who will not stop until they stick to it. He is not inferior to any top striker and guard swingers in terms of strength, speed, bounce, height and wingspan. With his defensive awareness and positive attitude, it is natural that it can become the top outside defense gate in the league. The entire league can not only limit Kobe, but also make James uncomfortable. There are only a handful of striker swingers. At least this season, Iguodala is the best one.

Wu Huang's defense method is completely different. He relies on his reaction and quick movements. He also has the advantage of height and wingspan. He rarely uses close-fitting defense, mostly for the back-attack, and is better at assisting defense and stealing passes in the inside. Most of his steal data are obtained from the opponent's inside and horizontal passes.

The Hawks' Horford was replaced after only two minutes of rest, while Josh Smith had no rest at all.

David Lee of the Knicks has never been replaced, although their inside line has been blown up all the time!

At 8 minutes and 10 seconds in the second quarter, Horford turned around at the basket and hit a hook.

David Lee said he could not hold on any longer. Emperor Wu began to support the inside defense.

The Hawks' outside line has actually been silent for a long time. They completely turned their offense to the hot inside line in the second quarter.

Horford wanted to play David Lee again on the offensive end. Wu Huang was prepared for it. He retracted the inside and broke the basketball in Horford's hand. He dribbled the ball to the frontcourt and directly stopped the mid-range jump shot. The Knicks once again scored two points through counterattack.

"It's the 20th point!" Emperor Wu remembered his score very clearly today, and he definitely had other plans.

Crawford played the Eagles point guard. He also dribbled the ball himself and drove it to the frontcourt. After he saw Wu Huang being one step away, he shot directly outside the three-point line, but he made another blow under the interference of Wu Huang's long arm.

Larry Drew couldn't bear it anymore and replaced Joe Johnson, who had just rested for two minutes, and asked him to take charge of the ball.

Crawford's playing style is efficient and has quick points when he is in a timely manner, but no matter how good or bad his hand feels, this kind of pass will affect the overall rhythm of the team.

He basically only has one routine, I will attack this ball. Then the basketball will not turn around and shoot it directly. The teammates did not participate in anything. Those who had the feel before quickly became cold, and those who had the feel had no chance to play in a hot state.

Wu Huang has noticed this now. He will choose to hand over the ball to a teammate who is in a hot touch. Or find an opportunity to feed a few balls to a teammate in poor condition to help them get their touch back.

Don't think that doing this is meaningless. Although feeding the ball to a teammate in poor condition may waste attack opportunities, those teammates with good feel cannot stay in shape throughout the game. A point guard needs to learn to prepare for the future. When a teammate's feel becomes cold, he must immediately activate other firepower points to continue the team's output. If you wait until the ammunition is exhausted before you find a way, it will be too late.

D'Antoni doesn't regret trading Crawford at all now. This man was in various ways in the regular season, but as soon as the intensity of the playoffs increased, he immediately stopped. As long as the Knicks have ambition to win the championship, there is no need for such a player, even if he is the sixth man.

At 6 minutes and 20 seconds in the second quarter, the score was 46:38, and the Knicks gradually opened the score.

Josh Smith suddenly ran away at a critical moment, and made two consecutive singles at mid-range, and then caused David Lee to block a foul, hitting the Knicks' only center forward.

David Lee has committed two fouls to defend Horford today. Now he has won the third foul in the first half. D'Antoni can only replace him and replace him with the pure outside running and bombardment lineup of Wu, Iguodala, Gallinari, Harrington and Fry.

The biggest flaw of this lineup is that there is no qualified low-post defender. Horford quickly bullied Fry in the inside and played two plus one. Now Channing Fry also made two bounces.

The Hawks relied on the same short inside combination to smash the Knicks' inside line. After only two minutes, they caught the score difference to only one point, but the Knicks fell into a scoring drought in the Hawks' defensive position, inside and outside.

Larry Drew is now clearly bullying the Knicks without a tough inside line, and directly put four defensive players on the outside line, leaving only Horford, who has fast moving ability to guard the penalty area, specifically dealing with fish like Wu Huang who missed the net.

Strictly speaking, the Hawks' home defense is not the Knicks' three-pointer, but the middle area, and what they really defend is mid-range shots and breakthroughs.

If the Knicks want to shoot three points, they actually have a chance, and the Hawks just want to lure them into three points.

D'Antoni was fooled this time. He needed a good shooting rhythm to shoot three-pointers, and most of the hard shooting efficiency was not good. Even if the defensive pressure was not particularly high, it was easy to miss the shot. Once the first three-pointer missed, there was a high chance of missing it in a row.

Although the Hawks let the Knicks shoot three-pointers, they will not give them a good shooting rhythm. Taking advantage of the Knicks' three-pointer missed three-pointers in a row, they used more efficient inside offense to score 4 points in a row and overtake the score in one go.

In the third quarter, 3 minutes and 25 seconds. The score was 46:49, and the Knicks were overtaken by the Hawks again.

After doing this, the Knicks had already been hit by the Hawks with an 11:0 attack wave, and they failed to score in nearly three minutes.

Wu Huang has been taken care of by the Hawks during this period. He has already scored 20 points. If he scored well, he would be hit by him with a record of 50+. The Hawks players do not agree to their opponents breaking such a record on themselves.

The Eagles used chain defense against Emperor Wu in the past few minutes, blocking each other layer by layer. After passing one, there was another, so he would not give him room to break through.

The Knicks don't have a real inside line now, so they can't open the outside line and naturally fall into a scoring drought.

Emperor Wu did not recklessly attack with the ball. He had to first find out the Eagles' defense, see if there were any traps inside, and then he would take action after exploring the virtual and real situations. Otherwise, once he fell into the opponent's trap, he would make mistakes or make continuous blacksmiths. The morale damage to the team would be too serious.

Iguodala has been his pioneer for this period, exploring the reality and thunder for him. In addition to Wu Huang's own temptation, he found that the Hawks' high-pressure defense is concentrated near the free throw line. As long as the Knicks players carry the ball and break through to the free throw line and horn position, the Hawks players will immediately form a siege formation, causing the Knicks players to make mistakes by playing more or less.

However, this kind of siege is by no means impeccable. After finding out the truth, Wu Huang found out the ball and broke through decisively with the left wing. Josh Smith, who was facing the second defense line 15 feet away, stopped and leaned back and made a move. He easily hit 2 points.

Josh Smith's mission should be to intercept his breakthroughs specifically. He is forced to stop in the middle or outside the penalty area, waiting for his teammates to join.

The moment Wu Huang rushed to the Eagles players, he directly beat Josh Smith in front of Josh Smith!

Since this guy wants to block his breakthrough, he will definitely not dare to get too close. The other Hawks players have not yet surrounded him, so what he wants is the time difference at this moment. Wu Huang actually took an open position at this moment, but the difficulty of "stop and pulling" itself is a little bit more difficult, but he feels good today and is still very sure to score.

Josh Smith was caught by Emperor Wu and scored four points in a row. The third time he couldn't help but take the initiative to block it. As a result, he was easily passed by Emperor Wu and attracted Horford's defense at the basket to give Fry an unmarked shooting opportunity. The Knicks scored six points in a row and overtook the score.

"This formation has been broken!" Emperor Wu and Fry clenched. Seeing the eagle requesting a timeout, they couldn't help feeling a little proud.

This time he forced the Hawks to call a timeout, reversed the team's verge of collapse, and staged a good show of saviors in danger.

This is the benefit of planning and then acting. If he is anxious to chase points and falls into the opponent's defensive formation, the Knicks may be taken away by someone.

"Trouble" is now moving to the Hawks. They are looking for where their defense is wrong?

Two seasons ago, the Celtics used this kind of chain defense to limit Kobe's offensive efficiency, making the boss struggle, and thus won the championship.

But now it's their turn to use this method, why can't they even be able to deal with a rookie?

The answer to this question is actually very simple. The method of defending James may not be useful to Kobe, and the other way around is the same. This is the truth.

Chain-type defense is a good way to deal with super scorers like Kobe, but Wu Huang's reaction is too fast. Unless there is a peak Garnett or Duncan in the chain defense formation, it is easy to be defeated one by one by Wu Huang using his personal ability. Instead, it is better to use the double-person close tightening.

The Hawks player was a little confused in the last two minutes of the first half. 32 seconds before the end, Wu Huang used a chase attack again. Without waiting for the opponent's defense to fall, he directly pulled out a long-range three-pointer from 28 feet away from the left wing!

This was the last goal the two teams scored in the first half, with a score of 59:53, and the Knicks entered the second half with a 6-point advantage.

Wu Huang made 10 of 13 shots in the first two quarters (3 of 4 three-pointers), 6 of 7 free throws, scoring the highest half-time 29 points, 7 rebounds and 4 assists, completely overwhelming Bibi's 2 points and 2 assists. Among them, 29 points in the half-time also broke Wu Huang's half-time scoring record. His original record of the highest half-time scoring was points. (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!