At 7 pm, the Knicks players participated in the pre-match press conference. Then they had to go to the scene for 90 minutes of warm-up, and then they could return to the locker room for the final pre-match arrangement.

Earlier today, the filming team of Sports Illustrated came to Atlanta to take styling photos of Wu Huang, but was told by Wu Huang's agent that it was only ten minutes, and it was still held simultaneously with the reporter's interview at the pre-match press conference. This was a great challenge for the photographer, because Wu Huang was sitting on a chair, chatting with the reporter while being his model.

Wu Huang is not playing a big shot, but there are too many media that want to interview him every day. First of all, the New York Times, as his number one supporter, must arrange a certain amount of time for them; the crew sent by CCTV is also their own people, and they will also get a certain amount of interviews and shooting time. Wu Huang is of course better to treat his compatriots; finally, the NBA official website interviews and shooting, of course he cannot refuse; the remaining a large number of influential media will also ask for interviews and shooting photos, espn, Basketball World, USA Today, etc....

Therefore, the famous Sports Illustrated only got ten minutes of shooting time and had to be synchronized with the pre-match press conference. Sports Illustrated has to go and shoot. If you don’t take pictures, some people will rush to shoot.

CCTV's film crew received much better treatment. When the Knicks team finished the pre-match press conference and came to the scene to warm up, CCTV's film crew was allowed to conduct some interviews with Wu Huang during intervals. This is his privilege. Generally, few film crews can photograph the team's pre-match warm-up.

Not only did Wu Huang accept an interview during the warm-up interval, the CCTV camera crew also wisely visited other players and team staff, and also filmed several small tactics of the Knicks. One of the clips was very interesting...

"Shot!" Wu Huang ordered to Iguodala, who was holding the ball.

"But I'm executing tactics." Iguodala responded.

Emperor Wu yelled back toughly: "Pitch that damn ball!"

Iguodala could only shoot but didn't shoot the ball. Then he came to the sidelines and smiled and said, "It's really interesting, because you feel guilty, but he will say, 'Next time I'll pass the ball to you. You will take another shot. If you don't make it, you won't make it. But this ball should be taken, it's your point again. Go again next time.'"

As Iguodala, 26, said, looking at Wu Huang who was giving orders to Gallinari in the field, and continued to say to the CCTV camera crew: "It's really interesting, because I came here to teach him. I am here to be the leader, but you find that sometimes, he is teaching me. When I was 20 years old, I was still the youngest player in the team and was still learning how to play with AI. When he was 20 years old, he was already a star in the second team of NBA."

The first brother may not be clear enough about the changes in Wu Huang, because he came here in the middle of the season. Al Harrington has the clearest feeling about Wu Huang’s changes. The Knicks’ original second leader said to the CCTV camera crew: “When Hugo first joined the team, he didn’t like to say too much. But in the middle of the season, his words became more and more. Yes, he would make suggestions on tactics during the timeout and have the freedom to adjust the defensive matchup at any time. So, when the audience saw him misplaced defending scorers like Kobe and Roy, it was his decision, not the decision of head coach D'Antoni.”

Iguodala commented on this: "As the game progresses, Hugo knows when to switch to the scorer, which is part of his leadership growth."

Wu Huang's substitute, Chris Duhong, also said: "I think Hugo may coach one day. Because he understands the game so thoroughly, everyone talks about him like the 'Magician', like Michael, when you have the same mind and have the same talent as him. You can do whatever you want."

When asked on the sidelines how to evaluate Wu Huang, Mike Woodson, the Knicks assistant coach, described: "When we analyze the game, Hugo sounds more like a coach than a player. Yesterday we were analyzing a certain point in the regular season game against the Hawks, when he was playing Bibi alone on the left wing. But when analyzing the scene, he did not focus on how he dealt with Bibi's defense. He said, 'My main focus is not on guarding me, but on the second level of defense, because I feel that I can pass the first person to guard me. But next, someone on the weak side may come to double-team. I am staring at Horford and Josh to see if they are staring at me, are they predicting my moves? Now, they may not know what I will do later, but I must know what they may do next."

Mike Woodson believes he has never seen such an excellent consciousness, just like playing chess, and he analyzed the next many steps from the beginning, which made Hugo a difficult player to defend, so he did not encounter the so-called rookie wall at all, and that kind of thing would not appear on him.

Emperor Wu himself did not hear such exaggerated flattery, otherwise he would have muttered in his heart: "If I were so arrogant, why would he always be disturbed by Josh Smith's assisted defense when playing the Hawks in the regular season?"

Mike Woodson is still praising Wu Huang: "Many scorers have narrow vision and you can go over to help defend. They will only stare at you and wait for the opportunity to slip away. But hugo, if you go to help defend, he will kill you. He makes you mistakenly think that he doesn't know where you are, and then rushes to you, attracts you, and then distributes the ball to the people you defend. This is like watching a magician back then, before the movement is completed, he thinks about it in his mind."

The Knicks trainer then answered some news about Wu Huang's strength training. He said that Wu Huang has been away from bench presses and other exercises. He will choose to practice core muscle groups, that is, the abdomen is surrounded by the body, responsible for protecting the stability of the spine, and at the same time he can practice lower limb strength and yoga. In addition, Wu Huang is not the kind of person who is willing to listen to the mercy of the trainer from beginning to end. "I have to start with those postures that he doesn't think are too stupid. Do you understand what I mean?" The Knicks trainer said this, and his tone seemed a little dissatisfied because Wu Huang always doesn't train the way he does, and he has a bullshit personal trainer.

"Hugo needs to gain at least 10 pounds. He needs to use protein supplements, but he is unwilling to do this. I know he likes to eat Chinese food. We all know that those foods taste good, but he should only eat four to five low-fat meals a day, eat less each time, eat more oatmeal, chicken, and salmon. You can eat some sweets occasionally, but you should try to eat less Chinese food." The trainer obviously had resentment towards the disobedient Emperor Wu, but when he heard this tone of angered little wife, why did he feel that this training was also a gay man?

Wu Huang still weighs less than 185 pounds. However, his naked feet have grown to 192m. Of course, he has not grown taller in the past three months. The team trainers believe that Wu Huang's height should be fixed. At the age of 20, it is a bit abnormal if he continues to grow taller.

"I look a little thin. That's because I'm not at the age to increase my muscles. At least I have to wait until my height stops growing, otherwise it will not be good for me." Although Emperor Wu has been practicing strength, he is not eager to increase his weight and confrontation ability. This aspect needs to be gradual.

At this stage, he has been enhancing flexibility and the strength of his core muscle group and continuing to expand his skeleton. The human skeleton can be expanded under training until he is 30 years old, so NBA players will almost perform stretching training throughout their careers.

Don’t think that Emperor Wu is thin, but his core strength is not bad. Because his skeleton is talented, his muscles are just by-products to him. As long as he has a good skeleton, even if he doesn’t have much muscle on his body, his strength will not be bad at all.

Emperor Wu’s strength is not too bad now. The increase in muscle strength with him is actually far less than his natural good skeleton, so Emperor Wu had a situation where his strength was not inferior to DeRozan when he was in college.

This is like laying a foundation. Wu Huang is born with an excellent skeleton. It is not difficult to fill muscles on it. However, the core muscle group must be trained first, and at the same time, he must wait until his body has completely developed.

The Knicks team doctor felt the most incredible thing about Wu Huang Huang. Every time he encountered minor injuries, Wu Huang's recovery time was amazing. "Oh, his recovery time was much shorter than most players." The Knicks team doctor had a say in this: "He is unique and very different. I think his recovery ability is three times that of ordinary people. Because some injuries that can only be recovered from three or four days, I could not see it from him the next morning."

The team doctor believes that Emperor Wu’s control over his body is also bizarre. When he is hit by someone, he can always find the most comfortable way to land. Even if he is hit by someone in the air, it is difficult for you to see him land without balance. He can always find a way to land safely that is not easy to be injured.

This is the benefits of Wu Huang practicing yoga, core muscle groups, and waist and abdominal strength. These places control the athlete's physical balance. Especially in sports like basketball, the core muscle groups are often the most important areas of the player, protecting him from injuries and maintaining balance and stability.

Is it really useful to not do any traditional strength practices and make your body exaggerated like Mageti? Anyway, Wu Huang is not interested in it at all. If he practices weightlifting, he usually lifts on the balance ball with one foot. From the beginning, he has taken the training of these core parts seriously and believes that these trainings can extend his career. "Some people may forget that balance is what you always need to maintain during the game, not the size of the muscles. For me, that is a big part of the game."

Domestic fans are very concerned about his bounce, but neither Wu Huang nor the team cares about this kind of thing. Perhaps bounce is very meaningful for players like Dwight Howard, because Superman always bounces around in the penalty area. But for players like Wu Huang, his lethality is mostly caused in sports. Generally, there is no need to physically contact with people. What he needs most is the ability to maintain balance. The ability to not fall or get injured after being maliciously collided by defensive players is the most critical for him.

Therefore, Emperor Wu said that he had never measured how much he had jumped, because it had no meaning.

A year ago, in the rookie trial before the NBA draft, Wu Huang measured the vertical jump height of about 80m or 85m. Now his vertical jump may be between 90m and 95m, but even Wu Huang himself has no answer to which one is true. It depends on who you believe. Even if it is only 85m, it is a very amazing number, especially for a yellow man.

When the Knicks player was asked by the crew: "Which part of Wu's body most wanted to steal?" Garlinari immediately said: "I want to steal his lower body work the most... "Of course, this interview was cut off by CCTV afterwards without any mercy.

Livingston wants Wu Huang’s legs the most; Du Hong wants Wu Huang’s brain the most; David Li wants Wu Huang’s speed the most; McGrady wants Wu Huang’s recovery ability the most.

"I want his magical hands." Iguodala naturally envies Wu Huang's shooting ability the most, which is exactly the talent he lacks the most.

Wu Huang's hand was not only excellent in shooting. CCTV camera crew specially gave him a close-up of his palm, and measured it with a ruler, and found that from the bottom of his palm to the top of his middle finger, it was about 3 cm long. According to Wu Huang himself, since the 9th grade, he could grab the ball with one hand, which allowed him not only to wave the ball everywhere when breaking through, but also to catch a considerable number of rebounds with one hand. At the same time, it also made him pass the ball astonishingly fast. "At the beginning, I had to take time to adapt because he would scare me." Teammate Garlinari said. "Hugo sometimes is on the other side of the court, and suddenly, the ball is delivered to your shooting point."

As someone who organizes team offense, Wu Huang’s strategy is to support his teammates to shoot every shot that should be shot, but he will never tolerate any bad shooting choices. “There is no room for bad shooting,” he said. “It is bad to choose bad shooting. You have to tell them right away that you can’t have a littered guy around.”

The CCTV camera crew seemed to want to study Wu Huang's whole body. Finally, they even measured Wu Huang's sneakers and found that Wu Huang's feet were not particularly large, at least for one NBA player. However, his ability to move these two feet quickly and effectively was impressive.

"Most players rushed from one bottom line to the other at full speed, about 11 to 14 steps, and hugo was no exception, but he completed it much faster and his pace was very fast."

This is particularly valuable in defense. For most players, drawing a circle with a radius of 6 feet with him as the center is probably the range he can defend. We can call 6 feet their "defensive radius". On Wu Huang, the circle you want to draw must have a radius of almost twice as large, and you don't know when it will pounce in front of you.

Mike Woodson, who is the Knicks' head defense, said: "He can stand in the middle from beginning to end, and wait until his opponent transfers the ball across the board, and he can also save him to defend the shooter on both wings. And, it's not someone like me who can save it. But, 'It's really damn, a steal king is rushing towards you!"

Wu Huang was unexpectedly selected for the second team of defensive team this season, which means that he has become the coolest toy any defensive coach can imagine. He is tall enough, fast and smart enough in point guard. For example, when the Knicks fight against the Celtics, head coach D'Antoni often asked Wu Huang to defend against Thunder Allen. In this way, when Ray Allen runs all over the court, the Knicks will no longer have the so-called "misposition". Unlike Du Hong, or the little ones of Robinson in the past, Wu Huang replaced Ray Allen or Crawford, and his height was not at all disadvantage.

Mike Woodson said: "Do you understand how painful this is for a team (opponent)?" Celtics coach Rivers even said that Wu Huang is a rare player who can "defense from 1 to 3".

But Wu Huang himself said that he could not defend everyone, "In this league, there are some players that you cannot defend one-on-one, such as Kobe, Chris Paul, and Dwayne Wade. You can't have too many hand-heks (that is, put your hands on the opponent when defending), and you can't defend too fiercely, because you will be called fouls. Sometimes, you have to seek help." Wu Huang also said that, just from the perspective of height and strength, there are some big guys that he can't defend, which mainly refers to Billups and Deron.

This pre-match interview made domestic fans feel very happy. Never Chinese have received so much respect in the NBA. Yao Ming was not low at the Rockets' low post a few years ago, but compared with Wu Huang, the gap immediately appeared. The Knicks' attitude towards Wu Huang was almost the same as that of the Cavaliers' James. They really were afraid of melting when they held it in their mouths, afraid of falling when they held it in their hands, and afraid of touching when they held it in their arms.

But unfortunately, today's game did not reflect Wu Huang's awesomeness, because the Knicks played like shit on the road!

This is the Knicks returning to the playoffs after five years, but what greeted them was not a victory, but a complete defeat!

As soon as the New York players entered the court, they felt a completely different home atmosphere. The lights on the scene seemed to be very different from those in the regular season. The depressing atmosphere surged over as soon as they walked out of the player channel. Then various malicious slogans held by Atlanta fans and humiliating photos of the PS passing, coupled with the huge decibel noise, all made the Knicks' young players a little uneasy.

Iguodala and D'Antoni have repeatedly emphasized the difficulties of the playoff away game before the game, but young players have not experienced several playoff experiences. The experience gained from older players and coaches alone cannot adapt to this atmosphere.

Emperor Wu is a very rare exception. He has seen big scenes, so this away atmosphere in the first round of the playoffs cannot scare him.

However, the defensive intensity of the playoffs made him a little uncomfortable. Many regular season actions are fouls, and the referees are not willing to call too much today. Moreover, this is their home court, so it is normal to be a little biased, so many of the Eagles players' collision actions have not been called, and these actions have greatly affected shooting teams like the Knicks.

Wu Huang failed to get the support of his teammates in the game. It was difficult to compete with his opponent with one's own strength. He made 5 of 16 shots in the game, scored only 15 points, 4 rebounds, and 3 assists, and made as many as 6 mistakes. Iguodala scored 18 points and 6 rebounds, and the others failed to score doubles. In the last quarter, the Knicks only scored a pitiful 9 points.

Last year, the Hawks beat the Miami Heat in the first round of the playoffs, which also caused great trouble to the later Cavaliers. This season they have a home advantage and gave the young Knicks a warning as soon as they came out.

After the start of the first quarter, the Hawks players entered the game much faster than the Knicks players. They blossomed at more points as soon as they started, quickly gaining the lead, and gaining an advantage with 18:8 after halfway through the first quarter. Only Wu Huang supported the Knicks, and he scored 8 points in the first quarter, but the Knicks still lag behind with a big score of 15:26.

Wu Huang's shooting percentage in the first quarter was not high, and he failed to perform well in the second quarter. The Hawks gradually widened the score.

With 8 minutes and 15 seconds left in this quarter, the Knicks only trailed 26:32 with Iguodala's performance, but they failed to score in the next three minutes. After the Hawks scored 8 points in a row, they gained a 14-point advantage.

The Knicks still failed to find any feeling after that. After Wu Huang was double-teamed, the passes he sent were not converted into assists. The Hawks took the opportunity to score another 12:4. With 1 minute and 40 seconds left in this quarter, the lead was 20 points with 56:36.

At the end of the half, the Hawks led the way with 60:38.

Bibi was beaten by Wu Huang in the regular season, but he used a bunch of small moves to make Wu Huang angry.

Wu Huang made a three-pointer at the beginning of the third quarter, but Bibi's defense deliberately pretended to be unable to hold back. He slapped his nose with a palm, which made Wu Huang look red. In the end, he still asked his teammates to do the free throws. It took him more than two minutes to stop the blood.

The Eagles' double-teams were also very successful today. Bibi used brute force and small movements to fight him close together. He used the moves on the edge of the foul to prevent Wu Huang from playing his speed advantage, creating time for his teammates' assisted defense and supplementary defense, which restricted Wu Huang's breakthrough.

In the third quarter, the Hawks quickly expanded their advantage to 25 points. With 1 minute and 08 seconds left in the quarter, Josh Smith grabbed an offensive rebound and dunked, and the Hawks led by 83:53.

The Knicks have given up on resistance a little. Wu Huang only made one goal in this quarter and scored 3 points. The Hawks led by 30 points with 85:55 after the third quarter.

After the start of the fourth quarter, Wu Huang missed three consecutive shots, and the Knicks were completely desperate, and he was replaced and rested.

With 9 minutes and 9 seconds left in the game, Josh Smith and Bibby scored an alley dunk, and the Hawks led 90:59. Since then, the two teams replaced their respective main players, and the outcome of the game has long lost the suspense, and the Hawks have easily passed the game at home.

The Hawks scored 14 points in the last quarter, while the Knicks scored only 9 points, creating the lowest score in a single quarter this season. The total score also lost to the Hawks at 99:64, almost creating the team's biggest single-game score loss in a playoff game.
Chapter completed!