In the infield of Madison Square Garden, the Knicks' starters have already appeared.
Lin Yu looked at the two fat little sharks Eddie Curry and Zach Randolph standing in front of him, as well as the short Nate Robinson behind him, and knew how difficult this game was.
Andrew Bogut stood opposite Eddie Curry, but glanced at Lin Yu with a pair of direct eyes. He glared at Lin Yu viciously, and Lin Yu stared back unceremoniously.
But with such a glare, Bogut felt that Lin Yu was communicating with him, and he said casually: "Chinaman, how can you win without LeBron this time!?"
"You can open your eyes wide and watch." Lin Yu replied coldly.
No matter what his teammates are like, just looking at the opponent, this game must be won. Andrew Bogut, who is full of drama, has inspired Lin Yu's boundless fighting spirit.
The referee walked to the center circle holding the basketball. After blowing the whistle, he threw the basketball into the sky above everyone.
Eddie Curry stood on tiptoe, but before jumping, the basketball was taken away by Bogut.
Lin Yu frowned, thinking that after this game was over, he would have to urge Steve Mills to push forward the transaction as soon as possible.
Steve Mills was also present at this game. He came to watch the game with team owner James Dolan.
James Dolan didn't want to miss Lin Yu's debut with the Knicks. As a team owner who seemed to the outside world to be full of failures, James Dolan was eager to succeed, and the newly joined Lin Yu gave him a glimmer of success.
hope.
On the court, the game had already begun. Maurice Williams got the basketball and quickly pushed it past halftime.
"Steve, I always think Lin will be another Stephen."
Watching Lin Yu face off against Michael Reed on the court, the entire team's defense was directly penetrated by a breakthrough from Mo Williams.
The defense inside was quite timely, but Mo's pass went directly to Bogut inside. Eddie Curry returned to defend, but he only extended his hand and did not pose any threat.
Just like that, Bogut received Mo's pass and made a layup, easily scoring the Bucks' first point!
Lin Yu was restrained by Michael Reed throughout the entire defensive round. He could only watch helplessly as the Knicks' defense was breached, with no way to do anything.
James Dolan shook his head. As a team owner, he could clearly feel that the Knicks' problem was not the lack of a certain superstar, but a top-down problem of the entire team.
Lin Yu may not be able to solve any problems, and may even be like Stephon Marbury, gradually falling into the abyss with the team, and further consolidating the current situation of the Knicks superstar graveyard.
Steve Mills was hesitant and paused for a while before shaking his head: "Lin may be different. He has the aura of a winner."
"How to say?"
"Today he called me and asked me to fire Jerome James directly. The outside world was saying that he was the team leader, but he actually admitted that he was the team leader. He also told me that he hoped that I could cooperate.
He replaced some of the bad guys on the team."
James Dolan nodded thoughtfully and then told Steve Mills: "If he can guarantee that he will perform well, we will support him."
James Dolan did not insist on victory, because while he was talking, the game went on for another minute or so. The Knicks attacked and Lin Yu missed a mid-range shot. He was still in the stage of finding his touch.
However, the Bucks have fully opened up their offense. Facing Xiao Mo, Xiao Tudou's defensive efforts were more than adequate, but the effect was very poor.
One minute later, the score became 5:0, and the Bucks still had the ball, which meant that they had a chance to further open the score.
At the beginning, the Knicks faced a huge disadvantage.
James Dolan, who witnessed all this, also realized deeply that the Knicks needed drastic changes.
On the court, the Bucks launched another wave of rapid attacks. In the chaotic battle, Xiao Mo scored another mid-range shot and fell behind 0:7.
Faced with a double-double deficit at the beginning, Lin Yu had no idea. When he was in Cleveland before, he often faced a situation of falling behind at the beginning.
But the problem is that he is now leading a Knicks team that has no defense at all.
Even if he can open up his hand and score points, he still can't keep up with the speed at which the entire team is scoring points.
What's more, he hasn't opened his scoring account yet.
After waiting for a while in the backcourt, Eddie Curry passed the ball to Nate Robinson. Lin Yu glanced at the fat man slowly walking towards the frontcourt and told himself to learn to be temporarily patient.
Rushing to the frontcourt without the ball, Michael Reid was close to him, and Lin Yu circled around to prepare to catch the ball.
Xiaotuo made a gesture of wanting to play one-on-one, and then on the other side, Zach Randolph also tried to get a position from the sideline to the left and right sides of the penalty area.
Thinking about it, Xiao Mo on the opposite side already had two assists in the opening game, and Lin Yu had a black line on his face. Mo Bu Chuan might have to be changed to Luo Bu Chuan.
Naturally, Nate Robinson's singles effort was in vain. Although Mo's defense was not good, it was not that bad. Cooperating with the Bucks' systematic zone defense, he easily blocked Nate Robinson.
At this time, Xiaodudou thought of passing the ball back to Lin Yu.
When Lin Yu received the ball, there were only about 10 seconds left in the attack time. He and Michael Reid were one-on-one on the right side of the top of the arc, and on the left was the little potato who had withdrawn. This guy didn't move.
Instead, he stopped and just stared at Lin Yu blankly.
And Zach Randolph is in the low post on the left, already stuck in position, and Eddie Curry is standing still in the middle distance on the right, also preparing to catch the ball.
The only one who is not on the strong side is Renaldo Backman. This guy was not the main player before. It was only after Quentin Richardson left that he was pushed into the starting lineup. At this moment, he is in the corner, restraining Bobby-
Simmons' defense.
No one opened up the space for Lin Yu to play in singles, leaving only a distance near the waist on the left side.
too difficult……
Lin Yu can only be thankful that in this game, he faced Michael Reed, who is not good at defense.
Facing Reed, Lin Yu took a step to the right. After slapping the basketball, he immediately accelerated and took a step forward.
Reed followed up, and Lin Yu also turned around, turning his back to the basket. As he advanced, the other Knicks players finally started to move.
Zach Randolph gave up his blocking position and left the low post on the left, completely vacating the area on the left for Lin Yu.
Andrew Bogut directly let go of Eddie Curry and rushed over to flank Lin Yu. No one knew whether this was a special arrangement by the Bucks.
But before Bogut could complete the attack, Lin Yu made a fake move to get rid of Reed, made a fadeaway jumper, and threw the basketball in his hand.
Whoosh!
The crisp sound of net wiping sounded, and after a long silence, the Madison Square Garden Arena finally burst into cheers.
"Beautiful singles from the waist, turned around and faked a shot to get rid of Michael Reid, then leaned back and shot successfully!"
"Lin Yu hit his first shot with the New York Knicks! And this was his second shot in this game. The score was 2:7. The Knicks need to give more ball rights to Lin Yu!"
"But it seems like their players on the field don't realize that."
