Chapter 558 Hidden dangers of breaking out and reversing victory
Three consecutive three-pointers, this is Lin Yu's three-point rain alone.
His personal score directly exceeded 40 points after three consecutive three-pointers.
Mike Breen, who previously praised Kobe and disparaged Lin Yu, has completely disappeared now.
He knew that even if the Lakers won this game, Kobe's performance would not be able to suppress Lin Yu. When a star player scores 40+ points in a game with a qualified shooting percentage, the team still loses.
, no matter how hard you throw the blame, you can't throw it on his head.
What's more, the Knicks are even ahead now.
Before the start of the second half, the undervalued Knicks were once thought to be falling behind due to physical problems and rotation issues, and even losing the game.
The development of the game in the third quarter almost proved everyone's low opinion of the Knicks.
But in the fourth quarter, Lin Yu almost single-handedly pulled the Knicks back.
Counting the 2+1 before the three three-pointers, Lin Yu reappeared in the fourth quarter and scored 12 points in a row, plus an assist.
This kind of performance is worthy of the highest evaluation in the basketball world: no shame!
On the court, Lin Yu, who scored three consecutive three-pointers, already showed confidence.
On the other side, Kobe also began to try his best.
The game has reached the decisive moment. Lin Yu stepped up and scored 9 points in a row. He also had to step up and score.
In the Lakers' offense, Kobe went in isolation and faced Wilson Chandler's defense and hit a fadeaway jumper.
The Lakers pulled back 2 points, but they were still 3 points behind.
The Knicks' offense still involves Lin Yu receiving the ball in the backcourt and advancing toward the frontcourt.
The Lakers' defense obviously focused on guarding against Lin Yu's three-pointers. Ariza was never far away, and Kobe Bryant was also nearby. If it weren't for the Knicks' overall strong offensive power, they might even have directly flanked Lin Yu from outside the three-point line.
Faced with Ariza's defense that completely ignored the risk of losing position, Lin Yu steadily controlled the ball and headed towards the three-point line, or to be more precise, he rushed.
His speed was very fast, and he reached a position about one step outside the three-point line in the frontcourt in two or three steps. Ariza was still close to him, leaving no space at all.
Faced with such a tight defense, Lin Yu stopped suddenly, lowered his body, changed hands, and took half a step back, swaying.
While Ariza was chasing outside, he suddenly took another step in.
Ariza continued to pursue, but Lin Yu made an emergency stop and hit another three-pointer on the spot!
Ariza's footsteps with Lin Yu were already a little confused. He had no time to interfere with Lin Yu's three-pointer. He could only raise his hand on the spot and watch the basketball pass over his head.
The basketball was thrown in a perfect arc and fell straight into the basket.
Whoosh!
"Four consecutive three-pointers, the rain of three-pointers continues!"
Kobe continued to fight back against the Lakers' offense and missed a mid-range jump shot. But under the basket, Bynum grabbed the rebound. After passing the ball back, Kobe broke into the paint and succeeded in a split dunk.
In turn, it's the Knicks' offense.
This time, Lin Yu's fight was easier.
He picked up the ball in the backcourt, passed it to Ricky Davis, jogged across half court, reached outside the three-point line, stopped, and opened his hand for the ball.
After receiving a pass from Ricky Davis, he directly faced Ariza's defense and made another three-pointer!
"A three-pointer against the defense!"
Whoosh!
The crisp sound of wiping the net was very indifferent, but Madison's response was enthusiastic. In the commentary box, Marv Albert was also crazy: "The fifth consecutive three-pointer, is this Linsanity?"
He looked at Mike Breen, who could only spread his hands: "Yes, this is Linsanity!"
"So far in the fourth quarter, he has hit five consecutive three-pointers, plus a 2+1, scoring 18 points in a row. No one can stop him!"
Facing the widening point difference in the Lakers' offense, Kobe also realized that his two points would not quench the thirst of the current Lakers.
So, he also hit a three-pointer, but without Lin Yu's touch, he hit the frame with a bang.
This time, the Lakers' inside line also failed to grab a rebound from the Knicks' full rush for rebounds.
The Lakers just lost points. After switching from offense to defense and entering a defensive state, they completely lost their minds.
"The attack started from outside the three-point line. Lin's passing started to work. He assisted Ricky Davis and made a mid-range shot!"
"The score is still getting bigger..."
The game was completely reversed due to Lin Yu's incredible power in the final quarter.
Before the end, Kobe hit another fadeaway jumper, closing the gap to within 10 points.
Looking back, he tried his best to block Lin Yu, but Lin Yu made a foul.
"Kobe Bryant is still working hard, and he has not given up yet, but the score gap and the remaining time have made the Lakers lose the possibility of reversing the game."
Mike Breen shook his head. He saw Lin Yu who scored 24 points in the final quarter. After this foul and free throw, Lin Yu's score in the final quarter would rise to 26 points, and the score in the entire game would be as high as 54 points.
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With Lin Yu like this leading his team to victory in adversity, even Mike Breen could only choose to slap himself in the face before the end of the game.
"I have to admit that my judgment was wrong during the midfield and after the beginning of the second half. Lin is still the same Lin. He is the Lin who has the miraculous ability to change the direction of the game. Even Kobe Bryant is also known for his critical moments.
Special, they are far inferior to him."
This was a slap in the face, and when Mike Breen slapped himself in the face, Lin Yu started to shoot free throws, and the whole court resounded with MVP calls.
"MVP! MVP! MVP!"
"..."
All the fans in Madison were already standing in front of their seats, shouting in unison.
Lin Yu had no expression, and Kobe was also a little dull.
But everyone has realized that this game has already decided who will be the regular season MVP this season, and there is no longer any suspense or doubt.
"He broke out when he was not favored and led the team to win. He tied with the Lakers 1:1 in the regular season. However, Lin Yu's personal performance in the two games, once he did not lose to Kobe, once suppressed Kobe, the voice of the fans has already spoken.
After all, the regular season MVP of the 2008/09 season is none other than Lin Yu."
It was Mike Breen again. After he was slapped in the face, he immediately switched modes and started praising Lin Yu crazily.
His partner, the groom Albert, did not think that Mike Breen was exaggerating too much. In his opinion, at least Lin Yu in this game was worthy of such praise.
Yang Wu, who also broadcast the game, praised Lin Yu even more.
"Dayu played well in this game. Knicks fans couldn't restrain themselves. The game scene was a bit like MJ's concert back then. Everyone was a fanatical fan."
"This is actually understandable. Dayu has already produced phenomenal data and performance this season. Even Jordan can only do this."
The one who boasted was Coach Zhang. Previously, he was obviously a fan of Kobe Bryant, but if he was asked to choose between Kobe Bryant and Lin Yu, he would still choose Lin Yu. In this game, his commentary bias
Sex is fully reflected.
And his praise of Lin Yu even started to compare with Jordan.
Such flattery is sometimes more like recruiting evil.
But what is helpless is that Lin Yu's basic base in the country is already very deep. All media reporters and commentators are overwhelmingly praising Lin Yu. Lin Yu also has the largest domestic traffic forum such as "Basketball World" to praise him.
At the end of the day, it doesn't matter how powerful you are in attracting bad guys, even if you have one pink guy and ten bad guys.
Because public opinion has become one-sided, no one dares to stand up and say even an irony.
As long as they dare to do this, what awaits them is the siege of public opinion.
On the court, Lin Yu hit two free throws, raising his personal score in this game to 54 points.
Then, after the remaining time is consumed, the game is over.
In the end, thanks to Lin Yu's explosive 26 points in the final quarter, the Knicks reversed the situation and won the game.
After the game, there is no need to elaborate too much on the praise that the commentators and media commentators had for Lin Yu.
Lin Yu, who won this game, just felt tired. In his opinion, winning this game was quite a fluke.
If it weren't for the three-point shot in the final quarter, this game would indeed end in failure as Mike Breen said.
But once the three-point touch is activated, even if he is physically exhausted, he can just rely on shooting to kill the Lakers.
Because of this, Lin Yu didn't feel that much emotion about this game, nor was he happy about it. This game still exposed some of the Knicks' problems.
Amid the excitement in Madison, he walked to the sidelines, first found Kobe and shook hands.
"The next time we meet, it will only be in the finals."
But Kobe immediately stole Lin Yu's line: "I hope you and your Knicks can give some strength to kill the Celtics and Cavaliers. I'll be waiting for you in the finals."
Lin Yu pointed at Kobe: "The same goes for you. I hope you and your Lakers can put in some effort to defeat the Spurs, Mavericks, Rockets and other teams. I'll be waiting for you in the finals."
Kobe nodded, turned around and prepared to leave.
In this game that ended in defeat, he didn't want to stay on the road for too long.
But Lin Yu seemed to have remembered something: "By the way, regarding the helicopter, I will find someone to evaluate it immediately, and I will contact you when the results are found."
Kobe responded with an OK gesture: "Ok, no problem."
After bidding farewell to Kobe, Lin Yu greeted Pau Gasol and Ariza, who had played against each other for a whole game, and then was taken away by the team's press officer.
On the sidelines, Walter Frazier was still waiting for Lin Yu to be interviewed.
Once in front of the camera, Lin Yu first emphasized: "It was very difficult for us to win this game and our performance was not outstanding. Our problems still exist and we hope they can be solved next."
"The Lakers? They played a protracted game. They wanted to take advantage of their physical strength to kill us, but unfortunately for them, my shooting touch was good, and physical fitness was not that important."
"Yes, the idea or point I want to express is that this victory cannot make us relax. We still have many problems that need to be solved. I hope we can solve these problems in the second half of the season."
"We are number one in the league, and of course our goal is the championship..."
"Regular season MVP? That doesn't matter anymore."
The last question, regarding the regular season MVP, Lin Yu only said half of it, and the remaining half was more pretentious, that is: why is it not important? Because there is no suspense about the regular season MVP, it belongs to me.
For Walter Frazier, a star of the same team, Lin Yu still couldn't do the ruthless attitude of turning around and leaving after answering three questions, so he answered a series of questions.
He didn't leave until Walter Frazier took the initiative to end it.
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Although Lin Yu said that the Knicks could not relax in this game, after the game, there was still a lot to brag about.
For example, Stephen A. Smith's postgame special commented on the Knicks and this game:
"The strength of the Knicks is that they have an unstoppable superstar, Lin, who is like an unsolvable BUG in the game, giving all teams a headache: how to solve Lin's BUG.
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And Bill Simmons: "Although Lin Yu claimed after the game that their victory was due to his sudden burst, what I want to say is that Lin can always burst out, which is also a manifestation of the Knicks' strength."
Even Yahoo Sports, who is not on the same side as Lin Yu, wrote in the game report that night: "Winning this battle for the king of the regular season, the Knicks' record has improved to 38 wins and 9 losses, and they have returned to the
Alone at the top of the league, no matter what problems they still have, they are already the best team in the regular season this season."
The next day, USA Today's headlines also commented on the Knicks' game: "Now, the entire NBA league needs to discuss an issue. If Lin Yu is not allowed to break out at the critical moment of the game, we once thought that physical fitness and condition would be a problem."
It can stop him, but in this game, he has proved that physical fitness and condition may not be able to stop him."
There is also Sports Illustrated: "Lin Yu has proven countless times that he is a BT. He can kill his opponents with shots like Kobe, or he can use his body to crush his opponents like LeBron James. So, now,
The problem before people, how to restrict Lin Yu, has become a difficult problem to solve. It is impossible to prevent Lin Yu from dying like Kobe Bryant. It is also impossible to prevent Lin Yu from dying like LeBron..."
But here in North America, there are still media that dare to point out the problems of the Knicks, and these media that dare to point out the problems are not any national media that does not deal with the Knicks, nor are they tabloids that attract traffic or saliva.
It's a group of local New York media, the New York Times, the New York Daily News, the New York Daily Mail...
Especially the New York Times, after this game, still dared to stand up and throw cold water on the Knicks.
"Although the Knicks won the battle for the regular season king, it has to be said that the Knicks' problem is still very obvious. They rely too much on Lin Yu. They have been overdrafting Lin Yu for half a month in a row.
, In half a month, Lin's scoring average has gone from just over 30 points per game in early January to the current average of 34.6 points per game."
"This is still the regular season. In the playoffs, overdrafting the star's style of play will become a huge hidden danger."
Lin Yu saw this report. His mentality was different from when he first entered New York. Perhaps he had found a way to get along with this group of local media who were always singing the opposite tune. Lin Yu was indifferent to these reports that were not conducive to the team.
It's a pleasure to see it come to fruition.
He casually took a photo and then forwarded the report to Donny Walsh and Steve Smith via text message, urging the transaction to be strengthened.