On October 7th, Beijing time, the NBA preseason continued, and today the Hornets sat at home to welcome the challenge of the Knicks, this game is the opening game of the two teams in the preseason, the Hornets welcomed back three goals, and the Knicks formed a four-star lineup in the offseason, this is also the first game of their run-in, although a preseason game can not say anything, but from the game we can see the state of the players and the team's chemistry, then let's talk about the game process, and then talk about the players' play.
Contest Recap:
At the beginning of the first quarter, three balls and Bridges combined to score 5 points to help the Hornets open the situation, Brunson teamed up with Towns to return a wave of 8-0 climax to overtake the opponent, three balls and Miller combined to cut 5 points, Downs scored an inside kill, and then the Knicks offense suddenly lost power, and Miller hit three consecutive points to help the Hornets lead by 6 points to end the first quarter. In the second quarter, McBride led the team to an offensive climax to catch up with the difference, Shamet and Achiuwa scored successively to help the Knicks overtake the opponent, but after starting the game, the Hornets caught up with the difference under the leadership of three balls, and the two sides were tied at 61 at halftime.
Eybaton replayed Thibodeau and went straight to the full bench, while the Hornets let Sanju and Miller continue to lead the team, and Sanju found his way to hit two three-pointers in a row in this quarter, helping the team extend the lead to 11 points at one point, but after the Hornets core went down, McBride led the Knicks to chase down to only three points at the end of the third quarter. Shamet and Achiuwa scored in the final quarter to help the Knicks overtake their opponents, and then the two sides played very closely, and finally Payne hit a key three-pointer to help the Knicks crush the opponent 111-109.
Three-ball, Miller is on fire
After chatting about the game process, let's talk about the players' play, the three-ball state of the comeback is very good, 6 of 14 shots, 4 of 10 three-pointers, 18 points, 4 rebounds, 7 assists, 1 steal and 1 block, and his personal performance is even more complete Brunson. Judging from this game, the first core of the Hornets is still the three-ball, and their management considered correcting Miller last season, but the three-ball is a big core play with the ball after all, and he is more suitable to be the cornerstone, as long as the three-ball can stay healthy, the Hornets are still worth looking forward to.
Myers Bridges, who got a 75 million contract extension in the offseason, also played very well in this game, shooting 4 of 9 from the field, 2 of 5 three-pointers and got 10 points, 6 rebounds and 2 assists, the Hornets don't want to keep Bridges, they have always wanted to trade Bridges away, and the Cavaliers and Clippers are interested in Bridges, so as long as the Hornets don't pursue records this season, Bridges may be traded away, and the Hornets already have two cornerstones and are not interested in him.
Miller's style of play is a bit similar to George, a player like him can adapt to any system, but the biggest problem is that he can't be a system, he can't let other players play around him, because he is a blue-collar style of play that can create too few scoring opportunities, but he is suitable to be a top second-in-command, offensive and defensive and does not eat the ball, Miller shot 3 of 8 from the field, 3 of 7 three-pointers and got 12 points, 5 rebounds, 3 assists and 1 block.
Thunder production must be a high-quality product, yesterday Warriors vs. Clippers game, Thunder veteran Waters killed the Clippers, this game Thunder veteran Treman played 15 minutes, 6 of 8 shots, 3 of 4 three-pointers got 15 points, 3 rebounds and 2 assists, Micic is still comprehensive, scored 8 points, 3 rebounds and 5 assists, veteran Gibson got 7 points.
The Knicks started poorly
The Knicks' starting performance in this game was not satisfactory, with four stars, I thought the Knicks would play a good performance, but they still lost points when they were on the court as a starter. This game is the first game of their four-core cooperation, and it is understandable that there is no chemistry, but the biggest problem for the Knicks is not the chemistry, but the style of play of the cores, Brunson tried his best in this game, and got 12 points, 1 rebound and 3 assists on 5-of-11 shooting, he was trying to pass the ball to his teammates, but he just couldn't shoot.
Downs shot 2 of 7 from the field, 1 of 5 from three-point range and got 10 points, 4 rebounds and 2 steals, just looking at the data is not bad, but through this game, maybe everyone can know why Towns was given up by the Timberwolves, he is too obsessed with non-confrontational scoring, as long as I can shoot three points, I will never fight inside, nor do I go to block and cover, just open up space and wait for teammates to feed the cake, he is not as aggressive as Achiuwa on the offensive end, Achiuwa shot 6 of 9 in this game and scored 15 points and 5 rebounds.
Although Bridges is excellent defensively, his projection ability is not better than DiVincenzo, which is also an indisputable fact, although Bridges is stronger in terms of comprehensive ability, but now the Knicks' outside firepower seems to be worse than last season, Bridges shot 2 of 5 from the field, and 0 of 1 from three-point range with 4 points and 1 rebound. The Knicks didn't play to their full strength in this game, and the team didn't have chemistry, so let's look forward to their future performances, but what do you have to say about these two teams? Welcome to leave a message to discuss.