Kapitel 23: Still rolling with a shooting touch that just hits, hits, hits!
TNT TV also came to the scene live this time.
The trio of Buckley, Cole, and Miller sit in.
"The Knicks' recent form has come back to haunt them as they got two wins in a row."
"The two, Eddy Curry and Stephon Marbury, seem to have found a way to work together and the two are playing together on the court, with both having 20+ in their last game."
"Although the Lakers got four consecutive wins, they also exposed very many problems, after Kobe's injury, their highest scoring is actually a replacement rookie, and the rest of the starters do not have the ability to score consistently."
"As good as Tseng's offense is, his defense is a problem, he also got 40 + by Iverson in the last game, and this game Stephon Marbury will surely go crazy targeting him for that too.
"Charles, do you think Tseng is going to get busted?"
"Of course it will, Stephon Marbury won't let him off the hook, and the war of words between the two before the game was pretty entertaining." The three commentators were constantly gossiping.
At this point in time, the sidelines had finished their appearance ceremony, and the two sides entered the final stage of tactical setup.
Zen Master explained to Zeng Zhen, "Zeng, in this game you will be on the court after halfway through the first quarter, playing the No. 1 position, and I want you to be able to limit the opposing players in this game."
The Zen master is not satisfied with Zeng Zhen is also the defense, there are times when Zeng Zhen encountered those players with strong singles ability or can not stop.
Zeng Zhen nodded and said, "Okay, I'll try my best."
The Zen Master is giving Zeng Zhen a lot of opportunities now, and all Zeng Zhen needs to do is to keep feeding and learning on the field.
Soon, the game begins.
The Knicks' Marbury and Eddy Curry have used the block to set up offense.
Originally considered a lone wolf, Marbury looked but not lone tonight, dishing out assists on multiple occasions.
It was also clear that the defense of Smush Parker and Kwame Brown couldn't stop such an offense, either Eddie Curry finished the finish or Ariza on the outside cut in and found a chance.
The Lakers' side of the court relied mostly on Odom to steer the offense, and Vujacic had a good day shooting two 3-pointers.
The Knicks' defensive habits were also bad, with frequent leaks and Larry Brown on the sidelines constantly yelling at the Knicks players on the court, but there was no way to make an immediate change.
The Lakers are still playing smooth offense with Odom at the helm.
Mabry had a lot of passing today and an average individual offensive performance, only taking two shots in the first half of the first quarter and scoring one goal already. Zeng Zhen made his debut with 3:44 to play in the first quarter.
The score was 17-17, with the teams at a draw.
The Lakers' two-deep is Zeng Zhen, Vujacic, Walton, Odom, and Bynum.
The Knicks' two-deep is: Marbury, Crawford, Ariza, David Lee, and Channing Frye. Crawford is a Best Sixth Man caliber guard with plenty of scoring options.
Ariza is a 3D with a handful of threes along with good defense.
David Lee, on the other hand, is the well-rounded inside forward with a lot of offensive tools and solid fundamentals. Channing Frye is the big man who can shoot the three and space the floor.
The strength of the Knicks' second lineup is not weaker than their starting lineup, and even most of the time they are the ones responsible for chasing points, which makes the Zen Master not dare to be careless, and he retained three starters on it, only sending Zeng Zhen with Bynum.
The timeout came back quickly. Lakers offense.
Zeng Zhen dribbled across the half-court before giving the ball to Odom at the free-throw line, and then quickly started running the ball himself. Marbury followed Zeng Zhen closely.
Although he verbally said he didn't know Zeng Zhen, Marbury didn't dare to be careless, and he kept putting pressure on Zeng Zhen. Odom had more organizational tasks with the Lakers than Zeng Zhen.
He can execute a variety of passing maneuvers, including long passes, short passes, bounce passes, and penetrating passes, and at the Lakers Odom was often slotted at the point guard position.
After seeing Zeng Zhen running towards him from the inside with Marbury, Odom dribbled a step and made a hand pass to Zeng Zhen.
After a handoff pass, Odom smoothly blocked Marbury.
The Knicks' co-defenders didn't come up, and David Lee's awareness wasn't enough.
Zeng Zhen had a brief opening at the top of the arc, and he popped up the moment he caught the ball, launching a quick push.
The basketball crossed the air above David Lee's head.
Zeng Zhen's wrist power is extremely soft.
The basketballs also all arc wonderfully through the net.
"Swish!"
The sound of the basketball rubbing against the net was crisp and clear.
20 to 17.
"Great job!"
"Nice shot!"
The cheers of the Chinese fans at Madison Square Garden Arena were wave after wave.
Odom asked, "Tseng, how did you practice your three points, so fast and accurate."
Odom had seen a lot of shooters in the league, but he felt that Zeng Zhen was more reliable than all of them, and Zeng Zhen looked special.
Zeng Zhen teased, "When there is no woman in your heart, your shooting is naturally fast and accurate."
Odom laughed, he'd been to a couple of clubs in the last two nights in New York, and Zeng Zhen had been training.
Back to the Knicks' offense.
Marbury dribbles to the frontcourt.
Zeng Zhen went straight to the backcourt to keep an eye on Marbury.
Mabry crosses half-court with back-to-back dribbles.
Zeng Zhen saw his [Super Defense] ability flashing.
Zeng Zhen wants to see how much his defense has improved.
Marbury now averages only about 15 points per game, his offensive ability is not as good as Iverson, Zeng Zhen feel that the defense of him should not be as difficult as the defense of Iverson.
After Marbury dribbled to the top of the frontcourt arc, he said toward Zeng Zhen, "Rookie, your defense didn't put any pressure on me."
Zeng Zhen ignored Marbury's trash talk as he opened his hands in serious defense.
Zeng Zhen also likes to talk trash, but he does it every time he waits to talk when he has the advantage, so that it will hit his opponents harder.
Mabry raised his hand to signal that he was going to pull away, and he was going to eat Zeng Zhen alone.
The Knicks players have also spread out, giving space.
After matching up with Iverson, facing Marbury Zeng Zhen is obviously much easier.
Mabry quickly made a drastic change of direction towards Zeng Zhen's left side to burst.
However, Zeng Zhen quickly moved his feet across. "Bang!"
Zeng Zhen blocked this breakthrough of Mabry, who quickly adjusted his feet, came to a back dribble adjusted to the right side, and also wanted to break through.
Zeng Zhen's reflexes and speed are slightly faster than before, while Marbury's rate is again significantly worse than Iverson's.
So, once again, this time Marbury was stopped. Mabry was forced back again.
Mabry changed direction one after the other but he couldn't find an opening in Zeng Zhen's defense.
Unwilling to pass the ball, Mabry opted to take a step across the ball himself and crisply hit a three-point jumper against the defense.
Mabry throws a vicious leg kick as well but Zeng Zhen avoids it.
"Crap, up the leg." Zeng Zhen cracked up as well. "Frame!"
Marbury's three-point shot missed and the basketball bounced heavily off the rim.
Inside, Bynum kept the rebound under control.
"That's not a bad defense."
"Defense isn't like getting stabbed by a million people. "This rookie is all defense?"
"Mabry's upper leg work can be good." The fans were talking.
Miller said, "Zeng Zhen's defense isn't completely absent, it's still there a little bit, it's just that he faced Iverson in his last game, and then his offense was a little bit of a contrast to his defense, and that led to the assumption that his defense was bad."
Said Cole: "Yes, he's also very aggressive on defense, and that's key."
"Good defense."
"That's the defense."
"Way to go, rookie."
Most members of the Lakers' bench also cheered Zeng Zhen.
They were also scared of being blitzed by Iverson in the last game and thought Zeng Zhen's defense was terrible, but now it looks like Zeng Zhen isn't that bad.
Bynum gives the ball to Odom.
Odom dribbled the ball across half-court and called the play run.
Now the Lakers' inside players are tacitly creating opportunities for Zeng Zhen, of course, the front line is not idle, are constantly looking for opportunities to cut into the offense.
Zeng Zhen had a pick-and-roll opportunity from the right three-point line, and Odom gave the ball over.
It was still Marbury who chased Zeng Zhen.
As soon as Zeng Zhen caught the ball and made a fake move, Mabry's center of gravity was shaken off.
Zeng Zhen quickly broke a step in with a left side stride.
David Lee and Frye are both tight inside for the Knicks.
Zeng Zhen started to adjust his rhythm when he broke through.
At the free throw line with the long two-point position at the three-point line.
Pull up.
Sharp stop jumper shot.
David Lee rushed to pounce, but it was too late.
The basketball made a wonderful arc.
"Swish!"
An arrow through the heart! 22-17.
Keep going in.
Marbury and David Lee looked at each other and said nothing.
The fans at Madison Square Garden Arena have some idea of what Zeng Zhen can do.
"This rookie's shot is real accurate."
"The catch, break, and sharpshooting jumper was smooth.
"It looks pressurized and unstoppable."
"Those two rounds really could have been, unstoppable." Knicks fans were discussing.
On the field.
Marbury dribbled to the frontcourt, Zeng Zhen continued to apply pressure, and Marbury gave the ball to Crawford.
Crawford breaks in after a change of direction against Vujacic's defense.
Crawford encountered Bynum's assisted defense, and he gave the ball to David Lee in the lane.
Odom didn't lose his position, David Lee wasn't playing well.
David Lee split the ball out to Marbury on the outside.
Mabry tried to break through the moment he caught the ball and he broke through.
But Mabry didn't quite shake off Zeng Zhen.
Zeng Zhen is not worried about Marbury will go to the inside, Bynum and Odom in the interior defense is not bad. Zeng Zhen judged that this ball Mabry will choose to shoot.
Sure enough.
Mabry drops the pace and gets ready to collect the ball.
Just a moment before he was about to close the ball, Zeng Zhenfei rushed over and sliced right at his ball.
"Pop!"
Zeng Zhen sliced the ball straight down the middle.
The basketball bounced off the floor before being controlled by Odom.
Snapping Finish!
Odom gives the ball to Zeng Zhen, who quickly dribbles the ball forward.
Zeng Zhen was looking to convert the three-point conversion but couldn't find it, so he had to settle for a positional battle after controlling the ball.
When Bynum pressed in, Zeng Zhen also hit the ball on the ground and passed it over.
Bynum inside jammed Channing Frye, who took a backhanded one-timer.
"Bang!"
"Bang!"
Bynum was dominant inside as he drew a pinch from Marbury, and Zeng Zhen went down to the paint position to cut.
There was no room after Bynum's turn, and he gave the ball to Zeng Zhen in the middle.
Increase after receiving the ball did not have the slightest delay, but in place directly on the jump up quickly one-handed throw shot.
The ball was thrown head-on and difficult.
Defending Zeng Zhen was David Lee, but David Lee couldn't extend his hand high enough to reach the height of the ball. Throwing the ball was the way for the smaller man to avoid the big man's cover.
It was sudden and the point of the shot was high. The basketball made a wonderful arc.
"Swish!"
24 to 17.
"Bang!"
David Lee also had the incidental action to bring Zeng Zhen down.
The referee chopped down two fingers hard, signaling that the score stood and that there was an extra point. "Nice job!"
"Nice shot!"
The Chinese fans at Madison Square Garden Arena howled.
Zeng Zhen made a huge impact as soon as he stepped on the field, this kind of ball just ups their game too much.
Bynum and Odom both pulled Zeng Zhen up as well.
"Dude, good job." "That even got in."
Bynum slapped Zeng Zhen on the ass.
Zeng Zhen grimaced in pain. Standing on the free throw line.
"Swish!" 25-17.
The Knicks head coach on the sidelines was in a state of embarrassment, he didn't know whether to call a timeout or not. There was only 1:30 left on the clock in the first quarter.
After hesitating, Larry Brown called a halt to the game. At this time, in the Tiger Forum.
The fans were abuzz.
"This scoring ability of Zeng Zhen is really something."
"It was just over two minutes, and it went up there and jacked up eight points."
"It's a terribly soft touch."
"It's so awesome, it rolls in your hand."
"Who knows when Zeng Zhen's madness will stop.
"How beautiful the Lakers' perimeter would be if Kobe came back."
"Marbury can't do it, he can't beat up Zeng Zhen like Iverson." The fans were talking.
Barkley looked at the Zeng Zhen set during this period and said, "Zeng Zhen was in good shape tonight, came up and kept hitting shots, Steve, what level do you think Zeng's shooting ability is at right now?"
Cole said, "His shooting ability is top notch, in terms of the smoothness of the run, catching the ball out and so on, and then a lot of established shooters don't have such soft hands as Zeng Zhen, and Zeng's shooting hand is not standard, but none of that is going to stop him from scoring these difficult goals."
Miller said, "Yes, especially the third one, which was a very long throw, which is a much better distance to use a shot, but had had used a throw in order to go for the speed of the shot and then it was still an airball, and that kind of shot just shows a lot of individual ability."
Barkley said, "Can you two do it?" Cole shook his head, "I can't do it."
Miller said, "I couldn't do it either, the guy's got some scary hands."
Being able to get these two shooters to give such a high rating, Barkley stopped crushing on Zeng Zhen. Soon, the game on the court continued.
First down after the Knicks come back from a timeout.
Crawford received the ball and dribbled across half court, where he gave the ball to David Lee in the lane.
Apparently, the Knicks made an adjustment to their playbook, and they didn't let Marbury continue to take shots from the outside anymore. David Lee picked up the ball and bumped Odom a bit before coming along the baseline for a hook shot.
"Swish!" Precision hit. 25-19.
Just find a way to hand it off to the interior and play reasonable, the Knicks players still have some individual ability in them. Lakers offense.
Zeng Zhen dribbled upcourt and gave the ball to Odom. Zeng Zhen continues to penetrate the runners and draw the attention of the defense.
Walton gives Odom a cover and Odom breaks right into the lane.
Bynum slipped to the basket at this point and there was a great opportunity for Odom to give the ball to Bynum. Bynum's two-handed foul shot.
27 to 19.
Both teams scored in the next two rounds, but Zeng Zhen didn't score again, as he was there to keep his opponents in check. 29-21.
Zeng Zhen's final over-the-top whistling three missed.
The shot ran out of time, Zeng Zhen threw it out of the backcourt, and the basketball still bounced off the backboard. Even then, it startled the Knicks fans as well.
The fact that Zeng Zhen is close to shooting these super long threes is enough to show that his accuracy is more than simply being in good shape.
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