NBA: Miracle Workers

Chapter 57 Rookie Wall?

On January 1997, 1, the NBA announced the Player of the Month for December, and Shaquille O'Neal of the Lakers successfully won the award;
湖人队在12月取得了11胜3负的战绩，奥尼尔场均出场39.9分钟，场均拿到27.6分12.6篮板4.0助攻1.1抢断3.4盖帽2.9失误；

Averaged 21.0 shots per game, shot 52% from the field, averaged 10.2 free throws per game, and shot 55.9% from the free throw line.

In addition to the free throw as usual, the Sharks' statistics are impeccable!
The best rookie of the month in December was awarded to Li You, and the Knicks achieved a record of 12 wins and 13 losses this month;

李佑场均出场26.4分钟，场均拿到15.9分2.6篮板7.3助攻1.3抢断1.5失误；

He averaged 10.3 shots per game, shooting 48.4% from the field, 6.0 shots from beyond the three-point line, 39.5% from three-pointers, 3.6 free throws per game, and 74.3% from the free throw line.

This data is not only leading the new players, but also among the league's No. 1 players, it is definitely among the best.

The media in New York started a new round of bragging. They haven't seen the award for Rookie of the Month for some years.

But if Li You wants to win the trophy, he has to wait until the 5th to return home.

Just after his birthday at the end of the year, Li You flew to Washington with the team on the first day of the new year. On the night of the 2nd, they will challenge the Washington Bullets away.

Mengxin John Wallace looked at Li You enviously when he got on the plane. This unlucky guy had a calf strain and rested for half a month, and he just fully recovered recently:

"This is the best rookie of the month. A player can't get it a few times in a lifetime. Li, aren't you excited? This is really cool!"

Doormat Walter McCarty is also envious.

People are more mad than people!
Best of the week and Rookie of the Month, winning these two awards already shows that Li You has almost gained a firm foothold in the league. As long as he maintains his current level, a million-dollar contract in the future is not a dream.

"It's just a small award for a rookie player. Grant Hill was elected as the All-Star vote leader in his rookie season. This is really cool!"

When the veterans heard Li You mentioning Grant Hill's name, they felt a little uncomfortable. The real Jordan's successor was stepping on the old guy.

Mengxin John Wallace didn't care about Grant Hill either. That kind of genius was too far away from him. At this time, he still maintained his excitement and said loudly to Li You:
"Li, can I touch your trophy when I get back? I want to take more pictures!"

The corner of Li You's mouth twitched, and he quickly restrained his divergent thoughts:

"No problem, you can leave it for half a month, and shoot whatever you want!"

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On the night of the 2nd, at the US Airways Arena, the fans who bought tickets to watch the game that night were a little depressed, and the game was extremely dull.

The last time the two teams played against each other, the Knicks won easily, and Jeff Van Gundy's repeated exhortations before the game did not have any effect. Everyone underestimated the enemy.

Oakley and Larry Johnson were all 6 of 1 in the half, and almost smashed the basket.

Although the Knicks made an offensive stretch, the opposing Bullets were in even worse form, scoring only 12 points in the second quarter.
Juwan Howard was 13 of 3 in the half, Chris Webber was 9 of 3, the two scored 16 points together, and they have smashed their own basket
At 45:34, after halftime, the Knicks still led by 11 points.

Li You's performance was also mediocre, mainly because Rod Strickland, who was facing him tonight, seemed to be on a stimulant. His defensive end was inseparable, almost growing on him.

"Welcome to the NBA, Lee, from this month onwards, you will always enjoy this defensive treatment!"

"If you were a nobody, no one would care about you, but now it's different, you won the award, everyone wants to step on you, this is the NBA!"

Returning to the locker room in the middle, Starks smiled and introduced the current situation to Li You, and the Lemons were about to start a counterattack.

This is the so-called "rookie wall," and only well-known rookies encounter this situation.

No team will study a 5th man who plays less than five minutes. The typical example is the doorman Walter McCarty, who doesn't even have a chance to hit the wall.
Charles Oakley didn't care about Li You being defended, the old guy cared more about his own face.

His younger brother Ben Wallace is sitting on the Bullets bench, and he doesn't want to lose face in front of Mengxin:
"A few more pick-and-rolls, Lee, right at the elbow, a few more passes, and I feel like I've got my hands back!"

As soon as Oakley finished speaking, the "Aunt" on the side also turned his attention to Li You:
"No problem, anyway, we are still leading by double digits, and there is enough room for error!"

Li You nodded and agreed, Ewing didn't like to eat cakes, that's because the boss had to be responsible for the attack, and the others didn't have these concerns, and scoring points was everyone's favorite.

In the second half of the game, Charles Oakley still couldn't find his touch and couldn't shoot. Relying on his fierce offensive rebounds, he finally regained some face.

On the bench of the Washington Bullets, Ben Wallace showed envious eyes. This guy didn't look at Oakley at all, and mostly paid attention to Li You.

In a rare conversion attack, Li You quickly advanced along the right sideline after receiving the ball, suddenly dribbled the ball behind his back during the advance, lowered his center of gravity, and swayed his body to the left.

Taking advantage of Rod Strickland's slide to the right, Li You changed direction significantly in advance, and after switching to the right hand, he accelerated his breakthrough.

The old guy who has been in the league for many years has very rich defensive experience. He adjusts his body's center of gravity, pulls his hands concealedly, continues to slide, and tries to complete the defense.

Li You had been prepared for a long time. He dribbled across the center line and stopped suddenly. Then his body swayed to the right, misguidedly changed direction, and quickly dribbled the ball under his crotch.

Rod Strickland didn't hold back this time, and subconsciously slid to the left rear, making a wrong defensive prediction, and then tried to chase, but staggered and completely lost his defensive position.

Li You's very rhythmic shaking made the fans on the scene exclaim and accelerate towards the paint, and the Bullets' defense subconsciously shrank.

Breaking through to the free throw line, Li You suddenly threw the ball behind his back, and the ball flew straight to the left flank. Alan Houston threw the ball after catching it!
"Shua!" The three-pointer hit the net hollowly!

Alan Houston is in the best form tonight. Counting this goal, he has already scored 3 three-pointers.

"Shhh!!"

Jeff Van Gundy looked relaxed, ignored the boos on the scene, stood on the sidelines and continued to applaud, without calling tactics, just followed and shouted loudly:

"That's it! Keep attacking like this!"

On the bench, assistant coach Thibodeau and Don Chaney looked at each other, and both read the meaning in each other's eyes:
"Our head coach is used to hosting tactics"

In the daily training of the Knicks, the most practiced routine is to switch offenses. How to counterattack efficiently and score easily is also a technical job.

Jeff Van Gundy, who was already bald, didn't know that the assistant coach was planning him in his mind. He only felt that the trusteeship tactic was very useful. Seeing the team guarding the next round, he shouted with great devotion:

"Move! Move! Go! Go! Go!"

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