But tonight, Spike Lee really didn’t show up courtside.
Previously, people unanimously thought that Spike Lee saying he wouldn’t return to Madison Square Garden before Roger retired was just angry talk, believing he would continue to appear courtside in G2 to cheer for the Knicks.
But when he was absent from the finals, people realized how deeply he was hurt.
Will Spike Lee regret this? After all, tonight the Knicks won the victory.
Or perhaps, he gained an opportunity to avoid disappointnt? Because he no longer misplaced expectations.
G3, when the ga returned to Mission Bay, Spike Lee’s choice not to watch the ga seed incredibly wise.
It turned out he hadn’t wasted ti on sothing destined for disappointnt.
For the first three quarters of G3, the Knicks maintained a slight lead.
But in the fourth quarter, Matt Barnes completely overturned the Knicks with three three-pointers.
The Warriors can’t have the entire team shooting well every ga, but it’s possible for one player to occasionally have an outstanding touch.
Of course, this is also related to the Knicks’ defensive strategy.
In the fourth quarter, Kevin Garnett focused all his attention on Roger, betting that the Warriors’ power forward couldn’t possibly hit threes, which gave Matt Barnes plenty of opportunities.
Matt Barnes was already 2 for 3 on three-pointers in the previous three quarters, and he had a great touch, but the sample size was too small for the Knicks to take notice.
After getting lots of opportunities in the fourth quarter, Matt Barnes imdiately punished the Wolf King harshly.
This guy, once angrily criticized by his coach on the training court as "your shooting practice is completely useless," now hit 5 three-pointers in a single finals ga.
Although in the fourth quarter Dwyane Wade perford a folding reverse dunk, which only Ja Morant could replicate in the future, and it was enough to make Warriors fans cheer, such a spectacular scene wasn’t enough to save the ga.
After the ga ended, Kevin Garnett slamd the basketball away angrily.
This match completely overturned his understanding of basketball; he couldn’t believe that a player like Matt Barnes could snatch victory from over his head.
In the past, Matt Barnes would never have been able to accomplish anything against a star player at Kevin Garnett’s level.
You could say, three-point shooting has narrowed the gap between ordinary players and star players.
Once a role player has a hot hand from beyond the arc, he can also make a star player embarrassed.
This ga also gave all non-star wings in the league a target for evolution.
When a wing can both shoot threes and play defense without dominating the ball, he’s an asset every team in the league desires.
Such a wing might not beco a star, but he’ll certainly never worry about finding a job.
The score is 2 to 1, and the New York Knicks encountered difficulties in their first ga at Mission Bay.
G4, the nightmare for New Yorkers on the road continued. That night, Dwyane Wade had an extrely ugly ga.
He scored 23 points in total, but 11 of those were from free throws.
Throughout the ga, Wade’s field goal percentage in regular play was only 31%.
His impact was strong, but the collective shrinking defense of the Golden State Warriors greatly limited his damage, and the Knicks didn’t have many responses beyond the three-point line, making the Warriors’ defense even more resolute.
In the original 2006 tiline, Wade could continuously attack to win gas, as people know, that year’s finals saw Heat and Mavericks with a free throw comparison of 207 to 155, with Wade accounting for 97 of them. When Wade started accelerating, Bennett Salvato would always be there behind the backboard with a whistle to protect Heat’s number 3.
Admittedly, the Mavericks’ actions against Wade were indeed fouls, but the truly unfair part was that when the sa actions happened to Mavericks players, the refs wouldn’t necessarily call them. The referees’ judgnt balance in that series had significant issues.
And this imbalance could never happen to Roger, the league’s number one player.
Unable to easily get calls, Wade’s offensive efficiency dropped significantly as he had to drive into crowds for every play.
Of course, since the Warriors’ offense was also relatively ordinary, the New York Knicks never fell too far behind.
But the few-point difference was never closed, making New York fans anxious.
On this night, the Warriors executed their true fundantals to perfection, with aggressive defense every possession.
A team that loves to shoot jumpers decides what it can do when the shots aren’t falling, determining how high the team can ultimately reach.
When the Knicks couldn’t hurt the Warriors beyond the three-point line, the Warriors’ strategy of double-teaming on the wings was enough to push Yao and KG into a nightmare once experienced by Olajuwon.
To be specific, a more terrifying nightmare.
When Olajuwon faced the SuperSonics’ wing double teams, the league didn’t yet allow zone defense. This ant the Dream at least could comfortably catch the ball first.
In the era of zone defense, KG and Yao have a hard ti even getting this initial pass in the low post.
Marcus Camby or Dikembe Mutombo would always enclose Yao tightly, while Stephen Jackson and Matt Barnes would always stand between KG and Yao.
The evolution of NBA rules has always been committed to moving the spotlight from the interior to the periter, from big n to guards. David Stern despised dull defense and slow-paced low post duels, hoping for more drives and attacks to appear in the gas.
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