Zeng Xingyang, during his retreat defense, mimed a bow and arrow celebration, and the Nuggets players quickly cooperated by collapsing onto the bench.
Mike Malone couldn’t help but whistle.
Tonight, Zeng Xingyang made Mike Malone think that peak Kobe and peak James were nothing more than this.
Zeng Xingyang showed immense superstar dominance on the court, completely controlling the game.
"A beautiful answer, Anthony just hit a three-pointer, and Zeng Xingyang quickly responded."
"Facing the big man, Zeng Xingyang has a very high success rate with these step-back shots."
"This play is so fierce."
In the Penguin live room, Song Xue was very excited to see this scene.
Tonight, Zeng Xingyang looked so handsome.
It’s like on the court, he is the absolute king, automatically drawing the spotlight onto himself.
When the camera focused on Zeng Xingyang, his charisma was dazzling.
This guy is not only fierce on the field, but also fierce in bed, thinking of this made Song Xue’s legs tremble slightly.
On the field, the Knicks’ offense continued.
This time Pope was defending Anthony, who couldn’t shoot as comfortably.
Pope’s defense is even better than Harris’, making Anthony feel uncomfortable.
Anthony passed the ball to Porzingis inside.
Porzingis got the ball, made a big crossover, slightly changed his rhythm, and then made a highly difficult fadeaway jumper inside.
Grant jumped hard but couldn’t reach.
Grant wiped sweat seeing this shot.
He could block Calderon, but blocking Porzingis was still too difficult.
"Your defense is really weak," Porzingis said as he passed by Zeng Xingyang.
"Come try defending me later? Prove how good your defense is," Zeng Xingyang quickly retorted.
Porzingis instantly shut up.
Even though he had a definite height advantage over Zeng Xingyang, he wasn’t very confident in stopping him; he had just made a snide remark.
Currently, no one on the Knicks could restrict Zeng Xingyang, this was Porzingis’ realization.
The Nuggets’ offense came again.
Jokic dribbled to the frontcourt, and Zeng Xingyang directly reached for the ball on the left side.
Jokic passed the ball over, then spaced out.
No pick and roll, this time it was Calderon defending solo.
Zeng Xingyang opted for a solo play.
Zeng Xingyang’s approach against Calderon’s defense remained very straightforward.
After a series of crossovers, he went to the right.
Calderon was more focused on defending Zeng Xingyang’s shooting.
Zeng Xingyang broke through smoothly into the interior.
Porzingis’ defense kept backing up, preparing for Zeng Xingyang’s drive to the basket.
But midway, Zeng Xingyang chose to finish with a horse-riding shot.
The basketball continued to be shot into the hoop.
The Knicks’ interim coach Lambis called for a pause.
The Knicks had already fired head coach Fisher on February 16th this year, temporarily letting Lambis take over.
Lambis was hoping to become the official head coach...he wanted to win games.
But tonight’s Zeng Xingyang was too insane, facing anyone and scoring on them.
"Get me a double-team."
Lambis exploded in rage.
Continuing this way, there was no way to turn the game around.
Zeng Xingyang spread his arms and sprinted back to the bench while high-fiving his teammates the whole way.
Faried came up to Zeng Xingyang for a chest-bump celebration.
Seeing Zeng Xingyang being so ostentatious, the two commentators were extremely proud.
After joining the NBA, Zeng Xingyang was changing the league dynamics in his unique way, influencing young people back home.
Yu Jia asked: "Coach Zhang, could you analyze why Xingyang’s offense seems so unstoppable? He used to be seen purely as a shooter, but that doesn’t seem to be the case now."
The Knicks players were almost all challenged by Zeng Xingyang without being able to stop him.
Zeng Xingyang appeared fearless on the offensive end.
Zhang Weiping laughed and said: "Firstly, Xingyang must have put in tremendous effort behind the scenes, he improved his ball-handling ability, and then there’s power, confrontation, he combined these skills with his existing shooting ability."
"Most skill improvements are about creating space."
"Xingyang is a player with particularly strong space-grabbing ability; he doesn’t need a large space, just enough to complete the shot and finish."
"Especially the enhancement of explosive breakthrough ability makes the defender clueless on choosing defense methods."
"Yeah, Coach Zhang is right!" Yu Jia nodded in agreement.
Earlier in the season, it wasn’t obvious, but now Zeng Xingyang increasingly seems unstoppable; his offense on the court appears very artistic.
Zeng Xingyang’s artistry lies in having different responses for each defense he faces.
Breakthroughs, shooting, post-screen offense, positioning for catch-and-shoot.
These offensive methods explain why Zeng Xingyang, only in his rookie season, can overshadow numerous NBA players, ranking fourth on the scoring list.
Mike Malone was becoming more familiar with Zeng Xingyang’s traits; he not only created solo play strategies for Zeng Xingyang but also designed a variety of team cooperations for him.
Mike Malone was very aware that providing enough support to Zeng Xingyang would result in very exaggerated scoring numbers.
Zeng Xingyang’s scoring consistently maintained a very high efficiency.
Soon, the timeout ended.
Calderon dribbled to the frontcourt, Harris took the main defense, and Zeng Xingyang went to defend Afflalo.