I'm good at basketball too

Chapter 171 How to solve the problem?

Are the Sparks doing well inside?

There is no doubt that if he doesn't play well against Li Ran, he won't have to continue playing in the NBA.

At the end of the first half, the Sparks had scored a full 22 points and 14 rebounds.

But is it useful?
Useless.

Because the Magic are already 13 points behind.

In addition to the sparks, the magic team scored the second is Lewis, scored only 6 points.

The Nuggets let go of Howard, but stared at the other Magic players.

Again, George Karl firmly believes that Howard alone cannot kill the game.

And the process of the game is just as he expected.

Howard took the data and lost the game.

In the first game of the finals, the Nuggets played a strange formation and defeated the Eastern Conference champion Magic without any surprises.

霍华德全场出战45分钟，砍下41分24篮板5助攻5盖帽的豪华成绩。

But the team lost 19 points on the road.

In addition to Howard, only Turkoglu scored in double figures for the Nuggets, scoring 14 points.

On the other hand, for the Nuggets, Li Ran defended Howard for the entire game, scoring 22 points and grabbing 21 rebounds.

Although he was rewarded with a few spicy hot pots by the sparks, it didn't matter.

Anthony had 28 points, 11 rebounds and 5 assists.

Billups had 21 points, 4 rebounds and 7 assists.

JR Smith had 18 points, 3 rebounds and 4 assists.

Yi Jianlian had 14 points and 5 rebounds.

Cutting off the connection between Howard and other players, the Nuggets won this game extremely easily.

Although Anthony scored the highest score in the team, everyone knew that the team's biggest contributor to the victory was the almost collapsed Li Ran who was the top of the game.

113-132, the Nuggets scored a rare big score in the finals of this era.

Big Van Gundy is going crazy.

It wasn't the game he wanted to play at all.

Who would have thought that the Nuggets let them have O'Neal to beat them like this?

Li Ran was in pain but also happy. After the game, he took a shower and stood in front of the mirror in the locker room. His skin was already bruised and purple. These were left over from the confrontation with Howard.

Howard was nearly [-] pounds heavier and [-] centimeters taller than him. He was no match for the inside fight.

That is to say, Li Ran is such a weirdo. If he were replaced by any swingman in the league, the outcome of this game would be hard to say.

换成其他人，火花这场比赛的数据可能就不是40+20了，40+30甚至50+30都有可能。

In the history of the NBA Finals, it is also the first time that someone has played a large double-double of double 20+ at the same time.

The heat of the finals suddenly became hot, especially in China, which was a step further.

Without it, fans see a possibility.

Is it possible for Li Ran to win the FMVP?

In the first game, Anthony was 28+11 and Li Ran was 22+21. From the statistics, even Li Ran contributed the most to the team.

Regardless of how Dafan racked his brains to find countermeasures after the game, in the Nuggets' training session on the second day, the players generally showed a very special state.

Excited.

That's right, excitement.

The championship is close at hand, who wouldn't be excited?

Li Ran even played bullfighting with Anthony, just using the inside method.

In the end, Li Ran was beaten 10-3 by Gua Ge and lost miserably.

Although he has learned footwork, his back hitting skills are far behind Gua Ge.

Tomorrow is the second game of the series. If the Nuggets can grasp their two home games, then they can gain an absolute advantage in this series.

George Karl stood on the sidelines with folded arms watching the players practice in a relaxed atmosphere.

It is training in itself to maintain the state, and of course the intensity will not be high.

He is now considering whether to change his lineup for the second game.

It stands to reason that there is no need for the winning team to change, but George Karl has been a little uneasy.

Van Gundy is not an easy guy. He won the Magic with such a crooked move for the first time. George Karl doesn't believe that Van Gundy will not make corresponding changes.

But how can the Nuggets change?This lineup is basically the Nuggets' strongest combat power now.

It is basic because George Karl was planning to fine-tune the lineup on the second day after the first game.

Mason's performance in the first game was not good. He played too little time in the regular season, and was suddenly put into the starting lineup in the playoffs. His performance was very unstable.

Fortunately, the Nuggets strangled the connection between Howard and the outside shooters, so Turkoglu's performance was also not good.

Without Howard, no matter how organized Turkoglu is, he can't win the game with three shooters.

It's just that George Karl has already seen that the effect of using Mason is not good, so he plans to replace Yi Jianlian in the next game, allowing Anthony to return to his most comfortable third position.

On the other side, did Van Gundy make any effective responses?

How can it be so simple, the Magic has played like this for the past two seasons, how can it be adjusted temporarily?

There is no problem with the feel of the Magic shooters, but they can't shoot as unscrupulously as before when Howard, a super blue-collar, is restricted. This is the reason for their collective inaccuracy in the first game.

In addition, after a careful analysis, Da Fan found with some despair that, except for Howard, the Magic could not take advantage of any of the other four matchups.

And does Huo Hua have an advantage over Li Ran?

Have!
But this advantage is obviously left to them by the Nuggets.

To put it bluntly, the strange lineup of the Nuggets last game is a disguised version of Jordan's law.

You can score as long as you score, but I must cut off the connection between you and your teammates.

Using the tricks used to deal with the old hooligans on Howard, the Nuggets also gave him enough face.

The second game was played at the Pepsi Center as scheduled. Da Fan did not make any personnel changes. Instead, it was George Karl who took the lead.

He replaced Mason, who was mediocre in the previous game, and replaced Yi Jianlian, allowing Anthony to liberate and return to the third position.

Nene didn't appear on the starting list for two consecutive games, but he didn't have the slightest complaint. He cheerfully cheered for his teammates off the court.

It's not that the relationship between him and the players is so good that they don't distinguish each other. It also has nothing to do with the optimistic nature of the Brazilians.

A very simple reason, JR is mentioned starting, then the key position of the sixth man falls on the head of Nene.

Generally speaking, in a team, as a sixth man player, he gets more ball rights in a game than the average starter.

What's more, there are examples of Ke 6, Ben Gordon, and Lu Wei who became the team's scoring leader as the sixth man.

Therefore, Nene didn't have no chance to perform in the last game. On the contrary, he performed very well.

With the whistle of the referee, the ball was thrown high into the sky.

The second game of the finals between the Nuggets and the Magic officially began.

(End of this chapter)