After the confession failed, I went to the NBA to play and lose weight

Chapter 229 60 Wins Club
Of course, this can still explain the impact of Li Chengming's absence on the Magic's offense to a certain extent.

After all, if Li Chengming is on the court, the Spurs' defensive strategy will definitely change accordingly, especially the double-teaming in the low post will definitely be indispensable, and the double-teaming in this position will also make it easier to have outside shooting opportunities. And it is not difficult to be cut off directly.

If the Spurs want to defend well, they must strengthen the speed of outside rotation to fill positions, which will bring about a series of chain reactions, and this is also the biggest strategic significance of Li Chengming to the Magic now.

And if Li Chengming is there, the defensive penalty area is still harder than Lewis, which can also consume a little more Duncan, so that he can't attack wantonly, and Howard can safely go to the outside to sweep.

In the final analysis, the characteristics of a player are there. The coaching staff needs to make use of their strengths and avoid weaknesses, and blend them into a collective in order to exert enough power.

There is no perfect player, but there can be a perfect lineup, because the players can complement each other, just like this Spurs, on the basis of their personnel composition, they have played to the extreme.

However, this kind of extreme may not be able to get much benefit when encountering unreasonable offensive opponents. It is like Kobe facing them, winning more and losing less. This is not just because of the OK combination in the past, but because of the While the western teams tried their best to limit O'Neal, they couldn't hold back the explosive Kobe.

On the contrary, the Eastern Conference teams facing the finals often can't even limit O'Neal.

The Spurs didn't restrict Howard very much in this game. It's a pity that Howard's offensive ability, just those three axes, is almost enough to score about [-] points in a normal state without breaking out. At this time, teammates still need to stand up.

But both Lewis and Turkoglu were in average form in the game, and they couldn't guard against their opponents, so naturally they had to send it.

Van Gundy had a good idea, knowing that the Magic would not be able to face teams with powerful front and guards like the Spurs and the Lakers, especially the breakthroughs of Kobe, Ginobili and others are quite terrifying, and now it is their peak of personal ability During this period, we can only avoid its edge.

On the contrary, the Magic are not so worried about Paul of the Hornets, Allen and Pierce of the Celtics.

But for now, they should rush out of the East first, and then talk about facing the Spurs or the Lakers.

And if there is Li Chengming and all the members, it is a big deal to fight offensively. In this regard, they are worthy of any team with the league's first offensive efficiency in the regular season this season.

The Magic and the Celtics are now back on the same starting line, but then the Magic encountered the Bucks, Hornets and Cavaliers in a row, and successfully raised the total score to 60 wins with a wave of three consecutive victories, which is also the first in the regular season this season. A 60-win team.

Needless to say, the Bucks are a bad team. It is only because of the existence of the UAE that it has attracted much attention.

However, the UAE suffered a sprained medial collateral ligament in his left knee during the second quarter of the game against the Washington Wizards on Thursday. After an MRI examination, the Bucks officially announced that he will not play the remaining 8 games this season.

This also made the last highlight of this game disappear. The strength gap between the two teams is too great. Li Chengming played less than 30 minutes and scored 23 points, 13 rebounds and 5 assists.

It is worth mentioning that although Dayao and Ah Lian suffered from injuries successively, according to the time schedule, they should not miss the subsequent Olympic games. For domestic fans, this is a blessing in misfortune.

The game against the Hornets was the Magic's first game in April. It was played on April Fool's Day on April 4. The two teams dedicated a wonderful contest to the Magic fans at the Amway Center, and they did not give them a loss. big joke.

The Hornets still caused a lot of trouble for the Magic. Compared with the Magic, which has entered the stage of rest and training, the Hornets, a young army, obviously still want to strive for a better record, especially the home court advantage in the Western Conference. , This will be a great benefit for their playoff journey.

The Lakers have a high momentum, and the Spurs are also chasing after them. The Hornets want to chase the first place and at least hold on to the second place. This requires them to play every next game as a playoff game.

In this game, the Hornets used their lives, especially the substitutes, who grabbed more than 50 rebounds and directly overwhelmed the Magic by 15 in terms of rebounds.

Rebounds are the lifeline of a basketball game. Under the big data sample, the saying "he who wins rebounds wins the world" is not empty talk. Unless one team is surprisingly accurate and the other team is surprisingly iron, no matter how big the difference in rebounds is, it cannot be reversed. God changed fate.

In this game, the Hornets won so many rebounds, but they still lost the game. Without him, it was because they were too strong.

Paul was 19 for 6, West was 16 for 6, and Peja was 11 for 2. The core players have such a bad touch. If they didn't grab more rebounds, they would have been beaten by the Magic.

It was Turkoglu who rested for the Magic this time. Li Chengming returned to the starting 20 position. The Magic returned to the previous period when Turkoglu was absent. As a result, Li Chengming made 13 of 37 shots and scored 7 points. With 16 rebounds and 27 assists, he scored 12 points in the first half, and scored [-] assists in the second half under the crazy double-teaming of the opponent, which made the Hornets helpless.

The inside combination of the Hornets is Chandler and West. West is too slow and Chandler is too thin. Unless the two double-team, there is no way to make Lee famous.

The opening of Li Chengming's point is the key to the Magic's ability to hold on to the score and win in the end.

In the last 2 minutes, the Hornets still held a 7-minute lead, but then Li Chengming assisted Lewis and Evans at the top of the arc and the bottom corner to hit a three-pointer. Howard grabbed an offensive rebound and made 2+1. An astonishing penalty was scored, and after the Magic team overtook the score, they never gave the opponent a chance to overtake.

This defeat must have dealt a big blow to the Hornets, because they led the entire game and were finally overturned. The gap with the Lakers will widen again. You must know that the record gap between them and the Lakers and Spurs is within one game. , Whoever wins and who loses will change the ranking in an instant.

Especially the Magic lost to the Spurs before, and won them again in a blink of an eye, which is very dangerous for them to keep the top two.

In the game against the Cavaliers, there is nothing worth mentioning except that James pulled his hips.

Howard scored 25+25 and blocked 5 shots in this game. This statistic is not unprecedented, but it is definitely a stat of the inside giant. The Cavaliers can't stop him at all.

Ben Wallace's deal seems to be a failure at present, because he can't bring the Cavaliers the needed improvement in the thickness of the inside line, but has weakened the offense.

When Gooden was here before, he could still play at least a few times, averaging more than a dozen points per game, but now it is replaced by Daben, attacking the inside when he is on the court is equivalent to directly missing one player.

He doesn't even know how to eat cakes now. When James passed the ball to him in the middle of the game and saw that he was in a daze and didn't dare to make a shot, the scene of going crazy was also directly recorded by the camera. joke.

Li Chengming played a supporting role this time, scoring only 14 points, but sent out 17 assists again, and directly revitalized the team when Lewis and Turkoglu were resting at the same time.

The performance of the Cavaliers in the face of the "disabled" Magic has made the outside world's evaluation of them greatly discounted, and it is difficult to be optimistic about their future prospects.

Barkley said bluntly in the show, "The Cavaliers' season is over, LeBron should think about the offseason..."

This guy completely forgot that he was still bragging that the Cavaliers would go farther than the Magic, but it is common for people like them to jump back and forth, and what they say may not be the truth, so it is completely understandable .

The Magic successfully swept the Cavaliers in the regular season. At this time, after taking stock, everyone discovered that the Magic's performance against these potential playoff opponents in the East in the regular season was amazing.

Sweeping the Cavaliers and the Celtics also won more and lost less against the Pistons, and the remaining teams such as the Wizards and Raptors are hopeless in everyone's opinion.

In other words, if the Magic can stabilize themselves in the playoffs, at least they can enter the second round, and entering the Eastern Conference Finals should meet expectations.

As for how far they can go in the future, it depends on whether they are just a fake strong team in the regular season or whether they are really strong.

(End of this chapter)