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

Chapter 130
Orlando fans have complicated feelings for the home team this season. The team's record has never been brighter.

Moreover, there are superstars like Howard, stars like Turkoglu and Lewis, and supernovas like Li Chengming. It can be said that there is nothing dissatisfied.

But it is precisely this home record. Everyone who comes to watch the game at home hopes to see the team win. Losing is acceptable, but they always lose more at home. This will make people wonder if they have been played.

Maybe there is really some metaphysics. Anyway, the Magic players who return to the home court often perform poorly for no reason.

And this time Li Chengming failed to stand up as a savior because he was double-teamed too hard and only got two open opportunities. He made 8 of 6 shots and missed two three-pointers. He made 5 of 5 free throws and scored 17 points, 7 rebounds and 3 assists. At least five or six direct assists were wasted, and they won by scoring any one of them.

Anyway, when the role players of the Magic team failed to make shots, one of the two insiders sealed themselves because of free throws, and the other was made into dumplings. The final result is actually reasonable.

Others will not be so hard every game, Howard will not always be so bad at free throws, and Li Chengming, maybe the coaching staff should consider arranging more tactics for him.

Because he has shown his ability, it also makes the coach more willing to let him bring a substitute, but if he is restricted and others cannot perform, then this rotation must be readjusted.

In an interview after the game, Van Gundy also said that the coaching staff needs to go back and reflect. Their players are great, and the job of the coaching staff is to find a way to release all their energy.

As for the old-fashioned issues such as Howard's free throws, there is no need to repeat them.

After the game, there were very sharp voices in various media, criticizing Howard as the core of the team, but he could not stand up when Li Chengming was frequently double-teamed, and instead became a hindrance.

What is obvious in this game is that when the two are on the court at the same time, the Nets will target Howard to avoid the two from collaborating. After all, the two of them cooperated well in the previous game.

"Dwight must consider that his free throws have gradually become his Achilles' heel, and even the Magic's Achilles' heel, and he cannot let the efforts of his teammates be let down because of him alone... "

Of course, there are also other voices, mentioning the Nets' frenzied hacking tactics in this game.

"The Nets had a total of 27 fouls in this game, and the two were sent off for 6 fouls. However, there were 15 fouls spent on Howard, and 9 of them were direct off-ball fouls. This behavior must To be limited, if all teams start to abuse foul tactics like this wantonly, then the game will become long and disgusting."

Fans are also dissatisfied with this kind of game, not only the Magic fans who booed several times throughout the game, but also many neutral fans who watched the game expressed their tiredness of seeing this kind of game with frequent whistles and many fouls that directly interrupt the rhythm of the game , too sluggish.

Just turned on the TV and saw the free throw, went to have a cup of coffee and came back to the free throw line.

In fact, in the past two years, there have been voices in the league that this kind of "shark-cutting tactics" should be further restricted. O'Neal, Ben Wallace and Howard often have such untimely scenes in the games, which is obvious. It is not conducive to the league's requirements for encouraging offense and ensuring the fluency of the game.

It's just that it takes at least two or three years, or even longer, for this kind of thing to collect opinions, include it in the discussion, and then issue detailed rules.

The main reason is that there are not so many samples. After all, O’Neal has declined a lot and does not have such a great deterrent force. Ben Wallace is similar after leaving the Pistons. With only Howard alone, it is still difficult to achieve the goal of making the league change the rules for a long time. degree.

Unless Howard continues to grow in the future, or there will be another important player who suffered as much as him, or this tactic will further disgust the league's top management.

So now the Magic still have to endure Howard's convulsive free throws, and also accept games that may sometimes be ruined by his free throws.

What else can we do?

Perhaps it is a good choice to play the flower game in advance, but their strength has not yet reached that level.

And after a lapse of one day, the Magic sat at home and once again ushered in the challenge of Texas Xiaoqiang. The two contests between the two teams this season came together.

However, compared with the previous game, McGrady was absent due to injury, and Houston played particularly proactively in the away game.

Leading at 32:25 in the first quarter, Dayao scored 10 points alone, and Alstom and Hyde, who started the game, also played well.

Howard left the field early because of two fouls, and Li Chengming did not face Yao after he came on the field. Instead, he asked Lewis to go around the front defense to prevent him from receiving the ball.

But today the opponent didn't deliberately look for Dayao, on the contrary they played very reasonably.

Perhaps Adelman's Princeton tactical system has finally paid off, but it is more likely that he played well on the spot.

What's more, the Magic's defense against such small and fast guards is habitual hip pulling, and Howard, who defeated Yao Zhiling once in the last game, seems to have returned to normal this time, but the Magic team except him People can't help Dayao even more. Under Dayao's restraint, there are fewer lone wolves to fight, and teammates play more comfortably.

In fact, Houston's recent record performance is not good. With the current record, it may not even enter the playoffs. It is still a 50% winning rate. This also shows the fierce competition in the West. The bite is very dead, the gap may be within one game, and the ranking may change at any time.

And Lewis seems to have expended too much energy on defense, resulting in a decline in touch. He made two shots and then missed all of them. He shot an outrageous 8 of 2 in the first quarter.

The last game against the Nets also seemed to have taught the opponent how to defend Li Chengming, that is, he was caught in the middle, and other players would recognize him if he could make a shot.

The result is that the Magic's three-pointers in this game are very mediocre. In the final attack, Bogans received the ball from outside the three-point line and did not shoot directly, wasting an offensive opportunity in vain.

Houston's three-pointers actually stretched their hips, but their inside shooting rate was high, especially after Howard was off the court, the Magic's defense in the penalty area stretched their hips and became the back garden of the opposite side.

Howard played directly in the second quarter, but he was fouled twice, which somewhat restricted his performance and made him afraid to make moves.

A defensive player, or a defensive player who relies more on his physical talent to play, if he doesn't dare to move, it can be imagined that his defensive deterrence has dropped a lot, which makes the opponent more energetic.

The score in the half quarter was stretched to double digits, Howard couldn't hold back, and then Dayao came up and caused him another foul, and the third foul was off again.

Howard complained to the referee for a long time on the sidelines, probably because he had a different status after all, and he was at the Magic home court, and it was really difficult to accept three fouls in the half. The referee ignored him, but he still needed to sit on the bench and have a good time. calm down.

The commentator was a little speechless in the game, "There is no problem with this foul. Howard seemed to think that Yao was the Yao in the last game, but obviously Yao will not be in poor condition every game. Normally he wants to defend Da Yao. Yao is impossible."

This is a bit of bragging, but Howard is actually an old problem. He doesn't want his teammates to help, and he doesn't want to use effective methods such as going around the front. Way to get points in his hands.

And his frizzy defensive habits are still there. Dayao, who is considered to be a single-core team leader, is also very smart, which directly made him suffer from foul troubles.

Now Li Chengming feels that he needs to stand up, not that he thinks he can defend, but that he is the only one on the team who can stand up to Dayao, at least don't let him score so comfortably.

Moreover, Dayao's physical strength is a problem. If I can consume him a little more now, the situation may change in the second half.

Van Gundy was a little surprised at Li Chengming's initiative, but after thinking about it, he agreed.

He has no other better candidates, so at least Lewis can be liberated, so that he won't be able to prevent his hand feeling from getting lost.

(End of this chapter)