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

Chapter 235 They Are Back
Seeing the momentum of the Magic team, the commentary booth of CCTV is naturally relaxed and happy.

At this moment, Director Zhang laughed and said: "That's right, this is the effect that Li Chengming should play. Before, it was as if someone had tied up his hands and feet, and the beating looked very awkward."

Sun Zheng commented: "I think this is also a process that young people must go through. Although Li Chengming also stepped up step by step, but after that, he walked relatively smoothly. He needs to go through some setbacks to sharpen him before he can let him go. The mentality is more stable and mature.”

"That's right, and I have always felt that Li Chengming has a problem that is not a problem. His mentality is not hard enough. You see, if Kobe encounters this situation, even the young Kobe will grit his teeth. It doesn’t matter if you go directly to Sanqi 21. This kind of mentality is not necessarily good, but for this kind of capable young people, you must dare to try and make mistakes.

"Growth is not only in your skills, but also in your mentality. I believe it is better than Kobe's talent. Everyone knows, such as Iverson and James, but their mentality is not hard enough compared to Kobe. To play Reasonable, but not only reasonable, because some balls just need you to be unreasonable to score, this is actually a kind of reasonable..."

Sun Zhengping felt that what he said would turn into a philosophy class, not a basketball game, so he quickly pulled back the game: "Okay, we saw that the timeout came back, and the Eagles will definitely pay attention to Li Chengming's defense. I don't know if Coach Van Gundy will What arrangement?"

Van Gundy didn't have any arrangements at all, because he also wanted to understand that facing an opponent like the Eagles was just a good opportunity for the players to show off, sharpen themselves, experience the feeling of the playoffs, and accumulate experience.

Even if it wasn't because he was worried about delaying things for too long, he would have wanted to play the tiebreaker with the Eagles. Anyway, the young man's physical strength recovered quickly. On the contrary, this experience needs more games to experience before it can be accumulated slowly. .

And the more you are in the previous game, the higher the error tolerance rate, because it is easy to fight back. If it comes to the Eastern Conference Finals or even the Finals, even if you want to have such a chance of trial and error, you will not be able to.

That's why, in the first half, he actually noticed Li Chengming's problem, but he didn't change his tactics. He just pointed at him and let him break it by himself.

To his surprise, Li Chengming figured it out earlier than he expected, thinking that he would not be fully enlightened until at least the fourth quarter.

That's fine, this game is better, and even this series is better.

The Eagles did re-focus on deploying a heavy defense against Li Chengming, but Li Chengming's ability to read the game has reached a new level. When he has a stable mentality and a clear mind, when should he play by himself? When passing the ball, when the pick-and-roll rolls down or outside the ball, when to run to respond, I have a plan in my heart.

Tactics are never rigid, even if it is the same route, because the change of the order will produce different effects, it depends on the cooperation between the players.

Obviously, the Magic team has formed enough tacit understanding after running in this whole season. Everyone knows what they should do and what position they should appear in.

Although there will occasionally be some communication outages, they can be remedied in time by relying on the players' personal abilities.

And Li Chengming has naturally become the most dazzling one on the court during the last period of the third quarter. Regardless of whether he has the ball or not, singles support, or even the dirty work of rebounding, protecting the frame and making intelligent fouls, he almost is everywhere.

So much so that after the third quarter, Li Chengming came off the court and gasped for breath, feeling that he would not be able to play again in a short time.

Although his current physical strength is not considered a weak link, it is also based on the premise of being lazy on the court.

If it is to maintain full concentration on both offensive and defensive ends, regardless of physical strength and energy, even physical monsters like Jordan and Kobe are unlikely to last a whole quarter.

And such a result is also gratifying. With the efforts of him and his teammates, the Magic finally caught up with the score by only 1 point at the end of the third quarter, and even overtook it once before.

It’s just that the state of the Eagles today is indeed amazing. Not only did they successfully grab an offensive opportunity in the last 30 seconds, but Johnson hit a super long-range three-pointer after being overtaken by the Magic by 2 points. 1 point.

It was also this ball that kept the Eagles' momentum from being completely beaten by the Magic.

Of course, the focus of everyone's discussion at this time was still on Li Chengming.

The on-site commentary said: "With Dwight unable to play, Lee even completed his task. In the past few minutes, he is omnipotent in offense and defense. It is hard to believe that he is just the first player. A freshman who played in the playoffs once."

The team reporter of the Magic team also made an instant comment: "Lee was briefly lost in the first half, but he returned too quickly, and didn't even give those who hacked him a chance to live until the end of the game!"

The two directors in the CCTV live broadcast room were also discussing Li Chengming's performance and the progress of the game. Director Sun said: "The fourth quarter of this game is very good. Both sides played well today. This Josh Smith hit the bottom It rebounded, and Li Chengming also hit back on the spot. It's up to Howard in the fourth quarter..."

After all, he is now the first-tier star in the league. Judging by common sense, the referee should not be able to directly send Howard off in this game.

This is why Van Gundy didn't bring Howard back in the third quarter. One is that the situation on the court is not bad, and Li Chengming can survive for a while with the rotation. Second, he also intends to let Howard directly play the full fourth quarter. , It is expected that the referee should not stare at him so closely in the fourth quarter.

It happened that Li Chengming's physical strength bottomed out and he needed more rest. Van Gundy sent Nelson, Howard with Bogans and other substitutes to fight against the opposing Eagles' rotation.

Howard played in the first three quarters was actually more uncomfortable than Li Chengming, and his heart was full of anger, but he sat on the bench for most of the third quarter, and Van Gundy kept comforting him, and he calmed down a lot now.

He just decided to use his performance to fight back against the referees and the fans who taunted him, so he and Nelson successfully bombed the Eagles penalty area through pick-and-rolls. "Superman Celebrates".

Having said that, because of the ownership of the nickname "Superman", he has been talked about by the narrow-minded O'Neal since the dunk contest. The conflict between the two has further intensified, and a war of words has begun, which has not completely stopped until now.

Even in the stands of the Eagles, you can see someone holding up a sign saying "O'Neal is 'Superman'!!!" when Howard made a free throw to interfere with him.

Perhaps because of the power of not steaming steamed buns to save his breath, Howard actually hit three free throws in a row under the interference, which bankrupted the Eagles' hacking tactics and suppressed the voices of the Eagles audience a lot.

Under such indiscriminate bombardment, the Eagles' inside defense was crumbling, and their offensive efficiency finally began to decline.

Of course, Howard's defense must also be an important reason.

(End of this chapter)