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

Chapter 260 Cutting, You Can Cut It
Among the current cores of the Magic, Turkoglu has the longest age and seniority.

But like Lewis, he is considered an outsider, and he has gradually reached his personal peak in the past few seasons with the Magic.

Both Howard and Nelson were drafted by the Magic themselves. The former was the No. 04 pick in [-], and the latter was also selected with the [-]th overall pick in the first round of the same year. They can be regarded as "children of their own family" who grew up under the watchful eyes of Magic fans. .

These two have been playing together since their rookie season, and they are the first and fifth positions who often have pick-and-roll cooperation. Needless to say, the tacit understanding has been cultivated.

At this critical time, Van Gundy chose to believe in them, and they did not disappoint.

On the first ball in the fourth quarter, Nelson sent Howard a lob directly after the pick-and-roll while the opponent's defense was not focused.

Howard directly pressed Smith to take off, and while scoring the ball, he also caused Smith's foul.

He also grasped the additional penalty this time. Today he made 7 of 5 free throws, and his efficiency is not bad.

The Cavaliers failed to attack, and Howard grabbed the rebound. This time the Cavaliers retreated slowly, and it was Howard and Nelson who connected directly. A sniper pass across the court, Nelson caught the ball in the air and made a layup. Didn't let the ball hit the ground.

The Magic led by 6 points. Mike Brown scratched his head and decided to watch two more rounds. After all, only half a minute had passed, and it would be too bad to use the timeout at this time.

James broke through and passed the ball to Smith who was emptied. Smith still continued his good state of the game, hitting steadily from the middle distance.

As a result, the Magic was Nelson and Howard's pick-and-roll again. Howard went down to catch the ball again. This time James saw the opportunity and came up to pinch.

Bogans also took three-point shots. Bogans' offensive state is actually good today, but he didn't take many shots, including 3 of 2 shots, and they were all three-pointers. At the same time, he also grabbed two offensive rebounds and sent out With two assists, like Gortat, he can be regarded as a magic substitute.

Looking back, the Cavaliers also planned to cooperate with a pick-and-roll lob, but was destroyed by the Magic and went out of bounds. The frontcourt ball continued to attack, and Wallace caught the ball from the basket and scored a layup.

Daben stood up today. Although he was cut in the first half, he still had a positive effect on the Cavaliers on both offense and defense, so Mike Brown also gave him enough playing time.

Of course, putting him on the court at this time is mainly to let him limit Howard and protect rebounds.

The Cavaliers didn't protect the backcourt rebounds very well today, which gave the Magic a lot of second-attack opportunities, and the difference in the total number of rebounds was almost ten.

The more the game progresses, the more important the rebound becomes. One more rebound means one more offensive opportunity, maybe two more points.

But the Magic also scored, and James broke through and caused a foul. This time, the referee put it on Augustine, which made James very dissatisfied.

After making two free throws, the Magic suddenly made a fast serve. Nelson gave it to Du Lin who was halfway through the court. Du Lin took the ball to the basket and made a layup with a European step. Well, Mike Brown had to call the first timeout of the fourth quarter.

在第四节开始3分钟里，魔术队打出了一波11:5，比分变成了91:83。

Both sides are actually competing for rotations, but the Cavaliers have more main players. James, Wallace, West and Joe Smith, who performed well today, are all on the court. The result still allows the Magic to open the gap. This is absolutely unacceptable to them.

Yang Yi said: "The Cavaliers should take advantage of this opportunity to seize the score and even overtake, but their offense is a bit difficult. In fact, do you really want to say that they made any mistakes during this period? That is, they missed a shot. But this is unavoidable, because if there is a chance, you have to make a move, right?"

Ma Jian said: "Yes, but the shot missed and the Magic made a counterattack. This is a problem. And if we look closely, the Cavaliers also made some small mistakes, such as James' free throws, and just now. In the first round, their defense was slow, allowing the Magic to directly hit a fast serve, which is also a problem.

"The coach must talk about these problems during the timeout. It's not a certain person, but the whole team must cheer up at this time. If this continues, they will lose this game, and then lose the entire series. , I’m about to go home. If you don’t fight at this time, when will you wait?”

But fighting also requires capital, and does the Cavaliers have such capital at this time?

Mike Brown doesn't seem to have an effective strategy, he can only bring back all the main players, and put on an offensive lineup.

West, Szczerbiak, James, Smith, and Big Z, there is a faint sense of giving up the inside defense and trying to compete with the Magic on offense, "no success or no success".

The biggest advantage of this lineup is that all members can shoot, except... James.

Even if he is accurate enough for the three-pointer today, the Magic should let him go or let him go, and there is a high probability that he will not make a shot at this time.

Of course, at this time James must have the ball in his hand and break through to score the ball.

Having teammates to help him open up space can provide him with sufficient breakthrough depth.

Moreover, there is neither Li Chengming nor Turkoglu on the field at this time, neither Bogans nor Durin can hinder him at all, but let him "live" for 2 minutes, continuously breaking through and scoring to attract the defense After that, he was assigned to an open teammate.

The desired effect was achieved. In fact, it was similar to Li Chengming's low post singles. Unfortunately, the Cavaliers teammates were not able to grasp the opportunity at this time. Szczerbiak missed another three-pointer, and Big Z also continued Missed twice.

If it weren't for the Magic's failure to grasp it and ruined a great opportunity with two consecutive low-level mistakes, the point difference might be further widened, instead of being narrowed to 5 points.

This is actually understandable, even Van Gundy just told the disciples to concentrate and didn't scold anything.

Although there were some double standards in the penalty scale in this game, the two sides played well enough. Under the various unfavorable factors in the away game, the overall performance of the Magic was not bad, and the Cavaliers also showed their own momentum.

So at this point in a game, there will naturally be situations such as inability to concentrate, or sudden weakness in hands and feet.

Some seemingly low-level mistakes also have internal causes.

After all, it is not a machine that can continue to operate at full power as long as there is energy. Human body and spirit will be exhausted.

It's not just the Magic. The Cavaliers also made two low-level mistakes, but they were lucky. Once they were rescued, but they made a mistake and got a good chance to score. Another time the ball was passed directly out of bounds, which did not give the Magic a chance. Varsity is an opportunity for conversion.

When Li Chengming played with 5 minutes left in the game, the point difference between the two teams was still within 5 points. At this time, the Cavaliers also decisively began to use the slashing tactics.

It doesn't make sense that you cut me off, so I won't cut you off.

James and West had always wanted to beat Howard down before, but three times in a row other people stood up and took the blame.

Well, since you are on the field, then we will cut you until you cannot play.

Howard made two free throws decisively, proving that he is still the happy beast.

Li Chengming and Turkoglu returned to the field together, which immediately put pressure on the Cavaliers.

Ma Jian said with a smile: "Li Chengming is here, and the two sides are about to enter a fierce decisive moment!"

(End of this chapter)