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

Chapter 290
Howard's defensive task today is also very heavy, with left and right clumsiness, frantically helping his teammates make up for defensive loopholes.

Helplessly, the Green Army has too many offensive points, and they also enjoyed the defensive pressure they brought to the opponent before.

But the problem is, apart from him in the Magic lineup, only Evans can share some defensive pressure.

Turkoglu has a defensive ability on the line, and the main defense against James in the last round of the series is also good, but whether it is Pierce or Ray Allen, whether it is slow or fast, he is not very useful.

It can beat Garnett, but Garnett himself uses himself as a turret and support axis, and does not choose to fight hard.

He beat Li Chengming and Howard hard in the last game, and the effect was not good.

Since there is no way out, then honestly do what can help the team the most.

Anyway, as long as his expression is ferocious enough and his roar is loud enough, even if he keeps floating near the free throw line to shoot, he will still be considered "tough" by the fans.

"The current situation on both sides seems to be unable to defend the opponent's attack. If this situation continues, I think it is still a bit unfavorable for the Green Army."

"That's right, because the Magic still has a LI. If the Greens only maintain such a small advantage, it can only be regarded as a balance of power for the Magic. When the LI comes up later, if their offense is not on par with the Magic, Then the momentum will tilt back to the Magic version again."

For this group of games, in fact, the outside world has an overall evaluation before the start of the game, that is, the contest between the league's "strongest spear" and "strongest shield", one is invincible in offense, and the other is defense first.

If the Green Army can't suppress the Magic's offense at the beginning, then once they get up later, their situation will return to the situation in the previous game.

After all, it is really unreliable to count on the attack.

Even if Pierce and the others advance in three ways, do you expect them to be able to continue like this for a whole game?

After all, there is no player in the green army who can directly change the defense of the opponent like Li Chengming.

Pierce is also very capable of low-post singles, but the Magic can still limit it a little; Garnett dare not even face Turkoglu and Lewis, and Ray Allen has been running without the ball. There has been no ball, and Rondo is still the one who can let him shoot.

Look at the Magic's offense, screens, cuts, transmissions, and pulls. It's a pleasure to watch.

The players' personal strength can match, but their offensive routines are indeed better than their opponents. It is no wonder that after the start of the playoffs, Rivers was gradually criticized by the fans of the Green Army. Not worthy of such a good lineup.

On the contrary, Van Gundy had a lot of controversy about him in the regular season, and some even thought he couldn't get the best coach, but now it's all praise.

Just bringing out Li Chengming, Magic fans have to give him a big credit.

"Li Chengming is here!"

When the game was halfway through, Van Gundy took the lead in making personnel adjustments when the ball was dead. Li Chengming came on and replaced Turkoglu.

Turkoglu has done nothing in this half of the quarter. The defense failed to limit Pierce, but the offensive efficiency is not bad.

Replacing Li Chengming at this time is not so much a change of formation, but rather a preparation for the next rotation stage. This is actually one aspect in which the Magic are stronger than the Greens.

Although Van Gundy is an academic coach, he also has rigidity and stubbornness, but compared to Rivers on the opposite side, he still has more things.

Of course, Li Chengming's playing will naturally change the situation on the court, mainly because the defense of the Green Army will naturally lean towards him.

In this way, the Magic's offense is easier to play, and it is easier to have opportunities inside and outside.

But back to the defensive end, the Green Army also began to target Li Chengming, but not everyone can single-handedly face him.

The Celtics mainly opened up the situation with Pierce's singles, but he actually had some pressure against Li Chengming, and Li Chengming was also very stable when facing him. He didn't ask for steals or blocks, just interfered as much as possible.

As a result, the Green Army actually needed to rely on Rondo's breakthrough to cause Li Chengming's foul. However, once he was fouled, Li Chengming naturally changed his method and restricted the opponent by delaying the defense. This happened to be aimed at the opponent's poor shooting weakness.

Rondo was short shot and made a goal, but he didn't dare to try again next time, obviously he still didn't have confidence in himself.

Especially, at the critical moment when the Magic are chasing points, every attack of the team is very important, and efficiency must be guaranteed.

In desperation, Rivers could only replace Rondo first, then took Eddie House, and at the same time replaced Brown inside.

But this change weakened their offense. The Magic replaced Howard and Lewis, Li Chengming returned to the fourth position, and the center was replaced by Gortat.

After finally getting an open three-pointer, House missed two consecutive shots.

The performance of the role players is obviously very disappointing, but in fact, after thinking about it, it is inevitable that the current lineup of the Green Army has this effect.

In fact, I really want to say that their main lineup can also be ranked at the forefront of the league when they play offensively, but it is another matter to count the rotation stage.

There is no way, Garnett's seven-for-one and Ray Allen's three-for-one have emptied out all the strong players in the team, and the rest are either veterans or young people like Rondo with obvious advantages and disadvantages.

This is a kind of balance in itself. The starting lineup is about to explode. If the substitute is also very strong, why do others play?
Like the Magic team is now, it is also because of the unexpected joy of Li Chengming, and this is still a first-year rookie, and he can enjoy two years of rookie benefits, and he can give priority to renewing his contract after that.

Of course, after that they have to make a trade-off.

So the window to win the championship may only be two or three years, just because of Li Chengming's growth potential, there are still infinite possibilities. If the defense can also improve in the future, then the inside combination of him and Howard is really unbeatable-although Now it can be regarded as the first in the league.

"At the end of the first quarter, at 27:25, the Magic almost recovered the score. The Bostonians still had nothing to do with LI. They wanted to attack LI, but they often failed. The offensive firepower in the rotation stage was different. too big……"

"I think this may be the reason why Coach Van Gundy has always put LI on the bench, so that he can maximize his threat and protect him to a certain extent. It's very likely to fall into a foul crisis."

The playoffs are aimed at weaknesses, but Li Chengming is by no means the kind who will be defeated in one hit, so the Green Army often has to pay a lot of money to achieve their goals, and finally they have to calculate whether it is worthwhile.

Then I found that it might be better to play normally, so at least they can play well by themselves, which is still more hopeful.

In the second quarter, the Magic was Li Chengming and Turkoglu's partners again. Rivers felt a headache when he saw it, because he really couldn't do anything about them.

(End of this chapter)