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

Chapter 291

When Li Chengming and Turkoglu were on the court at the same time, the Magic's ball movement was extremely smooth.

Needless to say, Turkoglu, who "advanced" from the Kings and Spurs, has team basketball in his bones, and is also a player who doesn't care about his own statistics; Li Chengming's style of play has always been selfless, with enhanced vision and passing training After that, it is now also able to undertake part of the core tasks of the organization.

Moreover, these two can pass and shoot. Turkoglu's breakthrough rhythm is very good. Li Chengming has now learned to use his advantage in physical confrontation to directly force him in. As long as he can create space, he can shoot directly.

The biggest benefit for him in the series with the Cavaliers is that he learned part of his style of play from James and integrated it into his own skill pool.

And once Li Chengming's two opponents with the ball have to keep an eye on them, they have to double-team when necessary, and divide the ball as soon as they are double-teamed, and teammates can reschedule to another person without a chance.

That is to say, when they cooperate with each other, the defensive movement of the flanks is poor, but it happens that there are no players on the opposite side who can make a fuss about this.

Ray Allen is staying off the court now, and the Celtics are generally a relatively slow-paced team. Even in positional offense, breakthroughs are not good at speed.

This may also be the reason why the Green Army is always at a disadvantage when facing the Magic, regardless of the regular season or the playoffs.

And their weakness is just magnified in front of the Magic. The defense of the Green Army is actually a strong attack from the inside, but there are not many such players in the league at present.

O'Neal is old, Dayao is reimbursed for the season, and Duncan has lost weight since 06. Although it can prolong his career, it also weakens his lethality in the paint.

But there is such a player on the Magic team. Although Perkins is strong and able to defend, he is still limited in the face of Howard, but there is no way to match Li Chengming. Whether it is Brown or others, there is no way to block Li Chengming or Howard's singles one-on-one.

In the third quarter of the previous game, Howard relied on his athletic ability to cooperate with Nelson and others to swallow the inside of the Green Army alive, and then established the victory in one fell swoop.

The main force can't handle it, and it's impossible to let the substitutes carry it. In the second quarter, Li Chengming and Turkoglu led the team to play a wave in just 3 minutes, leading the team to an 8:2 lead by 4 points. .

Rivers had to call a timeout, and his expression was a little irritable and distressed in a daze.

Because the timeout just feels that it should be called at this time, but I haven't figured out how to do it.

Fortunately, the Green Army has enough old fritters, and after discussing with the head coach, they also discussed a solution that is not a solution.

So after returning to the game, Li Chengming saw that when he was without the ball, there would always be two people around him, one in front and the other staring at the back, trying to limit his movements.

On Turkoglu's side, let Posey follow alone, mainly to prevent him from breaking through and force him to shoot from the outside.

Since entering the playoffs, Turkoglu's shooting efficiency has still declined, especially from beyond the three-point line. It has dropped a bit, from [-]% in the regular season to around [-]%.

To a certain extent, this is actually a point that can be put, at least compared to the low-post Li Chengming, as long as Turkoglu does not let him rush to the basket, he does not need to flank.

Of course, he can still run the pick-and-roll, so he should actively switch defenses. PJ Brown will not suffer too much against him. It is enough to block his body so that he cannot jump up close to the frame and shoot directly.

This has indeed achieved some results, and the defensive aggressiveness and tacit understanding of the Green Army are sufficient.

In addition to giving a warning at the beginning, the referee is still relatively wide in the fight against the basket, and generally will not blow it.

But here comes the problem. This is all about defense. The shooting effect is average. What about offense?
Sure enough, for as long as 2 minutes, neither side scored much.

The Magic can be regarded as being defended, and the Green Army is really attacking and stretching their hips.

Both Posey and House were unreliable in shooting today, and they couldn't get in without a breakthrough player at the basket.

In fact, the lineup configuration of the Green Army is still very problematic. A very important point is their back line. Rondo is the only one who can break through, Ray Allen is the one who can shoot, and the rest are all defensive. Configuration, scoring or stealing chickens or throwing open positions.

This kind of outside line is precisely the weakness of not being able to punish the Magic's unfavorable pick-and-roll and defense, otherwise Li Chengming would have been beaten.

When Li Chengming received his second personal foul while defending against Ray Allen, Van Gundy also happened to replace him to rest.

At this time, the main players on both sides returned to the court, and the Magic still maintained a 4 to 5 point lead, but there were 3 minutes left in the second quarter.

Turkoglu, who had just rested for more than a minute, also just changed back, and the Magic adjusted back to the starting lineup, but everyone's state has already risen.

In this way, you come and go on both sides for a while, and at the end of the half, the point difference still hasn't changed, but the Magic can still win by 7 points in this quarter.

The Green Army did not achieve any of their strategic goals, such as defeating Li Chengming and Howard, and there was some stagnation in their own offense, and the scoring of the Big Three stagnated for a while.

The on-site commentary mentioned the rotation of the Celtics at this time, and said: "Coach Rivers should reconsider his formation. If Kevin, Paul, and Rajon are all in the same position every time, this is a big problem. It will make it difficult for the bench lineup to deal with the opponent's impact. If they can't defend and the offense can't match, it is easy to be widened at this stage."

"The last game was actually like this. So far, it seems that this game still hasn't made much progress..."

Entering the intermission, Van Gundy is also thinking about whether the opposite side will adjust in the second half.

But after much deliberation, he decided on one more thing. Rivers probably wouldn't make any adjustments, not only because he believed in the lineup and style of play that had persisted since the regular season, but also because he couldn't afford the cost of trying to adjust.

Now, after all, they have not been forced to a desperate situation. It can even be said that these two away games are expected to lose and they can let go.

In the final analysis, it is doomed by the flaws of the lineup. The rotation is adjusted when it is said to be adjusted. If Pierce or Garnett are replaced for a while, who will replace them in the main force?
I didn't look at the Spurs, and when facing the Hornets, they had to make a change to get Ginobili into the starting lineup in order to achieve a comeback.

It's just that facing the Lakers, this trick seems to be impossible.

As for the Magic, because of positional conflicts, Li Chengming has a greater role as a substitute, but if he is a point guard or the second position, Van Gundy is actually more willing to put him in the starting lineup, so that he can play an advantage directly. It's a bad score, and you still care about the substitute, can you hold on to the stalemate?
As it is now, there are still some hidden dangers. It can only be said that the role players on the opposite side have not exploded, and they have not been able to stand up based on the experience of veterans.

"Xidu, Rashad, in the second half you are like this..."

When the game started in the second half, everyone found that the Celtics hadn't changed, but the Magic had changed.

Lewis and Evans are in the bottom corners on both sides, Turkoglu is at the top of the arc, Nelson stands at a 45-degree angle on the strong side, and then gives Howarda the space to single Garnett.

As long as there is a simple switch inside, and Lewis pulls to the bottom corner, Perkins has to follow.

However, it turns out that this was actually a mistake.

(End of this chapter)