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After the Bulls won Game 1 of the Eastern Conference Semifinals, they already knew what the Magic's level was.

Originally, there was no pressure in this series. But after G2 started playing, they found that this was not the case.

Obviously they are still playing at the United Center in Chicago, but the Bulls are at a disadvantage when it comes to whistles.

Especially when meeting Howard, even Garnett can't touch him, which makes people confused about the situation!
  If Adidas exerts its strength and wants to praise Howard, then Garnett, who is also Adidas' star, will always be able to defend Howard normally.

The problem is, Garnett can't touch Howard, Duane can't touch Howard, and the entire Bulls team can't touch Howard.

In other words, as long as Howard gets the ball, he must be allowed to attack the basket or make free throws.

In order to avoid falling into such a dilemma, the Bulls can only adopt a forward defense strategy to restrict Howard from getting the ball.

This also resulted in the Bulls being unable to defend against two and three on the outside. The Magic's shooters were able to find some open shots.

Of course, due to the lack of improvement in the penalty scale, the Magic also got a lot of free throws in this game, making up for the lack of scoring ability.

24 to 25, after the first quarter, although the Bulls relied on their overall strength to take a 1-point lead, the main players averaged two fouls, which was still very stressful.

In order to win tonight's game, Duane and Garnett continued to do ideological work for other players on the bench. At this time, they must not be annoyed by the unfairness of the referee's penalty and affect the overall performance of the team.

In order to minimize the impact of the main players accumulating fouls too quickly, Scott Skiles also had to arrange for more rotation players to play.

The Bulls have a lot of veterans who can play, but if they want to win, they still need a star to lead the team.

Therefore, if you want to tide over the difficulties, you still need to rely on Du En for a while.

Early in the second quarter, Duane continued to play.

As for the Magic, they didn't expect Du En to travel at a wrong time.

After the game officially started in the second quarter, the Bulls started running and gunning.

It's not the Bulls' past defensive counterattacks, but the Suns' eight-second offense, which constantly moves the ball. As long as it reaches outside the three-point line, it will be shot immediately if there is a shooting opportunity.

Of course, if there is an opportunity to slide down the pick-and-roll and cut to the bottom of the basket, it will naturally be played.

However, the overall focus is still on shooting, which is to drive the rhythm of the game and increase the cardiopulmonary burden on the Magic's outside shooters through fast breaks.

The vast majority of shooters, once they keep running back and forth in a short period of time, their heart rate will accelerate, and then their shots will be inaccurate under the high heart rate.

Although most NBA shooters have undergone specialized training in this area since childhood, only a few people such as Curry and Ray Allen can truly maintain shooting stability and three-point shooting percentage in the playoffs.

Having said that, Howard was not on the court at this time, and the Magic's ability to protect rebounds was not that good.

Although the Bulls' outside shooting percentage is not as high as expected, they are not constantly providing rebounds to the Magic.

The Bulls relied on their length and athleticism to grab some offensive rebounds.

However, relying on the Magic's increasingly chaotic game rhythm and defense, they scored some simple goals by mistake.

During this period, Duan held the ball from time to time, not only making strong shots from outside, but also creating some scoring opportunities for his teammates.

Therefore, in the first two minutes of the second quarter, the Bulls reversed the score for a short while and quickly overtook the score, widening the point difference to more than 5 points.

However, more than 5 minutes into the second quarter, the Magic took the lead in calling a timeout. Duane left the game to rest for a while, and Howard returned to the court.

The Bulls tried to use Garnett and Milicic to form two interior towers to jointly limit Howard.

Although he basically stood and defended because of the whistle problem, Howard's hand skills were so bad that he could only rely on dunks to score.

Despite the interference of Garnett and Milicic's long arms, it still had a very good effect.

It can be said that it took a quarter and a half for the Bulls to find the right way to win.

Let Howard take the ball and play in isolation. Anyway, there is a big man inside to protect the frame. Howard's finishing ability is not good, so he is here to provide rebounds.

The Bulls resumed their defensive counterattack and further established their lead.

After the second quarter, the score had reached 41 to 51, a gap of exactly 10 points.

After the Bulls already know how to limit Howard's scoring, this game will not be difficult for the Bulls.

At the beginning of the third quarter, Duan returned to the low post and helped other teammates attract defense.

The Magic asked Howard to defend Duen alone and try to draw one or two offensive fouls from Duen.

However, Du En's low-post singles don't just rely on brute strength, he is also very skilled in skills and has no shortcomings.

Howard was shaken several times by Duen's footsteps. Although he was not shaken, the effect on Duen's shooting was minimal.

The Bulls relied on Duan's 12 points in the third quarter and 16 points scored by others to further expand their 5-point lead.

The Magic were able to hold on to the score tonight mainly by relying on referees and free throws.

The mentality of the Bulls players was not greatly affected, and their scoring ability was far superior to that of the Magic. Entering the fourth quarter with a 15-point lead, there was naturally no problem in this game.

After all, the Bulls don't like to bring a group of small men on the field. The height advantage has always been one of the important factors for the Bulls to win.

In the fourth quarter, the Bulls continued to focus on the front line. Although they could not further strengthen their defense due to the whistle, they still had no problem in enhancing the protection of rebounds.

Not to mention, the Bulls can also take the initiative to slow down the rhythm of the game, causing the Magic players to lose the game they should have won in despair.

87 to 98, the Bulls' main force clocked out of get off work in the third and a half quarters, and replaced them with a pure substitute lineup in the second half of the fourth quarter.

Even so, the Magic still lacked the offensive ability to break through the Bulls' defense and narrow the point difference to single digits.

There is no doubt that the Bulls have seen through the Magic in these two games in the Eastern Conference semifinals.

As a star player, Howard lacks the ability to score independently, which is undoubtedly very fatal.

Even if the league uses penalty standards, it affects the Bulls' defensive quality.

Even if the Bulls can only use regular season-level defensive intensity, the Magic still can't score too many points under the Bulls' defense and score more than the Bulls.

After all, basketball is a sport where the team that scores more points wins.

The Magic lack players who can score stably, and at the same time they are unable to limit Duane's scoring and reduce the scoring efficiency of other Bulls players. Naturally, there is no way to beat the Bulls.

"Who can stop this Chicago Bulls?"

"In one month, the Chicago Bulls will win the championship again!"

"Dwight Howard scored 29 points and still can't win! What's wrong with the Orlando Magic?"    "No team can play seven games with the Chicago Bulls!"

"It will be difficult for Duane to score 40 points in the playoffs this year. The biggest difficulty is that the opponent is too weak. The Chicago Bulls can win without him scoring high points!"

After the Bulls and Magic played G2, fans across the United States understood that the Magic could not prevent the Bulls from advancing to the Eastern Conference Finals.

After all, the home game has become an away game. Even if the away game becomes a cemetery, can the Magic rely on the referees to win the game?
  The Magic lack the ability to score and are obviously unable to defeat the Bulls, who are both offensive and defensive.

On May 5th, G10 of the Eastern Conference Semifinals between the Bulls and Magic started again at the TD Waterhouse Center in Orlando.

The penalty scale tonight is similar to the game at the United Center in Chicago.

Magic players can add intensity to Bulls players, and Bulls players must defend conscientiously. Unless the referee doesn't see it, they can't make small moves.

But after playing G2, the Bulls players already knew how to defend and how to play.

As for the Magic, in order to win tonight's game, even Howard became honest.

Howard did score a high score of 29 points in the last game, but he got it back by taking 18 shots and 15 free throws.

The Magic lack someone to score, but if Howard keeps standing on the free throw line, his free throw percentage is only about [-]%, which will not help the Magic win.

In order to win tonight's game with the cooperation of the referees, the Magic finally got smart and replaced a large number of defenders and strikers who can break through, allowing them to continuously break through with the ball and cause fouls on the Bulls' interior players.

When Garnett accumulated two fouls in just over 4 minutes of the first quarter, Scott Skiles realized that tonight's game was not going to be easy.

But there is nothing to be done, the situation tonight is already clear.

In this series, the league does not want the Bulls to win too easily, but hopes that the Magic can win a few games to add some suspense and excitement to this series.

The Bulls definitely don't want to accept the script arranged by the league, so they can only continue to strive for self-improvement and use their strength to break the law.

As the head coach, Scott Skiles can only constantly replace useful inside players to support the situation a little.

In addition, timeouts are also used to make arrangements for the players who will play next, and the team switches to zone defense.

Use the flanking attack of forward players to limit the breakthroughs of Magic perimeter players, forcing the Magic perimeter players to end with shots instead of continuing to rush to the basket and create foul trouble for the Bulls inside.

The Magic are not a strong team that is good at breakthroughs. The Bulls set up a zone defense to shrink the basket, and at the same time deliberately let the Magic out from the outside to let the Magic shoot.

At this time, when the Magic were lagging behind, the Magic players on the court subconsciously followed Scott Scales's arrangements and took three-pointers to chase points.

Sure, some three-pointers were made, but there were also a few more rebounds.

The Bulls relied on actively blocking positions, protecting rebounds, and subsequent defensive counterattacks to switch offenses, and scored some simple goals, making up for the problem of losing points when the zone defense allowed outside shots.

It is precisely because of this that the Bulls still maintained the lead and were not overtaken by the Magic.

Although Van Gundy didn't react quickly, he realized before the start of the fourth quarter that the Magic players had been tricked.

If the Magic want to win tonight, they can only continue to draw fouls and beat the Bulls' main players.

Therefore, in the fourth quarter, the Magic perimeter players, led by Nelson, strictly implemented the tactics of breaking through and causing fouls.

After only playing half a quarter, both Garnett and Luol Deng were ejected for six fouls.

If it weren't for the fact that the Bulls' lead was only seven or eight points, and the outcome of this game was uncertain, Duan would have wanted to go back to the locker room first and keep out of sight.

It’s so irritating! Duan has played in the NBA for five seasons, and this is the first time he has encountered such a situation where the main players of the team were sent off one after another by body hair whistles.

It was precisely to slap the referee in the face and the league in the face that Duan was bound to win tonight.

Therefore, Du En didn't dare to help defend or commit any more fouls.

Even on the offensive end, Duan could only score more points for the Bulls and stabilize the game by relying on his personal strength with more accurate and stable shots without physical contact with Magic defensive players.

"Mid-range, mid-range again! Duane is dominating the game in Michael's way!"

"Dwight has defended to the extreme, but he still can't guard every ball of Du En. We need more people to limit Du En's scoring!"

"Duane's touch was too hot. Stan should have called a timeout to cool down Duane."

The fans at the TD Waterhouse Center saw Duan succeed in defensive singles against Howard again and again in the fourth quarter, making valuable mid-range shots time and time again to stabilize the score, and their mentality became more and more explosive.

Twelve years ago, Jordan led the Bulls in this way in the Eastern Conference Finals, defeating the Magic led by O'Neal and Penny Hardaway.

After playing this series, O'Neal ran to Los Angeles, and within a few years he built the Lakers dynasty in Los Angeles.

Now the Magic finally got another big man and finally trained Howard.

Dunn wouldn't break Howard's mentality in a similar way to Jordan, and then drive Howard away to the Western Conference, right?
  Miami next door has already won the championship. When can we in Orlando win the championship?
  Seeing the former star Penny Hardaway sitting on the Bulls bench, the mood of Magic fans can only be described as fuck.

However, it wasn't long before Penny Hardaway got on the court and hit a mid-range jumper with his signature turnaround step-back jumper.

There are more than 5 minutes left in the game, and the Bulls' lead is only seven or eight points.

Hardaway was effective as soon as he came up, seizing the opportunity to increase the Bulls' two-point gap, and the Magic players were immediately numb.

Next, in the offensive round, the Magic players have no other good options except breaking through to draw a foul and standing on the free throw line.

With 3 minutes left in the game, Josh Smith also accumulated 6 fouls.

However, the Bulls still maintain a 7-point lead.

The Bulls continued to lower the pace of the game and played steadily. Until the last minute, the scoring advantage was still maintained at more than 1 points.

97 to 91, the Bulls once again won the Eastern Conference semifinals, advancing the series to 3-0.

The next game entered the game mode that the Bulls are familiar with.

The Bulls don't use the script given by the league, but only follow their own script.

It was another 4-1 series, and the Bulls made it to the Eastern Conference finals.

The other Eastern Conference finals team has yet to see a conclusion at this time.

The Celtics have a Big Three configuration, and they are actually inextricably tied with the Cavaliers.

After taking a closer look, I realized that the knight was also supported by noble people. (End of chapter)