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Chapter 342
The 5-minute pause did not reduce the atmosphere at the Amway Arena. Instead, they were always attracted by the wonderful replays played on the big screen. Many people even forgot whose home field it was, and they would still do it for that The guy in the No. 34 jersey applauds, but it's often only after they've done the applause that they notice that the guy is wearing a Heat jersey.

It’s true that this is Orlando, but the people here really can’t refuse such a fierce confrontation at the basket. After O’Neal left this city, they lacked a big man to support them under the basket. Now they have Howard, however, that guy sometimes seems too strong, and there are too many center duels in this league, but the No. 34 kid staged another confrontation between the peak giants for this place today, which makes everyone Everyone could feel their blood boiling.

The battle between the two giants will continue, and fans throughout the Amway Arena are starting to get excited about the re-emergence of these two guys. Maybe they will worry that the Miami kid will cause trouble for their team. , but who can refuse such a confrontation between big men, that gorgeous pace at the basket and that tyrannical strength are simply unstoppable.

After playing for a full [-] minutes, the head coaches of the two teams did not make any personnel adjustments. If the Heat did not have anyone available, then the Magic wanted to use their strongest lineup to attack Losing the opponent and leading by five points does not guarantee them the final victory. When they feel tired, the opponent may become even more tired.

This is Van Gundy's idea of ​​dragging down the opponent, even if he wants to use all his main force to fight the opponent for half the time. In such a head-to-head game, whoever retreats first may be the final loser, and he hopes Howard can continue to use his body to consume the physical strength of the guy at the basket. Since the opponent chooses to play like this, there is no reason for Van Gundy to refuse.

The whistle sounded at the beginning of the second quarter, followed by another tough confrontation, especially the dialogue between Lin Yi and Howard, which also became more intense. The Magic's baseline serve was entangled by the opponent. Chalmers' pressing on Alston has already started from the opponent's half, and Pat Riley has no intention of giving the opponent any chance to play a positional battle slowly.

Since he is at a disadvantage, it doesn't matter about maintaining his physical strength. He wants to use Chalmers' youth to fight against his opponent's old age. At least in terms of point guard, the Miami people are not at a disadvantage in terms of body and strength. , Pat Riley told Chalmers at the end of the first quarter, if you want to play comfortably, then don't let your opponent feel any comfort.

Although Chalmers' entanglement did not make Alstom lose control of the basketball, it obviously delayed the progress of the Magic. It took a full six seconds to advance through the half court, which made the 24-second A quarter of the offensive time has been consumed, not to mention that Chalmers' close defense made Alstom unable to find a good passing opportunity, so he had no choice but to transfer the basketball horizontally to Courtney Lee .

The tight blockade and Stackhouse's personal marking did not give Courtney Lee any good opportunities to cooperate with the passing and cutting. He could only let the basketball stay outside the three-point line. With the last ten seconds left, Turkoglu, who received the pass, found a chance to hit the basketball inside, but Howard's position was already firmly locked by Lin Yi.

However, this did not stop Howard from trying to slash with the ball. The moment this tough guy caught the ball, he had already begun to unleash his strength, and Lin Yi's thick back kept fighting against Lin Yi's arm violently. Howard will not stop this style of play. He will use his body as a weapon to consume the opponent's physical strength in a head-to-head confrontation, as Van Gundy explained, until the opponent is unable to resist. It will stop such an onslaught.

Howard's force with the ball seemed to be more fierce than in the previous quarter. The burst of strength when that strong shoulder pressed against Lin Yi's chest made Lin Yi unconsciously take a step back, but Lin Yi Howard's hand never left Howard's face. Relying on his advantage in height, he let his hand cover the opponent's sight, and Howard's shot also lost his accuracy because of this confrontation. , Although that kind of momentum is very domineering, but after all, it was not able to score directly.

Hold on!After Lin Yi blocked the opponent's shot, he grabbed the falling basketball with his own hands. The explosive force in the fight for position also made Howard feel a tightness in his chest. The one who was squeezed by him The guy behind him used his back to hold back the possibility of Howard continuing to attack the inside to grab rebounds after he took the shot.

"From now on, we can't let the opponent continue to play like this inside." Lin Yi remembered Pat Riley's explanation. If he wanted to shift the Magic's tactics from the inside to the outside, he must completely control both offense and defense. Howard, if not, then waiting for him will be an irreparable failure, must force the opponent to give up the attempt to attack inside.

Resisting Howard's tough rebuttal, Lin Yi let those big hands hold his position firmly under the basket. Howard's hands that were also stretched into the air in an attempt to snatch the rebound have been carried behind him, and Lin Yi is in the air. The moment it fell, he had already withstood Howard's body, and his hands holding the ball vigorously threw the basketball to the outside.

After taking off the rebound, Lin Yi passed the ball to Chalmers at the fastest speed, and he ran forward without stopping for a moment. In the 5 minutes just now, he has accumulated enough strength. In the game, he does not intend to be stingy with his physical strength. If he wants to reverse the current situation where the Miami Heat are lagging behind, then he must contribute more strength. He must try his best to shake off his opponent. To get himself an opportunity to attack, the physical exertion of carrying the basket to death is too great, so he must adjust his offensive method appropriately.

When Chalmers controlled the basketball and passed Alston's defense, the entire Miami Heat's offensive players had all entered the opponent's half, and Lin Yi had already plunged into the inside of the Magic.Lin Yi's quick steps forward made Howard have to use his fastest speed to retreat, but he was blocked by Lin Yi when he was confronting the basket just now, which made his follow-up footsteps obviously slower than his opponent's On the first line, sometimes such a gap will determine many things, especially when competing for positions.

Chalmers didn't waste such an opportunity, he got rid of Alston very quickly, and the speed of his passing also echoed the progress of his team. When Lin Yi stepped into the penalty area of ​​the Magic, Chalmers had already Let the basketball penetrate the opponent's defense, Turkoglu is the only guy who can keep up with Lin Yi, but he can only watch the big guy catch a pass from Chalmers in front of him .

The pass seemed a bit high in order to pass the Magic team's perimeter defense. Lin Yi had to stretch his arms as far as possible to reach the basketball, which gave Turkoglu a chance to stand on Lin Yi's side. , As soon as Lin received the basketball, Turkoglu had already blocked his direct shooting position. The Turk's idea was very simple, he just wanted to let his opponent lose the opportunity to attack directly.

Such a guy is best left to Howard to mark, and my role is to delay his offensive steps as much as possible. As long as I can stop this guy and wait for Howard to return to the defense, then a closed cage has been formed. That It will not be easy to break through such a chain defense. Perhaps this is the result that Van Gundy wants most, a cage that traps the beast.

But Turkoglu and Big Van Gundy seem to have forgotten something. If it is a beast, he may be deceived by human cleverness, especially when he is facing a desperate situation, he may appear very flustered, but Lin - In addition to possessing beast-like explosive power, he also has his own basketball IQ. Of course, he understands why Turkey is pulling.

The moment he started playing basketball, Lin Yi had already made up his mind to complete his turn and rely on hitting movements, especially when the opponent behind him had been replaced by the Turk, he would not be stingy with his impact footsteps, A violent back cut had turned Turkoglu's defense into a fishing net, and the big white man's body could not stop Lin Yi's head-on impact.

Lin Yi ate Turkoglu's defense with that unstoppable explosive power. When the Turk faced such a brutal style of play, all he could do was to use a European-style cunning to cheat an attack. A chance to foul, but it is obvious that Lin Yi will not give him such an opportunity. Lin Yi almost completed the turn close to Turkoglu's body, but his two arms did not move extraneously at all, and his body's center of gravity did not move. It has deviated from the track of contact between two people. This confrontation method did not give Turkoglu a chance to cheat foul at all, and his body leaning back in advance gave Lin Yi a chance to attack with the ball.

Pressing the opponent's body, Lin Yi, who held the ball with one hand, used his height and wingspan to directly push the basketball towards the basket, while Turkoglu, who had lost his position, could only look up and watch the opponent complete the attack It's time for action, there is no need to raise his hands anymore, especially since his body has been knocked out of his defensive position by that guy's force, now he doesn't even have a chance to stabilize his body, staggering His footsteps almost made him fall directly into the crowd of reporters.

His hands pulled hard on the basket again. At the moment Howard pounced, Lin Yi had already completed all his attacking moves, and there might be only Turkoglu retreating in embarrassment in the space under the basket. Howard, who was chasing up to defend him, soared into the air in vain, but his big hand didn't catch anything at all. Oh, maybe he caught the air, but the basketball he wanted to fly the most has been shot by a big hand. Pressed hard into the basket.

Howard, who was behind the ground, only saw a back leaving from his penalty area. The dazzling No. 34 completed his attack in such a short time, and he didn't even have time to let the Magic team close the cage. It has already escaped from the cage like a tyrannical beast, leaving only a broken cage for the Magic, embarrassing everyone, and even Van Gundy can only shake his head helplessly off the court.

He can't blame Turkoglu's defense, because that guy has tried his best. Facing such a guy who has an advantage in height and strength, what he can do is very limited, and Howard has already run back desperately, but that The footsteps of the defense are obviously not as fast as the opponent's drive to the basket, a perfect time difference, that damn kid always seizes such an opportunity, damn, that pervert.

Quick attack!It took Lin Yi less than six seconds from grabbing the rebound to the end of the attack. His long legs completed the task of crossing the court in such a short moment, and the chasing after him Howard, who was defending against him, hadn't even stepped into his three-second zone when he took off. Such an impact speed is simply a terrifying existence for a center forward.

Maybe it's only at this time that Van Gundy can think of the moving speed of that big guy who once held the ball in the high position and beat Nowitzki and Duncan alone. That guy has never lacked any sprint ability, but he uses himself more often. Those big hands solve a lot of problems, but he never lacks the footsteps to move past the opponent's center. Don't forget, the guy's most famous weapon is his pair of feet that can step out of the fantasy dance.

Although he doesn't have the lightning speed of those swingmen, but when that tall figure shuttles across the field, it is enough to make people feel a sense of suffocation. Look at Turkoglu's pale face You know, what kind of quick attack he just enjoyed, a quick counterattack led by the center forward, damn it, this is simply a kind of mental torture for the Turks.

After Lin Yi succeeded in attacking, he quickly retreated to his own half. His idea was very simple. He couldn't avoid the opponent's strong impact when defending, so he had to save as much physical strength as possible when attacking. He should try to avoid the necessary direct confrontation, especially when he is in physical contact with that black and strong guy, he has to choose the timing of the contact even more.

"A smart guy, it seems that our cage needs to be made bigger, that guy will never get in obediently, hey, is that kid really a novice who has only played professional basketball for a year? Why does he always look so cunning? It’s like he’s been on this basketball court for decades.” Big Van Gundy said helplessly to his assistant coach, and his assistant coach could only hold back A wry smile responded to his boss. When they watched that guy’s game highlights in private, they already felt a headache, but now when these things are changed to reality and experienced for themselves, you will find that the TV shows Sometimes those things are not necessarily true, and that guy is definitely more of a headache than in the camera.

"We may have to be thankful that there is only one such guy in the league. If there are more, I think I will choose to be a fan in the stands instead of sitting here and being tortured by them." The assistant coach's answer made everyone Van Gundy agrees very much that if that monster has three or five players in this league, then he really needs to think about his job. Defending against such a guy is simply a test of his heart.

Lin Yi’s changes in offense and defense made the Magic seem a little uncomfortable. The guy who was playing hard inside in the last quarter began to diversify his offensive options, especially when he started with changing shooting positions. Mobilizing Howard must always be by his side. That guy's mid-range shooting is always a sharp knife hanging over the head of the Magic. When preparing for the game, Van Gundy has been talking about these things. He is a high-rate mid-range shooter, absolutely don't give him any chance to make a comfortable shot.

But in the first quarter, Lin Yi basically didn't use his mid-range to open up the situation for the Heat. Instead, he played more of a hard attack at the basket, but in the second quarter, this The sharp knife finally began to shine its own light. The consecutive hits kept the scores of the two teams from being separated for a moment. From leading the opponent by five points to now only have a gap of about one point, all this is because of that guy. Both hands kept throwing the basketball into the basket.

One point, yes, sometimes the Miami lead by one point, which made Van Gundy, who originally wanted to widen the gap between the two teams in the second quarter, scratch his head a bit. His cage tactics did not play their due role, because That guy hardly gives others a chance to double-team himself. He basically stopped asking for the ball in the low post in the second quarter, and started to use his feet to start cruising. Every place he threw off the defense could be his. At the point of attack, the precise shooting rewrote the score on the scoreboard again and again.

Howard, who was always ready to give the opponent a good look at the basket, was embarrassed to find that he could hardly catch the slippery guy who looked like a loach. Every time he tried to catch the opponent, he would find that he had no way to block the opponent's shot Action, that guy's pair of big hands no longer tore the basket, but began to rewrite the rhythm of the game with scoring.

The entire Magic team lineup began to be torn apart by that guy. Sometimes Magic fans can only find embarrassingly that the people trying to block the guy's shots are constantly changing, from Turkoglu to Lewis, almost every member of the Magic team trying to control the penalty area has to face the situation where that guy keeps shuttling inside, and the guy's shot point also begins to cover near the three-second zone. There is no fixed range, only fixed Scoring, that missile-like shooting arc kept rising in the Magic's penalty area.

Once, twice, every time that guy raised his hands, it would cheer up the nerves of the Orlando Magic fans. Every attack seemed so decisive, without any evasion, just holding the ball and running. , no longer pulling the basket like in the first quarter, but this will not prevent the number on the scoreboard from changing constantly, and the bright red number looks so dazzling at this moment.

One timeout, two timeouts, Van Gundy's consecutive timeouts did not bring the Magic back to the normal track, they were always involved in a person's offensive footsteps, that person seemed to be directly inserted into their bodies Like sharp thorns, it stimulated their nerves fiercely, keeping their nerves tense all the time. Even if they had retracted their formation inwards, trying to make that guy have no room to move, they still couldn't stop that guy. The guy threw basketballs into the hoop one by one.

Moving, catching, shooting, and returning to defense, this is like a fixed program. Every time the big man catches the ball inside, there are people around him interfering with him, but his footsteps can always catch When it comes to various loopholes in the defensive line, his shots are so stable and deadly. Every time he shakes his wrist, he will beat with the nerves of more than 2 people.

He made 32 out of [-] shots and didn't have a single free throw opportunity. Lin Yilian only grabbed three rebounds while defending in this quarter, but his score suddenly increased to [-] points. In the era, but a novice used such a performance to make the magic team's commentator lose the ability to express words. He could only tell mechanically that the guy scored again, he scored again, and he already scored [-] points , Thirty points, maybe if the whistle of the game hadn't sounded, that guy might have scored forty points in the first half.

In contrast, Howard's 22 points are a bit inferior. Maybe this is the rare game where Howard can score 20+ in half, but the guy's body is shining too brightly. He almost used a The power of people covers up everyone in Orlando.

Accounting for 65% of the team's shots, Lin Yi was like a dictator in the whole first half, firmly grasping the team's offensive rhythm. He may be the starting point of the offense here, but more often he will do it. For a terminator to appear in the opponent's penalty area, he used this performance to bite the scores of the two teams tightly, 64:[-], and the Miami Heat led by one point.

A cage of trapped animals that had been arranged for a long time was opened by that guy with both hands, and the teeth of the beast flashed in the center of the Amway Arena again. Big Van Gundy could even feel the flickering on the cold teeth. bloodthirsty light. . .

Maybe this night in Orlando will be very bloody. . .

(Chinese New Year is coming... I want red envelopes... If you don't give them, I will cry for you... I want lucky money... I want new clothes... This month's income has been reduced again... no more red envelopes If so, I really want to cry to death... Depressed, the Heat lost to the Cavaliers again today, only one point away, alas, melancholy, also 32 points, why does Wade always lose such matchups at the last moment? …)
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