Center first

Chapter 343
At the end of halftime, the Magic team was behind. Not only the 2 people sitting in the Amway Arena were rubbing their eyes, but even more fans watching the game in front of the TV were also rubbing their eyes. I dare to believe that this is a real score. The Magic team, which was leading in the first quarter, is now behind. This is a big mouth for many people, especially those who are optimistic about the Magic team sweeping their opponents.

Especially the people of Orlando can hardly believe that in a game where Howard can score 20 points in a half, when did they lose again? You must know that the big guy has always been the first player who can only score more than a dozen points in each game. No. [-] attack option, but the bright red score told them that none of this was an illusion. The Miami Heat had reversed the entire situation before halftime. Although they were only one point ahead of them, the Miami people did not give up winning. Opportunity, their counterattack in the second quarter was so resolute, even a bit tragic.

Reversal of six points in a single quarter may not seem so dazzling, but it is enough to make Orlando people feel the coolness from the bottom of their hearts. The opponent has not given up any chance to attack. The resistance in the first quarter may be enough. Seeing that the opponent is relying on willpower to hold on there, then in the second quarter, they saw more of a group of fighter-like guys carrying out their Jedi counterattack there.

Every ball must be fought desperately, and every ball must be desperately rushed to the opponent's basket. Even the rebounds are a bit tragic. Bunche Wells can even go to Warcraft for a rebound. , the entire Miami Heat team seemed to be guided by the spirit of the big man's crazy attack. Everyone kept up with clockwork, and they were tirelessly attacking the Magic's defense line, piercing the Magic's last line time and time again. The tough defensive lineup rewrites the score on the scorer again and again.

In the 24th minute, Lin Yi ran on the field for two full quarters. When the halftime whistle sounded, he almost immediately picked up a drink to replenish his energy and replenished water non-stop. His sweat-soaked clothes were tight. It was tightly attached to his skin, and his face was covered with traces of sweat. A white towel was almost soaked in his sweat. He kept panting heavily, and the heavy breathing came from him. It hasn't stopped since entering the locker room.

It might be the first time for Pat Riley to feel that he was a little cruel. He looked at Lin Yi who was trying to recover his breathing rhythm, and he had no extravagance except praying for that little guy from the bottom of his heart.A rookie in the first grade, a little guy with no help, can play so well in such a game, what more can he ask for?He couldn't do it anymore, and now he only regrets why he didn't pick more inside players to enrich his team, and now Lin Yi has to shoulder so many things alone.

Without the desperate impact of this little guy in the second quarter, maybe the Miami people have already begun to collapse. Maybe no team can play so well with such a lack of personnel, at least in the history of Miami. No guy can lead his team to attack the opponent so fiercely in such a passive situation.

That kid is just like a monster, and a monster full of wisdom. Even Pat Riley started to applaud Lin Yi's offensive rhythm in the second quarter. That kid is so smart, his offensive changes made the opponent Falling into a passive position, although his number of shots is increasing, that guy is not abusing his shooting opportunities. The shooting percentage made Pat Riley loudly call on his players on the sidelines to try to squeeze the ball to Lin Yi, that guy is using this kind of shooting to force the opponent's defense to change passively, and he is using this method to wear down the opponent's inside resistance little by little.

Wade quietly watched Lin Yi trying to calm his breathing. All he could do was hand that guy a cleaner towel. Now he really wanted to help him in that arena. His little brother, that little guy played too hard in these two quarters, if Wade himself was replaced in his place, Flash didn't think he could last for so long.

It's not like he hasn't fallen into such a passive situation before. Maybe Flash can pierce the opponent's defense with his own feet, but he definitely doesn't think he has that guy's madness. Maybe he can continue to attack like this in a game, Two quarters of the game can also be supported, but he will still give up tiredly at the end, but that kid will not. From his eyes, it can be seen that this kid has never given up the game. If he can move his body on the court, then he will definitely play until the last second.

"Boy, those supporters in Miami call you a guardian. You really don't call it a guardian. Sometimes you are like a guardian. From today onwards, no one may forget that you used to exist here, no matter what Are you still here in the future, no one will ignore the memory you left for Miami, and this game may be written into the minds of every Miami person." Wade didn't say anything, but he was watching When Lin Yi was there, he felt that that little guy had covered everyone's light, including himself.

At this time, Lin Yi didn't have the mood like Wade and cared what others thought. He kept replenishing the water lost by his body and tried his best to calm down his breathing. A 15-minute rest time was a long time for him. Precious, if he wants to continue his steady attacking momentum in the second half, then he must recover in such a short time, this may be the toughest game he has ever played.

On offense, he is the team's first choice. On defense, he has to carry the guy with the biggest physique of the opponent. Lin Yi's physical expenditure on both ends of the offense and defense can be said to have reached a peak, but this guy has never dropped in the entire game. With his own movement speed, the opponent's inside line also exposed too many loopholes because of his footsteps. Howard was also as embarrassed as Lin Yi. In addition to being much lower than his opponent in terms of statistics, he was more Pay the same cost, especially in defense.

The scariest thing is when Lin Yi stops hitting the basket. That guy's mid-range can cover anywhere in the penalty area, plus that guy's voice height and wingspan, almost no one can use his own Howard's big hand interfered with that guy's shooting, and Howard had worked hard enough to track that guy's footsteps, but what he could often catch was just the shadow of that guy passing by.

Lin deliberately avoided the direct collision between him and Howard, and smashed his opponent at both ends of the basket. He believed that he was not a lunatic. He didn't have that kind of physical strength, and he didn't want to consume himself like this, especially if the opponent In deliberate pursuit of such a physical confrontation, Lin Yike had no intention of letting Van Gundy calculate himself there. When he was dealing with Howard's inside chasing and defending, he almost never stopped his crazy dancing. His flexible movement pace shuttles through the opponent's inside line.

With ghostly moves, lightning-like shots, and precise hits, it was the first time Lin Yi used such a shooter-like style of play to attack the inside line. He abandoned his traditional low-post requirements and began to become agile. The impact of the guy started to drop, but the guy's scoring started to climb quarter by quarter, and the guy used his shooting as his weapon for the first time.

In the past, Lin Yi existed more as a tactical choice, and more often he relied on his height to drive the team. He attacked the opponent's inside line to seek more open opportunities for his outside line. Today, however, this kid regards himself as an offensive terminator. He has completely started to unleash his offensive firepower, and he is using shots that are not usually used to pull the opponent's defense.

At this moment, he is not a traditional center, but more like the German who has been in Dallas for a few years, but it is this transformation that puts Orlando in a dilemma, and their defense is also because of this guy. Various problems began to appear in the change of offensive rhythm, following defense?Howard is not the kind of person who is confident in his bones. He never thought that he could catch up with that guy Lin Yi.top defense?You have to stand up to him. Lin Yi basically catches the ball from a high position now, and he basically doesn't get the ball with his back.Rotate marking?Forget it, look at what happened to Lewis and Turkoglu and you should give up this idea. Their two disadvantages in height and strength make them difficult to block shots or one-on-one marking. I suffered a great loss.

Lin Yi's two ball-holding singles in the second quarter were made on these two guys. One time, after throwing Howard away, he carried Turkoglu's body and forcibly hit the basket. The Turk once again enjoyed the feeling of suffocation in his chest. He was even squeezed directly from the basket to the basketball hoop by Lin Yi. If there was not a bracket there as a buffer, maybe he would have rushed directly into the basketball hoop without any suspense. Go among the crowd, although there are beauties from the cheerleaders beside him, but he doesn't want to have such an embarrassing contact.

However, compared with Lewis, the Turk is much luckier, because the unlucky Lewis was almost directly swayed by Lin Yi's defensive position with a fake move in the front, and then rushed directly to the basket. It hit Lewis hard, and the grinning expression of the poor guy at the moment he was knocked over had already expressed how much pain he was in.

Perhaps the most depressing thing is Howard. He never stopped his footsteps. This may be the most tiring game he has ever played, even when he faced the double defense of Perkins and Garnett. Tired, Lin Yi, who was like a loach, never gave him any chance to directly confront him, and always circled around other people's bodies, that's how that top-like guy kept holding Howard's nose and dangling around. , All of Howard's efforts can be wasted with a cold shot.

One person dominates the game, maybe Orlando and those who predicted that the Heat will lose will not willingly admit this, but the performance of that little guy in the first half is exactly what is meant by dominance, he can even use With the power of his own hands to change the fate of a team, a terrible guy, a guy who showed his sharpness for the first time.

Maybe since Jordan left this league, few people have such ability. Maybe Kobe counts as one, maybe AI counts as one, maybe even the little emperor counts as one, but people have forgotten how long they haven’t seen a big man On the court, they can still dominate the game like this. Dameng has done it before, and Ewing has done it before, but they can only dominate one position, one or two games.

This is no longer the age when centers were rampant. After the demise of the golden age of centers in the 90s, the four-person center that has become part of history has been sealed in the memory of too many people. In the past few years, there are only a few sporadic big men who are eligible to be remembered by this league. O'Neill, Uncle Africa, Yao, Duncan, a few people, and more big men have become meteors. Characters, gone with the wind, without leaving even a trace.

A group of crazier forwards and guards has replaced all the inside long men, fast moves, elegant layups, fierce air strikes, this is the main theme of the NBA now, and even those damn rules have begun to be tailored for these people, The center has gradually become a victim of this league, no matter in terms of function or rules. Not many people want to see two guys at the basket competing with each other in terms of their moving pace and small hooks at the basket. , and that seemingly simple, but actually complicated, cross step under the basket.

When center forwards have already begun to become fringe figures, in the finals of the Eastern Conference, they began to stage such a peak matchup. Perhaps this is a call for the glory of this position in the past. The two teams that also have strong center forwards laughed. In the end, they stepped on the bodies of the defending champion and the regular season champion respectively into the Eastern Conference finals. It seemed that overnight, the glory of the center returned to the league.

Pierce, LeBron James, look at these people who fell at their feet, and you can understand why the media defined this game as a battle of giants. They know very well that the key to the outcome of this game is there , no one doubts that the strength of the Magic is more dominant, but at the same time no one doubts that only when Howard controls the opponent, the Magic can successfully get the tickets to the finals.

The one who wins the center wins the world. This sentence seems to be a suitable footnote for the present. Two guys who can control the basket determine the progress of the game and the final result. The same is true for one game. The first half of the contest was all focused on these two guys. The frequency of the two of them on TV almost exceeded the number of times the rest of them combined.

Maybe the Miami Heat were forced to play a bit out of helplessness, but the coaches of both sides are very aware of how important it is to them to control the basket. Even if the Magic have so many peripheral killers, they also need rebounds Only then can they shoot the ball with confidence. When facing Lin Yi, it may be the first time that these guys no longer have the feeling that they must score. They always have more scruples when shooting. The most important factor was reversed in the second quarter.

Although Lin Yi didn't grab a few rebounds in the second quarter, that guy has been restraining Howard in the fight for the position. Even if he can't catch the rebounds that fall sideways, the opponent often can only look at the rebounds. The ball has become a battle for the ground, and the smaller Heat players will take advantage of it, especially Bunch Wells, whoever wants to lie on the floor with this tonnage guy to grab the ball, it is best to advance I prayed for my ribs, and that savage guy swung his head, but the result was either death or injury, don't you believe it?You go ask Turkoglu why he was still clutching his left waist when he was off the court, there is guaranteed to be a souvenir left by Bunche.

Those two little guys are using such performance to rewrite this kind of history. The confrontation between them has awakened all the memories of the center position. This is not the era of Chamberlain, but they use the same hands as the Big Dipper Reminding everyone that a center can be the protagonist in this kind of arena, they can also dominate both ends of the arena, and they can also be the greatest person on this basketball court.

It's just that the performance of one of them was a little too dazzling, so dazzling that people couldn't open their eyes to look directly at it. Under the leadership of this guy, an incomplete lineup started the craziest counterattack. The lightning-like attack speed from one The center forward's hand started to launch, what a terrifying scene, especially when that guy's shot began to make people feel desperate, that suffocating feeling began to permeate everyone's heart, the center forward, this distance The closest attacker to the basket is exerting its strongest power.

All Van Gundy's wishful thinking was disrupted by a guy who didn't rest, and he was even more unlikely to replace Howard from the field. He was definitely not naive enough to think that Gortat could go to Lin in this state now. What trouble is there, he has no good countermeasures other than using such a lineup to fight his opponents all the way. If his team has problems with the rotation, then he is the biggest scapegoat, maybe only After that guy is really tired, he can seize the chance of victory. Look at the sweaty look of that kid now, maybe he can rest for a while in the third quarter.

Maybe, everything is just maybe, what if that guy just hangs out like this for more than 10 minutes?Big Van Gundy didn't even dare to imagine whether his team would have a mental breakdown if such a guy really attacked for 10 minutes. He really didn't dare to think about it, because that kind of picture was too much It's scary, every time that guy's hand pushes the basketball into the air, Van Gundy can even feel his heart is about to jump out of his mouth, but that guy never let go of the opportunity to torture himself like this , that basketball always goes directly into the basket without any suspense, so that Van Gundy can only wave his hands helplessly several times, he is disgusted with such mental torture now, damn it, I would rather let this The guy is wreaking havoc at the basket, and he doesn't want him to lead his three big men in circles in the penalty area. He seems to have regarded the inside of the Magic team as his own back garden. Going in and out of there at will, damn it, damn it!

Everyone is excited about the second half of the match between these two teams. Maybe the 15-minute rest time is too long for them. The big man No. 34 is fascinated by everyone. I don’t know how many people have become fascinated by the guy’s elegant moves in front of the TV. Everyone is waiting for the start of the second half. Individuals are staring at the TV screen intently, but they are not simply watching the game, but also playing a game.

"Mr. Huang, I don't know if such a team is worth such a price. One year, my team only took one year to return to this level. Don't forget, now my team is on the field Those players on the table are not the absolute main players, if they were replaced by the absolute main players, maybe it would be another scene, maybe this year’s championship will belong to Miami, just like in 05, it was a wonderful moment.” A ignited The old white man with cigar pointing Jiangshan was looking at the person opposite his desk and said.

"If your team didn't have that quality, maybe I wouldn't be sitting here. It's undeniable that the Miami Heat are as fascinating as the city of Miami, and he definitely has a lot of potential, which is why I The reason why I flew here from country Z is because I got off the plane and came here without jet lag, which represents my sincerity."

The person on the opposite side of the table smiled and pushed his glasses, and behind the thin lenses revealed a confident light, the two looked at each other without too much words, but after a while, the two There is a smile on the corner of everyone's mouth, maybe some things have already been kept silent.

"Let's watch the game. I'm used to deciding on some things after the outcome is decided." The old white man pointed to the TV screen and said.

"It's an honor," replied the person across the table.

Perhaps the moment when the game is decided is also the moment when the fate of many people begins to change. . .

No one can guess what will happen in the future. . .Like the outcome of this game, no one can predict the outcome. . .Maybe only the big man is the one who decides the outcome in the end. . .

(I saw Tencent’s sports news after surfing the Internet...Stoudemire is leaving the Suns, and there is a possibility of exchanging with the Nets for YI Emperor + Courtney Lee?!!! Is it my eyes that have a problem, or the editor’s brain? Is there a problem??? The owner of the Suns has his head squeezed by the door... this... just kidding!)

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