super point guard

Chapter 260

Coach Stan Van Gundy is really angry!

When the timeout ended and the game resumed, the starting five of the Orlando Magic all returned to the court, and even the backup shooting guard JJ-Redick, who had made three consecutive outside three-pointers and long shots, also returned to the bench at the table.It can be seen that the current coach Stan Van Gundy is a little anxious and wants to rely on the main players to quickly catch up with the lagging score.

However, chasing points is not so easy.

It is not as long as all the main players of the team are sent to the field, the score can be recovered.

But right now coach Stan Van Gundy has no other options.

This game is already the third game in the series between the Orlando Magic and the Indiana Pacers, and the Orlando Magic are now 0:2 behind the Indiana Pacers.In this game tonight, the Orlando Magic cannot afford to lose again. If they continue to lose, the team's season will basically end early.

However, now the Orlando Magic have trailed the Indiana Pacers by nine points 32:41, and the game has come to the second half of the second quarter.No matter how you look at it, the situation of the game is not on the side of the Orlando Magic.

Prior to this, although the Orlando Magic relied on the backup shooting guard JJ-Redick to make three consecutive outside three-pointers and long shots, which once set off a counterattack climax, they were quickly suppressed by the Indiana Pacers.

After the lack of the team's head star "Warcraft" Howard, coach Stan Van Gundy really has no good way to help the team win the game.So it can be seen how important Dwight Howard is to the Orlando Magic.

On the side of the Indiana Pacers, coach Larry Brown only sent two main players, namely small forward Danny Granger and center Roy Hibbert, and the other players were still all substitute players. .

"Do they think they can beat us without having to put the main players on the field at all?" Coach Stan Van Gundy thought angrily.

The game's referee Tom Washington blew his whistle and the game restarted.

Orlando Magic starting point guard Jameer Nelson receives the ball from Jason Richardson and begins dribbling forward.However, Jameer Nelson had just dribbled the ball, and Xu Nuo clung to it.

"Crowd press?" Coach Stan Van Gundy frowned.

Promise and Paul George both played in the backcourt, preventing the Orlando Magic from advancing forward with an extremely oppressive defense.Jameer Nelson couldn't quite shake off the promised press and jumped up to hand the ball to Jason Richardson, but Paul George clung to it again.

"It's really stalking!" Jason Richardson gritted his teeth and said bitterly.

"The lead is clearly on their side, why should they use the full-court press defense at this time?" Coach Stan Van Gundy touched his chin and thought in his heart.

Usually, the team that falls too far behind in the game will resort to a full-court press defense, forcing the dribbling team to make mistakes, taking this opportunity to steal the opponent and score, so that they can slowly catch up to the score.However, the current Indiana Pacers lead the Orlando Magic by nine points. There is no need to use a full-court press defense at all. However, the Indiana Pacers are indeed using a full-court press defense at this time.

"Speaking of the full-court press defense, we should be using it now!" Coach Stan Van Gundy said to himself, "It's just that such a defensive tactic is too exhausting, so it's better to use it at this time." It's not worth it. I really don't understand what Coach Larry Brown is thinking..."

The players of the Orlando Magic on the court passed the ball several times and finally advanced the ball to the frontcourt. "Big Baby" Glenn Davis gets the ball and, as always, holds the ball with his back to Tyler Hansbrough.

"Hey, don't you use pick-and-roll tactics anymore?" Xu Nuo thought in his heart.

Glenn Davis didn't pass the ball to anyone, and the rest of the Orlando Magic spaced out and created opportunities for Glenn Davis to isolate.With his back to Tyler Hansbrough, Glenn Davis starts a dribble single.However, when Glenn Davis turned around and raised his hand to shoot, Tyler Hansbrough pressed the ball in Glenn Davis's hand abruptly!

"What?" Coach Stan Van Gundy, who was standing on the sidelines supervising the game, and the fans of the home team in the stands around the stadium were all taken aback.

Glenn Davis opened his mouth in equal surprise when he saw his shot blocked by Tyler Hansbrough.At this time, the Indiana Pacers launched a quick counterattack, and the players of the Orlando Magic hurried back to the defense.Xu Nuo saw that the Orlando Magic's defense was shaky, and with a flick of his wrist, the ball came to Danny Granger.At this time, Danny Granger was standing at his best shooting point - outside the 45-degree three-point line | -, and there were no Orlando Magic players defending in front of him.

"No!" Jason Richardson yelled, rushing towards Danny Granger.Danny Granger, however, took a shot from beyond the [-]-point line before Jason Richardson could pounce, and the ball flew high over Jason Richardson's arm, tumbling through the air, and headed for the hoop. go.

"Don't enter!" This is what the more than 1 home team fans in the Amway Center Arena prayed in their hearts at this time.

However, Danny Granger disappointed the home team fans, the ball went straight through the net like a sharp arrow.The ball hit the floor with a "bang" and rebounded.

"No way..." some home team fans shouted in despair.

For most NBA players and NBA fans, this is just an ordinary outside three-pointer in an ordinary NBA playoffs.However, for Orlando Magic players and fans, it means despair.

Because just after Danny Granger made a long three-pointer from the outside, the Indiana Pacers' lead has been extended to twelve points, and the score is 44:32.The first half of the game is coming to an end. If they enter the intermission with a disadvantage of more than ten points, it will undoubtedly be a fatal blow to the Orlando Magic.

For the current Orlando Magic, if they can reduce the point difference to less than ten points before the end of halftime, the second half of the game will be relatively easy.However, getting the Orlando Magic back to within ten proved to be a difficult task as the Indiana Pacers once again resorted to a full-court press defense.

"Damn it!" Coach Stan Van Gundy thought bitterly, "We must quickly break through their full-court press defense, otherwise, we will fall behind more and more!"

At that moment, Xu Nuo broke the ball in Jameer Nelson's hands in the backcourt of the Orlando Magic, and then completed the attack with a dunk.

"Fourteen points!" said the game commentator in the Amway Center arena. "The Orlando Magic are [-] points behind the Indiana Pacers at home! It seems that the Orlando Magic should really think about it now. Stop the team from losing points!"

Coach Stan Van Gundy paced back and forth on the edge of the court anxiously, with an increasingly anxious look on his face, and he seemed to be getting more and more impatient.On the court, Jason Richardson broke through Paul George's defense, went into the Indiana Pacers paint area, scored a layup, and also caused a defensive foul by Tyler Hansbrough.

"Keep working hard!" Some fans stood up from the stands beside the court and shouted at the Orlando Magic players on the court. "It only takes one round, and we will be able to reduce the point difference to less than ten!"

"Shrink to less than ten?" Xu Nuo thought coldly in his heart, "Don't even think about it!"

Jason Richardson stepped to the free throw line and made a solid extra free throw to make it 35:46.At this moment, the buzzer in the Amway Center Arena sounded, and the Indiana Pacers made another substitution. David West and George Hill replaced Tyler Hansbrough and Promise respectively. .When Xu promised to leave the field, he had already scored [-] points, [-] assists, [-] steals and [-] rebounds, and the statistics were still comprehensive and efficient.

"It's amazing!" Coach Larry Brown looked at Xu Nuo and said in his heart.

By the end of the first half, the Orlando Magic at home trailed the visiting Indiana Pacers by 37 points 50:[-].Although the Orlando Magic only allowed the Indiana Pacers to score [-] points in the second quarter, and did not lose [-] points like the first quarter, the Orlando Magic only scored [-] points in a single quarter, and their offensive efficiency was even worse. .Orlando Magic head coach Stan Van Gundy has all sorts of questions on his mind as he walks toward the players' locker room.

And behind coach Stan Van Gundy, the Orlando Magic players all bowed their heads and walked dejectedly down the tunnel to the locker room.Thirteen points behind at halftime, this fact is like a red-hot iron, nailed to the chest of every Orlando Magic player.As one of the team's double captains, Jameer Nelson suddenly thought at the moment he walked into the locker room that Dwight Howard did not seem to appear in the Amway Center Arena.

(End of this chapter)