Hot-blooded basketball super guard

Chapter 178 The Ordinary Magic Team

In the United States of America, in addition to the fanatical Miami, there is also a city full of dreams-Orlando on the Florida peninsula.

Disneyland, The Wizarding World of Harry Potter, Future Theme Park, etc. make this city a magical paradise.Orlando also named their NBA team, the Magic, after the word Magic.

In 1992, the Magic ushered in their first superstar. The Magic, holding the No. [-] pick, selected Shaquille O'Neal, the No. [-] center who will dominate the league in the future.

Shaquille O'Neal, who had just entered the NBA, ran wildly on the court, shocked all directions, smashed the basket, and turned the NBA upside down.

In 1993, the Magic team once again won Penny Anfernee Hardaway. This is the first generation of Magic No. 1!
The talented Shark and the unparalleled talent of Hardaway opened the magic era of fantasy twin stars. In the 95 playoffs, O'Neal teamed up with Hardaway to give the newly returned basketball god a disastrous defeat. This is the only person who can beat Michael Jordan in the 90s.

In the finals, the young Gemini encountered the Rockets of the big dream Olajuwon and the glider Drexler, and the young will eventually pay the price.The next year, the Magic Twins made a comeback, but they were destroyed by Jordan, who was full of revenge and anger, and were swept out.

In the end, the Sharks traveled west to Los Angeles, leaving Penny Hardaway to stick to the Magic, but injuries have been entangled with Hardaway, and his performance declined day by day until he was traded.

Until that slender figure, the talented and unparalleled Tracy McGrady parachuted from Toronto to Orlando, recreating the style of the Magic's No. 1.

At that time, McGrady was wearing a blue and white jersey, galloping on a horse, unstoppable. McGrady played two scoring years in the Magic and became the best swingman in the league.

Tracy McGrady's fate with the Magic is too shallow. He went to Houston in 2004, and his blue and white jersey became a red and white jersey.

What to do without McGrady, the Magic have not been in a slump, because they have ushered in a super center, Dwight Howard.

The epic inside behemoth led a group of shooters to start his own era. Under the leadership of coach Van Gundy, he copied the Rockets during the two-time championship. In 2009, Warcraft led the team past James' Cavaliers and joined Kobe's Lakers in the finals.

Facing the experienced Zijin Army, the Magic were a little immature and lost. Losing to the Celtics in the Eastern Conference Finals in 2010, Warcraft fell into injuries, the curse of fate came to Orlando again, and the Magic also ended their short-lived glory.

Without O'Neal, without Penny Hardaway, without the talented Tracy McGrady, without the first center, the Magic team fell into the quagmire of the bottom of the Eastern Conference.

Now they have no superstars, only Vucevic, Aaron Gordon, Terrence Ross and a group of dunkers, with the assistance of Fournier, Fultz and others.The strength of the Magic team cannot be said to be strong, but passionate fans absolutely love to watch, and their dunks have become a beautiful landscape on the court.

The Spurs sitting in the AT&T Center Arena are obviously different from this Magic team. They rarely dunk and focus on shooting.

Aldridge rarely dunked in the previous two seasons, and rarely played hard. Since Radar came to the Spurs, Aldridge has gradually regained the feeling of the Trail Blazers.

DeRozan has dunks, but not many, dunks hurt his arm.

Needless to say for others, Mills and Belinelli are all shooters, not suitable for dunking.This is also related to the quiet and elegant team culture of the Spurs. If the Spurs play like the city of lobs, then the Holy City will not be quiet.

And Rado is also not good at dunking. Carter's skill Rado has not had time to practice, and this year's slam dunk contest may not be possible.

Speaking of dunks and layups, they have the same scoring method, but dunks can better reflect momentum, boost morale, and drive the atmosphere of the fans.

Before the game started, the Spurs head coach Popovich mentioned today's tactics, shrinking the defense, allowing the opponent to shoot appropriately, and focusing on preventing their breakthroughs and pass lobs.

Shrinking defense, as the name suggests, is to keep players close to the penalty area and the basket, protect the inside line, and prevent the opponent from dribbling.Usually one defensive player is outside the line to put pressure on the opponent, and the other four defenders are all inside the line.This allows the opponent's ball to be passed only on the outside, with no passing gaps inside the line, and at the same time prevents the opponent's dribble from cutting.The first goal in defense is to stop the ball from moving.

In this way, the requirements for those who defend the outside line are very high. Who can take on this important task, only my Huaxia Wing Radar.

Players who defend the ball holder from the outside must be confident and decisive, and at the same time believe in their teammates.If the radar fails to guard the opponent's ball holder and is slipped into the interior by him, then the radar must also believe that his teammates can do a good job of replenishing and assisting defense.

While the home fans waited anxiously, the referee blew his whistle to announce the start of the game.

For the Spurs in this game, their offensive pressure is not high, but it is a test of Radar's perimeter defense.

Magic starting lineup: No. [-] pick Fultz, Terrence Ross, Ivan Fournier, Aaron Gordon, Nikola Vucevic.

Spurs starting lineup: Radar, DeRozan, Gay, Aldridge, Boltel.

The Magic attacked, Fultz dribbled the ball across the field, Radar actively defended, stuck to Fultz tightly, and at the same time reached out to interfere.

The Spurs DeRozan responded on the left side of the free throw line, Gay assisted in the defense on the right, Adelaide was in the penalty area, and Bolter sat under the basket, like a solid wall in all directions.

If this formation is replaced by other teams, such as the Warriors, Rockets, Trail Blazers, etc., as long as they set up forts on the outside, the defensive formation will be self-defeating, but this Magic team is not good at shooting three-pointers. Only Wei Qi dared to use this tactic boldly.

Fultz's dribbling was forced to stop by the radar. The radar spread the wings of his dreams, which made Fultz very uncomfortable. He couldn't see the situation on the field and the position of his teammates.

Terrence Ross runs on the outside, DeRozan only sticks to his own area, and after the top of the arc, it is handed over to Gay for defense.

Aaron Gordon came out of the inside, intending to screen for his teammates, and Fultz handed the ball to Terrence Ross with difficulty.

Fultz breathed a sigh of relief, but within three seconds, the basketball was passed back into his hands again. Facing the impregnable wall, a one-man breakthrough had to face the Spurs' three lines of defense. Terrence Ross had no route to go. So I had to pass Fultz back and reorganize.

Fultz: Is that a reorganization? You guys want to see the dead ball again.

After going around two or three times, the Magic's first attack took 22 seconds, and if they didn't make a move, it would be too late.

Against the defense of the radar, Fultz barely made a shot. The basketball pierced the sky, and a parabola went from low to high, then from high to low, and then, and then there was no more. dip!

(End of this chapter)