From today on is the king

Chapter 798. 797. Taking Magic Lightly
Just play like this!
McGrady started to break the jar and played casually. After dribbling the ball, he saw Raheem standing on the three-point line. McGrady accelerated and broke through to the right. Raheem accurately judged the position and blocked McGrady's breakthrough route.
He lowered his head and saw that it was Liu Mang!
Outside pick-and-roll coordination!
Relying on his iron foot skills and iron elbow skills, Liu Mang stood beside Rahim like a low wall!

Turn around and chase McGrady or take advantage of the situation to defend against Liu Mang?

Seeing that Nelson, who had changed defense against McGrady, was passed immediately, Raheem still chased McGrady. McGrady immediately passed back to Liu Mang and connected with Liu Reg again.
It may be that he took the initiative to find a confrontation at the beginning, the touch was affected, and he missed the first three-pointer!
However, Kwame Brown, relying on his equally explosive physical fitness and being stronger, squeezed Howard away and pressed the ball directly back to the basket in the air!
Just now Howard grabbed offensive rebounds in a row. Although it has nothing to do with Kwame Brown, he is still back now!

When it came to the Magic's offense, Howard was completely deflated this time. Rasheed Wallace saw Howard continue to increase the internal confrontation as if he saw his father and enemy.

On the side of the Magic, Hill changed his style of play, allowing Raheem to hold the ball to attack and score the ball, and Hill responded from the outside, using Raheem's ability to hit anyone in a misplaced position to attract pincers and points. Hill himself became a role player.

Raheem turned into an offensive arrow, and the effect was really good, creating a lot of opportunities for the Magic.

But Liu Mang was sure that Rahim was playing like this, his physical fitness would definitely not be able to stand it!

Liu Mang asked his teammates to double-team Raheem more to consume Raheem. On the offensive end, McGrady made more breakthroughs, and went to cooperate with McGrady in pick-and-rolls to continue to consume Raheem.

Liu Mang knew Raheem's style of play very well, so he adjusted his strategy against Raheem.

McGrady didn't know why Liu Mang's head suddenly became "normal", and he began to use strategies to deal with his opponents, but this is a good thing, isn't it?After playing enough, start to play well. The key point is that at first Liu Mang took the ball and played a few blindly, making the opponent a little confused. Now he suddenly plays normally, and the opponent can't adapt to it!The most important thing is that the Eagles are all too familiar with Liu Mang's sudden change of pace!

Hill is very smart. His scoring ability is not enough, so he uses his field control ability to control the rhythm of the Magic team, but the overall strength of the team is not good!
At most, Raheem would pair up with McGrady. On Mobley's side, unless Prince took the initiative to let him go and shrink the inside line, Mobley would have nothing to do. Nixon was just a rookie, he knew how to do it with the ball, and he couldn't pass the ball. Howard was targeted by a group of Hawks, and everyone wanted to find something for him.

The main reason is the cooperation between McGrady and Liu Mang, as if the two were born to cooperate. The pick-and-roll between the two who have never practiced before, the first time they cooperate, they have such a tacit understanding!Regardless of whether it is a big block or a small block, it will immediately play a role.

At the beginning when Liu Mang was playing around, the Magic couldn’t tell the difference between McGrady and no McGrady on the Eagles. It looked like McGrady was a weakened version of Raheem last season, but the two suddenly cooperated and had two outside points that could be attacked and defended. Moreover, the five players of the Eagles were too mobile.

Except for Raheem, the magic team can create opportunities for teammates, and no one else can!

When the official timeout of the first quarter was reached, the point difference had been opened by the Eagles to seven points, 18 to 11, and the Eagles scored 7 points in 18 minutes!
刘莽继续自己的得分表演秀，拿到9分2板1盖帽1助攻的数据，麦迪拿到3分2助攻。

McGrady was replaced for a rest. Neither Prince nor Kwame Brown could guard Raheem. Only McGrady was able to guard Raheem. It was also a pity that McGrady had to carry the opponent's almost 110 kg power forward.

Raheem scored 5 points and 2 assists alone. Except for Howard himself who made up a dunk, the rest of the Magic basically had no chance to score independently. It's not that they don't have that ability, but they really can't!

That being the case, Coach Kruger decided to fight against the opponent!Pull up the speed.

"Ace, Jason, Andre, Josh, Kwame, you go up, press the defense, play a defensive counterattack!" Coach Kruger ordered, let's run!
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Back from the timeout, on the side of the Magic, Hill's comeback debut was mediocre. Apart from controlling the rhythm, the point guard's shooting was not good, mainly because he didn't have a three-pointer. The mid-range shot was good but entered the free throw line.

However, Hill's physical condition is good. Magic coach John Davis is very happy at this point. He let Hill play for half a quarter to try his skills, so he replaced Hill.

The Magic sent a lineup of Mobley, DeShawn Stevenson, Raheem, Turkoglu, and Howard.

The Hawks replaced the lineup of Liu Mang, Jason Terry, Iguodala, Josh Smith and Kwame Brown.

The Magic's substitutions are very traditional, that is, to replace the best ones. When John Davis saw the lineup replaced by the Eagles, there was only one thought in his mind: What are the people on the opposite side going to do?
An official timeout, replacing the three main players!They are still the defensive gatekeepers in the first half of the quarter. In this lineup, one defends the black hole and two rookies, do you still want to defend?
After Liu Mang and others came on the court, they spoke with practical actions, and they really didn’t need to defend. The Magic team’s ball-handler entered the three-point line, and the Eagles side attacked. They took the initiative to let the Magic team shoot from the outside.

Josh Smith grabbed the rebound and made a long pass to launch a counterattack!

According to Liu Mang's suggestion, the team's cultivation of Josh Smith mainly focuses on helping defense, rebounding, and handling the ball in counterattacks.

Josh Smith really knows nothing but dribbling and using his body. Liu Mang knows that his characteristic is that he is easily influenced by the coach's tactical position, so he suggested that the coaching staff cultivate the abilities most needed by his teams, which are assisting in flanking, rebounding, and countering long passes!
The current three-point ability of the Magic is ridiculously poor. Last season, the Magic averaged 4.8 three-pointers per game, of which 2.6 were made by McGrady. Now that McGrady has left, Raheem and Mobley are supplemented.

The Magic made shots from the outside, and the Hawks collectively pulled up the tempo. The Magic couldn’t make a shot. Iguodala used his strong body to block Raheem and try to block Raheem from hitting the offensive rebound. Kwame Brown and Josh Smith bullied Howard and Turkoglu.

Eagles' new generation cavalry company, keep charging!
Rahim saw the Eagles' counterattack, which was full of memories of the past three years, but everything has passed, and now the opponent is charging. He can only rely on his familiarity with this style of play to interfere as much as possible, but he finds that there is no way to interfere, because his teammates are a little too ordinary.

The current lineup of the Magic is not bad, but compared with the Eagles, it is too ordinary. The average playoff team may have the strength to fight, but facing the Eagles, there is really no way. Raheem can only maintain the success rate as much as possible and reduce the number of direct counterattacks.

By the middle of the second quarter, the Eagles had begun to widen the point difference.

In the second half of the second quarter, the Eagles replaced the lineup of Calderon, McGrady, Prince, Muhammad, and Rasheed Wallace, and once again played conventional tactics, playing on the ground.

The Eagles suddenly changed their style of play again, and there was a lot of ups and downs. The head coach of the Magic, John Davis, began to wonder if he was a fake head coach. He finally found a job as a head coach.

Raheem is too familiar with seeing the Eagles' rhythm change, but he himself has no good way to deal with it.

To say that the way Raheem can think of to deal with the Eagles is to change the rhythm with the change, but Raheem adapts to this change and wants this change, but the Magic can't do it!

This kind of rhythm change is easy for the five rookies of the Eagles who just entered the NBA, because they have no NBA experience, they are all like rough jade, and they understand their status as a team, and they can do whatever they want. But the Magic is different. They already have a fixed style of play.

Looking at McGrady who quickly integrated into the changing rhythm of the Eagles, Raheem sighed, a superstar is a superstar.

As everyone knows, McGrady is completely broken, so let's just hit a few times like that. It's quite exciting. Seeing the opponent's bewildered look, there is a feeling that his IQ has taken over the high ground...

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112 to 97, in the end the Eagles easily defeated the Magic without bloodshed.

Liu Mang scored 17 points, 9 rebounds and 26 assists on 5 of 3 shots. McGrady scored 13 points, 6 rebounds, 16 assists and 7 blocks on 7 of 3 shots. Jason Terry scored 31 points. Due to the long garbage time, Jason Terry has been scoring points.

Although McGrady fell out with the Magic in the end, but the Magic can send him to the Eagles, so the resentment is not so deep.

Kwame Brown scored 33 points and 16 rebounds in 14 minutes, continuing his outstanding performance in the preseason. After taking the starting position, Kwame Brown has made significant progress.

Moreover, it was mainly Rasheed Wallace and Kwame Brown who teamed up to make the No. 26 pick Howard play only 5 points and 7 rebounds in 6 minutes. The most important thing is that Howard made 1 of [-] free throws. Duncan was even worse than O'Neal.

The Magic's best performer was Raheem, who scored 33 points, 7 rebounds and 5 assists. He was forced to become an all-around player, but the more he scored, the more rebounds came down, and the defense became miserable.

But Howard's defensive end is really scary, jumping too high, that is, the Eagles have McGrady and Liu Mang, Jason Terry dare not go inside when he is on the court, and Howard's shot-blocking awareness is really scary. Without Howard, the Magic's defense at the basket completely collapsed.

Howard is not as good as Kwame Brown in single-defense awareness, but Kwame Brown is far inferior to Howard in defense awareness.

After winning the game, McGrady went to be interviewed. He only took 13 shots, not as many shots as the sixth man Jason Terry.

Liu Mang took Kwame Brown back to the locker room, and said as he walked, "Kwame, you have another opponent."

"Is that guy? Boss, do you think I'm better than that guy?" Kwame Brown went off the field and began to be indecisive and weak again.

"Your hands are too small to be his match."

"Boss!"

"Okay, okay, you will be better than him. His lower body strength is too bad. He can't jump that much when he is in his 30s. It's not good. You are different. Your body shape is too perfect. It's really a problem with the head of the Wizards management. It's just that you have a figure similar to Olajuwon..."

The first half of Liu Mang's words made Kwame Brown full of confidence, Olajuwon's figure!

But in the second half of the sentence, Kwame Brown felt that he had been stabbed by the boss again. Liu Mang continued, "It's just that they didn't expect Kwame to have such small hands, so it's hard to do anything offensively..."

"Boss, don't blame me for having small hands. I was born with small hands..." Kwame Brown stretched out his hand and compared it with Liu Mang. It was really small. Compared to many small point guards, he was a little smaller. For example, Jason Terry had the smallest hands on the Eagles except for Kwame Brown. He could barely catch the ball, but he was a little bigger than Kwame Brown.

Liu Mang discovered that Kwame Brown really cared about this matter!I stopped joking with Kwame Brown. After finally gaining some confidence in this guy, Liu Mang chose to comfort him: "It's not a big deal. You just need to do a good job of defense. If you have the opportunity to catch the ball and dunk it, just dunk it. If you don't, just practice more rebounding and defense. Look at Theo, he can only defend, and he still gets a tens of millions of contracts."

"Okay, boss! I will try my best to get a ten million contract!" Kwame Brown's eyes lit up when he heard the money.

"..." Liu Mang was speechless, this bastard, why don't you be so rich!Who did I learn from!
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It’s still the third shift today, sorry for the lateness, a brat on the floor pried open the electrical box and all the wires in the electrical box, the entire floor was cut off, and the electrician came to fix it after three o’clock in the afternoon, and continued to write after eating.

(End of this chapter)