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Chapter 235 The Disadvantage of a Weak Substitute Appears

'Charlotte Bobcats to play Celtics in Eastern Conference Finals'

'Yellow lightning will break the magic'

'Son of Miracle May Replicate NCAA Career Miracle'

Whether it is the American media or China's domestic Basketball Pioneer, after the Charlotte Bobcats beat the Orlando Magic in an away game, they published different degrees of appreciation and praise.

On many betting websites, the victory of G1 in the Eastern Conference semifinals has also made the rating of the Charlotte Bobcats continue to rise. In this year's championship probability list, it has ranked fourth in the league with 8%, second only to 26%. The Boston Celtics with a probability of winning the championship, the Los Angeles Lakers with an 18% probability of winning the championship, and the defending champion San Antonio Spurs with 12%.

Lost to the Charlotte Bobcats in the first game, the Orlando Magic also fell into the vortex of public opinion.

This year, he introduced Sharad Lewis with a big investment, and renewed the contract of Dwight Howard with a fixed salary. Now the Orlando Magic will undoubtedly go higher and further, and even want to make it to the Eastern Conference Finals, and even to appear on the stage of the Finals , instead of falling into the sand in front of the incomplete team of the Charlotte Bobcats.

On May 5, the Charlotte Bobcats will start their rematch with the Orlando Magic.

On the same day, the NBA officially announced the results of the 2007-2008 regular season MVP selection. Kobe Bryant of the Los Angeles Lakers finally won the personal top honor trophy symbolizing the regular season MVP. His personal data reached 28.3 points, 6.3 rebounds and 5.7 assists. His scoring was slightly lower than last season, but his assists reached the second highest position in his career.

Kobe Bryant slowed down the deterrence of using his fangs to spit out letters to the entire league, and chose to trust his teammates and the team. This change also brought Kobe to another realm in his career.

The No. [-] record in the Western Conference allowed him to finally win this MVP and the only regular season MVP in his career.

In fact, Kobe's MVP is not a certainty. If the New Orleans Hornets can win even one more game and become the top player in the West, maybe the MVP will be Chris Paul's.

Kobe's advantage in winning the MVP is not too big. You must know that Chris Paul led the New Orleans Hornets from the 10th in the Western Conference last year to the 2nd in the Western Conference. The progress has been too great.

Chris Paul, who deserved the most credit, won 889 points in the MVP vote, while Kobe Bryant only had 1105 points.

Of course, this may also be a way for the league to make up for Kobe. The young Chris Paul still has many opportunities...

In 05-06 and 06-07, the single-core team led the team to enter the Western Conference playoffs as seventh in both years, and won the scoring title twice. It is also a popular candidate for MVP, but Kobe Bryant, who has a sharp personality, is not It will not be liked by all media people, so the performance has become a flaw.

And now, the highly gold-rich No. [-] in the Western Conference left the media people speechless, and finally won the regular season MVP.

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Compared with the first game, the atmosphere in the second game in Orlando was undoubtedly much more dignified.

The Orlando Magic, whose outside three-point performance was a disaster, practiced three-point outside collectively today.

"Go back to Charlotte with a 2-0!"

The current Charlotte Bobcats team can be said to be full of confidence and in good shape.

Brandon Roy, who was wearing protective boots, also came to the scene with the team. He underwent meniscus repair surgery instead of removal surgery. It is expected that the time for his comeback will be around Christmas this year.

The Charlotte Bobcats are still protecting the same lineup as last game: Raymond Felton, Mike Dunleavy, Zhou Lin, Boris Diaw, Emeka Okafor.

The Orlando Magic have adjusted the starting lineup: Jamal Nelson, Maurice Evans, Hedo Turkoglu, Sharad Lewis, Dwight Howard.

Maurice Evans, who replaced Keith Bogans at the second position, this undrafted pick in 01 has a better three-pointer, averaging 39.6% per game, and his shooting percentage is close to 4%.

And the starting No. 5 in the previous game, Keith Bogans, only scored 3 points and made 0 of [-] three-pointers.

Dwight Howard took advantage of Emeka Okafor's jump ball without any suspense, helping the team get the ball in the first wave.

The Orlando Magic still tried to play from the inside, but Howard was immediately double-teamed. Although the Magic lost in the last game, the Charlotte Bobcats did not limit Dwight Howard's attack at all. and rebounding.

Facing the pincer attack, Howard failed to hit the hook. However, Turkoglu grabbed the rebound and passed it to the outside. Maurice Evans, with a knife in his hand, added the first goal for the home team.

Looking back, Maurice Evans was defending Zhou Lin. He was 1.96 meters tall, half a head shorter than Zhou Lin, but he was very active in defense.

The Orlando Magic had already suffered in the first game. Neither Turkoglu nor Lewis could restrain Zhou Lin's performance very well. Both of them slowed down a bit. Players of similar height to Lin are players with excellent movement speed among the players in the fourth position, but compared with Zhou Lin, who almost plays in the second position, he is at least one notch slower.

Stan Van Gundy, and some interesting things happened between Zhou Lin.

When Zhou Lin was still playing in the NCAA, Stan Van Gundy, who had just been squeezed out of the Heat's coaching bench by Pat Riley, who stood in the C position, was out of work, so he was invited to explain Zhou Lin's participation in the NCAA finals, and Because he lost to Barkley in a bet about Zhou Lin and the Patriots of George Mason University, he also shaved his head. Remember Zhou Lin's ability to change the game.

Don't let Zhou Lin move. The current Charlotte Bobcats are like the original George Mason Patriots. Zhou Lin is an absolute core player, and Zhou Lin's personal scoring is not the most deadly.

What is fatal is that once Zhou Lin, an indiscriminate singles player, moves, it will benefit all teammates. He is also a player who is willing to pass the ball. His dynamics will cause the entire Charlotte Bobcats to be activated.

Stan Van Gundy has watched the video of the game between Zhou Lin and the Detroit Pistons. There is no player in the Orlando Magic who is similar to Prince, so there must be a trade-off for outside single defense. Van Gundy knows very well that he cannot just let the state Zhengjia's Zhou Lin shot from outside the three-point line, so he had to force Zhou Lin to enter the three-point line, and every time he shot, he needed to hang someone on his body.

And Maurice Evans is such a person.

What Stan Van Gundy emphasized is that Zhou Lin can score goals, but every goal must become difficult for him, and he must not give open shots a chance.

Once Zhou Lin's three were separated, there was really no way to defend against it.

Maurice Evans chased Zhou Lin and asked Zhou Lin to go inside, while the players on both sides paid attention to the defense. In the last hurdle, Dwight Howard, who was about to get the league's first defense, was in charge.

Pocket defense!

In fact, Zhou Lin does prefer players who are about the same height as him to defend him.

And players who are shorter than him, after all, have a low center of gravity, a stable base, and fast movement. Even if they can't block him, they will stand in front of him almost all the time.

In particular, Zhou Lin's weight is probably only about the same as some swingers in the second and third positions who are about two meters long.

The low back is still one of Zhou Lin's technical shortcomings.

What can be seen in this game is that the defensive movement speed between the Orlando Magic has also become faster.

After all, they are 0-1 behind and are still at home. Once they lose this game, there is a high probability that this round of the series will collapse. After all, they go to the away game 0-2 and win a game, and come back 1-3 , There are not many teams in history that can recover the series after falling behind 1-3.

Zhou Lin arrived near the free throw line and narrowed the defensive circle. Lewis and Turkoglu were on both sides.

Zhou Lin didn't directly choose the jump shot, but first gave it to Mike Dunleavy on the outside. Dunleavy actually had a chance, but Lewis chased him very quickly. Dunleavy hesitated and gave it to Boris Diaw at the top of the arc.

Boris Diaw chose to shoot from outside the three-point line. Unfortunately, this time he did not continue the magic of the previous game.

After all, Boris Diaw only made 31% of his three-pointers in the regular season. It is too unrealistic to use him as a shooter.

"Today's Orlando Magic are very hard on the defensive end, and they are also very targeted."

Yu Jia, the commentator of the game, said: "If you don't give Zhou Lin a shot, Zhou Lin is not a pure pitcher, he has the ability to attack independently. If Zhou Lin makes a shot, there may be all kinds of fairy balls, and otherwise A good pitcher Mike Dunleavy, the Orlando Magic are also playing a tighter defense, probably because Van Gundy knows in his heart that it is impossible for the team to guard all the players on the opponent team, so they have a very targeted defense Well, there should be more opportunities for Boris Diaw and Raymond Felton today, it depends on whether they can seize them."

But role players can often only be icing on the cake, not a timely help.

As for the offensive end, the Orlando Magic also began to recover from the rather muddled state of the previous game. After the last loss, the Orlando Magic held a lot of meetings, and Dwight was eliminated. In addition to Howard's astonishment, the other two cores have been sprayed almost completely by the media, so they have to be serious.

In the first quarter, Turkoglu was considered to be the more active one. He didn't make many breakthroughs, basically floating on the three-point line, and the ball he lobbed to Howard was very comfortable.

Howard made two shots inside, which attracted Zhou Lin's help defense. Zhou Lin's side, also because Turkoglu's three-pointers in the playoffs are too bad, so they are almost half-defense and half-defense. Compared with Howard's inside deterrence, Zhou Lin is still more willing to give up part of the defense against Turkoglu.

But Turkoglu made a three-pointer with his first shot in the first quarter, and it was also the third three-pointer in the seventh game after entering the playoffs. Together, he made 3 of 22 shots. Among them, it can be called the iron tree flowering level.

It's just that the NBA is not a wild field, and every player has no clear shortcomings. Even Dwight Howard, who is not good at outside shooting, if he hits long-range shots consecutively, then you have to defend him.

In this game at least in the field of shooting, Turkoglu found the touch, and it was even more challenging for the Charlotte Bobcats' defense, because Zhou Lin's choice of whether to help defend or not was even more difficult.

Of course, the bigger problem now is on the offensive end.

When Zhou Lin and Mike Dunleavy both encountered varying degrees of shooting interference, other players should have stood up, but Raymond Felton and Boris Diaw were given to each other in the first quarter. 4 of 1 and 2 of 0 hits.

Brandon Roy watched the game with his chin resting on his shoulders, frowning. If he was there, would the Orlando Magic dare to double-team Zhou Lin like this?His breakthrough and middle distance can also obviously enrich the tactics of the court.

Zhou Lin is the only one left in the team who is absolutely strong in positional warfare, and the enemy has moved out extremely targeted defensive options, and it just so happens that there are no surprise soldiers, which really makes the Charlotte Bobcats extremely passive.

It can be clearly seen that the Orlando Magic's running is more frequent, which can also be understood as not sacrificing physical fitness.

Of course, Stan Van Gundy is also prepared.

With 3 minutes and 23 seconds left in the first quarter, Sharad Lewis was replaced by Bogans. At 1 minute and 15 seconds, Dwight Howard and Jamal Nelson were replaced!

Keith Bogans, Marcin Gortat, Carlos Arroyo, the transitional substitutes.

Also on the bench are JJ Redick, Adonal Foyle, Kayyan Dooling...

I have to admit that the thickness of the Orlando Magic's bench is better than that of the Charlotte Bobcats.

The Orlando Magic have all the players here, and even in the playoffs, they can achieve a regular rotation of 9-10 players.

And there are too few soldiers available for Capel's side.

It is also because Charlotte is a small ball market. Not only does it lack attraction to big-name players, but it also has limited attraction to high-quality role players, unless it is recruited at a premium, and the team's owner is obviously unwilling at this stage. Some champion jigsaw players spend too much money on them.

On Capel's side, he is also extremely cautious in employing people.

Even Boris Diaw lost a lot of playing time in the first round series until Chris Webber and Brandon Roy were injured.

The number of players available to the Charlotte Bobcats today is basically fixed at around 7-8.

In addition to the regular starters.

Nazr Mohammed and Jeff McGinnis on the bench are stable substitutes.

In addition, Sean Williams only played 3 games, and Ramon Sessions played 2 games. As for the other players, except for the last garbage time game, none of them played.

This round, the Charlotte Bobcats face the same young Orlando Magic.

The disadvantage of physical fitness also began to explode gradually.

In the first quarter of the game, the Charlotte Bobcats scored only 13 points, while their opponents scored 24 points.

　I ran to the building materials market for three days in a row...too tired, let's go to 4K today!
　　
　
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