the great gatsby

Chapter 229 Warcraft!

The Orlando Magic ranked second in the East in the regular season, so they have the home court advantage. The Knicks came to Orlando two days early to adapt to the venue. Gatsby did not miss strength training. On the night before the game, Gatsby After training his strength, he wanted to practice shooting at the Amway Center, and he had already booked a training time with the Orlando Magic, but when he walked into the arena, he found that Dwight Howard and Matt Barnes were doing shooting training, and Gatsby He didn't care, he was about to take the ball and start shooting in one half, but Matt Barnes came over.

"Oh, Gatsby, I'm sorry, the arena has been booked by us, please come to practice at another time." Matt Barnes said.

Gatsby was at a loss: "I've already made an appointment."

Matt Barnes smiled and said: "Maybe they made a mistake, we have already made a decision, so please leave."

Gatsby smiled reluctantly: "It doesn't matter, you practice yours, I practice mine, I only need one and a half courts."

Matt Barnes smiled a little nastyly: "Oh, sorry, there are two of us, one for each of us in the two halves."

Gatsby wanted to say something more, but Matt Barnes called the security personnel directly: "John, please please Mr. Gatsby to go out, we are going to practice, please go outside for idlers."

Gatsby twisted his nose angrily: Obviously he made an appointment first!

The security came over, Gatsby didn't want to be humiliated any more, so he could only go back with a sigh of relief.

game day.

The Amway Center was overcrowded. The Magic entered the finals last season. Although they were defeated by the Los Angeles Lakers 4:1, it still did not hinder their love for the Magic. The outstanding performance of this season made fans look forward to it. Entered the finals again and won the championship.

Visiting team locker room.

"Boss, I heard that Matt Barnes kicked you out when you went to the arena to shoot last night?" Bogut secretly said to Gatsby.

Gate's face turned hard. How could Bogut know about such embarrassing things, but he didn't ask, but just smiled and said, "It's okay, my opponent. It's normal for me to make some small moves to make me angry."

Bogut thought about it.

In the players' entrance ceremony, the Knicks entered the field first as the visiting team. What they greeted was not cheers, but overwhelming boos. The few fans wearing Knicks uniforms were submerged among the Orlando fans.

The boos reached the highest level when Gatsby entered the arena. Gatsby smiled. On the big screen, Gatsby's smile was warm and his eyes were bright. Orlando's boos couldn't help lowering down, and then the Amway Center rang. The sound of buzzing discussions, if you sit among the fans, you can hear the female fans whispering: Oh, this Gatsby is so handsome, I can't bear to boo him!
Jeff Van Gundy said with a smile: "Having a handsome face is really a great benefit. You see, even the opponent's fans are reluctant to boo Gatsby!"

Mark Jackson and Mike Breen laughed, and the whole studio was filled with happy air.

"Jeff, your brother led the team to the second round again this season. How far do you think he can lead the team?" Mark Jackson said.

Jeff Van Gundy didn't mean to avoid relatives: "I am optimistic that he can enter the Eastern Conference Finals again. As for whether he can enter the Finals, he needs a little luck. Boston and Cleveland are both very strong teams."

"Oh, you mean you don't think the Knicks can win this series?" Mike Breen said.

Jeff Van Gundy shrugged: "I like Gatsby very much. If I have the opportunity to coach him, I can even give up the ESPN commentary, but Orlando is a better team. You can see, Howard, the top penalty area Defensive, Matt Barnes, top perimeter defender, Vince Carter - top swingman, Lewis and Redick are top shooters, and their team also has Nelson, Gortat, Jason Williams James, Ryan Anderson, Pietrus, these skilled role players, their bench depth is too deep, which is what the Knicks lack.”

Mark Jackson agreed: "This is not something that can be solved by one person. Gatsby is indeed a very good player, but this year's Knicks still lack the depth of the bench. In order to complete the current starting lineup, Donny Walsh They have already tried their best, and they have to leave space to recruit superstars. In fact, their performance this season has been amazing enough, and we can't ask for more."

Mike Brin also nodded, he is not very optimistic about the Knicks.

Game start.

Howard easily allocated the ball to Nelson, and the Magic's starting five were Howard, Carter, Nelson, Lewis and Barnes.

The starters for the Knicks are Bogut, Gallinari, Gatsby, Martin and Wilson Chandler.

The Magic's offense is actually not Howard, but the outside line, but at the beginning they will give the ball to Howard for singles inside.

Bogut resisted Howard and wanted to push Howard out, but now Howard is still in his prime, Bogut can't carry it at all, Lewis lobs the ball in, and Howard catches the ball with his back to Bogut.

Howard turned around with the ball, directly knocked Bogut over, and then dunked hard!
Today's Howard is at his peak, and his absolute dominance on the defensive end makes people ignore his terrible offensive end. Later, new fans saw Howard, whose physical fitness declined and the times changed. What do they think of Warcraft? What Howard, it doesn't look strong at all, but only those Howard fans who have personally experienced this era will understand how powerful Howard used to be!
After all, he has been able to replace James alone in the past few seasons, which is not an exaggeration at all!
In the 2008-09 season, the Magic faced the powerful Big Three in the second round and the 66-win Cleveland Cavaliers in the Eastern Conference Finals. Howard led the team to overcome them one by one, and finally met the Lakers in the Finals.

Although he met Howard several times in the regular season, Gatsby still took a breath when he saw Howard ravaging the basket again.

This is not over yet, Gatsby dribbled the ball halfway, and Bogut came up with a high pick-and-roll, Howard stepped on the free throw line to defend, Gatsby threw Nelson and pulled up the shot directly from the three-point line, Howard made a big stride , jumped up directly, and swatted the ball thrown by Gatsby like a fly!
"What a fu.ck!" Gatsby trampled over with a thousand muddy horses in his heart, so can he cover it?

(End of this chapter)