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Chapter 114 Lineup Adjustment
Davis wiped the sweat from his brow and sat on the bench, frowning and thinking about the situation on the field.

Although the Heat have no particularly famous stars, their lineup is very balanced. Coupled with the tacit understanding cultivated after playing together for several seasons, there has been a significant improvement compared to last season.

Coupled with the fact that their core Glen Rice is in an explosive period, the Magic struggled extremely in this game.

Scott made 3 of 0 shots, O'Neal made 5 of 2 shots, Anderson made 5 of 2 shots, and Davis himself threw two three-pointers. The three of them swept all the points in the first quarter.

Ronnie Secali has done a good job of restricting O'Neal. This powerful center from Lebanon can get a double-double of 15+10 this season. The defensive end is also very tough, which makes O'Neal very uncomfortable. The hit rate is less than 50%.

And Glen Rice completely beat Scott in the first quarter, making Scott very embarrassed on both ends of the offense and defense. He made 3 of 2 three-pointers and 3 of 2 two-pointers. He scored 10 points.

Facing the full bloom of the Heat, Davis has no good solution. The only advantageous matchup on the field is Rodman at the power forward position against John Sely, but how much advantage can you expect Rodman to play?
In the first half of the second quarter, D'Antoni replaced the bench, but the feel of the bench was also cold.

D'Antoni knew that this was a back-to-back sequelae. He played too much in the last game, which caused the players' physical fitness to not recover.

No matter how good the tactics are, no matter how absolutely open, it’s useless if you can’t make a shot. In this rhythm, the Magic team is heading for failure step by step.

The first loss came so suddenly that Davis was a little unprepared, but he quickly adapted to it.

Strictly speaking, this was his first loss in an official match after his rebirth.

他的表现很不错，20投9中拿下了29分4篮板7助攻，奥尼尔也发挥稳定，21分7篮板4助攻4盖帽，但是其他人实在是太铁了，尼克安德森14分1篮板2助攻，斯科特更是全场8中1拿下2分2篮板的惨淡数据。

It can be said that this failure has nothing to do with Davis and O'Neal. The two of them scored half of the 100 points in the game.

After the game, Davis went back to watch the video of the game and summed up many problems.

First of all, Scott's offense is unstable. He often scored 2 or 30 points in the previous game, and scored more than a dozen points or even single digits in the next game. This is the conclusion Davis came to after looking at Scott's technical statistics last season.

Then Nick Anderson is a bit lonely, or his passing vision is not good. In fact, his assist data has been rising in the past few years, but last year, the highest average assist per game was only a little over three.

After thinking about it for a long time, the next day, when he came to the training ground, Davis found D'Antoni.

The Magic have not played in the past three days, and then they will play back-to-back away games. Davis needs to discuss with D'Antoni quickly.

"Mike, do you have time? Let's talk."

D'Antoni and Davis came to the sidelines and sat down.

"What's the matter, Michael."

"It's like this..." Davis asked D'Antoni the questions he summed up yesterday.

D'Antoni nodded again and again: "So, what do you mean?"

"I want to put Scott on the bench and change positions with Latrier. After a year of training last year, I feel that Rattler is no worse than Scott in terms of strength, and he is also a player with a relatively balanced offense and defense. He is better than Scott in terms of offensive stability."

D'Antoni pondered.

"In addition, I have another proposal, which is to fix Mason's position at the 5th position. As O'Neal's first substitute, Horry can swing at the 3rd and 4th positions, so that our second team can have Van Exel, Scott, Horry, and Mason add a main force, play a small lineup, run and shoot."

"You mean to use running and bombing as one of our regular tactics?" D'Antoni became interested. He is always most interested in running and bombing.

"Yes, the four of them are very athletic, and they all have the ability to finish. They are very suitable for running and bombing." Davis nodded.

"Try this first, and you can continue to adjust later." D'Antoni nodded and made a decision.

Immediately, in the training match, D'Antoni announced this decision. Sprewell was full of surprises. He didn't expect that he would turn over the mountain of Scott so quickly to become the main force, while Scott was expressionless, not knowing what he was thinking.

Three days later, the Magic traveled to Salt Lake City to challenge the Utah Jazz.

Last year, the Magic played very well against the Jazz, but the big mammoth who even capped O'Neal three times in the opening game has retired. This year, the Jazz's starting center has become Felton Spencer, a soy sauce role with an average of 4+4 per game.

Sprewell, who became the official starter, played very excitedly. Although he didn't have much possession of the ball, he was very active in defense, and he grasped all the opportunities given to him.

The Jazz, which is in pain, is now completely a team of two Utah Shuangshas, ​​and it is not the western powerhouse that later competed with Jordan for the championship.

Even though Malone scored 30 points, and Stockton scored 47 points, and the team's third offensive option Jeff Malone also scored 17 points, but apart from the three of them, no Jazz player scored more than [-] points.

休息过来的魔术队没有给爵士队一点面子，迪威斯更是13中9，三分4中3，罚球6中6，拿下了全队最高的27分4篮板13助攻的大号两双。

斯普雷维尔首发登场拿下11分8篮板1助攻2抢断1盖帽的数据，虽然得分不高，但是存在感极强。

Putting Scott in the second team to play the sixth man also had a miraculous effect. The Jazz's second team had no way to compete with the Magic. The Magic played very calmly. Scott got a lot of open opportunities. He made 3 of 10 in 5 minutes, 5 of 2 two-pointers, and scored 19 points without free throws.

Nick Anderson scored 17 points in normal operation, Rodman had 8 points and 15 rebounds, and O'Neal 23+10 was also a normal operation.

The Magic easily beat the Jazz by 114 points in a 96-18 away game.

Davis is very satisfied with the result of this game. Before the game, he asked Anderson to give up the organization completely. As long as he is given the ball, he will finish it. It seems that the effect is very good, and Scott played very well in the second team.

And Sprewell's impact is what the starting lineup needs.

With the idea that the normal Magic are invincible, DeWeese boarded a flight to Miami and prepared for tomorrow's fight.

(End of this chapter)