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Chapter 355 Confrontation
Without too much rest time, the divisional finals began quickly.

The first game of the Eastern Conference Finals, the Magic vs. Bulls game, kicked off at the Amway Arena.

Both teams fielded their strongest lineups.

Bulls: Gugliotta, Kemp, Pippen, Jordan, Armstrong,

Magic: O'Neal, Garnett, Clay, Iverson, Davis.

O'Neal succeeded in jumping the ball without any suspense, but his first offense faced Gugliotta and failed to score.

In turn, Jordan's singles did not enter.

At the very beginning, the two teams began to fight each other. It was not until 3 minutes later that Davis made a very unreasonable long-range three-pointer and scored the first point for the Magic.

Davis's ball seems to have opened up the two lines of the two teams, and the shooting rates of the two teams have gradually become normal.

Pippen made a three-pointer, Davis made a breakthrough layup, Jordan made a singles hit, Clay made an open three-pointer, and Iverson made a fast break after stealing.

At the end of the first quarter, the Magic scored two more three-pointers than the Bulls in the first quarter, leading the Bulls by 6 points.

But during the break, Pippen unexpectedly found that although the team was behind, Jordan was extremely excited today.

Jordan didn't perform very well in the first two rounds of the playoffs. Although there were some 30+ and 40+ performances, most of the time was relatively sluggish. Today, Pippen keenly discovered that there was a strange light in Jordan's eyes.

Pippen, who is very familiar with Jordan, knows that he will only have this kind of look when Jordan is extremely excited.

Pippen suddenly looked forward to the next game.

But on the other hand, O'Neill also found something wrong with Davis today.

Although Davis has been drinking water calmly, his slightly trembling hands show that his heart is not as calm as it appears.

Like Pippen on the other side, O'Neal suddenly looked forward to the next game.

As for Jordan and Davis, both of them chose to continue playing in the second quarter.

D'Antoni replaced Iverson, replaced Cole, and mentioned Davis to the second position.

"Michael, this is the first playoff match between the two of us at full strength." Davis received a pass from Cole and faced Jordan's defense, suddenly said such a sentence.

Jordan seemed to understand what DeWeese meant in an instant.

"Come on, Michael, you were not the strongest in last year's playoffs. Although you were defeated by you, I still want to have a fair match with you now."

The two of them were like two active volcanoes ready to move, on the verge of erupting.

Like a reincarnation, Davis faced Jordan and pulled it up on the spot, just like the Christmas game in Chicago that year.

Jordan didn't interfere with Davis, and after Davis shot, he turned around and walked to the backcourt.

Even though the point difference has come to 9 points, even though Davis has just thrown an unreasonable ball over the head, but Jordan's expression has not changed at all. He silently ran to the frontcourt, received a pass from Harper, held the ball with one hand, and looked at Davis in front of him.

Davis stared at Jordan with a serious face. The players next to him had already pulled away silently, not even a single person came forward to pick and roll.

Jordan's ballhandler feints and takes a step forward.

Davis shifted his center of gravity slightly, and just this effort was enough for Jordan to move.

He took the ball in his big hand and dribbled on the ground, then dribbled the ball under his crotch, turned around, and wiped past Davis.

DeWeese took a step back, but Jordan jumped up too.

The ball hits firmly.

Jordan stared into Davis' eyes and ran backwards toward the backcourt. ,

On the next attack, Davis was defended like Jordan's brown sugar.

In the end, Davis was given a walking violation by the referee because his footsteps were not clean.

Jordan received a pass from Pippen in the low post, hit Davis with his back, and hit it with a back.

But Davis received a pass from Garnett and made a quick counterattack. He stopped at the three-point line, caught Jordan by surprise, and hit a three-pointer after chasing him.

The heads-up between the two continued until the official timeout, Jordan scored 12 points and Davis scored 10 points.

But the situation on the court, the Bulls are still 4 points behind.

After the official timeout, both Davis and Jordan sat on the sidelines.

Next is substitute time.

D'Antoni released Iverson and Phil Jackson replaced him with Toni Kukoc.

But the 183-foot man was obviously better than the Eastern European magician. Without a strong rim protector, the Bulls had no way to take Iverson, and Kukoc met the tough defensive Mason.

So, 3 minutes later, when the point difference was about to be pulled to [-] points, Jordan appeared on the field again.

But DeWeese is still sitting off the court this time.

The Magic lineup became Garnett, Mason, Horry, Klay, Iverson,

The Bulls are Grant, Kukoc, Pippen, Jordan and Armstrong.

After Jordan came on the court, the Bulls began to play the triangle offense
Iverson, who was active just now, was beaten up by Jordan. He was misplaced and had no good way to face Jordan. The difference in height cannot be made up by will.

But this stimulated Iverson even more. He scored consecutive points from inside and outside shots. Armstrong couldn't defend him, but Jordan could defend him, but Klay was left open.

In this way, Jordan hit Iverson, and Iverson hit Armstrong when he was hit, and Armstrong passed the ball to Jordan and hit back. . . .

The field fell into such a vicious circle.

It was not until the intermission that the two teams stopped this behavior and went back to the locker room to rest.

The Magic are in a good situation now, with a normal rhythm and a leading score.

But when he was about to play, Davis said a few words to remind his teammates not to be careless.

After all, the opponent is the Bulls. If one is not careful, any lead may be overturned.

But DeWeese obviously thought too much, the players' desire to win was very strong, they were eager to win their first or second championship ring.

O'Neal became the most active person in the third quarter.

Gugliotta couldn't even lift his head after being hit by O'Neal, and was dunked four times just for every dunk.

In the third quarter, O'Neal completely stabilized the situation and turned the Magic's advantage into a victory.

He scored 14 points and 5 rebounds in a single quarter, plus Davis's 8 points, the Magic came to the fourth quarter with a 12-point lead.

Jordan scored more than 40 points at the end of the third quarter, but facing the magic team with no weaknesses, they still had no hope of winning.

But there was no frustration on Jordan's face. He still worked hard to help the team chase points in the fourth quarter, and even chased the point difference to only 4 points.

(End of this chapter)