against the front

Chapter 364 Christmas War 7
After the main players from both sides appeared on the field one after another, the decisive moment of this game finally came. As the offensive side of the Magic, it was still Arenas who attacked with the ball.

But this time, standing in front of Arenas was Tony Allen, who was tougher than Jrue Holiday. Almost the moment Arenas received the ball, Tony Allen clung to him and even Intentionally or unintentionally, he has been forcing Arenas to move to the right side of the court.

Regardless of whether it is a breakthrough or a blue shot, the left side of the court is an area where Arenas is more comfortable. On the left side of the court, Arenas also has a higher shooting percentage. In the first two quarters of the game, whether it was Pick-and-roll, or breakthrough, Arenas also chose to maneuver to the left side of the court.

Tony Allen, who has been sitting on the sidelines to observe, after receiving the task of defending Arenas, began to force Arenas away from the area he is good at, and prepared to drive him to the right side of the court.

Isolating Arenas from other Magic players is the main task that Reggie Troyce entrusted to Tony Allen. The Magic’s one-man and four-minor tactics are almost the same as the King’s one-man and four-minor ones. They are center forwards. As the core and tactical starting point, the only difference may be that the Magic uses more pick-and-roll tactics, and the personal ability of outside ball holders is also stronger.

Arenas' single-handed ability and scoring ability are unquestionable. In the first two quarters, Arenas repeatedly misplaced Yan Hua to score in singles. However, like Kevin Martin, combing offense is not what he is good at, and Compared with Kevin Martin, Arenas also has the problem of liking the top.

For Arenas before the serious injury, this problem is really not serious. After all, Arenas at that time had almost the best first step in the league at that time, and he was the only speed and strength in the entire league that surpassed One of the point guards above all opponents, if you are not as fast as you, I can push you away, if I am stronger, I will dodge you. Even if there is no shot, he can use his body and speed advantages to forcefully find a shot.

But now Arenas, after being injured, his physical fitness is not as good as before. If he still likes to be superior and do whatever he wants, there will be absolutely no good results.

While slapping the basketball, he used his body to hit it several times in a row, but still did not squeeze Tony Allen who was sticking to him. Instead, he was forced by Tony Allen to push towards the right side of the court, and Arenas began to speed up continuously. , I want to use speed to get rid of Tony Allen's entanglement.

Under Arenas' sudden squeeze, finally when he dribbled the ball to a position slightly below the 3-point line on the right, Arenas found a chance to make a shot, and very decisively shot at Tony Allen's goal. An overhead shot.

Arenas, who barely made a shot, missed a 3-pointer. Dwight Howard on the other side of the court took the opportunity to grab an offensive rebound and made a dunk. The Magic once again overtook the score.

Looking at Dwight Howard who vented wildly after scoring a dunk, Stan Van Gundy not only didn't have any happy look on his face, but also had a dignified look on his face.

The result of the Magic’s offense was good, but the process made Stan Van Gundy unsatisfied, because the tactics and strategies arranged by Stan Van Gundy, the Magic players on the field, let alone executed, couldn’t even see a shadow It turned out that Arenas was completely focused on attacking alone while the other four waited. If the fight continued like this, sooner or later something would go wrong.

After all, you can't expect Arenas to score every time you attack, and you can't expect Howard to grab offensive rebounds every time after his teammates hit the iron.

In the transition between offense and defense, the king chose to let Yan Hua beat Howard under the basket, because everyone knew that Dwight Howard would not be embarrassed to defend Yan Hua around the front, or call his teammates to double-team, but in a one-on-one defense Among them, Dwight Howard is hard to guard against Yan Hua.

Of course, as far as the Magic's pseudo-power inside configuration is concerned, if Howard is really allowed to go around the front one-on-one to defend Yan Hua, the Magic may die even more tragically.

With his back to Howard, Yan Hua hopped to catch the ball, and almost at the moment of landing, he turned over and faced Howard's block. He made a mid-range shot and caused Howard's defensive foul.

Seeing that under Howard's tight defense, Yan Hua easily played 2+1, and Stan Van Gundy could only shake his head helplessly. If Howard can have such comprehensive offensive methods, he should How good it is, no, it doesn't need to be all of them, it only needs to reach half of Yan Hua's, and the overall strength of magic can be directly raised to a higher level.

Going back to the offensive end, under Tony Allen's tight defense, Arenas, who was forced to move to the right side of the court, either chose to pass the ball or play alone with the ball. Obviously, Arenas is Would not choose the former.

This time, Arenas, who had been prepared for a long time, started to accelerate almost after passing the middle circle. After getting rid of Tony Allen's entanglement and breaking through to the edge of the penalty area, Arenas immediately stopped and shot a jumper shot.

As for the option of rushing into the penalty area to challenge Yan Hua, it would never have appeared in Arenas' mind. If Arenas hadn't suffered a serious injury, he might try it again, but now Arenas, He won't be so stupid as to go to the basket and head-to-head with the big center.

After a precise mid-range shot, Arenas scored 23 points in this game. This is also Arenas' best performance since he was traded to the Magic.

However, the more Arenas played like this, the more irritable Stan Van Gundy was on the sidelines. The opponent's conspiracy, but he couldn't make any substantive responses and changes.

Because in today's game, the pick-and-roll effect between Turkoglu and Howard was really bad. Howard, who didn't have a mid-range shot, couldn't attract the defense at all, and Turkoglu didn't have the ability to displace Yan Hua in singles. , This makes the Magic's tactical system completely unable to run smoothly.

And Arenas, who was placed high by Stan Van Gundy, fell into a strange circle of fighting alone after the king strengthened his care. He seemed to have forgotten that he had teammates. The more Stan Van Gundy watched, the more irritable he became, and the more he thought about it, the more headache he got.

(End of this chapter)