If I were Yi Di in the NBA

Chapter 93 Ball Holding Ability
Regardless of the outside world's evaluation of Thunder, Yi Jian is completely popular now.

The star brand he signed has also begun to publicize in China and the United States. Yi Jian's first-generation signature shoes will be sold after the New Year, and a countdown event is also held.

It feels a bit naive, but with Yi Jian's popularity, many fans pay attention and look forward to it.

Now the fans watching the Thunder live broadcast are not only domestic fans and home fans, Yi Jian also has many fans in other places.

In competitive sports, as long as you are strong enough, many people will like it.

In addition, Yi Jian's playing style is beautiful, his appearance is still sunny, and his speech is relatively strong, which makes him even more popular.

In the second quarter, both sides strengthened their defense, and the score became even more tangled.

Following the referee's whistle, Yi Jian gave Howard a second foul.

Howard's fouls were all caused by Yi Jian's defense, which is Yi Jian's impact.

It's a pity that the Thunder's other insiders have no threat to Howard for the time being, otherwise Howard's foul count will definitely not be stable.

"Actually, you don't need to pay too much attention to the defensive players in front of you. It's hard for them to interfere with you." Yi Jian said to Durant.

"Of course I know this, it's just..." Durant was a little depressed.

His confrontation ability is still a bit weak now, so as his physical strength is exhausted in a game, he may have to rediscover his shooting feeling two or three times.

Sometimes if you don't find the feeling so quickly, your hit rate will drop.

Yi Jian couldn't give any good advice in this regard, he just assured: "It's okay, Kevin, the team and I are here, we help each other, no one needs to bear everything."

Durant rolled his eyes, Yi Jian is also one of the sources of pressure, okay?

However, it feels good to have friends, and Yi Jian's strength is reassuring.

Durant thought for a while, but still laughed.

"With me in this game, we must win the Magic."

"Of course, the two of us join forces to kill the monster."

In the Magic locker room, Howard wasn't happy about the even game.

Yi Jian took his slam dunk title last season. Although he doesn't hold grudges, he always remembers it.

Especially when the two teams fight, he will find Yi Jian very annoying.

This is when he needs to perform to the fullest, and Howard is also full of fighting spirit against the Thunder.

It's just that teammates are sometimes ignorant, so can't they pass him more penalties and let him kill the Quartet inside?His scoring data also wants to be better than Yi Jian.

So, during the intermission, Howard expressed his dissatisfaction.

Magic head coach Van Gundy quickly comforted him. Howard is like a big boy who needs to be coaxed sometimes.

After all, the dirty work of the team depends on him. It is not easy for a team core to focus on blue-collar careers.

Howard also knows that his core is different, so he has to talk about it every once in a while.

The team will meet his request, but not completely.

After all, the team's configuration is not suitable, and Howard's skills are not suitable.

In the third quarter, the Magic gave Howard a few more balls and asked him to try inside singles.

It's a pity that Howard is not good. His efficiency in singles with the ball is so low that he doesn't look like an All-Star at all, let alone a superstar.

So, Magic head coach Van Gundy took the opportunity to persuade him to play in the right way.

As a result, amid Howard's depression, the Magic's offense returned to its original point.

With one star and four shots, the star Howard defends and rebounds inside, doing hard work.

A group of outside players forced a small number of players to shoot desperately. This is the general tactic of the Magic.

There must be a lot of complicated tactical settings in it, but that's basically what it means.

However, after Howard reduces singles with the ball, the Magic will indeed become more efficient on the offensive end.

But it doesn't mean that this is absolutely correct. If Howard received a different insider training after entering the league, maybe he can have more choices and improve his personal ability.

Relying on Durant's misplaced singles, the Thunder beat the Magic's main point guard Nelson.

Nelson made too many fouls and had to rest first. This is the opportunity for the Thunder.

Prior to this, they had already relied on the performance of Yi Jian and Durant to help the team get a small lead when the Magic tried and made mistakes.

Now that they put in more effort, they have a chance to take down their opponents.

However, I didn't expect Nelson to have a negative effect after going down.

The Magic's mediocre veteran backup guard Anthony Johnson was in good shape today. After coming up, he passed and shot well, and the Magic unexpectedly played better.

Magic's starting point guard, Nelson, is an attacking guard who is not good at organizing.

This kind of guard is helpful to the team when he is in a good state, but when he is not in a good state, he shoots indiscriminately, which is a type with relatively large fluctuations.

So it is possible for the Magic to play well when he is not around.

The Thunder are also helpless when encountering this kind of thing. All kinds of accidents will always happen on the court.

This caused the Magic to overtake the score again during the rotation period in the second half.

In this game, the two teams can be said to be evenly matched from beginning to end.

Then, the final decisive victory depends on the final quarter.

Seeing a chance to win, Thunder coach Brooks also stared at the Magic's rotation.

The playing time of Yi Jian and Durant is compared with Howard's.

The main players of the two sides had a final fight in the fourth quarter, but the scoring efficiency became lower under the stalemate.

"Don't let them shoot three-pointers." Yi Jian habitually reminded his teammates.

What's different from before is that now that the opponent's outside players come in, Yi Jian's defense range is larger, and it's not so easy to foul.

Both teams have assisted defense inside, so it is naturally more difficult to score.

But relatively speaking, the Magic's scoring ability is slightly worse.

At the critical moment, the team leader's singles ability is not strong, which will be a fatal disadvantage.

Howard's situation is like this. When the two teams are about to decide the outcome, he can only rely on defense to help the team, and he is still missing something.

After all, the rest of the Magic, whether it is Lewis, or Nelson and Turkoglu, have a hard time really stabilizing in high-level competition, and they are not at this level.

They also want to limit Yi Jian and Durant to the same level, but it is difficult to do so.

Now Durant still has a limited hope, Yi Jian is absolutely impossible.

Yi Jian singled out Lewis in the low post. He didn't even need to use his skills every time to find a chance to hit.

It doesn't work to switch defenses, Lewis' defense in the paint is really not very good.

Moreover, switching to Yi Jian directly hit the inside line.

Defense is unavoidable, and the Magic can only put their hopes on offense.

At the critical moment of the Magic, Nelson and Turkoglu cooperated, and Howard and Lewis, two people with higher salaries, became supporting roles instead.

When the time was about to enter the last 3 minutes, Yi Jian made a mid-range hit and the Thunder took the lead.

The Magic felt that the Thunder were difficult to deal with.

(End of this chapter)