NBA: This flower path is a bit strong

In the regular season this season, Hanamichi's mid-range shots were very accurate, with a hit rate of up to 40%.

Of course, this is related to his shooting hotspot. Most of Hanamichi's mid-range shots are two-point shots at a 45° angle on the left and right sides, and the hit rate can even be as high as 45%.

What level is this? The highest hit rates at 45° angles are Lao Na and 58 Gun, the former 51.5% and the latter 49.7.

Hanamichi's 45% can only be said to be slightly inferior to them. Don't forget that Hanamichi is an inside player. Long-term inside strong shots and dunks will seriously damage Hanamichi's touch.

But as an inside player, having such an excellent mid-range shooting hit rate is also a unique feature in the current league!

At the moment, the Magic team has suffered a loss because of this.

Horace Grant can only symbolically tiptoe and stretch his hands to watch Hanamichi's comfortable jump shot succeed.

After scoring the goal, Hanamichi clenched his palms and started to talk trash to Horace Grant:

"You have a good touch today, you have to defend me harder!"

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"No way, you really can't defend my mid-range shot!"

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"Believe me, even if O'Neal's grandmother defends me, she won't be any worse than you!"

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It was the first time that Horace Grant felt that the red-haired guy in front of him had the right hair color, and he was as annoying as the Bulls' bastard.

"Are all the rookies this year so unlovable?"

"The chattering and the new trash talk are just like the hungry wolf in Minnesota."

In the first quarter, facing Hanamichi who had transformed into a mid-range shot god, the Magic's head coach could only ask Horace Grant to go around and defend to receive the ball.

Once Hanamichi received the high ball in the mid-range corner, Horace Grant immediately moved forward and didn't give the latter any space to jump.

But unfortunately, as a real superstar player, in addition to the mid-range and [Iron Blood Jump Shot] skill package of 104, Huadao also has 109 ball control ability, 108 passing ability and [Point Guard Heart] to enhance the stability of passing and control.

Combined with the layup, dunk, and basket shooting finishing abilities that are generally above 110, Huadao instantly transformed into a true playoff triple threat master.

What's outrageous is that this triple threat master is 214cm tall and his athletic ability is not inferior to that of outside players.

This is like a physically enhanced version of Du Shubao with a weakened shooting offense coming to the league!

The only difference is that Du Shubao can guarantee a long-range shooting rate of up to 71% in the playoffs with enhanced defensive intensity.

However, Huadao can only guarantee a mid-range and long-range shooting rate of 40%, but Huadao's close-range and basket shooting rates can be guaranteed to be above 70%.

Equally lethal.

Magic coach Brian Hill did not expect that the double-teaming tactics he adopted, which the Spurs and Pacers had used against Hanamichi at the beginning of the season and had obvious effects, did not work.

He had no choice but to give up the double-teaming and let the team strengthen the outside attack.

And this task fell on Nick Anderson and Hardaway.

As for Horace Grant, who can contribute about 14 points per game, Hanamichi said that how you defended me at that time, I will defend you now, this is not too much!

After entering the league for three years and leading the team alone half a year earlier than the original history, Hardaway can average [21.7 points + 7.1 assists + 4.3 rebounds] per game this season.

He has excellent physical fitness and passing vision, can organize, score, and defend, and is a comprehensive player.

But like his fans, the future McGrady, he has this characteristic, that is, his shooting percentage is actually not stable.

In the past, under O'Neal's presence in the interior, he could shoot freely, and except for the unreasonable handling of the ball, he would not bear too much pressure, because he knew that the interior giant could convert the second attack into a stable score.

But after O'Neal left for New York, Hardaway has restrained a lot of his wild shooting attributes, and the number of attacks on the basket and close-range shots has increased.

But in the first game of the playoffs, he was severely taught a lesson by Hanamichi's 6 blocks.

In this game, Hardaway could only change direction helplessly to shake off the defender Doug Christie and seek a more stable open shot.

In this way, Doug Christie will not be sleepy!

If you compare offense, he may not be interested, but if you talk about defending off-ball running and changing direction with the ball, there is already a hint of the future. Doug Christie, who has been in the best defensive team for four consecutive years, said that I can do this!

So, under Doug Christie's defense, HardawayDawe made 3 of 10 shots in the first quarter and scored 8 points with difficulty.

To be honest, this result is indeed good, especially in the playoffs with higher defensive intensity.

But compared with Hanamichi's 7 of 11 shots and 15 points in the first quarter, it is obviously far behind.

Oh, by the way! By the way, Hanamichi broke another Raptors team record, becoming the first player to score 15 points in a quarter of the playoffs.

In short, every step of Hanamichi is basically creating the history of the Raptors.

Doug Christie, the hero of the first quarter, did not appear in the bench lineup in the second quarter. Because of his good defensive efficiency today, the head coach of the Raptors, Landon Malone, decided to change his approach.

Let him become a starting player completely, as a general to defend the opponent's outside scorer!

And let him contribute to the score steadily when he plays in the second lineup in the third quarter.

So far, Doug Christie's instruction manual has been thoroughly understood by Landon Malone!

Inside, they faced Hanamichi who couldn't restrict the offense, and Charles Oakley, the "evil man" who helped from time to time and showed his personal presence; outside, there were Doug Christie, the defensive gate, and Damon Stoudemire, the rhythm accelerator and scoring expert. Although the Magic had a group of bench players who averaged 10+ points per game, they were still unable to turn the tide. Halfway through the fourth quarter, Magic head coach Brian Hill replaced the team's main players in advance. Last year, he was able to lead the team to defeat the Bulls and enter the Eastern Conference Finals, but finally lost to the defending champion. But this year, they stopped in the first round and were ruthlessly swept by the NBA upstarts ~ Raptors. Brian Hill felt that he might be the one who was blamed by the team management. On May 2, the Raptors became the second team in the East to enter the second round. The first was the 72-win Bulls who also swept the Hawks 3:0 earlier tonight. The next opponent of the Raptors is the New York Knicks who are sweeping the Pistons!

This monster team has [Gorilla] and [Shark].