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Chapter 202 If you don't open it now, when will it be?

In the "Water House Central Gymnasium", the audience was fascinated by watching... Tonight's game was really exciting!

Just after McGrady and Wang Dalin scored a wonderful goal respectively, the two immediately showed their best skills and launched a more intense one-on-one BATTLE.

Carlisle sat on the sidelines, his expression becoming more serious.

It is certainly a good thing for the audience, but it is not necessarily a good thing for the head coach, especially Carlisle is a tactical master at the NBA's historical level. He doesn't want most of his players to run back and forth on the court except for rebounding.

And the biggest disadvantage of the star confrontation is... Once your star is at a disadvantage in the confrontation, the balance of the game will be biased towards the opposite side, which is undoubtedly unacceptable to Carlisle.

After all, basketball is a sport of five people, not just heads-up!
About 8 minutes into the first quarter, the head coaches of the two sides replaced some rotation players in a tacit understanding. The Magic removed Kemp and Hill and replaced them with Darrell Armstrong and Andrew De Klerk.

Doug Rivers probably wanted McGrady to be singled out more comfortably, so he deliberately replaced Armstrong, an orthodox point guard, and De Klerk, a second-round pick in 1995, was younger and more aggressive than Kemp.

For the Pistons, Carlisle replaced Hamilton, McGinnis and Robinson with Williams, Barry and Bartel.

It is estimated that Carlisle also thinks very clearly. Anyway, Wang Dalin and McGrady are singled out on the court. It is a waste for the other main players to stay on the court. It is better to change to repair the second team of the Magic.

If it was the playoffs, McGrady might have played the entire game, but tonight is just a regular season game, and it is impossible for McGrady to play the full 48 minutes!
As long as McGrady rests, Carlisle will decisively replace Wang Dalin and Ben, and then send Hamilton, McGinnis, Boozer, Robinson and other offensive players to play "abuse"... Compared with the depth of the lineup, the Magic can't keep up with the Pistons!
In the last 4 minutes of the first quarter, Wang Dalin's touch obviously declined. The three consecutive offenses were all shots. McGrady seized the opportunity and led the team to a small climax of 8:2, pulling the score to 29:23 in one fell swoop.

At the beginning of the second quarter, McGrady took a break, and Carlisle immediately replaced Wang Dalin and Da Ben with a purely offensive lineup of Okur, Boozer, Williams, Barry and Alstom.

Under the leadership of Hill, the Magic struggled with the Pistons, but how could they be the opponents of the Pistons?
If Hill hadn't suffered that serious knee injury, and he was still the "Jordan successor" of Megatron League back then, his strength might still be higher than that of Tracy McGrady... It's a pity that time is gone forever, and the past can only be recalled!
During this period of time, Hill was not only unable to prevent Hamilton's running and shooting, but also did nothing on the offensive end. Several shots ended in iron.

And "Fat Rain Man" Kemp was extremely embarrassed by Boozer and Okur.

Both of these two have good mid-range shooting ability. If Kemp doesn't defend, they can really make a mid-range shot. Once he defends, the inside line will be empty.

Another insider of the Magic, Pat Garrity, has a very accurate long-range shot, but his defensive ability is so-so. It will be extremely difficult to defend either Boozer or Okur.

第二节开始阶段汉密尔顿、布泽尔和奥库打得风生水起，其中汉密尔顿4投3中拿下6分，布泽尔和奥库都是3投2中，各自拿下4分。

这一节打了不过5分钟左右，活塞队打出一波14:4的小高潮，不仅追上了落后的6分，还以37:33反超了。

McGrady rested for about 5 minutes and finally played again, and Carlisle also replaced Wang Dalin.

In the second half of the second quarter, the game returned to the confrontation between McGrady and Wang Dalin. Both of them showed a high level of offense and defense, and the audience couldn't help but exclaimed for a while.

麦迪今晚的手感真是不错，他继第一节8投5中砍下12分之后，在第二节后半段又来了一波7投4中，其中三分球3投1中，砍下了9分3篮板2抢断。

半场战罢，麦迪总共15投9中，其中三分球5投3中，罚球2投2中，砍下23分5篮板2助攻2抢断。

王大林第一节和麦迪同样是8投5中，其中三分球3投2中，罚球3投3中，砍下了15分3篮板1助攻1盖帽，得分比麦迪还要高一些。

可第二节后半段他的手感明显下滑，只有6投2中得到4分2篮板1抢断，尤其是在三分线外的两次投篮都没进。

半场结束时王大林总共14投7中，其中三分球5投2中，罚球3投3中，得到了19分5篮板1助攻1盖帽1抢断。

Although his offensive efficiency is already very good, it is obviously still slightly inferior to McGrady's performance.

Anything can happen in the NBA, and sometimes this seemingly unreasonable thing will happen... When you face a super scorer who is in full form, maybe you shoot 50% from the field and 40% from the three-point range. Maybe it’s not enough.

In the TNT live broadcast room, Barkley couldn't help sighing: "Darling's performance tonight is definitely not bad, but obviously T-MAC's performance is better. It seems that the Pistons are a little dangerous in the second half!"

Smith smiled and said: "Now the Pistons are 4 points behind, and Darling-Wang is also 4 points behind T-MAC in personal scoring...Charles, I think you have to be mentally prepared to quit donuts!"

Barkley said angrily: "Isn't it too early to say this? There are still 24 minutes in the second half, and you know that Darling can't turn defeat into victory?"

Smith smiled and said: "You have seen it yourself. Darling's performance can't be said to be bad, but T-MAC is obviously in surprisingly good form tonight. Even if Darling-Wang tries his best in the second half, I think it will be difficult for him to come back!"

Barkley pondered for a while, and suddenly said with a serious expression: "I believe in him...he has never let me down, and tonight will definitely be no exception!"

……

The second half finally started.

McGrady came up as a breakthrough, his start was quite sudden, Wang Dalin accidentally missed to keep up, Daben was firmly blocked by Kemp and couldn't make up the defense, McGrady rushed into the basket and it was a one-handed dunk.

There is one thing to say, even if McGrady's dunk is not as good as his cousin, he is still in the top five in the entire league. Wang Dalin is really incomparable in this regard.

However, Wang Dalin's shooting ability is no less than McGrady's, especially the three-point shooting. Now there are few people in the league who can compare with him.

When it was the Pistons' turn to attack, Wang Dalin wanted to use "Golden Rooster Independence" to return the ball, but the ball hit the neck of the basket and missed.

Although his mid-range shooting ability is as high as 86, and he has the skill blessing of "Golden Rooster Independence", it is impossible for him to make every ball.

Even for Nowitzki, his mid-range shooting percentage at his peak was probably just over 50%, which is already the most accurate mid-range shot in the league!
If Wang Dalin didn't have star skills such as "McGrady dry pull", "Golden Rooster independence", "Aldridge leaning back" and other star skills, how could his overall shooting percentage remain above 50% for a long time?

And now that he has two more breakthrough skills, "Reaper Double Change" and "Super Six Double Change", his offensive methods are obviously more abundant than last season.

Looking back, McGrady scored another three-pointer through the pick-and-roll.

The ball king Dalin tried his best to go around the cover, but Kemp blocked him so tightly that he couldn't go around at all.

When it was the Pistons' turn to attack, Wang Dalin also used the pick-and-roll to shoot a three-pointer, but it was a pity that he hit the iron again.

The feeling of hand is sometimes so mysterious, when it comes, you can't stop it, no matter how you cast it!
But when it suddenly disappears, no matter how good you are, there is nothing you can do... Otherwise, Kobe would not hit 11 irons in the game against the Celtics on November 7!

(Well...the game is in this season!)
Looking back, McGrady succeeded in another emergency stop jumper after a breakthrough.

Immediately afterwards, the Pistons missed Hamilton's mid-range shot in the offense. McGrady seized the opportunity to play a fast break and dunked with another one-handed windmill.

The third quarter lasted just over two minutes, and the Magic opened the score with a 9:0 spurt.

The score between the two sides has reached 58:45, and the Magic lead by 13 points. Carlisle had no choice but to call a timeout.

The Pistons have played 26 games this season, and Carlisle seldom calls this kind of timeout. To put it bluntly... this is just being stopped by the opponent!
"The current situation is very unfavorable to us. T-MAC's state is too good tonight. We must play more as a team!" Carlisle immediately made a decision, "Darling, I think you should let Richard and the others attack a few times later!"

Wang Dalin nodded silently, but fell into a dilemma in his heart.

In the game against the Wizards on December 12, Wang Dalin completed a temporary task called "The Last Solo Dance" and received the reward of "4 consecutive offensive 10% hits at any specified time in any game".

This effect can be called a perverted "big BUFF"... Wang Dalin has never been willing to use it!

The main reason is that the Pistons have been playing very well during this period, so there is no need for him to use this big killer... Since it is a big killer, it should definitely be reserved for another big killer!
So Wang Dalin is hesitating now... Now that the Magic have led by 13 points, and McGrady is in such a state, should I just "open" and kill him?
Wang Dalin is not worried that this 100% hit "BUFF" can't defeat McGrady, because the power of this move is too strong, it is definitely a person blocking a killing Buddha blocking a killing Buddha!
He is very confident about this... Even if McGrady can suddenly burst into a state of 35 seconds and 13 minutes, he can kill him.

Unless McGrady can stay in that state for 10 rounds... well, that's impossible, he won't be in the Hall of Fame and have so many people come out and say he doesn't deserve it!

But Wang Dalin still has another layer of worries... If he uses this killer move now, he will have to return to his normal state in the fourth quarter!

If McGrady's state is still so broken by then, what should he do?
But he thought about it... If this trick is not used now, if the point difference is opened by McGrady to more than 20 points, it will be difficult to recover in the fourth quarter even if it is cheated.

After the opening, Wang Dalin can guarantee 10 points in 30 rounds, but it is impossible for the Magic not to score in these 10 rounds, right?

Even if the shooting percentage is only 40%, the Magic can score 10 points after 8 rounds, plus some free throws... If the point difference between the two sides widens to more than 20 points, it is really possible that they will not be able to catch up!

At present, Wang Dalin's biggest goal is to lead the team to break the Lakers' 33-game winning streak... He must strive to get the reward of "Bronze Skin and Iron Bone Badge", so he must not lose any game!
After hesitating again and again, Wang Dalin finally made a decision - if he doesn't open it now, when will he wait?

The score difference of 13 points is indeed not small, but Wang Dalin believes that he can overtake the score in just a few minutes... As long as McGrady does not enter the state of 35 points in 13 seconds, it will be about five or six rounds!

Sure enough, after the timeout ended, Wang Dalin immediately made a shot from outside the three-point line.

McGrady went tit-for-tat and wanted to score a three-pointer, but the goal was not scored... Even if he feels very good tonight, it is impossible to score every goal after all!
Wang Dalin grabbed the rebound and launched a fast break, advanced to the opponent's three-point line and made another shot... This goal was scored again!

In the TNT live broadcast room, Barkley had obviously noticed something was wrong with Wang Dalin, so he said, "Kenny, Darling seems to be feeling better!"

Smith nodded and said: "That's right, he made two consecutive three-pointers. It seems that his touch has indeed improved!"

Barkley said with a serious expression: "It seems that you still don't understand! I mean... don't you think he seems to be back in the 2001 playoffs against the Bucks?"

Smith laughed and said: "Charles, I have to say that your imagination is really rich... In that round of the series, Darling Wang can be said to be a god, do you think he can still be so good tonight?"

Barkley said sternly: "Darling didn't hesitate at all when he shot just now, don't you think he is like himself in the 2001 playoffs?"

Smith said with a smile: "I didn't hesitate to shoot... You can think of him in that round of the series from this point? Isn't this a bit too mysterious?"

Barkley seemed to be hesitant, but soon his expression became firm: "Yes, I'm sure...he has already started to explode!"

……

Just as Barkley and Smith were discussing, McGrady finally stopped and hit a jumper under the cover of his teammates. However, in the next attack of the Pistons, Wang Dalin caught the ball from the outside and scored a three-pointer...and scored again!

After Wang Dalin made three consecutive three-pointers, the Pistons also hit a 9:2 spurt, closing the score to 54:60, and they were only 6 points behind the Magic.

Doug Rivers' expression became more solemn. As a head coach, although he is not good at tactics, he is very good at dealing with players, so he is quite sensitive to the ups and downs of players' status.

For example, Wang Dalin at this moment... even Smith, a professional basketball commentator, couldn't notice that he had started to explode, but Rivers obviously felt it, so he wanted to take advantage of the dead ball to call a timeout.

But Kemp has already sent the baseline ball, and McGrady has already started dribbling and advancing, so Rivers felt that it would be better to observe it again.

There are many head coaches in the NBA who make this mistake, especially Rivers!

In this guy's coaching career, there are often situations where timeouts are not timely... Tonight is not his first time, and it will certainly not be the last time!
Garrity set up a pick-and-roll for McGrady. After the latter wiped Wang Dalin, he suddenly turned around and passed the ball to the moon. Garrity caught the ball and shot... But Daben gave up the inside and rushed out. Garrity was disturbed, and the ball was not made!

Wang Dalin took the rebound off Kemp's head and threw it to McGinnis... Now that he is in the "open state", he doesn't want to waste his energy on dribbling the ball to the frontcourt.

Dribbling... It's better to leave it to a professional "dribbling guard"!

McGinnis had obviously noticed Wang Dalin's improvement, so he dribbled the ball to the front court and passed the ball directly to him.

I guess he was thinking after passing the ball... Hurry up and shoot, I can get another assist!

McGrady's defensive position is a bit late. It's not that he doesn't pay enough attention to Wang Dalin's shooting. The main reason is that he thinks that Wang Dalin has hit three three-pointers in a row. It's impossible to continue to be so big, right?
Normally speaking, this is indeed the case. When a scorer hits three three-pointers in a row, most of them will rely on their own projection deterrence to break through. Of course, McGrady thinks so.

But he obviously misjudged it. In the "open state", Wang Dalin must have only one offensive method, and that is-a three-pointer!
nonsense!

100% hit!

Instead of shooting three-pointers, go for a breakthrough?

Isn't that shit in the head?

Seeing McGrady's defensive position at the back, how could Wang Dalin hesitate?Just pull it up and shoot... As you can imagine, this goal is scored again!

Counting from the timeout, only 2 minutes and 41 seconds have passed.

王大林在在这段时间里三分球4投4中，以一波12:2的小高潮将比分追到了57:60，这回里弗斯再也坐不住了，赶紧叫了个暂停。

Obviously he called the timeout a bit late, but all the same, it doesn't make any difference whether the timeout is called or not.

Rivers didn't arrange any tactics. Anyway, he didn't know much about these things. His pause was purely to interrupt Wang Dalin's touch.

Normally, when a player feels overwhelmed, calling a timeout is likely to interrupt his rhythm, but Wang Dalin is "opening up" now, as long as 10 shots are not over, it doesn't matter how many timeouts you call.

In the TNT live broadcast room, Smith sighed: "Charles, it seems that your judgment just now is correct, Darling-Wang really exploded!"

Barkley laughed and said, "It's normal that you don't see it. After all, he has been my teammate for half a season. I must know more about him than you!"

Smith nodded and said, "I hope Darling-Wang's hand feels a little cooler after this timeout, otherwise I'm afraid I'm going to lose tonight!"

Barkley smiled and said, "It's okay, you can't eat steak, can you still eat donuts?"

Smith: "..."

……

The timeout ended and the players from both sides reappeared.

McGrady broke into the inside line again under the cover of Garrity, but his layup was slapped directly out of the sideline by Big Ben.

Anyway, Big Ben was also the best defensive player last season. This season, he averaged 3.2 blocks per game. Anyone who dares to underestimate him will taste the taste of being blocked!

After completing this block, Da Ben couldn't help pounding his chest and shouting to the sky.

This scene is very similar to Wang Dalin using "The Roar of the Wolf King", except that "Big Ben's Roar" has no skill bonus, it is just a roar.

The Magic sent the frontcourt sideline ball, and the Pistons players were very active in defense this time, especially resolutely not letting McGrady catch the ball.

After several passes, McGrady managed to get the ball, but when he looked up and saw that the attack time was only 3 seconds, he had to force a three-point shot from the outside.

The interference Wang Dalin gave him was very strong. The ball was almost a non-stick. Da Ben got stuck in the position to grab the rebound and handed it to McGinnis.

"Dribble Guard" McGinnis perfectly completed the task of dribbling the ball to advance to the frontcourt, and then... other than passing the ball to Wang Dalin, what else could he do?
The same... After Wang Dalin catches the ball, besides shooting, what else can he do?
This time McGrady's interference was very strong, but Wang Dalin still completed the shooting action relying on his height and arm length.

The parabola of this ball is very high, it can be said that it is not a normal shooting trajectory at all, but the result is no different... With a "shua", the ball is scored again!

McGrady looked back, and was stunned. He really rarely showed this kind of expression, mainly because of those sleepy eyes...he really couldn't open them!
The score was finally tied, and the Pistons and Carlisle couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

But Wang Dalin's expression is obviously a little unfinished... It's only 5 rounds, and I still have 5 rounds left from my Italian cannon!

So amidst the sighs of the home audience in the "Waterhouse Central Gymnasium", Wang Dalin made persistent efforts and hit another 5 three-pointers.

It's not that the Magic didn't think of a way to limit his three-point shooting. They tried their best to defend him every time, especially Tracy McGrady, who defended him. He dared to swear that he had no flaws in every defense. He definitely interfered enough, but... how the hell can he make it?
During this period Rivers called another timeout, but it was the same as the last time he called it... It didn't work at all!

The difficulty of Wang Dalin's balls is getting higher and higher. Even if Kenny Smith can already be called a legendary pitcher in the league, he can't help admiring his strokes.

Especially for the last ball, McGrady's hand had obviously hit Wang Dalin's right forearm at the time. Even though the shooting action was completely changed, the ball was still scored... A three-pointer can also be punished.
In this regard, Wang Dalin was very calm, because he was so awesome after opening the hack, this is just a basic operation!

In the 2001 playoffs, Wang Dalin broke the record for the number of three-pointers made in a single game in the NBA playoffs, and now he has broken the record for the number of three-pointers made in a single game in the regular season.

在此之前NBA常规赛的单场三分命中数记录是早年间魔术队的小前锋德尼斯.斯科特所保持的，他在1996年4月18日对阵老鹰队的比赛中三分球17投11中，全场砍下了35分。

In that game, he scored 33 points just from three-pointers, but he only scored 35 points in total. I have to say, this guy is really a professional pitcher... he does nothing but shoot three-pointers!

In addition to the three-pointer record, he also broke the NBA regular season scoring record in a single quarter. In this quarter, he made 14 of 12 shots, including 11 of 10 three-pointers, scored 34 points, 4 rebounds and 1 assist.

Prior to this, this record was held by the legendary superstar "Iceman" George Gervin... On the last day of the regular season of the 1977-1978 season, Gervin scored 63 points in the game between the Spurs and the Jazz, including 33 points in the second quarter.

In fact, Gervin's 33 points in a single quarter still had a bit of fighting spirit. At that time, he and "Skywalker" David Thompson were competing for the title of scoring champion that season, and the gap between the two was very small.

As a result, Thompson scored 73 points in the last game and scored 32 points in the first quarter. To become the scoring leader, Gervin must score at least 58 points in the last game.

So Gervin perfectly responded to Thompson's 33 points with 63 points in a single quarter and 73 points in the game, and became the scoring leader that season.

If you really want to count it, Gervin's scoring record in a single quarter is really quite high. After all, there was no three-point line in the NBA at that time!
After the start of the fourth quarter, Tracy McGrady was visibly sluggish, and he was no longer as brave as he was in the first three quarters. So at about 6 minutes into the fourth quarter, Rivers replaced all the main players, and Carlisle also replaced Wang Dalin and the others.

In the last quarter, Wang Dalin played quite "Buddhist". It is probably because the continuous offense in the third quarter was too much fun. He may be a little "guilty" towards Hamilton and the others, so he basically played for his teammates in this quarter.

这一节王大林只打了6分钟，总共2投1中只得到2分，不过他却整整送出了5次助攻，还抢到了4个篮板。

于是……就在这场以个人对飚的砍分大战中，王大林竟然砍下了55分13篮板7助攻的准三双，除此之外他还送出了2次抢断和2个盖帽。

McGrady scored 46 points, 8 rebounds, 4 assists and 2 steals. He has already performed very well, but he still lost, not only lost the game, but also lost this personal duel.

After winning the Magic, the Pistons have won 27 consecutive victories... No matter what the outside world thinks or what people inside the team think, breaking the Lakers' record of 33 consecutive victories will be their important goal in the next stage.

Wang Dalin is probably more eager for this goal than anyone else... The "Copper Skin and Iron Bone Badge" he has dreamed of seems to be waving to him not far away!

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