I'm a boss in the NBA

Chapter 63 Length and Depth

TNT broadcast live, and Barkley, O'Neill, and Kenny Smith sat on the commentary table.

"I heard that Coach Derek is going to put Amare on the bench today." Barkley said bluntly: "I have to say that this is not a very good decision."

"But it's Quincy who came off the bench," Barkley paused, "He's a strong guy."

The Magic have Tobias and Frye on the front line, neither of them are the kind of confrontational power forwards, especially Frye, who is like a bamboo pole
"The Knicks want to play inside."

This sentence is a bit contradictory.

With the removal of Stoudemire, the Knicks have free space inside, and with Frye at the opposite power forward, the threat of Melon in the low post or near the middle distance will be greatly increased.

How could he arrange tactics for Melon?

The Barkley trio looked at each other without continuing the topic.

They also "heard" that I had a falling out with the old Zen master and left the conference room in public. In fact, there is absolutely no secret in the NBA, it's just that they know it late and early.

The starters from both sides were played on the big screen.

For the Knicks, the starting lineup of Xu Xuan, Shumpert, Melo, Quincy, and Samuel
Stoudemire sat on the bench.

For the Magic, Elfrid Payton, Evan Fournier, Tobias Harris, Channing Frye, Nikola Vucevic.

Xu Xuan looked at the opponent's score. Payton Jr. was the No. 10 lottery pick this year, but he was traded to the Magic immediately after being selected by the 76ers.

Score: 440 points (threat level: orange)
440 point?
It's the same as my provisional rating, Xu Xuan couldn't help but look at him a few more times.

Evan Fournier, the No. 12 pick in 20, was quiet in the first two seasons, but this season he began to explode after Audi was injured. In the last four games, three games scored 20+ , another game also scored 19 points, the system gave him a score of 580, Xu Xuan didn't know whether it was high or low.
Of course, the strongest player on the Magic side is naturally fourth-year Nikola Vucevic.

Score: 700 points (Threat level: Cyan! Extremely dangerous!)
This guy has averaged a double-double for two consecutive seasons!

Since this season, although the Magic's record of 2 wins and 6 losses is even more embarrassing than the Knicks, the team's record obviously cannot affect Vucevic!
In these 8 games, Vucevic averaged 18+12 All-Star insiders per game!

He is also a very promising future star and the cornerstone of the Magic team.

Vucevic beat Samuel with a jump ball and the game started.

Peyton was very cautious when he came over to face Xu Xuan with the ball. Obviously he knew Xu Xuan's length. Of course Xu Xuan also knew his depth. The main reason is that this hairstyle doesn't matter if you don't want to pay attention to it. Xu Xuan is worried that he will run away Throw your head out when you move
In the frontcourt, Payton signaled to pull away. Vucevic and Tobias picked and rolled on the left. Qi himself didn't dare to shoot. He held the ball for a long time and gave it to Harris in the corner, but missed a three-pointer.

Samuel received the rebound, Xu Xuan brought the ball over, and when Melon fell to the low post, he lobbed the ball in without thinking.

I sat back with my big butt, and Tobias was pushed aside in an instant. I caught the ball and hit the board. The ball went straight into the net!
The Knicks scored on the first attack!

"Extremely Beautiful!"

The audience applauded, Melon patted Xu Xuan's butt when he retreated, and was captured by the camera again.

Payton Jr. brought over the Magic baseline ball. He hesitated in the frontcourt and wanted to surprise Xu Xuan!
Before the game, the coach also told him that the dwarf on the opposite side had poor defense. He thought he could try it.

Xu Xuanguang looked at his hairstyle, and the ball really went in.

The Knicks' inside defense is also impressive, only Quincy is running towards this side, I turned my head after taking a look at it, Samuel stuck Vucevic, but he didn't mean to come to the penalty area at all , after receiving the pass on the right side, raise the arm to pick up the ball and jump hook.
7-foot-4 wingspan!
Samuel could only "look at his hand and sigh", because he couldn't reach it.

The stunt of hooking hands is a test of physical talent. As long as you have tall shoulders and a little touch, this trick is almost impossible to defend against.
There are many big centers in later generations, but Vucevic is definitely the one who plays the most slippery hook among these people.

Unable to defend, there was nothing he could do. Samuel sent the ball to the bottom line, Xu Xuan slowly dribbled the ball across the half court, and continued to look for Melon in the frontcourt.

Tobias bite the bullet and leaned forward, but when I sat on my big butt, the seat disappeared instantly.
"This fucking is a foul!"

Tobias wanted to greet his teammates, but when he saw Frye, who was about to be squeezed out of the field, and Vucevic, who was struggling with Samuel, he felt at a loss.
The Knicks' interior defense is weak, it seems that we are not strong either?

It's not unreasonable for Vucevic to always rank in the middle and lower reaches among the top ten centers of later generations. His body is thin and his ability to fight is too poor. Rao's offense and rebounding are very good, which can't cover up this shortcoming.

It's a pity that I didn't feel very good with this ball, and the ball slid out.

Quincy squeezed away several people in front of him, grabbed the offensive rebound and scored the ball to the outside. Xu Xuan was amused to see that the one standing in front of him was Frye, the "green onion". A crossover went around Frye's right, a mid-range jumper. Still nothing.

Vucevic stretched out his ape arm to protect the rebound, the Magic stretched out, Payton passed the ball to Fournier, Fournier was close to Shumpert, found a screen and got rid of it, Quincy switched defenses, and the bottom corner Frye was empty and the ball was transferred to him. Frye's shot angle was too high and Shumpert couldn't prevent it. A three-pointer was scored!

5 to 2, the Magic actually took the lead.

Lao Yu roared on the sidelines for a while, and Xu Xuan didn't understand what he said. But it's always right to give the ball to Melon, and now that Stoudemire has gone down, no one can compete with Melon.

Melon asked for a screen at the three-point line this time. Samuel's screen quality was very poor. Of course, Vucevic couldn't defend it. It was Fournier in front of Melon. Soaring three points!

"Dangdang!"

No!

Vucevic received the rebound again and switched the offense. Fournier was empty in front of him and scored two points!
"Shh!"

Again!
The Magic led by 7 points at the start!
"Beep!"

The old fish called a timeout.

For the young players of the Magic, what they are not afraid of falling behind is lack of rhythm, and the timeout of the old fish is precisely to break their rhythm.

(End of this chapter)