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Chapter 76 Christmas War ([-])

After a simple shooting warm-up, the two sides started the lineup, stood in the middle circle of the court, and the game began with a scrum.

Barkley looked at the starting lineups of both sides and said: "Tonight, the Cavaliers have adjusted their starting lineup again, adding two players with excellent three-pointers, Lin Bai and Kapono, and removing Cedric Brown, who is weak in defense and offense. And Ira Newbell. From this point of view, in this Christmas game, the Cavaliers want to attack and win, and give the fans a visual feast of goals during the holiday.”

Kenny Smith also glanced at the starting lineup of the Magic, and then said: "The starting lineup of the Magic has not changed at all, continuing the starting lineup that has won the last few games. The highlight is the point guard. Rod Strickland, who is 38 years old this year, is in charge of the old demon. He is very experienced and has a lot of experience in controlling the team's offensive and defensive rhythm.

The second bright spot is that the pseudo-starter Andrew De Klerk is at the center position, rather than the well-formed Drew Gooden.This lineup can make the Magic's offense and defense more balanced. McGrady, Juwan Howard, and Gordon Girisek all need the ball. If the starting center is Drew Gooden with a strong desire to attack, a basketball is obviously Not enough points, but the defensive blue-collar Andrew De Klerk can make the Magic's offense and defense smoother.In the second quarter, there was also an offensive titan leading the bench, which solved the Magic's ball possession problem at once.This game, from the tactical level alone, is worthy of our expectations! "

The Magic started with five players lined up, point guard Rod Strickland, shooting guard Gordon Girisek, small forward Tracy McGrady, power forward Juwan Howard, center Andrew De Klerk.

The Cavaliers' starting five are point guard LeBron James, scorer Lin Bai, small forward Jason Kapono, power forward Carlos Boozer, and center Zajunas Ilgauska. s.

With a beep whistle, the referee threw the basketball into the sky, and the game officially started.

With a light jump, Ilgauskas put the basketball into James' hands, and continued his magical performance in the middle of the jump.

Andrew De Klerk is only 208cm tall. In the Magic team, there are no tigers in the mountains, and monkeys are kings. It is only because he is the tallest in the team that he will play the role of jumping ball.

In the jump ball, he didn't even dare to hope to defeat the 221cm tall Ilgauskas, and he didn't even jump, so he turned around and returned to the defense.

The Cavaliers got the ball to attack first, James dribbled the ball across half court, and attacked with the ball in the middle three-point arc.

McGrady took the initiative to mark, lowered his center of gravity, opened his arms, and assumed a defensive posture. Instead of being close to the body, he took a step and a half to prevent breakthroughs and shots.

On the first goal of the game, James and McGrady faced each other, and the other players wisely opened up the space, allowing the two core players of their respective teams to face-to-face heads-up.

James lowered his center of gravity, stepped down and dribbled continuously, and added a cross trial step. As a result, McGrady's expression remained unchanged, and his dead fish eyes were fixed on James, unmoved.

Seeing that McGrady didn't hesitate, James took two steps back while stepping down the dribble, suddenly accelerated and forced a breakthrough, stepped on his right foot, and leaned against McGrady with the ball.

McGrady moved at this time, quickly stepped forward to get close to him, resisted James' impact abruptly, and did not give James a chance to run into the penalty area.

James made a horizontal move to the right, made a crab step, and broke through to the right. McGrady moved sideways tightly to the left, blocking James' breakthrough route, without giving an inch.

Immediately forced to stop by McGrady, James protected the ball behind his back, forced his body into the free throw line, opened up some space, made a step-down dribble, took a step back, and jumped back to make a two-point mid-range shot.

McGrady hardly lost his position, saw through James' attacking intention, jumped forward suddenly, jumped up and stretched out his right hand high, and slapped James' face.

Of course, it's not a real slap in the face, but a blindfold to interfere.

James' body bloomed in the air, the rhythm of shooting was not interrupted, and he leaned forward to push the basketball away from his fingertips.

The arc of the basketball shot is very high, drawing a beautiful arc.

There was a crisp netting sound,
The basketball fell into the hoop with precision, and the white net flowers overflowed, and there was a burst of water.

Two points scored, 2 to 0! !
James went down first and took the lead for the Cavaliers.

McGrady turned around and saw the basketball hit, his unhurried expression changed, and his lazy eyes became brighter and brighter.

You know, McGrady has no possession of the ball in the Raptors when he just entered the NBA.

He was able to gain a foothold in the NBA, relying on his excellent physical talent and good defensive skills. It was not until he joined the Magic that Grant Hill was unable to play due to a knee injury, so he increased his shots and took over the offensive power of the Magic. Qi, unexpectedly, scored superstar-like scoring data.

But he didn't lose his defensive strength, but his strength is increasing. With his unparalleled first step speed, he can easily complete the interference. Unexpectedly, James can force a shot. From this point of view, James really has the potential to become a superstar .

Let me weigh James, the strength of the Chosen One!
Offensive and defensive transition, Magic offense, Rod Strickland dribbled the ball across half court, passed the ball to McGrady who was in the middle, actively cut inside, ran without the ball, and opened up the offensive space.

At the top of the three-point line, McGrady catches the ball and puts on a three-threat posture. He plays a point forward tactic, which can break through, shoot, and pass assists.

James took the initiative to step forward to defend, consciously competed in the matchup, lowered his shoulders and lowered his center of gravity, assumed a defensive posture, and also put a step away.

McGrady glanced at the basket, and suddenly lifted the ball with both hands, raised his toes, and made a dry shot posture.

James rushed forward, jumped up and blocked the block. In the 02-3 season, McGrady was the scoring leader in the NBA. He averaged 32.1 points and 5.5 assists per game. It has declined, but scoring points is still as easy as chopping melons and vegetables. How dare he give him a chance and let him shoot easily.

McGrady seemed to have figured it out, quickly retracted the basketball, moved his left foot sideways, stepped forward, broke through with the ball, and reached the inside.

This is a false shot, James landed, and immediately turned back to chase.

I only saw McGrady take a step from the free throw line, he had already jumped high, and he stopped suddenly and pulled out his hand.

McGrady's posture in the air is very elegant, his shots are clean and neat, without any stagnation, the whole shooting movement is like flowing water, and the touch feels as smooth as silk.

With a bang, the basketball hit the net and pierced through the heart.

A dry jumper hit, 2 to 2! !
Tracy McGrady quickly used his forte to respond with a dry pull jumper and returned the color.

Outside the court, the emotions of the fans and spectators were instantly ignited, and the applause like rain fell one after another, and the thunderous shouts almost toppled the roof of the Orlando Arena.

Barkley said in surprise: "McGrady's physical talent is too strong, and the speed of the first step is one of the best in the league. A little fake action can make the defender very uncomfortable. After being passed, he can only Seeing his elegant body and the sound of the basketball sweeping the net, this wonderful way of scoring goals is really too cruel and shocking!!"

Back in defense, McGrady took light steps and showed a clean smile, like a happy elf in the forest.

However, as soon as he returned to halftime, he changed back to a lazy look, paired with dead fish eyes and an expression of never waking up, and in an instant, he became a salted fish without any desire.

(End of this chapter)