As soon as the second quarter came up, Jeff was pleased to find that Howard was indeed sitting on the bench, it seemed that the night had not been in vain in the past few days, and he had estimated Stan's employment strategy correctly. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

After Howard was gone, he was replaced by a 32-year-old veteran, Tony Beatty. When the team has a center with strong scoring ability like Anjie, Jeff will not let go of this opportunity to open up the situation inside.

Just as he had planned, after Anjie rested at the end of the first quarter, he took Anjie up at the beginning of the second quarter. Jeff's purpose is very clear, that is, to play on the veteran Betty!

It's not like Jeff Van Gundy is looking down on anyone, and although Betty was selected with the No. 5 overall pick in the 1997 draft, he didn't match the pick.

In order to get more balls on the inside, and to evenly distribute the team's scoring points across periods, Jeff Van Gundy did not send Westbrook at the beginning of the second quarter, but let Earl Watson, the traditional No. 1 player, take the lead.

This is done so that Anjie can hold the ball more, and Jeff's obvious arrangement is not that Stan can't see it, but the only substitute interior player he can get out of the team is Tony Betty. Stan only hopes that veteran Betty can withstand Anjie's onslaught during the gap when Howard rests, and the team has positioned him as well. Help Howard carry a few fouls and buy Howard some time to rest, and Betty only needs to do that to complete the mission.

However, when it comes to the court, the gap between Angel's offense and Betty's defense is far beyond Stan Van Gundy's imagination.

Although Betty's athleticism is not excellent, her torso strength and lower body strength are not small at all, and An Jie will inevitably waste a lot of physical strength if she chooses to attack directly in hand-to-hand combat.

So Anjie's first offense after coming on the court did not fall to the low post, but stood at the free throw line and waited for Watson's pass.

"Do you want to organize?" Betty didn't dare to slack off, and quickly posted it to prevent An Jie from having a chance to pass the ball easily.

Taking advantage of Betty's footsteps to lift the center of gravity forward, An Jie sank his shoulders and wiped past Betty with a single step!

Although she can resist attacks under the basket, when facing a large offensive range and flexible footwork, Betty's shortcomings of slow footwork and poor defensive prediction will be exposed. An Jie didn't even make a feint in this ball, and directly broke through easily.

The huge "moan" of the basket Howard couldn't have been heard, and watching that yellow-skinned guy do something wrong on the inside of the Magic team, he clenched his fists, but he couldn't do anything.

"Wait, Ann, you wait. Howard gritted his teeth and stared at An Jie.

The next game was still under the leadership of Anjie, and after a few minutes of play, Jeff sent Durant on the court again. Not only did Anjie play well, but Durant also played with great ease in the face of Betty's interior defense.

As the last line of defense of the Magic team on the court now, Betty has little ability to block when facing Durant who breaks through. The only way he can stop Durant from scoring directly is through fouling.

Unfortunately, Durant's free throw shooting rate today is very impressive, and in the second quarter, Durant has made 6 of 6 free throws so far, and he has scored 6 points just by making free throws.

From trailing by five points to leading by six points, it took the Thunder just three minutes to do so. If it weren't for the Magic's All-Star guard Jameel Nelson, who was in good shape, it is estimated that the point difference would have been pulled to double digits.

In the 4th minute of the second quarter, a wonderful pass from Watson assisted An Jie to complete the aerial relay, and after this goal was scored, An Jie had already scored 6 points on 3-of-3 shooting in the second quarter. Howard couldn't help it, and Stan Van Gundy couldn't tolerate the Asian doing whatever he wanted on the inside of the Magic.

After Anjie scored, the game also entered the official timeout.

Stan didn't have a lot of tactics in place during this timeout, believing that the Magic's starting lineup would be able to contain it as soon as they were on the court. The 100-second timeout was fleeting, and when the two sides came on again, the starting five of both teams were all back.

"Show time is over Ann. Howard's tone was noticeably less friendly than it had been in the first quarter. At first, Howard didn't think the Thunder could pose a threat to them, because the first meeting between the two sides was an easy victory for the Magic. For those who are not threatening, Howard is, of course, courteous.

But now it's different, Jeff Van Gundy's Thunder team has changed drastically from the previous Thunder team, and the Magic team won't be as easy as before.

After coming on the court, Howard's desire to attack was very strong, and he had already been stimulated by An Jie off the court.

The rough technique, combined with the impatience right now, led to Howard's offense being less threatening than it was in the first quarter.

After giving Nelson a pick-and-roll, Howard immediately went down and raised his hand for the ball.

Nelson is also an All-Star point guard, and although Anjie has a good defensive position, Nelson still grabbed the gap and fed the ball to Howard.

This is the offensive rhythm that Howard likes, after receiving the ball, Howard even saves the dribble, and jumps directly down to prepare for a dunk!

However, Anjie is not the kind of sluggish heavy center now, he quickly followed Howard's footsteps, and followed him up with jump blocks.

"Thunder No. 16 hitter foul!" However, An Jie's bounce speed and bounce height naturally cannot be compared with Howard, and An Jie has no chance to block the ball at all, so he can only take the initiative to apply for a foul.

But getting Howard to the free-throw line may be one of the Thunder's defensive strategies. The devil knows if An Jie's ball was deliberately fouled. It's better to have Howard make free throws than to dunk him comfortably.

Howard was also very face-saving, and An Jie shook his head helplessly when he looked at the stiff shot.

Warcraft missed two free throws, and the rebound was also obtained by An Jie.

On the offensive end, the Thunder have not changed much, with Jie still tangled with Howard, and Durant and Westbrook using their individual abilities to seek scoring opportunities.

However, Howard, who was eager to equalize, was very restless, An Jie could feel it, Howard was always eager to pounce to help defend, and he was no longer so focused on An Jie's defense!

Another breakthrough from Westbrook! This time, Anjie simply calculated and deliberately relaxed his position, and Howard saw that there was an opportunity to take advantage of it, and immediately pounced on Westbrook who had already jumped up and shot like a mad beast. While Howard was making up for it, Anjie was also heading high without anyone noticing in order to receive Westbrook's pass.

Although Westbrook does have a strong desire to shoot, he still won't force himself to shoot when he knows it's impossible to shoot.

Westbrook's pitching gesture suddenly changed, and the basketball flew past Howard's eyes and landed in Anjie's hand.

Westbrook attracted two men to defend, and Anjie got the opportunity to shoot in the open space! Without exception, Anjie seized the opportunity to shoot in this vacant position.

It seems that things are not going as Stan Van Gundy wants, and the situation has not eased since all five of his starting five returned to the court.

Howard's shortcomings and strengths are equally obvious, and whenever he comes up against a traditional center with a good quality, Howard is overpressed miserably. Although An Jie's strength is not enough to completely suppress Howard like Yao Ming and O'Neal, at least An Jie can make Howard play very uncomfortable and make him unable to play his full strength.

Howard's offensive approach is too one-sided, relying on secondary offense, air cuts and offensive and defensive transition opportunities Howard may be able to score a decent number of points, but when Jeff Van Gundy's Thunder drags the game into a slow-paced positional battle, Howard can't play such a fluid offense.

An Jie only needs to rely on Howard to the death, and he doesn't have to worry about the monster suddenly retreating and jumping, and he doesn't have to worry about any feints. As long as he is dead and reliable, Howard's offensive threat plummets!

Every time Howard catches the ball, he will drill in Anjie's arms, and Anjie doesn't jump, just raising his hands between Howard and the basket. In the face of such defense, Howard could only make layups with strong interference every time.

Once or twice Howard can rely on the advantage of strength to score against Anjie, but the efficiency is too low to use this as the main scoring method.

Howard can't play efficiently on the offensive end, and it doesn't mean that Anjie, who has a full range of skills, will accompany him to dumb fire. Although it was very difficult, Anjie still used his feet to score a few goals on Howard's head.

Limiting Howard, the core, what kind of storm can the Magic's offense set off?

The inside line couldn't be opened, and the outside line was very restricted, and until the end of the fourth quarter, the Magic team still couldn't pull back the decline.

is also against the Thunder, but the Magic feels that these two times against them are not the same opponent at all. Jeff Van Gundy has been effective for the Thunder defensively, and Anjie's astonishing one-on-one defense ability was also evident against Howard. Height, strength, and basketball IQ are the same, and Anjie's biggest weakness on the defensive end may be his slightly light weight. But against Howard, the first three things are enough.

Howard still scored 20 points, but at the cost of hitting just seven of his 17 shots, which is clearly unsatisfactory for an interior player.

Anjie only scored 14 points under Howard's super-strong defense, but he was amazingly efficient. If you don't shoot, as long as An Jie decides to attack by himself, he is very cautious, so the hit rate is also very high. On 6-of-8 shooting, he shot less than half of Howard's shots, but he scored only one less than Howard.

Not only Howard, but several of the Magic's fierce generals also lost their heads when they encountered the Thunder's inseparable defense.

Rashad Lewis shot just 33 percent from 5-of-15 shooting, including just one in seven three-point attempts.

Although Shidu Tekoglu had seven assists, his 29 per cent shooting percentage was a detriment to his hard work.

On the contrary, Durant and Westbrook, who have been criticized by the media for being unstable, both hit more than 50% of the shooting rate today, Durant 21 points, Westbrook 17 points, plus Anjie's 14 points and 8 rebounds, which is enough for them to defeat the Magic team.

98-90, after losing to the average Warriors, the Thunder broke all doubts with their performance. The Magic are the powerhouses in the East? Sorry, we won by a full eight points!

Everyone is still taking the Thunder, who lost in November, badly, but the Magic and Howard were clearly the first to taste the shock of a strong electric shock.

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