Chapter 105: Playing Like Kidd (Part II)

Against the Bucks, everyone on the Magic team was full of confidence. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The Magic team is not afraid of such a fish belly at all, and when it comes to the game, the situation is even better than imagined.

The Bucks' offensive strategy was too simple, and Sean showed his superiority on both ends of the floor. Pat recovered well from injury and immediately returned to the starting line-up to play alongside Howard.

The speed of TJ Ford on the outside is not as fast as before, Sean can barely follow, and when TJ Ford enters the basket, Sean takes the initiative to return to the perimeter and defend the possible pass lane.

This is something that Sean was rarely aware of before.

The vast majority of point guards in the league pass the ball is relatively simple, so to speak, after finding an open player, and even in many cases, the ball carrier passes the ball by relying on the usual team practice tactics.

In this case, players with a high ball IQ can easily determine where to pass the ball and are prone to steals.

Chris Paul's steals are mostly counter-steals, relying on the advantages of agility and short height, while Jason Kidd's steals are not, relying entirely on his mind and ball quotient, completely predicting part of the passing route.

Sean's game is all about learning Jason Kidd's way of playing.

Not to mention the outside anticipation steals, Sean is also getting better and better on the defensive end, and begins to slowly use small movements, using reasonable bodies to counter and interfere with the offensive actions of the attacker, Michael Reed and TJ Ford did not perform well when facing Sean.

After the Bucks covered, Sean switched defenses in a timely manner and didn't give the Bucks any chance at all.

Throughout the game on the defensive end, Sean showed a lot of wit, and everyone could see the characteristics of the ball quotient crushing others, Michael Reid and TJ Ford were very inefficient, shooting 4-of-16 and 6-of-19 shooting percentages.

Of course, Howard and Stephenson have the credit for this, but a large part of it is Sean's efforts on the perimeter defense that successfully interfered with the two.

Stephenson's defense is resilient, but ...... The ball quotient is obviously much worse, and Sean adds to this.

showed his characteristics on the defensive end, Sean was not inferior on the offensive end, with a performance of 21 points and 14 assists in the game, completely crushing the Bucks, Pat was 7 of 10 in the game after his injury, with 16 points and 2 rebounds, Stephenson 13 points, Grant Hill 16 points, Darko 18 points, 7 rebounds and 2 assists The data is also very good, and Howard got an amazing 17 points and 19 rebounds, completing his task well.

The Magic won 108-93 without any suspense.

There wasn't much attention paid to the game between the fish belly, and a win for the Magic was expected. The media are reporting which superstar has got 30+40+ data, and the Magic and Bucks only have rookies pecking at each other, so forget it.

After the win over the Bucks, the Magic had a day off to welcome the New York Knicks again.

In this game, Sean played against Stephen Marbury, showing his progress in this period of time.

On the defensive end, Sean and Howard made Marbury's defense out of shape, and in the end, Marbury shot 0 of 7 and relied on free throws to get 5 points, 3 assists and 2 rebounds, and Marbury's playing time reached 40 minutes.

The Knicks' rot is already in the bones.

No one in the starting five scored more than six points, setting another league record. Fortunately, the Knicks' bench performance was good, although Eddie Curry was hacked, but this game was very good on the offensive end, with 29 points and 9 rebounds, and Crawford and Channingfrye also played well. Channingfrye is a big forward who is good at shooting, needless to say.

Jamal Crawford's offense left Sean dumbfounded.

Coquettish dribbling behind the back, changing hands under the crotch, Jamal Crawford's grasp of the rhythm and the choice of breakthrough are simply against the sky, Sean was beaten twice by Crawford for 4 points in this game, and his face was gloomy.

When encountering such a player, the state is so good, Sean also expressed his helplessness.

Sean got 12 points, 18 assists, 5 rebounds and 3 steals in the game, leading the team to victory, and the happiest player in this game was Howard, who got 32 points and 16 rebounds, and performed very well.

Finally, after back-to-back home defeats, the Magic bottomed out and won two in a row.

Although both of these consecutive wins were against the league's most famous fish belly match. But the Magic team is still in good shape. Los Angeles Sports News even praised Sean on the page:

"This Chinese-American rookie from USC has performed very well in his rookie season, especially in the last few games, Sean Lee's performance is comparable to Jason Kidd, whether it is on the court offensive or defensive, Sean Lee is the person who has contributed the most to the Magic team in the team, and Sean Lee's individual offensive ability is also very strong, it is difficult for us to imagine what height Sean Lee can reach in the future, this is only his first season."

After the Los Angeles sports news praise, other sports media followed suit with encouragement.

At the same time, Sean was also nominated for the Eastern Conference Player of the Week, which is a great encouragement, because the other nominees are superstars who have achieved excellent stats this week, Kobe Bryant, LeBron James, Yao Ming, Steve Nash, Arenas. Even Jason Kidd was not selected because of the numbers.

After playing the Knicks, the Magic had their final game at home, and after this game, the team would have a grueling road trip.

And the opponent in this game is the Timberwolves.

The Timberwolves are located in Minnesota, in the northern United States, where it is freezing for most of the year, so it can be said that it is inaccessible, and the stars are not willing to play in Minnesota.

The Timberwolves uniform team unexpectedly selected high school student Kevin Garnett with a top-10 draft pick, and that pick proved right. Later, Minnesota was even more frustrated and signed a six-year contract with Garnett for more than 100 million, which was considered extremely crazy at the time, and no other team could give such a big contract.

The tragedy is...... Later, the league enforced new rules, superstars had a contract cap, and each team had a salary limit.

Then, because the Timberwolves gave Garnett too high a salary, there was no salary space, and they couldn't find a suitable helper, the Wolves could only fight alone.

Before this game, the Timberwolves' record was exactly the same as that of the Magic, 14-12, this record, the Magic team could easily enter the playoffs in the East, but it was very difficult for the Timberwolves to break through among the strong teams in the West.