Chapter Ninety-Five: The Substitutes Show Their Powers

Mario Hezoña was completely confused, he didn't know how he got up, and he couldn't remember when he was replaced.

By the time he came to his senses, he had been on the bench for a long time.

His heart is gray, and the scene of being shaken down by Yi Feng will definitely accompany him throughout his career and become a stain that he can't erase.

Who has never been young and frivolous, and he is only a little mader than others, why should he bear such serious consequences?

Hezonia threw his head back sharply as he noticed that tears were about to flow......

He remembered a quote he had read in a book: Don't look down, your tears will fall.

At the moment, he just wants to say that this writing really makes sense!!

In the opinion of Magic head coach Scott Skels, since Mario Herzonia has failed to complete the task he has assigned, there is no need to give Herzonia another chance.

The current Magic team, some of them are young, and some of them are potential stocks.

Previously, Skyles divided the playing time very evenly among these young people, just to see who they really deserve to be cultivated by the Magic team.

Herzonia clearly let Skeers down tonight.

At the end of the first quarter and the beginning of the second quarter, the bench was active on the court.

On the Lakers' side, they sent Marcelo Hultas, Louis Williams, Nick Young, Blanton Buss, and Larry Nance Jr. to the court, and the whole lineup was a pure bench.

On the Magic side, it is a mix and match lineup of the main force and the bench.

Evan Fournier didn't have a lot of shots in the main lineup and didn't have a lot of physical exertion, so Skels kept him on the pitch and played as the main point of attack for the substitute lineup.

The bench alongside Fournier consisted of Channing Frye, Aaron Gordon, Shabazz Napier and Devin Mabur.

It's an offensive lineup.

As the only starter of the five, the Frenchman is a technical wing with offensive instincts, capable of handling the ball and shooting threes.

Although not very athletic, he has good flexibility and is even able to defend point guards. But this is of little use to him who appears more in the second and third positions. His tonnage and strength are difficult to counter against a strong flank.

Frye partnered with Gordon on the inside line, was on the short side, and the protection of rebounds in the backcourt became an issue. And it's not so much that Frye is an inside shooter, but that he's just a taller outside shooter.

Channing Frye was drafted by the Knicks with the 8th pick in the first round in 2005 and has been in the NBA since entering the NBA.

He's an excellent projection interior player in the NBA, and his mid-to-long-range shooting is quite lethal. When constrained by his physical prowess, his defense is not even up to the league average.

Because of his height of about two meters and ten meters, he often has to appear in the No. 4 position. In the most fierce confrontation on the inside, his shortcomings of thin stature are also magnified.

Aaron Gordon has a rare explosiveness, is extremely capable of running and jumping, and can also control his body well. Judging by some of his dunks last season, he may already be able to be called a dunk. As far as dunks go, his future is open.

On the defensive end, as a sophomore rookie, he couldn't ask for more. He has a great positional sense on the court, moves his feet quickly, and is able to keep up with most of the perimeter players and keep pressing.

And on the offensive end, many of the means are not developed. The most effective means of scoring at the moment is a dunk after an air cut.

Now that the Magic is on this lineup, the defense is supported by him.

Shabazz Napier, playmaker on the bench lineup, is a second-year rookie who was drafted by the Hornets and traded to the Heat, and then came to the Magic this season. When he played for the Heat last season, he averaged 5.1 points, 2.6 assists and 0.8 steals in nearly 20 minutes per game.

Although he has a tough style of play, his lack of height and lack of athleticism determine that he can only find a presence in the bench lineup.

He's a point-scoring point guard with a variety of offensive tools. But as an organizational defender, he can't handle the relationship between scoring and the organization, and sometimes seems selfish.

But feng shui takes turns, and there is also spring for those who play tricks.

Shabazz Napier felt very good today, repeatedly fired from the outside, and the hit rate was still high!

Hurtas was so embarrassed by him that he lost his temper.

Perhaps it was because Hurtas was not strong in defense that Napier had a New Year today and ate dumplings.

In the last two minutes of the first quarter, he shot 1 of 1 from three-point range and 2 of 4 from two-point range, scoring seven points. Although he didn't pass a single assist, his super scoring efficiency made him look unselfish when he played the ball.

At the beginning of the second quarter, the Lakers had a defense against Napier, and he seemed to have opened up at this time, repeatedly sending lethal passes. Not every goal was a direct assist, but the ball he passed turned into a good chance.

Channing Fry was also activated, hitting both three-pointers from the outside.

Napier played like an All-Star point guard against Hultas, a small man who looked a bit like Chris Paul.

Pulling Aaron Gordon to the outside to make a pick-and-roll, the two then went down, and the hot Napier drew most of the defensive attention. However, he didn't harden it, as if he had a long eye in the back of his head, and sent an air relay to Gordon!

This wonderful cooperation made the fans of the Amway Center Arena boil.

Tonight's Napier is simply St. Paul's possession, there is wood!!

The embarrassing thing is that Fournier, the main player, seemed a little redundant on the field at this time, and became the role of accompanying the prince to study.

However, tonight's Napier seemed to have a much more enlarged passing vision, and somehow found Fournier in an empty position, passing the ball to him without looking.

Out of the instinct of a professional basketball player, Fournier went up and down with a three-point shot.

41:41Flat!

With 7:53 left in the second quarter, Byron Scott called a timeout.

He didn't expect that the Magic's bench lineup would attack so violently, and the score difference of more than ten points had now been erased.

Shabazz Napier tonight behaved like an all-star!

As soon as Hurtas arrived on the bench, he took the initiative to admit his mistake to Scott, "It's all my fault, it's me who didn't take a good look at Shabazz!" ”

Scott shook his head, "There's nothing to apologize for, it's normal for athletes to have occasional outbursts. Besides, it's just a tie now, and we're not at a disadvantage. ”

"Everyone is doing a good job, there's no need to hang your head!"

Scott saw that several of the substitutes who had just sat down to rest were a little frustrated, so he comforted him.

It was back-to-back games and for a number of reasons, he allowed the bench to play a little bit more than usual.

And the performance of the substitute lineup was not bad. Although Napier on the Magic side suddenly broke out and chased points again and again, the Lakers were not crushed and were still resisting stubbornly.

Louis Williams scored a couple of goals while hitting a difficult drifting shot, which was very morale-boosting.

Nick Young also scored five points on a sudden outside shot, and Nance Jr. also toughly defended the basket and protected the backcourt rebounds against the physical Aaron Gordon.

Hurtas was a little embarrassed to defend Napier, but he also made a couple of good balls that kept the Lakers' scoring going.

In the end, it was tied at 41, and the substitutes of both sides contributed a lot. (To be continued.) )