The Parquet Printing Floor at the Amway Center is unique in the NBA, just like the Orlando Magic, who have had a lot of amazing talents, but they always make people disappear like magic, and then start a new round of magic.

Dwight Howard is their latest magic finish, and after a summer of hard work, the big man, who was modeled after Kevin Garnett when he first entered the league, has trained himself into an iron-armed gorilla, his arms thickening like the trunk of a fast-growing forest every year at a rate visible to the naked eye.

By this year, when people see Howard, they no longer associate him with Kevin Garnett, who has reached the weight level of the super-centers in history at 270 pounds, and it looks like he has room to continue to improve if Van Gundy wants Howard to be a more dominant center.

However, the weight of 270 pounds is more than enough to deal with the Phoenix Suns' interior line, and if Stoudemire is there, he may be able to wear Howard on the offensive end, and now that Smalls is still recovering from an injury in Phoenix, the Suns have only one interior line. And now almost the whole league knows that the Suns will play a five-small lineup, and any team with a strong interior line will take advantage of this advantage against the Suns.

Anyway, so far, the Suns have not shown too much power in playing a small lineup, but the offense is faster, but it will leave a lot of space for the opponent on the defensive end. It is conceivable that Howard will be overturned on the inside in this game, and it depends on what strategy Leon will use.

Because it was back-to-back, Leon decided to relax today's rotation and increase the playing time of substitute players, just as Hill joined the team again, and the Suns' rotation was even more generous. The starting line-up was the same as in previous games, with Turyaf starting as a center forward, Dio as a big forward, Marion as a small forward, and Raja Bale and Nash as the backline.

On the Magic side, starting center Dwight Howard, power forward Rashad Lewis, small forward Turkgoru, scoring guard Bogans, and point guard Jamal Nelson.

Although the Magic have a big center, they are not a traditional lineup, although Lewis is in the position of a power forward, but he is a small forward, and his lack of height and strength on the defensive end will also become a weakness for opponents to exploit.

Leon knows the ideas and strategies of Van Gundy, the two of them played each other in the 2005 Eastern Conference Finals, and Van Gundy is still a relatively old-school coach, focusing on the center's ability to pull the space on the inside, supplemented by an attacker and several shooters on the outside, using the center's containment to hit the opponent on the offensive end. On the defensive end, the defensive system is also built with the center as the core, but compared with the Heat, O'Neal is strong on offense and weak on defense, while Howard is weak on offense and strong on defense.

Van Gundy therefore changed his thinking, relying more on Howard's superhuman physicality on the defensive end, and letting Tekegrew and Nelson play more on the offensive end, Howard as an offensive blue-collar worker, using his bounce and power to find offensive opportunities.

Anyway, when he was in Boston, it was very simple for him to break this routine, pressing the defense outwardly, cutting off the connection between the inside and the outside, and putting the center to score wildly, but the team as a whole couldn't win the game.

Now in the Suns, he no longer has Boston's super defensive lineup, only a lineup that doesn't even have a center, and the defense is soft, slow, and short, so he has to find more ways on the offensive end, and then make trouble for the Magic on the defensive end.

Leon's strategy is very simple, which is to beat Howard down.

The game had just begun, and Howard jumped to the ball with ease, and Nelson got the ball and attacked. Howard asked for the ball to hit Turyaf in the low post as soon as he started, although his offensive skills were still very rough, but he was indeed very strong, and Turyaf was already a strong man, but he still couldn't move in the low post. Howard Sigma, who got the ball, stepped in and took a big stride from the middle.

This is the assistant coach sitting in the Magic coach's seat, Patrick Ewing once had a stunt when he was in New York, moving the rabbit in the middle of the lane, but Howard did not have Ewing's long legs, nor did he have Ewing's coordination, so he looked a little stiff in this jump, and he directly "knocked down" Turiaf!

Howard hit a two-point shot with an ugly stiff frontal hook, the referee's whistle didn't blow, and Turiaf opened his hand to the referee and said a few words, but the referee ignored it, and it seemed that the foul failed. After all, this is the home court of the Magic, and if they give their main center a foul at the beginning, it is indeed a bit unreasonable, and Turiaf's acting skills are still not enough.

But the Suns' strategy has been clear, which is to try to beat Howard in the first quarter, as the core of the Magic defensive end, Howard is the most solid defense, but also the last line of defense, and before their last line of defense, there is not enough buffer.

Nash and Dio made a simple continuous cooperation in the high post, Nash went around to the three-second zone, Dio held the ball and looked at it in the high post, a drop ball was stuffed into the hand of Nash on the inside, Howard has already made up for the defense, his speed is very fast, and his body is huge, the bounce is amazing, and the average player will be deflated when he encounters Howard's supplemental defense.

But Nash wasn't afraid, he relied not on his body but on his rhythm, dribbling out after receiving the ball, then continuing to cross dribble on the baseline, and then suddenly a step back was about to jump, and Howard saw the opportunity to pounce.

However, Nash didn't jump at all, but took the ball away, and hit Howard with his body, and then hit two points after hitting it. Nash was directly knocked to the ground by Howard, although he had already taken it, but the gap between the physical fitness of the two was indeed too big. And this time the referee blew the whistle without hesitation, Howard defended a foul and sent Nash to the free throw line, and in the opening minute, Howard had a foul on his back, and he had to be very careful later.

Seeing that Nash managed to cause Howard's foul, Leon sat down on the bench with peace of mind.

There is no doubt that Leon's use of Nash has been successful so far this season, and he has further unleashed Nash's potential and allowed the 33-year-old veteran to play a multifaceted role in the game, rather than focusing on playmaking assists as before. This point, D'Antoni, who was sitting next to Leon, had to admire.

D'Antoni has always boasted of tweaking point guards, and now it seems that if Nash is not affected by injuries this season, the team has a better record and he has a chance to win another regular season MVP.

After successfully causing a foul on Howard in the first quarter, Howard became much more cautious on the court, and he didn't want to attack on the offensive end, he knew that Turiaf was still thinking about making his foul, and the Magic began an offensive routine of four shots and one steal.

Leon entered the NBA in 2000 and is one of the few coaches who carried forward the three-point strategy in the NBA.

Since the Magic wanted to throw three-pointers at each other, the Suns were naturally accompanied, and the two sides opened up a stance, using the conduction of the outside line to frequently fire outside. Today, both sides felt good about three-point shots, hitting three-pointers one after another, and the score rose quickly.

By the middle of the first quarter, Leon had switched to a five-man lineup, and the pace of the game had been brought up, and the Suns' three-point shooting began to become even crazier than the Magic.

Hill was dressed up at this point, and there was another round of applause from the audience, and Hill replaced Turyaf, who wore the latest Suns No. 33 jersey and shrugged his shoulders and trotted all the way to the court.

He is 35 years old this year, but in terms of size and size, he is not much different from him when he was 20 years old, enough to see that although Hill has been plagued by injuries, he has never relaxed his physical requirements in the slightest.

Opportunities are always reserved for those who are prepared, and Hill is always ready.