At halftime, the Kings led the Magic by nine points, 59-50.

Howard felt like he was playing okay in the first quarter, and then he encountered all kinds of problems later, and he was constantly harassed by the Kings' shark-cutting tactics.

In the second quarter, the fans booed, and it was indeed very unsightly to use such an ugly tactic in the finals.

Jason Thompson came on the court in the last three minutes of the second quarter, contributed 2 points, 0 rebounds and 4 fouls, and when he came off the court, he was majestic and high-spirited, just like when he appeared on the courtesy, and was courteous to the Kings like a hero.

When Howard saw this, his heart was even more uncomfortable.

"The key problem is still in defense, the Kings are now very efficient offensively, and it is precisely because of such a high offensive efficiency that head coach Wang will use the shark slashing tactics unscrupulously tomorrow, because the Kings must score more than Howard's two free throws and one hit every round."

"Of course, if you miss two free throws, the Kings will make more money, and that's a matter of probability."

The anchor said: "There are three situations, two free throws, two free throws, and two free throws, two of which are beneficial to the Kings, and the Kings' selection, of course, is no problem." ”

"What's more, it also disrupts the original offensive rhythm of the Magic team."

"It's really a good plan to kill multiple birds with one stone!"

Wang Ming walked along the players' tunnel, on both sides of the passage, unfriendly Orlando fans, all kinds of greetings and dirty words came straight to him, he didn't change his face, only blamed himself for his English level is getting better and better, it turns out that this kind of intelligible is not very understandable.

He walked into the locker room, beckoned the players to get a good rest, and then pulled Michael Curry and Dwayne Casey to do a tactical discussion in the midfield.

With the tactical board in his hand, various tactics have already popped up in his mind.

"The tactics in the first half were okay, some issues were resolved, and Dwight Howard was still a threat, but not enough to affect the whole game."

"I'm not really happy with the elbow coverage."

Wang Ming paused, and then continued: "In the first half, there were a few covers, in fact, the quality itself is quite high, but the Magic team has made arrangements here, and here respectively, through the help or change of defense here, the cover loopholes on the outside line have been changed, yes, this place has to be adjusted. ”

.......

At halftime, the fans in the Amway Center Arena in Orlando were gone.

Left on the field, there were some performing dancers and even some acrobats.

Everyone spent these 15 minutes bored, and participated in some lottery games.

The atmosphere of the finals is always a little bit different.

Chris Bosh walked out of the tunnel and glanced down at his jersey, which had a golden trophy embroidered on its chest, it was the O'Brien Cup.

The floor is also different from a normal match, and there is also a large golden championship trophy on the floor.

Wang and his assistant coaches sat down tomorrow, Chris Bosh served from the baseline, and Kidd held the ball.

"Tactic No. 1!"

Kidd held out his fingers for instructions and passed the ball to Chris Bosh, who ran behind him and made a cover in the elbow area.

Bosh elbowed the ball, the trio bobbed a little, and Lewis was high with one hand and low with the other.

Bosh didn't play much in the first half, and Lewis didn't dare to be careless, after all, Bosh was the Kings' leading scorer and the most consistent scorer.

Bosh saw that Lewis was defending well, and after shaking it for a while, he didn't attack, and turned around to play with DeRozan to block and dismantle.

DeRozan catches the ball, overtakes and passes the defender.

Bosh blocked and dismantled, and the two staggered in an instant.

DeRozan made a one-handed second pass, Bosh received the ball, and there was an open space in that instant.

Bosh catches the ball and pulls up a jumper.

"Huh!"

Hit.

Offensive and defensive transitions, magic offense.

The Magic's starting lineup in the second half was no different from the opening one, with Nelson faking command at the top of the arc.

Howard was on the flank, covering up for Garcia.

This one did a good job of covering Howard off the ball, blocking Garcia.

Garcia paused to catch the ball, then Howard dropped low and received Garcia's land-hitting pass.

Howard was really afraid that the Kings would continue to foul, but obviously, after the third quarter came up, the Kings had no intention of continuing to cut the sharks, and Chandler defended very toughly and never left an inch.

"Peng!" Howard leaned his back on Chandler's arm, and the power of the monster exploded, hitting Chandler with a small step back.

Then he turned around and hooked his hands, and the movements were still relatively smooth.

But there was always a sense of movement, very stiff, and then the basketball smashed on the hoop and bounced.

Chris Bosh jumped high and grabbed the rebound.

The Magic retreated quickly, and Bosh was not in a hurry to attack, stabilizing the ball and handing it to Kidd, who controlled the court and pressed the time through the half court unhurriedly.

Kidd shouted at his teammate to move, and at the 10-second mark, passed to Chris Bosh.

Or play Lewis to Bosh, Bosh attacked with the ball, threw the ball after two punches inside, the basketball smashed the frame and missed, and Howard grabbed the rebound.

Nelson pushed forward at a rapid pace, waiting for Howard to come over, and Howard meant to cut in the air.

Nelson didn't know what to think, and immediately passed a ball.

This ball is very particular.

It is a fast attack and not a fast attack, it is a kind of running and bombing tactics, but the quality of this ball pass is not high, and the bullet speed is not fast after hitting the ground, once the line is seen through in advance, it is easy to be damaged.

For example, Chandler, who suddenly stopped at this time, raised his hands, and the basketball was passed to his arms.

"The Magic team also has a problem, that is, they lack a real playmaker, Nelson's breakthrough and projection are okay, but the organization's kung fu is average, Carter's projection and breakthrough can also be, but it is not a full-time organizer, after the Magic lacks Turkoglou, the ball is basically in the hands of these two people, when it is strong, God blocks and kills God, Buddha blocks and kills Buddha, but occasionally makes some mistakes on the court."

Barkley listed a number of problems with the Magic while talking about his own championship theory.

"I said earlier, the Kings have a championship appearance, and you didn't believe me at the time, but you see, the Kings are really ridiculously strong, in fact, the teams in the East are generally a little weaker than the West. This can be seen in the regular season when they face each other, and teams of the level of the Kings and Lakers are all playoff teams, I mean they are more resilient, stronger when they are stronger, and more stable. ”

Barkley is speaking of a macro view, with some subjectivity of his own.

Kenny Smith, on the other hand, believes that Wang Tomorrow has played an important role as the head coach of the Kings.

"As always, the targeted tactical arrangement, from the first quarter to allow Howard to attack inside, to the wheel battle, shark slashing tactics, to today's slow-paced offense, I feel that the whole game, the Magic team does not seem to have found their own rhythm, plus many players of the Magic team are in average state when they play the finals for the first time, and they have played sixty percent at most."

"So, if the Magic team plays 60% and the Kings play 90%, then there is actually enough gap between the two teams, and this gap is enough to make up for the home disadvantage."

Howard played reasonably well in the first half of the third quarter, mainly because the Kings insisted on not fouling and not wrapping.

The 25-year-old Dwight Howard is a veritable monster, Chandler defended well in the first half, but he didn't defend well for a while in the middle of the third quarter, and was forced to eat one by Howard inside, making it 2+1.

But it's one of the few highlights.

At the end of the third quarter, the Kings sacrificed another shark slashing tactic, at this time Gortat was chopping, Afraro was chopping, and the Magic team's good momentum of chasing points was broken again.

Stan Van Gundy didn't dare to take risks at this time, and quickly replaced Howard with Bass.

Bass's offense is okay, and he has a set of low-post mid-range, but this defense is too much worse than Howard's, and the Magic's defensive intensity drops a notch in an instant.

At this time, the Kings bench seized the opportunity, and Afralo, Cosby and others hit shots one after another.

If it weren't for Redick's final three-point shot, the Magic would have lost more.

At this point, the Kings led the Magic by 15 points, 85-70.

The Magic team was suppressed in almost every quarter of the game, and this huge point difference made people feel a little dreamy, as if they saw a battle at no level.

Stan Van Gundy was a dead horse and replaced Howard at the start of the fourth quarter.

Howard only rested two minutes before the end of the third quarter in the second half, and if he played the whole game, the whole game would have been more than 40 minutes.

In the case of such a high-intensity confrontation on the inside, coupled with the fast offensive rhythm of the two teams, such a consumption is amazing.

But Howard is superhuman and his physical strength is touching, and this consumption can't affect him.

As soon as the final quarter came up, Howard received a pass from Nelson and completed an open catch.

This empty catch is Howard turned his back to the basket, Gortat didn't check, his footsteps didn't keep up, the jump height was not enough, and he couldn't interfere with Howard, Howard flew in the sky and completed the violent dunk.

"Superman's routine operation."

Orlando media said with a smile, but there was a slight helplessness in their tone.

This is the case with the Magic team at the moment, Howard's performance is impeccable, and he has turned over the river on the inside, but it has not had much impact on the entire game, so that now the Magic is still more than a dozen points behind the Kings, and there is no momentum to chase the points and fight back.

The camera cuts from Howard's face to a few players sitting on the sidelines.

It was a good part of staying on Vince Carter's face.

In order to be able to form a giant lineup, the Magic team traded Vince Carter from the Nets, and Vince Carter was in good form in the previous rounds, especially when playing the Celtics, and even scored 38 points in a single game and dreamed of returning to the top.

But in the finals, his form declined.

But he can't be blamed entirely, it's very difficult to meet the outside defensive lineup of Kidd, DeRozan and Artest, no matter who plays.

After half a quarter of the game, Howard scored 20 points and completed his first double-double in the finals.

But at this time, the difference between the two teams is close to 20 points, and the hope of recovering the score is extremely slim.

In the end, the Kings defeated the Magic 113-96 away and won the G1 game in the Finals.

The pre-game prediction turned into a big win, and the Magic team was unexpectedly defeated like a boiled frog by the Kings.

Wang Ming smiled, and naturally no one in the magic team came to high-five him boringly.

Even the people in the Amway Center were almost gone, and he stayed on the field to be interviewed by the media reporters before they left.

The reporter's question is also relatively simple, "You got a big win today, which is rare in the history of the finals, what kind of experience is this?" ”

Wang Ming shrugged his shoulders, "The Finals are the best two teams in the league to play each other, the Magic team is very strong, the Magic team is full of energy and accurate shooting, today Dwight Howard caused us a lot of trouble on the inside, Garcia made 3 three-pointers on the outside, but we won, the series has just begun, this is destined to be a great matchup, we have to look a little bit further and meet the next game." ”

Howard finished with 22 points, 12 rebounds, one block and four turnovers.

Howard made only 6 of 14 free throws, which was actually more lethal, and when the Magic were in a better rhythm, the Kings snapped a tactical foul and were inhumane.

The Kings played well, and the highest scorer was Chris Bosh, who had 26 points, 11 rebounds and 3 blocks.

Bosh has more blocks than Howard, even though Howard's block was enough to be selected for today's top five blocked dunks.

Howard has made achievements on the offensive end of the whole court, but he doesn't play much on the defensive end, and the Kings rarely arrange interior offense, basically focusing on outside projection, but when it comes to outside shooting, the Magic collapses.

As soon as the game ended, the Orlando Sentinel wrote.

"There's one more king tomorrow between us and the Kings. Throughout the game, the Chinese coach arranged a lot of tactics, among which the shark slashing tactics needless to say, always insisted on the strategy of defending Howard alone, but it seemed to hit the soft underbelly of the magic all of a sudden. If he didn't help defend Howard, Howard wouldn't be able to show Yao Ming's offensive dominance, and the team's outside shooters were trapped, and the lineup seemed to collapse all at once. ”

The Orlando Sentinel also noted that the mid-season trade, while it looks like a win-win, is significantly more at stake for the Kings. The Kings supplemented their originally weak interior lineup, and at this moment in the Finals, showing fangs, Gortat may not be as effective at defending Howard as Chandler because of his footwork, but he is definitely an interior warrior, a blue-collar good center, and the Magic team sent Gortat away, which is tantamount to lifting a stone to shoot himself in the foot.

The latest issue of Sports Illustrated featured Wang Tomorrow as the cover of the magazine.

On the cover, Wang Tomorrow is in the Staples Arena, wearing a black suit, reaching forward, his eyes wide, and his mouth opening as if to beckon the players on the court to run some tactics.

In terms of the expression, angle and composition of the photo, it is quite good.

Caption: Kings head coach Wang Tomorrow commanded the team to complete the counterattack against the Lakers at Staples Arena, and successfully brought a team that was the bottom of the league last season to the Finals, which is understood to be the first time in NBA history that a head coach has accomplished such a feat.