Compared to Payton Jr.'s rhetoric, the Orlando Magic don't have much confidence when facing the New York Knicks.

It's no secret that the Orlando Magic are one of the most notorious teams in the league. Like the Sacramento Kings and Minnesota Timberwolves that the New York Knicks have played before, the Orlando Magic has also been a famous "rebuilding nail household" in the league in recent years.

Well, the "rebuilding nail household" is the kind of "mud team" that is rotten every year, every year Bo Lotto, and continues to rot after the lotto, they don't choose a super rookie and would rather stay in the quagmire for the rest of their lives.

Like most "mud teams," the Orlando Magic have fallen because of their chaotic management.

It all started with the famous four-loss trade of the 2012-2013 season, in which the Magic lost their team soul, Dwight Howard. After Howard left for Los Angeles to join the Lakers, the Magic's strength plummeted. It was also from that year that they embarked on a long rebuilding journey with the Philadelphia 76ers (also victims of that cheating trade), the Detroit Pistons and the New York Knicks (who joined the following year).

A rebuild should have been something to look forward to, but Orlando fans weren't so optimistic, and they were on the verge of high blood pressure as they watched the management make a fuss and fool around every year.

And to make Magic fans even worse, of the four rebuilt teams, the Pistons were the first to make the playoffs last season, announcing the completion of the rebuild. The Knicks' record has quickly improved since acquiring Roy this season, and their hopes of returning to the playoffs have also been greatly increased. Comparing his last shirtless brothers, the 76ers, they have also stocked up on a basket of talented young talents, and recovery is just around the corner.

So what has the Magic done in the past few years? In the 2012-2013 season, they got a bunch of role players and five draft picks from the Howard trade, except for Nikola Vucevic who is still on the team, the other mess of players is long gone, and almost half of those five seemingly valuable draft picks are lost.

What do you mean by that? Speaking of which, the NBA's extremely complicated draft pick trading rules are to blame.

In the 2012-2013 big trade, the Orlando Magic acquired five draft picks, but four of them were protected draft picks. What is a protected pick? As the name suggests, if the pickee trades meets certain conditions, the gainer will not get the pick, and the transferee may give you the draft pick for the next year or the following year in other ways, or it may not get anything.

And the unlucky Magic team actually encountered this situation, except for the 2017 first-round draft pick from the Lakers that has not yet been cashed in (and was later magically protected by the Lakers), the first-round draft pick from the 76ers because the 76ers failed to make the playoffs for three consecutive years, and the Magic team will not get this draft pick until 2017 at the earliest, and if it is not good, it can only get two second-round picks. But this is not the worst, the worst thing is the 2015 second-round pick from the Lakers, this signing was canceled directly because the Lakers' record was too poor, who is really reasonable.

In this way, the Magic sent away Howard and now only actually gained a bunch of useless players and two poor second-round picks. Sadly, you must know that the "Warcraft" Howard at that time was known as a superstar who could replace the "Little Emperor" James, and he actually got a pile of scrap copper and rotten iron in the end, which shows the Magic team's terrible management level.

Messy management aside, the Magic's luck in recent years has also been extremely bad, although they have been hovering in the bottom few of the league for many years, but the team's best draft pick in the past four years turned out to be only the 2013 pick, and it is this rookie Victor Oladipo who has just played some brilliant statistics, and was traded to the Thunder by the team this year along with Ilyasova and Sabonis Jr., in exchange for an unknown Sergi Ibaka.

I don't know the so-called Sergi Ibaka? That's right. I don't know what it means to be the best summary of the Magic's strange deal, or the Magic's strange moves over the summer (back to the chaotic management).

In the past summer, the Magic's trade score must have been the lowest in the league, not only did they exchange two potential rookies Oladipo, Sabonis Jr. and Iljasova for the deteriorating physical "28 cm" and "rusty gate" Ibaka, but also signed Bismarck, who averaged 5.5 points, 8.0 rebounds and 0.4 assists per game last season, with a four-year $72 million contract under the condition of overcrowding on the inside. Biyombo (the aforementioned player who changed his age, and his contract is also one of the famous garbage contracts).

Bringing in a bunch of unknown players wasn't the biggest mistake the Magic management made, but the Magic's team atmosphere was a mess thanks to their chaotic management. In addition to the disgusting competition between newcomers and old people, when Ibaka, D.J. Augustine, and Biyombo came to this young team, they formed a new antagonism with the young people of the original team, Gordon, Peyton Jr., and Herzonia, and there were more and more small gangs in the team.

Combining all kinds of strange elements, an Orlando Magic team with extremely chaotic management, serious imbalance in player structure, and a strange team atmosphere was born.

In the face of such a Magic team, the New York Knicks sitting at home did not take them seriously at all, this Magic team did not even have a decent star, and it was difficult for the media and fans to create a little tense atmosphere.

Before the game, New York fans sat and laughed in the stands, as if they were about to watch a concert, without the same tension they had against the Pacers a few days earlier.

Roy's game is also very easy, looking at it, the strength of the players on the opposite side is really miserable, and the scouting report in his hand also describes the Magic team as extremely unbearable, anyway, winning this game is certain, it's just a matter of how many points to win.

Originally, Roy was still thinking about whether to save his strength to meet the next Christmas battle, but a provocation by Payton Jr. before the game made Roy a little interested.

Anyway, there shouldn't be much fun on the field, so Roy simply adjusted the goals of this game: one is to strive to win three doubles to earn more attribute points, the second is to maintain his condition to meet the next Christmas battle, and the third is to investigate Phil Jackson's "robbery" target Peyton Jr. by the way.

However, Roy thought it was good, but poor Payton Jr. didn't even get a starting position, and Magic head coach Frank Vogel (yes, the hard-working head coach who lived in Bird's shadow) was probably stupid with the Pacers, so much so that the way he used people was a bit strange, and the player he sent on the court today was actually a veteran point guard (D.J. Augustin) with a tall shooting guard (Fournier) and three forward players less than 210 cm tall (Gordon, Ibaka, Biyombo).

Don't even have a center forward on the other side? Roy laughed at the Magic's strange lineup, and he thought Porzingis and the rest of the interior players were blessed today.

Roy's first opponent was D.J. Augustine, a veteran fritter guard who was almost 30 years old. This gentleman entered the NBA in 2008 and has played in the league for nine years, but he has mixed nine teams, and can be called an old partisan in the NBA. In the past nine years, he has played the main force and sat on the bench, and he has practiced a set of bastard skills, that is, the kind of alliance veteran with average strength, but can always get a contract.

Vogel asked D.J. Augustine, who was only 183 centimeters tall and was not outstanding in speed, explosiveness or power, to defend Roy, which was simply self-inflicted. In just 4 minutes of the opening game, Roy broke through Augustine four times in a row to win all of them, scoring and assisting, and single-handedly led the team to a wave of 9:0 small climax, which directly stopped the Magic team.

Magic head coach Vogel is a little helpless, this scene he can actually think of a long time ago, after the management's perfect toss this summer, now the Magic team rotation lineup has as many as 8 forward players, which means that today's bench except Payton Jr. and C.J. Watson are all forward players.

The big men sitting on the bench include the team's rebounding king Vucevic, last year's No. 5 rookie Herzonia, this season's hard-earned Jeff Green, and the three extra starters Ibaka, Biyombo and Gordon, can be used anywhere, but putting it on the Magic team is a standard waste of talent, because no one feeds them the ball.

There are only four guards who can play in the team, three of them will not organize offense, and Payton Jr., the only one who can organize offense, has fatal shortcomings in shooting and free throws, which makes Vogel also stretched thin in terms of employing people.

But Vogel had no choice, and since D.J. Augustine's attempt failed, he could only rely on Payton Jr. After this timeout, Payton Jr. really took the game.

Little Peyton, with his fluffy flowing hair, attracted a burst of discussion from the New York audience as soon as he came on the stage. No way, who let little Peyton's forward-squirting hairstyle is really weird. There's no doubt that this year he'll beat Shambaugh, another New York Knicks veteran and another hairstylist, to top the league's weird hairstyle list, at least once in Payton Jr.'s honor book.

Payton Jr. was full of energy as soon as he came on the court, and he posted Roy as a trash talk, which was the result of his long-brewing off-court work.

"Hey, Roy, you wait, I'll definitely prevent you from calling Mom and Dad."

"No, I should call you a rookie, rookie, you wait for me to see how I clean you up."

"Rookie, believe it or not, I can score 15 points on your head today."

Peyton Jr. didn't use his brain to spray a few words of lo explosive trash talk, but in exchange for a break from Roy, this time his explosive head really exploded, he thought about it, it must be that his trash talk was not fierce enough, so he didn't interfere with Roy.

So, after a few more seconds, Payton Jr. seized the opportunity to add, "Rookie, you wait, I was careless just now, and I will tell you what the real NBA is." ”

Just a few silly trash words on and off, Roy was also annoyed to listen to it, and when Peyton Jr. posted himself to prepare for verbal interference again, Roy finally launched a counterattack.

"Hey, fried guy, who do you think has the better defense, you or Paul George?"

"I ......" Before Payton Jr.'s first word came out, Roy suddenly accelerated, and a thunderous tough turn directly passed Payton Jr. and scored an inside dunk.

Boom, the fans cheered.

Looking at the confused and unwilling little Peyton, Roy felt comfortable now, "Come on, blow up your hairy head, take out all your skills to defend me." Seriously, I only used seven points of force just now, and now you can tell me, what is the real NBA? ……”