Chapter 19: What Did Michael Do!
"Except for one person?"
On the Magic bench, as soon as Coach Vogel's words were finished, a group of players who were still bowing their heads raised their heads and looked at their coaches.
In this situation where the whole team is not performing well, if you can still play well, it is an invisible encouragement for every player, so almost everyone has their eyes on Vogel.
Except, of course, Wu Rui.
After being blocked by the opponent, he failed to follow up in time, and had no offensive ability at the last moment, which put the team in a 4-on-5 dilemma, he felt that the only player who performed well would not be himself.
"Michael, look up."
At this moment, Frank Vogel walked in front of Wu Rui instead, squatted down, and put one hand on Wu Rui's shoulder: "Raise your head." β
"I don't want to see the only guy on the team who deserves praise behaving like a deflated balloon."
As he spoke, Vogel patted Wu Rui's back hard: "Michael Wu, raise your head!" β
"Yes......"
was slapped so hard by Vogel that Wu Rui was startled, and even the towel wrapped around his head fell to the ground, and while responding to the head coach, Wu Rui also took advantage of the situation to pick up the towel back.
"Michael, you're the last guy on the team who doesn't need to blame themselves." Vogel stood up, glanced at Wu Rui, and then at the other team members: "If each of them were as desperate as you and were leading at home now, it would definitely not be Sacramento's team!" β
"It's been a short time for Michael, but let's take a look at what he's done in that short period of more than a minute."
As Vogel spoke, he spread out the technical statistics in his hand and analyzed them one by one according to the time.
Wu Rui's first performance on the court was the protection of backcourt rebounds, and at that time, he faced Will Couri Stein, who suppressed the Magic's two interior giants!
"Michael, at least ten centimeters shorter than the opponent, but the rebound, belongs to the Orlando Magic." Vogel pointed to Ibaka and Biyombo: "You two, can't even Michael be compared?" β
With that said, Vogel went on to analyze Wu Rui's next ball, the brilliant defense that caused Rudy Gay to have his back to the foul for five seconds.
"Jeff, can you tell me what's in your head when you're standing on the field? Did you ever kill LeBron James? This time, Vogel's arrow pointed at Jeff Green: "Look at what Michael has done, this is a real professional basketball player!" β
"He's here to play!"
After talking about this defensive choice, Vogel directly skipped Wu Rui's best offensive rebounding scramble, and pointed to the technical statistics, recording the round when Rudy Gay got rid of Wu Rui with the help of blocking and dismantling.
"Michael was eaten to death by the blocker, but what did he do, he was trying to get around the blocker." Vogel's spearhead this time was directed at the whole team: "If it were you, I think you might fall asleep in Costa Koufus's broad bosom!" β
After saying this, Vogel closed the technical statistics in his hand directly, handed them to the assistant coach who was standing aside and didn't dare to speak, and then looked at Wu Rui, who was also looking at him: "So, Michael, you are the only player in our team who can hold his head up." β
"Others, not qualified!"
"Coach, I ......"
"Coach Frank, you're right."
Wu Rui was a little confused by Vogel's words, and beside him, Vucevic, who played poorly in the first quarter and was replaced early, finally spoke, and still looked at Wu Rui: "Michael, you are indeed the best person in the team, I am proud of you, and I am ashamed of myself!" β
"Nikolai ......"
"Michael, thank you, you make me feel so unprofessional that I don't even deserve to wear this Magic jersey." Sergi Ibaka, the team's No. 2 star, also stepped up and pointed to the home fans behind him: "I don't even deserve such a good group of fans!" β
Ibaka and Vucevic expressed their positions one after another, which also made the rest of the Magic players who played on the court blame themselves, and at the same time, in their eyes, they all exuded a fire-like fighting spirit.
Coach Vogel should indeed praise Wu Rui, because he is indeed the most active one in the team, but at the same time, Vogel praised Wu Rui at this time, and there is another meaning, and the magic everyone also understands.
That is, a second-round show, all of them are so active, how can these players with tens of millions of contracts be lazy and lazy, and they waste the coach's heavy playing time on the court for some reason!
"Toot!"
With a whistle, the second quarter of the game between the Magic and the Kings officially began, and on the King's side, Costa Koufus was replaced by DeMarcus Cousins, officially partnering with Will Courie Stein on the inside line, forming twin towers!
Rudy Gay, who led the team alone at the end of the first quarter, was replaced by Omi Cosby and got a considerable break.
"It seems that Coach Dave Joggle wants to focus on the interior in the second quarter and let DeMarcus dominate the game and win!"
The ESPN commentator at the scene saw it very thoroughly and analyzed it clearly.
At the same time, the Magic players also took the court, and unlike at the end of the first quarter, Payton Jr. was replaced by DJ Augustin, while Nikola Vucevic returned to the court to replace Serge Ibaka.
And Wu Rui was replaced by Aaron Gordon!
"The Magic actually sent two players who didn't perform well in the first quarter, and I even think Michael could have played a little longer!" Seeing the Magic's lineup, ESPN's commentator was a little puzzled: "Michael's vitality on the court is obviously what the Magic team lacks the most right now. β
However, not long after the commentator finished speaking, the magic players on the court slapped their faces at the speed of light!
Aaron Gordon fully showed his explosive physical talent, covering the sky on the defensive end and shocking the audience with two consecutive dunks on the offensive end!
Under the basket, Vucevic, who was originally suppressed by Cousins, also did his best, although the defensive end was still eaten by Cousins a few times, but back to the offensive end, Cousins also had no way to take Vucevic's mid-distance, and the two of them to a certain extent, there was a sense of dΓ©jΓ vu against each other!
Cousins was paired, and the offense of the Kings team fell into decline, and in the middle of the second quarter, he was even hit by the Magic with a 10:0 shockwave, and the score was overtaken in one fell swoop!
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Looking at the magic on the court, which was like the two teams in the first quarter, even Wu Rui, who was sitting on the bench, was in a much better mood, and kept waving towels!
"Michael, you stop the meeting for a moment, I'm going to talk about your problem."
However, at this moment, Coach Vogel suddenly walked to Wu Rui's side and poured a basin of cold water on him.