Lillard started the second quarter with such a dunk to give the team momentum, the cheers of the home fans and the performance of the players on the bench made the players on the court infectious, especially the emotional Beverley, who was like a mad dog in the face of the Nuggets ball carrier, as Chen An requested.

George Carr had a good idea and wanted to use his height and power to scuttle the Magic's interior line, but Coopers' movement rate was too slow, and after Tylawson opened up the space, the outside basket was not accurate, which caused the Magic team to be more resolute in his attack on Coopers.

Honk!

When Beverley and the old AK teamed up to break the ball from Kouvers again, and after the transition, George Carr couldn't help but call a timeout, and at this time, it was only three minutes into the second quarter, but the score had become 39:25, and the difference was 14 points.

Looking at the players who walked to the bench, Chen An said a few words of encouragement, but then took out the tactical board and discussed it with the assistant coach. Obviously, George Karl will make adjustments through this pause, and Chen An's side will naturally have to be prepared.

Kerr suggested replacing Zhu Fangyu because Zhu Fangyu did not perform much in the first three minutes of play, although he worked hard, his speed was slow, and his off-ball movement on the offensive end was difficult to get rid of defenders and could not run out of open positions. And on the defensive end, he also can't keep up with the opponent.

Originally, the Magic's defense in the first half of the second quarter was quite successful, Beverley and the old AK constituted the two gates of the inside and outside lines, but Zhu Fangyu was a little difficult to match either Faried or Wilson Chandler, the former compared, he suffered a little physically, and the latter compared, he couldn't keep up with the other party's pace, and the only two points that the Nuggets scored in the first three minutes of the second quarter were Chandler's singles Zhu Fangyu.

Chen An hesitated, and finally did not replace Zhu Fangyu, he had a 14-point advantage and had the ability to make a preemptive move, he also wanted to see if Zhu Fangyu could have any surprises, but he also understood that Lillard's control and conduction ability was still weaker, and Zhu Fangyu seemed to be inappropriate with him with rotation time.

The timeout ended quickly, and the Nuggets made adjustments, with Andre Miller returning to the court to replace Tylawson, Gallinari replacing Covers, and the Nuggets returning to a one-four-small lineup.

Obviously, old George doesn't believe in evil, that is, he wants to switch to Chen Anbi with fast play, compare the speed of rotation defense, compare the enthusiasm of players and the intensity of the game.

George Sr.'s substitution has achieved good results, after replacing Coopers who no longer insists on attacking the inside, the Nuggets first made fewer mistakes, Miller has a certain outside projection ability, Beverley naturally does not dare to let go, and the Nuggets' offensive initiation point has become the other three, Gallinari, Wilson Chandler and Fournier.

In the next seven or eight rounds, the three of them took turns to attack the inside line of the Magic, and the effect was quite good, especially after finding that Zhu Fangyu's footsteps were moving slowly, Gallinari and Chandler took turns to use the block to change Zhu Fangyu to the front for a single breakthrough.

The Nuggets used this lineup to temporarily solve the offensive problem, and the score was very fast, but the Magic side was because of Lillard's lack of control and weak offensive points, and the offense was somewhat stagnant, but fortunately, Lillard felt good today, and he scored a three-point shot and a mid-range pull-up jump shot against Miller Sr., and Morris used his speed to make a strong breakthrough, so that the Nuggets did not completely gain momentum.

When it was almost six minutes into the second quarter, the difference between the two teams narrowed to 9 points, Chen An began to transfer the rotation, replacing Zhu Fangyu and Beverley, Harden and Turner together, so that the Magic side is still a small-ball lineup, but the dual cores are on the court at the same time, plus a Turner, the attack is maximized.

The Nuggets also adjusted, with Tylawson coming back and Andre Iguodala replacing Fournier, who didn't show much.

Both sides have become one big and four small, the height is not too different, and there is also a fight in speed, the Nuggets have better defense, and the Magic have a strong offense, what will be the trend of the game?

"Run, run, run!"

George Karl stood on the sidelines and kept yelling, repeatedly asking the Nuggets' players to speed up, which was to speed up at both ends of the offensive and defensive ends, and the Nuggets' rotation lineup adopted an infinite strategy of changing defenses on the defensive end, requiring that the speed of the rotation defense must be extremely fast, and whoever holds the ball on the Magic side must interfere to a certain extent.

Chen An sat in the coach's seat and didn't say much, he hoped that Harden and Lillard could adjust themselves and complete control of the game at this stage. But more importantly, he wants to see how such a small-ball lineup performs.

Under Chen An's intentional indulgence, the magic also continued to speed up, and the two teams played faster and faster on the court, and gradually, the Nuggets approached the point difference again, and Chen An also found a problem.

The Nuggets' style of play is very rough, that is, a quick rotation defense, not giving the Magic an easy chance to shoot, and it is not easy for Harden and Lillard to break through, and the Nuggets' diagonal side pinch and interference are very resolute, which causes Harden and Lillard to be a little uncomfortable on the offensive end, and they have not played three consecutive rounds.

And once the Magic team's offense is unfavorable, the Nuggets get a very fast pass after winning the rebound, and after Lawson quickly advances to the frontcourt, he barely stops the ball, either breaking through to the inside, or passing to Iguodala or Chandler, allowing the latter two to break through the interior to make damage.

This style of play is simple and brutal but very limited, because neither Turner nor Harris are good wing defenders at the moment, and once they are broken, it is difficult to rely on the old AK to protect the basket alone.

The Magic followed the rhythm of the Nuggets to play fast, and the offense became simple, or Lillard wanted to show himself too much, and the performance in two rounds was particularly obvious, the Nuggets did not score a layup, Morris picked up the rebound and passed directly across the half, Lillard received the ball and advanced to the three-point line, and did not make any adjustments to chase the three-point line.

This style of play is not wrong, and it is also implemented according to Chen An's ideas, but the problem is that the current magic is not at the level of the Warriors in the future, and when Lillard's hand feels up and down, he cannot guarantee this kind of three-point shooting rate.

So after two consecutive three-point hits, Chen An finally called a timeout after watching another round, because the score had become 48:46, and the difference between the two teams was chased by the Nuggets from the maximum of 14 points to only two points.

Obviously, Chen An's small-ball lineup experiment failed again for many reasons, such as the current Harden and Lillard are not up to the stability of the Splash Brothers on the outside, and for example, he does not have strong defense on the front line, and he is a stable player with three points, Turner has a strategy and defense, but the defense is not strong enough, the three-point is not accurate enough, as for Morris, well, the young man still needs to grow.

In a word, the three-point lineup is not sharp enough, the defense is not tough enough, and the rotation speed is not fast enough, and this small-ball lineup still needs to be considered.

Thinking of this, Chen An couldn't help but glance at Green and Crowder, who had been looking forward to playing on the bench, and he had an impulse to replace Green and Crowder, and continue to play the last three and a half minutes of the second quarter with a small-ball lineup, but in the end he gave up such an idea, he didn't want to pay for his willfulness, because he had a better way to turn the situation around.