Chapter 189: Wizard

MCI Center Arena, Washington. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

On the smooth floor, there is the Wizards' new retro team logo this season, and the background color is close to the old version, but the content has changed, from the original muscular man to the current Washington Bridge.

Washington, D.C., located in the northeastern part of the United States and the Mid-Atlantic region, is a special administrative division established as the capital in 1790 and under the direct jurisdiction of the United States Congress, so it does not belong to any state in the United States.

Li Dong obviously has a high degree of support from the Chinese, who write some slogans in Chinese in support of Li Dong, wear Li Dong's Magic No. 1 jersey, and generously and naturally form a white landscape in a team of yellow.

In the entire Wizards team, Li Dong knew Kelly Oubre alone, so before the game, there was not so much interaction.

There weren't many slots in this game, the stars of the two teams were dim, and the biggest star was John Wall, so there was not much attention.

If American fans want to watch the game, they have to go to the NBATV to watch it, unlike the previous game with the Lakers, which is a national live broadcast, similar to the feeling of being broadcast in prime time on our national court station.

"I'll play shooting guard tonight, and you play small forward." In the locker room before the game, Oladipo said this to Li Dong while tying his shoelaces.

Li Dong made an OK gesture and nodded in response, "No problem." ”

"But don't be careless even if you're defending Kelly Oubre, he's a rookie and he's doing very well."

"Relieved." Li Dong smiled, "Kelly, I don't know him yet, he is indeed very suitable for running and bombing, but his defense is greater than his offense, and his independent offensive ability is actually quite weak, haha, don't tell him ......"

"Haha, how can you say that about your old classmate, the most basic trust between people?"

Li Dong couldn't cry or laugh, ", how do you know my mantra?" ”

After the players of both teams changed their uniforms in the locker room, they all returned to the stadium wearing long-sleeved and long-pants sports training jackets.

Li Dong thought silently that the fans in the Special Administrative Region still like basketball.

Turning his head here, on the other half of the court, several players of the Wizards began to do some simple stretching movements, and Li Dong observed that the small guards were doing repeated sprints back and forth around the court.

"It's so fast!" Li Dong was shocked that John Wall and Bradley Beal showed amazing sprint ability.

It just seemed that he had lost a little weight, Li Dong looked at it for a while, and thought so.

Then he silently touched his biceps, it seems that the strength training during this period has had a lot of effects, and after entering the NBA, his figure has gradually become more symmetrical, especially the two arms, even if they hang down, they can clearly see the muscle lines.

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On time and on time, the game begins.

The Magic started the lineup, point guard Brandon Jennings, scoring guard Oladipo, small forward Li Dong, power forward Aaron Gordon, and center Vucevic.

The Wizards started with point guard Bradley Beal, scoring guard John Wall, small forward Kelly Oubre, power forward Jared Dudley, and center Marcin Gortat.

Due to Biedrins' injury, the Wizards were pushed to the center position by a forward player who was only 2.06 meters tall, which was too shabby in front of the Montenegrin center who was a seven-foot-long man.

Jump ball, Dyham Porter wins.

Jennings controlled the ball and steadily advanced through the half, and Li Dong leaned over and half-leaned on Kelly Oubre, with no intention of running.

"Damn, how do I feel like you're about as tall as me?" As soon as the two stood together, Kelly Oubre was taken aback.

The corners of Li Dong's mouth rose fifteen degrees, and he said proudly, "My growth cycle is relatively long, and the team doctor said that I can grow to about 2.03 meters, which is as tall as you." ”

"Then you're going to play small forward from now on?"

Li Dong said: "Yes, why not, you see me play from point guard to point guard, and then to small forward, it's not a big deal and an incredible thing." ”

"You're such an amazing person!" Kelly Oubre said as if complimentingly.

The two chatted happily, and the first wave of the Magic's offense came to an end without Li Dong participating, and Jennings himself received Oladipo's breakthrough point jumper for three points.

It's just that Wall's pace moves fast, one moment to contain Oladipo, the next moment to make up the defense in place, Jennings was disturbed a little, and shot a real iron.

Li Dong immediately stopped chatting with Kelly Oubre, and ran back with a reflex.

In recent years, the NBA's three-point shooting has a popular trend, and correspondingly, many teams have been increasing their scoring ability between offense and defense, and the importance of offensive rebounding in the tactical proportion of many teams has been decreasing.

Sure enough, the Wizards advanced at an astonishing speed, and in the blink of an eye, the whole team rushed from the backcourt to the frontcourt.

Wall was so skilled on the dribble that Jennings made constant physical contact with him, and the two stopped outside the three-point line, and Wall completed a backdribble around his back, opening up space with Jennings.

He didn't give tactical instructions, and Gortat consciously ran out to block Wall.

Wall changed hands under his crotch, pulled the ball back and forth with his right hand, and easily dribbled the ball to the place where Gortat was blocked, as light as a civet.

"Hiss~"

Suddenly, there was a violent grinding sound on the floor, and a white figure rushed in, with a large number 3 printed on the back of the jersey.

Wall's eyes lit up, his wrist flicked, and he made a struck pass in advance.

Bradley Beal, who rushed in, caught the basketball, strode on the floor, his body falling like a leaf, staggered Vucevic's long-arm defensive area, and hit the board for a layup.

The Wizards lead the Magic 2-0.

"Mine." Oladipo patted his chest and said that he was responsible for the ball, Bradley Beal's homeopathic explosion speed was indeed unusual, and this backrun after coming up killed Oladipo by surprise.

Although Oladipo took the blame for the goal, no one really blamed him.

Offense and defense rotate, Jennings holds the ball outside the three-point line.

After Jennings came to the Magic, he won the favor of Skels with his solid basic skills and positive defensive attitude, and sat firmly in the starting lineup of the Magic. And, in many cases, he had the power to organize the offensive autonomously.

In this wave of attack, he chose a double-run cover catch-and-receive tactic.

Oladipo and Li Dong both went around from the bottom line to the line at the same time, and the first one to go to the line was Oladipo, who cut inside, did not catch the ball, and then ran to the weak side, unconsciously tearing apart the Wizards' lineup. Li Dong came out again, and Oladipo almost cut in the same route.

Li Dong took Jennings' pass, dribbled a small step, grabbed the ball with both hands and crossed the semicircle in the air, and dodged the palm of Dudley who came to pick up the ball.

This time the inside line was almost empty, Li Dong stepped on three steps standardly, and at the last layup, Li Dong stretched the ball forward with his long arm.

Even Kelly Oubre, who was chasing the hat, couldn't cover Li Dong at all, and watched Li Dong hit a layup.

2-2, both teams scored their first athletic battle with a layup.

As soon as Li Dong hit the layup, there were a lot of cheers at the scene, and he even heard the sound of someone shouting "come on" at him in Chinese, and couldn't help but glance sideways at the place where the sound came from.

The cheering came suddenly, which made the Wizards players fighting at home a little indignant.

"Damn, is there a little bit of discipline?" Wall shook his head, took Gortat's pass, and dribbled past half court.

As soon as half-time was over, he distributed the ball to Gortat, who was following him, and Gortat turned to the side and passed it to Bill.

After Beal got the ball, he made a tentative step in the opposite direction.

Oladipo was unfazed, his eyes fixed on Bradley Beal's shoulder, and he knew it was time for the crazy scorer to break through next.

Sure enough, Bill didn't wait for Oladipo to be shaken off, so he dribbled and took a step, and then changed direction sharply in front of his body and began to make a strong breakthrough!

Without a pick-and-roll, it's as difficult to get past Oladipo as it is to make a mid-circle shot.

Oladipo was like a kraft candy, stuck to Bradley's body, and he couldn't shake it off. After wasting a lot of time, the ball stopped in his hand.

Wall went around to catch the ball again, and after a few steps on the outside, he suddenly pulled out his hand when he saw that time was running out.