Chapter Seventy-Four: Against the King
Rocky Richmond, who entered the NBA in 1988, is considered a senior in this league, he is nicknamed Rock, and his character is as tough as a rock, so far in his career, he can score 20+ points every season, which is a low-key scorer, and since coming to the Kings in 1991, Richmond has played here for 5 seasons, and this season is already the sixth season.
And Mitch Richmond, who just helped the United States win the gold medal at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, was recognized by Jordan, and in the NBA, he is also a top-ranked All-Star point guard, and such a low-key and strong scoring guard is the opponent of Jonny in this game.
The head coach of the Magic is no longer Brian Hill, and he naturally did not turn a blind eye to Jonny's crazy performance of 68 points in the last game, and before this game, Ricky Adubatu had already announced that Jonny would continue to be the starter. And as soon as Ricky Adubatu announced this, basically as long as Jonny's performance didn't slip too much after that, Nick Anderson couldn't get back the position of starting point guard.
So now Nick Anderson has been struggling, he has been playing for the Magic since he first entered the NBA in the 1989 season, his feelings for this team are very deep, Nick Anderson feels that with his ability, he should go to another team, but playing as a substitute, Nick Anderson is a little unwilling, so on the way to Arco Arena, Nick Anderson is quite uneasy.
Most people didn't notice Nick Anderson's strangeness, but Jonny did, but he didn't have any friendship with Nick Anderson, so he naturally didn't care about the competitors in the same position.
When the Magic arrived at the Arco Arena, the arena was already full of fans, and although the current Kings were only a millennium bad team, there were still a lot of fans in Sacramento.
Soon the game started, although this game was followed by a lot of people, but NBC did not pay attention to this game, they just sent Kevin Harlan and Craig Saagle to explain the game, but this is a little good for Jonny, it is foreseeable that as long as Jonny plays well in this game, Kevin Harlan and Craig Sager will desperately praise Jonny.
"The game started, this game is the home game between the Sacramento Kings and the Orlando Magic, we can see that there are a lot of fans in the Arco Arena, the starting lineup of the Kings in this game is Teus Edney, the point guard is only 1.78 meters tall, the scoring guard is "King" Mitch Ridgemond, the small forward is Billy Owens, the big forward is the blue-collar player Michael Smith, and the center is Alden Polines. ”
"Let's take a look at the Magic's starting lineup, the Magic's starting lineup has changed again, their starting point guard has become Anfernee Hardaway again, it seems that Darrell Armstrong's performance in the last game failed to satisfy Ricky Adhubatu, and their scoring guard is Jonny Lee, who scored 68 points in the last game, the small forward is Denis Scott, the power forward is Horris Grant, and the center is Ronnie Secali."
At the beginning of the game, Ronnie Secali jumped the ball to win Aldenpolis, and the Magic attacked first, even compared with the Magic who had lost consecutive games before, the Kings were a weak team, after all, they only had one Mickey Richmond who could be seen, and most of the rest of the players could be described as CBA, plus the physical pressure of the Western road trip, so before the start of this game, Ricky Adubatu had already given a death order, asking the Magic players to strive to end the battle in the first three quarters.
So at the beginning of this game, they seemed to be very desperate.
Jonny has already started to use the hero of the Leather City Policewoman - Caitlin in this game, the skills of the Leather City Policewoman are mainly long-range fire, so Jonny originally wanted to spend 10 skill points to learn the Q skill of the Infinite Sword Master, which can be regarded as having a skill to impact the basket, but at this time, the skill points in Jonny's hand are only 3 points, which is completely insufficient, so Jonny can only wait.
And now the skills that Jonny can use, in addition to the skills of the Picheng policewoman, there is only one W-skill eye defense and E-skill nonsensical three-point of the Infinite Sword Master, so most of the skills in Jonny's hands are related to three points.
At the beginning of the game, the Magic's ball was in the hands of Anfernee Hardaway, but after getting the hero of the Leather City Policewoman, Jonny relied much less on the ball, and he directly started to run, Anfernee Hardaway is a point guard who is more willing to share the ball, when Jonny ran around and got an empty space, Anfernee Hardaway's pass was also in front of him, Jonny received the ball and shot, which was a three-point shot, which directly triggered the passive skill of the Leather City Policeman, and the shooting rate was directly increased by 20%.
With a bang, the ball goes in.
And then the king's attack, Mitch Ridgemond took the ball from Teyus Edney's hands, and then faced Jonny, directly on a quick breakthrough, and then quickly retreated, after shaking off Jonny, he also hit a shot, obviously, at the beginning of this game, Jonny and his opponent Mitch Ridgemond are in very good shape.
And then, on the Magic side, Anfernee Hardaway controlled the ball again, he broke through, and then the ball went to the outside, Denis Scott made a three-point shot in the bottom corner, did not score, the rebound was taken by Michael Smith, and the king broke fast. To say that the King's interior line is not the same as the Magic's interior line, the Magic's interior Ronnie Secali's offense is still very good, and the King's two interior lines, Michael Smith has no offensive ability at all, and the other center, Alden Polines, has only a simple face frame attack skill, but this pair of interior combinations is very powerful in protecting rebounds, at least the combination of Horris Grant and Ronnie Secali can't deal with them.
The king's fast break, Mitch Ridgemond was fast, he took the ball straight to the inside, Jonny couldn't block it, and was scored two points by the rocks, in the first round, the Magic fell behind by one point, and Jonny also scored one point less than Mitch Ridgemond.
"What's going on, little rookie, don't think that you scored 68 points in the last game to be a lot of bulls, that's the Lakers without me!" Mitch Richmond ran around and said to Jonny.
In response to the opponent's provocation, Jonny naturally shot back: "Old guy, I haven't used all my strength yet!" ”
"Okay, I'll wait for you!"