Chapter 426: The Hornets are devastated!
The start of the Finals was not as devastating as the Magic players and Magic fans imagined.
The fame and heritage of a team are indeed very important, and a new team like the Hornets is always a little under-sighted in the eyes of some fans.
So, if the Magic Finals are against the Lakers, then they will feel that it is over, terrible, and the situation is extremely tragic.
But now the Magic are meeting the Hornets, even though the Hornets have the league's best regular season record all season and have only lost one game in the Western Conference playoffs so far.
They relied on such a brilliant record to reach the Finals, but Magic fans will still habitually think that the Hornets are not a very strong team.
This may be a misconception of inertia, and they think that the Hornets are not much of a threat in the game against the Magic.
Who knew the opening was like this, seven to two.
Then, the Magic team started to attack again, and the basketball was handed to Howard on the inside, and Nelson actually wanted Howard to attract other players to the bag, and then pass the ball directly, but Howard also wanted to come by himself.
It's just that he planned to come by himself, and several people from the Hornets surrounded him unceremoniously, Zhong Yu and Chandler sandwiched poor Howard almost like sandwich cookies, originally Howard still had some advantages in the face of Chandler, but with one Zhong Yu, he could only stare dryly.
Howard reluctantly yelled and forced a layup, and the basketball didn't go in, as a matter of course. As soon as the rebounding ball was caught by Zhong Yu, the referee's whistle sounded.
Although this is the home court of the Hornets, and Zhong Yu is still a superstar, the foul that Zhong Yu and Chandler made to Howard just now is simply unbearable to read.
Howard snorted and stood at the free-throw line, and he missed two free throws...... The rebound was caught by Chandler.
God will always give shortcomings to people who look perfect, such as Iverson's height and Maddie's waist. Free throws from Howard and O'Neal. Howard really suffered too much on the free throw point, and the shark-cutting tactics and the Spurs' previous successful experiment on the Magic were miserable, but because of the free throw shooting percentages of these two. These two tactics can exist in a grand manner.
Chandler passed the rebound to Jongwoo, who passed it to Paul, who dribbled through the half. He then took two steps and passed to West, who forced a jumper from 17 feet out and hit the basketball.
Nine to two, the Magic started very badly.
Then, Nelson passed the ball to Lewis from the perimeter, and Lewis made another jumper that still missed, and Howard roared and grabbed the rebound before throwing it to Turkoglou.
Turkoglu forced a three-point shot, and it still didn't. This time, West grabbed the rebound, and the Hornets began to fight back.
The basketball was handed over to West again, and Howard didn't dare to be careless at this time, so he could only follow up and plan to defend West. Otherwise, West's mid-range shooting alone would have been able to shoot the Magic into a sieve.
West saw Howard come up to wrap the bag, and Jongwook stepped in two steps from the outside and came to the place near the free throw line, and at that moment, West understood and threw the basketball to the right. Jongwook received the pass, and his body did not stop advancing, but continued to control the ball and took a step forward before putting away the basketball.
"Damn it!"
Howard felt a heavy humiliation for the Hornets' offense, and Contney also chased after him from the side, and the two men were about to complete the encirclement of Zhongyu. β¦,
But Zhong Yu was not afraid at all, and the moment he put away the basketball, he saw that the fans in the entire stadium had raised their hands high for him.
And Zhong Yu kicked his right leg on the ground at this moment, and then his body rushed high into the sky!
"Wow!" There were many fans next to the court, and even in the whole world, who made surprised noises, because this ball looked like Zhong Yu was gliding towards the basket and Howard.
Is this kid going to be re-buttoned through Howard? Although this is very chic, it also looks too dangerous, after comparing Zhong Yu and Howard's figures, as well as Howard's many terrifying legends about his physical fitness circulating in the league, most people began to sweat for Zhong Yu.
And Zhong Yu was at this moment, his body was ready to go, and the whole person was like a tight bow suddenly blooming with all his own strength!
"Boom!"
With all his strength in his right hand, Zhong Yu slammed the basketball into the basket! And Howard rushed up with his right hand at this time and hit Zhong Yu's hand, and then his body also hit Zhong Yu, so the collision made people feel sore, but Zhong Yu had already grabbed the basket tightly and was not rushed away by Howard's body.
He just played the time difference with this ball, of course he also knew that he couldn't dunk Howard now, so he had already pinched the time, and Howard rushed over when he finished dunking, and at that time Zhong Yu had already grasped the basket, but he was not afraid,
Zhong Yu scored two points with this ferocious dunk, and suddenly, the fans who had just raised their hands in the air now all stood up and cheered for Zhong Yu like crazy.
This ball, Zhong Yu buckled too fiercely and too beautifully!
The score became eleven to two, and the Hornets opened the game directly with a nine-point gap.
Magic fans are full of sorrow, they thought they could beat the Hornets, who knew that they had just played such a murderous score against the Magic team at the beginning.
Seeing that the situation was not right, the Magic team quickly called a timeout.
After the timeout, the Magic started to possess the ball across the halfcourt, and Nelson was on the outside, and it looked like he was pointing at the players on the inside, and everyone didn't know what he was trying to do.
But at that moment, Lewis stood next to Nelson, who accelerated under his feet and rushed to the inside in an instant.
It was fast, and after he got to the inside, Lewis also cut down from the outside, attracting a bit of attention, and Nelson grabbed the moment and threw the basketball with a high toss.
High toss hit!
Nelson was lucky, scoring two points.
Seeing this, Scott's brow furrowed, followed by a playful smile at the corner of his mouth.
The Magic team has some ways of playing, three-point shots, interior monsters, when the interior monsters are limited by the opponent, and the outside three-point shots can't be opened, they need Nelson's breakthrough.
However, Nelson's breakthrough has also been explained before, and of course the Hornets players will handle it themselves.
Anyway, Paul is still on the court, he is the talented conductor on the court, the team master, and Scott doesn't have to worry.
The ball was back in the hands of the Hornets, Zhong Yu received Paul's pass on the outside, and Conteney quickly followed, Zhong Yu knew that this Contenny, after all, still has two brushes, otherwise no one would think that he might become the player who froze Kobe.
However, when Zhong Yu really wants to score, even Kobe Bryant has no way to take Zhong Yu, let alone this Contney. β¦,
Zhong Yu faced Conteney and made a gesture to let the Hornets' interior line pull away as much as possible, and then he suddenly accelerated with the ball and went straight inside!
Jong-wook's speed was at its highest, and Conteny was a little dry-eyed, so he could only go as far as he could to the midline, on the one hand, to protect the Magic's midline, and on the other hand, to shorten the defensive distance between him and Jong-wook.
But Zhong Yu instantly recovered after taking two steps to control the ball inside, and his body took a step back directly, and he quickly put away the basketball and took a step back, and the person had already withdrawn from the three-point line!
Conteny woke up like a dream to catch up, and he realized that Chung Wook was aiming for a jumper, and it was a very quick jumper from beyond the three-point line.
Zhong Yu has retreated beyond the three-point line, and when he puts away the basketball, he directly shoots a jumper!
"Huh!"
As the crowd cheered desperately, the score between the two teams became 14-4, and the Hornets were already 10 points ahead of their opponents, opening the game with this very luxurious statistic.
Moreover, in the first game of the finals, it was not the Magic team that started to open the score with three-point shots, but the Hornets, Zhong Yu of the Hornets.
Things for the Magic team immediately turned a little bad.
Then, Nelson began to break through again, but he only took two steps inside before being caught by Zhong Yu and Paul, in order to prevent his basketball from being taken away, he only needed to pass the ball to Conteny on the side, Conteny made a two-point jumper, the blue ball missed, and the rebound was grabbed by Howard who roared and jumped up and grabbed it.
However, the moment he wanted to grab the rebound and then dunk directly, Chandler on the inside had already blocked it, and Howard caused Chandler to foul.
Then Howard hit one of two free throws, and the ball was back in the hands of the Hornets.
The basketball passed to West, West's seventeen-foot jumper missed, but the angle of the rebound rebound was just right, Zhong Yu chased into the interior and caught the rebound that West's jumper missed, he did not pass the ball but chose to dribble the ball himself, and when he was about to bring out the three-point line, Contenny came up to steal.
Zhong Yu let go of the steal on one side, and at the same time, just a little time before Conteny couldn't make a steal, he suddenly accelerated and moved a step to his right front, and then, Zhong Yu jumped up and pushed the basketball out directly with both hands.
"Huh!"
The jumper is there again!
Originally, the Hornets were mainly going to play West, but Zhong Yu showed a very strong offensive desire in the first quarter, and also used his own score to make the Magic team unable to make magic.
In this quarter, the Magic team was particularly embarrassed.
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