Chapter 168: This is an opportunity
Chapter 168: This is an opportunity
Cao Jian also had a brilliant performance in the game against the Magic, although it was not as good as Maddy's 52 points, but Cao Jian didn't care, he was more concerned about the Cavaliers winning.
Because of the Cavaliers' big victory over the Magic in this battle, the Cavaliers also clung to the 76ers in front of them, and the difference between the two is still a win difference.
After the Magic finished the Cavaliers, they also ushered in the challenge of the Philadelphia 76ers the next day, this game is nothing for many teams, and the main focus is on the matchup between the two superstars, Iverson and Maddy.
However, for the Knights, for Cao Jian, this is not the case, who wins and who loses in this game, which is very important to Cao Jian.
If the 76ers win, the gap between them will be widened again, and the opposite is not, if you can choose Cao Jian, of course, you want the 76ers to lose......
However, it is still a bit unrealistic to let the Philadelphia 76ers, who are in tenth place in the Eastern Conference, lose to the Magic at the bottom.
But that's how it happened.
The 76ers and the Magic battle is also what the so-called basketball experts call a game in which the Magic was abused.
That was true in the early stages, especially when 76ers superstar Iverson was playing extremely well.
Iverson's game was also full of offensive desire, and all his moves, such as breakthroughs, mid-range shots, and three-point shots, were all used, which also made the Magic unguardable.
At the end of the first quarter, the 76ers, led by Iverson, stretched the score to 18 points, trailing by 18 points in the first quarter.
Can't you fight?
And Maddy, who scored 52 points in a single game in the last game of the Magic, was also impotently in this game, with 8 shots in the first quarter, all of which were missed, which was also a duel between superstars that fans were looking forward to, and it was not staged.
In the second quarter of the game, Iverson also relied on his ghost-like speed, impacting the Magic inside the restricted area again and again, standing on the free throw line again and again, and his personal performance once expanded the score to 30 points.
With 30 points trailing at half-time, and the team's boss still performing so poorly, the plot seems to be going in the direction predicted by the experts before the game.
Of course, it was only in the first half.
The big change happened in the second half, and the person who directed the big change was still Maddie.
Maddie scored two points on free throws in the first half and missed all of his 12 shots in the first half.
In the second half of the game, the 76ers also loosened up Maddy's defense and defended alone.
Maddy is the kind of player you can't let your guard down even if I don't make any of the first 10 shots, and the 76ers have suffered a big loss this time.
In the third quarter of the game, as soon as it came up, Maddie began to exert his strength, and hit a three-point shot in the opening game.
Immediately after receiving a pass from a teammate, he attacked quickly, flew up, and directly dunked with one hand, and.
Another time, it was to smash Huanglong, go straight to the 76ers penalty area, rise from the ground, split the dunk with one hand, and at the same time, also caused a foul on the 76ers players.
There are also penalties.
Maddy scored eight straight points in one go, helping the Magic narrow the score to 22 points.
The 76ers also noticed their own problems, and they also called a timeout in time to set up a defense against Maddy.
Maddie's feeling has recovered, and at this time, it is so hot that the 76ers can stop it if they want to.
Maddie hit three three-pointers again, dry pull, dry pull, dry pull, and dry pull, and scored 9 points in a row again, directly narrowing the gap to 13 points, and the 76ers asked for a timeout again.
Taking advantage of the timeout, the 76ers also used Jordan-level defense to defend Maddy.
In this game, Maddie also played extremely rationally, and if he couldn't do it, he passed the ball decisively, and the most important point is that the magic outside line was also opened today.
Packing, passing, packing, passing the ball immediately, Maddy sent another assist after three three-point shots, and after three times, the 76ers did not dare to easily wrap it, and the consequences for Maddy's bag were too great.
The 76ers did not choose to wrap up, and Maddy's personal ability was too strong, and he hit a three-pointer again, which directly helped the Magic equalize the score.
In the third quarter of the game, the Magic, under the leadership of Maddy, equalized the score, and at this time, the confidence of the Magic players also rose.
In the fourth quarter of the game, the rhythm was completely controlled by the Magic, on the 76ers' side, Iverson was still extremely hard, but his teammates did not give him, he relied on hand-to-hand combat again and again to get opportunities for his teammates, but they were squandered again and again, and more than halfway through the game in the fourth quarter, the 76ers had fallen behind by 18 points.
After struggling for another 2 minutes, there were more than 4 minutes left before the end of the game, and seeing that it didn't work, the 76ers all came off the bench, and the game officially entered garbage time.
There were no surprises in this game, and in the end, the Magic won the game with 15 points and a difference of 15 points at their home stadium.
In the game against the Magic, the 76ers lost a game that they should have won, which is very frustrating for many 76ers fans.
However, for the Cavaliers, for Cao Jian, this is one thing worth celebrating, nothing else, just because the 76ers lost, he is one step closer to any completion.
The 76ers lost, and the Magic narrowed the gap with them by 0.5 wins again, as long as the Cavaliers win one more game, then they can blow up the chrysanthemums of the 76ers in front of them and rank tenth in the Eastern Conference, which is a rare opportunity for the Cavaliers.
At the same time, this is also the best opportunity for Cao Jian to complete anything.
If they can beat the 76ers in the next game, then they will be 10th in the Eastern Conference, far from 8th?
It's not far away, just separated by the Toronto Raptors in ninth place.
The opportunity came quickly, and after the victory over the Magic, it just so happened that the Cavaliers were next to the 76ers.
This is an opportunity for the knight, and it is also an opportunity for Cao Jian, who is bent on completing the task.
The opportunity is in front of us, and it depends on whether the Cao family can catch it.
If you catch the knight, your record will go further, and Cao Jian's task will go further, if you can't catch it, Cao Jian doesn't know what year and month he will have such an opportunity.
This game is particularly important for Cao Jian.
However, if you want to help the Cavaliers beat the 76ers and rank 10th in the Eastern Conference, the difficulty is not just half a star.
Although the 76ers lost the last game against the Magic, Cao Jian knew that this was not the real strength of the 76ers.
They lost, lost when Maddie entered the furious mode, and he almost planted himself in the last game, but fortunately he withstood it at the last moment, otherwise the final result is still difficult to say.
In the game against the 76ers, the Cavaliers did not enter the berserk state of Maddie, and the final result is still difficult to say.
Moreover, against the 76ers, the Cavaliers have no special advantages at all, on the contrary, there are many shortcomings.
This can be seen from the lineup comparison.
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