Up to now, just looking at the number of jù, Chen Jiyuan is definitely ahead of Howard, and if you look at the table on the court, Chen Jiyuan's contribution to the team is also more than Howard. It can be said that in today's showdown with Howard, Chen Jiyuan comprehensively suppressed Howard's play.

Despite this, Chen Jiyuan still did not relax, because a game, a period of time is nothing, if he is a superstar, he will quickly adjust his mentality, and then re-inflict irreparable damage on the opponent. You must not take any opponent lightly, and you must not relax for any period of time, otherwise, the consequences can be fatal.

A regular win or loss may not be nothing, but if you develop such a habit because of the regular season, then in the playoffs, you still have such a mentality, then it will be a disaster for the team, and it will be the consequence of going home directly.

A little over five minutes, which was the time left in the second quarter. The Knicks' morale has reached a peak. Whether it's a player or a fan. The shape of the court and the direction of the wind are absolutely biased in favor of the Knicks.

At this time, Howard's disadvantages were revealed. Indeed, we must admit that Howard has the talent and physical qualities that everyone envies, but not every person with excellent physical qualities will become superstars, it can be said that Howard still has a great way to grow psychologically, although Chen Jiyuan does not dare to say that his heart is completely correct, but Chen Jiyuan's stubbornness and desire to win are indeed relatively rare things.

Howard didn't play the role of a boss and leader at a time when the wind was not good for the Magic, both on and off the court.

Howard didn't set an example for his teammates at this time, didn't use his own methods to cheer up the team at this time, and regained his momentum for the team. On the contrary, Howard seemed to be really languishing, and Howard even began to attack tepidly with the direction of the wind on the court.

After Chen Jiyuan dunked violently, Howard attacked twice under Chen Jiyuan's defense, but he was a little weak, a jump shot, although Chen Jiyuan interfered, but the ball still went in, and the other hook hand was not scored under Chen Jiyuan's interference, and after Chen Jiyuan successfully protected the backcourt rebound, he also let the Knicks launch a fast attack, although it was not successful, but at least Chen Jiyuan's defense of Howard was indeed successful.

Although the game progressed, in the second half of the second quarter, the Knicks gradually extended the lead of the score.

In the midst of this. Chen Jiyuan did not participate too much in the offense, Chen Jiyuan, as the boss of the team, took the initiative to give up the right to shoot to Nate Robinson when Nate Robinson played so highly, allowing Nate Robinson to break through and shoot on the outside, while he conscientiously entered the interior to grab rebounds. Competing for frontcourt rebounds, protecting backcourt rebounds, and defending Howard, that's what Chen Jiyuan did in the second half of the second quarter of the game.

Although Chen Jiyuan didn't score, Nate Robinson, who played very comfortably, didn't score less, and Ralph Alston couldn't take Nate Robinson, a small point guard, at all.

As a result, at the end of the half, the score on the field became 44:37.

The Knicks have a seven-point lead, and although they haven't reached double digits yet, the scores on both sides are relatively low, and you can imagine how difficult it is to build a seven-point advantage.

Both teams defended quite well. After all, it is a strong team of the level, and it is impossible to easily look at one hundred and twenty or thirty points.

Stan Van Gundy and Thibodeau have only a little bit of a relationship. Thibodeau used to work with Stan Van Gundy's younger brother, Jeff Van Gundy, at the time at the Rockets. Later, when Stan Van Gundy was the head coach of the Magic team, Jeff Van Gundy refused his brother's invitation to be the assistant coach of the Magic team, but he personally persuaded his friend Thibodeau to become the assistant coach of the Magic, but then it was unsuccessful. Because at that time, Thibodeau felt that going to magic was not as happy as staying at the Celtics. What's more, the Celtics have just formed the Big Three, and the Magic team is still at the starting point, if you are the head coach, of course, you want a team that the whole team is at the starting point, but since you are an assistant coach, then there is no need to continue to go there, after all, Thibodeau's assistant coach has been a long enough time, and by the year Van Gundy invited Thibodeau, Thibodeau had been an assistant coach for 15 years.

When the second half of the game began, the morale on the Magic's side finally improved, and it looked like Van Gundy was doing something in the locker room to cheer up his players. It has boosted the morale of the Magic team a little bit.

At the beginning of the second half of the game, the Magic played quite well, not indulging in Howard's singles on the inside, but giving the outside players more opportunities and the right to shoot, which is also a matter of no way, Stan Van Gundy is not a fool, it can be clearly seen that Howard's singles Chen Jiyuan really has no advantage, although Chen Jiyuan's experience and awareness are still accumulating and growing on the defensive end, but the body is able to help him make up for these shortcomings, plus Howard's hand feeling is not very good today, That's why Howard is so powerless on the offensive end.

The third quarter of the game between the two sides was also like this, Howard only tentatively singled two times on the inside, and then the cashback could not be beneficial, and the decisive Magic began to shift the offensive center to the outside, but because Howard did not succeed in attracting the attention of the Knicks' interior defense, the outside players played a little hard. Thankfully, Turkoglu was clearly finding his groove in the third quarter of the game today, and for some reason, all of a sudden, he started scoring. And it's not one or two points, it's a succession of points.

At the beginning of the second half of the game, Howard turned around and slipped the bottom line again, but Chen Jiyuan could only turn around and hook his hand in the bottom corner, but under Chen Jiyuan's interference, the ball was deflected. Over the years, the hook hand of uninterrupted contact with himself has never stopped for a day. And these workouts are definitely not meaningless, these hard work will be reflected in the competition. Chen Jiyuan's hook hit rate can be said to be the top in the league. There is no center whose hook hit rate can be compared with Chen Jiyuan, but Chen Jiyuan's hook is often ignored, because compared with Chen Jiyuan's hook, Chen Jiyuan's mid-distance and Chen Jiyuan's dunk attract people's attention more. But no one found out that Chen Jiyuan often voted two, hooked a few, buckled two, and hooked a few. Then he was able to get more than 40 points, but people selectively ignored the score of the hook, which made Chen Jiyuan embarrassed.

After Howard's hook was missed, Chen Jiyuan turned around, but the rebound was grabbed by Lefou.

The Knicks' offense, Chen Jiyuan personally guided Howard's hook, Chen Jiyuan's hook hand has no skills, purely relying on years of feeling, such a long time of training to accumulate the feel, in order to ignore Howard's defense, because before the hook, Chen Jiyuan arched first, so there is room to shoot, otherwise, it is still easy to be blocked. Chen Jiyuan didn't dare to pretend to be big in front of Howard. After all, he is the best defensive player in the league.

Chen Jiyuan personally sued Howard, child, you are not called a hook hand, I will tell you what a hook hand is. 46:37。 Chen Jiyuan's 16th point.

On the Magic side, Howard received the ball on the inside again, but after hitting it twice, Howard hit the ball to Lewis on the outside, Lewis received the ball outside the three-point line, and Lefu didn't dare to let Lewis go outside, Lewis's famous stunt was the three-point shot. The big three-point shooter is Lewis' biggest selling point.

Although Lewis is taller, he is relatively thin, and his feet are still full of agility, otherwise he would not be able to make cameo appearances at the small forward position from time to time.

Lewis accelerated on the right side, and passed by Lefou's side, although Lefu was also chasing behind him, but it obviously had no effect, because Lefou's footsteps were not fast enough, so it was indeed a little difficult to catch up with Lewis.

Lewis strode to the basket in front of him. Chen Jiyuan naturally can't sit idly by, as soon as Chen Jiyuan went to make up for the defense, Lewis handed the ball from Chen Jiyuan's waist to Howard, Howard received the ball is a violent dunk, which can be regarded as venting the anger in his heart. 46:39。

Then the Knicks attacked, Stephen Jackson's three-pointer opportunity, but the ball could be missed, but Love grabbed the rebound, but Love's layup was blocked by Howard. Howard's ability to assist in defense is really worthy of his reputation.

After being blocked by Howard, the Magic wanted to play a fast break, but Stephen Jackson, Starkey, and Nate Robinson were all quick to come back to defense. Let the Magic's fast break fail.

Then in the middle of a positional battle, Turkoglu hit a two-pointer. 46:41。

Nate Robinson hit a three-pointer from the Knicks and missed. Howard managed to pick up the rebound.

Turkoglu broke through this time and scored on the inside, and then successfully scored on the basketball. 46:43。 There are only three points left in the lead. The Knicks' offense has fallen into a bit of a scoring drought during this time.

However, soon someone on the Knicks' side stepped forward, and this person was exactly the person everyone was expecting-Chen Jiyuan. Chen Jiyuan once again showed his strength as the leader of the team.