Taking advantage of the break, in the Sina Sports studio, the hosts Ke Xiaofan and Ma Jian were also summarizing the performance of both sides in the first quarter.

"On the Magic side, the best player in the first quarter is definitely Rashad Lewis, Coach Ma, what do you think about that?"

"Rashad Lewis has a lot of outside opportunities, mainly relying on Howard's ability on the inside, completely suppressing Kostic on both offensive and defensive ends, and the Thunder shrink a little, and the outside opportunities come out."

"Howard will continue to play in the next game, a foul in the first quarter, very good control, if the Thunder want to chase points, the interior defense must be strengthened."

What Ma Jian said before the game came true, and the Thunder team's inside line really didn't resist it, and it was exploded...

"It's true that when you can't stop Howard alone, then it's really hard to play, okay, the second quarter starts right away, let's turn the picture back to the scene."

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Coach Brooks directly let Jeff Green continue to play in the second quarter, and Etang Thomas couldn't open up the offensive space on the court and had to fall out of the rotation.

"Kayce, try to speed up the offensive tempo, attack the opposing guard line more, Green, pay attention to Ryan Anderson's outside shooting, and the defense has to keep up!"

Li Ze nodded to show that he understood that this was a good opportunity to chase points.

In the second quarter of the Thunder, Li Ze and Sofrosa partnered in the backcourt, with Jeff Green and Ibaka at the front, and Nick Collison at the center.

The Magic have Anthony Johnson and J.J. Redick in the backcourt, Vince Carter and Ryan Anderson at front, and Marcin Gortat at center.

"The Magic's rotation lineup still maintains a strong point inside and outside, and the offensive space on the court is also very good.

Ma Jian saw that the Magic team had Marcin Gortat inside and Carter outside, and immediately felt that the Thunder team was going to be cold.

The offensive routines of the two teams are also very similar, the Magic team relies on Carter, the Thunder team relies on Li Ze, there is a big man on the inside, and there are four who can shoot on the outside.

After Li Zeyun passed the half, Carter immediately came up to defend, and this lineup had to rely on him for offense and defense.

The blocking and dismantling of the No. 5 position, Collison raised the cover, Li Ze accelerated the breakthrough with his right hand dribble, and Marcin Gortat was not big defensively, because Carter squeezed through the cover very quickly.

The quality of the pick-and-roll was not high, and he felt Carter give himself a physical confrontation on his side, and suddenly a backdribble in the middle of the march, and then he turned sharply with his left hand and threw a backward jumper.

"Whew..."2-pointer scored.

"Oh yes!!"

The whole set of actions was smooth and extremely chic, and the audience at Amway Arena suddenly let out a huge exclamation.

"What a ball! Li Ze's ball is really beautiful, this action is so good-looking, and the most important thing is that he threw the ball in the end, which must have been selected as one of the top ten goals! ”

The host Ke Xiaofan was immediately excited when he saw Li Ze's dashing goal.

"Nice combination ball moves, good job, Lee!"

Carter caught up with Li Ze, who was returning to the defense, and said to him with a smile.

"You can only use it once, I know, and then it won't work for you."

Li Ze shrugged, in terms of playing beautiful and fancy, it still has to look at Carter, just the actual dunk, this big guy has played a trick...

The Magic offense, Anthony Johnson, who is also a seasoned veteran, handed the ball to Carter after halftime and began directing traffic and motioning for his teammates to open space for Kartra.

In the face of Jeff Green's defense, Carter continued to dribble under his crotch and then changed direction in front of his body, shook off Jeff Green, and accelerated his breakthrough with his left hand.

Marcin Gortat blocked Collison on the inside, allowing Carter to make an easy layup.

Li Ze saw helplessly, if Ibaka shrinks, Ryan Anderson will get an empty opportunity, and in the next round, he still has to defend Carter, and Jeff Green can't keep up.

After dribbling quickly through half-court, Li Ze motioned for Soflosa to come over to receive the ball, and then sank into the corner, Jeff Green came out to receive the ball under Collison's cover, and broke through in an instant in the face of Ryan Anderson's defense.

This acceleration cleared Ryan Anderson, Marcin Gortat came up to make up for the defense, and Jeff Green passed to Collison under the basket in the middle of the march, who received the ball and ate the cake and scored 2 points.

Although Jeff Green is a little rough in his skills, he must have no problem dribbling through something, after all, he is also the fifth pick in the first round.

"Wonderful cooperation, it seems that the rest of the Thunder players are slowly stepping up, now it's up to the defense."

Ma Jian expects the Thunder to hold on for a few rounds and narrow the difference.

The Magic team attacked, this time Li Ze directly targeted Carter, still blocking and dismantling the attack, Li Ze struggled to squeeze through, but Carter suddenly split the ball while traveling, and J.J. Redick on the outside received the ball and threw it.

"Whew..."The 3-pointer hollows into the net.

The Thunder defended the off-ball cover half a beat slower, allowing J.J. Redick to run straight to the opportunity.

For the next four minutes, the Magic played inside and out, with Marcin Gortat hitting a lot of shots in the low post and Ryan Anderson and J.J. Redick hitting three-pointers.

On the Thunder's side, Li Ze made consecutive free throws, and the piecemeal play of others didn't make the difference too much.

Seeing that the players on the court were not doing well, Coach Brooks called a timeout again, and he felt that he should get back the main force after the last official timeout, and this timeout was a little late.

After playing more than half a quarter in the second quarter, the Magic team was 17-13 in a single quarter, and Li Ze made 4 free throws in addition to a mid-range shot, scoring 6 points, 3 rebounds and 3 assists.

The Magic team's defense Li Ze just didn't give a shot, he went in to help defend and let others finish, but the opportunity came out, and his teammates didn't shoot a few times, and the difference was still widened.

Li Ze sat on the bench and began to ton tons, he has already found out that he will turn on hand-to-hand combat mode on the defense of the team he is currently playing against, and after the misalignment, the Magic team will also foul directly in a few rounds.

"Big Van Gundy, this old man is not a good person, is there such a rookie guard!!"

Li Ze thought depressedly while drinking water.

Taking advantage of the long pause, in the Sina Sports studio, the host Ke Xiaofan couldn't help but say:

"The Magic team's defensive style is a bit special, there were two misplaced defenses, and they actually fouled directly, what do you think about this?"

"This is the strategy of the Magic team, Gortat's defense pick-and-roll, Carter squeezed too slowly, he went up directly and hit Li Ze, and Anthony Johnson also hit Li Ze directly with his body that time."

"Big Van Gundy must have explained before the game, that is, he didn't let Li Ze play comfortably, and frequently gave the body confrontation, Li Ze is 19 years old this year, and he must have suffered in terms of physical strength, and this defensive method has worked."

Ma Jian felt that the Magic team had caught all the weaknesses of the Thunder team.

"In fact, it's not just Li Ze, the Magic team is the same for Durant's defense, and Coach Van Gundy did a very good job before the game and successfully limited the Thunder."

The host Ke Xiaofan also sighed in his heart, if you play well, others will study you, and it is not easy to eat the bowl of rice in the NBA.

For the rest of the second quarter, Coach Brooks got back the Turtle and Durant, bit the score, and fought hard in the third quarter, if he couldn't chase it back, the game would be over.

Fortunately, after the main players of the two teams returned, the difference did not continue to widen, and at halftime, the Magic team entered the second half with a 14-point lead of 60-46.

In the locker room of the Thunder team, everyone was not in a high mood, trailing by 14 points at halftime, this point difference is really not small, and the most important thing is that the Magic team blossomed inside and outside, and the Thunder team almost collapsed directly.

Coach Brooks didn't have a good solution, this was a roster flaw, so, in the second half, he had to bet on the Magic's outside shooting percentage to decline.

"Green, at the beginning of the second half, we were in the low post with Howard, and the rest of us were looking at the rotation defense on the outside, rebounding, especially long rebounds, and we had to control that."

When Li Ze heard the coach's tactical arrangement, he knew that this was to protect the inner line, and the outside line was up to the sky.

"I'm going to have to do more strength training in the future, are these guys playing rugby? A lot of the action is not rushing to the ball, they just want to foul! ”

Durant was choked enough in the first half, whether it was covering or receiving the ball in the low post, and the Magic team led by Petrus went to the confrontation.

"This is the style of play in the East, and the Finals of the Spurs and Pistons were not good!"

Jeff Green also complained.

"In fact, it's the same in the west, the confrontation is still the best done by Russell, and it won't be affected at all."

Although Li Ze was a little depressed, he admitted his shortcomings.

"Actually, I was also affected, my hand felt very reduced, and after the first few fights, I felt like an elite shooter!"

The turtle thought that he was playing averagely, and he also spoke his heart.

"Haha, Russell, don't take the illusion seriously, trust me, attacking the basket is what you should do!"

Jeff Green laughed and teased the tortoise.

Seeing that everyone in the locker room began to talk and laugh again, Li Ze also put his mind at ease, and fought again in the second half, there was still a chance...

At the beginning of the third quarter of the game, both sides got back the main lineup, and the outcome depends on this quarter.

After the turtle dribbled through the half, he directly gave Li Ze, who asked for the ball in the low post, Li Ze faced Carter's defense, and after trying to step, he made a dry jump shot.

"Hmmm..."mid-range hit.

The Thunder's main strategy in the second half was to speed up, and the 14-point difference was really unable to catch up.

The Magic made the first attack of the second half, Jason Williams hobled to Howard in the low post, who received the ball and leaned on it, and Jeff Green quickly stepped forward to wrap it.

Howard was not reluctant, throwing Rashad Lewis directly into the corner, Durant rotated into place, the Magic team kept the ball and passed in a row, and finally Jason Williams made an empty 3-point jumper.

"Hmm...", a steady hit.

Li Ze frowned, this is a point that the Thunder team deliberately put in, and as a result, this is all in...

In the next game, Li Ze experienced the horror of star-studded, and the Magic team's three-point rain fell!

As long as Howard is wrapped in the low post, the Magic can shoot three-pointers from the outside, and Michael Petrus scored two in a row at this time.

"Ahh Yes!! ”

The audience at Amway Arena was happy, the Thunder team struggled to score 2 points, and the Magic team threw back Bang Bang to score 3 points, and the point difference continued to expand.

Li Ze glanced at Coach Brooks and saw that the coach signaled to continue, but he had no choice but to continue to adhere to this defensive strategy.

But the three-point shot is unreasonable, and when Carter also threw two three-pointers in a row against the defense, the Thunder collapsed, especially the ultra-long three-pointer, and the head coach of Brooks shook his head directly.

"Hah!! Wow!! ”

Howard screamed and Carter high-fived in celebration, and by the way, incited the audience, and Amway Arena was completely boiling.

Headwind is difficult for young teams to play, the Thunder team frequently hit iron at this time, Li Ze wanted to pursue vacant positions reasonably, but at this time everyone couldn't shoot, he knew that he took it for granted.

For most of the quarter, Coach Brooks replaced the main force and Ming Jin withdrew.

Li Ze sat on the bench and was also thinking about his own problems, there was a chance in the third quarter, but he broke the offensive rhythm, believe in his teammates, or do he stubbornly?

"In the end, the physical defects have been magnified, but it's a pity that everyone has been practicing muscles these days, and they don't give a whistle when touching porcelain, which is really difficult..."