Wang Chao's score in the first quarter of the game was not high, but instead of making the Lakers feel at ease, they became even more uneasy.

This is the third year of playing against Wang Chao, and the Lakers have played at least eight or more games against the Magic every season, two in the regular season and at least six in the playoffs or finals.

It can be said that in addition to a few teams in the West, such as the Rockets, Spurs, and Suns, the Lakers know the Magic best.

As the arrowhead of the Magic team's offense, Wang Chao is naturally the focus of the Lakers' research, and they know very well that Wang Chao's scoring is impossible to limit, no matter what method is used to defend him, this guy can rely on various ways to achieve the goal of scoring.

Therefore, the Lakers' defensive strategy for the Magic team is to cut off Wang Chao's connection with other teammates as much as possible, Wang Chao can get high scores, but the other players of the Magic team must not play.

The other players of the Magic team under the one-star shooting system have extremely accurate three-point shooting percentage, and once they feel hot, it will be too late!

Now the Magic team released a very bad signal to the Lakers in the first quarter of the game, under Wang Chao's needle, several starters have played, and the two sides are fighting equally, but in this case, if Wang Chao starts to exert his strength, how can the Lakers still be able to bear it?

Such fears soon became a reality.

In the second quarter, with Jamal. Crawford stepped on and took over possession, and the Magic began to storm the Lakers.

Wang Chao and Crawford took turns holding the ball to break through and impact the basket, which made the pressure on the Lakers' interior twin towers surge, Crawford's dribbling and speed are the top among the league's guards, although the finishing efficiency under the basket is not very high, but his speed still makes many centers feel a headache.

And Wang Chao is even more troublesome, Artest, who is responsible for defending Wang Chao, was stunned to find that Wang Chao's style of playing today is very similar to Kobe, all kinds of pull-up layups and difficult shots after breaking through with the ball, but he can still score all of these extremely difficult attacks!

With the blessing of the talent of skywalking, Wang Chao's ability to stay in the air and his resistance to interference in forcing shots in the air have been greatly improved, and he can play like Jordan and Kobe.

Wang Chao must admit that Curry-style three-point shooting is indeed very powerful, and the lethality and deterrence are unique in the league, but when the game enters a stalemate or is fully targeted by the opponent, compared with three-point long-range shooting, mid-distance is the real royal move that can be decided.

This is one of the reasons why Curry failed to win the FMVP in the first three championships, because in that kind of unconventional situation, when encountering the opponent's strict defense, the efficiency of forcing three-point shots will indeed be seriously affected.

Although the FMVP of the Warriors' first championship has a huge shady existence, it is unreasonable for Iguodala to get the FMVP for any reason, but the other party grabbed Curry's far less than usual performance during the Finals.

The second and third championships followed, and the Finals FMVP was contested by Durant even more naturally, even if Durant's supernatural play during the Finals was based on the reason why Curry attracted the Cavaliers' key defense, but Durant's mid-range and decisive shooting at critical moments in the game are indisputable facts.

Durant doesn't have the ability of Jordan and Kobe Bryant to stay in the air, but his height and reach advantage make him completely comparable to the former's effect when shooting.

Wang Chao's static talent is not as good as Durant's, and the bouncing is slightly inferior to Jordan and Kobe, but when the two are combined, Wang Chao has a strong dominance in this field!

In the second quarter of the game, Wang Chao shot 6 of 10 and 3 of 3 free throws, although he did not make a single three-pointer, he scored 15 points in a single quarter. Crawford's 8 points, the Magic played a 29-22 score in the second quarter, and the two teams were 57-48 at halftime, and the difference reached 9 points.

At halftime, when Kobe Bryant walked to the players' tunnel, his eyes still couldn't help but look at Wang Chao on the other side, his eyes were full of doubts.

Although Wang Chao's style of play is rare, he has still played it in this playoff series with the Celtics, but watching it in the game video and seeing it with his own eyes is a completely different feeling.

Kobe Bryant only felt incredible, when did Wang Chao's ability to stay in the air be so good? He can actually attack in the way he does best, and his shooting percentage is only higher than him.

For a long time, there have been very few scorers who can admire the paranoid Kobe Bryant, Jordan is counted as one, Iverson and Maddie are barely counted, and now there is one more Wang Chao on this list.

In the past, Kobe's impression of Wang Chao mainly stayed on the three-point shot, although Wang Chao gradually developed mid-distance and ball-holding breakthrough skills, but in the end he did not reach the top level.

But now, with the top-level ability to stay in the air, Wang Chao's lethality in the middle distance and the penalty area has reached an unprecedented height, which is not inferior to Kobe himself.

This makes paranoid people like Kobe who refuse to admit defeat quite admirable.

With 15 points in the second quarter, Wang Chao's personal score reached 21 points at halftime, which was on par with Kobe, but the Lakers had already begun to fall into the disadvantage.

In the third quarter of the game, the Lakers failed to narrow the score, but the score was further stretched to double digits because the Magic team fired frequently outside the three-point line.

The twin towers on the inside have been unable to play under Howard's strong rim protection ability, Kobe Bryant can only continue to rely on his personal ability to score and lead the team forward, but he needs to face the rotation of Afraro and Ariza, two of the league's top defenders, and he can still score with his personal ability at the beginning, but as the game progresses and the physical consumption of Kobe's efficiency begins to decline, the Lakers can't withstand the Magic's bombardment.

The game entered the fourth quarter, the situation deteriorated further, and when the fourth quarter reached 5 minutes and 47 seconds, with Wang Chao and Howard's three-point shot from the three-point line after blocking and dismantling, the difference between the two teams officially came to more than 20 points.

Seeing that the recovery was weak, the Lakers began to replace the main lineup.

This is only the first game of the Finals, and it is still an away game, the Lakers have been mentally prepared before the game starts, and the victory or defeat of one game will not directly affect the final game, and the game has just begun.

Wang Chao stroked in the first quarter to help his teammates score, and in the second and third quarters of the game, he began to exert strength, and finally scored 37 points, 6 rebounds and 11 assists, becoming the biggest contributor to the Magic team's good start.

Howard has 16 points, 15 rebounds and 5 blocks, except for the first quarter of the game, there are not many offensive opportunities in the next few quarters, but his contribution on the defensive end, especially under the basket, is crucial, and it is also one of the main contributions of the Magic team to win.

In addition to the two members of the Super Magic combination, the Magic's outside shooters played very well, with Nelson shooting 3-of-6 from three-point range, Afflalo shooting 2-of-5, and Channing. Frye was 2-of-3, and overall the Magic played exactly what they wanted in the first game, and if they can continue to play that way in the rest of the game, they will have no problem winning the series.

On the Lakers' side, Bryant ended up with 43 points, 5 rebounds and 6 assists, but the rest of the Lakers' players played very average. Gasol, who defended by Fry, had 21 points and eight rebounds on 7-of-16 shooting, but Bynum had only six points and seven rebounds under Howard's defense.

Odom, the team's sixth man of the year, played even worse, shooting 1-of-3 from the field and only having 3 points, 5 rebounds and 1 assist.

In fact, Odom's performance in the playoffs this season has not been satisfactory.

In the previous game, he averaged only 9.7 points, 8.6 rebounds and 2 assists per game, although his performance was not bad, but it was not excellent, especially compared with Jamal Crawford, the sixth man of the Magic team who averaged about 18 points per game during the playoffs.

In fact, many people can clearly feel that Odom's dedication and concentration in the game are obviously insufficient, and he often wanders and his professional attitude is questioned.

This has always been the main reason for Odom's achievements in the league as a "left-handed magician".

There are also many people who attribute this to Odom's wife Kohler. Kardashian, after all, as a famous NBA star harvester, few NBA stars who are related to the Kardashian family mix well in the league, even Harden is also in the relationship with Kohler. After Kardashian's breakup, she really ushered in the explosive period of her career and won the regular season MVP.

But in fact, the main reason is Odom himself, this is a player who does not have much desire to win and hard work, the NBA is just a money-making job for him, whether he has a championship or not will not affect him to make money, why work so hard?

It's also a shame that he is in the Lakers, and there is such a paranoid as Kobe Bryant in the team, he doesn't dare to make too many mistakes, and most of the time he is still in order, but he wants him to play hard...... Don't think about it.

Of course, the problem faced by the Lakers is not only Odom, the Magic's current one-star lineup is indeed very strong, especially with Wang Chao, a top scorer comparable to Curry, on the outside, and the pressure on the defensive end is huge.

This is too different from the original historical version of the Magic team, which was supposed to be Lewis's version.

The Lakers, who lost Game 1, made some adjustments in the game two days later, successfully moving back to one city 104-94 in the rematch on June 6, and rewriting the overall score to 1-1.

Kobe Bryant's play in this game was very average, only 21 points on 8-of-20 shooting, but the Lakers' twin towers were all in unison, Pau Gasol had 25 points and 11 rebounds, and Bynum had 20 points, 6 rebounds and 7 blocks.

Howard, who completely suppressed the two on the inside in the last game, was targeted by the Lakers in this game, Kobe Bryant kept holding the ball to attack the frame and make fouls, but the referee blew the whistle every time, causing Howard to fall into a foul crisis early, staying off the court for more time than on the court, and finally was sent off the court with 6 fouls in the middle of the fourth quarter, and his personal data was only 14 points, 10 rebounds and 3 blocks.

The Lakers' tactics against Howard were very successful, causing the Magic to miss inside, and without Howard, the Lakers twin towers combined to score 45 points, even if Kobe Bryant played a little worse, he still won the game.

It's just that such a move can only be used once.

On June 8, the third game of the series, Howard learned the lessons of the previous game, this game was played very carefully, some defenders with foul risks would rather give up strategically, and watch the opponent score rather than take risks, although this move made Howard's defensive ability under the basket slightly decline, but successfully controlled the number of fouls in the whole game to less than 3.

Howard was on the court, and the situation was immediately different.

Bynum, who showed off his strength in the last game, scored 9 points and 7 rebounds on 3-of-9 shooting at home in this game, while Gasol only had 13 points, 10 rebounds and 4 assists.

Kobe Bryant's performance in this game was also not satisfactory, and Afraro and Ariza, two outside defense experts of the Azigza, took turns defending Kobe Bryant while discussing and exchanging experiences.

Afflalo was one of the most difficult defensive players to get rid of by Kobe Bryant, so he was dubbed the "Kobe Terminator", Ariza himself is a well-known top outside defense expert, and has been a teammate with Kobe for a while, so he knows Kobe's technical characteristics very well.

When Kobe Bryant met these two guys, he also fell into blood mold, the two have completely different defensive styles, and alternate defensive Kobe, Rao is a lifetime stronger, no one is scared, Kobe Bryant also has a headache in the face of the defense of the two, and even if he passes the outside defense and rushes into the inside, he has to face Howard's supplementary defense, which can be described as full of pressure on the offensive end.

It can only be said that Kobe Bryant deserves to be Kobe, even in the face of such high-intensity defensive pressure, he still got a team-high 29 points, 7 rebounds and 5 assists, but he shot 10 of 29, and the 34.5% shooting rate was silently telling something......

On the Magic side, Wang Chao scored a game-high 34 points, Howard had 17 points and 13 rebounds, and Crawford scored 21 points, and they teamed up to win the game in Los Angeles, and the score also came to 2:1.

The Lakers, who lost the game, immediately regained their strength, and Kobe Bryant, who only shot 10 of 29 in the last game, rebounded strongly in this game, beating Afraro and Ariza, shooting 10 of 22, 6 of 11 three-pointers, cutting 33 points, 6 rebounds and 2 assists, and his three-point shot is almost comparable to Wang Chao.

The Lakers won the fourth game 96-92, and the two teams were evenly matched, and the score was tied at 2:2.

However, with the G5 Magic team in the finals, a wave of 113:97 defeated the Lakers by 16 points, took the lead in winning the battle of Tianwang Mountain, and rewrote the total score to 3:2, and the situation began to favor the Magic team.

In the first five games, although the two teams won and lost each other, Wang Chao's play has always been as stable as ever, and compared with Kobe, who was defended by the Magic team's top guards, the shooting rate of Wang Chao has been stable at about 50%, averaging 33.2 points, 5.7 rebounds and 8.8 assists per game in 5 games, and the performance should suppress Kobe, who averaged 30.8 points, 6 rebounds and 4.2 assists per game, and shot 41% from the field.

For a team, it is self-evident what a consistent and efficient player represents.

(End of chapter)