On May 15, the first game of the Eastern Conference Finals, Orlando Magic vs Miami Heat.

The Western Conference Finals attracted the attention of all the fans, and most people generally believed before the game that the winner of the Eastern Conference Finals would basically be certain to win this year's NBA championship.

After all, compared with the two teams in the East, the two teams in the Western Finals are obviously lacking too much in terms of overall strength.

Neither the Dallas Mavericks nor the Oklahoma City Thunder are favourites until the playoffs begin, and even if they knock out the Spurs and Lakers, the two favorites, respectively, this miracle should not happen a second time.

Of course, fans can't imagine that if the Heat reach the Finals, the miracle will happen in Dallas again.

But now it is difficult to say whether the Heat can break into the Finals, even with the configuration of the Big Three, the Heat still does not have an absolute advantage in the face of the Magic team.

Wang Chao is two consecutive regular season MVPs, Howard is three consecutive DPOYs, and both of them are selected for the first team, which is definitely not good-looking.

Wang Chao and Howard can basically form a swap with James Wade, although the Magic team has one less Bosh, they have Crawford, and there are also players such as Nelson, Channing. Frye, Dragic, Ariza and a number of other capable role players are not available to the Heat, who are occupied by the Big Three.

"Guys! Come on! Defeat your opponent and advance to the finals, a three-time champion dynasty awaits us!! ”

Magic starters, Nelson, Afraro, Wang Chao, Channing. Frye, Howard.

The Heat starter, Mike. Bibby, Wade, James, Bosh, Joel. Anthony.

In the jump ball session, Howard won easily without any suspense, and after Nelson dribbled the ball past half court, he hoisted the ball to Howard, who went straight to the main position of the inside card to ask for the ball.

No matter how clumsy Howard's interior offensive skills are, against Joel. Anthony, a blue-collar center who wants height but no height, and no body but no body, still has a lot to do.

After receiving a pass from the inside position, Howard squeezed two steps inside with his back to the line, then made a nimble half-turn and sunk step to the basket before Bosh's bag arrived, scoring with both hands.

Howard's dunk instantly detonated the atmosphere of Amway Arena, and all the fans couldn't help but stand up and cheer loudly for the hearty dunk of their super center.

"Wow! The game has just begun, and Howard has set the main theme of this game with a violent dunk! CCTV Sports, Director Zhang, who was in charge of commentating the game, couldn't help but sigh. The Heat have the most luxurious star configuration in the entire league, but the weaknesses of the interior are well known, and their final record this season is only in third place in the East. ”

Their starting centre-forward was Joel, who is 2.06 meters tall and weighs only 110 kilograms. Anthony, the offensive ability is completely absent, the defense is also mediocre because of the lack of height and strength, the only commendable thing is the blue-collar mentality that is willing to do the dirty work. There really isn't a second suitable center forward other than Anthony. ”

Coach Yu took over the topic of Coach Zhang and continued: "They originally had former Cavaliers All-Star center Big Z in their lineup, but Big Z's form has also declined seriously this season, and he was accidentally injured in the previous game, and his performance was even worse than Joel. Anthony. ”

"As long as the Magic can bring out the best in Howard, the league's No. 1 center, they can play to their strengths and avoid their weaknesses, suppress the Heat and win this game."

The Magic team's tactical play, as Yu Gui said, completely revolved around Howard in the early stage, and the frequent interior attacks made the Heat team's interior miserable.

Even a half-hung Howard is still like this, it is hard to imagine what kind of bloody slaughter it would be for O'Neal in his prime, against such a team with weak interior defense.

In the first quarter of the game, the Heat's main offensive point was focused on Wade, and Wade was not polite at all, shooting 4 of 5 and 1 of 1 free throws to score 9 points.

However, it was clear that Howard's side was more efficient, shooting 6-of-8 from the field and 3-of-5 from the free-throw line in the quarter, finishing with 15 points and 4 rebounds.

Relying on Howard's explosive performance in the first quarter, the Magic led the Heat by 3 points at 28:25 in the first quarter.

The game entered the second quarter, and James and Bosh on the Heat side also began to exert their strength one after another, scoring points with the ball one after another, trying to overtake the score and take the lead.

But the Magic aren't without them.

Wang Chao has been staring at it.

In the first quarter of the game, he basically didn't shoot much, but just pulled space on the outside to contain the Heat's defense, and all four outside players of the Magic team were pulled out to the outside, completely vacating the entire interior space, providing the necessary prerequisite for Howard's interior attack.

But as the Heat's offensive firepower gradually increased, Wang Chao also began to participate in the offense.

First, he hit a pull-up three-point shot from outside the three-point line, and then with the help of his teammates, James rushed into the basket with the ball and scored a layup.

Wang Chao scored five points in a row to understate, directly forcing the Heat to call a timeout to adjust.

"Sure enough, the connoisseur will know if there is one as soon as he makes a move!" Director Zhang said with a smile: "Wang Chao is already a blockbuster if he doesn't make a sound, and he caught the Heat team off guard!" His scoring ability is really getting more and more perfect, it looks like an ordinary offensive method, but scoring is easy, and even James has no way to take Wang Chao. ”

After the Heat team's pause and adjustment, they tried to launch a counterattack several times to catch up with the score, but Wang Chao sat firmly in the middle of the army, and every time he was able to suppress the signs of the Heat team's chasing points through his own score.

Before the halftime was over, the Magic team entered the second half with an eight-point advantage at 56:48.

Wang Chao's performance in the first half was decent, shooting 5-of-8, including 2-of-4 three-pointers and 2-of-2 free throws, scoring 14 points.

Howard, on the other hand, had 22 points and eight rebounds on 9-of-15 shooting.

On the Heat's side, the Big Three of Wade, James, and Bosh scored 17 points, 12 points, and 10 points in the first half, respectively.

In the process of the game, Wang Chao can feel that James, like him, has always had spare strength, and it is estimated that the other party has the same idea as him, that is, to decide the winner in the third and fourth quarters.

Therefore, when the third quarter of the game began and the main forces of the two sides reappeared, Wang Chao said to James in the offensive round. "I'm going to start working hard, can you keep up?"

James was slightly stunned and looked at Wang Chao.

At the same time, Wang Chao suddenly exerted his strength, accelerated the breakthrough with the ball, James hurriedly adjusted his pace to keep up, but Wang Chao rushed to the free throw line and braked and stopped at the same time to jump and shoot.

Although James stopped at the first time and jumped to interfere, the two already had a large defensive distance at this time, and James, who could not form an effective interference, could only watch Wang Chao hit the shot steadily.

However, James is not a vegetarian, and he heard Wang Chao's provocative words just now.

"Want to compare? That's one to the other! ”

Although James has never been a scorer, his scoring ability is historic, stable and efficient for decades, and he will even surpass Abdul-Jabbar to become the league's all-time scoring record holder in the future, which shows his strong scoring ability.

James, who wants to get the ball, directly singles Wang Chao.

Wang Chao's defensive ability is not what it used to be, but it is obviously still not enough to defend James.

It is also a breakthrough with the ball on the outside, James's breakthrough is more direct and pure than Wang Chao, it is a perfect combination of strength and speed, although he was not able to pass Wang Chao in one step, but James began to accelerate in the middle of the range, relying on the advantage of strength to knock Wang Chao straight to the basket, and then forced the ball to score in the face of Howard's supplementary defense, and the whistle sounded at the same time, 2+1!

James, who succeeded in 1 hit 2, roared to the sky and celebrated the success of the offense with the classic overlord step.

It's just that he couldn't hit the free throw line and turned 2+1 into 2+0.

The moment the free throw was missed, Howard rose high, grabbed the defensive rebound, and then threw it straight in the direction of the frontcourt.

On the other side, Wang Chao had already taken the lead and rushed towards the Heat halfcourt.

"Fast attack from Wang Chao! His speed is so fast, only Wade has time to defend on the Heat's side. ”

The fast-paced offense and defense made the narrator's speech speed faster.

Wang, who received the ball smoothly, did not slow down and went straight to the Heat basket.

Wade retreated, while preoccupying the direction of Wang Chao's offense, trying to cut the basketball before Wang Chao's offense to block this fast break.

But how could Wang Chao, who has the talent of a ball handler, be easily tackled head-on?

Wang, who had already rushed to the free throw line, directly combined the ball with a variation of Wade's signature European step, and then sent the basketball to the basket with one hand.

"Beware!"

At this moment, Wang Chao's teammates not far away shouted loudly to remind him.

At the same time, a strong wind blew behind Wang Chao, James came out from behind, and the whole person rose into the air, like a peng spreading its wings, and he was about to give Wang Chao a top hat from behind!

But this is also expected by Wang Chao, he knows that James will not give up defense easily, at least the current James is not the old Zhan who spreads his hands on the defensive end in the future.

The basketball sent to the basket was grabbed and taken back by Wang Chao, with a stiff waist and abdomen, strong core strength and stagnation, Wang Chao actually stayed in the air for another moment, avoiding James to block and then pull the lever to score a layup.

Gifted skills! Skywalk!

James fell from the sky in surprise and looked back at Wang Chao.

Wang Chao's current air combat ability is no weaker than Jordan Kobe!

(End of chapter)