Chapter 1124: Destroying Magic

Xu Jicheng said at this time: "But Tiechui has too few rebounds in these few games. If he is on the outside, his data will be lost a lot."

Zhang Heli said: "But he is on the outside, he stopped the opponent's spearhead, so the Suns won a lot in these few games, averaging more than 30 points more than the opponent, so it is understandable to sacrifice some data."

At this time, the Suns' defending slogan sounded at the Magic's home court Amway Center. It was too arrogant and immediately attracted huge boos from the Magic fans.

Zhang Heli laughed and said: "This is an old tradition of the Suns. Wherever they go, they provoke."

"It's Tiechui's tradition. The Suns didn't have it before." Yu Jia laughed.

At this time, the game started, Li Ba jumped the ball, Howard won, and the Magic attacked.

Point guard Nelson advanced two steps and saw Redick running to the right wing three-point line. Ginobili was still one step away, so he immediately passed it to him. The latter received the ball and faced Ginobili's defense and made a three-pointer.

Li Ba didn't even look at the ball under the basket, and moved to position with all his strength.

Through the locking technique, he predicted that the ball would not hit the target and bounced to the right side of the basket, so he blocked Howard.

"Bang!"

The basketball hit the basket and Li Ba grabbed the rebound.

In order to prevent the Suns from playing a fast break, all four Magic outside players returned to defense.

With the rebound in hand, the Suns have the initiative. Whether it is a positional battle or a fast break, Li Ba chose a positional battle.

Playing against the Magic, positional battles should not be too simple. Li Ba and Alian gathered under the basket, and the Magic could only be dumbfounded, because the Magic's power forward Lewis had no ability to fight at all, and the Suns easily took the advantage under the basket.

Rondo made a bold pass, Li Ba received the ball, attracted Howard's defense, and passed it to Alian, who directly jumped up and dunked the Magic Beast and scored a goal.

2:0, the Suns led.

After the offense and defense transition, the three guards of the Magic immediately went down and played a fast break.

The Suns were very experienced in defending against fast breaks. Rondo, Ginobili and Tony Allen immediately caught up with the other three defenders. Yi Jianlian caught up with the slow Lewis, and Li Ba stood behind the baseline to prevent Howard from sending the ball quickly.

In this way, the Magic could not send the ball out.

Point guard Nelson, who had just rushed across the midline, saw that the ball could not be sent out and had to come back to receive it.

At this time, Li Ba "saw" someone coming back, and immediately deliberately left a gap to give Howard and that person a chance to pass the ball.

So, under the pressure of the five-second violation, Howard immediately passed the ball.

"Snap!"

Li Ba dug a pit successfully and stole the ball smoothly.

"Bang!"

The next second, Li Ba turned and rushed into the basket and smashed the basket successfully.

4:0, the Suns led.

On the sidelines, Magic head coach Van Gundy saw it and quickly signaled not to fast break, but to play a positional battle.

The Magic attacked, and this time they started to play a positional battle quietly. After advancing to the frontcourt, Vince Carter asked for the ball outside the left three-point line.

After getting the ball, Carter was immediately subjected to Tony Allen's death-entanglement defense.

One of the Suns' defensive principles on the perimeter is that when Li Ba is in the paint area, they will only defend against shots and passes, not against breakthroughs.

Carter is no longer the Carter of his peak period. He mostly solves problems with outside shots. Moreover, with Li Ba in the paint area, he will not break through, so he immediately made a fake breakthrough and shot a real shot. He first used a turnaround breakthrough to shake off Tony Allen, and then turned around for a three-point jump shot.

Li Ba's prediction was not good, but his prediction of the landing point was a little wrong, and he didn't get into position, so the rebound was grabbed by the Warcraft.

At this time, Howard jumped up for the second time, carrying Li Ba with his right hand, grabbing the ball with his left hand, and smashing the basket with one arm.

But his upper limb strength could not withstand Li Ba at all. Li Ba then jumped up, swept his right arm, and slapped the ball when the ball was about to be smashed into the basket.

The ball rose up, hit the backboard and bounced back.

Li Ba's fly-catching action has become an instinct. With a quick reaction, his right palm, which had just completed the block, grabbed the ball.

"I said that Howard can't deal with the hammer under the basket. This is the biggest weakness of the Magic's one-star four-shooting tactics." Barkley said.

"That's what I said." Kenny Smith said.

"Kenny, we are together, yours is mine." Barkley said with a smile.

Kenny Smith was stunned and nodded, but seeing that Barkley didn't say the next sentence, he quickly asked: "What's next?"

"Mine is still mine." Barkley laughed.

"Charles, you sly guy."

The two laughed, and Kenny Smith laughed and scolded.

In the offense and defense transition, the Suns still played a positional war.

After one quarter, the Beast was beaten to a slump.

He didn't have a defensive rebound in the whole quarter, grabbed two offensive rebounds, and both secondary attacks were blocked by Li Ba, and he didn't score a single point.

15:30, the Suns just won twice.

Under the Suns' perimeter defense, the Magic's perimeter touch was only average, and their offensive efficiency was average, while the Suns focused on the interior. Li Ba and A-Lin teamed up to blow up the interior combination of Magic and Lewis.

Li Ba made 4 of 5 shots and 2 of 3 free throws in a single quarter, scoring 10 points, 8 rebounds, 4 assists, 2 steals and 3 blocks.

Of his 4 assists, two went to A-Lin and two went to Ginobili.

A-Lin made 4 of 5 shots and 2 of 4 free throws next to Li Ba, also scoring 10 points, and also had 2 rebounds, 1 assist, 1 block and 1 foul.

In the second quarter, the Suns came off the bench and the Magic played half of their main players.

In this quarter, Gasol and Yao Ming came off the bench, and the double tower tactics continued to blow up the Magic in the interior. Even when Howard came on in the second half, he was still blown up by Yao Ming.

At the end of the first half, 35:55, the Suns led by 20 points.

Barkley shook his head and said, "The Magic have a traditional super center like Howard in the interior, but in comparison, the Suns' interior advantage is still too big."

Kenny Smith said, "That's for sure. The Suns' interior is the interior of the Chinese national team. Do you think they won two consecutive Olympic championships for nothing? Although Howard is a super center, he was beaten to pieces by China's three major interiors in the Beijing Olympics. I can say now that in the entire league, no team's interior can beat the Suns."

Barkley smiled and said, "Yes, not to mention that Yao has recovered and played at the level of a superstar again, even if he performs poorly, with the interior combination of Hammer, Yi and Gasol, Still invincible in the paint area of ​​the league. "

Kenny Smith said: "Yao's performance is good. The Suns have been controlling his playing time and rarely let him fight in the low post. This is definitely for his health.

Although stress fractures are troublesome, as long as the playing time is controlled and the low post confrontation is reduced, there should be no problem. Yao's health is a huge guarantee for the Suns in the playoffs. "

"He is almost 30 years old, but his condition is still good. This is because his playing style is technical. The Rockets asked him to gain weight to 140 kilograms, but he refused. Now it seems that this is right. With his skills, he can still become a top center. "Barkley said.