McGrady stepped into the opening game with great expectations for the new season, confidence with stronger teammates, and a fighting spirit to prove that he could do it alone. After less than half a quarter, he

I discovered...what the hell are these people on the team?

Juwan Howard, the billionaire Mr. I agreed? Tyronn Lue, the defensive leader who promised to stop Iverson from crying? DeShawn Stevenson, the defensive gatekeeper?

Not only was Juwan Howard blocked by Rasheed Wallace on the offensive end, but during the official timeout, Liu Mang, Ratliff, and Raheem left the game, and the Eagles replaced Stockton and Jason Terry.

After the lineup of Prince, Boozer, and Rasheed Wallace, Stockton and Boozer's pick-and-roll made Juwan Howard shoot like crazy. Juwan Howard was switched to center, and Rasheed

It's time for De Wallace to perform.

Stockton clearly understands the power of Rasheed Wallace in low singles. This is an authentic technical inside post. It is much easier than before when Rasheed played the opponent's power forward in singles. Not to mention several times in a row, there was another time.

Facing Juwan Howard's dunk, he beat Juwan Howard into doubting his life.

After Kwame Brown, the parallel No. 1 pick, replaced Rasheed Wallace, he was able to defend Juwan Howard continuously. As he continued to fight, McGrady discovered that the most reliable teammate was actually the one he watched last season.

The rookie who is not very good, the current second-year Drew Gooden! The other signings are bullshit!

This year's Magic team is destined to be a tragedy. Hill continues to be injured, and so many role players have been introduced at large prices. The salary has exploded. The key is that most of these players are over-the-top, especially Juwan Howard, the billionaire man. As an NBA player,

The first player in history to earn an annual salary of tens of millions, Jordan, who earned more than 3 million and had a record of 72 wins, ridiculed him.

McGrady was forced to start his personal offensive mode again, but first of all, the Hawks' interior defense was simply terrible. On the outside, Raheem and Prince, two tall and long-armed guys, especially Prince, were actually better defensively than Raheem.

Better yet, Rahim relies on impact and Prince's skills. As soon as McGrady adapted to Rahim's defense, Prince came again.

Not only that, the gap between his teammates and the first half of last season is also obvious. Last year, the Magic once ranked fourth in the Eastern Conference, relying on Mike Miller and other excellent three-pointers. Although Tyronn Lue is also accurate in three-pointers,

But he played with Kobe and Jordan. He always dribbled the ball across the corner of the court and waited for a shot. There were not so many moves. The Magic's record collapsed in the second half of last season, largely because of Mike Miller.

Was traded away.

Partnering with McGrady is actually simple. Either there is a pitcher like Mike Miller, or there is a strong inside line, or simply don't let McGrady be the core. As long as Hill is healthy, McGrady and Carter will play together.

It's very good.

But the Magic have nothing now. It seems that the lineup is much more luxurious than last year, but in fact it is completely mismatched. There is no one inside who can score. Juwan Howard was almost crying when he was guarded by Rasheed Wallace.

It's just that Gooden occasionally made a shot, and it wasn't reliable at all.

Outside Tyronn Lue or Rod Strickland and DeShawn Stevenson who came on the bench, at any rate, open shots can contain an opponent's defensive player, and the rookie Gaines simply made McGrady also

I'm going to cry. A 1.98-meter shooting guard was intercepted consecutively when facing Jason Terry!

McGrady himself was being defended in a wheel-and-wheel battle, and his teammates were unable to help him at all. As a result, McGrady couldn't even take care of his own offense.

On the other hand, the Eagles have a clear goal. The ball is concentrated in the hands of three players or combinations: Liu Mang, Stockton and Boozer, and Jason Terry. With defense as the core, every time a player is replaced, the ball is controlled.

The way the Eagles play is different.

When Liu Mang was here, the triangle offense position was specifically focused on Tyronn Lue. When it was replaced by McGrady to defend, Liu Mang would pull out the pick-and-roll.

When we got to Stockton, we focused on pick-and-roll offense.

Jason Terry just shoots happily with everyone, as long as we can defend him.

From the beginning, McGrady was full of confidence, then became confused about his teammates, and then became desperate for his teammates. He started to take crazy shots. He threw 37 times in three quarters, including 16 three-pointers, and only made 5.

, shot 14 of 37, a field goal percentage of 38%, and scored 38 points in the three quarters.

But McGrady’s field goals were actually the highest on the Magic team except for DeShawn Stevenson, who took the fewest shots. The Magic team’s field goal percentage was only 35%! At the end of the third quarter, the Eagles

Already 34 points ahead 89 to 55!

That is, except for McGrady, everyone else only scored 17 points!

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Liu Mang watched McGrady go from being high-spirited before the start of the game to sitting on the bench in a daze in the fourth quarter. He felt sad for McGrady for a few seconds, and then he ignored McGrady and focused on cheering for his teammates.

Liu Mang was not optimistic about the Magic this year at all. The Magic's management recruitment is always so unpredictable. Originally, Gooden was just a blue-collar guy who could make mid-range shots and rebounds, and his shooting was not accurate.

, the defense is still poor, but now we have brought back a billionaire man who has long been proven to be worth a lot of money.

Putting aside the fact that Juwan Howard is only a bad post-up player, his rebounding is average, his mid-range shot is fairly accurate, and his defense is basically a black hole. This is basically the same as another Gooden.

Xia Tian took the money and didn't go for Cassel. He might as well pursue Van Horn. If he wanted to chase the inside, he would need someone with the ability to attack tough situations. However, Magic Du Leng did the opposite and only looked at fame.

The Magic have ambitious goals this year, but are destined to end up disappointing.

So instead of comforting McGrady, Liu Mang went and said... Is this the beginning of your suffering this season? There will be more tragic things waiting for you in the future?

In the final quarter, Stockton brought Boozer up to continue the "run-in", and brought Korver, Calderon, and Kwame Brown up to train the new teammates, mainly to get a few more assists.

Since he has to play for another year and unfortunately did not reach 16,000 assists last year, Stockton plans to refresh his record this year and increase the gap with Magic's total assists to more than 6,000.

Although the assists per game are not as good as Magic's, in terms of total assists, Stockton has to leave Magic far behind.

However, although Lao Buxiu went up to get assists, Stockton asked his teammates not to guard so tightly and just fight against each other to save some face for the opponent.

In the end, the Hawks slaughtered the Magic 118-90 and won their first victory of the season.

Liu Mang played 19 minutes and easily scored 21 points, 6 rebounds and 2 assists on 8 of 13 shots. His score was already the highest for the Hawks. Eight players from the Hawks scored in double figures. In the second half, the Magic, except McGrady, were still struggling.

, in fact, there is no ability to resist anymore. 11 of the 12 players on the active roster of the Eagles have appeared on the court.

The second highest scorer was Jason Terry, with 18 points.

In terms of assists, apart from Stockton’s 8 assists, the second highest one is Raheem’s 6 assists!

Ratliff didn't play long, only 14 minutes, and didn't play in the second half. Otherwise, with the strength shown by the Magic and the Hawks' full defense, the point difference at the end of the three quarters might have been even more terrifying.

Raheem scored 10 points, 11 rebounds and 6 assists, and Rasheed Wallace scored 13 points, 6 rebounds and 5 assists. Both of them focused on defense and passing. On the offensive end, they mainly focused on widening the space for mid-range shots.

, announced to people their positioning in the new season, and also gave a shot in the arm to their teammates.

They don't care about statistics, they just want to win!

Especially Rasheed Wallace, he has to prove that he can control his temper, and he is not defenseless! He just can't care about the offense when he is defending. He just can't be the first scorer in the Trail Blazers.

Point, if his teammates can score, he will focus on the defensive end, and the defense will be very strong!

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The Eagles played a dominant role in the opening game, played good team defense, and played a more unrestrained offense than last season.

The goal required by the Eagles in the first game was to break people's doubts, so they went all out from the beginning, especially after Mike Woodson saw Rasheed Wallace unexpectedly play such a good single defense effect,

The frontcourt trio was organized into an iron bucket formation.

The main ones are Prince, Raheem, Rasheed Wallace, and Ratliff. The other four are Muhammad who has enough experience but is relatively weak, and Kwame who is talented but lacks experience and ability.

Brown can only become a substitute.

The Eagles tried to alternately put Prince and Raheem at the small forward position, and the defensive effect on Tracy McGrady was excellent. This gave Mike Woodson new ideas about the team's defensive system.

Slowly experiment and make choices during the next game.

The Hawks are not worried about not making it to the playoffs. They are very confident about this, so there are many games in the regular season that can be used to test the strengthening of the defensive system, such as the second half of the game against the Magic.

Killing the Magic with a 28-point advantage in the first game, the Hawks really surprised people!

Especially Juwan Howard's performance of 1 of 15 shots from the field, which simply refreshed people's perspective. Most of the time, Juwan Howard was guarded by Rasheed Wallace, and Juwan Howard was guarded third.

I didn't dare to take action during the second half of the festival.

For a time, the media changed from singing about the aging Eagles to praising this signing, especially because two of Rasheed Wallace's four fouls were habitually whistled by the referee, but Rasheed

-Wallace didn't vent his anger on complaints, but on Juwan Howard.

The main thing is that Rasheed Wallace's defense is so surprising, it feels like he is completely different!

48 hours after the Hawks defeated the Magic in the opening game, public opinion was very friendly to the Hawks. Except for some people who doubted how long Rasheed Wallace's defensive perseverance and patient temper could last, most people were optimistic about the Hawks.

The team has some different views on recruiting this time than before.

But this public opinion was favorable to the Hawks for less than 48 hours...and the change in public opinion had nothing to do with the Hawks...

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Chapter completed!