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"Michael looked very embarrassed. Did something happen? It seemed that the Orlando fans around him said something to him." Kenny Smith said with a smile.

"Hey Kenny, I don't have to use my brain to know what they would say to MJ, like 'Thank you for giving Wood to us.', 'Without your vision we wouldn't have Wood.' Do you think I'm right?

?I bet this is not the most embarrassing moment for him tonight, there will be more later." Charles Barkley smiled exaggeratedly.

At this time, the referee blew his whistle and the starting players from both sides came on stage.

"The game is finally about to begin. Orlando's lineup has undergone some changes compared to before. Chris did not appear in the starting lineup. On the contrary, Grant, who has served as the team's sixth man for most of the season, reappeared in the starting lineup.

Hido has moved to the power forward position, which may be a test for Chicago. Other than that, Orlando's position has not changed. The backcourt is composed of the rookie combination of Kelana and Wood." Kenny Smith looked at the Magic players.

said.

The Bulls' starting lineup is center Ben Wallace, power forward Noccioni, small forward Luol Deng, and backcourt double-gunners Ben Gordon and Kirk Hinrich.

Scott Skiles didn't expect Stan Van Gundy to change his formation. Of course he knew that Turkoglu's existence was to allow Nocioni to defend and open up space for Howard. Skiles glanced at

Stan Van Gundy, who was standing on the court, said: "Are you so confident that Howard can handle Ben by himself?"

A disdainful smile flashed across Skiles's lips. In his opinion, Stan Van Gundy's formation this time would be a self-inflicted mistake. Noccioni was able to pull out No. 3 and No. 4 to defend at all.

No problem. And Ben Wallace must have no problem taking care of Howard on his own.

Skiles' self-confidence is also incomprehensible to many people, and Barkley disagrees even more.

"To be honest, I don't understand why Stan made such an arrangement. Does he think that Dwight, who can score 20 points this season, can beat G-Ben? This adjustment of the starting lineup is a stupid idea in my opinion.

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Does Stan currently hope that Dwight will evolve into Hakeem and equip him with four shooters to win the O'Brien Trophy? Needless to say, Dwight will never be able to become Hakeem, just now.

Look at Michael's expression, it's obvious that he is very grateful to Stan for this arrangement, but Stan is not a fool, and once Dwight is in a disadvantage, he will not be stingy about adjusting the lineup." Barkley said.

Needless to say, Barkley looks down on the current Howard, and even Howard's own fans have little confidence in Stan Van Gundy's arrangement this time.

As the whistle blew, the referee Bavetta threw the ball in his hand.

There was no suspense about the jump ball. Howard passed the ball to Lin Sen. After Lin Sen received the ball, Kirk Hinrich quickly came forward.

At the beginning of this season, the Chicago Bulls solved the interior defensive problems that had plagued the team in the past two seasons. They signed Ben Wallace with a four-year, 60 million contract. The Bulls not only improved their defense, but also improved their rebounding strength.

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Before the season even started, it was generally believed that there wouldn't be much of a problem ranking among the top three in the Eastern Conference. Everyone believed that as long as the Bulls got through without any problems, they would reach the semifinals and become a strong contender for the Eastern Conference championship.

And this is exactly the case. Defense has become the label of the Bulls. The Bulls' opponents only averaged 93.3 points per game.

The Magic played against the Bulls four times in the regular season, two of which occurred after Lin Sen joined the team. The Magic and Bulls drew 1:1. In both games, Hinrich was unable to play due to injury, so this is still Lin Sen.

First time against Hinrich.

Howard's performance was very poor both times. He was completely guarded by Ben Wallace.

Lin Sen watched Hinrich coming forward, and he dribbled the ball behind his back and dodged Hinrich at the same time.

Hinrich, as Stan Van Gundy reminded Linson, is a severely underestimated defender. Linson just dodged Hinrich, and Hinrich regained his position as quickly as possible.

Lin Sen's quick reaction and strong defensive ability were revealed in just one opening.

Lin Sen was not in a hurry and waited patiently for his teammates to get into position. Just like everyone saw with the Magic's starting lineup, Turkoglu pulled one step away from the three-point line in the corner, and Nocchioni was responsible for guarding him.

He was also taken out.

Grant Hill stood at a high position of about 50 degrees to the left, very close to Turkoglu, while Linsen was about 30 degrees to the right at the top of the arc, and Azubuike was pulled to the bottom of the right side.

near the corner.

This position allowed the Bulls' defense to be completely stretched out. Only Howard and Ben Wallace existed inside, making the entire inside line look particularly empty.

The distance between Hinrich and Lin Sen was very small. He knew that Lin Sen's three-pointers, especially those inexplicable three-pointers, were particularly powerful, so Hinrich did not dare to let Lin Sen go too loose.

Howard, who was inside, ran towards Lin Sen. Ben Wallace just pulled out of the three-second zone and ignored Howard.

Lin Sen dribbled the ball quickly when Howard pulled him out, leaned forward suddenly, then turned around and took the ball directly to the top of the key.

Hinrich quickly turned around to pursue the defense, but Howard, who was running towards Lin Sen's original position, suddenly turned around and ran towards the middle, still looking like he was ready to cover for Lin Sen.

Ben Wallace didn't think much about it, but at this moment Lin Sen's dribbling left hand suddenly picked up the ball, and the ball flew directly over Lin Sen's own head and over Hinrich's head. To be precise,

Hinrich had no idea that the ball flew over Linsen and his head.

Howard, who was originally running towards the middle, suddenly turned back. Only then did Ben Wallace realize that Lin Sen and Howard were preparing to make an alley-oop, but when Ben Wallace turned around, Howard had already jumped up.

"Oh, Wood's sudden pass, this really came too suddenly, Dwight's chance, an easy scoring chance!" Kenny Smith shouted.

Howard grabbed the ball in front of him with both hands in the air, turned sideways and faced the basket, pulled the ball down with his right hand and swung it towards the basket again.

Bang!

Howard leaned sideways and grabbed the basket with his right hand. His entire body formed an arch.

The fans at the Water House Center who had just reacted suddenly cheered.

"A beautiful alley-oop. Dwight's dunk was also very exciting. He didn't miss the forward players at all." Kenny Smith praised.

Barkley next to Kenny Smith said with a smile: "Obviously Wood had planned this ball for a long time. The ball was passed so suddenly that it was completely unexpected, so neither Kirk nor Ben could make it.

It took me a moment to react.”

Skiles didn't care. After all, Howard's alley-oop was only two points. If it was a critical moment, it might affect morale, but the game had just begun at this moment.

Ben Wallace passed the ball to Hinrich, who quickly dribbled the ball forward.

Back to the Bulls on the offensive end. The two strongest points are undoubtedly Luol Deng and Ben Gordon.

Ben Gordon has increased his personal scoring average to 21 points this season. In his third year, he has made countless people believe in his ability at least on the offensive end, especially his twitchy hands that made him and Jr.

Smith also carries the name of a nerve knife. Of course, once Ben Gordon enters the state, the opponent will undoubtedly be the most unlucky.

Another point is Luol Deng. He and Ben Gordon are the Bulls' full-time players in the regular season this season, averaging 19 points per game for the Bulls.

When they defeated the Toronto Raptors in the first round of the playoffs, it was because of his and Ben Gordon's outstanding performance that the Bulls were able to defeat the Raptors and advance.

Hinrich, who came to the frontcourt, also handed the ball directly to Luol Deng. Grant Hill was responsible for defending Luol Deng.

In terms of height and weight, Luol Dun is the same as Grant Hill. The only difference is that they are 13 years apart. Facing the young and energetic Luol Dun, Hill's defense is still at a disadvantage despite his hard work.

disadvantage.

Just when Azubuike wanted to go up and help defend, Ben Gordon suddenly turned around and started. The ball in Luol Deng's hand also flew over immediately.

Azubuike immediately turned around to pursue the defense, but Ben Gordon didn't even pause after receiving the ball and just turned over and shot.

However, Ben Gordon's touch was not good this time, and he hit the basket for the first time.

Howard and Ben Wallace are competing for position. Although Howard is younger and has better physical fitness, he cannot take advantage of Ben Wallace at all.

Just when Ben Wallace was about to get the rebound, Azubuike rushed inside and took the ball out.

Lin Sen accelerated and got the ball from Azubuike.

"Dwight is obviously not as good as Ben in rebounding. Even though Ben is his age, rebounding relies not only on physical fitness." Kenny Smith said.

Howard, who didn't grab a defensive rebound, shook his head and ran forward in long strides.

Although the Bulls' defense was very good, they had a weak spot in Ben Gordon, which directly led to Skiles putting Ben Gordon on the bench for the team's defense in the last 25 games of the regular season until the season.

Ben Gordon was put back into the starting lineup after the game.

It is more about relying on Ben Gordon's offensive ability to prevent the Bulls from being passively behind at the beginning, but this arrangement also allows the Bulls' defense to give their opponents an opportunity.

And this time Lin Sen took advantage of Ben Gordon's poor defense to tear apart the Bulls' defense.

"Oh, Ben Gordon's defense was out of position, and Kelana easily tore the defense apart." Kenny Smith shouted, and the ball in Linsen's hand flew past Kenny Smith's words.

The moment the ball was passed, Lin Sen started running to the other side at the same time.

Hinrich did not cover up Azubuike but chose to chase Linsen. Howard on the inside pulled out and stood directly on the right side of the top of the arc, just in time to set up an off-ball screen for Linsen. At this time, Azubuike

Ke also attracted Ben Wallace's complementary defense.

Azubuike did not directly challenge Ben Wallace's defense but directly passed the ball to Turkoglu. Turkoglu quickly distributed the ball to Linsen, who used Howard's screen to temporarily get rid of Hinrich.

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Linsen passed the ball directly after receiving the ball. Nocchioni, who was guarding Turkoglu, immediately threw away Turkoglu and came up to cover, but the Bulls rotated quickly on the outside.

Lin Sen was not surprised when he saw this scene, because he discovered this while studying bull videos these days.

"Dwight!" Lin Sen shouted, and Howard, who was covering for him last night, immediately knew what Lin Sen was thinking.

Lin Sen threw the ball with his right hand before Noccioni came up to defend.

"Wood passes the ball again!" Kenny Smith shouted, and the ball left Lin Sen's fingers and flew directly to the backboard.

Boom!

The ball hit the backboard and bounced directly toward Howard, who turned down. Howard jumped up in front of the ball as it bounced.

Charles Barkley looked at Howard jumping towards the ball and said: "I have a very bad description. Dwight is like a very hungry dog ​​at the moment. The ball thrown by Wood is like a very tempting stick."
To be continued...