At the end of the third quarter, the Washington Wizards, playing at home, only led the Magic by 1 point.

Eddie Jordan frowned deeply. How could he not see that Lin Sen's style of play was clearly preparing for the fourth quarter, especially when Lin Sen sat on the bench early with five minutes left in the third quarter?

On the table.

The team is now only 1 point ahead of the Magic. There is still a full quarter left in the game.

Eddie Jordan glanced at Arenas who was sitting on the bench and felt very depressed. Xia Tian finally used a 100 million yuan contract to keep Arenas, but the result turned out to be like this.

After the start of the fourth quarter, Sam Cassell and Devin Brown became the Magic's backcourt. This backcourt lineup had much less impact, and the Wizards also seized the opportunity to make a few plays.

Stan Van Gundy was not worried at all when looking at the score difference, and still left Lin Sen and others on the bench.

The game was still going on. Eddie Jordan looked at the Magic bench on the other side of the technical table from time to time. Antoine Jamison also stayed on the bench, leaving Caron Butler on the court.

When the time came to the last seven minutes, Stan Van Gundy turned around and walked to the bench.

"Wood, Chauncey, Darko, Dwight, how do you feel?" Stan Van Gundy asked with a smile.

On the court, Caron Butler was facing Sean Battier's defense. Caron Butler, who was holding the ball with his back under Battier's defense, hit the ball with his back and slapped the ball.

Battier forced his way in from the baseline.

"Caron successfully broke through and hit the inside line along the baseline!" the local Washington radio commentator shouted excitedly.

Caron Butler, who got rid of Battier, was not afraid of Eddie Griffin's defense. He forcefully sent the ball into the basket under Eddie Griffin's defense.

Roar!

Caron Butler waved his arms and roared. Crazy cheers rang out from the center of the fan club.

With Caron Butler's goal, the Wizards reopened the point difference to 7 points.

"Orlando requested a timeout. It looks like they are going to make substitutions. Here comes the real test we face!" The on-site commentator looked at the sidelines with some worry.

After a short pause of 20 seconds, Linson, Artest, Billups and Milicic appeared on the court, while Howard waited a while before entering the court.

At this time, there were almost six minutes left before the end of the game, and Lin Sen had just passed the half-time with the ball.

Stevenson defended again, this time Stevenson's defense was tenacious.

Carrying Stevenson's body, Lin Sen pulled the ball.

With this pull, space appeared between the two of them.

Lin Sen quickly raised his right hand, and Darko Milicic, who was inside, saw Lin Sen's gesture and understood immediately. He didn't need to go up to cover Lin Sen.

Milicic turned around and ran towards the 45-degree mid-range position on the right side of the basket. Milicic shot from mid-range, which made Haywood dare not be careless. When he saw Milicic running out, he immediately followed and defended.

The departure of Milicic and Brandon Haywood suddenly left the inside line looking empty.

Stevenson also wanted to force Lin Sen. Looking at Lin Sen who was hunched over and lowering his center of gravity, Stevenson could only stare closely and was unable to defend himself.

Lin Sen continuously performed cross steps, swatted the ball with his left hand, and turned his body directly to the right.

Stevenson reacted immediately to Linsen's action. Linsen saw that Stevenson's defensive focus changed.

Quickly pull the ball back and then accelerate directly to start.

Bang!

Lin Sen's body collided with Stevenson's chest, and Lin Sen staggered slightly.

Then Stevenson was left behind, and Stevenson's defense also failed.

After throwing away Steven Linson and rushing directly to the inside, Antoine Jamieson immediately chose to throw away Eddie Griffin and defend Linson.

Looking at Jamison's defense, Lin Sen glanced at the Wizards' defense change. The Wizards' defense change was not timely.

After Lin Sen made a fake pass to Milicic on the left, he threw the ball directly. The next second, Eddie Griffin was hanging on the basket.

"We gave Wood Lin too many alley-oop passing opportunities. Our air defense was always buzzing above our airspace. The defense inside was really bad. If we want to go further, we must defend the inside." Wizards' commentary.

The member said very depressedly.

In his impression, in this game, only four or five of Lin Sen's passes directly turned into alley-oops, and he remembered it correctly.

So far in this game, Lin Sen has only scored 10 points, but he has sent out 11 assists, 5 of which directly turned into alley-oops.

With this alley-oop cooperation, the Magic narrowed the point difference to 5 points.

Caron Butler once again chose to attack. However, this time he failed. Under Artest's defense, he finally chose to pass the ball. Although Jamison's inside attack was not blocked, he finally shot and hit the basket.

When the ball came out, Milicic grabbed a defensive rebound.

Milicic handed the ball to Lin Sen, who received the ball steadily without rushing forward.

After arriving in the frontcourt, I looked at the positions of my teammates. In this game, Lin Sen gave the impression that the offensive end was not very strong on his own.

The gesture was made again. Milicic saw Linsen's gesture and immediately pulled to the outside.

Lin Sen waited until Milicic was about to stand firm, and then Lin Sen moved.

The speed increased to the highest level in an instant. The side of his body collided with Stevenson, and then slightly knocked away Stevenson.

Lin Sen used Milicic's cover to rush directly to the inside. Stevenson avoided Milicic and then chose to chase Lin Sen again.

Haywood, who came out to defend Milicic, also defended Linsen. However, Linsen jumped up when he took a step outside the collision area. Without looking behind him, he threw the ball behind his head with his right hand.

"Damn, pass back! Defense!" Eddie Jordan shouted in a low voice.

It was like Lin Sen had eyes on the back of his head. He passed the ball back to Milicic.

This is one of the Magic's offensive tactics this season. Milicic screens and then passes back and shoots.

When Stevenson hurriedly turned around to defend Milicic, it was too late, and he could only watch Milicic calmly shoot the basketball in his hand.

Whoosh!

The basketball finally got into the basket cleanly, and the Magic chased down the deficit to only 3 points.

The game continued, and after Howard came on the court, the Wizards' defense was even more stretched. With two minutes left in the game, Lin Sen's throw helped the Magic take the lead.

Billups controls the ball. Now he doesn't have much time to control the ball. He mainly controls the ball for Lin Sen.

Billups gestured. The Magic players quickly started running, and the back-and-forth screens and pick-and-roll movements immediately disrupted the Wizards' line.

Eddie Jordan was very worried. After all, the Wizards were lagging behind. If the ball could not be defended, the game would probably end here.

Butler was not disrupted by the Magic's offensive tactics because his eyes stayed on Lin Sen. When Lin Sen tried to run out of space, Butler moved.

"Be careful!" Billups immediately warned when he saw Butler rushing up after passing the ball to Linsen.

Lin Sen didn't pay attention at first. After hearing Billups' words, he immediately accelerated toward the ball. After winning the ball, Lin Sen seemed to be in a hurry to attack.

He directly raised the ball, and Butler, who was following closely behind him, jumped up, waved his big hand and went straight to the ball in Lin Sen's hand.

Dwight Howard ran from the inside to the mid-range and took Jamison out. At this time, Milicic revealed a gap.

Lin Sen threw the ball directly towards the basket, and Butler's hand was blown into the air.

"Inside!"

Butler's reminder was a little late.

Milicic, who was outside the three-second zone, jumped up in front of the basketball, pushed the ball into the basket with one hand, and pulled the basket hard to drop it to a significant height.

During the transition between offense and defense, as soon as Daniels dribbled the ball into the frontcourt, Butler shouted to Daniels to pass the ball.

Daniels did not dare to disagree with Butler's request and immediately passed the ball.

Artest's attention was immediately drawn. Who in the entire league dares to underestimate Butler's lethality? Artest's height advantage and flexibility are his biggest strengths.

At this moment, Artest wanted to cover Butler directly in his defense. He had seen all kinds of defenses for Butler.

Butler calmly protected the ball with his back to Artest, then suddenly made a collision and used his own speed to pull the ball and turn around, leaving Artest behind.

As soon as he passed Artest, Lin Sen pressed forward, and Howard on the inside also pulled him out with eager eyes. Artest, who was thrown away by him, also turned around and chased after him.

Butler leaned directly on Lin Sen and cut inside. Butler relied on his strength to squeeze through.

Lin Sen did not give up the defense but retreated and immediately slid inside.

After Linson, Butler directly faced Howard who came out from the inside to defend. Before he could fully adjust, he jumped up towards Howard, dodged in the air and threw the ball towards the basket.

Lin Sen, who was following Butler, immediately jumped up when he saw Butler's action. His right hand was like a waving fly swatter, and the ball in Butler's hand was the damn fly.

Seeing Butler pick out the ball in his hand, Lin Sen, who had been waiting for a long time, waved his right hand and slapped it hard.

Seeing the big hand coming out from behind, Butler's expression suddenly changed.

Snapped!

Lin Sen's hand quickly slapped the basketball, and the basketball that was still rising immediately changed its direction and flew towards the backboard at high speed.

Bang!

The basketball hit the backboard hard, and the sound of hitting the board spread throughout the huge Staples Arena through the loudspeaker on the backboard.

The basketball rebounded directly, and Billups had quick eyesight and quick hands to grab the ball before Daniels and firmly control the ball.

Since there was no good fast break opportunity, Billups did not rush for a fast break but slowly advanced upfield.

Lin Sen's block made Wizards fans sigh, while Eddie Jordan on the sidelines was expressionless.
To be continued...