Build a Dream Dynasty

After losing to the Pistons, the Nets' record came to 20 wins and 13 losses, only one game ahead of the Celtics. The team already felt the huge threat from the Celtics chasing after them.

Under the tight schedule, the veteran-dominated Celtics will be much more affected than the Nets, but even so, the record can still be stabilized. The choice of the veterans in the team is one aspect, and the absorption It is also key that a large group of substitute players can perform well enough in the team. Bass, Daniels, Pietrus, these names that once had glory but have gradually fallen silent in recent years have found themselves in the Celtics one by one, and the rookie Bradley has sprung up, even replacing Ray Allen. The main position is a huge surprise.

This kind of life-and-death pursuit of record is a kind of oppression for the young players of the Nets, and it is also a kind of mental exercise. The decisive victory of life and death at the critical moment of the game. Otherwise, you are not qualified!

In the home game against the Western underdog Suns, Roar Tianzun witnessed the team ushered in a big victory at home. Facing the weak wings of the Suns, George continued his good performance with a career-high 37 points. After being selected for the Eastern Conference All-Star for the first time, George's performance became more and more stable. From 17.9 points to 19.1 points, continuing this trend, maybe a 20+ will come. On the Suns side, the players can only continue to bear the trough after the peak. The combined age of Nash, Richardson, and Grant Hill is close to 110 years old. Facing the vibrant Nets, how can they play?

The team has not improved for two consecutive seasons, which also made the team's meritorious Nash feel divorced. He has worked hard in the league for 16 years and won two MVPs. Nash's improvement of the team is obvious to all, but he has never touched it. The floor of the finals. In the future, if conditions permit, he hopes to bring some help to a strong team, help the team win the championship, and wear the championship ring himself. (21-13)

In the 5 games against the underdogs in the East and West, the Nets unfortunately only achieved a record of 3 wins and 2 losses, which is really a bit lower than expected! The successive loss of two insiders, West and Camby, cast a shadow over the team's last few games before the All-Star break.

On February 13, the Nets challenged the Orlando Magic away.

On February 14, the Nets played against the Sacramento Kings at home.

Next, the team embarked on a road trip to the West, including the most terrifying consecutive battle against the top three in Texas. On February 16, the team challenged the San Antonio Spurs away, on February 18, challenged the Dallas Mavericks away, and on February 19, challenged the Houston Rockets away. On February 21, the team played away against the last opponent, the New Orleans Hornets, and then, it was the All-Star Weekend.

Time has passed, and the rumored top three in Texas are still the only ones left with the Spurs who still maintain the top combat effectiveness, but this does not mean that the Mavericks and the Rockets have really weakened. Even to the extreme point, since the beginning of the new century, only the Celtics in the 2007-08 season have been able to sweep the top three teams in Texas. Regardless of whether it is the Pistons or the Heat, which seem to be able to dominate the Eastern Conference, they have not been able to do so.

The advantage is that West can come back in the second or third game of the team's trip to Texas, and Camby can also play after the All-Star break. One game, hope is ahead.

The Magic team this season can be said to have officially entered a special node. The decline in strength is obvious, the lineup has no potential, and Howard continues to spread news that he and Deron Williams will go to the Mavericks in the summer, and the morale of the army is lax. Considering that the conflict between Howard and the team has become irreconcilable, how to extract the last value from him and help the team rebuild has become the key.

Of course, in the weak Eastern Conference, owning Howard is equivalent to owning a ticket to the playoffs. This is no problem. And compared to last season, one of the improvements made by the Magic this season is to eliminate some talented thorny players and reuse some less talented players, but more dedicated players, which also helped them stabilize the lower limit of their record.

Against the Nets, which suffered a personnel crisis inside, the Magic made adjustments to the starting lineup, and sent Glenn Davis to match Howard's onslaught. It’s not for nothing. Against Anderson in the interior, he can still regain the feeling of dominating the interior in college. His outstanding performance also relieved the pressure on Howard on the offensive end. Warcraft felt the long-lost ease, and he could also use himself more focus on the defensive end.

Compared with the offensive end, the Magic's defense needs Howard to fill in the holes alone. Think about Nelson and Redick's guard line and look at the Nets' abandoned player Simmons who can start for the Magic, emmmmm! It's no wonder Howard wants to run away. After two years, even if a pig is the general manager, he can find a wing who is better than Simmons in defense! Who can move with so many pitfalls!

The 7-point lead that the Magic worked so hard to build disappeared within three minutes of Howard's departure. The Nets used both active and passive small lineups. Tianke Magic's somewhat bleak outside line, Magic's substitute insider Clarke There are actually two brushes on the offensive end, but the defensive end is really left to Jeremy Lin and Fernandez to visit the back garden. The Chinese magician even completed a half-court alley-oop with the Spanish trapeze, allowing the visiting team's bench All excited!

In the past few years, the Celtics and James' teams (Cavaliers, Heat) have always been among the top teams in the Eastern Conference. The Bulls have sprung up suddenly, and the decline of the Magic is almost at the same time as the rise of the Nets. , Looking at it now, the Magic are more or less entrenched, and it may be inevitable that the Nets will become James' strongest opponent in the next cycle!

In the second quarter of the game, the game returned to Howard's previous 1v5 situation. At the beginning, Warcraft was still able to top, but when Stevens replaced Pavlovich to execute foul tactics, Stan Van Gundy only thought about it. That's all for scolding!

TMD this year, the Magic team's record is only ranked sixth in the Eastern Conference. It is definitely related to Stevens' use of shark-slashing tactics to kill Howard at the start of the game, causing other teammates to follow suit! Speaking of it, the Nets were actually very gentle when they cut Howard, and their movements were very standard. It was nothing more than hugging and touching, and it would not hurt Howard, but those teams that deliberately imitated it were not like this. Makes sense.

The Magic's offense was constrained by Howard's free throw percentage plummeting. The Nets took advantage of the outside line on the offensive end to take the lead in the score, and kept the advantage until the end of the game.

106:97, the advantage of 9 points is not an exaggeration, but the main players did not appear in the fourth quarter, and it can be regarded as a very economical victory. (22-13)