I’m Really Playing Basketball

Tired!

This game is so exhausting!

At Orlando's TD Waterhouse Center, it only took 12 minutes for the Magic's players, whose morale was high at the beginning of the game, to fall into collective sluggishness and exhaustion at the end of the first quarter.

In these 12 minutes, the Cavaliers threw 10 three-pointers in a single quarter.

In these 12 minutes, Chen Xiao used one incredible and unreasonable organization to explain why his nickname is Wonder Boy.

As the defending champion, the Magic managed to survive the Cavaliers' 10 three-pointers and 40 points in a single quarter, which shows the strength and tenacity of this team.

The teams led by Duncan are always so resilient.

It's true that I didn't fail, but I was really tired from playing this game.

Originally, the Magic team was prepared to come up and grab the start of this game.

But in the end, the Cavaliers once again took the lead.

The 12-point deficit in the first quarter really bent the shoulders of the entire Magic team.

Because they were too far behind, and because the rotation lineup led by Chen Xiao had a strong offense in the last game, the Magic simply did not dare to fully rotate the lineup in the second quarter.

In the end, gritted his teeth, Doc Reeves left McGrady on the court, Parker, Ginobili, Tracy McGrady, Horry, Pachulia.

However, facing the Cavaliers team led by Chen Xiao, the rotation lineup.

Without Duncan on the court, there was no one who could block Chen Xiao, who played center forward in rotation.

Chen Xiao's one-star shooting is still puzzling to the Magic.

In the end, during the four-minute rotation, even if the Magic left McGrady and Ginobili on the court at the same time, they could only increase the point difference from 12 to 14. After the rotation, they lost another two points.

Moreover, when the rotation time was over, the entire Magic team breathed a sigh of relief, not because they could not catch up, but because they were only two points behind.

And when the first half was over, the Magic, which wanted to win at home in this game, looked at the score of 70 to 55, and it was really tiring.

A 15-point difference!

This point difference is like a natural moat for the entire Magic team, making it impossible for the Magic team to see any hope.

Looking at the score on the scoreboard, McGrady gritted his teeth.

The steps towards the locker room seemed unusually heavy.

And everyone around him, including Duncan, Manu Ginobili, and Doc Rivers, all have the same heavy footsteps as McGrady.

In the playoffs against the Cavaliers last season, the Magic were also beaten 0-2 at home as soon as they came up.

The magical boy almost defeated the Magic team with two magical 50+ games.

And this time, the magic of the Wonder Boy is still the same, but there is no one around the Wonder Boy anymore.

LeBron James next to Boy Wonder is no longer undercover.

Raheem next to Wonder Boy can beat the Magic's ribs to death.

Tyson Chandler and Gerald Wallace next to Wonder Boy are too fast in the paint. They no longer need Wonder Boy to appear in the paint to complete the defensive task well.

At the same time, Barry, Korver, Mo Williams and others around the Wonder Boy are able to hit the opportunities he creates and pass the balls.

Therefore, although the playoffs of this season, the plot of the Magic and the Cavaliers looks the same, the Magic is likely to start 0-2.

However, the Cavaliers this season are completely different from the Cavaliers last season.

If the Magic fall behind 0-2 this season, they will never have any chance to come back!

Falling behind by 15 points at halftime is not an unbeatable score.

But for the Magic, what is difficult to chase is the extremely confident temperament that the Cavaliers players exude under Chen Xiao's unreasonable organization.

When Tyson Chandler hits his first career three-pointer against Duncan, it's hard to keep the Cavaliers down.

"If we want to beat the Cavaliers in this game, we also need a miracle!"

In the Magic locker room, all the silent Magic players almost reached the same consensus at this time.

Yes, in this game, the Magic will need a miracle if they want to defeat the Cavaliers.

It is normal for other NBA teams to have such thoughts.

But for the Magic, this is a little different.

After acquiring Duncan, the Magic have always taken a stable route.

After acquiring Duncan, the Magic have become a very popular and professional team, the kind of team that does not rely on gods and emperors, but relies on its own absolute stability and hard power.

Even Tracy McGrady, who was originally the most amazing player on the Magic team, began to seek stability in the team, and then focused on defense to improve his absolute hard power.

You make a team that doesn't believe in the fairy emperor start to expect the fairy emperor. This is of course problematic.

So, after a brief silence, all eyes in the Magic locker room turned to McGrady.

When the Magic need a fairy emperor, the player who can best become a fairy emperor is, of course, Tracy McGrady.

Facing the eyes of his teammates, McGrady clenched his fists tightly at this time.

The clenched fists not only showed the tension in his heart, but also showed his current excitement.

After Duncan came to the team, McGrady has been feeling that the team continues to leave him.

When the team had problems, Duncan was always the one standing behind everyone.

And he could only watch silently as Duncan assumed the role of Optimus Prime of the Magic Team again and again.

But this time, when Optimus Prime of the Magic team couldn't hold up the sky, everyone finally thought of who was the real boss of this team!

Faced with such expectations from his teammates, McGrady felt as if he had let out a bad breath that lasted two seasons.

Teams of superstars and superstars, super giants and super giants, have never been so harmonious. Cooperation and competition have always been like this.

It is certain that McGrady wants teammates like Duncan, but he hopes that he will be the leader of this cooperation, rather than the one being dominated.

Before, he had always been the one being dominated.

Even when he was the most frustrated, he was still willing to be teammates with Duncan.

but!

"I want to be relied on by Duncan for once!"

Therefore, facing the expectant eyes of his teammates, McGrady, who has always been proud, did not directly stand up and take over everything this time, but looked at Duncan.

Seeing McGrady's eyes like this, Duncan was stunned for a moment.

Duncan has always believed that the boss of this team is Tracy McGrady.

McGrady wants to be a fairy and wants to return to the fairy style in the rest of this game. What opinion can he have?

McGrady can do whatever he wants.

Obviously, McGrady's respect for his opinion this time does not mean that he acknowledges that he is the boss of the team.

And I look forward to him looking at him with the same eyes as his teammates.

In response to this, Duncan blinked a little for a moment. Can I make the look of dependence and expectation that my teammates had just now?

Duncan always felt that his eyes were a little dull and his acting skills were not good.

However, seeing that Maddie wanted her candy like a child, Duncan finally blinked and pretended to look dependent and expectant.

Let's put it this way, this look is more about... than dependence and expectation.

Well, it's not ogling anyway.

Duncan's acting is terrible.

But McGrady was extremely happy.

Douglas Reeves, who was next to him, saw the interaction between Duncan and McGrady and pretended that he had not seen it, and then began to assign tasks for the second half: "Tracy, the team is lagging behind a lot now, we need you to step up. !”

"I know, leave it to me!"

After McGrady stood up and nodded, the originally silent atmosphere of the Magic team changed slightly.

Seeing this slight change in the atmosphere, Doc Reeves, whose mentality was shattered by Chen Xiao in the first quarter, breathed a sigh of relief.

It doesn't matter whether McGrady can become a god or not, what matters is hope!

When the Magic players saw Tracy McGrady, it was as if they saw the hope of a god. As long as a team still has hope, it will have fighting spirit.

As long as there is fighting spirit, there is still a possibility of winning.

And this is why Duncan is willing to cooperate with McGrady.

First establish a hope for the team to win.

Then follow this hope and catch up the score little by little.

Duncan will not really believe that Tracy McGrady transformed into a god like Chen Xiao.

To be honest, gods like Chen Xiao are unique in the history of the NBA.

The half-time break is over and the second half of the game continues.

attack! attack! Or attack!

After the start of the second half, the Cavaliers players could clearly see that McGrady began to give up part of his defense and began to focus on the offensive end.

And McGrady not only adjusted the proportion of offense in the third quarter, but more importantly, McGrady's offense in the third quarter obviously became more vicious.

After Duncan came to the Magic, McGrady rarely had such a vicious offense.

Otherwise, in the game against the Heat, Wade would not feel like he was being suppressed by Wade.

Wade is the boss of the Heat and has unlimited firing rights, while McGrady in the Magic actively gave up his unlimited firing rights after Duncan arrived.

Now, with the Magic in dire straits, McGrady has picked up the unlimited firepower that was thrown away by him.

McGrady is now at his peak. He is only 25 years old now. Because his body was not injured in the series with the Pistons, his body is also at its peak, and his skills are also at its peak.

Except for his inconsistent shooting, he is the most perfect player in the NBA.

Even the proud Jordan and Kobe admit that McGrady is perfect.

Let's put it this way, although McGrady is not as stable as Chen Xiao, there is no doubt that his offense is also undefendable.

Whether he can score or not has little to do with the defensive players. The key is to see McGrady himself.

Therefore, when McGrady attacks like this, the pressure on James, the player defending McGrady, increases instantly.

However, for the current Cavaliers, it is not that easy to defeat the Magic with McGrady's magic ball.

After the start of the second half, McGrady's offensive state was very good.

It can be seen that Duncan's 'request' and 'dependence' made McGrady, who was already in good shape in this game, feel like he was beaten to death!

Throughout the third quarter, McGrady made 5 of 10, 1 of 3 three-pointers, and 6 of 7 free throws. He scored 17 points in a single quarter. With extremely stable performance, McGrady scored 10 points in the third quarter with 4 of 6 and 2 of 2 free throws. Duncan, and Ginobili who made 2 of 3 three-pointers, the Magic team scored 36 points in the entire third quarter!

It can be said that in this third quarter, the Magic played the best single quarter of the series.

If you want to talk about Xia Ji's eight-game strategy, you have to completely liberate Tracy McGrady.

It is true that Duncan is better than McGrady, one S- and one A+, but in terms of explosive scoring power, McGrady is definitely better than Duncan.

In Xia Ji's eight-fight strategy, Duncan's stability can provide the cornerstone, while McGrady's offensive power is what raises the upper limit.

As for Ginobili's monster, it is to increase the variables for the Magic and be the straw that breaks the camel's back.

It can be said that in the huge crisis, the Magic found the best way to open the game with Xia Ji's eight hits in the third quarter.

"The Magic players are in really good shape in this game!"

At the end of the third quarter, Yao Ming and Wade in front of the TV were sighing at the same time, although they were not in the same time and space.

If it weren't for Chen Xiao's magic in the first quarter that suppressed the Magic players and liberated the Cavaliers players, the Cavaliers would have lost this game!

After seeing this game, Wade and Yao Ming, who originally had a lot of resentment about losing to the Magic in the playoffs, instantly felt that most of their resentment disappeared.

They are not fools. How could they not see that Magic did not use all his strength when fighting them?

The current Magic is the Magic team that really goes all out and is forced to do anything!

Facing the Magic, who were so fiercely chasing points in the third quarter, the Cavaliers' players did not collapse due to the impact of their strong self-confidence.

As long as there is no impact and collapse, it will not be so easy for the Magic to chase points.

In the third quarter, although the Magic scored 36 points, the Cavaliers also scored 30 points.

McGrady gave up part of his defense, making it easier for the Cavaliers to attack. The strong confidence that the Cavaliers players had developed early in this game made them very stable when attacking.

100 to 91!

When the third quarter ended, the score difference between the two sides came to within ten points.

The atmosphere of this game also reached an incredible level.

The Magic were in such excellent form in the third quarter, but only caught up by six points. Not only did this not dampen the confidence of the Magic players, but it strengthened their confidence.

Because, although McGrady's performance is not magical, it does bring them hope!

In the fourth quarter, McGrady, who had played for 36 consecutive minutes, still stayed on the court.

As for the Cavaliers, Carlisle did not dare to let Chen Xiao, who also played 36 minutes, stay on the court.

No disrespect to McGrady, if the Cavaliers are missing Chen Xiao and the Magic are missing McGrady, then they are not the same level of teams.

Let's put it this way, the Magic can let McGrady run out of gas before the game. McGrady is in good condition and doesn't need to rest. It doesn't matter if he plays until he runs out of gas.

But the Cavaliers couldn't do it, and Chen Xiao ran out of gas, which was the beginning of the Cavaliers' collapse.

Therefore, Chen Xiao usually takes a three-minute rest during the fourth quarter rotation.

After Chen Xiao's endurance reached 100, Chen Xiao's playing time increased from about 40 minutes to 45 minutes, which is 48 minutes away from Chamberlain. The difference is his endurance skills.

Chen Xiao's current endurance attribute is a blank slate.

Although Chen Xiao is now off the court, the game is so fierce now that it is unrealistic for Chen Xiao to sit on the sidelines with peace of mind.

Chen Xiao is now standing on the sidelines, cheering and applauding his teammates, cheering for them just like he was on the court.

He used 7 assist experience cards in this game. This is a game where it is impossible to accept the result of losing!

This game must be won no matter what.

"Brothers, come on!"

At this time, the players on the Cavaliers court are center Diop, power forward James, small forward Korver, shooting guard Brent Barry, and point guard Momo.

Standard one large and four small.

Except for Diop who is defensive, everyone else is in an offensive posture.

This is a solid rotation.

Although there is no way to widen the point difference in theory, there is no problem in dragging Chen Xiao to the court.

And after the start of the fourth quarter, this was indeed the case.

Even if McGrady becomes more and more excited, even if the Magic's offense becomes more fierce.

The Cavaliers are still solid.

The score did not shrink much.

until……

A swipe!

McGrady hit a three-pointer!

Diop's serve was too rough and he made a mistake. Parker cleverly stole the ball and passed the ball to McGrady outside the three-point line. Another swipe!

Not only did he hit the ball, but he also caused a foul on Korver.

3+1!

The Cavaliers did not request a timeout and continued to attack. James broke through and caused McGrady to foul and commit a shooting foul. James made 1 of two free throws.

Then, McGrady used Pachulia's pick-and-roll to get rid of James, pressured Korver to break through to the basket and hit a layup. At the same time, he also caused a foul on Diop's thug.

106 to 104!

The Cavaliers' original lead has changed from 9 points to 2 points!

Carlisle, who didn't ask for a timeout just now but waited for Chen Xiao to play early on the next dead ball, was stunned.

In just 30 seconds, the situation has suddenly changed? !

Soon, something happened that shocked Carlisle even more.

Tracy McGrady missed the free throw this time. Pachulia black-footed Diop, who was blocked in front, and grabbed the offensive rebound from behind. The referee did not say anything. Pachulia passed the ball back and had already retreated to three. McGrady's hand outside the line.

McGrady, who just scored 9 points in 30 seconds, has already made the Cavaliers a little nervous. James's dive was a bit big.

Snap!

Fighting? !

The moment James hit him, his expression changed.

What made James' face even more ugly was that the three-pointer thrown by McGrady went in with a swipe!

3 point hit!

When the three-pointer thrown by McGrady hit, the whole world seemed to be silent again at this moment.

"What an incredible game this is?!"

"35 seconds and 12 points, Tracy McGrady scored 12 points in the past 35 seconds!"

"107 to 106, the Magic team playing at home overtook the score!"

In the brief silence, the Magic fans on the sidelines seemed to be crazy.

Barkley and Kenny Smith, who were sitting on the sidelines, were also crazy.

Especially Barkley.

His blushing face was suppressed (slapped) by Chen Xiao in this game, and now he can finally let it go.

"Hahahaha, I said at the beginning of the game that the Magic will win this game!"

"Now, I still say this. The Magic must win this game. McGrady's performance was incredible. It wasn't 12 points in 35 seconds, but 13 points in 35 seconds. McGrady still had a chance to make a free throw!"

With a swipe, Madiga made a free throw!

35 seconds and 13 minutes!

When McGrady hit the free throw this time, the whole world turned from boiling to an explosion at this moment!

"The miracle of Chen Xiao's moment appeared again!"

"35 seconds and 13 minutes, McGrady paid tribute to Chen Xiao in 35 seconds and 13 minutes!"

After watching the free throws on TV, they focused on Chen Xiao, who was sweating and exhausted, and Kobe, Jordan, Garnett, and O'Neal in front of the TV. Everyone's eyes were as if they were seeing ghosts.

"What kind of incredible game is this?!"

Wonder Boy had 10 assists in the first quarter, and McGrady came up with 35 seconds and 13 points in the fourth quarter.

How magical this is!

They can actually see such two gods in one match? !

At this time, most of the audience in front of the TV were roaring, and a small part was silent. Everyone was stunned by McGrady's 35 seconds and 13 minutes.

To be honest, the people who were more shocked were definitely not the audience in front of the TV, but the Magic players on the court and on the sidelines.

"The god we were looking forward to has appeared!"

At this time, Magic head coach Doc Rivers finally knelt down, this time on the rails!

When McGrady hit the free throw, Doc Rivers slid all the way from the sidelines to the court.

And the Magic players behind him wanted to slide into the stadium with Rivers.

But they can't, because they still have to compete, because they still have to win!

108 to 106!

They were 15 points behind at most, but after McGrady's 35 seconds and 13 minutes, they actually took the lead by 2 points!

Looking at the score difference on the sidelines at this time, Duncan, the head player of the Magic, was still a little banged up, and the expression on his face was even more stunned.

TMC actually turned into a god!

And it’s the ultimate magical ‘Chen Xiao moment’ like that of Wonder Boy!

Duncan looked blankly at the court, but at this time, McGrady happened to be looking at him, and their eyes met inadvertently.

"Tim, I finally have you dependent on me!"

Maddie, who seemed to be in a state of collapse, looked at Duncan's dull eyes, her fists were still clenched tightly, but her whole body felt sublimated, and all the blood in her body seemed to be burning.

Is this what it feels like to become a god?

So cool!

Sensing the meaning in McGrady's eyes, Duncan was stunned for a moment before a dull smile appeared on his face.

"I will protect you to win this game!"

McGrady and Duncan, who were looking at each other affectionately at this time, did not notice that there was a pair of eyes looking at them on the other side.

"Then it's even more impossible for me to let you win!"

Chen Xiao looked away from Duncan and McGrady.

The price of this game will be somewhat high.

But, any price is worth it!

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