I’m Really Playing Basketball

McGrady was sent away by the Magic. Is this the beginning of the Magic's decline?

I thought the biggest news this summer was that Allen Iverson left the 76ers for the Nuggets. Unexpectedly, there was still such big news waiting when the NBA regular season was about to begin.

The Magic actually traded McGrady.

For a time, the entire NBA was discussing this matter.

Especially the Chinese reporters around Chen Xiao.

"The management of the Magic team has their heads flooded, and the Heat's defending title has lost their biggest competitor!"

"The Heat will defend the championship next season!"

Whether it is Teacher Zhang, Xiao Su or other Chinese reporters, it is really exciting at this time.

Let's put it this way, in the past few seasons, the Magic has always been the biggest opponent in front of Chen Xiao and Yao Ming, bar none.

Although the Nets and the Bucks have risen briefly, but to say that they have always been strong and have always maintained their own sense of existence, only the Magic team.

But now, the Magic team actually abandoned their martial arts and exchanged a super giant for three civilian players from the Pistons.

Big Ben, Hamilton and Prince, these are indeed civilian players.

Because the Pistons did not have the civilian miracle in 2004, the Pistons players are generally not as prestigious as in history.

Therefore, Big Ben, Hamilton and Prince are all ordinary stars with decent strength, and there is no way to compare with super giants like McGrady.

"In a basketball game, a total of only 10 players can be played, and a team can only play five players at most. No matter how many players are exchanged, it is not as good as having a superstar. In the NBA, if you exchange whole for zero, you will definitely fail in the end!

In the NBA, zero-to-whole is the way to go! "

"The Spurs can bid farewell to the championship next season!"

The reporters' excitement was indeed justified.

In fact, many experts in the United States are also discussing the madness of this transaction.

In the NBA, it is indeed easy to fail.

So, is the Magic's management really that idiot?

Of course not, the management of the Magic team is ambitious, but it is impossible to say that they are idiots.

The decision to trade Tracy McGrady was evaluated by the management of the Magic for a whole month.

In the end, the management of the Magic came to the conclusion that the existence of McGrady really hindered the team's tactical play.

The Magic team with Duncan, in fact, does not really need a perimeter superstar with such heavy singles authority.

Duncan is a team player. Duncan likes to cooperate with his teammates, and the existence of McGrady makes the Magic's overall tactical coordination not smooth enough.

Let's just say that McGrady is isolated from Manu Ginobili or Parker in addition to being able to cooperate with Duncan on the court.

This is also the reason why the Magic was forced to that appearance by the five-forward Nets in the playoffs last season.

If you can't play the overall tactics, and you can't use your personal ability to kill the Nets, then it will naturally be delayed.

Therefore, regarding the integration of McGrady and the team as a whole, the Magic are a little desperate.

Team head coach Doug Rivers is not a head coach with this ability.

The most important thing is that McGrady is indeed not such a player.

For a player like McGrady, he is the protagonist wherever he goes. Standing on the court is an opportunity for him to play and cooperate. Is it necessary?

Of course it's not necessary.

But the point is, although McGrady is the same as Chen Xiao, standing there is an opportunity, there is no need to play tactics at all, just pull it out.

However, McGrady's pulling efficiency was far behind Chen Xiao's.

And this is where magic gets very painful.

If McGrady's offensive efficiency is high, he can't play tactics with Ginobili or Parker, and the Magic will endure it. Even if they leave, it will be Ginobili and Parker.

But the point is that McGrady's key ball efficiency is not as high as Ginobili's, which is embarrassing.

Ginobili is better than your team, and his scoring efficiency and ability at critical moments are no worse than yours. Tell me, as the management of the Magic, why not keep Ginobili and then trade Tracy McGrady for the forward defense that the Magic lack? An interior partner with Duncan?

Both Hamilton and Prince are very good wing defenders.

And Ben Wallace is also a very good inside partner for Duncan.

For the Magic, the Pistons deal is indeed very attractive.

The main reason why it has been delayed for a month is that the transaction target is a player like Tracy McGrady, which indeed needs to be carefully evaluated.

Even the average management really doesn't have the guts to trade.

I have to say that the Magic's management is indeed bold enough.

Regardless of whether this deal succeeds or fails in the end, with the courage and decisiveness of the Magic management, this deal is destined to go down in history.

Of course, for the Pistons, trading for Tracy McGrady is naturally profitable.

What the Pistons want now is popularity, and the Pistons need to boost their ball market.

The Pistons have now given up on the pursuit of a championship.

In the current Eastern Conference, it's really a joke for the Pistons to talk about a championship.

In this case, the Pistons' management needs a super giant who can increase the team's popularity and sell tickets.

No one is more suitable than Tracy McGrady.

In the entire NBA, there are not many people more popular than McGrady, and these people are not for sale to their respective teams (Iverson failed in the competition).

Charlotte.

After McGrady's trade was completed, Chen Xiao, who was on vacation, took the initiative to end his vacation and return to the team.

And seeing Chen Xiao coming back on his own initiative, Jordan didn't let Chen Xiao continue his vacation.

If the Magic trades Tracy McGrady, the Bobcats also need to make an impact assessment.

Of course, Jordan and the Bobcats' coaching staff are not as superficial as reporters.

Of course, regarding the Magic's deal, Jordan and most of the coaches and scouts were in a fog, unable to tell whether it was good or bad.

But Chen Xiao said very categorically: "The Spurs will be very, very strong next season!"

Seeing Chen Xiao's decisive words, Jordan was stunned for a moment.

"Michael, no one understands Manu and Hamilton better than me. Their strength cannot be reflected by statistics, and they have strengths that cannot be reflected by statistics!"

“In my opinion, the Magic’s trade of TMC for Hamilton, Prince and Ben Wallace is a big profit for the Magic!

This deal complements the Magic's defense, as well as its own offense, and Duncan can now finally play in a team with excellent offense and defense! "

Why does Chen Xiao rate the Magic so highly?

The main reason is that Chen Xiao is too familiar with the Magic players.

Duncan, Manu, Hamilton...

These are Chen Xiao's friends.

Not to mention Manu and Hamilton.

Talk about Duncan.

When Duncan was with the Spurs, he mainly played boring defensive basketball, and his offense was wasted.

In the Magic team, the Magic played offensive basketball. Duncan's defense was wasted. In the Magic, Duncan really didn't have any teammates around him who could help him defend. So when the critical moment, Duncan made a choice between offense and defense. Sometimes, one often chooses to attack.

Because there are no reliable defensive teammates around him, even if he focuses on defense, he can't defend alone. In the end, of course Duncan can only choose to attack.

Whether it's the Spurs' partial defense or the Magic's partial offense, Duncan has done a great job, but there is no doubt that these two teams are not the teams that can best use Duncan's strength.

The team that can best utilize Duncan's strength is the kind of team that is good at both offense and defense, allowing Duncan to defend and attack whenever he wants.

The Magic next season will be such a team.

Chen Xiao doesn't think her vision is better than Jordan's or Bobcats' scouts, but Chen Xiao is indeed familiar enough with the players of the Magic team, knowing what a group of great players they are, so she feels that the Magic team is a good team. It's so incredible.

Chen Xiao's evaluation of the Magic team was not just shared with Jordan. Chen Xiao also shared his evaluation of the Magic team next season with Wade and Yao Ming.

Yao Ming is okay, but Wade...

"Chen, are you kidding me? The Magic traded McGrady, can they still be the strongest team in history?"

To be honest, most people now have the same view as Wade, that is, the Magic made a loss-making deal.

After all, unlike Chen Xiao, they don't know how good Hamilton and Ginobili are.

It should be said that they knew that Ginobili and Hamilton were very good, but they just didn't expect that they would be that good.

Therefore, they all feel that after McGrady leaves, the vacancy left by McGrady cannot be filled by others.

In short, after the Magic and Pistons completed the deal for Tracy McGrady, the entire NBA was involved in discussions about the deal.

Most of them think that the Pistons have made a profit, and a small part think that the Magic may have made a profit, but even if they think that the Magic may have made a profit, they will definitely not think that the Magic will be the strongest team in history like Chen Xiao.

To be honest, in the league after Chen Xiao entered the NBA, although the NBA has produced many of the strongest teams in history, teams that are rated as the strongest teams in history.

But no team shocked Chen Xiao as much as the Magic team.

Although Duncan is the only magician in this world.

Although everyone else around Duncan seems to be civilian players.

Chen Xiao feels that next season, the Magic's record will shock the entire NBA.

However, for basketball, the emergence of such a super strong and super reasonable team that is not stacked with superstars is definitely a victory for the entire basketball.

I have to say, whether it is Ray Allen's Bucks, the five-forward Nets, or the current Magic, which is the strongest in Chen Xiao's mind.

In this era, it is a blessing to have so many teams, basketball players and even the audience that Chen Xiao finds interesting.

Seeing how the NBA and basketball are thriving, Chen Xiao felt that although it wasn't his reason, he would also be happy for that system with a sense of justice.

The basketball he guards is going very well in this time and space.

After Chen Xiao returned to the Bobcats, she joined the team's joint training.

Before the start of the new season, because of the sensation caused by the transactions of players such as Iverson, Jermaine O'Neill and Tracy McGrady, the NBA this season is extremely lively.

And in such a lively situation, before the start of the new season, Chen Xiao was once again crowned the title of NBA's No. 1 player.

Although Chen Xiao didn't win the MVP or the championship last season, but with the regular season average of 44 points and the Bucks losing 73 wins in the playoffs, Chen Xiao is still stable. He has secured his position as the number one player in the league.

Chen Xiao is recognized by the entire American media as the number one player in the league. ESPN's expert team, TNT's celebrity team, and the USA Today reporter team all believe that Chen Xiao is the number one player in the NBA.

After Chen Xiao, Xiao Zhan is no longer ranked second. Xiao Zhan performed very well last season, and his statistics were good, but there were too many magical players last season.

So the second man position is very controversial.

ESPN still gave the second player to Xiao Zhan

TNT thinks the second person is Ray Allen.

USA Today thinks the second person is Wade.

If Wade wins the FMVP, the second player will not be controversial.

If Ray Allen wins the FMVP, there will be no controversy about the second person (the second person will definitely be Chen Xiao.)

In the end, it turned out to be what it is now, with three second-man seasons all having major regrets.

However, regardless of TNT, ESPN or USA Today, these are the four players in the top four.

It's just that the ranking is different.

The fifth-ranked player is Ron Howard, who led the team to the finals.

This is recognized.

The sixth player in the league is Yao Ming, who won the All-Star MVP and Finals MVP last season.

This time, Yao Ming was not ignored again. This time, Yao Ming finally stood in his place.

In addition to the recognized fifth and sixth positions, the positions of seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth are still controversial.

The rankings are not very consistent, but they are these four people, Duncan, O'Neal, Kobe and Garnett.

Among the current top ten in the NBA, new and old players now each account for half of the share.

The current NBA super giant structure is similar to the NBA's structure.

Young players such as Wade and Yao Ming led the Heat, Cavaliers, Bobcats, Spurs and other teams, while veterans such as Duncan, O'Neal, Kobe and Garnett led the Magic, Suns, Lakers and Timberwolves.

The strength of both sides is quite close.

Today's NBA has indeed entered a world of competition for hegemony.

In this world of great competition, the Bobcats, who led the team to the Eastern Conference finals last season, ranked seventh in the league behind the Heat, Nets, Spurs, Magic, Suns, and Lakers in the strength rankings. Bit.

Although this ranking is not the favorite to win the championship.

But compared with last season, the Bobcats this season are already extremely promising.

The most rookie team in history has left three second-year players this year and brought in three rookies (Roy, Aldridge, and Daniel Gibson).

Therefore, although this Bobcats team is no longer the most 'bad' team in history, it is also one of the greenest teams in history.

And this is one of the youngest teams in history. Under the leadership of Chen Xiao, they defeated the Hawks twice in the preseason, defeated the Wizards, Pacers, and Lakers, but also lost to the Nets and Heat, achieving 5 wins and 2 games. A good negative record.

Of course, preseason results don't matter.

What matters is the regular season record.

The 2006-2007 season has begun!