legendary point guard

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"The Clippers fans at Staples are very disappointed. I understand their feelings. The loss of this game means that they have fallen a little behind in the game that they must win. Although it is only a little bit, they are extremely eager for the playoffs."

For them, such a lag in the game is something they cannot afford," said Hoffman, looking at the frustrated fans leaving the field.

"But it's not yet time for Los Angeles to despair. Their season is not over yet. All they can do is play every game well. Only in this way can they keep hope until the end. Who knows what the outcome will be until the last moment?" Bill

.Wharton added.

Lin Sen looked at Sam Cassel in front of him and remembered how he played against Cassel at the beginning of the season. Garnett and McHale also told him that Cassel would help him improve. Now he has arrived in Orlando.

And not in Minnesota.

"Sam, if possible, I would like you to help me during the offseason. I would like to learn something from you."

"Learn something from me?" Cassel was a little surprised. It was a normal process for him to greet Lin Sen after the game. He didn't expect that Lin Sen actually asked to learn something from him.

"Oh, I remembered, kg once told me once, but damn, my brain is old and my memory has deteriorated, so I forgot about it." Cassel patted his head and said with a smile.

Lin Sen smiled: "I know it's a bit abrupt, and you also have your time during the offseason, but I don't take up much time."

"It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter. I have promised this a long time ago. And I am also happy to help you. What's more, I also have to train during the offseason. You can also help me as a companion."

Lin Sen didn't expect Cassel to be so easy to talk to, but when he thought of Cassel's thin body and his post-up singles, his slow but weird breakthrough rhythm, and his excellent mid-range pull-up jump shot, Lin Sen couldn't help but look forward to it.

In addition to the fact that he and Kobe had agreed to train together before, Lin Sen believed that he would be able to learn some of Kobe's best offensive techniques at close range.

Although the season is coming to an end, and his own personal data are also very beautiful, which can even be described as luxurious, Linsen is not satisfied with what is reflected on the surface of the data.

Compared with the data, Lin Sen knows that he still has a lot to learn and improve, and the offseason is undoubtedly the best opportunity.

"My players played well, although we lost the game tonight. But I am very satisfied with their state. The season is not over yet, the door to the playoffs has not been closed, and I believe we still have a chance to enter the playoffs."

Clippers head coach Mike Dunleavy said this at the press conference after the game.

When talking about Linsen, Mike Dunleavy smiled helplessly: "There is no doubt that his performance is phenomenal. Although I don't pay much attention to every one of his games, I have played against him before and

I also know that his scoring ability is very good, this game proved it, and I believe his future will be bright."

The Orlando Magic's victory over the Los Angeles Clippers can also be regarded as a good start for the last back-to-back season of the season. With the victory in this game, the Magic's record improved to 50 wins and 26 losses.

It is also the fourth time in the 18-year NBA history that the Orlando Magic has won more than 50 games in a single season. The last time it won more than 50 games was in the 1995-96 season before "Shark" O'Neal left Orlando for Los Angeles. In that season, O'Neal and "Penny" Harda

Wei led the Magic to 60 wins and 22 losses.

"The great renaissance era for Orlando is coming" - this is the title of the article written by Mike Bianchi, a reporter for the Orlando Magic and the Orlando Sentinel media, on his column.

"When the full-time buzzer sounded, we won 50 games again after 10 seasons. When was the last time we won 50 games?

I think that memory of that glory has long gone in the memory of too many Orlando people, but now we have this glory again.

Even though this was just a regular season win, it was the beginning of a great comeback for us in Orlando.

I think countless Orlandoans are beginning to look forward to our brighter future. Wooden Lin and Dwight Howard are our greatest reliance. This is another Shark + Penny combination given to us by God..."

Just like the praise given by the Orlando media, Orlando Magic fans who have been waiting for more than ten years can see the hope of the O'Brien Cup again. Although this hope seems to be far away for the time being, Lin Sen, who is 20 years old, is still 2 months away.

And Dwight Howard, who is still only 22 years old in half a year, gives Magic fans full confidence.

The internal and external combination of Lin Sen and Howard is also the envy of other front office teams. Although Howard's current skills are still extremely poor, in this era of scarcity of centers, a center with high-quality potential is undoubtedly a huge killer.

Not to mention that Howard, whose skills are far from mature, has already achieved super statistics of 20+10 in the third season of his career.

In the second back-to-back game against the Los Angeles Lakers, who were also paying national attention and were extremely eager to enter the playoffs, Kobe Bryant started the offensive magic from the beginning of the game and made the Magic's defense miserable.

The defensive intensity of the Los Angeles Lakers made the Orlando Magic experience the intensity of the playoffs. Kobe's one-on-one defense made rookie Lin Sen feel embarrassed again, but Lin Sen has made obvious progress compared with the first time he faced Kobe.

However, Lin Sen's progress could not allow the Orlando Magic to escape the pressure of the Lakers. Jackson Jackson was calm and calm on the sidelines, and Stan Van Gundy, who was lagging behind, was also not panicked at all.

The old gods were still there, leaving veterans such as Chris Webber and Grant Hill to rest off the court, but Lin Sen did not play even one minute after leaving the game in the first quarter until the end of the game.

This made several teams watching this game on the TV expecting the Magic to kill the Lakers hateful. Stan Van Gundy naturally knew what kind of evaluation he would get, but he didn't care. All he cared about was the team members.

Health status.

He didn't want the team members to be in poor condition due to the last few games of the playoffs. After the game started in April, he began to control the playing time of the players, and Lin Sen was one of the few who was not controlled.

Before the start of this game, he was determined to control Lin Sen's playing time and try to give Lin Sen, who averaged 36.4 points per game in the regular season, more rest. He did not want Lin Sen to be exhausted in the regular season under the high-intensity competition in the playoffs.

Abnormal performance due to physical inability.

Once Lin Sen performs abnormally, the Magic will lose their sharpest weapon, let alone defeat their opponents, so Stan Van Gundy made such an arrangement.

Lin Sen also agreed with Stan Van Gundy's arrangement. Before entering the NBA, he only played in the NCAA. The intensity of the college league and the NBA cannot be compared at all.

This is also the fundamental reason why many rookie players can perform well at the beginning of the NBA season but hit the rookie wall around January.

Although Lin Sen didn't seem to have hit the rookie wall, Lin Sen knew that he was not in good shape for a period of time after the All-Star Weekend. He made adjustments on the court, reducing individual offense and focusing more on teamwork.

come over.

Lin Sen sat off the court and watched Kobe's performance, and he was full of expectations for being able to train with Kobe during the offseason.

At the end of the first half, Kobe scored a terrifying 24 points to lead the Lakers to a 13-point lead over the Magic.

Lin Sen helped the Magic narrow the gap after playing ten minutes in the second half. However, in the final fourth quarter, Lin Sen still didn't play for a minute. In the end, the Los Angeles Lakers, playing at home, led by Kobe Bryant's 40 points to 102.

:84 defeated the Orlando Magic in the second game of back-to-back games.

You can imagine the turmoil after the game. The Clippers, who lost to the Magic last night, the Warriors, who are ranked eighth in the Western Conference and are chasing the Lakers, Chris Paul's Hornets and the Timberwolves all expressed strong dissatisfaction with the Magic's adjustment of the lineup.

But their dissatisfaction cannot change Van Gundy's mind, even if the league fines the Orlando Magic $100,000 for negative games under the pressure of complaints from many clubs.

"I will not change our style of play because of this. My players have gone through a long season and their physical fitness has reached the limit. I must be responsible for his body and our playoffs." Stan Van Gundy told reporters

Said this during the interview.

After losing the game against the Lakers, the Orlando Magic's record became 50 wins and 27 losses.

The night after the Magic played the Lakers, the Cleveland Cavaliers led by LeBron James also lost their second back-to-back game against the Indiana Pacers.

However, compared with the Magic, they also failed to win the first game of back-to-back games at the end of the season. James, who was one rebound short of a triple-double, lost to Jason Kidd, who had a triple-double. And in the second game of back-to-back games, James

He scored a triple-double but still failed to help the team win.

Consecutive losses to the Nets and Pacers also changed the Cavaliers' record from 50 wins and 25 losses to 50 wins and 27 losses.

With the three games played between the Orlando Magic and the Cleveland Cavaliers, the Magic took a 2:1 lead. Under such circumstances, the Magic ranked second in the Eastern Conference.

With both teams still having five games left in the regular season, both the Magic and Cavaliers are likely to become second in the Eastern Conference.

The Chicago Bulls, who are ranked fifth in the Eastern Conference with 45 wins and 30 losses, are basically unable to catch up with the Cavaliers and Magic. Their actual record is behind the Bulls. However, the Toronto Raptors, who are ranked first in the Atlantic Division and fourth in the Eastern Conference with 42 wins and 34 losses, want to surpass them.

It is unlikely that the Miami Heat, who are behind them at 39 wins and 35 losses, will catch up.

After all, the Heat are the team with the most regular season games in the league. In the remaining 8 games, the Miami Heat still have two back-to-back games to play. In the 8 games, there are five teams that are fighting for a playoff spot.

Behind the Heat, the New Jersey Nets and Washington Wizards are still two games away from the Heat, but their final opponents are not as strong as the Heat, which means that the Miami Heat are likely to fall to eighth or seventh in the Eastern Conference at the last moment.

Location.

If it falls to eighth, the Miami Heat will face the Detroit Pistons, the leader in the Eastern Conference. But once it falls to seventh or maintains its original position of sixth, the Magic and Heat will have a greater chance of facing each other in the first round of the playoffs.

Facing the Heat is a situation that Stan Van Gundy absolutely does not want to see. The Heat's variables also make Van Gundy worried, but fortunately, the Heat need to play two games before the Magic's next game.

These two games can make Stan Van Gundy think carefully: "It seems that we can only follow the Heat and Nets Wizards and take one step at a time."

"Actually, even if we play against the Heat, we won't necessarily lose. I feel that we have a good chance of winning." Otis Smith looked at Stan Van Gundy and said.

"It's big. The whole world knows that the Miami Heat are in bad shape. But the key question is what if these nursing home guys regain their vitality in the playoffs? So the best case scenario is not to play against the Heat. Fortunately,

Our last game is against the Cavaliers, so we can have a lot of choices." Stan Van Gundy said while looking at the matchup table.

The Magic's last game of the season was an away game against the Cleveland Cavaliers.

If the records of both sides are still tied before this game, then if the Magic win in the last game, they will ensure second place in the Eastern Conference. Once the Cavaliers win, the winning rates of both sides in their respective leagues need to be considered.

In the games that have been played so far, the Magic's victory in the Eastern Conference is slightly worse than that of the Cavaliers. In the last five games of the two teams, there are still three Eastern Conference teams.

If both sides are tied in the last game, then the Magic will lose the game and fall to third place in the Eastern Conference due to the issue of winning percentage.

If the Heat had determined their ranking before the last game, everything would be easier to handle, but Van Gundy is worried that the Heat will not be able to determine their ranking in the final round, and the Magic will have to make other preparations for the final game against the Cavaliers.

"Stan, I forgot to tell you something. Dwight's agent, Aaron Goodwin, stopped our early contract extension." Otis Smith's words made Stan Van Gundy stunned for a moment.

"Didn't things go well before? But they asked for a maximum salary contract?"

"That was true before then, but at the end of March they suddenly asked to suspend contract renewal negotiations."

"What exactly is going on? Does he want to leave the team?"

Otis Smith shrugged: "I don't want to leave the team, but I want to get more privileges. Recently I got news that the vampire agent Dan Fagan has close contact with Dwight's father. After all, he has a relationship with Dwight.

We met a few times.”

"Dan Fagan? Damn it, how did that guy get involved? Does Dwight want to fire Goodwin?" Stan Van Gundy frowned.

Dan Fagan is currently one of the most controversial agents in the NBA. Although players are satisfied that he can bring them big contracts, his methods have caused headaches for the front office staff. They have to use more new methods and techniques to provide players with better services.

Fight for maximum benefits and contracts for your own clients.

For example, he created a one-year deal signing model that caused great headaches for the front office. This deal model is similar to a one-year contract, but a one-year deal allows a team to sign a player and trade him to another team one year later.

The team also retains his rights to the Larry Bird clause, but this requires the league to admit that the player's annual salary increase can reach 12.5% ​​and the player must play for a team for more than three years and cannot give up or transfer during this period.

"It seems very possible at the moment. Everyone knows Dan Fagan's ability. Dwight does not rule out that this will happen. Although Dwight's progress is not obvious, there is no problem in giving him a maximum salary. The key is to worry about Dan.

This guy Fagan is demanding too much, and I'm worried that he will interfere with Dwight's role in the role we have given him."

Otis Smith's words are correct. The current atmosphere in the Magic is very good. Howard also has no meaning for Lin Sen to become the leader of the Magic, although in public he rarely publicly states that Lin Sen is the leader of the team and not him.

But if Howard signs Dan Fagan, everything may change.

"Let's take it one step at a time. Now let's think about the headache game." Stan Van Gundy said helplessly.

However, the result of the next game went to the point that Van Gundy least wanted to see. He still rotated players according to his own arrangements.

In addition to the people who had not been rotated much before entering the rotation, veterans such as Chris Webber and Grant Hill who had rested for a while also began to come back to experience the game, but more for the upcoming playoffs to find the feeling of the game.

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The Magic defeated the visiting Atlanta Hawks and Seattle SuperSonics at home, and then defeated the Philadelphia 76ers on the road, completely knocking the Philadelphia 76ers out of the playoff contenders.

Then they lost to the Golden State Warriors on the road, who were trying to secure a playoff spot, and the Cleveland Cavaliers, like the Magic, achieved 4 wins and 1 loss in the next four games.

This leaves the Cleveland Cavaliers and the Orlando Magic with the same record before the final direct meeting, both 54 wins and 27 losses. The Magic still lead the game 2:1 and rank second in the Eastern Conference.

But the sixth to eighth rankings in the Eastern Conference playoffs have become the New Jersey Nets, Miami Heat and Washington Wizards.

More importantly, the records of these three teams are exactly the same, 44 wins and 37 losses. The Nets have only played against the Heat three times this season. The Nets have achieved 2 wins and 1 loss. They have played against the Wizards four times, and have played three games.

With 2 wins and 1 loss, the Nets are temporarily ranked sixth in the Eastern Conference by virtue of their record advantage against each other.

The Nets will face the Washington Wizards in their final game of the season, while the Heat will face the Los Angeles Clippers, who are ninth in the Western Conference.

The Los Angeles Clippers, ninth in the Western Conference, are half a game behind the Golden State Warriors with one game left, and the Golden State Warriors will face off against the Dallas Mavericks, first in the Western Conference.

Such a matchup means that the rankings are variable, which means that there are various possibilities before the end of the last game, which will be played at the same time.

On April 17, the entire Orlando Magic team flew to Cleveland for the final game of the 2006-2007 season. (To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature for better and faster novels!