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2003, Palace of Auburn Hills, Detroit, Game 1 of the first round of the playoffs.

Detroit Pistons vs Orlando Magic.

Li Liang is still very impressed with this year's playoffs.

Because this is the year he started paying attention to the NBA game.

This year, the Lakers, who won three consecutive championships, fell to the semifinals, and Kobe burst into tears.

This year, the Pistons reversed the Magic, but they were still not the opponents of the New Jersey Nets.

This year, Duncan led the Spurs and began the most glorious period of San Antonio.

This year, Yao Ming entered the NBA for the first time, but regrettably did not enter the playoffs.

In short, the 2002-2003 season was the year when many Chinese fans began to really pay attention to the NBA.

Li Liang stood on the floor of the Palace of Auburn Hills, warming up before the game, but he didn't think about those past events in his mind.

He just thought about how to deal with McGrady in this game.

It's been so many games, it's time to pass this mission.

The atmosphere at the Palace of Auburn Hills was extremely warm, and wild Detroit fans waved their white foam sticks wildly.

In a sea of ​​white, the dark blue magic looked a little helpless.

Tracy McGrady is without a doubt the sole focus of the Magic.

He averaged 32 points per game in the regular season this season, while Gooden, the team's second scorer, averaged only 12 points per game.

Therefore, this is undoubtedly a team that relies heavily on McGrady.

If McGrady plays well, the Magic will have a chance to win.

McGrady's performance is average, but Magic is very dangerous.

After the appearance ceremony, the game began soon.

The Magic's starters are Tracy McGrady, Gooden, Jacques Vaughn, Gordon Girisek and Andrew De Klerk.

To be honest, in this lineup, except for McGrady, they are all rotten fish and rotten shrimp.

It means that Gooden has some strength and can share the worries for McGrady.

So in the first game, the Magic could win the Pistons, relying on McGrady's superb performance.

Other players, except Gooden scored 18 points, none of the rest scored in double figures.

For the Pistons, the starting lineup is Ben Wallace, Li Liang, Billups, Hamilton and Michael Curry.

The player Li Liang replaced was Cliff Robinson, the Trail Blazers player who was once shrugged by Jordan's three-pointer, an evergreen tree.

In terms of strength, Robinson must have it, otherwise he wouldn't be able to play until he was 40 in the NBA.

However, Carlisle's starting lineup is obviously not enough to target McGrady defensively.

Billups is the point guard, Hamilton is the shooting guard, and Curry is a 6-foot-5 swingman.

Let him defend McGrady, he is unqualified in height.

Then Carlisle didn't play Prince in the first game, and he didn't think of using Prince as a young man until he was beaten by McGrady.

Without targeted defense, not even a single person who can match him, McGrady is super god.

The game started, Ben Wallace won the first opportunity in the jump ball, and the Pistons got their first chance to attack.

Li Liang had experienced this first attack several times. After halftime, he stood in the left corner with his hips akimbo.

Because the Pistons' first offensive option was to put Ben Wallace in the low post on the right and isolate...  

For Carlisle's tactical arrangement, Li Liang was almost speechless.

On the first offense, the ball was passed two or three times outside, and finally it was given to Wallace.

Wallace still turned his back in a decent way, shook the defender away with his footsteps, and finally got a big hat from Gooden who came to assist in the defense!

The ball flew over the baseline and Wallace fell to the ground.

Li Liang stood in the bottom corner with his hips crossed, holding his forehead. In the previous game, he tried to correct the first attack of the Pistons, but it was useless.

I really don't know what kind of fairy tactic this is. Maybe the Pistons are too careless and think that the Magic can handle it easily.

With the ball still on the Pistons side, Li Liang used the cover to slip to the bottom line, ran to the right corner, and shot a mid-range jumper after catching the ball.

Hit!

A neat catch-and-shoot jumper scored two points.

This is called tactics, why did you Carlisle let Wallace plan alone?

Of course, offense is not Li Liang's main task, but defense is.

The Magic's first attack, McGrady dribbled the ball across half court.

Li Liang didn't post it because he knew McGrady wouldn't score the first goal.

Sure enough, after the Magic's continuous cooperation on the outside, McGrady caught the ball behind his back on the right wing, turned around and beat Hamilton.

The forward-leaning jumper that turned inside was interfered by Wallace and missed.

Li Liang scored a backcourt rebound.

In fact, McGrady has a lot of back-up attacks, and his back-up skills are also very good.

He has extremely broad shoulders and super long wingspan, and one or two players can't defend him at all.

Then the Pistons counterattacked, and Hamilton caused a foul.

After that, Hamilton used his running position to run out of the gap on the left, catch the ball and dribble for a jump shot.

Girisek rushed forward, blocked the ball from the side and sent the ball flying.

Not long after the start of the game, the Magic blocked the shot twice.

This is the playoffs, or the more defensive 2003 playoffs.

Even for a weakling like the Magic, every player will do their best in the playoffs.

Maybe in the regular season, he just reached out to interfere with the defense, and in the playoffs, he tried his best to block the shot.

Here is the East again, the team's style is defense first, and the intensity is evident.

But Li Liang is not afraid.

Serving the ball from the sideline, Li Liang came out to catch the ball, then feinted, dribbled the ball and stabbed in, made a jump shot and made a hit.

This game has been played many times, and the Pistons' tactical coordination has been well understood.

Coupled with peace of mind, two more points.

Then, McGrady's offense, after receiving the ball with his back, turned around and broke through with the ball, killed the basket and made a layup, but was interfered by Ben Wallace again and missed.

Ben Wallace's help defense at the basket is really extremely powerful.

Although he is not tall, but because he is one size smaller, his reaction speed is very fast.

Coupled with excellent wingspan and excellent jumping, the blocking threat is huge, and it can cause great deterrence to opponents almost every time.

In order to make up for the lack of height, he also specially made an explosive hairstyle to make himself look bigger.

It was another counterattack from the Pistons, and Billups rushed to the frontcourt.

Li Liang followed, caught the ball from the front three-point line and shot directly!

"Shua!"

Hit!

7:0, Li Liang beat his opponent 7:0 in the opening game. His offensive state is really good this time.

But Li Liang was not complacent, because he knew that McGrady's outbreak was coming soon.

In the next attack, McGrady broke through with the ball, knocked down Ben Wallace in the three-second zone, and was called an offensive foul.

The Palace of Auburn Hills was full of cheers, and they felt that T-mac, which was raging in the East, was nothing more than that.

In the first three attacks, they all missed, and McGrady looked calm.

He was accumulating energy, while Li Liang silently stared at McGrady, waiting for his eruption.

Next, the referee also called the Pistons an offensive foul, and Hamilton broke through and knocked Girisek down.

Then, Girisek hit a jumper in the offense and finally helped the Magic score.

The opening rhythm of the two sides was very fast, the physical confrontation was fierce, and the tactics were basically impossible to play.

Ben Wallace tried to set a pick-and-roll screen for Billups from the outside, but failed once.

The Magic's defensive man-marking was very tight and deadly, resolutely squeezed through, and did not give Billups any chance to break through or shoot outside.

The Magic is also dominated by singles. Players get the ball and get a one-on-one chance to play by themselves.

Because in the high-intensity confrontation in the playoffs, the more passes, the greater the possibility of mistakes.

Instead of making mistakes, it is better to play alone, the success rate is higher.

Billups made a pass error in a breakthrough point, giving the Magic a chance to counterattack.

Gooden's fast break caused a foul and made two free throws, 7:4.

The Pistons have gone three scoreless possessions.

After McGrady missed consecutive shots in the opening game, he didn't touch the ball in three or four rounds.

The Magic replaced Armstrong. He hit a three-pointer and tenaciously helped the Magic tie the score.

Carlisle, who had been sitting peacefully on the sidelines, began to stand up, with his hips on his hips and his face down, feeling that something was wrong.

The Pistons' offense was completely unplayable.

Both Hamilton and Billups are closely followed.

No matter how Hamilton runs, there will always be someone to help defend him.

And Billups failed to find a chance in several pick-and-rolls, and he couldn't attack by himself.

The two sides played in the opening 5 minutes, 9:7, and the Pistons led by 2 points.

Except for Li Liang, the Pistons only scored 2 points with Hamilton's free throws.

At this time, McGrady finally started to score.

He used the outside screen to go around 45 degrees to the left. After receiving a pass from Armstrong, he pulled up and shot a two-point jumper and hit it!

Li Liang knew that McGrady was about to start.

Then, the garbage Pistons made another pass error in the offense.

But Li Liang snatched the ball back, passed the ball to Wallace under the basket, and Wallace dunked violently with both hands!

flew...

Nima is buckled again!

Can this be buckled? Li Liang was speechless. Wallace had to fly every time in the previous mission, but this time he passed it so well, so he still flew?

Then the Magic counterattacked, and the basket was also in chaos. They grabbed three rebounds and missed three layups.

This game was really ugly.

On the Pistons side, Billups countered with a three-pointer, which was short.

Li Liang followed, tapped lightly, and made a tip-up.

The trash piston's offense can only be relied on by Lao Tzu.

In fact, it's not that the Pistons are garbage, but that the Pistons are really in a bad state this time.

Then, McGrady took the ball on the wing again, and Li Liang stepped forward to take the initiative to match McGrady.

"Go aside!" Li Liang said to Michael Curry.

Curry can no longer be defended, and if he is allowed to defend again, McGrady will be labeled as Jordan.

McGrady held the ball facing the basket and faced Li Liang.

Li Liang looked firm and steady, lowered his center of gravity, and kept an appropriate distance.

After dribbling continuously, McGrady suddenly accelerated to the bottom line with his left hand to break through!

Li Liang followed up as quickly as possible. He had been holding Mai Di's waist with his hand, and he had already sensed that he was going to go left.

But still a little slower, McGrady hit a negative angle.

Li Liang almost pushed him out of the baseline. In this case, the average player can only pass the ball.

But McGrady still took off, made an extreme lever change in the air, changed from left to right, and made a reverse pick!

Li Liang had already defended the ball to the extreme, but he still couldn't stop McGrady from scoring.

But Li Liang was not upset, the game was still long.