Author: Autumn Leaves Orange

Are the Sparks good in the paint?

There is no doubt that if he doesn't play well against Li Ran, he won't have to continue playing in the NBA.

At the end of the first half, the Sparks had scored 22 points and 14 rebounds.

But is it useful?

Useless.

Because the Magic are already 13 points behind.

Apart from the Sparks, Lewis was the second-leading scorer on the Magic team, with only 6 points.

The Nuggets let go of Howard, but stared at the other Magic players.

Again, George Karl firmly believes that Howard alone cannot kill the game.

And the game progressed just as he expected.

Howard took the data and lost the game.

In the first game of the Finals, the Nuggets used a strange formation to defeat the Eastern Conference champion Magic without any surprises.

Howard played 45 minutes and scored 41 points, 24 rebounds, 5 assists and 5 blocks.

But the team lost on the road by 19 points.

Apart from Howard, only Turkoglu scored in double figures for the Nuggets, scoring 14 points.

On the Nuggets side, Li Ran defended Howard for the entire game, scoring 22 points and grabbing 21 rebounds.

Although I was rewarded with a few spicy hotpots by Hua Hua, it didn't matter.

Anthony had 28 points, 11 rebounds and 5 assists.

Billups had 21 points, 4 rebounds and 7 assists.

JR Smith had 18 points, 3 rebounds and 4 assists.

Yi Jianlian had 14 points and 5 rebounds.

Cutting off the connection between Howard and other players, the Nuggets won this game extremely easily.

Although Anthony scored the highest score in the team, everyone knew that Li Ran, who was almost exhausted from defending against the sparks in this game, was the biggest contributor to the team's victory.

113-132, the Nuggets scored a rare big score in the finals in this era.

Van Gundy is going crazy.

This is not the game he wanted to play at all.

Who would have thought that the Nuggets gave them O'Neal and could beat them like this?

Li Ran was in pain and happy. After the game, he stood in front of the mirror in the locker room after taking a shower. The skin on his body was already bruised and bruised. These were all left when he fought against Howard.

Howard is nearly fifty pounds heavier and eleven centimeters taller than him, so he is no match for him in the paint.

That is to say, Li Ran is a weirdo. If he were replaced by any swingman in the league, the outcome of this game would be hard to say.

If it had been anyone else, the Sparks' statistics in this game might not have been 40+20, but 40+30 or even 50+30.

In the history of the NBA Finals, it was the first time that someone had a double-double of 20+ at the same time.

The excitement of the finals suddenly became fierce, especially in China, which is even better.

Without it, fans saw a possibility.

Is it possible for Li Ran to win FMVP?

In the first game, Anthony scored 28+11 and Li Ran scored 22+21. From the data point of view, it was even Li Ran who made the greatest contribution to the team.

Regardless of how Da Fan racked his brains to find countermeasures after the game, during the Nuggets' training session on the second day, the players generally showed a very special state.

Excited.

That's right, it's excitement.

The championship is close at hand, who wouldn't be excited?

Li Ran even played bullfighting with Anthony, but using the inside method.

In the end, Li Ran was beaten 10-3 by Gua Ge and lost miserably.

Although he has learned footwork, his back-fighting skills are far behind those of Gua Ge.

Tomorrow is the second game of the series. If the Nuggets can control their two home courts, then they can gain an absolute advantage in this series.

George Karl stood on the sidelines with his arms folded and watched the players train in a relaxed atmosphere.

The training itself is done to maintain condition, and the intensity is certainly not high.

He is now considering whether to change his formation for the second game.

Logically speaking, there is no need for the winning team to change its formation, but George Karl has always been a little uneasy.

Van Gundy is not an easy person. He used such a crooked move to defeat the Magic in the first game. George Karl did not believe that Van Gundy would not make corresponding changes.

But how can the Nuggets change their lineup? This lineup is basically the Nuggets' strongest strength right now.

It is said to be basic because after the first game, George Karl was planning to fine-tune the lineup the next day.

Mason's performance in the first game was not good. He played too little time in the regular season. In the playoffs, he was suddenly put into the starting lineup and his performance was very unstable.

Fortunately, what the Nuggets strangled was the connection between Howard and the outside shooters, so Turkoglu's performance was equally poor.

Without Howard, Turkoglu will not be able to win the game with three shooters no matter how strong his organizational skills are.

It's just that George Karl has seen that the effect of using Mason is not good, so he plans to replace Yi Jianlian in the next game, allowing Anthony to return to his most comfortable third position.

On the other side, did Van Gundy make any effective response?

It's not that simple. The Magic have been playing like this for the past two seasons. How can they make temporary adjustments?

There is no problem with the touch of the Magic shooters, but they are unable to take shots as unscrupulously as before when Howard, a super blue-collar player, is restricted. This is the reason for their collective inaccuracy in the first game.

In addition, after careful analysis, Dafan discovered with some despair that except for Howard, the Magic could not take advantage of any of the other four matchups.

And does Sparks have an advantage over Li Ran?

have!

But this advantage is obviously given to them by the Nuggets.

To put it bluntly, the Nuggets' strange lineup in the last game was a disguised version of Jordan's Law.

You can score as you wish, but I must cut off the connection between you and your teammates.

By using the same tricks they used against old gangsters against Howard, the Nuggets gave him enough face.

The second game started as scheduled at the Pepsi Center. As expected, Fan did not make any personnel changes. Instead, George Karl took the lead in changing the lineup.

He replaced Mason, who had a mediocre performance in the previous game, and replaced him with Yi Jianlian, allowing Anthony to return to the third position.

Nene did not appear on the starting lineup for two consecutive games, but he did not complain at all and happily cheered for his teammates off the court.

It's not that his relationship with his teammates has become so good that they don't differentiate between them. It also has nothing to do with the optimistic nature of Brazilians.

A very simple reason is that if JR is mentioned in the starting lineup, then the key position of sixth man will fall on Nene.

Generally speaking, in a team, as the sixth man, he gets more ball rights in a game than the average starter.

What's more, there are examples like Ke 6, Ben Gordon, and Lou Williams who became the team's scoring leader as the sixth man.

Therefore, it was not that Nene had no chance to perform in the last game. On the contrary, his performance was quite good.

As the referee blew his whistle, the ball was thrown high into the sky.

Game 2 of the Finals between the Nuggets and Magic officially begins.
Chapter completed!