NBA Tyrant

At 7 p.m. on the 22nd, in the home team's locker room, Johnny stood at the top and looked around at everyone in the team.

"Guys, tonight is our second game against the Spurs, and we lost by four points before, but this time—"

Johnny paused, his tone accentuated and his voice raised.

"On our home court, I can only win and not lose! Although the Spurs have always been the top team in the league, now we are the stronger Magic team! Why?

Because we are the first in the East! Because... The rankings you've worked so hard to get are a testament to... You're strong!Tell me, do you have the confidence to win tonight!"

Johnny passionately poured chicken soup into the team.

"Yes!" the

crowd who had successfully been doused with Johnny's chicken soup immediately yelled excitedly in response.

Howard smiled and looked at his teammates who were full of blood, and the blood in his body was also boiling.

[Stone Buddha Duncan, Demon Knife Ginobili, French Sports Car Parker, Scheming Popovich, you made me taste three consecutive defeats for the first time, and I will definitely pay tribute to you if I fight again tonight. In

the Spurs' lineup, in the starting lineup, except for the center and point guard positions, which are defensive weaknesses, the other three can be said to be top-notch on the defensive end.

Tim Duncan, the No. 1 forward in future history, a top superstar with both offense and defense, and the Spurs' anchor.

Bruce Bowen is a spurned master of stepping feet, but there's no denying that his defense is top-notch in the league.

Ginobili, Argentina's scrappy fighter, often has unpredictable tackles and blocks, mature and sophisticated, but often overlooked.

Coupled with the disciplined offensive and defensive system that Popovich has built for them, it will be really difficult to tear apart the Spurs' defense if the team does not have a big killer or clever tactics.

Mobley, on the other side, also held back a lot of energy in his heart, thinking of the last game against the Spurs, and finally because of his selfish behavior, the team's hope of winning in the end was buried.

Mobley has been feeling guilty after waking up in his heart, and against the Spurs again tonight, Mobley just wants to perform well, follow the tactics, and seize every scoring opportunity created by his teammates.

We must make up for the mistakes and win for the team.

By the time Johnny finished talking about tonight's tactical arrangements, everyone left the locker room and walked to the players' tunnel, where Hill took the lead in gathering his teammates and wrapping them around each other's shoulders.

"1, 2, 3! Magic

!" "Come on!"

Spurs starting lineup tonight

: Point Guard: Tony Parker

Quarterback: Ginobili

Small Forward: Bruce Bowen

Power Forward: Tim Duncan

Center: Nesterovich

At the beginning of the first quarter, Howard got the first offensive opportunity for the Magic team smoothly, but Howard did not plan to execute the first offense as usual.

Instead, he stood directly at the 60-degree three-point line, waited for Francis to come over with the ball, and stepped forward to cover Francis and block Parker.

Parker's speed and physical fitness can only be regarded as average, and his defense is average, so if the Magic team wants to tear apart the Spurs' defense, the best position to use is Parker's point.

Francis took advantage of Howard's cover, put his foot on the force, and quickly rushed to the inside to successfully attract Nesterovich's defense.

In the face of the slow-paced big center, Francis, who has a speed advantage, it is not a problem to play small and big at all, although Nesterovic deliberately contracted his footsteps to prevent Francis's breakthrough, but still let Francis easily skim and complete the layup score.

Francis ran back and pointed at Howard.

[I didn't expect it, it was just a simple cover, and the first ball was scored so easily, and I didn't pay too much attention to it at the beginning?]

nodded to Francis in response, Howard followed Duncan closely, and Howard on the defensive end tonight was still the same as when he faced the Spurs last time, guarding Duncan.

"Hey, Nesterovich, just break through, remember to shrink the basket!" Popovich's

shouts came from the sidelines as Nesterovic crossed halftime.

The Spurs' first offense was given to Duncan.

"Come on, I'm going to limit your score to 20 tonight. Seeing

Duncan get the ball, Howard immediately became serious.

Thinking that the Spurs' scoring, to a large extent, is contributed by the stable Duncan, so in other words, is it possible to reduce the Spurs' total points as long as Duncan's scoring is limited.

"You can't do it.

Duncan held the ball to face Howard and replied lightly, his big round eyes making him look still dumbfounded.

Duncan's stunt is a 45-degree angle to wipe the board to score, and this consistent scoring stunt can be said to be unique in the history of the NBA.

Therefore, Howard didn't dare to let Duncan shoot, so he immediately stuck to it, raised his long arms high to interfere with Duncan's vision, and tried to pull out the basketball in Duncan's hand.

"Let's fight one! Duncan, I'll give you a hot pot gift!" Howard

wanted to force Duncan to beat himself, so he continued to provoke Duncan.

Duncan did not respond to Howard, using his left foot as the pivot foot, making triple threat moves and shooting feints in an attempt to deceive Howard's center of gravity.

Seeing that Howard was unmoved, Duncan's eyes suddenly became firm, and after making a shooting feint again, he forced a forced force into the restricted area from Howard's left hand.

"Hmph!"

snorted disdainfully, Howard was not deceived by Duncan's feints at all, seeing that Duncan chose to force himself, his footsteps moved quickly, and he was close to Duncan.

Seeing Duncan raise his hand to shoot, Howard did not jump rashly, but just raised his arm high and did not give Duncan favorable space to shoot.

If Duncan chooses to shoot from the start, Howard is confident that with his bounce and speed, he will be able to interfere with Duncan first, so Howard's defensive strategy is to jump from the back.

Seeing that there was not much time left for the offense, Duncan did not have the habit of throwing the pot, so he defended against Howard and forced his back throw.

Unsurprisingly, Howard turned around and took the rebound and handed it to Francis.

The Magic team advanced quickly, and seeing that the Spurs' return defense was very fast, Francis gestured to give up the fast attack positional attack.

Howard ran to the frontcourt, still without any intention of single-handedly playing inside, first made an off-ball cover for Battier to attract the attention of the Spurs defense, and then helped Hill, who cut in, to block Bowen.

Francis, who is fully adapted to the role of playmaking defender, found the gap and passed straight to Hill, who cut inside and was unguarded, and Hill received the ball and easily scored with one foot and two hands in the basket.

Originally, the Spurs' twin towers were absolutely guaranteed for the interior defense, but when they encountered Howard and Turkoglou, two interior lines with projection.

They couldn't shrink inside, Duncan had to keep an eye on the three-point battery, Turkoglou, and Nesterovic had to keep up with Howard, so when Hill cut in, the Spurs had no one on the inside.

Back to the Spurs offense, after many passes of the ball, the basketball finally passed to Nesterovic who came to the basket.

Against Turkoglou, Nesterovic wanted to use his height and weight advantage to score on the board, but apparently he underestimated Turkoglou.

Turkoglu reached out with a quick hand, cut the basketball in Nesterovic's hand, pocketed it, and quickly passed it to Hill, who was running.

Bowen, Ginobili and Parker were not slow to react and immediately ran back to their backcourt.

Howard dropped Duncan and got up to speed with his feet, chasing after a few people.

Bowen followed Hill closely, Ginobili stared at Hill at the front, and Parker kept an eye on Francis and Battier's movements.

Hill looked against Bowen's defense and small movements, turned his head slightly and took a quick look, and saw Howard following behind him, and he had a plan in his heart.

When running to the penalty area, Hill didn't even jump, and threw the ball directly in the direction of Howard and ran out of the baseline himself.

Bowen and Ginobili looked back suspiciously, and saw that Howard, who had received the ball, had already jumped with his feet at the free throw line, and rushed over with the domineering momentum of Tarzan holding the basketball in both hands.

Because

Bowen followed Hill very closely, when Hill passed the basketball, Bowen just saw it, so he stopped under the basket.

At this time, when I turned around, I was just in time to meet Howard with a violent buckle on the head, and it was too late to dodge, unlike Ginobili, who was a little far away and dodged in time.

So when Howard hung the basket with both hands to complete the dunk, he rode directly on Bowen's head.

"Wow, ahh

"Yo, I'm sorry, it's on your head!" Howard

turned and pointed his hands at the fans after apologizing without apologies at all, and celebrated with the fans.

Magic 6:0 Spurs.

Coach Popovich on the sidelines clasped his hands to his chest with a gloomy face.

When Duncan again went back to nowhere in front of Howard, and Hill made a defensive foul on Bowen and made both free throws, Coach Popovich called a timeout.

"Everybody did a really good job, keep up with our tactical play, Hill is in good shape, you can feed Hill more, Howard, you do a good cover.

Howard sat down on the bench and nodded when he heard Johnny was very happy with his starter.

"Okay, I'll cover for Hill more. Soon

after the timeout, Howard found that the Spurs had replaced center Nesterovic with Marry Cross, a short power forward who was only 201 tall but weighed 113 kilograms.

[This is going to play one big and four small, to match our lineup?] Then Duncan switched to the center position, and the offense and defense are opposite me. The

Spurs didn't give the inside offense this round, Parker held the ball outside the three-point line and directed his teammates to run.

Ginobili slipped to the bottom line with Duncan's cover, shook off Battier's follow-up, received Parker's pass in the bottom corner, and hit a three-point shot.

The two teams began to score each other, and Howard played only 6 minutes in the first quarter to help the team lead by 7 points, but unfortunately when Howard came off the court, the Spurs' Duncan was released.

Duncan, who was originally 0 of 3, scored two goals in a row, but by the end of the first quarter, it became 2 of 5, and the Spurs also chased the score to 19:21, only 2 points short.

In the second quarter, Howard still only played 6 minutes, only made 4 shots, hit 3 shots, extended the lead, and then went off the break.

Howard, who thought that after he was off the court, the Spurs would close the score again, but he didn't expect Mobley, who appeared as the sixth man in the second quarter, to explode.

Mobley, who played the second quarter, was 4-of-6 and scored 11 points in a single quarter, helping the Magic expand the score again, and in the final half, the Magic 51-40 Spurs, leading by 11 points.

"Old cat, my hand is hot

tonight!cow!" "Looks like it's your Mobley tonight

!haha!" "Mobley, are you going to do a urine test!hahaha!"

In the halftime locker room, everyone on the Magic team was happy for Mobley, who felt good, and joked.

The game is exactly as Johnny and Howard had envisioned.

In the first half, Howard focused on defense and offensive assists to cover and cooperate with teammates, cultivating teammates' feel and increasing their tactical proficiency.

It turns out that the Magic's starters and benches are already worthy of Howard's trust.

In the second half, a refreshed Howard will take over the offensive banner, completely control the game, take away the victory at home, and avenge the Spurs.

In the third quarter, Howard began to turn over the river on the inside, scoring against Duncan, under the wrap of Duncan and Nesterovich, dunking vigorously, dunking in the air, and so on.

Coupled with Mobley's continued firepower output, the Magic led the Spurs by 10 points in the third quarter, widening the gap to 21 points.

In the fourth quarter, when the home fans were already celebrating, and Johnny and Howard both thought the game was a win, the demon knife was unsheathed.

Ginobili only used half a quarter, shot inside and outside, and added three three-pointers to narrow the 21-point difference to only 9 points in the blink of an eye.

Seeing that there was a possibility of being overturned, Johnny urgently called a timeout, five up and five down, and sent the starters on the court again.

Howard looked at the rising Spurs, especially Ginobili, and remembered a slip of the tongue he heard about the GDP trio.

"Good Realm Parker Adversity Buddha, Desperate Demon Knife Kill the Demons!" [

Tsk, desperate situation look at the demon knife!] It seems that it is really not nonsense, but with my Howard here, your demon knife can only give me an honest sheath.

Although Ginobili, who has entered a certain state, keeps scoring for the Spurs, the Magic also has Howard who is wantonly slashing points inside the Spurs.

The score is 9 points, 10 points, 11 points back and forth, no matter how crazy Ginobili is, the difference just can't continue to narrow.

Until the last 1 minute, the difference was still 11 points, and Popovich finally chose to give up the game, replace the main team, and throw in the towel.

When the final whistle blew, the Magic 103:92 Spurs successfully took revenge.

Howard played 30 minutes, 12-of-19, and scored 27 points, 18 rebounds, 7 assists, 2 steals and 4 blocks.

But the biggest contributor to the Magic tonight was not Howard, but Mobley, the team's sixth man who played 35 minutes, shot 10-of-17 and had 26 points, 4 rebounds and 2 assists.