The Wizards served to the frontcourt. Li Kaiming turned around and asked for the ball inside the three-point line. Hinrich passed a high pass to Li Kaiming. After the latter got the ball, he turned around with his left foot and faced the basket. He first made a feint. .
Anderson guarded Li Kaiming for a while. Knowing that the latter's shot was accurate, he immediately moved his focus forward to prevent Li Kaiming from making a sudden shot.
But Anderson is not good at defending fast players. This move directly gave Li Kaiming an opportunity. He suddenly dropped the ball and broke through from the right side. Anderson didn't react and was passed by Li Kaiming in one step.
Because Li Kaiming's step was too big, he passed Anderson and was close to the penalty area. Howard under the basket was also ready to go and help Anderson defend.
Li Kaiming, on the other hand, did not rush to the basket to attack the basket. He pulled up a jumper directly outside the penalty area and scored two points!
61 to 54.
The Wizards served, and this time Vince Carter stood up and held the ball in singles against Nick Young. When he arched his back near the penalty area, he attracted Li Kaiming to help defend, and then passed the ball to Anderson on the outside, who received the ball. The ball hit a three-pointer.
61 to 57!
After the third quarter, both sides felt very good. The Wizards attacked. Hinrich handed the ball to Li Kaiming after arriving in the frontcourt. The Magic's defensive efficiency was too high. Even if the Wizards could run out of tactics, the last shot was taken. The hit rate is not high, so it is better to let Li Kaiming play Anderson alone. This can create opportunities more easily, and Li Kaiming's success rate in singles is also very high.
After receiving the ball, Li Kaiming directly dropped the ball to break through. He broke away from Anderson and broke into the penalty area. He used a fake shot to attract Howard to help defend. Then he passed the ball to Blatche under the basket, who dunked it in with both hands!
63 to 57.
The Magic attacked. This time Arenas used the pick-and-roll to go to the middle, attracting help from the defense and then passed to Quentin Richardson. The latter shot directly from the mid-range, but unfortunately, the Magic lost the third quarter. a ball.
Richardson's strike seemed to sound the clarion call for the Magic. From this round on, the Magic's shooting percentage dropped sharply, especially from outside. The average was almost four or five. Only one shot can be hit.
On the contrary, under the leadership of Li Kaiming, the Wizards did not feel explosive, but they also maintained a basic shooting percentage. After advancing and retreating, Li Kaiming started to rest on the court again in the third quarter and focused on Put it on driving teammates.
After the Magic discovered that their outside drafts were poor, they immediately changed the team's style of play. Everyone rushed to the basket with the ball, and Howard also began to unleash his power at the basket with all his strength.
However, except for Arenas, the Magic's other players are not a big threat to break through. Vince Carter's physical fitness is very good and he is known as "half man and half god". His highlights are also very violent, but in fact he is one of the "four major points". "Guard" has the highest proportion of outside shots. Among the other three, even the shortest Allen Iverson likes to use sharp breakthroughs to score in the penalty area filled with people.
Insider Ryan Anderson is a pure shooter, and it is unrealistic to expect him to break through. Howard can play without the ball, but breaking through with the ball is less interesting.
Therefore, although Van Gundy set a strategy for the players to attack the inside in the second half, only point guard Arenas could actually implement this strategy.
Howard can indeed dominate the Wizards' interior on the defensive end, but he is really struggling on the offensive end and can only use his physical fitness to grab a few more offensive rebounds.
But it's not like you can grab as many offensive rebounds as you want. As soon as Howard exerted his strength in the paint, the Wizards players began to shrink inward. Especially after the Magic's shot, everyone on the Wizards squeezed into the penalty area. , just to get blocked and grab rebounds.
In this case, let alone your 208 Howard, even if Chamberlain was alive, he would not be able to steal five people by himself.
What's more, Li Kaiming also has a way to respond to transition to fast break. After Howard grabbed two offensive rebounds, Li Kaiming turned around and grabbed the offensive rebound in the next round, and then directly dribbled into the frontcourt by himself, taking advantage of the Magic. The team was empty inside and unsteady on the outside. They rushed in and launched a one-arm dunk, which immediately caused Van Gundy to change his offensive rebounding strategy.
After all, if Howard grabs an offensive rebound, you may not be able to score, but if you let Li Kaiming start the transition from the backcourt, and Howard doesn't have time to return to defense, he will basically either foul or dunk!
At the end of the third quarter, the Wizards extended the point difference to double digits 89 to 77, and this was the result of the starting lineup only playing more than half of the quarter. In the second half of the quarter, Sanders replaced Hinrich, Li Kaiming and others. , and then the Magic took the opportunity to chase back some points, otherwise the point difference would be even greater.
After the short inter-section break, both sides took their starting lineups and began the final battle.
The Magic came up with the first attack. Arenas broke through with the ball, attracted a double team, and then passed it to Vince Carter on the outside. The latter feinted into the inside, then threw the ball high, and Howard squeezed out of the basket. The odd piece of cake was successful.
89 to 79.
Hinrich of the Wizards dribbled the ball forward, and Li Kaiming stepped forward to cover. Hinrich broke through to the waist position and was double-teamed. He passed the ball to Nick Young on the outside. Others thought they would pass the ball again, but Nick Young caught the ball. After the ball was passed, he directly ignored the defense and hit it!
92 to 79!
Next to the Magic bench, Stan Van Gundy's face twitched. Nick Young didn't have convulsions before, but now he has convulsions. This three-pointer is almost a knife in the main artery of the Magic team!
When the Magic attacked, Arenas reached the frontcourt and handed the ball to Carter. The latter was shot by Nick Yang. Of course he had to fight back if he felt uncomfortable.
After Carter held the ball, he stood as a three-point threat. After slightly shifting Nick Young's defensive focus, he took a step to the side and shot a jumper. Unfortunately, the haze in the third quarter still enveloped him, and the ball did not hit.
Blatche protected the rebound. Arenas began to prevent Hinrich from catching the ball. Blatche had to give the ball to Li Kaiming. After the latter dribbled the ball to the frontcourt, facing Anderson's defense, the rest of the Magic team was at the center. Under Howard's command, he concentrated on following his opponent. Unexpectedly, Li Kaiming took a step directly from the three-point line!
The basketball drew a parabola in the air and fell into the basket with a bang!
95 to 79!
Stan Van Gundy only felt his heart bleeding!
Originally, he thought that in the fourth quarter, his team would be able to defend well while slowly recovering the points difference, but he never expected that the Wizards would score two unreasonable three-pointers. , directly hitting the point difference to 16 points!
The fans at the mcI Center cheered and lamented that the Wizards' ball looks much better this season. Not only are there explosive dunks, but this kind of unreasonable facial three-pointers can be seen every game.
In the commentary box, Hayward was speechless, "The Orlando Magic's defensive efficiency ranks third in the league. It seems so ironic now. Even if they can't guard the league's scoring leader, they can't even guard the rest of the Wizards." live!"
"Oh! My man, I have a different opinion than you," Rose said next to him. "I think it is precisely because Orlando can't guard Li Kaiming that they can't guard other people. You watch the game. In the process, most of Washington's outside opportunities were created by Li Kaiming using his own threats to attract double-teams from the Magic. After a whole game of hand training, if other players feel hot in the fourth quarter, they can throw This kind of ball doesn’t surprise me at all.”
Hayward also nodded. Even he had to admit that Li Kaiming's influence on the offensive end was several times more terrifying than what the data showed!
The game on the court was still going on, but the Magic never regained its touch. Arenas threw himself into the Wizards' penalty area with all his strength, and Howard also went crazy under the basket, but it still didn't help. .
In the fourth quarter, Li Kaiming didn't even have to play his role as a "key shooter". On the offensive end, he basically stood on the outside dealing cards or setting up pick-and-rolls for his teammates, while focusing mainly on the defensive end.
Everyone on the Magic team rushed to the basket like crazy, and Blatche alone couldn't handle it.
Li Kaiming's full commitment on the defensive end relieved a lot of pressure on Brac, and the two of them worked together to barely block the Magic's bombing of the penalty area.
The offensive end basically relied on those outside shooters. At the end of the game, the Washington Wizards defeated the Orlando Magic 118-104, successfully winning the battle for the second place in the Eastern Conference and winning three consecutive games. At the same time, he improved his position on the record list by one place.
Li Kaiming played for 32 minutes and made 11 of 17 shots, including 4 of 5 three-pointers and 5 of 6 free throws. He scored 31 points, 9 rebounds and 12 assists, a near-triple double. In fact, in the last few minutes of the game, Sanders was After looking at the statistics, I was ready to switch to Li Kaiming to get a rebound. After all, triple-doubles are relatively rare, and most players may not be able to get a triple-double in their entire career.
But Li Kaiming directly rejected Sanders's kindness, "As long as I win the game, it doesn't matter what my statistics are!"
Besides, Li Kaiming had three triple-doubles in just one month of the regular season. He didn't think there was anything unusual about such data.
Relatively speaking, he cares more about winning or losing this game, because after winning this game, this week's Eastern Conference Player of the Week is basically his, and he can get three Player of the Week in one month. Could it be possible that the best player could be someone else?
However, in order to make his player of the month award more stable, his performance against the Miami Heat in the next game, which is also the last game of the month, is particularly important...
America On November 28, local time, the day after the Wizards arrived in the coastal city of Miami, the NBA official website and Twitter simultaneously updated the Player of the Week for the fourth week of November.
Eastern Conference Player of the Week, Washington Wizards forward Kaiming Li, averaged 34.5 points, 7.3 rebounds and 10 assists per game, leading the team to 3 wins and 0 losses. The team currently ranks second in the Eastern Conference.
Western Conference Player of the Week, Dallas Mavericks forward Dirk Nowitzki, averaged 28.5 points, 6.5 rebounds and 3.5 assists per game, leading the team to 4 wins and 0 losses. The team is currently ranked third in the Western Conference.
Since the start of the season, the NBA's Eastern and Western divisions have named four Players of the Week respectively. Li Kaiming has won three of the Best Players in the Eastern Conference, while the Western Conference has a different player every week. It can be said that Li Kaiming is the ironclad. The best of the Western Weekend in Liushui!
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