Chapter 313: A Last Battle
After Qin Yang said this, he put down the basin and left.
The words have been said and there is no point in going on.
If Howard can comprehend, he will definitely be able to comprehend, and if he can't, then the Magic team has no choice. This playoff game is going to be lost.
When Qin Yang returned to the training room, he met his teammates.
To Qin Yang's surprise, Rashad Lewis was actually in training.
The rest of the Magic team didn't come, and it seemed that the team lost and the series was over, but it didn't occur that Rashad Lewis was training here instead.
To be honest, this surprised Qin Yang.
"Rashad, why don't you go and rest?"
Qin Yang asked, picked up the ball and began to warm up.
Generally, the warm-up of players is without the ball and directly conducts sports training, while Qin Yang's warm-up is to hold the ball directly, whether it is running or doing warm-up exercises, Qin Yang has the ball in hand.
This is the guidance given to Qin Yang by the training machine, and the future Kevin Daniel is trained in this way.
This is very useful for point guards to develop their ball sense.
With Qin Yang's height, he has never suffered too much in ball control, in addition to being very careful in the early stage, the biggest advantage is his ball sense and dribbling.
The ball feels good, and there are many advantages to shooting.
Rashad Lewis is already out of warm-up and is working on shooting.
In practice, Rashad Lewis was very accurate in his shots, almost one in one, often in thirty or forty quickly, and none of them missed.
Judging from the shooting alone, there is no suspense that Nowitzki ranks first among the league's power forwards, and Rashad Lewis is eligible to compete for second place.
It's just that Rashad Lewis behaved mediocre after getting a 100 million yuan contract, and he was treated as a parallel import.
Especially this season, after the injury of Rashad Lewis, the speed was greatly reduced, and the performance was much worse than last season, during the playoffs last season, Rashad Lewis hit again and again at critical moments, and the Cavaliers were depressed, at that time, Qin Yang felt bad when he saw Rashad Lewis shooting.
"Bruce, do you think our team still has any hope of winning the championship?"
After training, Rashad Lewis asked with a sigh of relief.
Rashad Lewis felt a little uncomfortable in his heart.
Coming to the Magic team, it is to take a fancy to Howard's potential and strength, after the addition of Rashad Lewis, the Magic team did perform better and better, but never won the championship.
It's the closest thing to the championship, but it looks so far away.
Qin Yang finished his warm-up and threw the basketball out in the midcourt position, familiar rhythm and position, the basketball flew out directly, and swished into the net.
"I don't know, it's just that no matter what, I have to fight, if I don't fight, I lose, I'm not willing, so if I shoot forty balls in the next game, don't be surprised."
Qin Yang said half-truthfully.
Rashad Lewis smiled and continued training.
Qin Yang has a lot of ball control in the Magic team this season, but he doesn't score much, because he averages 12.3 shots per game, which is not high in the Magic team, and most of the shooting opportunities are given to teammates.
As a point guard, it's inappropriate to shoot too many times on a team like the Magic.
This is a tactical decision of the Magic.
Howard used to always think that his shots were too low and he was not the core of the team, in fact, the core of the Magic team was Howard, just look at the Magic team's lineup and play.
The Magic's offense seems to be attacking from the outside, but it relies heavily on the inside.
The real change based on accident risk should be Qin Yang's partner with a scoring guard and small forward who is very off-ball projection, plus a swingman with outstanding defense.
As for the inside, it has impact, it can help defense, and it is better if it can shoot.
But the Magic are not.
The Magic's lineup is configured for Howard, and it can best play Howard's strength.
In the afternoon, the Magic players came back one after another, and there were two days left in the third game, so it stands to reason that today is a rest day after the game, but everyone is very tacit.
Except for Howard.
After training in the afternoon, Qin Yang called everyone to dinner.
The place to eat is the Chinese restaurant in Orlando.
It is said to be eating, but it is actually a meeting.
"This time the team lost two games in a row, maybe these two games will decide the victory of the game, I have no doubt about that, but I will not admit defeat like this, and if I am willing to fight with me on the court in the next game, I will take the initiative to come out, I will tell the coach, and if the others admit defeat, let go of some time."
Qin Yang is very direct in the team.
At this point, there is nothing else to say.
The communication within the team has been almost done this season. Now it doesn't need to be so tactful, but the leader of the team needs to stand up and express his determination at a critical moment.
"I'm willing to play."
Rashad Lewis was the first to step up.
"I would too."
"I don't want to admit defeat like that."
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One by one, the players stood up, and everyone confessed at this time.
The momentum of the Magic team is back up.
Qin Yang smiled and high-fived everyone.
After everyone left, Qin Yang leaked a tired look.
"Let's hope Dwight will step up!"
Qin Yang muttered to himself and drove home.
This time to boost morale, in fact, it is a back-to-back battle, the last battle of the Overlord, if the Magic team loses this game, then the last game will be needless to say.
There is no doubt about losing.
To put two games and all the momentum of this season into play at once, it's a desperate fight.
There's no way, it's too late if you don't fight.
Wait until the fourth game to fight, and the Magic team really won't have a chance.
It is impossible to take a 3-0 lead on the finals stage and then be overturned, and the Magic team can't do it in the next so many home games. So the only chance the Magic have to win is that they have to win the next game.
Rise from the ashes.
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After a day of rest, the Magic headed for Los Angeles.
Against the Lakers away, the Magic team performed extremely low-key, Howard did not give interviews to the media, and there was not much smile on his face, and the Magic team conducted almost closed training.
But that didn't make it feel like the Magic had a chance to win.
ESPN experts said on the TV show:
"The captain of the Magic has performed very well this season, but the Lakers are obviously better, and the lack of dominance and championship temperament of the Magic will determine the ceiling of the Magic team."
"If it was Kobe Bryant's first two defeats, the news we would have would have been that Kobe Bryant would train until 10 o'clock in the evening, and then continue to get up at 5 o'clock the next day to train and prepare for the game. And Howard ...... He had just come out of the nightclub at five o'clock in the morning, and he was also tired. ”
The two games in the finals were average, and after the loss, they had a nightclub party.
Howard's performance made everyone helpless, even the reporters and coaches who were willing to vote for Howard as the regular season MVP had nothing to say.
A reporter in Orlando said directly in his column:
"It's normal for Howard to not win the regular season MVP for a performance like this, otherwise the whole league will be ashamed of it."