Chapter 225: Dominance
As soon as the Magic team stepped up the confrontation, pushing and rushing, squeezing and slowly using all kinds of movements, the Pacers were a little overwhelmed.
Danny Granger was 1-of-5 in the second quarter, Troy Murphy was 2-of-5, and the Pacers scored just nine points in the first eight minutes of the second quarter, shooting just under 40 percent.
With this kind of hit rate, Magic took the lead easily.
In the eighth minute of the second quarter, Qin Yang went off the court and Jason Williams played.
In all fairness, Jason Williams, despite his age, is a very good point guard, both in terms of playmaking and shooting.
Most of the league's backup point guards don't meet that standard.
But the gap between Jason Williams and Qin Yang is huge.
There are two main reasons for the Magic's record this season, the first is Howard, Howard has entered his peak this season, and his offense and defense under the basket are among the top in the league.
While Howard doesn't have the projection of Stoudemire and Nowitzki in terms of offensive skills, his power and speed give him an unstoppable advantage against almost every interior.
Unless other teams use shark slashing tactics.
The shark slashing tactic is not a conventional tactic, hurting others and hurting oneself.
Second, it is Qin Yang.
Qin Yang's height of more than 2m is an absolute bug in point guard, this height is more than enough to play small forward, playing point guard and scoring guard, it is inherently misplaced.
In this way, if the small forward on the opposite side comes to defend Qin Yang, then Qin Yang's teammates can get a misplaced opportunity.
The misalignment offense itself is the most efficient way to attack in the league, and most of the league's tactics are launched with the misalignment offense as the core.
Qin Yang's presence makes the Magic team naturally have a misplaced offense.
The inside line is strong, the outside line is misplaced, how can the Magic team not have a strong record.
After Qin Yang went off the court in the second quarter, the Magic team still did not lag behind, Jason Williams controlled the ball to attack, and the Magic team's offense was still in order.
It's just that without Qin Yang on the floor, the Magic's ability to contain the outside has decreased significantly, and the person who attacks with the ball has become Vince Carter.
Vince Carter was on the bench and the lineup was already strong.
By the end of the third quarter, the Magic had an 11-point lead.
Gortat played brilliantly in his bench time, scoring 12 points and 6 rebounds, and the Pacers bench was in pain, and the Pacers' interior pillar was Hibbert.
In the past two seasons, Hibbert has been playing better and better, and there is a tendency to become a new generation of league superstars.
But apart from Hibbert, the Pacers bench interior is too weak, and Hansbru is a good interior player.
When Qin Yang came out in the fourth quarter, he made 3 of 5 three-pointers and handed out 5 assists, which directly pulled down the difference by 18 points, and the Pacers also surrendered on the road.
In this game, Qin Yang shot 9 of 18 and easily scored 25 points and 11 assists, helping the Magic team win at home. 、
Howard faced future potential superstar Hibbert and scored 22 points, 23 rebounds and 4 blocks, including 4 of 10 shots and 13 of 22 free throws.
That's right, it only took ten shots to score 22 points, which is simply ungodly efficient.
Of course, after seeing that the free throw shooting rate was less than sixty percent, Qin Yang was also quite helpless.
Even if other teams use shark slashing tactics, it may not be easy to use in many cases, similar to the Jazz's home court, which is still rare in the entire league.
There are also a lot of problems in the free throws of both teams, with the Pacers only making 10 free throws in the game, which is a very small number.
It's not how awesome the home whistle is, and the whole team of the Pacers is a jump shooting team, and the current core Mike Dunleavy is a small forward similar to Daniel Granger, who is mainly jumpers, and it is easy to play out of shape when encountering a strong defensive outside.
This game, to a certain extent, also illustrates Howard's dominance.
After the game, the Chicago Sports News reported: the league's No. 1 center.
"This season, the core of the Magic team, Dwight Howard, played steadily and improved, in the home game against the Pacers, although there were only 10 shots in the whole game, it felt incredible, he got 22 points, 23 rebounds and 4 blocks, among the active centers, with the aging of Shaq O'Neal, the Great Wall of China showed fatigue, the state was up and down, and Howard became the most dominant center in the league."
Chicago sports news certainly wouldn't be so simple as praising Howard.
But such news was widely recognized by the coalition.
In the playoffs last season, Yao Ming played against the Bobcats with an injury, and finally defeated the Bobcats, but Yao Ming was injured because of this, and outsiders did not know the details, but Qin Yang and Yao Ming had a good relationship, and they called after the game to ask, Yao Ming was very dull, and this injury is likely to affect the entire career.
Shaq O'Neal showed his old age last season, and he is no longer the shark O'Neal who can dunk baskets in the past.
So, Howard is the undisputed strongest interior player in the league right now, and interior dominance has reached its peak throughout the season.
And the Chicago media praised Howard with only one intention...... That's that with an inside player like Howard, my grandma and he can win.
Buck used this to say O'Neill.
Now the Chicago media also says the same about Howard, the implication is that Qin Yang is no different from Tekoglu last season, they are both players who rely on the system, and without the system, there is no threat.
This has also become the only place where Qin Yang can be blackened this season.
This season, in addition to two or three sluggish games and miserable data, Qin Yang has obtained 20+15 data many times, and this season he averaged 19.6 points and 11.4 assists per game, which is the highest in the league in assists per game, and the score is also among the best among point guards.
The Chicago media's claims are complete nonsense.
But who let the Chicago media have the champion Derrick Rose in the same year as Qin Yang, in comparison, Rose received much higher treatment than Qin Yang.
This season, Rose has sold the third highest jersey and shoe in the league, behind Kobe Bryant and LeBron James.
Perhaps many people think it is incredible, by that time Derrick Rose's highly ornamental performance caused a sensation in the league, even if Qin Yang has the identity of Chinese, 30+ points in a single quarter of the playoffs, and an average of 20+15 per game in the first ten games of the season, compared to the popularity and influence, it is still not as good as Derrick Rose.
Rose is already a superstar in the league.
The Chicago media boasted about Howard so much in order to belittle Qin Yang.
When he saw the news, Qin Yang just smiled, he didn't care, and he didn't get angry because of it, but Howard saw it and said:
"Bruce, next time you go to Chicago, beat Rose up, and see if he dares to underestimate you."
Qin Yang smiled bitterly and nodded.