Seeing the team's situation on the court gradually at a disadvantage, although Stan Van Gundy was also full of thoughts at the moment, he still took advantage of a dead ball stage to gradually get back his main lineup.

Faced with the substitution adjustment at this stage, Van Gundy also chose to let Su Jiu rest for a while off the court, but instead took the lead in getting Howard, a Warcraft with more energy.

Because compared to Su Jiu, Howard's physical strength on the court will definitely be even better.

So even though Su Jiu performed very well in the first quarter, Van Gundy still made an orderly arrangement for Su Jiu's rest time.

After all, after defeating the Cavaliers last time, Van Gundy also deeply understood the problem of Su Jiu's playing time.

Especially Su Jiu still has some past hidden dangers of injury so far, so this also forced Van Gundy to become more cautious.

Once Su Jiu has something to do on the court, it will definitely be a fatal blow to the Magic team today.

With Howard's reappearance, the Magic's offensive pressure has also been relieved.

After all, no matter how strong the Birdman Anderson has blocked his ability, his ability to defend is only the upper level in the league, but his low post ability is definitely at a disadvantage in the center position.

Especially in this game, the person he is currently in charge of defense is Howard, the Warcraft, who has always been famous for his physical fitness in the league.

So in this low post defense, Anderson did not take any advantage.

Although Anderson is 2.08 meters tall, his weight is only 103 kilograms, which is definitely thin at the center position.

Although Anderson is able to make up for it by using his speed and flexibility when facing most centers.

However, facing Howard, who only used his strength to attack the basket, Anderson was a little depressed.

This also led to the fact that the birdman in this game was not only not as arrogant as the whole game, but was still completely suppressed by Howard like an old hen.

After seeing Howard return to the court, the Magic had a qualitative change on both offense and defense.

Nuggets head coach George Carl couldn't help frowning.

For George Carl, who has never liked to double-team tactics, facing Howard, who was showing off his might at the basket at this time, the most correct adjustment is to replace Nene and try to interfere with him.

Taking advantage of Howard's foul by Birdman Anderson again at the basket, George Carl also took Nene directly.

After all, while being two meters tall and weighing 113 kilograms, at least if you defend Howard at a low post, you won't suffer any loss.

Because no matter what, Howard's attack at the basket now does not have any skills, and he only relies on the advantages brought by his brute force and physical fitness to fight against it. This is absolutely undeniable fact.

So as long as there is a center at the basket that can withstand Howard's tonnage, Howard's offensive efficiency will definitely be greatly reduced.

And this can be regarded as a major thing that everyone in the league is currently known.

Seeing George Carl's substitution adjustment, Van Gundy also looked up at the time on the court.

After Howard hit the first free throw, he directly took all the main players including Su Jiu.

After all, the Magic team is not comparable to the Nuggets. With Lewis' absence due to injury, the Magic team is currently in a very different lineup depth, which has forced Van Gundy to increase the playing time of some main players.

At the beginning of the season, Pitrus averaged only 31.2 minutes of playing time.

However, during the period after Lewis was absent due to injury, Pitrus' average playing time has increased to 38.1 minutes.

There are several big wins in this game, and the main players left the court early to have a rest game.

So from this we can see that when Lewis was injured and unable to play, the Magic's rotation encountered such a serious problem.

Among them, this is also due to Pitrus' physical condition being relatively resistant to grass, and he is still alive for more than 40 minutes in a game.

This kind of scene really made Su Jiu envious, and made Su Jiu sigh in his heart that for such a defensive player who only does some dirty work on the court, his physical strength is indeed stronger than the other!!

As all the main players on the Magic have returned to the court, the Nuggets' head coach George Carl seemed to have no intention of replacing all the main players, and he didn't seem to be too panic at all.

After all, JR Smith and Kreza on the Nuggets' bench can be said to have the strength that is no less than the main players.

So this will also allow George Carl to get more rest off the court so that he can perform better in the next game.

After returning to the court, Su Jiu looked at the person who was playing against him with the ball at this moment and replaced him with the Nuggets' substitute point guard Anthony Carter.

Although this name does sound like some background, Anthony and Carter, Anthony Carter has not learned anything from these two people at all.

If you really want to express an advantage, then Anthony Carter's organizational ability on the field is indeed quite good.

And his ability on the defensive end is also not weak at all. This is also the main reason why George Carl dared not to appear in Billups as soon as Sujiu came on the court.

Anthony Carter is only 1.88 meters tall, but he weighs 89 kilograms. His slightly fat figure also gives Anthony Carter a very strong strength.

Not to mention facing most point guards in the league, even if they switch to the second and third positions, it is not false. At least they will not be inexplicably eaten by someone.

Looking at Anthony Carter, who was watching his teammate's position with the ball at this moment, Su Jiu also breathed a sigh of relief on the defensive end.

After all, Su Jiu has a relatively good understanding of this guy. In addition to his excellent organizational skills, his offense can be said to be a mess.

The biggest method is probably to use your tonnage to force your eating.

Unfortunately, Su Jiu has never been afraid of this, because in the current league, it is not easy to find a taller player than Su Jiu in the point guard.

Because in today's era, point guards above 1.95 meters tall are definitely very rare.

Otherwise, if LeBron James debuted a few years later, he would definitely be the team's point guard...

Seeing that there was no good opportunity between teammates, Anthony Carter also handed the ball directly to JR Smith on the wing. The only one who could play without tactics on the entire bench was JR Smith.

With the ball facing Pitrus, JR Smith's face was not nervous at all, and his continuous dribbling under his crotch interfered with Pitrus.

Looking at JR Smith's fancy offensive rhythm, Pitrus was also very calm, responding to changes without any intention of deviating from the center of gravity.

After all, no matter what, Pitrus has been a person who has seen the world. Not to mention whether he can defend himself or not, first of all, his temperament is definitely not comparable to that of Li Zi at present.

After continuous dribbling under his crotch, JR Smith suddenly accelerated to the right.

Such a sudden acceleration certainly failed to pass Pitrus' defense, but this situation seemed to be beyond JR Smith's expectations.

So while Pitrus's entire center of gravity was still moving down, JR Smith suddenly braked and completed a very fast emergency stop and took a mid-range attack.

"Swish~"

With JR Smith's shot, the Pepsi Center Arena also heard the fans' shouts.

Faced with this situation, I was unable to defend against JR? Smith's attack this time was not a pity.

The whole person was completely unchanged, as if this defense had nothing to do with him.

This is not because Pitrus has a strong psychological quality, but because this kind of scene of being beaten up has been staged many times throughout Pitrus' career.

As long as the opponent has a sharp-knife-level scorer on the back line, the head coach will be the first to send Pitrus to defend.

This also led to the fact that in Pitrus' career, most of the opponents were legendary figures such as Kobe, Iverson, Carter, McGrady, etc.

Therefore, Pitrus' defensive mentality has undergone a very big change. At least there will be no helpless behavior like Little Lizi who is depressed because of a defensive mistake.

"Haha, I'm just being beaten up, I'm used to it..."

For the Magic, when Su Jiu kept the ball for halftime, it was Anthony Carter who stood in front of him to defend himself.

The reason why Anthony Carter's ability on the defensive end is that he has very good physical conditions.

But Anthony Carter is actually like a weakened version of Nelson. Both of them are both fat players. Their main scoring methods on the offensive end are throwing and mid-range shooting.

There is one thing that the two of them is the same, that although their slightly fat body brings them the blessing of strength, it also brings a certain slowdown in their movement speed.

So when facing Anthony Carter, Su Jiu did not blindly attack, but used his personal advantages to target him.

After dribbling under his crotch continuously, Su Jiu suddenly accelerated and started from the right side. Anthony Carter on the defensive end also tried to lower the center of gravity to ensure that he could keep up with Su Jiu's pace of breaking through the inside.

But just as Anthony Carter was still rushing down, Su Jiu suddenly pulled back after just accelerating.

Then he did not hesitate at all and directly completed a mid-range emergency stop jump shot on the spot.

"Swish~"

With Su Jiu's sudden stop jump shot coming into the net, Anthony Carter was also a little messy in the wind.

Because in addition to some disagreement, Su Jiu's ball made him feel a little familiar.

After thinking suddenly, Anthony Carter also reacted. Isn’t this the offensive method used by JR Smith in the last round just now facing Pitrus?!

Is this him...

Just as Anthony Carter was a little depressed, JR Smith turned his attention to Su Jiu who was retreating.

"Are you provoking me?"

Looking at JR Smith obviously had such a questioning look, Su Jiu smiled calmly and looked at him without any fear.

Even when Su Jiu looked at JR Smith kept staring at him, but after a long time, Su Jiu shook his head very flat, and then murmured softly:

"Hey, it was born from the same root, why are we too anxious to fight each other..."
Chapter completed!