"We gave the Magic too many opportunities throughout the first half, especially for Su. If his point cannot be solved in the second half, then it may become more troublesome next."

"In the first half, it was too easy for him to break through to the inside, so we must make some changes after we go back in the second half."

"Kobe, after you go back in the second half, you can go against Su, otherwise there will be no better candidates in the team except you."

"Or you can discuss with Trevo, who will defend Su and who will defend Allen. Anyway, once these two people are pinched, the trouble will naturally be transferred to the Magic."

During the halftime break, although the team was behind at the end of the half, Zen Master Jackson was still relatively calm, and he looked as if he was still ashamed of his face as the sky fell.

"That guy should give it to me in the second half. We let him score too many points in the first half, which also led to the attacks of other teammates. It was really a bad game."

After hearing the words of Zen Master Jackson, Kobe, who was sitting on the rest bench, was drinking drinks while taking on the heavy responsibility of defending Su Jiu in the second half.

Even so, Kobe will be under tremendous pressure on both offense and defense, and his physical energy consumption will be doubled.

But while the Lakers are currently lagging behind, Kobe, who is the star and has a strong personality, still stood up without hesitation.

Because the reason why the Magic played so well in the entire first half and even led the Lakers after the end of the half, Su Jiu is definitely the biggest contributor.

In the whole first half, when Iverson was interfered with by Ariza, Su Jiu played very smartly against the Lakers' defense.

Facing the old fish Fisher, he used the pick-and-roll to make a big fuss about speed many times, and facing Jordan Famal, he used his strength to eat the other party raw with his body.

It can be said that although Su Jiu, who has very comprehensive offensive methods, it is difficult for him to reach the highest level of the league in any field, Su Jiu can use unpredictable means to end the offense on the field.

The most important thing is that with his own rich offensive methods, Su Jiu's passing vision is also very outstanding, and his organizational offense can be ranked upstream of the league this season.

So in this case, Su Jiu's existence obviously posed a greater defensive threat to the Lakers' defense line, and made it difficult for him to really pinch Su Jiu from the source.

After all, in the round of the series against the Celtics, facing Rondo, who was selected for the second team of the best defensive team this year, Su Jiu was able to be at ease on the field.

Switching back and forth between his own offense and organizing passes, and finally cooperating with some help from the system, he defeated the Celtics through tiebreaks and led the Magic to complete the upset.

Faced with this situation, the old fish Fisher was completely exhausted in the first half, so Kobe, who has always been strong, finally couldn't stand it and took the initiative to take on the task of defending Su Jiu in the midfield.

Even though this situation may cause a lot of physical burden on him, Kobe is obviously ready to fight his life in order to win.

After returning from the second half, the first wave of offense was initiated by the Lakers, who failed to jump to the ball in the first quarter.

In the defensive round in the second half, the Magic seemed to have not made any adjustments, and Pitrus was still going to defend Kobe.

And it is also the main defense of Kobe's jump shot at mid-range, because throughout the first half, Stan Van Gundy's defensive strategy was obviously quite successful.

Although Kobe still contributed 13 points in the first half under this circumstance, from the overall situation, it is obviously quite satisfactory to Van Gundy.

Facing Petrus' close-fitting defense, Kobe has begun to change his habits after coming back in the second half.

He didn't have too many fancy things, but chose to take action after passing Pitrus, but was close to Howard's position.

After all, in the more than a dozen shots in the first half, Kobe had a thorough understanding of the Magic's defense, so the attacks at this position were the most confident for Kobe.

"Bang!"

With the sound of iron shots coming out, Howard and Bynum at the basket made a very fierce position.

However, because the muscles of each other are too fierce, in this case, both of them are carrying some movements of all sizes on their hands.

But when facing these defensive actions, as long as they are not too exaggerated, the bottom line referee can pretend that they have not seen it. After all, if they really follow the rules, then this game will definitely be played intermittently.

Since the two of them basically put their center of gravity on each other's position at the basket, when ensuring that they can find a better rebounding position, they use their strength to try to push the opponent out of the basket.

Faced with such rebounding methods, Howard and Bynum have obviously become accustomed to it, after all, this is the case in today's era.

For rebounding, it is basically a must-fight for balls, and for physical contact, it is basically a fist to the flesh.

However, while Howard and Bynum were about to take off, Su Jiu suddenly rushed out and took off in advance, as if he had predicted the rebound.

When Howard at the basket saw that Su Jiu had already taken off, Howard gave up on the jump tacitly, instead pressed his body's center of gravity on Bynum, ensuring that Bynum could not complete the jump comfortably.

As early as the regular season, Howard had become a habit of this situation. Since the Magic are Lewis as the power forward, a forward who is not good at catching rebounds in the interior.

So when Howard faces some top inside players in the league, he will suffer a little from rebounding.

As the saying goes, two fists cannot beat four hands. Even if Howard's physical fitness is too strong, it cannot resist a person holding him from the basket and jumping up to grab the rebound.

This is a fucking bully!

No! This is a bullying beast!!

This made Howard not happy at all on the court...

However, as Su Jiu gradually showed his talent for rebounding on the court, this finally helped Howard reduce a little pressure.

Especially in the round of the series with the Celtics, if it weren't for Su Jiu, Howard would have been attacked by Perkins and Garnett under the basket, and would have been tortured like shit.

After all, these two strong men, one in the front and one in the back, how could Howard bear it?

It's just said I can't bear it!!

Ahem...

So later, whenever Howard faced the top inside of the league, once Howard saw Su Jiu take off in advance, he probably knew that this guy should have analyzed the rebounding point.

Howard will give up fighting with Su Jiu, but instead jammed the opponent's center, allowing Su Jiu to comfortably protect the backcourt rebounds.

Of course, this is why Su Jiu and Howard have a better relationship off the court. If other players in the Magic dare to compete with Howard for rebounds, then Howard will definitely chase the opponent and have to scold the whole game.

Amir Johnson, who was sitting on the bench at the moment, had a deep understanding of this...

With Howard's help, Su Jiu successfully protected this backcourt rebound. After grabbing the rebound, Su Jiu did not pause. Instead, he directly carried the ball to advance to the frontcourt and quickly launched a counterattack.

Faced with Su Jiu's sudden fast attack counterattack, the Lakers only Ariza, who was outside, reacted immediately.

After all, the Twin Towers are fighting for rebounds at the basket at this moment. Even if they reacted immediately, they would not be able to keep up with Su Jiu's footsteps at the same time.

After Kobe shot this ball again, he also subconsciously plunged into the basket, intending to join the rebounding battle.

So when Su Jiu won the backcourt rebound and promoted the counterattack immediately, the only one left for the Lakers to return to defense in their own half.

Looking at Ariza in front of him at this moment, Su Jiu accelerated with all his might and buried his head in the opponent's basket.

During the fast attack, Su Jiu's Yu Guang saw Iverson behind him also following closely.

As for Iverson's position at this moment, not only Su Jiu discovered it immediately, but Ariza, who was retreating from defense, also saw Iverson's position.

However, even though he knew it, seeing Su Jiu buried himself in the basket, Ariza could only stick to Su Jiu from the wing. While trying to block Su Jiu's breakthrough route, he also tried his best not to allow Su Jiu to easily complete the score.

As the basket got closer and closer, Su Jiu glanced at Iverson behind him with his eyes, and then suddenly used his right arm to clamp the basketball behind him while he was walking, making a pass from behind.

Seeing Su Jiu's movements on his right hand, Ariza reacted immediately after excellent defensive experience.

On the way back, the whole person shook his center of gravity and took a step forward. This step was just right on the passing route between Su Jiu and Iverson.

It can be said that although Ariza was not yet top in personal defense during this period, she played around Kobe all year round, and Ariza had a very high awareness of steals and assisting defense.

So when Su Jiu made only one small move, Ariza cleverly discovered this and got stuck on Su Jiu's passing route in advance.

But after Ariza had just adjusted the center of gravity, she found that Su Jiu's movement of shaking backwards was actually a fake move!!

Because the basketball did not pass to Iverson on the back as he expected.

After Su Jiu used this fake move to successfully shake Ariza's defensive center of gravity, he held the basketball in his right hand and gently lifted it upwards, completing the basket picking of this fast break.

"Swish~"

With this fake move, he made a layup after tricking Ariza, Su Jiu first glanced at Ariza with a smile on his face, and then hit Iverson in the fast attack while retreating, and said with a swaying look on his face:

"How about it? Did I trick me at that moment? Do you really think I plan to pass this ball to you? Haha."

Looking at Su Jiu's appearance that was obviously about to praise me, Iverson patted Su Jiu's butt with his hand, and also smiled, but he didn't say anything.

Because at that moment, Iverson did think that Su Jiu was going to pass the ball to him, so he had already made the move to catch the ball.

And when Ariza got stuck on the pass route between the two people in advance, Iverson said intimately, thinking that this two-on-one fast break was about to face a mistake.

But I never expected that when Su Jiu used his fake move to deceive Ariza in front of him, he easily completed this fast attack counterattack.

And all this happened in the flash, so at this moment, Iverson had to admire Su Jiu's ability to control the field on the court.

After all, although two-on-one in the fast break sounds very confident, a player can still keep his brain calm in this situation. I have to say that this is the real master of field control.

As for the fake pass in the fast break just now, it was not an unfathomable move.

Because the move that just now can be said to be the signature move of Rondo, the Celtics' head point guard.

Throughout his career, Rondo has always used this method, trying to wander back and forth between cheating his enemies and cheating his teammates.

As we all know, Rondo is a player with not strong offensive ability, and he was playing next to the Big Three in the early stages of his career, so Rondo's desire for passing is obviously far higher than that of attack.

In some fast break counterattacks, Rondo will use fake moves similar to those that are used to perform backwards with a basketball, thereby tricking the enemy into easily completing the score.

Su Jiu was able to perfect this action at that moment, thanks to the seven hard battles with the Celtics in the semi-finals.

Because in the round of the series against the Celtics, Su Jiu suffered a lot from Rondo's losses.

Even though Su Jiu in his previous life knew that Rondo often made some fake passes, whenever Rondo made a pass, Su Jiu still subconsciously moved.

It is no exaggeration to say that although Su Jiu basically had the upper hand in his personal match against Rondo in that round of the series, he still suffered a lot of losses in the face of Rondo's move.

However, as the saying goes, one's mistakes lead to wisdom. Su Jiu has paid so much tuition and suffered so much thanks on the court. Therefore, when using Longduo's signboard move, it can be said that he is easy to use and does not appear stiff at all.

After the opening game, the Lakers not only failed to take the lead, but were also seized by the Magic and launched a defensive counterattack.

This also made Ariza feel a little frustrated in the defense. She looked at Su Jiu's direction of retreating and shook her head helplessly.
To be continued...