Chapter 503 501. This Is T-Mac

February 28, 2003 at 6:57 pm.

Atlanta Phillips Arena.

The pre-game activities between the Eagles and Magic are over, and the final warm-up preparations before the game start.

Jason Terry, Prince, Raheem, Muhammad, and Ratliff's five starters sat on the court with their own pre-match moves. The Eagles' games always make fans feel interesting. The team is different.

Liu Mang was standing on the sidelines, wearing training clothes, shaking his body with the rhythm of the live music, the game was about to start, he wanted to see the difference between McGrady this year and last year.

McGrady is also very well prepared for today's game, and he is also very interested in defeating Liu Mang.

For example: Who will be the best in the future?

McGrady jokingly said that he wanted to be Liu Mang's Pippen, but that was the impulse at the time. It is true that Liu Mang's leadership qualities made McGrady fascinated and wanted to follow, but if he really wanted to make McGrady willingly become McGrady's Jordan, at least, Liu Mang is stronger than McGrady!

Otherwise, no matter how good the relationship is, how much McGrady admires Liu Mang, even if he comes to the Eagles, he will not be Pippen, only the boss.

Because he is indeed too strong!

And because he is not suitable to be the boss' character, and his strength is the strongest, the team will always become different, which is weird.

This season's eighth card battle in the East is the beginning of the two testing each other.

And because of the existence of Liu Wei, in addition to the Pistons, Nets, and Pacers, there is another strong team in the Eastern Conference, which promotes a different historical process, makes McGrady feel more pressure, and makes McGrady work harder. Progress more.

Soon, three minutes passed, at seven o'clock in the evening, the last game of the Eagles in February was broadcast live across the United States, matching the TV station's time, at seven o'clock, the game started on time!

The five starters of the Eagles remain unchanged, and the Magic's lineup has changed greatly from last season, and it is a bit miserable.

Point guard, Jacqui Vaughn, the backup point guard of the Eagles last season, averaged 6 points and 3 assists per game, shooting guard, and the leading shooting guard of the Yugoslavia national team Gordon Kirisek, averaged 11 points, 2 rebounds and 1.5 assists per game. The small forward is McGrady, averaging 31.9 points, 6.5 rebounds, 6.3 assists, 1.6 steals and 1.1 blocks per game. The power forward is Sean Kemp, a former super power forward signed by the Magic after being cut last summer. It was Drew Gooden, who was obtained from the Grizzlies with the top three picks in 2004 and overlapped with Gasol, averaging 13 points and 8 rebounds per game.

Gooden and Ratliff came to the middle circle to jump the ball.

The physical fitness of the inside swingman is usually good, and the wild style of the game is used by Gooden to use the bullet speed advantage to beat Ratliff to win the jump ball.

The Magic go first.

McGrady advances with the ball.

coming!

Liu Mang looked at McGrady, wanting to see how McGrady, who is still three months away from turning 24, has improved compared to last year.

"Tracey McGrady, ability value 98, offense 99, defense 83, three-pointer 82, mid-range shooting 84, layup 97, speed 92, strength 85, passing 85, rebounding 82..."

McGrady's defense has improved!

Liu Mang felt like hell!

The ability value has been raised to the second highest ability value in the league like Garnett and O'Neal. This Liu Mang is not surprising. The scary thing is that this year McGrady's defense has improved from 75 last season to 83. Take the defense! Indeed, McGrady's defense was very good back then. Both the second and third grades were among the top seven in the All-Defensive Team. The second-year guard ranked seventh, and the third-year guard ranked fifth.

But after the rookie contract finished and left the Magic, McGrady's defense plummeted. This time Liu Mang saw McGrady's defense and came back again!

Liu Mang is right when he thinks about it. If there is no defensive ability value of 80, McGrady's ability value of 97 is probably the limit, that is, to regain defense, so that McGrady also has the opportunity to hit the full value of the peak Kobe and James!

Liu Mang was a little scared. If he picks up the defensive McGrady, if there is no injury in two years, who will be better than the little blacksmith?

It's hard to say!

Judging from the overall performance of this season, Kobe must be better. He has won 8 wins and 1 loss in nine consecutive 40+ games. He is second in scoring and has a better record than McGrady. The ranking has always been ahead of Kobe. Of course, the MVP ranking is unshakable. No. 21, who smiles more lewdly than Wu Mengda, is invincible this year.

McGrady came outside the three-point line, and Prince defended him.

It was not Raheem who came to defend, McGrady was a little upset, and felt that the Eagles were underestimating him! Although Prince played a very good performance and his defense was praised by experts and media, the best single defense of the Eagles is undoubtedly Liu Mang, Raheem, and Ratliff, who can match McGrady. Raheem, of course.

Chewing his braces, McGrady stood up straight, and began to dribble the ball under his crotch with a very high center of gravity.

Prince was very calm when he saw this scene. Liu Mang reminded him before that McGrady's action, which seems to be a wave, should not be underestimated! Never reach out and steal rashly.

McGrady was a little surprised, this rookie was not fooled! And the little steps are excellent, and the height is enough, McGrady is not a good choice.

It's a bit interesting, Maddie cat lowered his waist, his eyes began to become blurred...

Seeing the look in McGrady's eyes, Prince immediately posted it to McGrady. The boss said that McGrady's expression was going to be angry... no, it was showing off!

Prince wants to rely on agility to deal with McGrady, a tall small forward, sticking to McGrady and trying to interfere with McGrady's rhythm.

McGrady dribbled the ball with his left hand, turned his body sideways and leaned against Prince with his right shoulder. Prince was very tight. From the perspective of speed and flexibility, Prince was not afraid of McGrady at all.

Suddenly, McGrady turned his body back and slammed the ball with his left hand to the right. Prince accurately predicted that McGrady was going to break through, and immediately took a step back to the left.

The prediction is accurate! Move back quickly!

but! Maddie's first step is faster! Even Prince was fully prepared and took a step back, but after McGrady's exaggerated first step, Prince couldn't keep up with two consecutive big strides!

McGrady entered the free throw line in three steps and continued to rush towards the inside. Kemp ran away immediately. Ratliff saw the menacing McGrady and couldn't control Kemp anymore. Leaf guards the rim alone, and Ratliff thinks he is enough! Be the best defensive player yourself!

Ratliff took a step outside the joint collision zone. The timing was good. He blocked McGrady's path first. As long as McGrady hit him, it would definitely be an offensive foul. can also interfere.

Perfect defensive anticipation and movement. Ratliff's defense cannot be more perfect, but the most perfect defense is only the best that can be done in theory. McGrady suddenly stopped before contacting Ratliff, and at the same time Bending his knees, the whole person bounced up on the ground, grabbed the ball with his right hand and threw it towards the basket! Ratliff jumped up quickly, trying to block McGrady's close-range pull.

But McGrady just bounced on the ground, just made a big small step, and the ball was thrown to the basket, but it was not a shot!

McGrady turned around and bypassed Ratliff who was rushing over, and went into the basket. McGrady took off on the spot, jumped high in the air, received the ball that bounced off the backboard and pressed it into the basket!

The fans at the scene let out a sound of surprise, and then it was terribly quiet!

"Your uncle!" Liu Mang looked dumbfounded! He didn't expect this scene to happen before his eyes! Just a few meters away!

Just now when Ratliff was defending well, Liu Mang thought that McGrady's goal was going to be deflated, and wanted to watch a good show, but he didn't expect McGrady to score such a goal in an actual game!

Self-throwing and self-grabbing two-handed dunk!

It's not considered self-inflicted, McGrady wants to face Ratliff and shoot... Even if he is McGrady, it is very difficult to do this when Ratliff is in place. He is not as concerned as Kobe Big, so from the beginning, I was ready to grab the ball and dunk by myself. The "throwing shot" was just "dribbling" with the backboard.

But looking at it from another angle, it's even more terrifying! If you can't make a shot, grab an offensive rebound and then dunk it, it's no big deal.

But McGrady was ready to do it right from the start, and it was scary!

What confidence and imagination is this!

And this physical fitness and execution ability are simply terrifying!

Liu Mang wants to play! Want to match up with McGrady!

But for several starters on the field of the Eagles, especially the two eaglets Garatliff, the eyes of the three have completely changed!