Chapter 177 Sharks that pour chicken soup on the monster

Author: Aiying Shutan

Chapter 177 Sharks that pour chicken soup on the monster

Wang Chao was reserved whether Howard had learned any practical techniques from O'Neal.

But O'Neal's arrival has greatly improved his confidence in Howard.

After all, he was the super center who was the leader back then and ruled an era. Even though he was 38 years old, O'Neal still had the arrogance of the first center in the league. With the departure of the center player, he firmly believed that the center was still a team.

The main or even direct factor to win the championship.

Although he did not say this in front of the Magic Team's shooters, especially Wang Chao, after feeling a bit like how he was, he probably gave the other party a lot of chicken soup in private.

O'Neal's statement is completely supported by basis.

Howard himself is the strongest center in the league in the past two championships of the Magic. Looking back, although Kobe made an incredible contribution to the Lakers defeated the Magic in the 2007-08 season, Kobe made an indelible contribution before Paul Gasol joined.

I can only lead a team to play in one round every year.

Keep moving forward, the championship Suns in the 2006-07 season is an exception, because their opponent at that time was the Cleveland Cavaliers who also had no super center. Although Stodmeier's style of play was biased towards the forward player who faced the frame, he also made a guest appearance.

Center.

In 2005-06, the Heat led by O'Neal and Wade won the championship, in 2004-05, Duncan's Spurs, and in 2003-04, Ben Wallace's Pistons. Continuing to move forward was the three consecutive championships of the OK combination. Duncan

David Robinson's Spurs and Olajuwon's Rockets won two consecutive championships.

Except for Jordan's two three consecutive championships, looking at the league over the years, there is a single inside player behind the championship every season.

Howard has already made a lot of effort for the team. In the new season, he has polished new technologies and has to show more luxurious data and pursue more personal honors.

O'Neal's chicken soup made Howard so impatient that he was so moved.

To be honest, he is a little tired of being always regarded as a super blue-collar player now. He is clearly the No. 1 center in the league and has two championships, but someone always treats him as a blue-collar player. What a joke?

On September 28, the preseason will begin.

As before, main players such as Wang Chao and Howard only played a symbolic game in the preseason, just to allow their bodies to adapt to the rhythm of the game after a long holiday.

This is not very useful to Wang Chao who participated in the World Championships, but it is still very important for Howard and other players who have been flirting with for several months in summer.

In several preseason games, Howard averaged 20 minutes of playing time and scored 18 points, 10 rebounds and 3 blocks, as efficient and strong as ever.

However, in this process, Howard showed some behaviors that were not available in the previous game, that is, he often asked the ball to play behind his back and forth in the low post.

Although Howard was the standard center positioning, he was never the starting point of the team's offense. On the offensive end, Howard would use his outstanding mobility among inside players to pull the outside to Wang Chao, Nelson, and Tkog

Lu and others took the ball to cover the pick-and-roll and then cut inward.

As long as the opportunity is ripe, Howard can take off with a force to pull out the mountains and rivers of air and hands.

However, in the preseason stage, Howard's number of screenings has decreased significantly, and he began to increase the number of back-to-back singles. However, because the opponents encountered in the preseason are generally not at high levels, and no one is serious about defending the preseason.

Therefore, Howard's offensive efficiency in the inside line is very high, and his back skills have been praised by various media.

"The Magic's decision to sign O'Neal in the summer is very correct. Although the elderly shark no longer has the combat power on the field, his rich experience and skills at the basket will help the Warcraft grow faster. The 25-year-old Warcraft

More offensive skills should also be developed to take solid steps towards the top center!”

"The Magic already has Wang Chao, who is the league's offensive ability, if Howard can develop the offensive ability in the inside, then who else can stop the Magic in this league? Can the Big Three Miami Heat do it?"

After ten preseason games, the Magic achieved a record of 9 wins and 1 loss and performed very well. In the league's strength list after the preseason, the Magic ranked first and the Miami Heat, which has the strongest three giants in history.

Ranked second.

In the odds list of championships before the start of the regular season, the Magic also ranked first with a slight advantage, slightly higher than the Heat.

The reason for this situation is mainly due to people's expectations for the combination of Wang Chao and Howard, both internal and surgical.

Wang Chao is good at three-point shooting, and Howard can now hold the ball in the interior. Judging from the rationality of a team's lineup structure, it is still much more scientific than the Heat.

After some excitement and excitement, the fans who gradually calmed down began to think about a question.

Putting aside Bosh, how James and Wade should solve the problem of handling ball rights.

Last season, James and Wade were both absolute core players of their respective teams, with a large core possession of the ball. Wade's usage rate was 34.9%, and James 33.5%, ranking among the top two in the league. Even the scoring champion averaged averaging

Wang Chao, with 8.5 assists, has only 32.4% of the ball usage rate, ranking fourth in the league.

It can be seen that both James and Wade need a lot of ball rights to play their strength. Of course, this is also nonsense. Last season, any player who averaged more than 25 points per game had a usage rate of 30.

A few percentage points have little difference at all.

There is not much difference between Wang Chao, Kobe, James, Wade and others. Several of them represent the absolute ball-holding core and main offensive starting point of their respective teams.

But the problem is that the Heat now has James and Wade at the same time, which will inevitably affect the performance of the two. How to deal with the two top superstars' holding and offense will be the Heat coaching staff who need to seriously consider it in the new season.

The problem solved.

This is also the reason why the Heat were slightly underestimated before the start of the regular season and ranked second in the strength list and the odds list of the championship.

It is generally believed that the Heat will take a long time to explore before they can find a path suitable for the cooperation of the Big Three. After all, compared with the old three Celtics, the Heat's new three giants are both age, technical characteristics and competitions.

There are obvious differences in experience and other aspects. They may not necessarily show enough tacit understanding and strong combat effectiveness as soon as they succeed in forming a team.

This seems to be confirmed after the start of the regular season.

It seems to be to fill the gimmicks, the first game of the Heat in the regular season was a confrontation with the three Celtics giants, with the game venue at Boston's North Shore Garden Plaza Stadium.

The three old giants of the Celtics educated their juniors at home, 88:80, giving the Heat their first defeat in the new season.

James made 10 of 21 shots, scoring 31 points, 4 rebounds and 3 assists, but he obviously did not understand his new teammates enough and did not have enough tacit understanding, so he made 8 mistakes in a single game.

James performed well, but Wade and Bosh made 4 of 16 shots and scored 13 points, 4 rebounds, 6 assists and 6 turnovers, while the other made 3 of 11 shots and only 8 points and 8 rebounds.

For the Celtics, Ray Allen scored 20 points, Pierce scored 19 points and 9 rebounds, Garnett scored 14 points and 10 rebounds, and Rajon Rondo, who scored 4 points, 5 rebounds and 17 assists in the game, the Celtics

It seems that this game is used to tell the Heat how the Big Three should be used.

If it is reasonable to lose to the Eastern Conference's powerful Celtics, the Heat lost to the Philadelphia 76ers away on October 27, and suffered a two-game losing streak in the regular season, making Miami fans feel like they were in a cold water.

Watered.

In this game, the Heat beat Wade, making 10 of 20 shots, scoring 30 points, 7 rebounds and 4 assists, and then it was James' turn to get down. He made 5 of 12 shots in the game, scoring 16 points, 6 rebounds, 7 assists and 9

Mistakes.

Obviously, the Heat failed to understand the problem of the two ball-holding and nuclear attacks, and their styles are not compatible.

As for Bosh, who made 6 of 12 shots, scored 15 points and 7 rebounds, became the only one who was injured in two games.

Bosh: "???"

Let me take the blame for each one of you two, one of you, one of you, one of you, one of you, one of you, one of you, one of you, one of you, one of you, one of you, one of you, one of you, one of you, one of you, one of you, one of you, one of you, one of you, one of you, one of you, one of you, one of you, one of you, one of you, one of you, one of you, one of you, one of you, one of you

The Heat, which lost two consecutive games, returned to home on October 29 to face the Orlando Magic.

This is the Heat's third regular season game and the Magic's second regular season game.

Unlike the Heat's a bit bad situation, the Magic's start was still smooth as ever, with their first home match against the Washington Wizards, easily winning 112:83, with a big victory of 29 points.

There are a few points worth mentioning in this game.

First of all, Howard, who continued his preseason style. In this game, he frequently played singles with the ball inside. The Wizards' inside center is Javier McGee, who, like Howard, can run and jump, and has extremely explosive power.

He is strong but unstable in the lower plate, and McGee is not as strong as Howard's body, so he lacks ability to fight. Even Howard, who has weak lower limb strength, can easily squeeze it into pieces.

Therefore, Howard made 8 of 12 shots in the game, made 12 of 19 free throws, scored 28 points, 10 rebounds and 3 blocks.

The second point is that this game is another Chinese derby, the champion of the Olympics and World Championships, and it did not change the fate of UAE in the NBA. He was still traded to the Wizards like in the original history.

The Wizards' time will be the last time for UAE in the NBA. Even if he can join the Mavericks next season, he will still be eliminated because he cannot adapt to the NBA games and chooses to return to China to compete in the CBA.

Wang Chao performed as usual in this game, with 27 points, 7 rebounds and 6 assists, although the data was slightly lower than last season's data, this was the first game, and the game lost its suspense early, resulting in Wang Chao's clocking in before the third quarter.

After work, there is no reference value.

However, during the game, Wang Chao's concerns still appeared.

Howard, who played singles at the basket, naturally reduced the number of times he pulled down the outside pick-and-roll screens. This is natural. There was a clear conflict between the two styles of play.

Although Howard made excellent damage at the basket in the first game, and he had 19 free throws, only Wang Chao knew that this was not the norm. If Howard kept playing in this way, it would be for the entire team's tactical system.

Not a good thing.

But now is not the time to talk about.

Howard is in high spirits, and the team has won the game. More importantly, the team's management and coaching staff also support Howard in playing like this.

Wang Chao understands Howard's idea, but he might have been like this. After all, this concerns Howard's own position in the team and even the league.

But Wang Chao could probably guess the reason for the encouragement from the Magic's management and coaching staff. They wanted to use Howard to further weaken their influence in the team.

If it were the case, Wang Chao would definitely try every means to fight back immediately, but since he is not ready to stay with the Magic after the end of this season, he is too lazy to pay attention to this. It is not appropriate to win the championship this season.

It would be fine if he had broken up with the Magic management, turn a blind eye and watch the opponent make trouble like a clown. Anyway, with Howard's offensive ability at the basket, it won't take long to slap them in the face

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Obviously no one in the Heat can sanction Howard.
To be continued...