Chapter 178 What does it mean to imitate Dong Shi?

Author: Aiying Shutan

Chapter 178 What does it mean to imitate Dong Shi?

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After November, the Magic started a series of winning streaks, defeating the Minnesota Timberwolves in turn. The New Jersey Nets, Charlotte Bobcats, and Atlanta Hawks who have not yet moved to Brooklyn, directly scored a series of six consecutive games.

Win.

Since the Magic's regular season started smoothly in the first two seasons, Orlando fans have long been accustomed to it.

In this six-game winning streak, Howard averaged 27.8 points and 14.6 rebounds per game, which was amazing, especially his offensive firepower in the inside can be regarded as the strongest center performance since O'Neal.

At the same time, Wang Chao's average score has gradually increased in subsequent games. He currently averages 28.4 points, 6.7 rebounds and 7.4 assists per game. Although his average data has declined compared to last season, he is not the only one who declines.

In fact, this season, the stars generally scored not very high.

In the original history, Durant was crowned the scoring champion this year with only 27.7 points per game. James ranked second in the final scoring list at 26.7 points per game. Then there were Anthony with 25.6 points, Wade with 25.5 points, and 25.3 points.

Kobe...

The reason why the stars' average scores are reduced is not the reduction of their personal abilities, but the 2010-11 season, many defensive teams were born. The first thing to be hit is the Chicago Bulls with defensive head coach Tom Thibodeau. This season

The Bulls averaged 91.3 points per game, ranking second in the league, second only to the Boston Celtics who averaged 91.1 points per game. The newly formed Heat Big Three, Magic around Howard's old defensive team, averaged 201.

No high points lost.

This season, as many as 7 teams have averaged less than 95 points per game, while in the last season, this number was only 3.

Correspondingly, in the 2009-10 season, there were 18 teams that averaged over 100 points per game, and by the end of the regular season of this season, there should be only about 11 teams.

The defensive intensity increases and the offensive rounds decrease, resulting in the collective reduction of the stars in the entire league.

In this case, as long as Wang Chao maintains averaging 28.4 points per game, he can win the championship of the score champion for the third consecutive year... Under the premise that Durant will not deliberately compete with Wang Chao for the score champion.

Wang Chao and Howard averaged 56 points per game, which is the partner with the highest average score after the OK combination. O'Neal and Kobe averaged 28.7 points and 28.5 points per game in the regular season of the 00-01 season, totaling 57.2 points.

In the 2002-03 season, the two of them scored 27.5 points and 30 points respectively, totaling 57.5 points.

Such feats, as well as the previous two consecutive championships of the Magic team, have made more and more people recognize the Super Magic combination, and they really compare this pair with the OK combination of that year.

"If the Magic can continue to beat the Heat, the old and new Celtics in the East this year, and defeat the Lakers again in the finals and win three consecutive championships, then Wang Chao and Howard will undoubtedly be put into a combination of OK

The same position has become the greatest partner group in history.”

"Jordan and Pippen, Magicians and Tiangou, Kobe and O'Neal, Wang Chao and Howard!"

"What's even more terrifying is that at the age of the two, they can still maintain their peak period for a long time. The future achievements are only higher than the OK combination. The most important thing the Magic need to do next summer is to find a way to stay

Next, Wang Chao, because after this season, Wang Chao can break out of the contract. Considering that the new labor-capital agreement negotiations may bring greater benefits to the players, Wang Chao can completely choose to break out of the contract and then sign with the Magic.

A richer new contract.”

The media commentator who said this was really guessed correctly. After the labor-management negotiations were over, a Ross clause was issued to target players in the rookie contract period. If they win the regular season MVP during the rookie contract period, or they start twice and become the All-Star.

Or if you are selected into the best team twice, this clause will be activated, and the maximum salary that a rookie contract expires can sign accounts for 30% of the team's salary cap. Simply put, it should have received $14.5 million.

Players, with Ross terms, can start salary of $17.4 million.

Unfortunately, Wang Chao has long been no rookie, and this contract is of no use to him.

What he cared more about was the reaction of the Magic Team management when someone asked this question.

Then a few days passed, and there was no movement in the team's management.

"What does this mean? Do you deliberately let me go?"

Wang Chao smiled. He was sure that the Magic could not watch him leave the team. The previous series of operations by the team management and general manager Smith were just to suppress his arrogance and regain more power.

Under the leadership of himself and Howard, the Magic are moving towards the Bulls Jordan-like script. The team's boss Amway Company also makes money in China because of Wang Chao. (In fact, you can make a fortune without Wang Chao.

But they don't know.)

No one dares to imagine how much the price of letting Wang Chao go.

In fact, the general manager of the Magic Team was actually a little worried, afraid that Wang Chao would get angry, so he ran to his office to slap the table with him.

If it is just a question that he can decide as a general manager of the team, he will not boo at all. Don’t say that you are just a player, what can you do if you are Jordan? Isn’t you a bad job?

But Wang Chao's situation is special, involving the main business of the Magic Team boss. In front of the team boss, he, as the general manager, is also a bad job. He really can't figure it out. Once the conflict between him and Wang Chao becomes sharp and

After it is exposed, what will the team boss choose? Should he fire his general manager or trade Wang Chao to leave the team?

During this period, the Magic also suffered its first loss in the season.

On November 10, the Magic lost to the Utah Jazz at 94:104.

This summer, the famous anti-bone boy Carlos Boozer switched to the Chicago Bulls, causing the Jazz, which originally created a new Utah double evil spirit around Deron and Boozer to be seriously injured, and their combat effectiveness dropped sharply. They are no longer a playoff-level team.

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It is logical that the Magic's encounter with the Jazz or playing at home should have been an easy victory.

But in this game, Howard, who had been showing off for a long time, was finally sanctioned.

Al Jefferson, the Jazz rushed to trade for the treasure center exchanged from the Timberwolves after losing Boozer.

The 15th pick in 2004 was the same as Howard and Wang Chao, but he was not so arrogant. As a center forward, his evaluation at that time was far lower than that of No. 1 Popular Howard and Okafor.

However, after entering the league, Jefferson took steady steps, gradually grew up, and became an inside player who contributed 20+10 per game per game.

In the 2008-09 season, the Timberwolves selected Kevin Love and gradually regarded him as the team's new team-building core. Jefferson's ball rights were affected. The data in the 23.1 points and 11 rebounds in the 2009-10 season fell from the previous 23.1 points and 11 rebounds to 17.1.

Scores 9.3 rebounds, but the shooting percentage and efficiency have no impact.

Of course, none of these matter.

Jefferson has outstanding offensive ability and is proficient in various inside footsteps, but his defensive ability is extremely poor. His height of 2.08 meters does not have an advantage in the traditional centers who are generally above 2.10 meters tall. His weight of 131 kilograms also makes him slow.

The power forward is too slow to defend, and the center is too short to defend.

But such a center forward who has always been considered undefensive, held Howard to play in this game.

Jefferson made 10 of 16 shots in the whole game, scoring 21 points and 8 rebounds. In contrast, Howard, who faced Jefferson, made 6 of 18 shots in the game, made 4 of 11 free throws, only 16 points and 9 rebounds, and made as many as 6 turnovers.

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In fact, during the matchup with Howard, Jefferson did nothing, but just stole the horse and held Howard tightly when he was playing behind his back. Then the latter's brain capacity was a bit insufficient.

Howard is obviously taller than Jefferson and looks stronger, but the short and fat man Jefferson's lower height is also lower in the center of gravity. The lower plate is as stable as Mount Tai. It is not that Howard, who is not good at lower limbs, can move.

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Maddan, what should I do if I can’t squeeze it?

By the way, turn halfway and use the advantage of speed to pass the opponent and cut into the basket to attack.

Howard, who finally thought of a solution, immediately turned around and wanted to cut into the basket, but he had already been too late. The Jazz narrowed their defense line and the players who assisted in the defense cut off the basketball in Howard's hand as soon as they looked back.

After a few games, Howard began to reveal his true colors.

In fact, he and O'Neal didn't have much attentive practice and study at all when he learned inside skills. Compared to practicing skills, Howard prefers strength training that does not require brain use and does not consider physical coordination and adaptability.

Coincidentally, O'Neal is not a guy who likes training. He and Kobe had arguing about this problem more than once when he was with the Lakers. Until later Kobe would still say that if O'Nealken trained as seriously as he did, his achievements would definitely be higher than now.

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O'Neal, who wanted to teach Howard a half-stage, hit it off with Howard, who thought he had mastered O'Neal's inside skills, and began his leisure life of three days of fishing and two days of drying the net early.

Then, the retribution comes.

Jefferson actually didn't have the inside defense at all. He could not resist him by relying on Howard. The Jazz players helped to help defend, which successfully locked Howard.

In the past, if he found that his offense was not good, Howard would decisively pass the ball to the outside line. Originally, he was never the starting point of the offense in the Magic.

Someone helped him solve the offensive problem, such as Wang Chao, who could not be restricted by Kirilenko.

But the previous game gave Howard great confidence. He didn't think that Jefferson had restricted him at all, so he played singles in the inside over and over again and was defended.

Delong's game was awesome in this game. Howard, who was obsessed with the offense, had no time to pay attention to him. This made Delong's ball-holding breakthrough extremely obvious. He made 11 of 19 shots in the game, 11 of 12 free throws, and scored 30 points and 5 points.

Rebounded 14 assists, helping the Jazz win the game away.

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The loss of a game did not bring to the hearts of Orlando fans. There was no team in the NBA that did not lose, and they also lost 12 games last season.

But the fans who were still comforting themselves in this way immediately saw another defeat at home.

On November 12, the Magic will play against the Memphis Grizzlies at home.

Howard met another strong rival, Mark Gasol.

As the Lakers traded with Paul Gasol, no one expected that after entering the league in 2008-09, the rookie in the second round quickly showed his talent not inferior to his brother. The two brothers played completely differently.

Compared with Paul Gasol, who is softer in the style of playing, Mark Gasol has a tough style and is more good at defense.

If nothing unexpected happens, he will be elected the best defensive player in the 12-13 season and win the NBA championship with the Raptors in the 18-19 season.

Now is the third season of Mark Gasol's NBA career. Mark Gasol, who has just lost his reputation as a rookie, was not qualified to be comparable to Howard. With his slightly heavy pace, it is difficult for him to keep up with Howard.

speed.
To be continued...