NBA: I am the god of basketball

Chapter 178 What is Dongshi imitation?
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After entering November, the Magic directly started a wave of winning streak, defeated the Minnesota Timberwolves in turn, and the New Jersey Nets, Charlotte Bobcats, and Atlanta Hawks who had not yet moved to Brooklyn, directly won a wave of 11 consecutive regular season starts. win.

Since the start of the regular season of the Magic in the first two seasons was smooth sailing, Orlando fans have long been accustomed to it.

In this wave of six-game winning streak, Howard averaged 27.8 points and 14.6 rebounds per game. His performance was amazing, especially his offensive firepower in the interior can be called the strongest center since O'Neal.

At the same time, Wang Chao’s scoring average has gradually increased in the follow-up games. He is currently averaging 28.4 points, 6.7 rebounds and 7.4 assists per game. Although the average data per game has declined compared with last season, he is not alone in the decline. , In fact, this season, the star score is generally not high.

In the original history, Durant averaged only 27.7 points per game this year and was crowned the scoring champion. James averaged 26.7 points per game and ranked No.2 in the final scoring list, followed by Anthony with 25.6 points, Wade with 25.5 points, and 25.3 points. Kobe Bryant...

The reason for the decrease in the scoring average of the stars is not the reduction of personal ability, but the 2010-11 season. Many defensive teams were born. The first to bear the brunt is the Chicago Bulls with defensive head coach Tom Thibodeau. 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 score is not high.

This season, there are as many as seven teams in the league with an average of less than 95 points per game. In the previous season, this number was only three.

Correspondingly, in the league in the 2009-10 season, there were 18 teams with an average of more than 11 points per game. By the end of the regular season this season, there should be only about [-] teams.

The defensive intensity increased and the offensive rounds decreased, resulting in a collective decrease in the scoring of the stars of the entire league.

In this case, as long as Wang Chao maintains an average of 28.4 points per game, he can win the scoring crown for the third consecutive year... on the premise that Durant will not deliberately compete with Wang Chao for the scoring title.

Wang Chao and Howard combined to score 56 points per game, which can be described as the highest scoring partner combination after the OK combination. O'Neal and Kobe Bryant averaged 00 points and 01 points per game in the 28.7-28.5 regular season, totaling 57.2 points.Then in the 02-03 season, the two scored 27.5 points and 30 points respectively, totaling 57.5 points.

Such feats, as well as the previous two consecutive championship results of the Magic, have allowed more and more people to recognize the super magic combination, and really compare this combination with the OK combination of the year.

"If the Magic can continue to beat the Heat, the Celtics, the new and old Big Three in the Eastern Conference this year, and beat the Lakers again in the finals to win three consecutive championships, then Wang Chao and Howard will undoubtedly be placed in the OK combination. In the same position, to be the greatest partnership in history."

"Jordan and Pippen, Magician and Skyhook, Kobe and O'Neal, Wang Chao and Howard!"

"What's even more frightening is that at the age of the two, they can still maintain their peak period for a long time. Compared with the OK combination, their future achievements will not be lower. The most important thing that the Magic need to do next summer is to find a way to stay. Under Wang Chao, because after the end of this season, Wang Chao can jump out of the contract. Considering that the new labor agreement negotiations may bring greater benefits to the players, Wang Chao can choose to jump out of the contract and then sign with the Magic. A new, more lucrative contract."

The media commentator who said this really guessed right. After the labor negotiations ended, a Ross clause was introduced. For players who are in the rookie contract period, if they win the regular season MVP during the rookie contract period, or are selected as the All-Star twice, Or if he is selected to the best team twice, this clause will be activated, and the maximum salary that can be signed by a player whose rookie contract expires accounts for 30% of the team's salary cap. Simply put, he should have received $1450 million Players, with the Rose clause, the starting salary can reach 1740 million US dollars.

It's a pity that Wang Chao is no longer a rookie, and this contract is of no use to him.

What he is more concerned about is the reaction of the Magic management when someone raises this question.

Then a few days passed, and there was no movement from the team management.

"What does this mean? Did you hang me up on purpose?"

Wang Chao smiled. He was very sure that the Magic would not be able to 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 rights.

Under the leadership of himself and Howard, the Magic is moving towards a Bull Jordan-like script, and the team owner's Amway company is also making a lot of money in China because of Wang Chao. (In fact, they can make a lot of money without Wang Chao, but they don't know.)
No one dared to imagine how much it would cost to let Wang Chao go.

In fact, the general manager of the Magic team was actually a little worried. He was afraid that Wang Chao would get angry and ran to his office to pat the table with him.

If it's just a matter that he can decide as the general manager of the team, he won't boo at all, let alone you are a mere player, so what if you are Jordan?Isn't he a stinky part-time job?
But Wang Chao's situation is special, involving the main business of the owner of the Magic team. In front of the team owner, he, the general manager, is also a stinky part-time job. He really can't figure it out. After being put on the bright side, how will the team owner choose, should he fire himself as the general manager, or trade Wang Chao to leave the team?
During the period, the Magic also ushered in their first loss of the season.

On November 11, the Magic lost to the Utah Jazz 10:94 at home.

This summer, Carlos Boozer, the famous anti-bones boy, switched to the Chicago Bulls. The Jazz team, which had built a new Utah duo around Deron and Boozer, was seriously injured, and its combat effectiveness plummeted. It is no longer a playoff-level team. .

It stands to reason that the Magic met the Jazz and played at home. It should have been an easy victory.

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

Al Jefferson, the treasured center that the Jazz traded for the Timberwolves after losing Boozer.

The 04th pick in 15 was in the same class as Howard and Wang Chao, but he didn't show much. As a center, his evaluation at the time was far lower than that of the No. [-] pick Howard and Okafor.

But after entering the league, Jefferson played steadily, step by step, gradually grew up, and became an inside player with a steady contribution of 20+10 per game.

08-09赛季，森林狼选中凯文.乐福并且逐渐将其视为球队新的建队核心，杰佛森的球权受到影响，09-10赛季数据从此前的23.1分11篮板下滑到17.1分9.3篮板，但命中率和效率没有丝毫影响。

Of course, these are not important.

Jefferson has outstanding offensive ability and is proficient in all kinds of inside footsteps, but his defensive ability is extremely poor. His height of 2 meters does not have an advantage in front of traditional centers who are generally over 08 meters tall. His weight of 2 kg also makes his footsteps slow. Too slow to defend power forwards and too short to defend centers.

But it is such a center who has always been considered defenseless, but in this game he played against Howard.

In the whole game, Jefferson made 16 of 10 shots and scored 21 points and 8 rebounds. On the other hand, Howard, who was facing Jefferson, made 18 of 6 shots and 11 of 4 free throws. He only had 16 points and 9 rebounds and made as many as 6 turnovers. .

In fact, during the matchup with Howard, Jefferson didn't do anything. He just stepped up to hold Howard firmly when Howard was playing with his back, and then the latter's brain capacity was a bit insufficient.

Howard is obviously taller than Jefferson and looks stronger, but the short and fat Jefferson has a lower height and a lower center of gravity, and his lower body is as stable as a mountain. Howard, who is not good at lower body strength, can stand up to it at all. .

Ma Dan, what should I do if I can't squeeze it?

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

Howard, who finally figured out a way, immediately turned around and wanted to cut to the basket, but he dawdled too much time. The Jazz shrank the defense, and the assisting defense player cut off Howard's basketball with one look back.

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

In fact, he didn't practice and study hard at all when learning inside skills with O'Neill. Compared with practicing skills, Howard prefers strength training that doesn't require brains, body coordination and adaptability.

Coincidentally, O'Neal is not a guy who likes to train. He and Kobe had quarreled over this issue more than once when they were in the Lakers. Until later, Kobe would still say that if O'Neal would train as hard as he did, his achievements would definitely be higher than he is now. .

O'Neal, who wanted to teach Howard a trick on a whim, and Howard, who thought he had mastered O'Neal's key inside skills, hit it off, and started a leisure life of three days of fishing and two days of surfing the net early.

Then came the retribution.

In fact, Jefferson's inside defense is not good at all. Relying on Howard to stop him, and the Jazz players to help defend, he successfully locked Howard.

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

Someone helped him solve the offensive problem, such as Wang Chao, who Kirilenko could no longer restrain.

But the previous game gave Howard great confidence. He didn't think Jefferson restricted him at all, so he played singles with the ball in the paint over and over again and was blocked.

Deron played this game well. Howard, who is obsessed with offense, has no time to talk to him. This makes Deron's breakthrough with the ball extremely lethal. He made 19 of 11 shots and 12 of 11 free throws in the game. He scored 30 points and 5 Rebounds and 14 assists helped the Jazz win the game away.

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The loss of a game did not make the fans of Orlando take it seriously. There is no team in the NBA that does not lose. 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 11, the Magic played against the Memphis Grizzlies at home.

Howard met another rival, Marc Gasol.

As the addition of Pau Gasol acquired by the Lakers, no one expected that after entering the league in the 08-09 season, this second-round rookie quickly showed the talent not to lose to his brother. The two brothers have completely different playing styles. Compared with Pau Gasol, whose style of play is softer, Marc Gasol's style of play is tough, and he tends to be good at defense.

If nothing else, 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 Marc Gasol's NBA career. Marc Gasol, who has just faded from his rookie title, is not qualified to be compared with Howard at all. With his slightly heavy pace, it is difficult to keep up with Howard speed.

But what he faced was Howard, who was obsessed with post-up singles and tried to improve his offensive skills inside.

Marc Gasol is not used to this Howard who is acting like a meme.

整场比赛，霍华德15中5，罚球13中5，15分11篮板4失误的数据再度导致了魔术队的输球。

For the Magic's defeat in this game, Howard can only be counted as half of the blame, and the other half will be deducted from O'Neal.

O'Neal, who served as Howard's technical instructor after joining the Magic, was not willing to sit on the bench and win the championship without making any contribution. Where is his face?Even if I say it in the future, I am embarrassed to say that I have five championships.

With the support of Howard and the management, Howard entered the team's rotation at the beginning of the regular season, averaging about 20 minutes per game.

In fact, the efficiency of O'Neal who played for 20 minutes is very good. After all, no matter how old the Shark is, as long as he can stand under the basket, he still has attack power. At least the various technical moves are much smoother than Howard's.

Therefore, in 20 minutes of playing time, O'Neal was able to score 66.7 points and 8.6 rebounds with a shooting rate of 4.1%, becoming an important scoring point in the Magic's rotation.

But the question is, do the Magic need O'Neal averaging 8.6 points in this game?

Of course it is not necessary.

O'Neal's playing time is not all squeezed out of Howard. Howard's playing time has increased this season. He currently averages 39.2 minutes per game, which is longer than Wang Chao. The playing time left for the backup center is only 8.8 minutes. At that time, O'Neal actually appeared on the field at the same time as Howard, replacing Channing Frye at the power forward position.

Wang Chao was also speechless, what did Van Gundy think.

Howard and O'Neal are two big centers who play at the same time for more than 10 minutes in each game. When they are on the court at the same time, the Magic can be said to be crowded inside when attacking, and there is no room for breakthrough with the ball. Outside pick-and-roll cover, the three shooters will basically not have the opportunity to create open space by passing and cutting. In most cases, Wang Chao can only rely on his personal ability to make a difficult three-point long-range shot, or hand the ball to Howard and O'Neal. One, let them attack from the inside.

(End of this chapter)