NBA: I am the god of basketball

Chapter 179 Do You Know a Hammer?

Howard and O'Neal are equally proudly called the Twin Towers combination by Orlando fans, but in fact, when these two are on the court at the same time, it is a drag on the overall tactics of the Magic.

However, based on the overall strength of the Magic, after two consecutive losses, the Magic played an away game against the New Jersey Nets and easily won the game, ending the losing streak.

On November 11, the Magic played against the Phoenix Suns at home.

Today's Suns can be said to be in decline. The core player Amare Stoudemire defected to the New York Knicks, allowing the Suns to instantly retreat from the powerful position in the Western Conference.

Although for the Suns, Nash is the real soul and core, but as a pass-oriented point guard, Nash can only ensure the team's minimum minimum at most, and the team's upper limit still needs to be truly absolute. The meaning of the attack is decided by the player.

In Wang Chao's memory, this season's Suns should only achieve a record of 40 wins and 42 losses in the regular season, ranking tenth in the Western Conference and missing the playoffs.

Nash averaged 14.7 points and 11.4 assists per game in the regular season, which is not much different from when he won the regular season MVP for the first time, but he can only watch the team get further and further away from the playoffs.

In fact, as a two-time regular season MVP superstar, Nash did not do well in the league. He has never received a maximum salary in his entire career, and he has not even been the team's highest salary.

In this time and space, because of Wang Chao, Nash won a championship and was the FMVP of the finals, and his historical status rose a lot in an instant, which also made him get a bigger contract extension when negotiating with the Suns. .

Wang Chao is not sure whether Nash, who already has a championship and FMVP and can enjoy pension contract benefits in the Suns, will switch to the Lakers to form F12 in the 13-4 season in order to chase the championship.

This choice is undoubtedly the worst decision of Nash's career. After leaving the Suns and without the care of the Suns' genius doctor, Nash suffered injuries immediately. He only played 65 games in two seasons with the Lakers, and then quit the league sadly. no crown.

As for Nash later becoming an assistant coach of the Suns, and later serving as the head coach of the Nets, he was questioned about his coaching ability.

In this game against the Suns, the Magic achieved a comprehensive suppression of the Suns.

He can't shoot from outside and outside, and he can't resist from inside and inside. The most pitiful thing is that the current Magic team has two players who should have been the backbone of the Suns, Channing Frye and Dragic.

One of the two is the main starting power forward of the Suns in the 10-11 season, and the other is Nash's first substitute. How many abilities can be compared with these two players?
So the Suns are weaker than they should be.

One ebb and another, the Magic finally defeated the Suns 105:89.

After the game, Nash took the initiative to hug and pay tribute to Wang Chao, and at the same time said with emotion: "I am always thinking now, if the Suns management was not so stingy and gave you a super maximum salary, would we have already done so already? Won the three-peat dynasty?"

"I don't know, maybe." Wang Chao shook his head, this kind of thing is really uncertain.

But the Suns' run-and-gun tactics are the predecessor of the small ball tactics. In the past few years, as long as the team is built according to Wang Chao's ideas, and Stoudemire, who is only stronger than Howard in mobility, serves as the center, Coupled with the fact that Wang Chao's firepower outside the three-point line is only stronger than that of the peak Curry, the lethality is unimaginable.

Maybe the three consecutive championships have been achieved.

However, in the Suns, it is difficult for Wang Chao to become the first tactical core. Both Nash and Stoudemire are players who need the ball, which is fundamentally different from the super blue-collar Howard.

The rise of Wang Chao will definitely affect the performance of the two. For their own long-term development considerations, they had to leave the Suns no matter what, so this assumption itself is not valid.

……

After the game with the Suns, the Magic defeated the Toronto Raptors and won three consecutive victories.

But on November 11, the Magic lost another game against the Indiana Pacers away.

In this game, Howard encountered the Pacers' center, Roy Hibbert, who is 2 meters tall and known as "Black Yao".

Hibbert is a typical player who was quickly eliminated in the general trend of the small ball era. He has good offensive skills at the basket, top-level frame protection ability, lack of mid-range and long-range shooting ability, limited athletic ability, lack of speed and explosive power , will affect the speed of the whole team in the fast return defense.

But these problems are the problems that Hibbert will face in the future, at least now he doesn't need to have a headache.

Just like in this game against the Magic, Hibbert faced Howard, who frequently asked for the ball inside and tried to post him up.

In terms of physical fitness, Howard can beat Hibbert by a few blocks, but back-up singles test the lower body strength and skills. These are not what Howard is good at, but they are precisely Hibbert's advantages.

The genuine Dayao can beat Howard. Although the "Black Dayao" can't do the same level as the real Yao, it still has a pretty good effect on Howard, who is rising up and avoiding his strengths.

整场比赛，希伯特16投8中得到19分10篮板，霍华德则12投3中，罚球13中6，得到12分12篮板。

After losing to the Pacers, the Magic followed up with the San Antonio Spurs.

Duncan will not be used to Howard. With 26 points and 14 rebounds, he taught Howard, who only had 14 points and 12 rebounds, how to play as an inside center.

The Magic once again suffered a two-game losing streak. The regular season has a total of 13 games. The Magic has lost four games and has a record of 9 wins and 4 losses.

Although this record can still be ranked first in the East, it is far behind the Spurs in the West with 12 wins and 1 loss. Even the Lakers, which ranks second in the West and currently have a record of 11 wins and 2 losses, performed better than the Magic. .

"Obviously, there are some problems with the Magic's tactical system. When Howard starts to play singles with the ball, his connection with the outside line of the team is completely cut off. If it is passed to an open teammate on the outside, there is a high probability that it will be intercepted and the ball will be missed.”

"Not only that, the Magic's defense in the new season has also declined significantly compared to the previous two seasons, and they put in more energy on the offensive end, so that Howard has no time to take into account the problem of assisting defense on the defensive end in many cases."

"More importantly, through the observation of more than ten games in the past half a month, Howard's inside offensive skills are not solid, and the offensive efficiency is not high. After other teams analyze Howard's style of play thoroughly, Scoring has become even more difficult, he did not learn O'Neal's superb footwork and skills at the basket, but perfectly inherited O'Neal's poor free throw touch, so far this season Howard's free throw percentage is only 56.8%, which is a career low."

"Facts have proved that it is better for Howard to follow the style of play of the previous two seasons. His style is more suitable for playing like that. He is mainly responsible for the team's defense. On the offensive end, he helps his teammates pick and roll and cut to the basket."

Howard dismissed all kinds of evaluations from the outside world.

These people know a hammer?
Isn't the team still number one in the Eastern Conference?Although most lost a few games, compared with his current average of 25.4 points and 13.8 rebounds per game, what is a few more games lost?
Howard sees it very clearly now. These guys just want to be that blue-collar player again, but he wants to become the next super center!
Last season, the Magic had already achieved 70 wins and 12 losses in the regular season, and the possibility of further chasing the Bulls' 72 wins is extremely small, so it doesn't matter if they lose one or two more games this season, as long as they can guarantee the No. [-] position in the Eastern Conference , Compared with the victories in those games, he still wants to have a luxurious personal data.

On November 11, the Magic beat the Heat 24:104.

Without the annoying heavy center forward, Howard immediately froze again, scoring 29 points and 18 rebounds, and joined forces with Wang Chao, who scored 30 points, 4 rebounds and 13 assists, to defeat his opponent.

More than half a month has passed, and the problem of the Heat's possession of the ball has not been well resolved. This game is still a situation of god and ghost.

詹姆斯18投9中砍下25分6篮板4助攻，而韦德21投仅6中，得到18分3篮板5助攻。

The two teams that were considered the biggest favorites before the game encountered some troubles in the early stages of the regular season.

好在魔术队这边的底子够硬，霍华德再怎么执着于低位单打，终归能以56%的命中率场均砍下26+14的两双数据，王超的得分也一直稳定维持在28+5+7左右。

The personal strength of the Super Magic combination alone is enough for the Magic to win most of the games, but it is only a little weaker than the Magic themselves last season.

The remaining three games in November, against the Wizards, Pistons and Bulls, all won.

It is worth mentioning the game against the Bulls.

Under the defensive system created by Thibodeau this season, the Bulls have become one of the league's strongest defensive teams, and their strength has risen. In the original history, they will have a record of 62 wins and 20 losses. Rose has therefore become the youngest regular in the league. Game MVP.

Before playing against the Magic, the Bulls were also in the midst of a new lineup and a new coach's tactical system, with 9 wins and 6 losses, ranking No. 4 in the Eastern Conference.

And the Bulls also caused a lot of trouble for the Magic in this game. As a player who has won the best defensive player once like Marc Gasol, Joakim Noah has excellent frame protection ability, although he is not as good as in terms of tonnage. Howard, but still relied on his good defense to make Howard very uncomfortable throughout the game. He only scored 13 points and 12 rebounds in the game.

But it’s not enough to limit Howard alone. The Bulls’ small forward Ruhr Deng was completely overwhelmed in the face of Wang Chao. Wang Chao scored 44 points, 7 rebounds and 5 assists in the whole game, and he just led the Magic to win this game. games.

And the Bulls' defense is outstanding, and the Magic are not bad either. The core of the Bulls' offensive end is point guard Derrick Rose. Rely on Rose's ability to break through the frame with the ball.

With his speed and explosive power, Rose certainly has no problem passing Nelson, but when he rushed to the basket, he faced Howard's defense. The center with the strongest ability to protect the frame.

Rose scored only 13 points on 5 of 15 shots throughout the game. The Bulls' offense was also severely restricted, scoring only 78 points.

107:78, the Magic won by 29 points, proving that a lean camel is bigger than a horse, and the Magic are not as exaggerated as a lean camel.

With the end of the game against the Bulls, the November schedule is all over.

The Magic has a record of 17 wins and 13 losses in the past 4 games, ranking first in the Eastern Conference and tied for second in the league with the Lakers.

Howard averaged 11 points and 25.2 rebounds per game in November, and was elected the best player of the month as he wished.

The league's overall performance for Howard is still more favorable than negative.

But it is an indisputable fact that the Magic's tactical system has problems because of Howard.

Compared with last season, this season's Magic has an impact on the overall statistics of everyone except Howard.

The best sixth man Jamal Crawford's scoring average dropped from 17+ last season to 14.2 points, and his average shots per game dropped from 14 to 11.5. declined.

这倒也不完全是霍华德一个人的锅，因为原本历史中的克劳福德在10-11赛季状态就会下跌，直到13-14赛季加盟洛杉矶快船才重新焕发职业生涯第二春，以场均18.6分3.2助攻的数据第二次获得联盟最佳第六人奖。

Leaving aside Crawford, among the starting players, Nelson and Channing Frye, who also scored in double figures last season, are also averaging single digits this season.

Channing Frye has had a lot of playing time squeezed by O'Neal. Currently, in less than 25 minutes of playing time, he can only contribute 7.3 points and 3.9 rebounds.

The reason for the decline in Nelson's data is directly caused by Howard.

Nelson himself is a point guard who lacks the ability to attack autonomously. A large part of his scoring comes from the offense after cooperating with Howard in the pick-and-roll, and the rest is from open shots.

Now that Howard has reduced his pick-and-roll cooperation with outside players, Nelson himself cannot create mobile opportunities, and his scoring average naturally falls below single digits.

This series of chain reactions is caused by Howard's changed style of play, but this kind of thing can't be said to be completely blamed on Howard. It is natural to want to play better statistics.

Even Wang Chao would not sacrifice his data for the so-called reason. After all, he has always been clear that he is an egoist, not a team player with lofty ideas.

This is also the reason why Wang Chao has not questioned Howard's unreasonable style of play until now. He will not block it in various ways just because he knows that Howard is not a traditional center as a time traveler. He does that kind of double standard thing. I can't come out, and I don't have the face to do it.

Howard's question, at least, shouldn't be raised by him.

(End of this chapter)