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Chapter 171 The Old Man and the Young Man

"Dwight, calm down, you need to calm down, stop looking for that bastard under the basket, you can pass the ball, pass the ball to Vince or Rashad, let them shoot from the outside! Let them share the offense with you Extreme pressure!"

Less than 2 minutes into the game, Magic head coach Stan Van Gundy called a timeout, because if he didn't call a timeout, the Magic would collapse in the first quarter, 7-0, less than 2 minutes into the game, and the Kings Just beat the Magic 7-0. However, compared with this bad opening score, what worries Stan Van Gundy more is the situation on the field before the timeout.

After Stan Van Gundy called a timeout, on the defensive end, Yan Hua singled Dwight Howard under the basket, which was as simple as chopping melons and vegetables. In front of Yan Hua's ghostly footsteps, Dwight Howard even had a basic He couldn't defend his defensive position, let alone defend against Yan Hua's offense. On the offensive end, Dwight Howard hit Yan Hua twice in singles. The first time Yan Hua blocked him directly, and the second time he barely shot If Stan Van Gundy hadn't called this timeout just now, the point difference between the two sides may have come to 10 points, and Dwight Howard, who has been irritated, may have been going to the basket to fight Yan Hua is tough, and he will even be messed up by the king's kid.

"Asshole, asshole, asshole!" When Stan Van Gundy asked Dwight Howard to give up the ball and pass the ball to his teammate after the timeout, Howard yelled asshole three times in a row, and then turned to the seat next to him. He slammed two punches hard to vent his dissatisfaction and anger.

As the offensive and defensive core of the Magic, Dwight Howard doesn’t have many shots. Vince Carter, Rashad Lewis, and even Jameer Nelson have more shots than Dwight Howard. Therefore, Dwight White Howard has always been very unhappy with the tactical arrangements of head coach Stan Van Gundy. After all, the tactical core and bosses of other teams basically have unlimited firepower, but Dwight Howard, who is the core of the Magic, is Magic's fourth offensive option, are you angry?

However, in today's extremely important game for Howard, the game has just begun, and head coach Stan Van Gundy wants to give up the offense by himself and let those outsiders with low offensive efficiency preside over the offense. Reduced to a blue-collar and inside coolie?What qualifications does a blue-collar have to compete for the first center and become the first center?

Stan Van Gundy, who had already left Howard and walked in front of Rashard Lewis, shook his head helplessly after hearing the sound of Dwight Howard smashing the chair, and then told Rashard Lewis , Let him cooperate with Dwight Howard's decision to double-team Yan Hua.

Stan Van Gundy did not tell Howard directly about the decision to double-team Yan Hua, because Stan Van Gundy is very aware of Dwight Howard's temper. In the game against the Rockets, Stan Van Gundy asked Howard, who was blown up by Yao Ming, to , to defend Yao Ming, and limit Yao Ming's offensive efficiency by blocking Yao Ming from receiving the ball, but Dwight Howard replied to him very domineeringly: Go TM's forward!I would rather be rubbed on the ground by Yao Ming than surrender myself to defend Yao Ming.

Similarly, with Dwight Howard's temper and face-saving personality, even if Stan Van Gundy arranged for Dwight Howard to double-team and defend Yan Hua, Dwight Howard would never execute it. Maybe when Stan Van Gundy arranged tactics for him, he got angry and then affected the atmosphere of the whole team, so Stan Van Gundy simply bypassed Howard and directly gave Rashard Lewis the task of double-teaming Yan Hua. This will not only give Dwight Howard a step up, but also achieve his own tactical goals.

Although the situation on the field is very bad now, in Stan Van Gundy's view, as long as Dwight Howard doesn't act impulsively on the offensive end, but executes according to his own arrangement, and puts all the saved energy into the defensive end. Rashard Lewis' double-team, Stan Van Gundy believes that the Magic still have a chance, because the game has just started and they have plenty of time.

However, what Stan Van Gundy didn't expect was that after the timeout ended, even though Yan Hua singled Dwight Howard again, Rashard Lewis immediately rushed to double-team Yan Hua's defense, But Yan Hua didn't pass the basketball out after Rashard Lewis' double-team was in place, but used a series of footsteps to move past Rashard Lewis and Dwight Howard one after another, and hit the ball He made a shot and caused Dwight Howard's defensive foul at the same time. Dwight Howard, who was fouled twice by Yan Hua, had to leave the game early before halfway through the first quarter.

Looking at Dwight Howard and Rashad Lewis, who were easily shaken by Yan Hua, Stan Van Gundy was really speechless, but the one who made Stan Van Gundy speechless is still behind, replacing Dwight- Howard's backup center, Marcin Gortat, received two defensive fouls in three rounds. He had to follow in Howard's footsteps and left the court early to rest.

In desperation, Stan Van Gundy had no choice but to push Rashad Lewis' substitute Ryan Anderson to the fifth position and let him accept the ravages of Yan Hua. As a white player, Ryan Anderson's athletic ability is very average. The defensive ability is also a lot worse than Dwight Howard and Marcin Gortat, but after Ryan Anderson came on the scene, the foul problem that made Stan Van Gundy a big headache did not continue to appear because of Ryan Anderson's athletic ability Strangely enough, even if he wanted to jump up and block Yan Hua like Dwight Howard, it would be very difficult for him to do so.

Not only that, after Ryan Anderson came on the stage, the Magic's inside defense has also improved significantly. Ryan Anderson, who has extremely poor athletic ability but doesn't jump very much, cooperates with Rashard Lewis' double-team. After seeing Yan Hua's crazy scoring momentum, he really complied with that sentence. An 80-year-old man is better at defending Olajuwon than an 18-year-old boy. Hua, for those jumpers with super physical fitness, it is like a nightmare existence, while those players with poor physical fitness, because they can't jump even if they want to, play a miraculous effect when defending Yan Hua .

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