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Chapter 192

"The All-Stars in the East and West played very seriously in today's game, especially the center Dwight Howard and Yan Hua of the two sides, and they showed the intensity of the playoffs to deal with today's game .”

In today's All-Star Game, after the opening, the two center forwards from the east and the west faced each other directly. Yan Hua repeatedly beat Dwight Howard under the basket, and Dwight Howard was also supported by his teammates. , has always wanted to get back on the offensive end.

As the two strongest centers in the league today, the direct confrontation between Dwight Howard and Yan Hua is still very interesting, but what is surprising is that Dwight Howard actually played against the strongest center in this match. In the duel with Yan Hua, he was directly stunned by Yan Hua.

In the opening 3 minutes, in the one-on-one with Dwight Howard, Yan Hua made 5 of 4 shots and scored 8 points and 3 rebounds, while Dwight Howard made 4 of 1 shots and 2 of 1 points. Rebounds, not only the shooting percentage was terrible, but also a shot was directly blocked by Yan Hua. If it weren't for the fact that today's game was an All-Star game, Dwight Howard might have to commit two fouls.

The opening of the All-Star Game in such an opening is definitely beyond everyone's expectations, because anyone with a discerning eye can see that the advantage of the Eastern All-Stars lies on the outside, especially Dwyane Wade and Joe -The backcourt combination formed by Johnson has an absolute advantage when facing Nana. quickly established a leading edge.

But in the few minutes after the opening, several All-Star starters in the Eastern Conference gave up their advantages on the perimeter, allowing their own Dwight Howard and the All-Star center Yan Hua in the Western Conference to fight hard in the low post. .

Regardless of whether the All-Stars in the Eastern Conference are for the purpose of helping Dwight Howard or for other reasons, Dwight Howard and Yan Huagang got together at the beginning of the game anyway.

However, the confrontation between Dwight Howard and Yan did not have the strong dialogue they expected. Dwight Howard was completely at a disadvantage. After the All-Stars also opened, they were given a 2-8 start by the Western All-Stars.

"Kenny, judging from the first few minutes of the game, there are no two major centers at all. In today's league, Yan Hua is already the only blocker. The gap between Dwight Howard and Yan Hua , now it seems very obvious that if Dwight Howard doesn't work hard, the gap between the two of them will only get bigger and bigger."

After leading the team to the finals last season, winning rebounds and blocks, entering the double team, and winning the best defensive player, Dwight Howard is a well-deserved number one center. However, Dwight Howard's butt Before the chair was hot, he met a challenger, and he was a much stronger challenger than all the opponents Dwight Howard had encountered before.

In his second season in the league, Yan Hua averaged 24.5 points, 13 rebounds, 3.5 assists, 3.1 blocks, and 0.7 steals per game. Howard is much better. In addition, in the first matchup between the Kings and the Magic this season, Dwight Howard was blown up by Yan Hua on both ends of the offense and defense, so the top that originally belonged to Dwight Howard The hat was put on Yan Hua's head by quite a few media, and Yan Hua also ascended to the throne of the first center in his second season in the league.

After losing the hat of the first center, Dwight Howard began to work hard, not only his attitude towards the game, but also his daily training. In January, Dwight Howard not only led the Magic to a A wave of crazy winning streak, and was elected the best player of the month. This is the second time Dwight Howard has been elected the best player of the month this season. Therefore, the arguments of the two major centers, East Howard and West Yanhua There is a market.

Therefore, when Dwight Howard and Yan Hua faced each other directly at the beginning of the All-Star Game, all the audience on the scene and in front of the TV were also looking forward to the duel between the two centers, but this duel As a result, as Charles Barkley said just now, where are the two major centers, Dwight Howard and Yan Hua are no longer players of the same level.

Dwight Howard's performance was so weak that it also put Eastern All-Star coach Stan Van Gundy in a dilemma with the rest of the All-Star starters on the field.

You must know that except for the official timeout and the final stage of the game, both sides will basically not call timeouts for adjustments during the rest of the All-Star Game, and the head coaches of the two teams will not deliberately arrange any tactics. Let the players on the field decide the game themselves, so Stan Van Gundy standing on the sidelines can only watch Dwight Howard become obsessed, and repeatedly go to Yan Hua to single out, but there is nothing he can do .

As for the rest of the Eastern All-Star players on the field, they were also very helpless and even disgusted when Dwight Howard kept looking for the ball and Yan Hua was singled out.

Although at the beginning of the game, they all supported Dwight Howard to find Yan Hua one-on-one, after all, this is the All-Star game, and no one will do it until the last moment, so many All-Stars , play alone for a while, everyone is covered with rain and dew, hello, me, hello, everyone, that is the best ending, but when you fail again and again, you have to reach out to your teammates for the ball, trying to do it again, and treat this place as a After your own team completely ignores the feelings of everyone else, it will inevitably be disgusted by everyone. After all, everyone's patience has a limit.

Therefore, when Dwight Howard, who had failed several times in a row, reached for the ball again after reaching the offensive end, Dwyane Wade, who was an Eastern All-Star point guard, reached out for the ball. Wade, just ignored Howard's request for the ball, ran over Jason Kidd with the basketball, rushed into the paint area, and after shaking Yan Hua who was defending, he used a small throw to help The Eastern All-Stars pulled back two points.

"Large defense and small ability, it's still too bad."

(End of this chapter)