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Chapter 32 Counterpoint Howard

"Yan, remember, do what I tell you."

In the King's first attack after the opening, Yan Hua didn't get any chances, so after Kevin Martin hit a jumper, Yan Hua quickly retreated towards the backcourt, but just after halftime, Yan Hua I heard the assistant coach Tyrone Corbin standing on the sidelines shouting at Yan Hua.

Yan Hua, who retreated in advance, stuck up when Dwight Howard just ran below the free throw line. Facing Yan Hua's post defense, Howard obviously didn't take it seriously, and moved towards the left side of his body After taking another step, Howard reached out to his teammates for the ball.

Compared with the King's current tactical system that is messy and has no fixed routines, the Magic's tactics are very clear, that is, relying on Dwight Howard as a fulcrum in the interior, building a combination of inside and outside, or simply calling it a tactic of one center and four shooters. Well, because Howard still has a lot of technical defects, this makes the Magic's one-center four-shooter tactic far from reaching the level of the Rockets back then, but for Howard's future, the Magic is still very confident. And with the lessons learned from missing O'Neal, the Magic gave Howard a maximum salary this summer very readily.

After receiving the pass from his teammate, Howard first tried to attack the frame. When Yan Hua stepped forward to defend himself, he used his usual moves to get rid of Yan Hua and go straight to the basket, but what Howard didn't expect was that However, Yan Huaniao didn't care about him. After Howard attacked face-to-face, he let him take a step and let him shoot.

Howard, who is very self-aware of his mid-range shots, did not shoot rashly, but prepared to forcibly break through to the left side of Yan Hua's body, attacking face-to-face, carrying the defensive player on his shoulders to break through, which can be regarded as Howard's signature move Yes, but this time, because Yan Hua had prepared for a long time, Howard did not succeed, and after Yan Hua blocked the face-to-face breakthrough, Howard changed his body posture, from the face basket to the back basket.

Post-up attack has always been Howard's shortcoming. This year is Howard's fifth season in the league, but Howard's post-up technique is still very bad. However, as the league's number one center, Howard will never admit himself The post-up technique is rubbish, no, in the first offensive round of the Magic, Howard was trying to use the post-up single to attack Yan Hua.

Unlike the centers that Yan Hua had come into contact with before, Howard's back was purely relying on his body to carry him back. However, due to the poor strength of his lower limbs, Howard hit Yan Hua three times in a row when he was playing Yan Hua with his back. , did not get much closer to the basket, but Howard still relied on his fairly good back-turning speed and brutal explosive power to complete the turn in front of Yan Hua, but Howard's half-hook shot after the turn was "ruthless". It's hard to beat the iron.

"Yan, well done!" After Yan Hua defended Howard's attack, Kevin Martin immediately ran over and gave Yan Hua a high-five to celebrate. After the first few games, Kevin Martin also realized that Yan Hua Hua's potential, and its importance to the king, so recently, Kevin Martin has been consciously getting closer to Yan Hua.

"Thank you, Kevin." After nodding to Kevin Martin with a smile, Yan Hua turned around and trotted towards the frontcourt.

"Mr. Beast Trainer, your teammates don't seem to trust you very much. This is not acceptable. How can you become the number one center forward if you can't even touch the ball?" Yan Hua, who ran to the frontcourt, still had no chance to touch the ball , so Howard, who was defending Yan Hua, began to mock Yan Hua without any scruples.

In the round of contact just now, Yan Hua's strength really surprised Howard a little. In terms of the choice of defensive positions, Yan Hua gave Howard the feeling that he was not like a rookie who had just entered the NBA. Howard was taken aback by the powerful power contained in his not-so-strong body. Although his back-to-body plan wasn't good enough, it wasn't enough to stand up to a person who was obviously not as strong as himself, right? Therefore, according to Howard's estimation, Yan Hua's current strength has definitely surpassed his rookie period, or even his second season.

So don't look at Howard still doesn't take Yan Hua seriously, but in Howard's heart, he already treats Yan Hua as a strong opponent, but Howard's defense is ready, but Yan Hua is received Can't even touch the ball.

Yan Hua, who was standing on the left side of the paint area, ignored Howard's provocation at all, because with Yan Hua's current level of English, he still couldn't understand Howard's extremely fast speech, and there were some similar dialects of English mixed in.

Another point is that after Yan Hua arrived at the frontcourt, his eyes were always on the basketball in the hands of his teammates, and he had no time to take care of Howard standing beside him. When the main players of the Kings were basically on the court, Yan Hua rarely There can be offensive opportunities, so Yan Hua can only focus on the rebound on the offensive end, which is also one of the few opportunities Yan Hua has now.

Point guard Benno Udrih passed the basketball to Kevin Martin after trying to break through to no avail, and Kevin Martin, who had no chance, handed the basketball to John Salmons, anyway, basketball is Passing from the outside, Yan Hua and Drew Gooden, who are insiders, basically rarely touch the ball.

In the end, after the basketball circled back and forth twice, John Salmons made a shot from outside the three-point line, but looking at John Salmons' shooting posture, Yan Hua knew that the goal probably would not be scored, but Yan Hua didn't have a chance to grab a rebound, because he was stuck tightly by Howard at the moment and couldn't get close to the basket.

If I can't grab it myself, I can ask my teammates, Drew Gooden, who plays power forward with Yan Hua's partner, likes to attack the offensive rebound very much, so Yan Hua, who turned his back to Howard, immediately stretched out His own hands, pretending to push Howard away from his arm, actually grabbed Howard's jersey.

The only inside line was blocked by Yan Hua. Naturally, Rashad Lewis, who is a pseudo-insider, could not overtake Drew Gooden, so after John Salmons made a shot, Drew Gooden went straight to the basket. Deng, grabbed this offensive rebound very logically.

After Drew Gooden grabbed the offensive rebound, Howard, who missed the opportunity just now because Yan Hua was pulling his jersey, pushed Yan Hua away, and then moved towards Drew who had already grabbed the rebound - Gordon rushed over.

Drew Gooden, who grabbed the offensive rebound, was about to make a tip-up when he saw the menacing Howard rushing towards him. In desperation, Drew Gooden had to give up his plan to make a tip-up and passed the basketball to Yan Hua who was unguarded behind Howard.

Immediately, with a loud bang, Yan Hua, who received a pass from Drew Gooden, hung on the basket.

(End of this chapter)