The Lakers' first-round playoff opponent was the Houston Rockets, and the Rockets' record this season after Howard's injury was not very good, after all, the current Harden is still learning and improving. The ability to lead the team is insufficient, and it is not as strong as the regular season later. The Lakers didn't see them as a threat, but there was news from there, Dwight. Howard will be back in the playoffs.

As soon as the news came out, the entire Rockets fan zone cheered, feeling that their team finally had the strength to fight the Los Angeles Lakers. Harden also opened his mouth and said: "Howard and I are the cornerstone of the team, with him the team will be complete, and we will not be afraid of anyone's challenge." "Harkistone" is Harden's new nickname in addition to "Nightclub Deng" recently, and he also had a big verbal battle with Parsons, who left the Rockets, on this matter, which made countless fans have an addiction to "eating melons". The current Harden is still immature in the regular season, and of course, until 2018, his playoff mentality has also not matured. But the regular season was still good. Now, he's still in his learning phase and working hard to solidify his position in the league's first percentile.

When Tang Qian heard this, he only felt funny, and said in his heart: Your Rocket Team is really compatible with yourself. Howard's return, do you think that's a good thing? Tell you, if he doesn't come back, it will probably be better, and the little brother will explode when he touches him. The tradition of China's super center, eating and sleeping and fighting Warcraft. Alas, Team Rocket, you're definitely going to be cool.

Howard didn't come back, you still have the hope of winning 1~2 games and resisting resistance, now...... Ironclad swept away.

Beyond a doubt.

So Tang Qian also said: The Rockets will definitely not be able to win against us, whether they have Howard or no Howard, for us, it is actually the same. Even, I think the Rockets might be a little bit tougher to play against without Howard.

Saying this, Harden is okay, he almost didn't make Howard so angry that he choked on eating, this trash talk is really enough! It's enough to bury people! If you really don't play well, won't you be confirmed? This Oriental Yankee! It's still so annoying! I really want to punch his stinky mouth to bloom!

Howard is really fed up with this Oriental, he has been "injured" and "unlucky" since he began competing with the latter team in the Lakers. Look at it, he was obviously the starting center of the Lakers in the 12-13 season, but he had to be a substitute for the latter in the All-Star Game! This degree of grievance is estimated to be only O'Neill who substituted Yao Ming back then, but O'Neill and Yao Ming are not players of the same team. Therefore, the relationship between him and Tang Qian's all-star chief and deputy is obviously more awkward. Secondly, you see, he is the team's starting center, the league's first C, but he lost the rebounding king and blocks in the team, if he didn't score to save some face, he would have been humiliated to death. Therefore, such a comparison makes it seem that he has a "high salary and low ability", right? Plus being beaten by all kinds of fat plots...... Well, that's not to mention, the last thing Howard wants to recall is this paragraph. Well, I thought that I would leave the Lakers at the end and make a big deal of my old club, but I didn't expect it...... The Nima Lakers won the championship in the 13-14 season without their own??? Is there anything more unfortunate about this???

If you can't mix a ring, you will be endlessly ridiculed by Lakers fans, saying that it is because of his 12-13 season that Kobe Bryant will break his Achilles tendon. You see, without you, I would have won the championship immediately, didn't I? This and this, Howard was really depressed to death in the offseason that season, and he was also aggrieved in his heart, how did I know that Kobe Bryant would suddenly be so fierce next season? If he had been so fierce in the 12-13 season, the team wouldn't have been in the first round. This is bandit logic, and the team without Kobe Bryant is led by him, and the result? The original time and space were directly swept, and this time and space also relied on Tang Qian's outburst to drag the Spurs to the seventh game. Otherwise, the result is estimated to be swept away.

And then the eastern center didn't know what was wrong, and when he saw himself, he came hard, and he pressed himself to fight every time, which was really hell. Regardless of whether he was in good or bad shape that day, he was pressed and beaten. This is simply enough to suffocate people to the point of exploding. It's completely the feeling of a natural enemy nemesis.

So Howard is really about to form a "demon" in his heart, and he will be stunned when he sees the Lakers' No. 29.

To break this "psychological shadow", there is no other way but to overpower the opponent once.

Otherwise, it will only make this "psychological shadow" bigger and deeper.

It's a pity that his comeback in the line of fire this time is destined to be a tragic thing again.

Tang Qian eats, sleeps, and fights Warcraft, he is ready, just waiting for him.

On April 18, 2015, US time, the playoffs officially began, and the first day of games included Wizards VS Raptors, Warriors VS Mavericks, Bucks VS Bulls, Lakers VS Rockets. The game between the Wizards and the Raptors ended first, and it was funny to say that the Raptors were the team with a better record in the higher ranking, but they lost in the first game, and the Wizards defeated Toronto, who had home-court advantage, 93-86. This game is actually a veritable iron battle, and neither team has a shooting percentage of more than 4 percent. The Wizards are 3 into 9, what about the Raptors? Worse, 3 into 8. The Wizards conceded a total of 60 balls in this game, yes, you read that right, they just conceded 60 balls! 39 out of 99! Three-point shooting is also poor, only 28.6 percent, and even free throw shooting is only 6 percent. So how did they win? And again, it was overtime. It was only eighty or ninety points in overtime, which was enough. The reason is that the Raptors are more dish.

He shot 6-of-29 from three-point range and shot only 20.7 percent from the field, and then very importantly, rebounding, rebounding, rebounding, important things said three times, rebounding was too bad. Let's just say that the Raptors, who got the most rebounders, turned out to be the outside player Demar. DeRozan ...... What about the other side? Grabbed 61 rebounds in the game! Finish the Raptors! Plus Pierce scored a crucial 5 points with 100% shooting in overtime and took the game away. Oh, and by the way, the entire Raptors scored a measly 4 points in overtime, which wasn't as many as Pierce alone. So losing, a reasonable thing.

Won, that's weird.

The second game ended with the Bucks vs. the Chicago Bulls, and there was no suspense in this game, and the Bulls easily eliminated the former, and the 12-point advantage made the series a good start. Rose scored 33 points in this game, with a shooting rate of more than 6 percent, plus Gasol turned over the sea on the inside, 15+13+2 data, and the Bulls won.

The two games in the East are over, and the two games in the West, which are the two games in California, are also underway.

The Warriors started first, and they established a dominant advantage almost from the start, scoring a high-energy 60 points in the first half! All of a sudden, the suspense of the game was lost in advance. They led the Mavericks by 20 points at halftime. Although the Mavericks are still stable, they scored 12 points with a super shooting rate in the first half, but they were unable to return to the sky, and 8 percent of the shooting rate could not save the team. In the second half, Dallas's basket was crazy "splash", and the Golden State Warriors scored another 55 points in the third and fourth quarters, with a total of 115 points against the Dallas Mavericks. Even if the Nuo Tianwang shot as high as 7 to 1 in this game and scored 24 points, it didn't have any effect.

The attack on the opposite side is too strong, and it has the ability to suppress the running and bombing, and the team's offense and defense are integrated, this ability is too strong.

It's simply the perfect adaptor for the small-ball era.

Historically, there has hardly been a team that has been able to do so without being seeded that season.

The favourites.

Curry scored 24 points, 11 points and 2 rebounds in this game and was named the best player of the game.

The last game is the Lakers vs Rockets. T broadcast, so it was all kinds of warm-up and ridicule for Team Rocket at the beginning. For example, Barkley said: Let's see if ESPN dares to rank the hot outside the season's best center five after this series. First center Howard? It's up to him tonight to help the ESPN experts get some gas.

I predict that the Lakers will sweep their opponents 4-0 to advance to the Western Conference semifinals.

Kenny. Smith said: Based on this season's regular season record, the Lakers do have the advantage, which is no problem, and I think even if Howard returns, he will be difficult to resist the Lakers' No. 29. My prediction is a 4-1 promotion.

Reggie. Miller, for his part, agreed with Kenny. Smith's point of view, he also chose the Lakers to win, and the final 4-1 promotion.

Only O'Neal, although he also chose the Lakers to advance, but he chose 4-3 and barely advanced, because he thought that the Rockets' "Morden combination" would show its power in the playoffs, and the regular season game was nothing at all. He used himself as an example, he was two "sharks" in the regular season and the playoffs. Barkley taunted when he picked up his mouth: Without Kobe, you can play like this in the regular season? The team can't make the playoffs at all, right? If I had a Kobe Bryant, I would have won the championship a long time ago.

O'Neal is very dissatisfied, of course it's not about Kobe, because he hasn't been blind since Kobe Bryant's five championships, and the 2018 All-Star Game double face-to-face interview program said in front of Kobe, you have one more ring than me, you are awesome. The attitude has long been very different from before. This plane? Not to mention, Kobe Bryant has 6 rings in his hand, and it is impossible for him to be bored and spray No. 24. But he's not ready to let Charles go either. Barkley: It's useless to have Kobe, your opponent back then was Michael's Bulls dynasty, do you think you can get by?

This is tantamount to killing two birds with one stone, using Jordan to suppress Barkley and Jordan to suppress Kobe.

But it's basically unanimous that the Lakers are finalized.

Because the Lakers are the top team, it's natural to have home-court advantage, and the first game will be played at the Staples Center. Without further ado, as soon as Howard entered the Staples Center, he was met with a huge boo, all sorts of tricks. What you are a big soft egg, you guys who have no seeds are light, and more are traitors, rotten, and with you the Lakers can't win the championship and other heart-wrenching words. But there is no way, the fans of the original space-time Staples Center treated Howard like this, and it took several seasons to stop, in this time and space, Howard did even more excessively, and announced at the last moment that he would go to the Rockets, which was tantamount to slapping the Lakers hard, so that the Lakers didn't even have time to make up last season.

Kupchak has also been questioned about his business ability because of this matter.

Howard walked in with an iron face, Yi Jianlian was still too young to understand the specific grievances between the Lakers and Howard, or didn't understand the grievances between the Lakers No. 29 and Howard so much, so she wanted to high-five the former before the game. At this time, Thackeray beside him pulled him down and said: "Yi, don't go over and high-five Howard, in our Los Angeles, anyone can high-five, just don't high-five him, he is now the public enemy of the Lakers, you don't want to do this kind of thing." Yi Jianlian was stunned for a moment and said, "So serious? Not really, right? It's just tournament etiquette. ”

"You're stupid, didn't you look at how you looked at him? I'm telling you, in the whole league, the player you don't like the most is the name in front of you called Dwight. Howard's man, I witnessed the 'team war' between the two of them last season. Listen to me, treat this guy with cold eyes and contempt. For the rest, the scalding will take care of it. ”

"You're here, Mr. Warcraft." Tang Qian was angry when he saw Howard, and the grievances couldn't be resolved for a long time, so there was nothing to be polite to him: "How do you want to be abused by me tonight?" Light abuse? Abuse? Or is it tyrannical? You pick one. ”

"I choose your XXX!!" Howard was also furious when he saw Tang Qian: "You are arrogant, the game hasn't started yet, you are such a loser, I want to see if you will be beaten and swollen later!! Tang Qian sneered and said: "It's not good to say to others, but for you, I can definitely win 100%!" There won't be a single accident! ”

Grass and mud horses~ Pretend to force me every day~ Sooner or later, I will kill you one day, so that you can't even talk nonsense!!

Of course, Howard said this in his heart, and he didn't have the courage to say it face to face.

The scene from 2 years ago, but he still remembers it vividly.

This Oriental is a violent person, and his fist and foot ability is off the charts! To do it with him yourself is to find a fight unilaterally!

So he could only snort coldly, and then turned his head and walked to the center circle of the scrum.

The Lakers' lineup for this game is: Tang Qian + Bosh + Butler + Ariza + Jeremy Lin, and has almost recovered the strongest lineup that the team can put out this season. The Rockets are Harden + Terrence. Jones + Jason. Terry + Josh. Smith + Dwight. Howard. Because the Rockets are still coached by McHale, they don't have any tactics in the playoffs at all, except for simple blocking and pick-and-roll, and a few single tactics for the stars. This strategy was notoriously "awesome" in the hearts of Rockets fans at the time, and it was no worse than the future Cavaliers "Coach Lu".

Howard apparently lost weight during his injury, perhaps on the advice of his doctors, or perhaps on his own. After all, the sudden red light on his body also reminded him that his body couldn't eat 290+ pounds of tonnage while maintaining his athletic ability. More than a season is the limit. And now, as soon as he loses weight, the strength of last season no longer exists.

Without the absolute advantage of strength and tonnage, the explosive power has also declined, which is equivalent to a significant reduction in the offensive end. The high explosion in last year's playoffs is estimated to have become his swan song. The body no longer has crushing skills and has not improved at the same time, which is very important for Dwight. For Howard, the low-level killer can only become a dream like a mirror.

If you lose the scrum, forget it, the first inside back hit was directly lost by Tang Qian's defense, and the mistake ended.

He is probably only about 280 now, and he has lost more than ten pounds of weight in one breath, which is okay against light tonnage, but against Tang Qian, who is already 291 pounds, it is a dream. His back fighting force has always been very poor, it is simply F-level, but in many cases, such a large strength and tonnage can't even beat a blue-collar with a slightly stable chassis, such as the "Sea Lord" Hayes with a solid chassis, which often makes Howard eat deflated and eat dirt. Howard's back is too poor, his rhythm is stiff, and his technical connection is not good, so this is the first center in the history of the NBA league but the league's back is the league's back to play more than 200 singles, the league's lowest efficiency exists!

This is probably an alternative record that has never been seen before or since.

Howard's second offense with the ball in this section was still with his back, which made Tang Qian can't help but laugh, he sometimes can't help but laugh when he watches the former do lame back-to-back movements: "Hey, you also call this a back-to-back single?" Your backbody technique was given to you by your math teacher, right? It's so wively, so ugly. "Shut up! See how I get in! You bastard...... Howard didn't finish his words, and was rewarded with a big hat by Tang Qian: "After so many years, you haven't learned to be obedient, have you?" Mr. Warcraft, I know you have a dream of a low-level killer, but it's really just a dream. ”

"You'll never be able to do it."

"Trust me, stop daydreaming, okay?"

"You don't talk nonsense! I've just come back and I'm still looking for the game, and when I find the form, it's your bad luck! Oriental hot! "Howard is really obsessed, no wonder he ended up losing all trust in the Rockets, because in the end everyone found out, he was like Stan. Van Gundy said that the offensive ceiling is limited. The highest is that high.

And after the decline in physical fitness and the inability to eat large tonnage, the offensive end is becoming more and more blue-collar, which has become excessive and inevitable.

It's just that Howard himself is not awake, or he is unwilling to be sober, he is always self-hypnotic, even to the point of a kind of inner pathology. This season is okay, and next season, he will completely lose his status as the cornerstone of the "modern combination" dual. The role of the offensive end will be further reduced. He is about to reach the lowest point of his rookie season except for his rookie season. But at this time, he was still complaining, thinking that the Rockets did not trust him, deliberately isolated himself, and did not give himself the right to shoot. It wasn't until he went to Atlanta that he really came to his senses, and it turned out that he really didn't have the life to be a low-level killer.

After losing his superhuman physical fitness, it is impossible to score an average of 20+ per game, and it has become an inevitable result to degenerate into a blue-collar worker. Ironically, this is exactly where he looked down on the Lakers' No. 29 back then.

It's just a blue-collar worker, how can he be compared with himself. As a result, he himself will soon become a blue-collar worker, and he will never come back. In fact, starting next season, no media will rank him in the No. 1 center position. Howard has completely become a chapter in the history of the first center.

To put it more bluntly, he is in the past tense and has passed away.

And the new league No. 1 C, the real league's No. 1 center, is ready to occupy this position for a long time,

This series is exactly the series where he really gags everyone's mouths.

From the beginning of this series, the vast majority of people believe that the league's No. 1 center is completely replaced.

At this point, the first C position, surnamed Tang is not surnamed Huo.

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