Sun Zhuo still remembers that when he was a Lakers player five years ago, Nicholson once praised Sun Zhuo as a surprising rookie, saying that Sun Zhuo's performance was phenomenal.

And five years later, Nicholson said that Sun Zhuo played like shit during his time with the Lakers.

Sun Zhuo understood why he said that.

Not only him, but all Lakers fans complained a little about Sun Zhuo, because Sun Zhuo likes to hide his abilities, and when he was in the Lakers, he didn't use all his abilities.

However, they didn't think that if Sun Zhuo was as they expected, Kobe Bryant would no longer be the master of Staples, Kobe and Sun Zhuo, they could only have one.

The Lakers' ace players were blocked, and other players realized that they had to stand up and score, Lamar Odom was the most active one, after all, the Lakers were the champion team in the West, not Kobe Bryant alone, Odom and Gasol were among the best players in their position, and Sun Zhuo was powerless to defend the interior because he wanted to defend Kobe, and the score was not pulled away.

It didn't take long for Kobe to become interested in Sun Zhuo's new partner Wei Shao, and after watching Wei Shao play a few quarters, Kobe found that Wei Shao was a very energetic player, a bit like him.

"I think about it, I seem to have watched this guy play at UCLA, hehe, I really didn't expect this guy to become Sun's teammate, Kevin Durant has proven that he is the strongest in their class, and he will definitely become a top five player in the league, if Russell can grow into a superstar again, then the Orlando Magic in three years will be very scary, and other teams will have no chance."

After Kobe Bryant played against Wei Shao, he remembered that he had watched Wei Shao play as early as when Wei Shao was 16 years old, and he was deeply impressed by Wei Shao at that time, and after watching Wei Shao's game at that time, he was still complaining: "What are those scouts doing?" ”

Because Kobe Bryant had never heard of Wei Shao's name at all, but Kobe Bryant thought that Wei Shao played very well and was a superstar seedling.

Wei Shao is a player who has long been recognized by Kobe Bryant, and Durant has also proved his superstar potential, so Kobe is more aware of the importance of these two seasons, while Wei Shao and Durant have not fully grown up, the Lakers must seize the opportunity to win the championship!

However, in this game, Kobe Bryant found that even if Durant and Wei Shao are not so strong, it is not so easy to beat the Magic!

"How can the Magic's defense be better than the Celtics!"

Today's game made Kobe feel that the Magic's defense was even more terrifying than the Celtics, originally there was only Artest, but now, there is Sun Zhuo, and under the leadership of the two, the defensive ability of others seems to have improved, especially Kevin Durant!

Durant's help defense makes the Lakers miserable!

Seeing Durant's defensive performance today, like Sun Zhuo and Artest, they are all S-level, and Sun Zhuo also had a smile on his face.

"A lot of people just think KD is an attacker, yes, he's a natural scorer, if he feels good, he's a shooting machine that's more buggy than me, however, his offensive ability overshadows his defense, this guy is tall and has long arms, top running and jumping, and the help defense is a tiger, I still remember the scene after he joined the Warriors' Big Four, defending fast-breaking, 1-defense, and 3......"

Sun Zhuo remembered Durant in his previous life in the Warriors, when he was in the Warriors, Durant took on more defensive tasks, and often had amazing defensive performances, Sun Zhuo knew that Durant could be a very good defensive player.

Not to mention Gasol Jr., who won the best defensive player in 2013 in his previous life!

Wei Shao's physical fitness is destined to be not too bad a defensive player, many people have criticized Wei Shao's defense in his previous life, that is because he is the leader of the team, in fact, Wei Shao started by defense, in this magic team, the offense does not need Wei Shao at all, he can focus on defense.

Therefore, this season's Magic team, purely defensively, is the top existence in the league, and it is not weaker than the Celtics.

The Lakers are not very comfortable with today's Magic team, and the offense can't play at all in the late stage, although Kobe Bryant can score occasionally, he can't save the team, on the contrary, the Lakers have not been able to seal Sun Zhuo's existence with Kobe, and Sun Zhuo still scores more than Kobe.

In the end, in this finals preview, the Magic won.

"If the opponent in the Finals this season is still the Lakers, then I should have no problem winning four consecutive championships, and the bigger trouble seems to be the Boston Celtics, who must beat the Cel......tics this season."

At the end of the game, Kobe Bryant was not discouraged, after all, the season had just begun, and the Lakers didn't really have no chance to win the Magic, Kobe Bryant asked Sun Zhuo: "Are you looking forward to meeting Marvin Ayton?" You seem to know each other, and LeBron seems to already think they're the champions of the East. ”

Sun Zhuo smiled and said, "The knights with Marvin Ayton do have the qualifications to win the Eastern Championship. ”

"I'd love to play Marvin Ayton too, we're going to play the Cavaliers in two days, but unfortunately he's out now, I don't know if he'll play then." Kobe Bryant had seen Marvin Ayton play on a cruise ship and was eager to play against him to see how strong he and James really could be together.

"There will definitely be a chance, even if I miss this time, there will be another time this season." Sun Zhuo said this sentence on behalf of Marvin Ayton, and he also wanted to use Ayton's identity to challenge the Lakers with James.

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After the victory over the Lakers, the Magic started another wave of winning streaks and soon became the No. 1 team in the East, Sun Zhuo has amazing game statistics, and is also the first candidate for the league's regular season MVP.

The other is Dwight Howard of the Thunder.

This year, after a brief legal battle, SuperSonics owner Bennett and the city of Seattle reached an agreement to leave the team's original name and color to Seattle so that a new team in the city could one day use it, while moving the team to Oklahoma City and naming it the Thunder.

Howard likes the name Thunder, and he wants to be the greatest player on this new team, first and foremost, by winning the Defensive Player of the Year.

It's the end of December, Howard averaged 25 points, 15 rebounds and 2.7 blocks per game this season, and the number of blocks is incomparable to Sun Zhuo, on the one hand, Sun Zhuo is an outside player, on the other hand, Sun Zhuo's blocking ability has not been improved to the highest level.

But the best defensive player is not just about the block, of course, it is a very important statistic, so many people still feel that there is still a lot of suspense about the best defensive player this season, but it will definitely be produced between Howard and Sun Zhuo.

The game between the Magic and the Thunder also began at the end of 2008.

Two days before game day, Howard emailed Jimmy Jordan.

"Jimmy, it's been a long time, have you been following the NBA this season? Sun this guy is competing for the best defensive player, he is definitely ambitious for this award, two years ago, when I was a teammate with him, he mentioned to me, this season, everyone who is in the position of him is miserable, even Kobe Bryant, Maddy's level of stars can't play average data under his defense, we are going to meet soon, I guess he will play directly with me, because I am his biggest competitor, he must want to play with me one-on-one, do you have any good advice for me? Help me defeat him! ”

Seeing Howard's email for help, Sun Zhuo couldn't help laughing, Howard guessed well, Sun Zhuo did plan to play as the starting center when playing with the Thunder, and compete one-on-one with Howard to divide the competition, but how could he give Howard an idea to defeat him?

Sun Zhuo only replied with a few words: "Sun's defensive ability is very terrifying, and the only advice I give you is not to participate in that game!" ”

After Howard received the reply email, he became melancholy, even Jimmy Jordan, who has always been disdainful of Sun Zhuo, was afraid of Sun Zhuo's defensive ability like this?

However, everyone is looking forward to watching the defensive battle between Howard and Sun Zhuo, Howard is in good shape now, he is not sick or injured, he can't miss the game for no reason?

There was no way, Howard still went under great pressure and participated in this game, which was at the home of the Orlando Magic.

This game was also broadcast by CCTV.

Yang Jian introduced before the game: "This game can be seen as the battle between Sun Zhuo and Howard for the best defensive player, Howard's average blocks per game is the most, and Sun Zhuo can also lower the opponent's ace score below the average line every game, and the shooting rate of the opponent's defense is also very dismal, Sun Zhuo and Howard are old teammates, and today's battle should be very interesting." ”

Su Qun continued: "The award of the best defensive player is basically won by the big guys, like in the past ten years, that is, Artest, Gary Payton and Michael Jordan have been won by the outside, and the rest of the time is the inside, so it is not easy for Sun Zhuo to fight for Howard." ”

Sun Zhuo is already the strongest offensive player in the league, and if he wins the best defensive player again, then he will really be a star at the dominant level on both offensive and defensive ends, and this is the first time Sun Zhuo has been so close to "MDP".

After the game started, Sun Zhuo played as the starting center and played opposite Howard.

"The number one player in the league is yours, but the best defensive player is definitely mine." Howard made it clear to Sun Zhuo that he would not let Sun Zhuo get his wish this season.

Sun Zhuo smiled and said to Howard: "If you have the scoring ability of Shaquille O'Neal or Olajuwon, maybe I can't stop you today." ”

But Howard doesn't have such a domineering scoring ability or scoring skills, just relying on his physical strength to score points, Sun Zhuo will not let him get his wish, that is to say, Howard is unlikely to beat Sun Zhuo on the offensive end today, and Sun Zhuo has a high probability of beating Howard.

In this way, the battle for the best defensive player this time is also very clear.

"Damn, he can get 50 points on my head, and I can get 30 points at most." Howard is also aware of this problem, Sun Zhuo and Howard's defensive ability may be top-notch, but the scoring ability of the two, Howard is several James worse than Sun Zhuo, this is an unfair matchup, however, after the game, everyone will only talk about the data.

Yang Jian: "Howard singles Sun Zhuo inside, although he has a height advantage, but he doesn't have a basket on the outside, he still has to be in a position under the basket to attack, but in terms of physical confrontation, Sun Zhuo does not lose to Howard." ”

Su Qun: "Howard didn't enter, it's Sun Zhuo's turn, hey, one arrow step in, Howard really can't keep up." ”

Judging from this round alone, Sun Zhuo scored in the face of Howard, and Howard did not score in the face of Sun Zhuo, no matter what, Sun Zhuo's defense was better than Howard's.

In fact, the defense of these two people is similar, except that Sun Zhuo's scoring ability is stronger.

Howard was a little anxious, and threw another shot under Sun Zhuo's interference, but the result was still iron.

"See, this is my 'divine interference,' you can't get in, Dwight." Sun Zhuo deliberately provoked Howard.

"Damn." Howard is very impatient, he can't beat Sun Zhuo with his body, he shoots with a height advantage, he doesn't have a basket, and he wants to use Olajuwon's skills to get rid of his opponent, and he has no skills, which makes him very distressed.

"I'll be looking for Olajuwon soon, you won't be complacent for long." Howard was desperate for technological advancement.

"Olajuwon?" Sun Zhuo remembered that he had incarnated as Olajuwang some time ago, and said with a smile, "Don't be so troublesome, you can just learn from me." ”

Howard didn't know that two of the top ten goals in Olajuwon's career were made by Sun Zhuo.

Since Howard also adores Olajuwon, Sun Zhuo confronted Howard and did a dreamy footwork that he had done in the Legendary Challenge!

"What? This guy dares to use Olajuwon's moves against me! Howard was ashamed, but said to Sun Zhuo: "What you did is far worse than what Olajuwon did, don't you feel embarrassed?" ”

Of course, Sun Zhuo didn't feel embarrassed, Olajuwon's action was done by him, but it was just Olajuwon's body.

"I don't think Olajuwon did a better job than I did, I know him better than you do, Dwight." Sun Zhuo has even secretly seen what "Little Olajuwon" looks like, of course he has this confidence.

Sun Zhuo's one-on-one defense of Howard is quite successful, but as an interior player, it is not only necessary to defend the position, he has to defend all players who want to score in the restricted area, at this point, Howard is very tired, and Sun Zhuo does not have many opportunities to perform, because Durant and Artest are very good in single defense, and basically will not give them a chance to break through.

After a game, the Magic easily defeated the Thunder, Sun Zhuohao scored 50 points, Howard was defended only 16 points, but there were still 2 blocks, Sun Zhuo had three steals and 1 block, this time, in terms of defense, it can be barely said that Sun Zhuo won Howard.

But the regular season is still a long one, and it will be a few months before the award will be revealed......