"Dwight, you did a great job today."

On May 11, 2008, after the fourth game of the Eastern Conference semifinals between the Pacers and the Magic, Dwight Howard sat on the floor of Amway Arena with a depressed face, looked up at the ceiling, and didn't know when he was thinking, Meng Xu, who had no consciousness of a victor at all, walked straight to Dwight Howard, trying to persuade this lost little lamb.

Maybe it's because he is now lonely and lofty, or maybe it's because he has become the head of the Odin brand, every time Meng Xu encounters those young players who encounter setbacks, he can't help but want to enlighten them, teach them a little experience, pour a little chicken soup or something.

"Isn't it good?" Looking up at Meng Xu standing in front of him, Howard, who looked aggrieved, looked at Meng Xu and asked rhetorically, in today's game, Howard scored 24 points and 15 rebounds in the backwater, but it was useless, the Magic still lost today's game 88-97, and after the Magic was swept by the Pacers, the still childish Dwight Howard was also very frustrated, as for the performance in this round of the series, Howard was quite dissatisfied.

After three seasons in the league, Howard began to gradually enter the peak of his career, averaging 20+10 per game for the first time in his career, and was selected for the All-NBA and All-Defensive Team, and also ranked fourth in the selection of the best defensive player, and fifth in the regular season MVP selection, Howard has now entered the ranks of the league's first-line superstars, and the head coach of the Magic, Stan Van Gundy, also told Howard at the end of the regular season, Now it's time for us to take off.

In the face of the piles of accolades and praise, Howard is obviously a little inflated, and even played the old joke before the series with the Raptors, and when he was interviewed by reporters before the start of the first game of the series, he was already thinking about the next round, and only the Pacers and Celtics were opponents for the Magic in the East. Although the Magic finally eliminated the Raptors with a score of 4-1, Howard, who was empty-eyed, was criticized by the media, especially the Canadian media, who described Howard as a clown.

And after the start of the Eastern Conference semifinals with the Pacers, Howard, who performed poorly, naturally became the object of all the media, the playoffs soft egg, Mr. Regular Season, any ugly nickname was buttoned to Howard's head, and Howard, who had a clear brain circuit, really couldn't understand why these media, who were still singing praises for themselves a few days ago, suddenly became their enemies, is it because of that sentence that I am already thinking about the next round? Howard remembered that Meng Xu had said this kind of thing several times, why did Meng Xu say it, I couldn't say it?

So during the whole series with the Pacers, Howard's mood was very depressed, the pressure of the game, the criticism from the outside world, the reprimand of the head coach, this pile, one by one, overwhelmed Howard, who always played the game with the attitude of enjoying basketball, so after losing the last game of the series, Howard did not leave, but sat on the floor on the sidelines with mixed feelings, disappointed, unwilling, and relieved, so after Meng Xu came over, Howard wanted to find an answer from him.

"If you can do that every night, maybe the series isn't over yet." As a spiritual mentor, of course Meng Xu will not use the truth to hit the heart of a fragile young man, the overall strength gap between the magic and the Pacers is too big, the inside line was blown up by the Pacers, and the outside line was also blown up by the Pacers, even if they were given an O'Neal or Duncan who was at their peak, they couldn't go through six games under the Pacers, let alone a Howard who was obviously inferior to them.

"Ignore the outside world, concentrate on training, concentrate on playing, and vent all your energy and frustration on the pitch, and only then can you get better." Most coaches in this league don't care about the psychological changes of their players, because they don't have that much time and patience to care about those things, they just want the performance and strength of their players, and play well according to their own tactics. As the core of the team, Meng Xu is different, in order to achieve better results and make the Pacers stronger, Meng Xu has to pay attention to the mentality changes of his teammates all the time, of course, all of this Meng Xu learned from Tim Duncan and Reggie Miller.

"Do you want to take your energy and frustration out on the court?" After listening to Meng Xu's words, Howard lowered his head and began to think back to the mistakes he had made in this round of the series.

The Magic now has only one core tactic, that is, a center and four pitchers, Dwight Howard is a pillar of optimus on the inside, and four shooters are placed outside, but because Dwight Howard's offensive means are too single, even the mid-range shot is not good, so many times, the Magic's offense relies on the outside, relying on Rashad Lewis and Siddo Turkoglou, as well as Jamil Nelson.

But as the fulcrum of a center and four pitcher tactics, Howard's role is still very important, every time Howard opens on the inside, the Magic's hope of winning is at least seven, on the contrary, as long as the Magic encounters the kind of Dwight Howard can't handle the inside, the Magic will play very hard, in the first three games of the series, Dwight Howard averaged 14 points, 11 rebounds, and 1 block per game, and he didn't even count, so in the first three games, the Magic lost to the Pacers by an average of 15 points per game, And Howard, as the core of the tactics, is naturally to blame.

After Meng Xu's praise and enlightenment, Howard's mood also improved slightly, and after hugging each other for a while, and hearing the legendary sentence "The future is yours, Dwight Howard, who was in a good mood, walked into the player's tunnel with Meng Xu one after another.

After sweeping the Magic, the Pacers became the first team to advance to the division finals, and as for the remaining sets of matchups, whether it is the Celtics vs. the Cavaliers, or the Spurs vs. Hornets in the West, or the Lakers vs. Jazz, after four games, they all tied 2-2, so the Pacers will have a long "vacation" again.

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