Chapter 255: He's Overrated

On October 15, the Knicks came to Taipei, and this time they met a soft persimmon - the crooked men's basketball team.

The strength of the bend team is not even as good as the Shanghai team, these two provincial teams have made the Knicks unmotivated, Wu Huang got the least cheers in Taipei, and for the first time there was no large number of fans at the airport to meet the plane, let alone a stampede.

The game was arranged at the Taipei Arena Stadium, Wu Huang saw less than thirty percent of the fans wearing his jersey in the stadium, although the front row seats were tangled in the seats, Wilber Pan, Lin Junjie and other stars were watching, but Wu Huang didn't know these people, he rarely listened to male voices, these stars who became popular in the eyes of mainland fans, he didn't know who they were.

When the first half of the game ended, Wu Huang scored 38 points, 4 rebounds, 1 assist, and 5 steals in 18 minutes of playing time, just by himself or his teammates after the counterattack after the steal, Wu Huang scored at least 15 points.

It only took one first half for the Knicks to completely bend the bend team, but these opponents who didn't know anyone, Wu Huang had a feeling that no matter how much he won, it would not be interesting.

In the third quarter, the Knicks' players saw that Wu Huang was having fun and felt good, and the whole team kept covering for him.

Wu Huang didn't bother to care about reasonable or unreasonable in this kind of game, as soon as he had the opportunity to shoot, his personal data soared again, and soon the exclamations of the fans from the beginning continued, and slowly became silent, because the score difference was getting more and more beyond their tolerance.

D'Antoni allowed Wu Huang to play the entire quarter, and Wu Huang made 19 wild shots in 12 minutes and scored 39 points that shocked the entire arena.

Wu Huang scored 38 points in the first half, which made the fans feel unbelievable, but in the third quarter, he scored 38 points in a single quarter, and the fans already felt a bit like a dream.

"What a fuss! Cutting 100 points on a bunch of waste is not worth bragging about. Wu Huang didn't take this game too seriously, he felt that the level of these bending players was not as good as his teammates at the University of Southern California, and it was not an incredible thing for him to brush up on 100 points as long as he wanted to score in this kind of competition.

Wu Huang scored 77 points in the third quarter, but he didn't bother to brush it anymore, at this time the score had become 110:42, and the Knicks led by 68 points in the third quarter, Wu Huang was a little embarrassed to continue to stay on the court, in case he finally won the bend team by 100 points, this is too slap in the face, isn't it?

He didn't pay attention, the faces of the players of the bending team were already blue at this moment, if it weren't for his great fame, and most of his shots were medium and long-range shots, it was estimated that someone would have hacked him.

Wu Huang sat down on the court in the fourth quarter with 77 points, 7 rebounds, 2 assists and 10 steals, and he made a total of 38 shots and made 28 shots, including 12 of 18 three-pointers and 9 of 9 free throws.

The bending team saw that Wu Huang and the Knicks started one after another, and they actually whimsically planned to narrow the gap in the fourth quarter, but they underestimated the NBA's benches, in recent years, a large number of third-rate players who can't play in the NBA have wandered to the CBA, and they can get three or forty points in a game, and the top 20 players in the CBA scoring list are almost surrounded by these NBA fringe players, which shows that the overall strength of the NBA is indeed much better than other leagues.

The Knicks' bench lineup is also enough to crush the Crook team again, Alston, Tony Allen, Landry Fields, Radmanovic and Greg Monroe, this is a more offensive lineup.

As soon as the game came up in the fourth quarter, the Corners quickly discovered that something was wrong, Tony Allen and Fields, two unknown players, their breakthrough Corners were also unstoppable, these two were not masters of offense with the ball in the NBA, and Fields was still a second-round rookie with only a one-year guaranteed contract.

But in this super easy game, the breakthrough threat of these two players far exceeded the expectations of the bending team, their lack of height, lack of confrontation, and defense that is not even as good as the NCAA team, and finally let Tony Allen play Wade, let Fields play Roy, and even Radmanovic turned into Turkoglou.

Wu Huang watched the egg pain off the court, he never found these teammates so hanging, and then look at Monroe's performance under the basket, just like Ewing back then, today O'Neal played five minutes, Monroe played more playing time, this guy has grabbed 26 rebounds so far, and he scored 18 points just by making up the basket.

The difference on the court soon widened again, and after more than halfway through the fourth quarter, the starters of the bend team were already exhausted, and they simply did not have the physical strength to play an official NBA game, and then they had to replace the bench for a symbolic consumption of time.

"Their center and power forward seem to be less than two meters, right?" Gallinari muttered secretly beside Wu Huang, the height of the substitute inside line of the bend team is very problematic, and he is half a head shorter in front of Monroe, whose real height is less than 208cm, so how tall can it be.

Not only is the substitute interior too short, but even their starting interior is just over two meters old, and a bunch of interior lines don't look as tall as Gallinari, it is estimated that the Italians can play the inside line when they go up, and Monroe finally played the level of the No. 6 show in the face of rookies today.

The bend-and-bend team completely gave up resistance in the final half of the game, not because they didn't want to struggle, but because they didn't have the physical strength to resist anymore. If the Shanghai team played a game with them in NBA rules today, the players might not be as unbearable as they are now. However, the physical strength consumed to fight against the Knicks is like an abyss between them and CBA-level teams, and the players feel that it is not easy to just keep up with the offensive and defensive rhythm of the Knicks, and then deal with the opponent's offense, the physical exertion is much stronger than the games they usually play.

In the last 44 seconds, when Monroe got his 30th rebound and hit a layup, the Knicks' lead had reached 100 points, and it was a complete slaughter!

After the excitement of the first half, the fans have already fallen into a wordless embarrassment in the second half, and it is their team that is behind by 100 points at the moment, if you throw away the student league and the women's basketball league, it is difficult for any professional league in the world to have a game with a net difference of more than 50 points, not to mention that the benders have always felt that their team is a national level, although no one in the world admits this, but they themselves always think so.

The last few attacks of the bending team also wanted to narrow the difference to double digits, but they didn't expect Tony Allen to give no face at all, and directly broke the ball and counterattacked to widen the difference to 102 points.

Wu Huang shook his head from the sidelines, he didn't know whether to be happy now, or simply not to make any expressions, so as not to further stimulate the silent fans in the stadium.

The final score was 153:52, and the Knicks' bench lineup scored 43 points in the final quarter, ending the farce game with a huge margin of 101 points in one fell swoop.

The American media felt that the Knicks were completely beating elementary school students, and the strength of this crooked team was not even as good as the NCAA team, so let them go to the United States to play in the college league, and eighty percent of them could not enter the final national round of 68.

After the game, Wu Huang took a photo with the crooked sissies on the sidelines to sign autographs, and left after giving a few pairs of sneakers prepared by UA.

He doesn't know who these talking stars are, anyway, no matter who they are, they don't have his big names, these people are just ordinary fans in his eyes.

The Knicks' game against the very curved team still caused a lot of talk on the second day, although the difference in strength between the two was huge, but the final 101-point goal difference still made many fans smash their glasses, just like a football game played a dozen to zero.

ESPN has once again brought out the data that it does best.

The record for the largest margin of point difference in a basketball game came in the 2002 Asian Youth Women's Basketball Championship, when the Japanese national youth defeated the Mongolian national youth by a huge margin of 205:21, making it the largest score difference in a regular basketball game on record with 184 points. At that time, the score of the two sides was not shown at the time, because there was only one on the technical design of the scoreboard.

The South Korean men's basketball team defeated the Iraqi men's basketball team 120-20, and the Chinese men's basketball team defeated the Iraqi men's basketball team 125-25, creating the largest score difference in the history of the Olympic men's basketball team. In addition, in the preliminary stage of the 2004 Athens Olympic Games, the Brazilian women's basketball team defeated the Japanese women's basketball team 128-62. In the preliminaries of the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games, the women's basketball team of the former Soviet Union defeated the Italian women's basketball team 119-53, and both games created the largest single-game point difference of 66 points in the women's game.

As we all know, there are very few weak teams in the NBA due to the level of the game, but there have also been huge score differences in the history of the NBA. On December 17, 1991, the Cleveland Cavaliers defeated the Miami Heat 148-80, setting a record for the largest point margin in the NBA to date.

The Knicks won by 101 points this time, which may sound incredible at first, but when you consider the abyssal difference in strength between the two teams, this situation is not too unexpected.

The implication of ESPN is that the Taiwanese team is a little self-conscious, and the NBA preseason can play against overseas teams, but it is generally the strong overseas teams that dare to apply for this kind of competition. For example, the Lakers played one game each against Real Madrid and Barcelona in Europe, but both games were not easy to win. Secondly, if it is against a real national team, there will be no such disparity in scores, but the bend team is just a small provincial team that does not participate in the professional league, and it is pure self-inflicted humiliation to dare to play against the Knicks.

On October 17, after completing several commercial activities in Taiwan, the Knicks finally came to the last stop of the preseason - Singapore.

This time they finally don't have to face underdogs, and on the contrary, they will face the Orlando Magic, who eliminated them in the playoffs last season, in an apparent deliberate contest arranged by the league to make the Knicks' trip to Asia attract more eyeballs before wrapping it up.

The Orlando Magic reached the Finals in 2009 and went on a hiring spree last summer to get New Jersey Nets powerhouse Vince Carter. All of a sudden, the Magic had four All-Star qualified players on the roster, and it seemed that if they didn't win the championship, they would have a season of complete failure.

As we all know, not only did the Magic not win as they wished, but they didn't even reach the threshold of the Finals. They fell to the Boston Celtics, East Side rivals, and criticism poured in. The most typical argument in the industry is that the Orlando team lost to the Green Shirts this time because of their defense and experience, and they were not a mature enough team to have a championship appearance.

Now that a summer has passed, the Magic have made the smallest moves in the summer compared to the other six recognized powerhouses — the Lakers, Heat, Celtics, Mavericks, Spurs and Knicks. In ESPN's latest transfer review, they are considered to be a typical example of lack of progress, and it is difficult to achieve better results than last season in the new season.

Since the summer operation is almost negligible, the four stars of the Magic will have to take on their own responsibilities in the new season, but each will have a different part.

First up is Dwight Howard and Jamil Nelson, and some voices in the circle accuse the former of being rough and the latter for not being good at passing, which is actually very unreasonable. This is not to say that these statements are not facts, but Howard plays the ball, and Nelson points guard Pi scores, and they must not be treated as the four centers and Paul.

In fact, long before the start of the preseason, both coach Stan Van Gundy and various media experts in the industry knew what the shortcomings of Howard and Nielsen were. Since everyone is still happy to list the Orlando Legion as a strong team, it shows that under normal circumstances, the Magic is capable of tolerating these shortcomings. At this time, there is really no need for fans to find faults, and use their imagination to conjure up a delicate monster all day long, this kind of thing has no signs of appearing today, and it is impossible for it to suddenly appear tomorrow, and it is estimated that it will never appear.

The next interesting part is, what exactly does the "normal situation" refer to before? Fans who pay a little attention to the Magic are well aware of this, that is, Carter and Lewis can play up to par. These two people both received huge contracts of more than 10 million, and someone is still one of the few "Mr. 100 million yuan", which is basically the same as Xiao Si's salary, and he should restrain himself with the same requirements, so the Magic fell short last season, and they have more responsibility than other teammates.

Let's talk about Lewis first, against the Celtics last season, "Mr. 100 million" played ridiculously. The industry also clamored for Kevin Garnett to rejuvenate and once again put on a dominant defensive performance, which lifted Garnett to the sky for a while.

Okay, it's not the intention to question KG's abilities here, but it's also necessary to figure out how far exactly "great defense" can limit an All-Star? Generally speaking, a player who averages 18 points per game and shoots 45% of the game, if the opponent is pressed to an average of 12 points per game and a shooting rate of 40%, then we can find the reason from the opponent's defense and the offensive layout of our own team, and we can boast that the defender is awesome. But there is a bottom line, if like Lewis, the average single-digit per game in the Eastern Conference finals, the shooting rate is more than 30%, and it is meaningless to do extra tactical analysis, it can only be said that he is not in the state, or that his level is no longer good, and the effect of replacing David Lee to defend is not too bad

What about Carter? He's a completely different type of player than Turkgoru. Some people say that the Magic lost to the passing organization without the Turks, which is not necessarily true, but it can only be said that the Magic executives have long known that they can't have both fish and bear's paws, and they are willing to bet on Carter's personal attacking ability.

ESPN once commented on this very bluntly: "Carter was originally a player who was a notch better than Tekgru. "As for why he couldn't even put the ball in the open space and was in such a bad state, that's not something he could have thought of when he let the Turks go.

In short, the past is gone, and looking to the future, whether the Magic's championship goal can be achieved will have to fall on Carter and Lewis, which is actually the embarrassment of this team, because such hopes are too unreliable.

On October 18, Wu Huang was in his hotel in Singapore, and first started a war against Warcraft on his Twitter, and he aimed his cannon crosshair directly at Howard.

His blog post is titled: Orlando's Most Overrated Man – Dwight Howard.

Wu Huang has always remembered the time when Howard elbowed him, and he has always felt in his heart that if they won both home games last season, the final result would probably be very different.

You read that right, I don't think the most overrated person on the Magic roster is not Vince Carter, who didn't perform well last season, nor "Mr. 20 Million" Rashad Lewis, but Howard, the league's No. 1 center. Of course, I'm not making unwarranted accusations, but in fact, Carter's poor first year was mainly due to the fact that he didn't integrate well with the Magic's tactical system, which should be the reason why he is underrated rather than overrated. And Lewis's ability has been shaped almost since he joined the Magic, and Lewis, who is the three-man leader, has performed better in the playoffs than in the regular season, and his performance in the regular season is also decent, and there is basically no room for overestimation.

Howard is different, winning the rebounding king for 3 consecutive seasons and the block king for two consecutive seasons, plus the comic-like biceps and deltoids, it seems that everyone thinks he is the new "big shark", and everyone seems to think that Howard is only one step away from being a "back-to-back singles master".

But in fact, judging from the performance in the playoffs last season, against the Heat and us, Howard's performance is indeed the No. 1 center on the active roster, and he only needs to turn around and dunk to destroy the opponent. But when he reached the Eastern Conference Finals and faced the Celtics in the restricted area, Howard was bogged down in a wrestling quagmire - conceivably, if it was Shaquille O'Neal in 2000, the Celtics would never have survived Game 6.

Overall, I acknowledge Howard's strength, but at the same time I think people need to look at him calmly - he is indeed overrated, and with his current strength, he is far from taking the throne from O'Neal.

Emperor Wu not only showed no mercy when he attacked Howard, but also deliberately brought O'Neill with him. At the same time, he is also full of confidence in this game, the Knicks are no longer the lineup of last season, and now they have several blue-collar workers on the interior who can carry Howard to the death, O'Neal can also keep Howard from going deep into the restricted area in his limited playing time, this time he wants to see how the Magic team dies! (To be continued.) )