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After entering November, the Magic team directly started a wave of consecutive wins, defeating the Minnesota Timberwolves in turn, the New Jersey Nets who have not yet moved to Brooklyn, Charlotte Bobcats, and the Atlanta Hawks, directly winning a wave of six consecutive wins in the regular season.

Since the first two seasons of the regular season for the Magic team were also smooth sailing, Orlando fans have long been accustomed to it.

In this wave of six consecutive wins, Howard averaged 27.8 points and 14.6 rebounds per game, and his performance was amazing, especially his offensive firepower on the interior was the strongest center performance since O'Neal.

At the same time, Wang Chao's average points per game have gradually increased in the follow-up games, and he is currently averaging 28.4 points, 6.7 rebounds and 7.4 assists per game.

In the original history, Durant was crowned the scoring champion with an average of only 27.7 points per game this year, and James averaged 26.7 points per game to rank second on the final scoring list, followed by Anthony with 25.6 points, Wade with 25.5 points, and Kobe Bryant with 25.3 points......

The reason for the decline in the average points per game of the stars is not the reduction of individual ability, but the 2010-11 season, a number of defensive teams were born, the first of which was the defensive head coach Tom. Thibodeau's Chicago Bulls, the Bulls have conceded an average of 91.3 points per game this season, ranking second in the league, second only to the Boston Celtics, who have conceded 91.1 points per game, and the newly formed Heat Big Three, the Magic, an old defensive powerhouse around Howard, has not conceded high points per game.

This season, as many as seven teams in the league have conceded less than 95 points per game, compared to three last season.

Correspondingly, in the 2009-10 season, there were 18 teams in the league that averaged more than 100 points per game, and by the end of the regular season there should be only about 11.

The defensive intensity has increased and the offensive rounds have decreased, resulting in a collective reduction in scoring by stars across the league.

In this case, as long as Wang Chao maintains an average of 28.4 points per game, he can win the scoring crown for the third consecutive year...... On the premise that Durant will not deliberately compete with Wang Chao for the scoring title.

Wang Chao and Howard averaged 56 points per game, which can be described as the partner with the highest average points per game after the OK combination, O'Neal and Kobe Bryant averaged 28.7 points and 28.5 points per game in the regular season in the 00-01 season, totaling 57.2 points. Then in the 02-03 season, the two scored 27.5 and 30 points respectively, for a total of 57.5 points.

Such feats, as well as the previous two consecutive championships of the Magic team, have made more and more people recognize the Super Magic combination, and really compare this pair with the OK combination of the year.

"If the Magic can continue to beat the Heat, the Celtics, the old and new Big Three in the East this year, and beat the Lakers again in the Finals to win three consecutive championships, then Wang Chao and Howard will undoubtedly be placed in the same position as the OK combination and become the greatest partner in history."

"Jordan and Pippen, Magic and Skyhook, Kobe and O'Neal, Wang Chao and Howard!"

"What's even more terrifying is that with the age of the two, they can maintain their peak for a long time, and their future achievements are only higher than the OK combination, and the most important thing the Magic team needs to do next summer is to find a way to keep Wang Chao, because after the end of this season, Wang Chao can jump out of the contract, considering that the new collective bargaining agreement negotiation may bring greater benefits to the players, Wang Chao can choose to jump out of the contract, and then sign a more lucrative new contract with the Magic team."

The media commentator who said this really guessed correctly, after the labor negotiations, a Rose clause was introduced, for players who are in the rookie contract period, if they win the regular season MVP during the rookie contract period, or are selected as All-Stars twice as starters, or are selected to the All-Star team twice, the clause will be activated, and the maximum salary that players whose rookie contracts expire can sign accounts for 30% of the team's salary cap, simply put, players who should have received $14.5 million, in the case of the Rose clause, The starting salary could reach $17.4 million.

It's a pity that Wang Chao is no longer a rookie, and this contract is of no use to him.

He was more concerned about the reaction of the Magic team's management when someone raised the question.

Then a few days passed without any movement from the team management.

What does this mean? Do you deliberately dry me? ”

Wang Chao smiled, he was very sure that the Magic team could not watch him leave, and the team management and general manager Smith's previous series of operations were just to suppress their arrogance and regain more rights.

The Magic team, led by himself and Howard, is moving towards the Bulls Jordan-like script, and the team owner's Amway Company is also making money in China because of Wang Chao. (In fact, they can make money without Wang Chao, but they don't know.) ）

No one dares to imagine how big the price of letting Wang Chao go is.

In fact, the general manager of the Magic team was actually a little worried, for fear that Wang Chao would be angry and run to his office to slap the table with him.

If it's just a question that he can decide as a team general manager, he won't boo at all, let alone say you're just a player, even if you're Jordan? Not a stinky part-time job yet?

But Wang Chao's situation is special, involving the main business of the boss of the Magic team, in front of the team boss, he, the general manager, is also a stinky part-time job, he really can't figure it out, once the contradiction between him and Wang Chao sharpens and puts it on the bright side, how will the team owner choose, whether to fire himself as the general manager, or trade Wang Chao away from the team?

During this period, the Magic team also ushered in its first defeat of the season.

On Nov. 10, the Magic lost 94-104 at home to the Utah Jazz.

This summer, the famous anti-bone boy Carlos. Boozer's switch to the Chicago Bulls has caused the Jazz team, which originally built a new Utah twink around Delon and Boozer, to lose its vitality and combat effectiveness, and it is no longer a playoff-level team.

It stands to reason that the Magic team met the Jazz and played at home, which should have been an easy victory.

But in this game, Howard, who had been stumbling for a long time, was finally sanctioned.

Al. Jefferson, the Jazz urgently launched a trade for the treasure center they traded from the Timberwolves after losing Boozer.

The 15th pick in '04 was in the same class as Howard and Wang Chao, but he was not conspicuous, and as a center, he was rated much lower than the top picks Howard and Okafor at the time.

However, after entering the league, Jefferson has been steadily growing, step by step, and has become an interior player with an average of 20+10 per game.

In the 08-09 season, the Timberwolves selected Kevin. Love is also gradually seeing it as the team's new core, Jefferson's ball possession has suffered, and the 09-10 season statistics have dropped from 23.1 points and 11 rebounds to 17.1 points and 9.3 rebounds, but the shooting percentage and efficiency have not affected in the slightest.

Of course, none of this matters.

Jefferson has outstanding offensive ability, proficient in all kinds of inside footwork, but his defensive ability is extremely poor, his height of 2.08 meters is not advantageous in front of the height of more than 2.10 meters in traditional centers, and his weight of 131 kilograms also makes his pace slow, the defensive power forward is too slow, and the defensive center is too short.

But such a center, who has always been considered defenseless, is playing with Howard in this game.

In the whole game, Jefferson made 10 of 16 shots, scored 21 points and 8 rebounds, while Howard, who was opposite Jefferson, shot 6 of 18 from the field, 4 of 11 from the free throw line, only had 16 points and 9 rebounds, and had as many as 6 turnovers.

In fact, in the process of playing against Howard, Jefferson didn't do anything, but tied up his horse to resist Howard when Howard was playing with his back to himself, and then the latter's brain capacity was a little insufficient.

Howard is obviously taller than Jefferson and looks stronger, but Humpty Dumpty Jefferson's lower height and center of gravity are correspondingly lower, and his lower plate is as stable as Mount Tai, and it is not at all that Howard, who is not known for his lower limb strength, can move it.

What should I do if I can't squeeze it?

That's right, half-turn and then use the advantage of speed to cut past the opponent and cut to the basket to attack.

Howard, who finally thought of a way, immediately turned around and wanted to cut into the basket, but he had too much time to grind, and the Jazz team shrank the defense, and the players who assisted the defense cut off the basketball in Howard's hand as soon as he looked back.

After a few games, Howard began to reveal his true form.

In fact, he didn't put much effort into learning inside techniques with O'Neal, preferring strength training that didn't require the use of his brain, and didn't take into account body coordination and adaptability.

Coincidentally, O'Neal is not a guy who likes to train, he and Kobe Bryant quarreled more than once over this issue when they were on the Lakers, until later Kobe would still say that if O'Neal Ken trained as hard as he did, his achievements would definitely be higher than now.

On a whim, he wanted to teach Howard a one-and-a-half-trick O'Neal, and Howard, who thought he had mastered the key to O'Neal's internal skills, hit it off, and started the leisure days of fishing for three days and drying nets for two days.

Then, retribution came.

Jefferson actually couldn't defend inside at all, and Howard couldn't stand up to him, and the Jazz players helped to help defend and successfully locked Howard.

In the past, Howard would decisively pass the ball to the outside line when he found that his offense was not good, and he was never the initiator of the offense on the Magic team.

Someone helped him solve the problem of attack, such as Wang Chao, who Kirilenko could not be restrained at all.

But the previous game gave Howard a lot of self-confidence, and he didn't think that Jefferson was limiting him, so he held the ball inside and singled it over and over again and was defended.

Delon played a cool game, and Howard, who was obsessed with offense, didn't have the time to deal with him at all, which made Delon extremely lethal with the ball, shooting 11 of 19 from the field, 11 of 12 from the free throw line, and got 30 points, 5 rebounds and 14 assists, helping the Jazz win the game on the road.

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The loss of one game did not take Orlando fans to heart, and there is no team in the NBA that does not lose, and they also lost 12 games last season.

But the fans who were still comforting themselves like this immediately saw another defeat at home.

On Nov. 12, the Magic host the Memphis Grizzlies.

Howard met another fierce rival, Mark Brown. Gasol.

Traded as a Lakers to get Paul. Gasol's addition, no one expected that this second-round rookie from the 08-09 season after entering the league, quickly showed that not to lose his brother's talent, the two brothers play with completely different styles, compared to the soft style of Paul . Gasol, Mark. Gasol has a tough style of play and tends to be good at defending.

If nothing else, he will be voted Defensive Player of the Year in '12-13 and win the NBA championship with the Raptors in '18-'19.

Right now it's Mark. In the third season of Gasol's NBA career, Gasol has just faded from the rookie name. Gasol was not qualified to match Howard at all, and with his slightly heavy pace, it was difficult to keep up with Howard's speed.

But he was up against Howard, who was obsessed with playing singles with his back and trying to improve his interior offensive skills.

In the face of this Howard, Mark . Gasol wasn't used to it at all.

Throughout the game, Howard was 5-of-15 from the field, 5-of-13 from the free-throw line, and 15 points, 11 rebounds and 4 turnovers led to the Magic's loss again.

The Magic's loss in this game, Howard can only be regarded as half of the blame, and half of it has to be buckled on O'Neal's head.

After joining the Magic, O'Neal, who served as Howard's technical instructor, was not willing to sit on the bench all the time, winning the championship without contributing at all, where did he put his face? In the future, even if I talk about it, I am embarrassed to say that I have five championships.

With the support of Howard and management, Howard entered the team's rotation at the start of the regular season, averaging about 20 minutes per game.

In fact, O'Neal's efficiency after playing 20 minutes is very good, after all, no matter how old the shark is, as long as he can stand under the basket, the attack power is still there, at least the various technical movements are much smoother than Howard's.

Therefore, in 20 minutes of playing time, O'Neal was able to score 8.6 points and 4.1 rebounds on 66.7% shooting, becoming an important scoring point in the Magic's rotation.

But the question is, does the Magic need O'Neal to average 8.6 points this game?

Of course not.

O'Neal's playing time is not all squeezed out of Howard's body, Howard's playing time has increased this season, and he currently plays an average of 39.2 minutes per game, which is longer than Wang Chao's, leaving only 8.8 minutes of playing time for the substitute center, leaving insufficient time, O'Neal actually appeared on the court at the same time as Howard, replacing Channing Frye in the power forward position.

Wang Chao was also speechless, what did Van Gundy think.

Howard and O'Neal's two big centers play more than 10 minutes at the same time in each game, when the two of them are on the court at the same time, the Magic team can be said to be crowded into a lump of interior when attacking, there is no space to break through with the ball, and now Howard is not very good at the outside to block and cover, the three shooters on the outside will basically not have the opportunity to create a vacancy through passing, in most cases, Wang Chao can only rely on his personal ability to make a difficult three-point shot, or give the ball to one of Howard and O'Neal, let them attack from the inside.

(End of chapter)