Howard and O'Neal are equally proud to be called the Twin Towers by Orlando fans, but in fact, when they are on the court at the same time, it is a drag on the overall tactics of the Magic team.

However, due to the overall strength of the Magic team, after two consecutive defeats, the Magic team played the New Jersey Nets again away and easily won the game, ending the losing streak.

On Nov. 15, the Magic host the Phoenix Suns.

Today's Suns can be described as declining, and the core player Amare. Stoudemire's defection to the New York Knicks instantly knocked the Suns out of the West's powerhouse.

Although for the Suns, Nash is the real soul and core, but as a pass-based point guard, Nash can only ensure the team's minimum ceiling at most, and the team's ceiling is still determined by players who really have absolute offensive significance.

In Wang Chao's memory, this season's Suns should only have a 40-42 record in the regular season, ranking tenth in the West and missing the playoffs.

Nash's average of 14.7 points and 11.4 assists per game in the regular season is not much different from when he won the regular season MVP for the first time, but he can only watch the team get farther and farther away from the playoffs.

In fact, as a two-time regular season MVP superstar, Nash is not a good mix in the league, and has never received the highest salary in his entire career, and has not even been the highest salary on the team.

In this time and space, because of Wang Chao, Nash won a championship and had a Finals FMVP, and his historical status instantly climbed a lot, which also made him get a bigger contract extension than the original when negotiating a contract extension with the Suns.

Wang Chao is not sure, Nash, who already has a championship and FMVP, and can enjoy pension contract treatment with the Suns, will switch to the Lakers to form F4 in the 12-13 season in order to chase the championship.

This choice was undoubtedly the worst decision of Nash's career, leaving the Suns without the care of the Suns' miracle doctor, Nash suffered an injury immediately, played only 65 games in two seasons with the Lakers, and then left the league without a championship for life.

As for Nash who later became an assistant coach of the Suns, and then went to the Nets as a head coach, he was questioned about his coaching ability, and it was all a later story.

In this game with the Suns, the Magic achieved a comprehensive suppression of the Suns.

The most pitiful thing is that there are two stalwarts in the current Magic team who should have been the Suns. Frye & Dragic.

One is the Suns' primary starting power forward for the 10-11 season, and the other is Nash's first bench, and while the Suns filled the void in the summer with trades and signings, how many abilities in the league can compare to these two players?

As a result, the Suns are weaker than they would otherwise be.

The Magic eventually defeated the Suns 105-89.

After the game, Nash took the initiative to hug Wang Chao and salute, and at the same time said with emotion: "I always wonder now, if the Suns management was not so stingy and gave you a super top salary, would we have won the three-consecutive championship dynasty by now?" ”

"I don't know, maybe." Wang Chao shook his head, this kind of thing is really uncertain.

But the Suns' run-and-gun tactics are the predecessor of the small-ball tactics, as long as the team is built according to Wang Chao's idea in the past few years, and Stoudemire, whose mobility is only stronger than Howard, is not weaker as the center, plus Wang Chao, whose firepower outside the three-point line is only stronger than that of Curry at the peak, the lethality is unimaginable.

Maybe it's really already achieved with three consecutive championships.

However, in the Suns, it is difficult for Wang Chao to become the first tactical core, and Nash and Stoudemire are both players who need the ball, which is fundamentally different from the super blue-collar Howard.

The rise of Wang Chao will inevitably affect the performance of the two, for the sake of their own long-term development, they were going to leave the Suns no matter what, so this assumption itself is not valid.

……

After the game against the Suns, the Magic won another game against the Toronto Raptors to win three in a row.

But on Nov. 20, the Magic lost another game away to the Indiana Pacers.

In this game, Howard encountered the center of the Pacers, who is 2.18 meters tall and is known as the "Black Big Yao". Hibbert.

Hibbert is a typical player who was quickly eliminated in the coming trend of the small-ball era, he has good offensive skills under the basket, top-level rim protection ability, lack of mid-to-long-range projection ability, limited athleticism, lack of speed and explosiveness, and will affect the speed of the whole team in the quick return defense.

But these are the problems that Hibbert will face in the future, at least for now.

Just like in this game against the Magic, Hibbert faced Howard, who frequently asked for the ball inside and tried to single him with his back.

In terms of physical fitness, Howard can blow up Hibbert a few streets, but the back body single tests the strength and skills of the lower limbs, which are not what Howard is good at, but it is precisely Hibbert's strengths.

Genuine Da Yao can beat Howard, although "Black Da Yao" can't do the same level as Da Yao himself, but it still has a pretty good effect on Howard, who is short and long.

For the game, Hibbert had 19 points and 10 rebounds on 8-of-16 shooting, while Howard had 12 points and 12 rebounds on 3-of-12 shooting and 6-of-13 from the free-throw line.

The Magic team immediately after the loss to the Pacers faced the San Antonio Spurs.

Duncan will not get used to Howard, 26 points and 14 rebounds taught Howard how to play as an interior center with only 14 points and 12 rebounds.

The Magic have suffered two consecutive defeats, and in the 13 games so far in the regular season, the Magic have lost four games, with a record of 9 wins and 4 losses.

Although this record can still rank at the top of the Eastern Conference, it is far behind the Spurs, who are 12-1 in the West, and even the Lakers, who are second in the West and currently have an 11-2 record, are better than the Magic.

"Obviously, there are some problems with the Magic's tactical system, when Howard starts to play with the ball, his connection with the team's outside is completely severed, and when he is caught by opponents on the inside, Howard often can't pass the ball to his teammates who are open on the outside, and there is a high probability that he will be stealed and lose the ball."

"Not only that, but the Magic's defense in the new season has also dropped significantly compared to the previous two seasons, and more energy has been put into the offensive end, so that Howard has no time to take care of the problem of helping to make up for the defense on the defensive end many times."

"What's more, through the observation of more than ten games in the past half a month, Howard's interior offensive skills are not solid, the offensive efficiency is not high, as other teams analyze and understand Howard's style of play thoroughly, it becomes more difficult to score, he did not learn O'Neal's superb footwork and skills under the basket, but perfectly inherited O'Neal's poor free throw hand, Howard's free throw shooting rate so far this season is only 56.8%, a career low."

"As it turns out, Howard is still better off playing the same way he did in the previous two seasons, and his style of play is more suited to that, mainly responsible for the team's defense, and on the offensive end helps his teammates block and cover and cut down to the basket."

Howard was dismissive of various evaluations from the outside world.

These people know a hammer?

Isn't the team still number one in the East? Although most of them have lost a few games, compared to his current average of 25.4 points and 13.8 rebounds per game, what is the point of losing a few more games?

Howard is very transparent now, these guys just want to be the blue-collar player again, but he wants to be the next super center!

The Magic team has won 70-12 in the regular season last season, and the possibility of further chasing the Bulls 72 wins is extremely small, so it doesn't matter if you lose one or two more games this season, as long as you can guarantee the first place in the East, he still wants to have a luxurious personal data compared to the wins in those games.

On Nov. 24, the Magic beat the Heat 104-95.

Without the annoying heavy center pressing, Howard immediately stood up again, scored 29 points and 18 rebounds in the game, and defeated the opponent with Wang Chao, who scored 30 points, 4 rebounds and 13 assists.

More than half a month has passed, and the problem of the Heat's ball possession has not been well resolved, and this game is still a god and a ghost.

James had 25 points, six rebounds and four assists on 9-of-18 shooting, while Wade had 18 points, three rebounds and five assists on 6-of-21 shooting.

Both teams, who were considered the favourites before the tournament, had some trouble early in the regular season.

Fortunately, the foundation of the Magic team is hard enough, no matter how obsessed Howard is with low-post singles, he can finally cut down a double-double of 26+14 per game with a shooting rate of 56%, and Wang Chao's score has been stable at about 28+5+7.

The individual strength of the two Super Magic Combination alone is enough for the Magic team to win most of the games, but it is only weaker than the Magic team itself last season.

The remaining three games in November, against the Wizards, Pistons and Bulls, were all won.

It's worth mentioning the game against the Bulls.

This season, under the defensive system built by Thibodeau, the Bulls have become one of the most defensive teams in the league, and the strength of the boat has risen, and the original history will play a 62-20 record, making Rose the league's youngest regular season MVP.

Before playing against the Magic, the Bulls were also in the run-in of the new lineup and the new coach's tactical system, with 9 wins and 6 losses, ranking fourth in the East.

And the Bulls also caused a lot of trouble for the Magic in this game. Noah as and Mark. Gasol, a player who has won the best defensive player once, has excellent rim protection ability, although he is not as good as Howard in tonnage, but he still made Howard play very uncomfortable throughout the game with good defense, and only scored 13 points and 12 rebounds in the whole game.

But just restricting Howard is not enough, and the Bulls' small forward Ruhr. Deng was completely blown up when facing Wang Chao, who scored 44 points, 7 rebounds and 5 assists throughout the game, and led the Magic team to win the game.

And the Bulls' defense is outstanding, and the Magic team is also not bad, and the Bulls' offensive core is point guard Derrick. Rose, unlike the league's top defense, Thibodeau doesn't have much on offense, so the team's offense relies heavily on Rose's ability to get through the frame with the ball.

With his speed and explosiveness, Rose certainly had no problem getting past Nelson, but he rushed to the basket to face Howard's defense, and even if the defense slipped slightly because of too much energy on the offensive end, he was still the league's most capable center in protecting the rim.

Rose scored just 15 points on 5-of-13 shooting from the game, and the Bulls' offense was severely constrained, scoring just 78 points.

At 107:78, the Magic team won by 29 points, proving that the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, and the Magic team is not as exaggerated as the emaciated camel.

With the game against the Bulls over, the November schedule is all over.

The Magic have a 13-4 record in their last 17 games and sit first in the East, tied for second in the league with the Lakers.

Howard averaged 25.2 points and 14.1 rebounds per game in November and was voted the Player of the Month for November.

The league still has more praise than disapproval for Howard's performance overall.

But it's also an indisputable fact that the Magic's tactical system has gone awry because of Howard.

Compared to last season, this season's Magic team has an impact on the overall stats except for Howard.

Best Sixth Man Jamal. Crawford's scoring averages slipped to 14.2 points per game from 17+ last season, and his shooting average dropped from 14 to 11.5 shots per game, while shooting percentage and three-point shooting percentage also declined.

This is not entirely Howard's fault, because the original historical Crawford's form would decline in the 10-11 season, and it was not until the 13-14 season that he joined the Los Angeles Clippers to regain the second spring of his career, averaging 18.6 points and 3.2 assists per game to win the league's best sixth man award for the second time.

Crawford aside, the starters were Nelson and Channing, both of whom scored in double figures last season. Frye, who is also averaging single-digit points per game this season.

QIAN Ning. Frye has been squeezed out of a lot of playing time by O'Neal, and has only contributed 7.3 points and 3.9 rebounds in less than 25 minutes of playing time.

The reason for the decline in Nielsen data is directly caused by Howard.

Nelson himself is a point guard who lacks the ability to attack on his own, and a large part of his scoring comes from the offense behind Howard's pick-and-roll cooperation, and the rest is shooting from open positions.

Now that Howard has reduced his pick-and-roll with outside players, Nelson has been unable to create a chance on his own, and his points per game have naturally dropped below single digits.

This series of chain reactions is caused by Howard's change in playing style, but this kind of thing can't be said to be completely blamed on Howard, and it is human nature to want to play better statistics by himself.

Even Wang Chao would not sacrifice his data for the sake of so-called reasonableness, after all, he has always known that he is an egoist, not a teamist with lofty ideas.

This is also the reason why Wang Chao has not questioned Howard's unreasonable playing style until now, he will not block Howard in all kinds of ways just because he knows that Howard is not the material of being a traditional center, he can't do that kind of double-standard thing, and he doesn't have the face to do it.

Howard's question, at least not should have been raised by him.

(End of chapter)