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Chapter 320 Howard is Impossible to Compete for MVP!

Then, several players from the Eastern All-Star team began to bombard the Western All-Star team's basket for dunks.

On the contrary, with LeBron James and others attacking the frame crazily, Howard slowly got more breathing opportunities.

At this time, Xu Lang also took the opportunity to send Howard several exquisite alley-oop dunks in a row, which made his stats look a little better.

And LeBron James and Xu Lang are so obvious, the comparison of passing the ball before and after and the comparison of organizational offense.

It also made LeBron James look more and more dull. After all, the NBA is a place where strength speaks. LeBron James with strength is a little emperor, and LeBron James without strength is just an ordinary All-Star Just players!
At the same time, this also led to LeBron James scoring eight points with three solo dunks in the first quarter. His personal data was not bad, but when he left the court, he had a serious expression on his face.

Speaking of which, since Xu Lang rushed to the No.1 position in the league this season, the connection between LeBron James and Xu Lang has become much less.

After all, as a player who is about the same age and playing style as LeBron James (LeBron James and his team think so), Xu Lang has been praised for being on LeBron James in the past year.

And more importantly, ever since Xu Lang entered the NBA, the commercial value of LeBron James has been lower than ever!
What makes LeBron James even more unacceptable is that most of the business income he lost went to Xu Lang!
This made LeBron James' team even more hostile to Xu Lang's team.

Maybe LeBron James himself is not so stingy, not just because his performance in the game is not as good as Xu Lang.

He deliberately alienated and hated Xu Lang, but LeBron James' team and himself had to start to regard Xu Lang and Xu Lang's team as their opponents for their own interests.

For example, when Wade just won the Finals MVP a few years ago, the relationship between Wade and LeBron James was not as close as before.

Until the last two seasons, the Heat began to decline rapidly, and Wade was unable to compete for the No. 1 of the league's younger generation due to various reasons.

On the contrary, the relationship between LeBron James and Wade began to get closer and closer.

Of course it's hard to say, is there Pat Riley's means in it?
After all, it's not a day or two since Pat Riley coveted LeBron James!

But in general, if it wasn't for the decline in influence and league status after Wade and the Heat won the championship, even if Pat Riley had the means, there was no way to pinch Wade and LeBron James together of.

After all, there is no way for a player to have two bosses.

In fact, since entering the NBA, LeBron James has always wanted to be a symbol of the times, and even the next Jordan of the NBA.

The marketing of LeBron James' team is also constantly developing in this direction.

For example, LeBron James has a near-perfect personality and a good social relationship with most of the stars in the league.

Coupled with the original development according to the normal timeline, this season, if LeBron James can become a defensive performance and game performance.

The development of LeBron James is exactly the career development curve that a player who is going to No.1 in the league to rule the entire NBA era should have!

It's a pity that LeBron James, who has been going smoothly in the past few seasons, encountered a completely unreasonable opponent last year.

In his rookie season, he played one game and one defense. In the second season, he directly reached the top of the regular season MVP rankings, and it is very likely that he will be able to win the regular season MVP this season.

Xu Lang's triple jump didn't have any foreshadowing growth methods at all, and he directly stunned a player like LeBron James who was steadily improving and had the potential to be No. 1 in the league.

What makes LeBron James even more desperate is that the Eagles are richer than the Cavaliers and are more willing to spend money. Xu Lang can also bring greater commercial value to the team than LeBron James.

The last and most important thing is that the Eagles are willing to believe in Xu Lang's vision, and Xu Lang's vision is indeed good enough, which led to the Eagles putting together a team to win the championship without much detours.

Not as good as Xu Lang in strength improvement, not as good as Xu Lang in leading the team, the trust given by the team management and his own vision are not as good as Xu Lang.

Under all kinds of comparisons, LeBron James is almost psychologically disturbed when he looks at Xu Lang.

And what's even more frightening is that behind Xu Lang there is a huge market with a population of nearly 14 billion.

Xu Lang has become one of the most influential players in the world of basketball by relying on his own strength without any hindrance.

Even with the rise of Xu Lang and the Eagles and the rise of the Rockets and Yao Ming.

Fans all over the world, including those in the United States, are more and more eager to see two teams and two people meet in the finals, and even this hope has gradually become a general trend.

Such a comparison of fan base and strength makes LeBron James feel that he has less and less hope of making a comeback.

At least, LeBron James felt that if he stayed in the Cavaliers, it would be impossible to surpass Xu Lang!
Thinking of LeBron James here, looking at O'Neal who was happily joking with other commentators in the commentary booth, the expression on his face became more and more ugly.

Because of the arrival of O'Neal this season, LeBron James once thought with joy that the Cavaliers were about to take off, and he was about to take off.

After all, LeBron James believes that since Wade can rely on O'Neal to win the FMVP, there is no reason why he can't.

But it turns out that O'Neal, who is two years older and weighs 160kg, is still a deterrent inside.

But the explosive power and explosive time of this deterrent power have dropped a lot!

Even, this season's O'Neal is not to say compared with O'Neal's peak period, but compared with O'Neal's strength in the year he won the championship with the Heat, this year's O'Neal's overall strength and influence are at least 40% lower.

Originally, because of O'Neal's excellent performance last year, LeBron James thought that he had a good relationship with O'Neal in private, and after taking the initiative to choose O'Neal as the core of offense to rediscover his tactical positioning.

It is possible to change O'Neill's undisciplined character and let him work hard to regain his game state.

But it is a pity that O'Neill, who has won four championships, seems to have no such great struggle.

After all, O'Neal, who is 35 years old, will be 37 years old after this contract ends, and it is impossible to get another big contract.

It is even possible that after this contract, O'Neal will choose to retire directly.

At that time, the weight or something will not be of much significance to O'Neill.

It's just that, when LeBron James tried his best to adjust his game style and tried his best to make the degree of running-in between him and O'Neal continue to improve.

The Cavaliers still haven't been able to play the record performance that LeBron James originally wanted.

Even because of the change in his game style, LeBron James' data this season has a tendency to decline for the first time in the past five years.

At the same time, LeBron James has dropped from the top ten players in the previous season to the 27th in this season's player strength list this season!

I think this is why Howard didn't give LeBron James face so much when he was in the locker room before.

After all, Howard is on the player strength ranking list relying on his superior performance this season, but he is already in the top ten players.

A player whose strength ranks in the top ten ranks will naturally not give face to a player who is about to fall to the 30th rank!
It's just obvious that Howard, a player in the top ten, and Yao Ming, the league's number one center, and the league's second player are also somewhat different.

At the end of the first quarter, although the Eastern All-Star team didn't lose too much because of Xu Lang, it was only two points behind.

But the data comparison between Howard and Yao Ming has a huge gap.

At the end of the first quarter, Yao Ming scored 7 points, 12 rebounds, [-] assists, and [-] blocked shots in only [-] minutes.

On the other hand, Howard, relying on Xu Lang's pass in the second half of the first quarter, scored eight points, five rebounds, one block, and one steal.

But Howard didn't end the game for 1 minute in the first quarter, and in the one-on-one confrontation with Yao Ming, Howard was blocked twice.

So only in the duel in the first quarter, Howard was undoubtedly at a disadvantage!
And most importantly, in the comparison of the performances of the two in the first quarter, it is obvious that Yao Ming played with ease, neither offensively nor defensively.

But Howard struggled against Yi Jianlian, Duncan, or Pau Gasol.

Of course, part of the reason for this is also because Yao Ming is waiting behind these players to impersonate Howard at any time, so that Howard dare not easily attack the basket and take off to complete the lob!
But this also proves that Howard does lack some means of self-attack. In addition to eating cakes, among this group of super inside players, Howard's offensive ability is still relatively weak.

And after the comparison in the first quarter, although the other players on the Eastern All-Star team didn't say anything during the break, everyone knew very well that Howard's so-called MVP competition had already There is no hope.

After all, the first quarter of the game has proved that if the Eastern All-Star team has Howard as the core, it will help Howard fight for data.

Then it will be very difficult for the Eastern All-Stars to win the Western All-Stars.

On the contrary, if Howard is not the core and Xu Lang is the core, it is impossible for Howard to compare with Xu Lang in terms of data performance.

After all, the first quarter of the game is over, and Xu Lang has helped Howard get points and statistics as much as possible, and his personal data performance is still better than Howard's.

Xu Lang: It's not that I don't want to help, it's that some people don't live up to their expectations!
So now, Howard is about to fall into a deadlock!

That is, Howard has the data to compete for the MVP, and the Eastern All-Star team will lose.

On the contrary, if the Eastern All-Star team can win, it will be difficult for Howard to have the data performance to compete for the All-Star MVP.

Such a state of being blocked at both ends caused Howard himself to not even think about being able to compete for the All-Star Game MVP this year!
After all, if the Eastern All-Star team loses the game because he is competing for the MVP, Howard will lose face in front of these Eastern All-Star team stars.

Therefore, after the first quarter, although no one spoke, Mike Madsen did not have a special arrangement to play with Xu Lang as the core of his tactics.

But by the time the second quarter started, the tactical core of the Eastern All-Star team had quietly become Xu Lang.

"Look, like I said, Howard's defense is really good, he's definitely at the top of the young generation.

But if you put it in the same position as Yao Ming and compare it with each other, on the one hand, you will look down on Yao Ming, the number one center in the league!
On the other hand, it was a bit too embarrassing for Howard, a center who is 3 to 4 years younger than Yao Ming. "

O'Neal looked at Howard, who was once again at a loss under Yao Ming's dazzling footsteps and helpless fadeaway jumper.

On the one hand, it was a little teasing, but on the other hand, it was a little helpless.

After all, facing Yao Ming like this, let alone Howard!

O'Neal felt that even in his peak period, he might not be able to suppress such a rascal Yao Ming defensively.

It can only be on the offensive end at most, and it also makes Yao Ming unable to defend against the impact of his own strength, thus forming a mutual explosion with Yao Ming.

What's more, when the Eastern All-Star team played with Xu Lang as the core, Howard played even better against Yao Ming without the system bonus and the support of the Eastern All-Star team. More and more passive!
After all, Howard is no longer the core of the Eastern All-Star team!
However, the Western All-Star team will continue to play with Yao Ming as the core.

On the defensive end, Yi Jianlian, Duncan, and Pau Gasol helped Yao Ming completely share the offensive pressure that Howard could bring on offense, allowing Yao Ming to concentrate more on the offensive end.

Without any defensive pressure, and his offensive physical fitness is absolutely abundant, Yao Ming's offensive strength is 98. No NBA player can stand up to it.

Not to mention the current era of withering NBA inside players, but push forward ten or even 20 years, the NBA era where inside players are flourishing.

Facing Yao Ming with an offensive strength of 98, few players can defend one-on-one.

"Sometimes when I watch Yao Ming play, I really feel that God is a little too unfair.

Given that Yao Ming is so tall and has extremely flexible feet compared to his stature.

It even gave Yao Ming such a big frame, which allowed him to increase his tonnage, maintain his strength without losing money, and also provided Yao Ming with killer shooting ability.

A seven-footer who can play backwards in front of defenders can feel helpless just thinking about it.

I even think that Yao Ming is much better than most current defenders in terms of pure mid-range shooting ability. "

"Hey, hey, Shaq, act like we don't know, don't you just feel a little envious of Yao Ming's high free throw percentage?"

"But let me tell you about this, I really can't blame Yao Ming.

If you want to blame, you can only blame yourself for being too lazy. After all, your free throw percentage is often less than [-]%, which is too low!
This kind of free throw percentage can't even be compared with players like Yao Ming, even the free throw percentages of ordinary center players in the league can't reach it. "

"The most important thing is that you are not incapable of improving your free throw percentage. After all, you practiced wildly for a holiday before and raised your free throw percentage to nearly 65% ​​in a single season!"

Although O'Neill didn't want to admit it, but seeing Yao Ming's free throw percentage of [-] of [-] in the first half of the game, his heart was indeed a little sour.

To be honest, with O'Neal's strength and offensive dominance in the interior, if Yao Ming's free throw ability is put on him, his scoring average can be increased by at least 3~5 points.

And looking at Yao Ming, whose catching the ball basically means scoring, everyone has to admit that Yao Ming is really on the verge of becoming a perfect center forward.

If it weren't for his physical limitations, Yao Ming would be considered by more people to be the next player who can dominate the entire NBA.

It's a pity that after gaining weight, although Yao Ming's offensive strength and inside dominance have improved, the time for him to perfectly display his strength and inside dominance has also been shortened.