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Chapter 198 The new season begins, the first match against the Magic
"Hello, audience friends. Welcome to the NBA 2011-12 regular season, the Houston Rockets vs. Orlando Magic game brought to you by CCTV Sports Channel. I am the commentator and guide of this game. The guest who will comment with me today It’s everyone’s old friend Director Zhang.”

"Hi everyone, I'm Director Zhang." Director Zhang said, "The NBA regular season has finally started. Affected by labor negotiations, the NBA didn't officially resume games until the end of December this season. As a result, the regular season schedule has shrunk from 12 games to 82 games, but fortunately in the misfortune, the labor and management of the league finally reached an agreement, and the league restarted."

"As soon as the NBA resumed, there was a big news that made the fans in Huaguo very excited. That is, Wang Chao joined the Rockets and formed Huaguo's partner with Dayao. This pair can meet in the NBA. I know how many people's dreams!"

"Today is the first time that the Yao Chao team officially appeared on the NBA stage. The opponents are still Wang Chao's old team and old partners, the Magic and Howard. Director Zhang, what do you think the game will look like?" Director Yu asked.

Director Zhang implemented the consistent Yao honey and super honey attributes, and said without thinking: "I think the Rockets have the advantage and should be able to win this game. After all, Howard can't beat Yao at all. In the NBA Every time the two meet, Dayao can use his superb inside offense to make Howard unable to parry. Even though Howard now has the Triple Crown in hand, has become the league's number one center, and has a place in the history of NBA centers, but still not Dayao's opponent."

"More importantly, how are they going to defend against Wang Chao on the perimeter? During the time of the Magic, Wang Chao's offense was a headache for all teams in the league, and this problem is now a problem for the Magic."

"In addition, I have a secret that many people don't know. Wang Chao was actually ready to join the Rockets after the finals. At the beginning of August, Wang Chao rented an arena in New York for training. He set up a small training camp and invited Dayao to train with him. Under Wang Chao's suggestion, Dayao began to lose weight. Not long ago, Dayao had successfully lost 8 kilograms, and now he is only 10 Kilogram."

"Really? No wonder I see that Dayao seems to have lost a lot of weight, 131 kilograms is lighter than when he first entered the league." Director Yu looked suddenly enlightened, but in fact he also knew about it , is just the effect of the program as a show performed by Director Zhang.

"After losing weight, Dayao's mobility has improved, and after O'Neal retired, even the weight of 131 kilograms is still the heaviest group of players in the league. Howard still has the ability to face the weight of only 120 kilograms. Tonnage advantage! More importantly, the weight loss can effectively avoid the pressure on Dayao's ankle and reduce the possibility of injury."

While speaking, players from the two teams on the field have already started to appear on the field.

When Wang Chao stepped onto the arena, bursts of cheers erupted immediately outside the arena.

"Wang Chao! Wang Chao! Wang Chao!"

"MVP! MVP! MVP!"

Amidst the cheers of the fans, Wang Chao came to the Magic and hugged Howard and other players to pay tribute.

For the players of the Magic team and the vast majority of rational Magic team fans, they have no hatred for Wang Chao, only gratitude. In the four years since Wang Chao came to the Magic team, the Magic team entered the finals four times and won three championships. The championship trophy is full of merit for the Magic, and even if he chose to leave Orlando for various reasons, he did not just pat his ass and leave, but chose to sign first and then trade, bringing two star players and Two first-round picks as chips.

Wang Chao has done enough. If he wants to scold him, the inaction of the Magic management team obviously deserves a little more scolding.

Before the start of the game, the Magic team presented Wang Chao with the championship ring that the team won last season. The general manager of the team, Smith personally presented the championship ring to Wang Chao, and then took a group photo with a smile.

But the smile on his face was quite stiff. After all, the cheers for Wang Chao were mixed with personal attacks from many fans. It is already a very strong psychological quality to be able to laugh on this occasion.
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The game is about to start, the substitute players from both sides leave the field, and only the starters remain on the field.

"The lineups of the Rockets and Magic in the new season have very obvious changes compared with last season."

"For the Rockets, the starting five are Brooks, Courtney Lee, Leonard, Wang Chao and Dayao."

"The starting lineup for the Magic is Nelson, Kevin Martin, Sharad Lewis, Channing Frye and Howard."

Dayao and Howard came to the center line to jump the ball, and there was no suspense about the result. Although he had an absolute advantage in height, he was far behind Howard in terms of jumping, explosive power, and even reaction speed. Yao lost the scrimmage.

The Magic have the ball.

After Nelson held the ball for halftime, he was a little confused for the first time.

In the past, at this time, he would hand the ball to Wang Chao, then run to the bottom corner and squat down, waiting for his teammates to pass the ball to him for an open shot at any time.

This kind of thing has been going on for four years, so that Nelson, who is a point guard, has somewhat forgotten how a point guard should play.

This is actually to blame for this shrinking season, there is no preseason game, and there are not many training days. The team's new lineup is not running well enough, and there is also a lack of tacit understanding.

After Nelson hesitated for a moment, he chose to hand the ball to the person he was most familiar with, that is, Howard inside.

Howard at the bottom line.

After receiving the pass, Howard glanced back at Dayao behind him, good guy, you are covering the sky!He couldn't see the rim at all.

At this moment, Howard felt a little uneasy, "Do you want to pass the ball? Are you sure you want me to single this guy?"

If it is normal, Howard may choose to pass the ball rationally after weighing it.

But today is different. Although he greeted Wang Chao with a smile on his face just now, hearing the fans chanting MVP still made Howard feel a little uncomfortable.

He is also an important contribution to the Magic's championship, and his contribution to the team is no less than that of Wang Chao!Now that Wang Chao has left the team, he wants to prove to the Orlando fans that even without Wang Chao, as long as Howard is there, the Magic will still be a strong team at the championship level!

This idea became the driving force for Howard to act. He squeezed Dayao a few times with the ball behind his back, but he didn't move at all.

Even if he loses weight to 131 kg, Dayao is not able to support Howard, who has weak lower body strength.

Finding that he couldn't squeeze Dayao, Howard could only choose to turn around halfway and make a low-handed layup. He wanted to use his flexibility to send the basketball into the basket before Yao could react.

But this trick was directly seen through by Dayao, and a big hat directly slapped Howard for a layup.

With sharp eyes and quick hands, Wang Chao picked up the rebound from one side and rushed towards the frontcourt the next moment.

"The Rockets' fast break, fast, too fast! Wang Chao's fast break was amazingly fast. The Magic had no time to return to defense. Lewis, who was trying to take the risk of stealing Wang Chao, was passed by with one step. There was no one in front of him." Block, take off and dunk in two steps, oh!"

Wang Chao ended the fast break with James' signature tomahawk snap, giving the Rockets the lead.

2: 0.

As Wang Chao said, the current Magic team is simply vulnerable.

The position of starting shooting guard was held by Kevin Martin, which led to Efflalo having to be transferred to the bench position, but in this way, the Magic didn't even have a defensive player on the outside.

Although the previous Magic also relied heavily on Howard to guard the basket to improve their defensive quality, the actual defensive ability on the perimeter is not bad. It's Wang Chao, and in the case of continuous training of defensive ability later, the defensive end will not hold back.

But now?Kevin Martin is already a well-known defensive black hole, and the 32-year-old Lewis is naturally not much better in defense.

Today's Magic really relies on Howard alone on the defensive end.

But this is not the worst. While the dominance of the defensive end has declined, the most affected by the Magic is the offensive end.

The Magic had the ball and the basketball was handed over to Kevin Martin.

Martin is a player with good scoring ability. At his peak, he averaged 24.6 points per game for the Kings. Although he has not been selected as an All-Star, in the eyes of many people, he definitely has the strength of an All-Star.

Facing Courtney Lee's defense, Martin chose to use his speed advantage to break through with the ball.

However, the two had worked together for a season in the Rockets. Courtney Lee, who is good at defense, already knew Martin's technical characteristics and play habits well, and his defense was very good. Under Lee's interference, Martin barely made a mid-range shot. The shot misses the rim.

Looking at the basketball bouncing off the hoop, Howard originally wanted to use his mobility and bouncing explosive power to grab the offensive rebound before Dayao.

However, as soon as he moved his footsteps, there was an extra person in front of him, grabbing the rebound ball in his arms before him.

Wang Chao? ? ?

Howard was a little dazed.

Just like Courtney Lee knows Kevin Martin, Howard also knows Wang Chao very well. The two have partnered for four years. He knows very well that although Wang Chao is 2 meters tall, his rebounding ability is very ordinary. The next two seasons improved slightly, but he definitely didn't have such a keen sense of rebounding and positioning.

Of course, Howard couldn't understand how exaggerated the speed of Wang Chao's progress was with system plug-ins and various training potions.

The current Wang Chao has reached 90 defensive rebounds and 89 blocking ability, which is already considered a good level in the league's insiders.

Of course, these two values ​​of Howard may already have a full value of 99, and if not, at least it will not be lower than 97.

But Wang Chao also has a talent that focuses on rebounding - a rebounding idiot.

Although the name of the talent is a bit messy, the effect is real.

With the blessing of talent and skills, Wang Chao may still be overwhelmed by Howard, who is completely suppressed by his height, wingspan and tonnage in a 1v1 situation. However, when Howard's main opponent is Dayao, he can still grab the rebound before the opponent. Partial defensive rebound protection down.

The Rockets attacked, Wang Chao directly dribbled the ball across the half court, and then lobbed the ball to Dayao who stood inside and raised his hand to ask for the ball.

At this time, the Rockets, like the Magic, can shoot three-pointers from the other four positions on the court. The Magic had to defend all of them to the outside, and only Dayao and Howard were left in the 1v1 on the inside... That's easy to say up.

Yao, who held the ball high with one hand, easily grasped Howard, and made a sideways jump shot. Howard couldn't reach it at all, so he could only watch helplessly as Yao sent the basketball into the basket with a gentle touch.

4: 0.
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"Unexpectedly, the defending champion and the three-peat winner, the Magic, are powerless against the Rockets."

The Huaguo audience sitting in front of the TV watched this scene excitedly.

"Isn't that a matter of course? What is the Magic without Wang Chao? Who can lead the team as the offensive core? Howard? Let's talk about it after he can pass the big Yao test!"

"Brother Chao is awesome, there is a strong team wherever he goes! NB!"

"Go, go! Rockets champion!"

Less than a few minutes after the start of the game, the Magic called a timeout.

The Rockets played a 12:4 offensive wave directly at the beginning of the game, which gave the Magic a hard time.

The defense can't be defended, and the offense can't be attacked. If you don't make tactical adjustments, you don't have to play much in the next game.

The Magic team made adjustments to the team lineup after the timeout.

Afflalo came on the stage to replace Lewis. At the same time, Howard and Dayao also began to change their tactics in the confrontation, avoiding confrontation with Dayao's inside line, and instead using their own mobility advantages to cover the pick-and-roll for outside teammates.

The move worked out well.

Afflalo's wing defense ability can help the team lock up many of the Rockets' outside shooting offenses, and when Dayao is attacking with the ball inside, he can also use his mobility to form a double-team with Howard on Dayao, forcing Dayao lost the ball in the offense.

And Howard changed his style of play to the mobile style of pick-and-roll cover, which also made Dayao a little exhausted on the field. This is Dayao's shortcoming. While lack of mobility, physical fitness is also a big problem, even if he has lost weight. Ways to cover up shortcomings.

"Interesting, still playing this way, does the Magic still have players who can support outside shooting offense?"

The corner of Wang Chao's mouth twitched slightly.

Taking advantage of the dead time of free throws, Wang Chao signaled to the head coach to replace Dayao, who couldn't keep up with Howard's footsteps, and replaced him with Jordan Hill.

"The current lineup of the Rockets on the field is a bit strange. The guards are Courtney Lee and Kyle Korver. Both of them are shooting guards. There is no point guard in the team, and Dayao has been replaced. It's less than five minutes into the first quarter, what are they trying to do?"

Director Zhang was a little confused.

But right away he figured out what the Rockets were thinking.

The Rockets have the ball, and the ball is directly in the hands of Wang Chao.

Looking at Wang Chao who was slowly holding the ball across the half, Director Zhang suddenly realized.

"So it turns out that the Rockets are planning to let Wang Chao play as a point guard temporarily, the Magic's point forward tactics!"

(End of this chapter)