NBA Opening Draw To Twilight Shaquille O'Neal Chapter 1086

After a short break, the slam dunk contest is about to begin.

The players participating in this dunk contest are Wang Zelin, LaVine, Gordon, Wiggins, Nance Jr. and Robinson III.

The participating lineup is already very luxurious, but the lineup of judges is even more terrifying.

The appearance of Jordan, Dr. J, Wilkins, Kobe, and Howard completely ignited the atmosphere of the scene.

It can be said that the judges of this slam dunk contest are definitely the NBA, the most popular one in the history of the All-Star Weekend, whether they are active or retired, they have successfully won at least one slam dunk contest.

Immediately, the players also appeared.

coming!

When the six players entered the arena one by one, the enthusiasm of the fans finally reached its climax tonight.

Especially when Wang Zelin appeared on the stage, the atmosphere, the popularity, it can be said to be full of gongs and drums! The firecrackers are going off!

"Now let's invite...Wang~Ze~Lin!!"

This is no longer a question of envy or jealousy. The entire Rose Garden Arena was like a volcanic eruption in an instant, and waves of cheers and shouts deeply shocked every player and reporter on the scene.

Is Dot Meow crazy? Isn't it just a scene, is there so much movement here?

Wang Zelin was not surprised by this. After all, this is Portland and his home court. He has long been mentally prepared for all situations.

After enjoying the cheers from the audience, Wang Zelin also high-fived with all the bosses sitting next to him.

James patted him on the back, "Come on! My brother, I haven't slept well all night waiting for your slam dunk contest."

General George Joe stood up and bumped fists with Wang Zelin: "Big fight, Wang!"

Suddenly, a big hand appeared behind him and touched Wang Zelin's head vigorously. When he looked back, he saw the unsmiling stone Buddha.

"I said earlier that the future is yours!"

Fuck!

Don't mess with me, the race hasn't started yet, you're all giving out poisonous milk one by one, in case the car overturns...

impossible! Absolutely impossible!

Wang Zelin still has sufficient confidence in winning the championship.

Immediately afterwards, he came to the judges' seat and greeted the five judges at once.

Leader Qiao glanced at Wang Zelin, and said in a flat tone, "Come on!"

In contrast, the Black Mamba seemed extremely heartwarming at this moment: "GO! I look forward to your performance!"

"Just wait and see, you won't be disappointed."

Wang Zelin replied with a smile, and looked at the three judges on the left.

Both Wilkins and Dr. J showed friendly smiles, and finally Howard, the two just looked at each other, and neither of them spoke first.

In the end, Wang Zelin was the first to break the deadlock: "Long time no see, Howard."

"The same to you."

Howard also replied coldly.

After watching Wang Zelin leave, Howard was thinking about the content of the call with the league president Guangtouhua before the game.

That's right, the reason why Bald Touhua chose to stuff Howard, whose reputation in the league is getting lower and lower, into the judging table is because on the one hand, he has indeed solidified his accumulation of honors in his previous magic career, and on the other hand, he also considers the conflict between him and Wang Zelin.

Therefore, Bald Hua hopes that after Howard enters the jury, he can give Wang Zelin a fatal blow at the right moment.

In his opinion, Wang Zelin stepped on Howard at the beginning of his career, and the conflict between the two can be said to be so overwhelming that it is almost irreconcilable. No matter which dimension you think about, Howard is definitely the one who least expects Wang Zelin to win the championship among the five judges.

But will the truth be as he expected?

Howard's incident stayed in the background of Wang Zelin for a long time, until Kobe's voice came from his skill, and he just came back to his senses.

"Hey, Dwight, who do you think will win the championship tonight?"

I don't know when Kobe has come down from the judges' seat, came behind Howard, and took the initiative to send a friendly signal.

Looking at the familiar face in front of him, Howard's thoughts were pulled back to four years ago. At that time, he had just left the Magic and was at the peak of his career, while Kobe was mainly at the end of his peak.

Now, Kobe, who is about to be 40 years old, is still selected as the All-Star starter, and he can still contribute 24+3+4 All-Star data per game, and he has bid farewell to the All-Star stage early.

Facts have proved that skilled players do maintain their value, and they can often get better and better as they get older.

However, Kobe happened to be in an era of data explosion that encouraged offense, which enabled him to still contribute close to 25 points per game.

Howard on the opposite side thought of all the conflicts that erupted between him and Kobe when he was immersed in the Lakers, everything seemed to be still yesterday.

But in fact, that was already 5 years ago.

Time back to 5 years ago.

In the summer of 2012, the Lakers recruited, first recruiting veteran Nash from the Suns.

Back then, the Suns fans played the slogan "It's okay Nash, you can leave" to support Nash to go to a strong team to realize his championship dream.

It's a bit similar to the Timberwolves fans collectively expressing their support for Garnett to leave Minnesota to realize his championship dream at the end of his career.

Apparently the same goes for Nash, who deserves the same treatment from Phoenix fans.

And the Lakers, who had just made it to the finals three times and won the championship twice, were a team that helped Nash realize his dream no matter how you look at it.

That year, I was 38 years old.

But just last season, he was still the absolute core of the Suns: he was the PG with the first true shooting percentage in the league in the 2011-12 season; his long two-point shooting percentage was the first in the league, and the second to fifth in this ranking are all A catch-and-shoot big shooter, Nash's shots are almost all off the dribble.

In addition, he averaged 10.7 assists per game, ranked second in the assist list last season, and is one of the top pick-and-roll performers in the league.

In fact, speaking of it, there have indeed been many old monsters who are getting older and more monsters in history at the NBA No. 1 position.

Leaving aside the players of the last century, as far as the new century is concerned, Kidd and Billups, who were contemporaries of Nash, and Sao Paulo in the future, all belong to this category.

So, at that time, no one thought he was coming to the Lakers to get his pension.

The Lakers got Nash in the form of multiple draft picks, a trade exception and some cash.

History said: Air for Nash!

not finished yet...

With a bang of "BOOM!", another major earthquake occurred in the alliance.

The Lakers fought a four-way deal, and got the Warcraft Howard who just turned 26 years old. He is the league's number one center with an average of 20.6 points, 14.5 rebounds and 2.1 blocks per game!

During the magic period before this, Howard was the top three defensive WinShare league for five consecutive seasons...to be exact, it was the first for four consecutive years.

King in defensive rebounding rate in 2011-12 and second in total rebounding rate.

His pick-and-roll finishes ranked first in the league in the 2010-11 season and second in the league in the 2011-12 season. He is the most dangerous pick-and-roll player in the league.

On paper, this is a defensively enhanced version of Stoudemire, almost as a package with Nash.

What about the chips for Warcraft?

Basically equal to Bynum + draft pick.

Yes, you didn't hear, Gasol is still in the lineup, not moving.

As a result, the Lakers' starting lineup became like this-Nash Kobe Artega's sister-in-law Warcraft! !

This lineup is awesome. What kind of super team is the Big Three?

Big Five TMD is called super!

Don't talk about hindsight, just judging from the overall public opinion environment at that time, authoritative media's preview of the Super Lakers in the 2012-13 season, we can see how crazy the Lakers were back then.

It was TNT that formed a team of Barkley, Webber, O'Neal, and Smith overnight, and commented on Howard's joining the Lakers.

TNT Tiantuan understands everything.

All kinds of arguments on weekdays are very sharp, and the mainstream public opinion of Aihe is against it. But back then, even Barkley and Webber believed that the Lakers could dominate the West with a guaranteed bottom line, and Webber even believed that the Thunder "couldn't even approach" the strength of the Lakers.

Ben Leibowitz and other reporters began to look forward to whether the Lakers could break the Bulls' 72 wins...

In fact, before the start of the 2012-13 season, 95% of fans generally felt that the Lakers were invincible.

And the protagonist who pushed the entire public opinion to the extreme madness and to an unprecedented climax was naturally leading the team to the finals at the time of his playing years, was shaved 4:0 by a veteran opponent, and because of conflicts with the management, had to Shaquille away from the big city...

Well, it is really that the script of Howard joining the Lakers was too similar to the script of the Sharks joining the Lakers in the mid-to-late 1990s.

It can't be said that they are exactly the same, only that they are exactly the same.

To comment on this deal with the favorite theory of the people of Sakura who lived a good life, it would be—fate!

Or the theory of bloodlines!

Too strong a sense of fate came to my face, and I opened the history book of the last and most fierce center of the Purple and Gold Army, except that the ancient **** George McCann was a self-produced super center, and at the same time the first superstar in NBA history , the first super center, and the proper grandfather of the center.

The great centers after that, such as Dashuai, Skyhook, and Sharks, were all legends who finally merged into the blood of Zijin for various reasons.

Everything is pointing to: the next stop Dynasty!

At that time, Lakers general manager Kupchak said at the press conference for Howard's joining:

"We hope that in ten years we will have the opportunity to hang a jersey in the Lakers Arena with the name on the jersey called Dwight Howard!"

Familiar formula, familiar taste.

If everything is predicted according to the normal situation, it is simply Shark 2.0!

In the news report about Howard joining the Lakers that year, there was also a famous scene of classic chant:

A Lakers fan wearing a purple and gold jersey and a baseball cap shouted in front of the Staples Center gate of the Lakers' home stadium - such a lineup, my mother will win the championship!

The subsequent development, everyone is very clear, all fans are looking for the mother of the Lakers fan...

Ahem, let's get down to business.

That year, the Lakers had 0 wins and 8 losses in the preseason, and the regular season started with 1 win and 4 losses. In the great matchup with the Trail Blazers between the new and old centers that was considered comparable to the "Yao Sharks' first game" that year, the first center Howard Was blown away by a rookie Wang Zelin in all directions.

It was also from that battle that the alliance's scepter began to shift, slowly flowing to Portland, and finally being controlled by the young man from the Celestial Dynasty.

In the subsequent regular season, as the dark horse trend of the Blazers youth army intensified, the entire Western Conference had to be quickly washed away.

In order not to be overwhelmed by the wave of the new era, the Western Conference teams aiming for the playoffs have to follow in the footsteps of the Trail Blazers youth army for a new round of team essence.

Compared with other teams, this seemingly well-known super Lakers are actually too decadent, and they can no longer keep up with the times.

Even if Kobe swears in the middle of the season, he will definitely lead the Lakers to the playoffs!

But the fact is cruel. When the wheels of history are rolling, Kobe Bryant, who is as strong as the former No. 1 player in the league, has to break his promise this time.

The Lakers didn't end up making the playoffs the way Kobe exploded.

Yes, at the beginning of the season, the Super Lakers, who were considered to have booked the championship in advance, failed to even make it to the playoffs in the end.

Fans of that era witnessed the bleakest moment in the Zijin jersey's history, and it was also the most chaotic moment.

From the current point of view, if you use one season to summarize the Lakers in the 2012-13 season, the luxurious Zijin Army mainly lost in the following points:

The first is injuries.

The Lakers suffered 17 injuries throughout the season. Different players had a total of 176 truces due to injuries. Everyone in F4 was seriously injured.

Kobe doesn't need to go into too much detail, minor injuries can't go to the line of fire.

Howard played with shoulder and back injuries, and had to come back a few months early for his record.

My sister-in-law had a foot injury and suffered a concussion once.

At that time, I basically lived through injuries, back pain, broken leg at the beginning of the season, and hamstring injury.

The Lakers F4 on paper is often F3, F2... In the most serious cases, only F1 is left.

The second is the confusion of the tactical system.

The Lakers experienced a coaching change that season, from Mike Brown's Princeton style of play to D'Antoni's fast break and running.

The latter is particularly outrageous. You must know that in the Lakers starting lineup, except for Howard, the average age of the other old guys is 34 years and 91 days.

Such an extremely aging classic car wants to run and bomb at the speed of a Ferrari, are you sure it's not a joke?

But that's what D'Antoni did, and then the Lakers' original record that could be maintained at about 50% quickly turned sharply and fell to 11th in the Western Conference at the worst time.

In desperation, after suffering a losing streak at the end of January, the Black Mamba got angry and took the lead in responding, starting to return the basketball game to its original state.

That is, rely on the personal ability of the star to solve the problem.

Not to mention, the Lakers have nothing else but a bunch of stars.

After the All-Star break, our record was close to 60%, and by the end of the season it was actually almost 50%.

It's a pity that the hole in front is too big, and it can't be filled back no matter how you fill it in.

Then there is management chaos.

This point is particularly straightforward, that is, Lakers owner Jerry Buss is critically ill, and the power game between Buss Jr. and his sister Jenny Buss has intensified, eventually affecting the entire Lakers team.

The final reason lies with Howard.

Even though he was affected by back injuries this year, Howard still handed over a luxurious data of 17+12+2 per game. Just looking at the data, even though Wang Zelin's rise as the league's top center has gradually become unstable, he is still among the league's top centers.

The most criticized thing is actually his obsession with low backs.

In the 2012-13 season, Howard's post-up singles accounted for 45% of his total offense. In other words, nearly half of his offenses were back-ups with the ball. But he can only score 0.74 points per possession through post-ups, 121st in the league, and his shooting percentage is only a poor 44.5%.

But in fact, all of Howard's technical characteristics are completely born for the pick-and-roll.

With Nash, the historically famous pick-and-roll master, in the team, he just doesn't like pick-and-rolls and is obsessed with post-ups. This is the most incomprehensible thing.

It is also the main reason for his constant conflicts with Kobe in the second half of the season.

As for the reason why Howard was beaten under his real name, there is still no reasonable explanation.

However, in an interview with Nash later, he said: It may be that after coming to the Lakers, Howard thought of the last super center O'Neal who joined the Lakers. However, O'Neal didn't like Howard very much from his player period to his retirement.

Therefore, Howard, who is in the remaining critical period, wants to prove that he can also attack for a long time, and at the same time wants to slap O'Neal in the face severely.

The result is that Howard obviously has the most dangerous pick-and-roll finishing ability in the league, and Nash happens to be the strongest pick-and-roll initiator in the league. The original match made in heaven unexpectedly fell out on the court.

It really has to make people feel the magic of reality.

The final result is that Howard left the Lakers, and has slipped from the peak at a young age.

And the conflict between him and Kobe became intensified under the media's various incitement.

In the few seasons of the Mosaic team, every time they played against the Lakers~www.mtlnovel.com~ Howard and Kobe would definitely quarrel.

If in the past season, Wang Zelin was the person Howard hated the most, then Kobe would definitely rank second.

But now, looking at Kobe's kind smile, Howard was really in a daze for a while.

After experiencing the struggles and troughs of the Mosaic team, and now wandering to the Eagles, thinking about the past, Howard suddenly found that he actually missed every quarrel with Kobe when he joined the Lakers.

For all the grievances and grievances with Kobe before, Howard finally let go, and the once happy Warcraft also completed the transformation into Master Huo at this moment.

And this is a road that Baldhead Hua never imagined.

Afterwards, Master Huo also smiled sincerely: "Long time no see, Kobe!"

(end of this chapter)

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