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74. Orlando Vice

After nine consecutive victories, the Cavaliers received a three-day break, and then they would continue their regular season journey this season. The Cleveland Cavaliers and Wu Dawei are in the limelight, and people are full of confidence in their upcoming regular season game.

Just because the opponent in this tenth game is a Detroit Pistons. The Pistons general manager Joe Dumas has become a completely deceased man in the past two seasons, and is determined to train a promising Rodney Starkey, not only has he signed two garbage contracts recently. With Rodney Starkey, "Browless Heroes" Charlie Veronoy and Ben Gordon as the core lineup, the Pistons have achieved 2 wins and 8 losses this season, and are strong contenders for the Eastern Conference standings...

Just as people are beginning to become increasingly optimistic about the Cleveland Cavaliers this season, people are quite dissatisfied with the Detroit Pistons whose cap space is locked, which is one of the reasons why people are so confident about the Cleveland Cavaliers' tenth straight win this season.

Similarly, people have not only not confident about the Detroit Pistons, who are about to go away to play against the Cleveland Cavaliers, but also have extremely no confidence in the Orlando Magic, who entered the Eastern Conference semi-finals last season.

The Magic lost the game again the day before the Cavaliers and Pistons match was about to begin, and lost the big score to the Minnesota Timberwolves from the West. Their record has now dropped to 5 wins and 6 losses, and has been surpassed by the eighth-ranked New York Knicks. They are currently tied with the Philadelphia 76ers and are ranked eighth in the East.

And in the eyes of many people, this is not the lowest point for the Orlando Magic. They are currently losing two consecutive losses, which makes many people feel that even the eighth place in the East is about to lose their security!

Recently, there has been another scandal of internal strife within Orlando, and it seems that the conflict between head coach Stan Van Gundy and the team's core Dwight Howard is already irreconcilable.

In the past few years, Stan Van Gundy coached the Orlando Magic, his tactics have basically remained unchanged. He firmly implemented the core tactics of one rebound and four shooting. This tactics once helped the Orlando Magic enter the finals, but in recent years, he has become a little weak.

Moreover, this season, Dwight Howard has not been very good since the start of the game, at least compared to the past. His performance is a bit inferior. So far, Dwight Howard has averaged 43 minutes per game in the past 11 games of the Orlando Magic, and is the king of playing time in the league, but the data has dropped slightly from last season.

Howard averages 18 points, 11 rebounds and 2 blocks per game. Even if you look at the current league, this data is one of the top data among center players. However, that is only because of the extremely shortage of high-quality big men in the league. Compared with Dwight Howard's data last season, it is definitely more than just below the level.

Dwight Howard averaged 21 points and 14 rebounds per game to the team last season! This season, he averaged three-pointers and three rebounds per game.

Howard's poor condition means that his dominance and deterrence in the paint area has decreased. This directly affects the tactics advocated by Stan Van Gundy. Without the guarantee of Dwight Howard's inside rebounding and inside barriers, the shooting opportunities the Orlando Magic have naturally decreased day by day!

This is also why the Orlando Magic have only won five games in 11 games since the beginning of the new season!

Dwight Howard's only performance naturally aroused the dissatisfaction of head coach Stan Van Gundy, so of course Van Gundy would also "talk about" Howard. However, the two have always been disagreement, and Howard is increasingly dissatisfied with the team, let alone Stan Van Gundy even felt a little disgusted with Stan Van Gundy. At this time, Van Gundy "talk about" Howard, it was not just a hit at the gun. The two of them had a disagreement and could not say that they fought.

That heart-to-heart talk ended in a bad mood. In Howard's opinion, what Stan Van Gundy said to him was just accusing him of his poor performance! This made Howard very angry. Since Stan Van Gundy joined the Magic, Howard felt that he had never become the first core on the offensive end, and was mostly doing some blue-collar coolie jobs.

In the past, Dwight Howard could naturally tolerate his experience, but as he gradually became a popular star in the league in recent years, Dwight Howard naturally became more energetic.

The respect he wants is not just what the media says about the Orlando Magic is his own team, but his tactical respect!

The two of them were naturally extremely unpleasant to talk about this, and they even started arguing about it. Of course, the senior executives of the Orlando Magic tried their best to cover up such a scandal, but the team was mixed with dragons and snakes. Such a scandal was hard to cover up, and the news spread like wildfire, even in the league.

At this time, the senior executives of the Orlando Magic still had a little idea of ​​easeing the relationship between the two. After trying to turn it into a bubble, they began to think about other ways.

Since it cannot be eased, it is natural that they can only break up these two people. If they continue to work together like this, no one knows what will happen in the end. But at this time, the team's senior management was also in trouble. Whether to fire Dwight Howard or Stan Van Gundy was like a multiple-choice question in front of them.

According to common sense, in basketball, the role of a superstar is obviously not comparable to that of a head coach. Whether on the field or off the court, a superstar can obviously bring higher returns to the team. In basketball leagues, the head coach whose real influence can surpass the player may be counted with one hand.

Stan Van Gundy is obviously not listed here, this is a good multiple-choice question. However, there are still some variables at this time. The variables are the increasingly deteriorating relationship between Dwight Howard and the Orlando Magic in the past two years. It seems that after LeBron James left Miami and Wade and Bosh joined forces last season, Dwight Howard began to complain about not having enough helpers. The team's increasingly weak strength and ranking.

Moreover, this season, Dwight Howard's condition has been greatly affected by some of the past injuries. In the past few years, Dwight Howard has been the leading center in the league. With Yao Ming gradually withdrawing from the game due to injury, it is almost impossible to find Dwight Howard's opponent in the league.

In the past one or two years, the inside players who can compete with Dwight Howard have gradually become more and more. Dwight Howard is no longer invincible as before.

In addition, head coach Stan Van Gundy has been with the Magic for some time. His tactics have gradually become deeply rooted in the Orlando Magic. The players have become accustomed to Stan Van Gundy's tactics and on-site command style.

So, this idea came up with the senior executives of the Orlando Magic.

January 16th is the day when the Cleveland Cavaliers face the Detroit Pistons at home. Although the Cavaliers will be on the evening of the 16th, at 4 o'clock on that day, Wu Dawei still climbed up from the bed as usual and went to the training hall to train.

When he arrived at the training hall, he found that Danny Green was already riding his motorcycle waiting for him. For this "classmate" who entered the league with him, but has not yet made some tomorrow's "classmates". Wu Dawei's relationship with him is getting better and better.

After all, when training together every day, no matter how strange a person is, he will become familiar with it. Just like Wu Dawei and Beasley, the second-hand guy, who is separated from each other and has a better relationship, he will be somewhat distant. He never chats and fucks each other on the phone like when they were separated just now.

"Hey!" Wu Dawei got out of the car, walked straight up and greeted Danny Green, glanced at his little electric donkey, and said, "I didn't expect you to run very fast on both wheels!"

"That's it!" Green laughed loudly when he heard this, patted the donkey's seat, and said, "If you like it, I'll give it to you. Then I'll drive you back..."

"This proposal is good!" Wu Dawei hugged Danny Green's shoulder and said, "Then you just need to give me another $500,000!"

The two of them laughed at each other and walked into the training hall together. There were times when they trained together. Wu Dawei and Green naturally got closer, and these jokes often teased each other.

Speaking of which, Wu Dawei still admires Green's ability to get up so early every day to train with himself. You should know that professional players have extremely rich nightlife. Those who can enter this league are basically high-income people in the United States, and most of them are in their 20s, which can be said to be young and rich. Such men are naturally the treasures in the eyes of women.

Almost every professional player is surrounded by Yingying and Yanyan. Being able to be strict with himself in such a life is not only a high degree of self-discipline, but also a determination to truly improve! This is also the reason why, no matter where you are, there is always a distinction between status and status.

Just as Green admires Wu Dawei's experience very much, Wu Dawei also admires that Green can have the same willpower as himself... It's a bit like boasting, but it's also true~

The two walked into the training hall side by side. After changing clothes, they started today's training. Wu Dawei is still focusing on training on his own shooting. Since the beginning of the new season, Wu Dawei has tasted a lot of sweetness in shooting.

Of course, the more he has the sweeter he has, the more he needs to strengthen his practice in this area. In addition to three-pointers, Wu Dawei also focuses on training the most in his ability to stop and jump shots. As he performs more and more terrifyingly in the new season, Wu Dawei found that his chances of shooting at open positions have become less and less.

The importance of each team to him is not only on the defensive end. On the offensive end, Wu Dawei, as the top scorer in the league, has to make everyone admire him with admiration and attracted considerable attention.

Therefore, Wu Dawei found that he not only had fewer and fewer opportunities to shoot in open positions, but he even often encountered double-teams from the opponent! This was a situation that Wu Dawei had never encountered before last season, and the emergency stop jump shot solved many problems for Wu Dawei.

This kind of attack that is caught by the opponent is always difficult for the opponent to react and catch the opponent off guard! At the same time, the difficulty of an emergency stop jump shot is also greater than that of a normal shot. Mastering the strength and adjusting the feeling of shooting in the fastest time are all necessary for an emergency stop jump shot.

As the saying goes, practice makes perfect, Wu Dawei had to practice hard.

Like Wu Dawei, Danny Green focused on his shooting skills. Moreover, in many comparisons with Wu Dawei, Danny Green's shooting ability is not much worse than Wu Dawei. This also made Wu Dawei feel a little embarrassed for Green. How could he find even one minute of playing time with such a method?

Green signed a one-year contract with the Cavaliers, which means that if he does not have any good performance or opportunities in this year, it is very likely that this will become his last contract in his NBA career.

If the Cavaliers don't give him a chance to play and don't renew his contract, then what team will give an unfamiliar player who basically has no performance in the game?

The two of them practiced until 8 o'clock in the morning, and then Cleveland Cavaliers players came to the training hall one after another. Today is game day, and the Cleveland Cavaliers naturally have training classes in the morning, but today the team's general manager, Mr. Dan Ferry, was also here at the training hall.

At first, he was just discussing something with head coach Byron Scott, and then after Dan Ferry finished talking with Byron Scott, he called Wu Dawei, who was training on the court.

Then the team's general manager, Mr. Dan Ferry, said to Wu Dawei that made him feel ecstatic!
Chapter completed!
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