Originally, before Howard was sent off, the 76ers still had a one-point lead, but Howard made a technical foul of his own when he left, Klay Thompson hit a technical foul free throw, and the Grizzlies tied the score at 54-54!

If Howard's six fouls hit his teammates' confidence critically, then Howard's behavior of smashing the ball and tearing his jersey caused even his teammates to be infected by his frustration.

There is no doubt that Howard is the key for the 76ers to cross the Bulls, they lost to the Bulls last season, and without Howard, they will not have much to fight back against the more powerful Heat team on the outside, Howard is the strongest player in the 76ers, there is no one.

Even if Howard was sent off, the angry and disrespectful behavior of tearing the jersey of the team, disrespecting the opponent, and also disrespecting his teammates was a huge disservice to the team.

Everyone in the 76ers team is working hard, desperately trying to earn back face, the third quarter is almost over, they are not behind, but still leading by 1 point, and it is an away game, Howard is in a foul crisis, this momentum can also make the other teams of the 76ers continue to maintain a fighting mentality, but Howard, the nominal team boss and actually the strongest player on the team, made such a move, and the mentality of the other players of the 76ers team exploded!

The 76ers replaced Howard with Hawes, and Evans, Meeks, Iguodala, and LaVoy Allen remained on the court, and after Klay Thompson made a technical foul, he lost his defensive faith.

After the game continued, with the help of Sun Ce and Randolph's high and low positions, Neil broke through three consecutive throws and hits, opening the curtain on the Grizzlies' counterattack!

In the last 5 minutes of the third quarter, the Grizzlies played a small climax of 13-5, and after the third quarter, the Grizzlies led the 76ers 67-59 and established an 8-point lead!

The frustration began to spread, Evans, who scored 26 points in the first three quarters, had an extremely bad performance in the final quarter, scoring only two points on free throws on 0-of-5 shooting, and the rest of the 76ers played badly, the offense was locked up by the defensive lineup sent by the Grizzlies in the fourth quarter, and the defense lost momentum and completely collapsed, and the entire 76ers scored only 9 points in the final quarter.

The collapse of the 76ers' defense made the Grizzlies' tank combination of Sun Ce, Tony Allen, Paul George, Battier, and Gasol Jr. all score 23 points in a single quarter!

In this game, Sun Ce did not score much, only scored 17 points, but the victory was stable.

And it was really solid, with four points in each of the first three quarters and five points in the fourth.

The main reason is that the opponent's defensive strategy has changed, Howard's defensive focus is on Sun Ce's side, Randolph played 29 minutes in the first three quarters and scored 22 points, second only to Evans in the whole game, Sun Ce naturally scored less.

Today, Sun Ce originally planned to wait for the opportunity to use the star experience card, but after Howard committed three fouls in the second quarter, his mind changed, and he rushed to make Howard's foul at the beginning of the third quarter, although it once caused the team's lead to be tied by the opponent, but successfully let Howard carry the fourth foul.

And when encountering this situation of being targeted by the opponent for defense, Sun Ce is very calm, unlike others who think about breaking the deadlock and breaking the shackles, shooting less when he should shoot, reducing ball holding when he should reduce ball holding, giving up the offensive scene to his teammates, and defending himself well.

This is a situation that rarely occurs when the scoring champion of other championship teams appears, and the last time such a situation occurred, it was the Pistons in 04, and the one with the strongest score said to give up the right to shoot.

Although he only scored 17 points, Sun Ce's data was not bad, while scoring 17 points, he also had 15 rebounds, 4 assists, 4 blocks and 2 steals! And today I reduced the ball and singles, and the mistakes went down, and I only had two mistakes in 37 minutes!

In the end, with the efforts of Randolph, who scored 22 points in the third quarter, Nash, who scored 12 points and 7 assists, Gasol Jr., who scored 14 points, Sun Ce, who scored 17+15, and role players, the Grizzlies slaughtered the 76ers 90-68 and tied the score to 2-0!

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On the 17th, the day after the second game, Sun Ce and his teammates came to Philadelphia.

After a night's rest, the 18th prepared for the first away game and prepared for training.

After the morning tactical meeting and defensive move practice, during the lunch break, Randolph came to the lounge with a tablet and said to Sun Ce, who was studying the video of the 76ers' defensive coordination: "Noah, look, Iguodala had a fight with Howard yesterday afternoon!" ”

Randolph's gloating look immediately attracted Sun Ce's attention, and he pressed a pause to go to Randolph's side to watch the news on the tablet.

The Boston Globe broke the news that after the 76ers returned to Philadelphia yesterday morning, they began to prepare for the game in the afternoon, and Howard lost his temper during the preparations, and Iguodala wanted to appease Howard, but the wording was not very good, using the tone of the leader's reprimand, with the intention of stimulating Howard's fighting spirit.

Iguodala still didn't know much about the personality of the superstar of the same year, and Howard couldn't be stimulated.

As a result, Howard became angry after being reprimanded, and replied: I'm a superstar, what XXX are you......

Iguodala also became angry, venting all the grievances accumulated in a season, pointing out a series of Howard's faults, and was named by the Boston Globe - Howard's Seven Deadly Sins.

There is no leadership temperament, in addition to relying on physical fitness, there is no skill, and you have to play alone a few times per game, too poor free throws often lead to a crisis for the team, you still need to be coaxed by your second- and third-year teammates or even rookie teammates when you lose your temper for three days, you steal the spotlight when you win, blame your teammates for losing, lose your temper once you don't play well, and often talk about leading the team to the finals alone and affect the unity of the locker room......

After Iguodala sprayed Howard's seven deadly sins, the two fell out completely.

In the end, the 76ers' practice yesterday afternoon ended happily.

"I'll wipe it!" Sun Ce looked at the problems that Iguodala said about Howard, Iguodala is a goblin, and he really sees Howard thoroughly!

Sun Ce feels that the 76ers are going to collapse this summer!

In this case, either Iguodala is going to leave or Howard is going to be traded, it seems that the water and fire are incompatible, and Iguodala seems to be very dissatisfied with Howard for a long time!

Sun Ce turned on his mobile phone and opened ESPN's official website, the news of the 76ers infighting has become hot news, and it was already broken when their Grizzlies team started training after the tactical meeting at 10 o'clock in the morning, and it has been 3 hours, and no one on the 76ers' side seems to stand up to support Howard.

Maybe the team forbade them to discuss this matter, but even the 76ers management did not refute the rumors, and the prohibition of discussing this matter does not mean that they can't say a scene like "this is a small difference between brothers", not even this kind of scene......

Sun Ce remembered that Howard was also crowned as a locker room tumor in the original time and space, and broke up with every old club, and even played 16 points and 12 boards in one year, but he was actually cut, and only got a 5 million mini middle-class contract in the new season, which caused heated discussions at the time, and people who averaged 8 points and 6 boards per game could get a 15 million contract, and Howard didn't have a team to ask for it.

Originally, Sun Ce also felt that even if Howard plummeted on the defensive end in the future due to a back injury, he would be a top interior player with an average of 17+12 data per game, and the 76ers' Evans and Holiday continued to improve, plus Iguodala, and then took advantage of Evans and Holiday to supplement the interior bench lineup in the last year of their rookie contracts, and they would become the team they were most likely to continue to meet in the Grizzlies Finals in the future.

Now it's going to be a mess......

Just as Sun Ce fell into deep thought, Randolph continued to gloat and said, "Noah, do you think Iguodala and Howard will fight in the game?" ”

Sun Ce glanced at Randolph, this is not a big deal to see the excitement...... However, he also thinks that such a scene will definitely go down in the history of the NBA......

However, Sun Ce now has a sense of concern, and instead of answering Randolph's gloating question, he asks: "Zach, if Iguodala and Howard really don't want to be on the same team anymore, who of them will be traded?" ”

For the sake of team stability, Howard has already exercised the player option for next season before the All-Star weekend, and Iguodala has two years left on his contract, and the 13-14 season is the player option, so it is impossible for the two to leave the team voluntarily.

Randolph responded: "Of course Iguodala will be traded, and I hate Howard, but he's the only player other than you who can trade James alone." ”

Even Randolph thinks so, and Sun Ce thinks everyone else must think so, including the 76ers management......

Then the problem is troublesome, Sun Ce feels that the current situation, there is a team in the West that the chief consultant who plays very similar to the NBA logo wants to see the situation most!

Iguodala is too easy to use, and if it weren't too expensive to match the salary, Sun Ce would be willing to send his own team Paul George to trade Iguodala back.

Iguodala is in his prime, and if he needs to score 15 points a game, he can do it, he can get six or seven rebounds, he can defend James, he can get six or seven assists, he can shoot key shots, and he has leadership skills...... The point is not to care about the data! This season, he averaged 10.2 points per game in the regular season, but he still tried his best on the front line of defense.

Think about Mr. Tony + a brother, plus myself, Gasol Jr. and Batyr on the inside...... It's a pity that there is no room for our own team.

But his own team can't get it, and Sun Ce doesn't want that team to get it, otherwise it's a bit scary.

After thinking about it, Sun Ce felt that something should be done, dialed Bill Duffy's phone and had a discussion, although Bill Duffy felt inexplicable about what Sun Ce wanted to do, he still responded and started to operate.