Last season, the Magic went out of the playoffs and seemed powerless, and Howard was quite dissatisfied, bluntly saying that "the team should reshuffle the roster."

"We have to learn from our failures. We have to find players who will do whatever it takes to win and who are willing to give their all to the team. "Howard has shown that he is not happy with his teammates.

The result? The Magic's biggest signing was the poaching of free agent Jason Richardson, 25 million for four years.

Richardson was a rookie in 2001, and as the No. 5 pick in the first round, he has always been worthy of his value, scoring less than 14.4 points in a single season in his career, and has also had a star performance of 23.2 points, 5.8 rebounds and 3.1 assists in a single season.

He averaged 19.3 points and 4.4 rebounds per game with the Suns last season while shooting 47 percent from the field and 39.4 percent from three-point range, so his contract was widely seen as too cheap. It's just that when the contract expired, Richardson was 35 years old, and there were some problems with the length of the contract.

In fact, signing Richardson is not only a problem with the number of years, but it is simply a big hole. His data in the Suns is beautiful, and he didn't care about the winning percentage last season.

After a few injuries, Richardson's athleticism decreased, and those who play on the body will be much less effective once their quality declines.

In the Suns, there are Dragic and Evans who are good at breaking through, Richardson only needs to open the outside to shoot the equal ball, and the Magic team does not break through the master to tear up the defense, and his shooting opportunities are much worse.

This season, Richardson played 30 minutes per game, only 11.6 points, 3.6 rebounds and 2 assists, shooting 40.8% from the field, 36.8% from three-point range, 59.4% from the free throw line, and only 1.3 free throws per game.

Look at the number of free throws to know what kind of style Richardson is, the Magic is the middle class to introduce a person who can only pull out the jump shot, and he is even worse on the defensive end, and he is not timely when he is fouled, averaging 1.7 fouls per game.

Last week's Magic vs. Celtics game was a shocking scene.

The Magic lost 56-87 to the Celtics on the road, and the team shot only 16 of 65, setting a record for the lowest single-game scoring in team history, and the lowest shooting percentage in team history at only 24.6%. It was also the lowest shooting percentage for an NBA team in a single game since 2004, when the Trail Blazers lost to the Nets on 19-of-78 shooting on 24.4 percent from the field.

The Magic lost so badly, why? Some people say it's magic, but it's not a joke, it's happening......

The Celtics had a turnaround positional offense, and the Magic were "Ah Q" Quentin Richardson, "Big Baby" Glenn Davis, Nelson and "Warcraft" Howard, and there was one less person.

When the Celtics players took to the bottom left corner, Richardson, who was sitting in the audience, suddenly rushed into the field to steal and touch the ball off the line, and the fans were amused by this scene.

Richardson is sure to be in contention for the top five MVPs of the season, and with this attitude and sense of humor, he can only defend against Korver.

The Clippers attacked, Paul and Chandler blocked and dismantled in the middle, attracting Batum to switch defenses and then passed to Guy in the bottom right corner again.

The weakness of the Magic defense is too obvious, Howard is near the penalty area, two meters away from Gay, if his teammates are good at rotating positions can interfere with the shot, but Batum does not dare to let Paul go and honestly stay in his own area.

Guy pulled out a three-point shot, Howard just stretched out his hand and turned to grab a rebound, and Guy hit another shot without any interference. 8 to 2.

The opponent hit two three-pointers in a row, and Hollins rushed on the sidelines, shouting at the players to change to man-marking for the next round.

Magic offense, Nelson and Anderson in the middle to block and dismantle, this time Griffin has a better sense of distance, neither let Nelson break through, after the ball, the middle also has time to interfere with Anderson's shooting, forcing the opponent to pass the ball again.

Regardless of whether the Magic is a starter or a substitute, there is no offensive core with the ball on the outside, which is the Achilles' heel.

It's hard to find a star in the free agency market who is good at attacking with the ball, otherwise the Magic wouldn't have risked trading for the famous Arenas last season. It's a pity that the "General" no longer knows how to play, only iron, but fortunately Lewis is also very bad, and the trade is not a loss.

With 24 seconds to go, Batum singled out Guy, changed direction on the right side and missed the shot.

The two of them rushed together to grab the rebound in the frontcourt, Chandler stuck Howard and didn't jump, so that Howard couldn't jump, and Griffin retreated and stuck Anderson to grab the rebound in the backcourt.

The Clippers attacked, Chandler and Paul played again in the middle, and Howard came out to change defenses.

Howard has the ability to defend pick-and-rolls and save corners for three-pointers, but he has lost games year after year, and his defensive motivation has also decreased this season. The crushing defeat to the Celtics made him particularly frustrated, even if the Magic defense was good, the offense was so bad that they couldn't score 60 points, how could they win?

Winner of the Defensive Player of the Year for three consecutive years, Howard has unparalleled confidence on the defensive end, but on the offensive end, he knows his flaws, and the Magic are the leading scorer, which is sad.

If you want to win the championship, there are only two ways in front of Howard, one is that the Magic trade to the outside super scorer, which is almost impossible; The second is that he left to join a team with a super scorer.

Management also guessed that Howard wanted to leave, and the conflict between the two sides has become public.

Paul moved sideways to find a bit of space and passed to Griffin, who cut on the left, who picked up the ball and singled out Anderson, forced his way to the basket to hit the board, and missed the interference, and Batum grabbed the rebound.

In the Magic positional battle, Howard and Anderson both went out to cover, but still failed to create a gap, Chandler was very active in changing guards, and Howard was no threat when he got out of the penalty area, so he shot casually. All Chandler had to defend was Howard's air cut, which stuck at any moment and prevented him from rushing up.

After the pick-and-roll, Nelson made a pull-up jumper to dodge Paul's chase block, and the ball bounced out of the frame again, and Chandler didn't grab the board and helped Griffin get the rebound.

Griffin is a trustworthy rebounder, and the core of Yang Rui's tactics today is defense and rebounding.

The Clippers attacked, Paul didn't find cover, waved at Chandler and asked him to go to the low post to involve Howard's defense, and he directly singled out Nelson in the middle.

To break the man-to-man defense, the star heads-up is the most concise way. Paul dribbled the ball under his hip in a row, changed direction to the right side and successfully broke through, and made a jump shot at the right corner position.

Nelson was shaken half out of position, jumped up sideways and failed to cover, 10-2.

Paul is limited in height and doesn't play a lot of singles, and he will also show his attacking ability against short players.

Magic attacked, there was no chance to shoot on the perimeter, after the cover, Nelson passed to Howard who cut in the air, Chandler followed the top defense, Howard did not rush, the middle back guarded the ball, leaned on Chandler twice, turned to the right and hooked his hand.

Howard's offense is entirely physical, turning quickly, relying on the bounce to press the opponent's shots, and encountering tall defenders, this move is not very good.

Chandler and Yao Ming's method of defending the penalty area is very similar, he will not jump first, but just raise his hand to interfere, his prediction is better than Yao Ming, the speed of the bullet is faster, and he jumps to interfere when he is sure that Howard is going to shoot, and the ball bounces out of the frame.

Griffin grabbed another rebound in the backcourt and passed to Paul to stabilize the position.

Kenny Smith broke Howard's offensive weakness in one word. "He's very easy to judge when he shoots, and he rarely makes feints in the box because he can't shake the opponent up to make fouls, and he doesn't like to go to the free throw line."

Barkley said: "He's still not developed a consistent mid-range shot this year, I don't think he'll be the best center for a couple of years, and once his fitness goes down, he's done." ”74

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