super legend

Chapter 313 Predicament and Pressure!
What people remember will always become more and more blurred with time, Sun Zhuo thinks it is quite meaningful to do this.

Kerry didn't stay in Orlando for a long time, and Sun Zhuo was going to play an away game, so she didn't have time to accompany her. She also knew that Sun Zhuo was at the very end of the regular season, so she only stayed for one day before leaving. When the team plays in the playoffs, she will come and watch.

The time has come to March, and the competition in this month is particularly intense. If there is a team that wants to sprint for the playoffs, it will be too late. March is also a crucial month for the Magic. In this month, as long as Sun Zhuo can still maintain the same performance as in the previous two months and let the Magic be in the top two positions in the Eastern Conference, then Sun Zhuo, the regular season MVP, can basically be locked.

However, considering the issue of the playoffs, Sun Zhuo had to make some trade-offs. He needed to give up some possessions for Howard and the others to exercise.

Several animations made by Sun Zhuo were completed very quickly. After the completion, Sun Zhuo specially showed them to Howard after everyone watched the video tape of the game.

Sun Zhuo took out his notebook in the locker room, and waved to Howard: "Dwight, you almost fell asleep watching the video, come here quickly, and show you something nice."

Howard yawned. He really wasn't interested in watching the game video, especially the game he just played. He didn't think there was much to see. Hearing Sun Zhuo's words, Howard immediately became interested and walked forward and said, "Good thing ? Could it be Victoria Cruz's new movie? You surprised me, haha!"

"Ahem... Boss, this is the team locker room. It doesn't seem very good to watch it here?" Turkoglu also thought it was Victoria's movie, and reminded him, his face was a little embarrassed, because Victoria and He had a one-night stand, and he always felt that it was not good for his woman to be watched by everyone.

Sun Zhuo said helplessly: "You guys think too much, it's animation."

"Haha, it really has taste. I don't like to watch real people, but the animation is actually quite good." Nelson laughed and came over.

"..." Sun Zhuo was even more speechless. It turned out that Nelson still had an interest in watching CR animations.

When Sun Zhuo turned on the FLASH animation on the computer and everyone saw a few stick figures standing on the basketball court, they knew whether it was a real animation or a basketball animation.

Nelson scratched his head, and walked back uninterestedly, while Howard still found it very interesting and asked, "I seem to have heard that RB has a classic basketball cartoon called "Slam Dunk". A cartoon, right? With all due respect, this picture is pretty shabby, haha."

"This is not a cartoon, but a tactical move specially designed and produced by me. There are several classic passing combinations here. You can watch how others pass the ball and learn from it." Sun Zhuo said.

Howard smiled and said: "No way? Let me learn the movements of an anime character? Oh, sorry, I forgot that the movements were designed by you. Well, it's rare that you made these movements into animations, so I will appreciate them. Bar."

Howard took the notebook, put it on his lap, and began to read it while drinking water.

Afraid that Howard would not understand, Sun Zhuo also deliberately explained to the side: "The one wearing the No. 1 jersey can be regarded as me, and the one wearing the No. 33 jersey can be regarded as you."

"Boss, the animator got my number wrong. I am number 12, and this number 33 is too fat. How can I be so fat?" Howard thought that the prototype of this number 33 was himself, and he was a little dissatisfied road.

"Don't pay attention to these details, I mean let you treat it as you, but I didn't say it was you." Sun Zhuo explained, played the animation again, and said, "Look, the blue color is our team. The one in the white jersey is our opponent, and now it's our offense with Nelson holding the ball at the top of the key."

"Oh? Is there me?" When Nelson heard this, he immediately came forward.

"No. 1 is me, at a 45-degree angle on the right, and there is a defender next to me who has been clinging to me. I try to get rid of his defense. Assuming that No. 15 is Turkoglu or Granger, he stands Screening for me above the free-throw line, I'm off the screen for a second, and Nelson puts the ball in your hands."

boom!
There was a crisp sound of a basketball hitting the floor from the computer. This sound was the assist pass from No. 33 to No. 1.

"See? If you can pass me such a ball at the moment I get rid of the defender and let me directly attack the basket, this offense will be easily resolved!"

Sun Zhuo said excitedly. He expects Howard to become a big man like Dior who dares to pass and can pass the ball. It never happened, Sun Zhuo ran without the ball to get rid of the defender, but he succeeded, and Howard failed to pass the ball. The purpose of his pass was too obvious, and it was very slow. , the defensive players followed suit.

"Oh, boss, your animation looks like a sci-fi movie, it's so cool." Howard smiled with his big white teeth, and didn't think the pass was bad, but thought the pass was too good and cool Yes, it's too impractical.

In the animation, when No. 1 catches the ball, there is a player with a white jersey standing next to No. 1, who may break the pass at any time, and No. 33 passes the ball with his back to the basket and hits the ground backward. Passing, this action itself is a difficult pass.

Howard didn't speak out what was in his heart, but continued to watch the animation made by Sun Zhuo.

The animations made by Sun Zhuo are all classic passing moves without exception, and Howard is naturally amazed, but they all feel that these are fictional and imagined by Sun Zhuo, but Howard, a big boy, also enjoys it.

Next, Howard watched another very classic passing action of Marc Gasol in his previous life.

"Oh, this animation is obviously not the same designer as the animation just now. You see, this No. 33 is not as fat as the No. 33 just now, hahaha." Howard laughed. Since Marc Gasol is also No. 33, Howard thought the two No. 33 is actually a person, or in other words, Howard thinks that Sun Zhuo set the inside center as No. 33, and there will be no other numbers.

"Oh, this action is cool!" Howard was shocked when he saw Marc Gasol's passing action.

Marc Gasol's action is that he first received a pass from his teammate in the low post, and after receiving the ball, he immediately attacked the basket. It seemed that he was going to be strong in singles, but after dribbling, he took two steps, but it was not A layup or a throw, but a pass without looking at people, and a basket teammate slipped in from the right corner. Marc Gasol threw it lightly and threw it to the inside teammate to complete the assist.

"Haha, Boss, you are so imaginative. These actions are designed very cool." Howard really watched it as if it were a cartoon, and he was very excited, but Sun Zhuo doubted whether Howard would really learn something. , Will you really practice in private?

Howard didn't give a definite reply, he just kept praising Sun Zhuo's excellent animations, which impressed him very much. If Sun Zhuo just asked a few people to demonstrate it in front of him, maybe in a few days Howard will forget, but these animated characters are very interesting, and he won't forget them in a few months.

At the end of the training that day, Nelson and Howard left the arena in the same car. In the car, Nelson asked Howard: "Will you practice as Sun said? Will you apply these movements to the game?"

Howard smiled and said: "Forgive me, I don't dare to pass the ball like that. One or two of these animations are quite normal. There have been magicians or others who have done similar moves before, but some are too bold. The key question These actions are fictitious, these defenders and attackers are all imagined by Sun Zhuo, not real game scenes, it looks really cool, but I don’t think it really fits our real game.”

Nelson was puzzled, "However, looking at Sun's explanation, it seems that he has really experienced these competitions. Besides, whether it is creating novels or animations, the author will combine some things that happened in reality. You said these actions, are you right?" Isn't that what he went through before he got to the NBA?"

"Experienced in reality?" Howard just tilted his head back, and immediately leaned forward again: "Don't be funny, man, before he entered the NBA, he didn't even play in the CBA, and even in the CBA, it is impossible to have such a high The level of the game, the passing in these animations we watched, are very rare in the NBA, if this is the game he experienced personally, then there is only one possibility."

"What's possible?" Nelson touched the steering wheel and looked at Howard.

"There is a league in the world that is more powerful than the NBA, and it's an underground, very secret league that everyone doesn't know about. Haha, do you think it's possible?" Howard smiled and tilted his head back again.

Nelson also smiled. Indeed, the level of those animations is very high, but how can there be a league with a higher level than the NBA in the world?
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After defeating the Cavaliers, the Magic began to give Howard and other young people opportunities to exercise in a planned way. Sun Zhuo also reduced his shots. No more consecutive victories.

Halfway through March, there is only one month until the end of the regular season. At this time, the Magic team's record has slipped to fourth in the Eastern Conference, and there is only one win behind the fifth.

Can Sun Zhuo still win the regular season MVP?
In the eyes of many people, there is little hope.

When Westbrook won the regular season MVP in 2017, he led the team to the sixth place in the Western Conference in the regular season, but he got a triple-double in the season, and the selection criteria ten years later are still somewhat different from what is important now .

From 2006, push forward, last season, when Nash won the regular season MVP trophy, the Suns had the first record. In the 03-04 season, Garnett won the MVP, and the Timberwolves were the first in the West. 01-02 The same is true for MVP Duncan in the 02-03 season and the Spurs' record. The MVP Iverson in the 00-01 season and the Philadelphia 76ers are also No. [-] in the Eastern Conference.

If the Magic are only ranked fourth or fifth in the Eastern Conference, then he will indeed be very uncompetitive against Steve Nash. Everyone will say that Sun Zhuo is a player with better personal ability, but he is not the best MVP. Candidates.

"Sun has no hope of winning the MVP this season. Not only that, but they will not go far in the playoffs this season." James has always paid attention to the situation of Sun Zhuo and the Magic, knowing that the Magic's record has declined, and Sun Zhuo's personal data is not so explosive Yes, and judging from the performance of young players like Magic Howard during this period, it is impossible for them to do much in the playoffs.

James is very happy, as long as Sun Zhuo does not win the MVP and the championship, then they are still in the same position, and James can surpass him at any time.

At this moment, facing the current situation, Sun Zhuo is also very uncomfortable.

After the team's four-game losing streak, Coach Hill specially stayed with Sun Zhuo after everyone left the arena.

When Sun Zhuo wanted to help young players like Howard grow up, Coach Hill told Sun Zhuo to be patient, because he knew that at Sun Zhuo's age and his personality, he thought about everything very quickly. See the result soon, but this is obviously unrealistic. Sun Zhuo can surprise people in a short period of time after entering the league, but others can't. Some people only know how to use their talents after playing for several years.

Hill and Sun Zhuo sat side by side in the locker room. Seeing Sun Zhuo's dejected face, he comforted him: "I told you before that this is not an easy thing to see results. If you are too anxious, it will only affect you. My own emotions, I share your point of view, Dwight Howard is a talented center that needs to be used well in a certain system, but now he is still very immature, even if each of them is comfortable and plays in his favorite way, They still can't win the game."

"Bryan, do you think we can hit the championship with our strength this year? Can we beat the Miami Heat and the Dallas Mavericks?" Sun Zhuo was indeed in a bad mood, not because he was getting farther and farther away from the MVP of the regular season. Rather, during this period of time, he found that his group of extremely talented teammates were too immature now.

Howard, Ariza, and Danny Granger are indeed very strong, and they are all figures that can be called giants, but that will be a few years later.

Sun Zhuo began to wonder whether this magic team could still hit the championship?
Brian Hill said: "Who knows what hasn't happened yet? I believe you are ready to make a big play in the playoffs. I also believe that no one can stop you. You now feel the help around you." It may not be enough, I also ask you a question, if Dwight and the others have made rapid progress and fully met your expectations, do you think our team can win the championship?"

Sun Zhuo didn't answer. There have been too many accidents in NBA history, and nothing is certain.

The frustration in Sun Zhuo's heart disappeared a lot, "You are right, no matter what our strength is, the playoffs are an adventure full of uncertainties, and the only thing we can grasp is now!"

(End of this chapter)