One Thousand and Twenty-Seven. Winning, Now and in the Future

Originally, the 76ers were leading by one point before Howard was sent off, but when Howard left, he committed a technical foul. Klay Thompson hit a technical foul free throw, and the Grizzlies tied the score at 54-54. !

If the appearance of Howard's six fouls caused a critical blow to the confidence of his teammates, 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 to the 76ers' ability to surpass the Bulls. Last season, they lost to the Bulls' inside advantage. Without Howard, they probably wouldn't have much to fight back against the Heat, who are stronger on the outside. Strength, Howard is the strongest player on the 76ers team, bar none.

Even if Howard was sent off, his behavior of tearing up his jersey in a rage, disrespecting the team, opponents, and teammates was a huge harm to the team.

Everyone on the 76ers was working hard, desperately trying to earn back face. The third quarter was almost over, but they did not fall behind, but were still leading by 1 point. Moreover, it was an away game. Even if Howard was in a foul crisis, This kind of momentum can also allow other 76ers teams to continue to maintain a fighting mentality, but Howard, the nominal team boss and actually the team's strongest player, makes such a move. The rest of the 76ers team The players’ mentality is shattered!

The 76ers replaced Howard with Hawes. Evans, Meeks, Iguodala, and Lavoy Allen remained on the court, waiting for Klay Thompson to make a technical foul free throw. , has lost defensive confidence.

After the game continued, with the help of Sun Ce and Randolph's high and low post control, Neal hit three consecutive breakthrough throws, kicking off the Grizzlies' counterattack!

In the last 5 minutes of the third quarter, the Grizzlies had a 13-5 spurt. After three quarters, the Grizzlies led the 76ers 67-59, establishing an 8-point lead!

Frustration began to spread. Evans, who scored 26 points in the first three quarters, performed extremely poorly in the final quarter. He only scored two points with free throws on 0 of 5 shots. The rest of the 76ers also played very poorly, and the offense was defeated by the Grizzlies. The defensive lineup sent out in the fourth quarter locked up, and the defensive end lost momentum again, completely collapsing. The entire 76ers only scored 9 points in the final quarter.

The collapse of the 76ers' defensive end allowed the Grizzlies' tank combination of Sun Ce, Tony Allen, Paul George, Battier, and Gasol to score 23 points in a single quarter!

Sun Ce didn't score much in this game, only 17 points, but he won with stability.

And it was indeed stable, scoring 4 points in each of the first three quarters and 5 points in the fourth quarter.

The main reason is that the opponent's defensive strategy has changed. Howard's defense focus is on Sun Ce. Randolph played 29 minutes in the first three quarters and scored 22 points, second only to Evans in the 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. At the beginning of the third quarter, he went for Howard's foul, although the team's lead was once destroyed. The opponent tied the game, but succeeded in getting Howard to commit his fourth foul.

When faced with this situation of being defended by the opponent, Sun Ce was very calm. He did not think about breaking the deadlock and breaking the shackles like others. He shot less when he needed to, and held the ball less when he needed to, and focused on attacking. Leave the role to your teammates and just defend yourself well.

This is a situation that rarely happens to the scoring champions of other championship teams. The last time this happened was the Pistons in 2004. The one with the strongest score gave up the right to take the shot whenever he wanted.

Although he only scored 17 points, Sun Ce's statistics were not bad. While scoring 17 points, he also had 15 rebounds, 4 assists, 4 blocks and 2 steals! Moreover, today we reduced holding the ball and playing in singles, and the turnovers were reduced. I only made two turnovers in 37 minutes!

In the end, with the efforts of Randolph who scored 22 points in the third quarter, Nash who scored a steady 12 points and 7 assists, Gasol who scored 14 points, Sun Ce who scored 17+15 and the role players,

The Grizzlies slaughtered the 76ers 90-68, making the score 2-0!

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The day after the second game, which was the 17th, Sun Ce came to Philadelphia with his teammates.

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

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

Randolph's gloating look immediately attracted Sun Ce's attention. He pressed pause and leaned over to Randolph to read the news on his tablet.

The Boston Globe broke the news that after the 76ers returned to Philadelphia yesterday morning, they started preparing for the game in the afternoon. During the preparations, Howard lost his temper. Iguodala wanted to appease Howard, but the words were not very good and he used a leader's reprimand. The tone was intended to stimulate Howard's fighting spirit.

Iguodala still doesn't quite understand the character of his fellow superstar, and Howard can't stand the excitement.

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

Iguodala also became popular, venting all the dissatisfaction accumulated over the season and pointing out a series of Howard's problems, which was named by the Boston Globe - Howard's Seven Deadly Sins.

No leadership qualities, no skills except physical fitness, and he has to play singles several times in every game to satisfy his desire. His poor free throws often put the team in crisis. He gets angry every other day and needs his second- and third-year teammates or even rookie teammates to coax him. He steals the spotlight when he wins and blames his teammates when he loses. He gets angry when he doesn't play well, and often talks about leading the team to the finals alone, which affects the unity of the locker room...

After Iguodala finished criticizing Howard's seven sins, the two quarreled completely.

In the end, the 76ers' training yesterday afternoon ended unhappily.

"Fuck!" Sun Ce looked at the problems that Iguodala said about Howard. Iguodala is a smart guy who really sees through Howard!

Sun Ce feels that the 76ers will collapse this summer!

In this situation, either Iguodala will leave or Howard will be traded. It seems that they are incompatible. Iguodala seems to have been dissatisfied with Howard for a long time!

Sun Ce turned on his phone and opened the official website of ESPN. The news of the internal conflict of the 76ers has become a hot news. Moreover, the news broke out when the Grizzlies started training after the tactical meeting at 10 o'clock in the morning. It has been three hours, and no one from the 76ers seems to stand up to support Howard.

Perhaps the team forbade them to discuss this matter, but even the 76ers management did not refute the rumor. Moreover, the prohibition of discussing this matter does not mean that they cannot say a polite remark such as "this is just a small disagreement between brothers". There is not even such a polite remark...

Sun Ce remembered that Howard was also crowned with the title of locker room cancer in the original time and space. He parted ways with every old club. He even played 16 points and 12 rebounds in one year, but was actually cut. He only got a 5 million mini-middle-class contract in the new season. It caused heated discussions at the time. Other inside players who averaged 8 points and 6 rebounds per game could get a 15 million contract, but Howard was not wanted by any team.

Originally, Sun Ce thought that even if Howard's defense plummeted in the future due to his back injury, he was still a top inside player with an average of 17+12 points per game. The 76ers' Evans and Holiday continued to improve, and with Iguodala, they would take advantage of the last year of Evans and Holiday's rookie contracts to supplement the inside bench lineup. In the future, they would be the team that the Grizzlies would most likely continue to encounter in the finals.

Now this kind of thing has happened...

Just when Sun Ce was lost in thought, Randolph continued to gloat and said: "Noah, do you think Iguodala and Howard will fight in the game?"

Sun Ce rolled his eyes at Randolph, who was just looking for fun... But he also felt that such a scene would definitely go down in NBA history...

However, Sun Ce now had a worry, and did not answer Randolph's gloating question, but asked: "Zach, if Iguodala and Howard really don't want to stay on the same team, who will be traded?"

For the stability of the team, Howard had already exercised the player option for next season before the All-Star Weekend. Iguodala's contract still has two years, 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. Although I hate Howard, he is the only player besides you who can be used to trade James alone."

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

The problem is troublesome. Sun Ce feels that the current situation is what the chief consultant of a team in the West who plays like the NBA logo wants to see most!

Iguodala is too useful. If it weren't too expensive and unable to match the salary, Sun Ce would be willing to send Paul George to his team to exchange Iguodala.

Iguodala is currently at his peak. He can get 15 points a game, get six or seven rebounds, defend James, get six or seven assists, shoot key shots, and have leadership ability... The key is not to care about the data! This season, he has fallen to an average of 10.2 points per game in the regular season, but he is still rushing to the front line of defense and doing his best.

Think about Tony teacher + Igo, plus himself, Gasol and Battier in the interior... It's a pity that his own team has no space.

But since his own team couldn't get it, Sun Ce didn't want that team to get it, otherwise it would be a bit scary.

After thinking about it, Sun Ce felt that he should do something, so he called Bill Duffy and had a discussion. Although Bill Duffy was puzzled by what Sun Ce wanted to do, he still agreed and started to operate.

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