As a Kobe hater, he was actually teammates with Kobe!

As a mobile inside player, Howard is naturally not clumsy.

But when facing Zhou Ze's attack, especially when he was blinded by anger, Howard was like a fool and was fooled around.

There were two very important turning points in this game. One was being knocked to the ground by Zhou Zehuang, and the other was being hit by a powerful 3+1.

These two rounds made Howard feel extremely tired and frustrated. He didn't even have the energy to save the soul of the fallen girl after the game.

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The game ended with the score being 101 to 119.

Lakers fans shouted Zhou Ze's name, and some even shouted "MVP".

Player data:

周泽，36分13篮板7助攻3盖帽3抢断，大号的准三双数据。

Well...

If you add in the 7 turnovers, it would be a near quadruple-double.

Zhou Ze's overall performance as a point forward for the first time can be described as "amazing". You know, in his rookie season, his poor dribbling ability was his label, but now he has made up for this shortcoming very well.

Even the control and organizational skills he demonstrated tonight made the outside world realize his improvement in three-point shooting.

The three-point attribute was increased to 99 (119), and with the addition of many shooting badges, Zhou Ze made 14 of 7 three-pointers tonight, with a hit rate of an astonishing 50%.

What's even more terrifying is that in terms of shooting with the ball to create offensive opportunities independently, Zhou Ze made 7 of 3 shots.

But no matter what...

The outside world has labeled Zhou Ze too deeply.

NBA fans all know that Zhou Ze's three-point production is amazing, his efficiency is above average, and it's normal for him to have a breakout game or two occasionally.

Just like Stephen Curry, fans only know his three-point shooting accuracy, but ignore his finishing efficiency at the basket and his ability to control and organize.

Zhou Ze now has a bit of this flavor. Fans only see his improvement in ball control, but ignore his three-point shooting and rebounding.

The Magic's star player, Dwight Howard, also scored 18 points and 8 rebounds tonight, which seems pretty good at first glance.

After all, he fouled out not long into the fourth quarter.

But Howard's offensive rebounding data tonight was zero.

All 8 rebounds were defensive rebounds.

You know, offensive rebounds and second-chance scoring are Howard's "specialties".

In addition, in tonight's game, Zhou Ze switched to defend Howard twice, successfully defending both times and also made one steal.

but...

Zen Master Jackson did not let Zhou Ze defend Howard alone, mainly considering his physical fitness and shooting muscle memory.

Zhou Ze, with a stamina of 120, can play the entire game, but playing the full game and having efficient output are two different things.

In addition, too much inside confrontation will also affect Zhou Ze's shooting feel.

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After the game.

Just as Dwight Howard suspected.

Dwight kneels before Zhou Ze!

Who will be the future inside king? It's clear at a glance!

《Regular Hexagon Warrior——Zhou Ze!》

《Zhou Ze leads the team to end the losing streak!》

Howard, who lost both the game and his reputation, actually started extra training after the game.

But what makes the Magic management speechless is that as an inside player, why do you need to practice ball control?

With your talent for controlling your luck, do you want to wipe the floor?

Do you think you’re awesome just because you played guard in junior high?

Is ball control so easy to practice?

You think you are Zhou Ze?

Of course, the Magic management did not tell Howard these words, mainly because they were worried that this giant baby who never grew up would completely collapse.

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at the same time.

Boston Celtics training center.

"Haha."

"Haha."

Bursts of boisterous laughter rang out in the stadium.

The Celtics did not have a game tonight, and Paul Pierce was training with his teammates. However, when he learned that Howard was shaken to the point of kneeling, he was very happy.

During this period, people always laughed at one of their outside players who was knocked down by Zhou Ze, but... I just fell down, and Howard knelt down.

Also, Howard is labeled as a defensive stalwart.

With Howard in front of me, I believe the fans will soon forget about me.

For this reason, Pierce was so happy that he couldn't sleep all night after learning about this.

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Not only did the media in the United States and China report extensively on this matter, but the Japanese media did as well.

After all, the Chinese men's basketball team in 07 was an insurmountable mountain for the Japanese men's basketball team.

The New Overlord of Asian Basketball - Empire Destroyer

Not only that, Japanese media also provided a radar chart of Zhou Ze.

It turned out to be a regular pentagonal warrior.

It's just that this regular pentagon isn't big enough.

To be fair...

Now Zhou Ze does not have any obvious shortcomings except for the mid-range.

Zhou Ze can do a little bit of three-pointers, rebounding, defense, dribbling, post-up offense, etc.

but...

Apart from three-point shooting, Zhou Ze is not really top-notch in other aspects.

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Two days later, on January 1, the Lakers challenged the Memphis Grizzlies on the road. In order to make up for the lack of offensive firepower due to Kobe's absence, the Lakers still used Zhou Ze and Old Fish's ball-holding pick-and-roll as the starting point of their offense, and the effect was quite good. They narrowly defeated the Grizzlies with Gasol.

It is worth mentioning that Zhou Ze had a triple-double performance of 31 points, 12 rebounds and 10 assists in this game.

This is also Zhou Ze's fifth triple-double in the regular season of his career.

The only flaw is the turnover data. In the past two months, Zhou Ze averaged only 2 turnovers per game, but tonight he made 2.1 turnovers.

Of course, turnover data is proportional to ball possession.

Zhou Ze, who led the team as the sole core this week and achieved 2 wins and 2 losses, still did not get selected as the Western Conference Player of the Week, but the support for him has increased a lot.

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On January 2007, 1, the Lakers lost to the Kings.

Uh, nothing can be done.

Zhou Ze's current ball-holding offense is really not very reliable. When he encounters double-teaming from the front line, it will become very stuck.

On January 1, Kobe played his first game after returning from injury.

Fans were looking forward to the Lakers teaming up with Zhou Ze and they were sure to dominate, but they ended up losing unexpectedly to the Raptors.

In this era, every city has its own star player, which is why there is a saying that there are no weak teams in the NBA.

This also means that the Lakers' team record is still only third in the Western Conference.

In the game against the Raptors, Zhou Ze scored 27 points, bringing his career regular season total points to 2964.

Only 36 points left to reach the 3000-point milestone.

The next opponent is the Atlanta Hawks. It is worth mentioning that the Hawks' young player "Josh Smith" is only 2 blocks away from achieving the NBA's youngest record of 300 blocks.