With three points at the start, Nash begged for a maximum salary to renew his contract

Chapter 107 System task release, hell-level difficulty?

(Happy Fifteen everyone.)
Of course, Wang Chao didn't agree to help Howard in the slam dunk contest because he wanted to introduce beautiful stars to him. It's just that everyone is brothers, and brothers should help each other.

The All-Star Weekend won't start until mid-February, and now it's only January, so it's still early, and Howard has plenty of time to think about what moves to use for the other dunks.

Wang Chao can also give some suggestions for his "good brothers". After all, in the next ten years or so, there will be many good dunk ideas and moves in the league dunk contest.

With Howard's talent, even if he can't do the gorgeous dunk moves like LaVine and Aaron Gordon, there is still a chance to imitate McGee's double dunk and triple dunk ideas.

Once these actions are successful, they must be a proper [-]-point score, and there is no difficulty in helping Howard win the championship.

In fact, even without Wang Chao, in the 08 slam dunk contest, Howard would have won the slam dunk contest with his excellent dunk skills and creativity. His suggestion is just icing on the cake.

The creative conception of the All-Star Voting and the Howard Slam Dunk Contest are just episodes.

The time has entered January, and the next schedule is a more severe challenge for the Magic.

Compared with the schedule in December, the schedule in January is more difficult for the Magic. Not only will they have to fight against the Rockets and the Celtics, the two giants of the Celtics, but they will also encounter their direct rivals, the Pistons, twice. These games are extremely difficult. Losing even one more game may be widened by the Pistons.

But what you are afraid of often comes.

On January 1, the Magic played against the New Jersey Nets at home.

The current Nets are no longer the Eastern powerhouses that fought the Lakers in the finals a few years ago, but the Big Three, Kidd, Carter and Richard Jefferson are all there, even if they don’t have enough Competitiveness, when the three are in excellent form, they are still a team with extremely terrifying strength.

In this game, the Nets showed a strong offensive ability. Seven players in the team scored in double figures. Although no one scored more than 7+, but there were too many players in double figures. The Nets still defeated the Magic 20:109 win the game.

The Magic lost to the Nets followed by a 1:4 loss to the Rockets on January 94.

Howard was slammed again by Dayao. The latter scored 26 points and 10 rebounds and shot 67% from the field. Howard only had 16 points and 8 rebounds and shot 45%.

Just entering January, there was a wave of two-game losing streak, allowing the Magic to be directly overtaken by the Pistons, falling from second in the Eastern Conference to third in the Eastern Conference.

In fact, even if they fall to the third place in the Eastern Conference, the performance of the Magic this season is amazing enough. After all, the Magic team with 24 wins and 11 losses still maintains a winning percentage of 68.5%. Looking at the entire league, only the Celtics and Pistons in the Eastern Conference In the West, the New Orleans Hornets and San Antonio Spurs have better records than the Magic, and except for the Celtics, the records of the other three teams are also very close to the Magic.

As a team with only 40 wins and 42 losses last season, barely entering the playoffs with a winning percentage of less than 50%, this kind of improvement can be described as huge.

Therefore, even if the second place in the Eastern Conference is temporarily lost, no Orlando fans will complain.

王超场均得分稳定在25分左右，霍华德的个人数据也从上赛季的17.6分12.3篮板上升到21分14篮板，甚至就连特科格鲁，目前也有场均18.2分4.8篮板6助攻的数据，俨然一副魔术队第三巨头的样子。

The Magic are already getting better, and there is absolutely nothing to criticize except that it is more urgent to compete with the Pistons for the second place in the Eastern Conference.

The only thing that makes Wang Chao a little regretful is that Ariza was traded and left the team.

Wang Chao, who knows Ariza's potential, also tentatively suggested to the team to keep him.

For Wang Chao's suggestion, Smith, the general manager of the Magic, paid more attention to it, so he also discussed it seriously with head coach Stan Van Gundy, and then gave Ariza some opportunities to play on the court.

But unfortunately, Ariza did not respond to Wang Chao's expectations. In the limited playing time, he did not perform any performance that could impress the management of the Magic team. He even sprained his ankle and recuperated for half a month.

This also made the general manager still determined to trade Ariza to the Lakers in exchange for Brian Cook and Maurice Evans.

Wang Chao is also quite helpless about this. No matter how much the Magic value him, he is just a player after all, and he is not qualified to dictate the decision-making of the team's management. What's more, he is a newcomer and has only been with the team for a few months. He is too high-profile On the contrary, it is not a good thing.

If you can't stay, you can't stay. Wang Chao also understands the thinking of the Magic team management. During the two seasons when Ariza came to the Magic team, his attendance rate was low and his efficiency on the court was low. At this time, Ariza did not develop the three-point ability at all. , There are almost no advantages except that the defense is worth mentioning. At this time, Ariza has not developed the three-point ability at all.

And such an Ariza, who can't even get into the normal rotation lineup, has an annual salary of 310 million US dollars.

The Magic signed Wang Chao and renewed Howard's contract in advance, and they have already paid a lot of salary. This kind of unnecessary money can naturally be saved as much as possible.

In fact, even after Ariza joined the Lakers, his performance was the same.

07-08赛季在湖人出战仅24场比赛，场均6.5分3.5篮板，08-09赛季出勤倒是达到了82场满勤，场均8.9分4.3篮板的数据也只能算是合格的角色球员定位。

It wasn't until the 09-10 season, when Ariza switched to the Rockets, that he really began to show the characteristics of a high-quality 3D player. He averaged 14.9 points, 5.6 rebounds and 3.8 assists per game. The three-pointer was finally developed, and he averaged 5.7 shots per game. Under the circumstances, he can hit 1.9 goals, no matter how hard the 33.4% three-point shooting rate is, it can still come in handy.

If Ariza really has to wait until after three seasons to play, then there is nothing to be regretful about letting go. After all, even Ariza at his peak is just a role player.

……

Let's turn our attention back to the regular season.

After losing to the Rockets in the second game in January, Wang Chao returned to the locker room, and the sound of the system rang in his ears.

"Ding—the system task is now released. Before the end of January, the record will overtake the Pistons and regain the second place in the Eastern Conference. After completing the task, a random talent skill will be rewarded. The following is a list of the original Pistons' record as of February 1, for reference only .”

Wang Chao was startled for a moment, but was overjoyed immediately.

Another system task has been released!And the reward is still an important talent skill!
But when he entered the space of consciousness and saw the list of the Pistons' record as of February 2, his heart sank.

截止到2月1，活塞队的战绩是33胜13负，胜率高达71%！放眼全联盟也仅仅只有凯尔特人比他们更强。

Even without Ben Wallace as the defensive core, the Pistons are still so strong!
Wang Chao is a little bit cold, because the current record of the Magic team after two consecutive losses is 24 wins and 11 losses. If they want to overtake the Pistons before the end of January, it means that they can only lose 1 more in the next 12 games. games!
In these 12 games, the Magic will have two direct confrontations with the Pistons, and at the end of January, there will be another confrontation with the Celtics Big Three.

It is difficult to complete the mission goals in such a schedule!too difficult!
"No wonder there will be a reward for a talent skill. The system is ruthless enough. The previous tasks were as easy as benefits, but suddenly the difficulty was raised to hell level..."

Tucao is to complain about, but since the system has given the task, and there are such generous rewards, it would be a pity not to fight.

However, Wang Chao never expected that within a day after the system released the task, the Magic almost overturned in the away game against the Sacramento Kings.

At the end of the first half, the Magic trailed by 46 points 61:15. In the third quarter, they fell behind by more than 20 points.

No matter how you look at this situation, there is a wave of three-game losing streak waiting for the Magic.

Seeing this scene, Wang Chao was really anxious.

There is only a buffer period of two games for the system task. If it is wasted on a team other than the playoffs like the Kings now, how will this task be completed later?

The red-eyed Wang Chao completely took over the ball in the second half of the third quarter. In just 5 minutes, he made 9 three-pointers and hit 4 times. He scored 6 points in 12 minutes, abruptly closing the point difference from 20 points close to 10 points.

In the fourth quarter, Wang Chao continued to take over the game and led the Magic to score 38:26 in the fourth quarter. They finally reversed the Kings 114:112 and won the game with difficulty.

"Rejecting a three-game losing streak, Wang Chao scored 29 points in the second half and scored 44 points in the game. He led the Magic to reverse the 20-point difference and beat the Kings to end the losing streak!"

"Explosive scoring output, scoring 5 consecutive points within 12 minutes of the third quarter, Wang Chao's three-pointer has the lethality and deterrence like a strategic nuclear weapon."

"Wang Chao's scoring average rose to 26 points per game, surpassing Carmelo Anthony who averaged 25.8 points per game, ranking fourth in the league, and officially squeezed into the ranks of the league's first-line scorers."

This is just the beginning.

On January 1, in consecutive back-to-back away games, the Magic defeated the Los Angeles Clippers 9:113. Wang Chao made 106 of 18 shots, scored 9 points and 28 rebounds, and carried the game again.

On January 1th, the third consecutive away game was the Denver Nuggets. Wang Chao and Anthony staged an offensive battle. He scored 11 points, 20 rebounds and 11 assists, while Wang Chao made 10 of 8 shots and 32 of 11 three-pointers. :2 beat the Nuggets and won three consecutive victories.

On January 1, for the fourth consecutive away game, the Magic ushered in a strong enemy, the Utah Jazz.

Under the influence of Kirilenko, Wang Chao's fiery state finally declined a little. He made 15 of 7 shots and scored 18 points and 3 rebounds. In this game, it was Howard who stepped forward, scoring 29 points and 15 rebounds. Six of them were offensive rebounds, and he alone grabbed the total number of offensive rebounds on the Jazz team.

119:115, the Magic won all four consecutive away games, achieving a four-game winning streak!
After defeating the Jazz, the magic team's devilish schedule is finally over. The next opponents are relatively friendly in terms of strength and home and away arrangements. They won all three games against the Bulls, Bobcats, and Trail Blazers. Gained seven consecutive victories.

In these games, Wang Chao has always maintained a very hot state, and his average score per game is also increasing, gradually approaching the "answer" Allen Iverson who ranks third in the scoring list.

The outstanding performance is also reflected in the results of the follow-up All-Star voting.

A few days ago, the All-Star voting officially ended, and all the starting players for the Eastern and Western All-Stars were confirmed.

As in the original history, Garnett still relied on his high popularity to be elected as the All-Star vote leader with 230 million votes. James, who received 210 million votes, came in second, and both of them became the starting forwards of the Eastern All-Stars.

Howard's vote rate is second only to the two, and he is the best at the center position, far away from Shaquille O'Neal, who is also in the East, and becomes the starter of the Eastern Conference All-Star.

As for Wang Chao, although he failed to win an All-Star starting position in the gap between Garnett and James, he finally won 160 million votes, which is not a lot of votes, because the results of the Eastern Conference guards voted first. The second ones are 160 million Wade and 124 million Kidd.

If Wang Chao entered the election as a guard, he could even defeat Wade with a very small margin of votes and become the player with the highest vote rate among guards in the Eastern Conference. Unfortunately, Wang Chao is a forward, not a guard, so he can only be an All-Star Played as a substitute in the 08 All-Star Weekend.

The All-Star voting rate in the West is obviously lower than that in the East. The only player with more than 200 million votes is Kobe. Other players, including Carmelo Anthony, Duncan, Dayao and others, only have about 170 million votes. Apart from Kobe Bryant with 200 million votes, Allen Iverson with only 120 million votes was selected as the All-Star starter on the guard line.

It is worth mentioning that, as a first-year rookie, Huaguo player Ah Lian did not perform very well this season. Wang Chao’s suggestion did not change the predicament that Ah Lian faced in the Bucks. After all, many things are not just talking It can be solved.

Halfway through the regular season, the UAE's average per game is only about 8+5. There are already many media discussing whether the UAE's draft ranking has been inflated too high?

However, the Arab League, which did not perform well on the field, still won more than 45 votes in the All-Star voting, and was second only to Garnett, James, Wang Chao, Bosh and Pierce in the eastern striker position. , ranking sixth.

This is the bonus effect brought about by the huge number of Huaguo fans behind Huaguo players.

Even in 2008, Huaguo's computer and Internet penetration rate was far from reaching a sufficient proportion, but it still cannot be ignored. It is undeniable that Dayao, Wang Chao and Alian have all enjoyed the bonus of being Huaguo players. .

Of course, although the United Arab Emirates has a good number of votes, there is basically no possibility of being selected as an All-Star substitute. After all, Wizards forward Caron Butler, who averaged 20+6+5 per game, and the Pistons Prince, and Turkoglu, who is currently averaging 18+5+5 per game for the Magic.

At this moment, Wang Chao doesn't care much about the results of the All-Star voting. What he cares more about is the Magic's next regular season game.

After seven consecutive victories, the Magic team is about to face the biggest challenge in Wang Chao's mission.

The Magic have five games left in January, including two bayonet rounds with the Pistons at home and away, and a daunting challenge at home to the Celtics.

On January 1, the team will take the lead in meeting the challenge of the Pistons at home.

Before this game, the Pistons had a record of 30 wins and 11 losses, and the Magic, which had reached 31 wins and 11 losses after seven consecutive victories, regained the second place in the Eastern Conference.

But this is not enough for Wang Chao to breathe a sigh of relief. After all, the Pistons in the original history had a final record of 1 wins and 33 losses after the end of January.

If the Magic loses more than 5 of the remaining 3 games, the final record will come to 33 wins and 14 losses. If the win is the same as that of the Pistons, they will lose one more game. Considering the relationship between the two sides, it is still Will be taken away by the Pistons for the second place in the Eastern Conference.

Then Wang Chao's system task will fail!

More importantly, the Pistons' 33 wins and 13 losses are just the record in the original history.

The situation is different now. With the Magic team as a strong opponent, the Pistons may not necessarily have a record of 33 wins and 13 losses as in the original history. Maybe it will be 34 wins or even 35 wins, which is even more terrible. up.

Therefore, the next two games against the Pistons must be won no matter what, and the Pistons will be scored 13 losses first, so that they can remain invincible.

Time soon came to November 1th.

The Magic welcome the Pistons at home in Orlando in January.

Magic starting five, Nelson, Maurice Evans, Turkoglu, Wang Chao, Howard.

The Pistons started five tigers, Billups, Hamilton, Prince, Rasheed Wallace, Antonio McDyess.

As soon as the game started, Wang Chao discovered the Pistons' defensive strategy against him.

Prince, who is still the team's most outstanding defensive ability inside and outside, marks him. Like other teams, the defensive shot is not anti-burst. You can break through with the ball, but you must not easily shoot three-pointers from the outside.

Not only that, when Wang Chao really breaks through with the ball, the Pistons will immediately have nearby players come over to help defend, pestering Wang Chao not to give him an easy shot.

Although this defensive method will leave open spaces in other positions on the field, the Pistons can quickly make up for the missing spaces with their excellent defensive rotation. Even if it is really too late, the other players of the Magic will score more than Wang Chao. Come stronger.

这样的防守导致了王超在第一节比赛的时候仅出手了4次，命中2球只有5分入账，活塞队也由此在首节比赛30:26取得领先优势。

"Do you value me so much?"

This kind of treatment should usually be used when facing super scorers like Kobe and Iverson. It seems that in the eyes of everyone in the Pistons, he is already a scorer worthy of double-teaming. .

This can be regarded as a recognition of Wang Chao's strength.

But it is obviously not wise to use such a tactical defense against the Magic, at least not a long-term solution, because the Magic now has a rudimentary one-star shooter, and almost all players on the court can shoot three-pointers except Howard The ball, rashly double-teaming, will only make it easier for players in other positions to make open three-pointers.

In the first quarter of the game, this situation did not have much impact, but as Wang Chao gradually adapted to the Pistons' defensive strategy, whenever he was double-teamed, he could pass the ball immediately, even if it was because of Due to the lack of passing ability, his ball strength and angle are not particularly good, but the other players on the outside of the Magic team can still easily find open shots as long as they pass the basketball a little bit.

When the game entered the second quarter, the Magic began to fire from outside. Nelson, Turkoglu and others all made three-pointers. His defense has also become a problem. Although Rasheed Wallace has a height of 2 meters and belongs to the height of a standard inside center, he is a power forward and his weight of 11 kg cannot withstand the impact of Howard. .

The Magic began to get better in the second quarter. While scoring 29 points in a single quarter, they successfully limited the Pistons' scoring to only 21 points.

Then in the third quarter of the game, Wang Chao also started to exert his strength.

If the tiger doesn't show its power, do you think I'm a sick cat?
After the Magic had possession of the ball, Wang Chao ran halfway to the bottom corner of the three-point line, looked at Prince who was following him, and thought to himself.

Indeed, with his current offensive level with the ball, he does not have the ability to break double-teams at all. Once he is double-teamed by the opponent, he can only be forced to stop the ball, and then the pass or mistake is blocked.

But the problem is that he knows more than just attacking with the ball!

Double-team me, right?Then don't blame me for not talking about Wude.

Glancing at Prince, Wang Chao feinted his shot, slipped the bottom line and ran towards the three-point corner on the other side.

Prince was stunned for a moment. This extremely familiar scene made him immediately follow Wang Chao's footsteps subconsciously, not daring to neglect in the slightest.

Unfortunately, he was half a step too late.

At the same time that Wang Chao quickly passed the inside line, Howard just rightly crossed half of his body to slightly hinder Prince's footsteps, and ran to the other corner where Wang Chao stood still, and Turkoglu's pass was just right. has come into his hands.

"Sure enough... Compared with Nash's passing quality, it is much worse."

The moment Wang Chao received the ball, he couldn't help muttering something in his heart, and immediately raised his hand to shoot the ball, raised his knife and dropped it.

Prince, who arrived late, could only watch helplessly as the basketball crossed a parabola in the air and then crashed into the net.

Running without the ball, the former Wang Chao relied on this trick to gain enough prestige and strength in the Suns to win the maximum salary offer contract from the Magic.

At that time, no one expected that Wang Chao, who came to the Magic, would change from a player who mainly played off the ball to a master of offense with the ball so quickly that the regular season lasted for nearly three months. Few people have forgotten what Wang Chao's old profession is.

When Wang Chao returned to his old line of work, the Pistons' double-team tactics were self-defeating. After all, the prerequisite for double-teaming is at least the ball in the hands of the players. Otherwise, wouldn't it be a lonely thing?

Facts have proved that Wang Chao's off-the-ball running ability is still as sharp as ever, especially in the third quarter of the game. Even though Wang Chao didn't run a lot in the previous game, the back-and-forth running of offense and defense on the field guaranteed to activate the long-distance running The first stage of the talent talent.

There is one thing to say, in fact, if Wang Chao focuses on off-ball offense, his efficiency will be higher than now. After all, with the blessing of long-distance runner talent, he may not have any obvious feeling in the first half, but in the second half, his physical advantage and running The bonus of moving speed will make Wang Chao's running without the ball extremely difficult to defend.

But compared to playing without the ball, Wang Chao personally prefers to play offense with the ball. On the one hand, the Magic itself lacks a strong starting point for offense with the ball. Although Nelson and Turkoglu have a certain ability to hold the ball, they can The attack effect at the critical moment is obviously not good, and Wang Chao's attack with the ball is needed to make up for the team's tactical deficiencies.

On the other hand, Wang Chao also hopes to hone his offensive skills with the ball as much as possible during the regular season. The value only represents Wang Chao's basic ability value. The situation on the field changes rapidly. Demonstrate the effect that the ability value should have.

Wang Chao needs to gain more experience in attacking with the ball through a large number of offenses with the ball on the field, so that his ball-holding skills can continue to grow and eventually surpass off-the-ball skills.

Under this premise, if the battle situation is stalemate or more critical, Wang Chao does not reject returning to the identity of off-ball offense and becoming a key part of turning the battle situation, such as now.

The game against the Pistons must be won no matter what. After all, it is related to the completion of system tasks. If necessary, he will even use the "unique trick" at the bottom of the box.

Fortunately, it seems that there is no need to use a "trick". Wang Chao suddenly changed from holding the ball to off the ball. The Pistons had a little difficulty adapting for a while. The result was that Wang Chao ran three open opportunities in a row and hit all of them. 3 of 3 scored 9 points in a row and directly sent the Pistons out of timeout.

This wave of fierce offensive of the Magic also directly widened the point difference to more than double digits.

"Damn it... that guy is really tough!"

The generals of the Pistons gathered together, and their expressions were not very good.

For today's game, they have also prepared for a long time and made targeted arrangements. Even in their view, this is already a rehearsal matchup for the two teams to meet in the playoffs.

Obviously, whether or not he can successfully limit Wang Chao's performance is the key to winning the game.

In the first half, they did a good job. Even though other outside players of the Magic got some open shots, the overall situation was still under their control.

But in the third quarter of the second half, now they have no way to control the game. Wang Chao, who has changed from holding the ball to off the ball, is completely like another player with strong scoring ability suddenly appeared on the field. Strategies become ineffective and even drag.

There are players in the league who can seamlessly connect offense with the ball and offense without the ball at the same time. Ray Allen is a typical player who can play both offense with the ball and off the ball. Currently, the Celtics can Qi Juechen's record leads the league because the Big Three cooperate tacitly without any problems in the distribution of ball rights, especially Ray Allen, who is an outside line, and Pierce complement each other well, and he can still play without the ball. Provided a steady 18+ points per game.

Don't underestimate Ray Allen's average of 18 points per game. The Celtics' offensive rhythm is already slow. The Big Three only took about 13 shots. Therefore, the three of them averaged 20 points per game this season. Next, if you switch to a fast-paced running team like the Suns, scoring more than 20 points is as easy as eating and drinking for Ray Allen.

Wang Chao and Ray Allen are different. Although both have a high right to speak in the field of three-pointers, the styles of the two are obviously very different. Wang Chao is far more lethal and threatening than Ray Allen. Bigger and more accurate three-pointers!
During the short period of the timeout, the Pistons couldn't think of any good countermeasures at all, so they could only bite the bullet and forcefully deal with it. If Wang Chao continued to run without the ball and get rid of Prince, other players would help Prince fills in the vacancy, and then Prince just fills in the defensive vacancies of other players.

Such a method will definitely cause flaws on the court, but what can be done?

The Pistons finally understood how difficult it is for other teams to defend Hamilton when they faced them. But the terrible thing is that Hamilton's scoring hotspots are mainly two points long, and three-pointers are not his strong point. Chao's three-pointer is really capable of throwing people to death!
The timeout ended, and the Pistons, who were behind by double digits, began their final desperate fight, but this final attempt quickly failed.

Wang Chao is not afraid of supplementary defense.

The Pistons can defend him, in addition to Rasheed Wallace inside, substitute forward Jason Mark Hill and Billups and Hamilton on the back line.

Mark Hill is 2 meters tall and has an average wingspan. He can't defend Wang Chao's shots like Prince, not to mention Billups and Hamilton. With a low three-point shooting ability, even if they were standing in front of Wang Chao, he dared to directly face the defense and forcibly shoot.

As for Rasheed Wallace, with a height of 2 meters and good mobility, he can indeed effectively limit Wang Chao's three-point shots, but the problem is that if he helps defend, what should he do inside?Let Prince go inside to defend Howard?

The Pistons, who can't think of any good ways at the defensive tactical level, have no way to limit the scoring of the Magic. They can only hope to get more points than the Magic on the offensive end to overtake the score. As far as the team is concerned, it is tantamount to putting the cart before the horse.

Until the end of the fourth quarter, the Pistons failed to catch up with the score 112:107.

At the Magic's home court, the Pistons lost this crucial game, and the two teams' records advanced and retreated. As long as they win another game against the Pistons in an away game three days later, Wang Chao's system mission will be sure!

(End of this chapter)