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Chapter 303 Super aircraft carrier lineup, 16-17 new season starts!
In the final finals of the Olympic Games, no miracle really happened.

The U.S. Dream Team, which has gathered 12 of the top NBA superstars, does not have any opponents at present. As I said before, unless the Huaguo Men's Basketball Team can have another top insider at the level of Dayao, who is the same as Wang Chao. The inside and the outside partner with each other, otherwise, no matter how strong Wang Chao's personal ability is, it will be difficult to be outnumbered.

The final result is that the American men's basketball team finally regained the gold medal after 16 years, while the Huaguo men's basketball team won a silver medal, and the Spanish men's basketball team won the bronze medal.

The men's basketball event in the Rio Olympics is over, and most of the media in China are generally satisfied with the final record of the men's basketball team in the Olympics. Although they failed to continue to beat the US men's basketball team, the silver medal is not bad.

Three Olympic Games, won two gold and one silver, who would dare to imagine such an achievement before 2008?At that time, the Huaguo men's basketball team was just a team that was trying to keep the top eight record and tried every means to reach the top four.

It was Wang Chao and Dayao who brought the men's basketball team to its current height.

"The Huaguo men's basketball team once again defended the dignity of the world's top teams. Although Dayao's retirement had a serious impact on the team's strength, they still made it through all the way, overcame obstacles and won a precious silver medal for Huaguo!"

"While welcoming the glorious moment, we must think carefully about a problem, and that is the current situation of the Huaguo men's basketball team. Since Dayao and Wang Chao, the Huaguo men's basketball team has not seen this phenomenon for more than ten years. Already top-level stars, Ah Lian, Zhou Qi, Wang Zhelin, Guo Ailun and other players have good strength, but their strength in the international arena is still slightly lacking."

"Wang Chao, who was born in 1983, will be 34 years old after this year. In the Tokyo Olympics four years later, Wang Chao will be 37 years old. I am afraid he has already retired from the national team. I can't imagine that if the Huaguo men's basketball team does not have Wang Chao. , what will happen in the future, who can take over Wang Chao's baton and lead the Huaguo men's basketball team to move forward?"

Obviously, this is a very serious problem, and it is also a major problem that the Huaguo men's basketball team must solve in the next four years.

In the Rio Olympics, Zhou Qi, who has high hopes, did not perform very well. His ability to fight against the inside was extremely poor. He did not have an advantage against almost all the inside players of the team. His performance was far behind the UAE. At least although the UAE Not as dominant inside as Dayao, but he also gave Wang Chao some help on the field. He also averaged 15.6 points and 5.5 rebounds per game throughout the Olympics, which is the second scoring point in the team, second only to the average of 40+15+10 per game. Wang Chao.

What fans can look forward to now is that Zhou Qi, who has already joined the Nets and will play with Wang Chao for a period of time in the future, can quickly gain experience in the NBA, strengthen his confrontation ability, and become the new inside pillar of the Huaguo Men's Basketball Team.

No one knows that Wang Chao is actually not worried about the Tokyo Olympics. Even if the Tokyo Olympics is the same as the original time and space, it will be postponed to 2021 due to masks. By then, the 38-year-old Wang Chao should still have the same strength as now The accumulation of four to five years will allow him to gain more blessings of natural skills and increase his ability value, and his strength will become even more terrifying.

This self-confidence comes from an upgraded version of the talent of steel and iron.

The effect of this talent skill is to strengthen the bones and other aspects of physical fitness, avoid injuries, and prolong careers.

Although Wang Chao doesn't know how long the so-called extended career can be extended, but considering the style of the system's products must be high-quality goods, he will definitely not let his physical condition decline sharply at the age of 37 or [-] years old.

Wang Chao has a perfect reference template for this.

In the next 2022-23 season, although the 38-year-old LeBron James is no longer at his peak, he can still contribute 28.9 points, 8.3 rebounds and 6.8 assists per game in the regular season. It became a loophole on the defensive end, but after entering the playoffs, James still managed to integrate offense and defense. Although his scoring average dropped to 24.5 points per game, his defensive efficiency was greatly improved. Although the Western Conference Finals against the Nuggets was swept 4:0, the performance of scoring 40 points in the final game is still shocking.

The 38-year-old James is definitely not the strongest star in the league, but his combat power was still ranked around 10-15 in the league at the time.

Even if James is like this, Wang Chao, who is driving a plug-in and has an upgraded steel and iron frame, needless to say, he conservatively estimates that his peak state can be maintained at around 40 years old, and then he may continue to decline, or even maintain Maybe longer.

Therefore, at least he will be able to participate in the London Olympics once, and if the American men's basketball lineup is the same as in the original history, led by Durant, with Tatum, Booker, Lillard and Green as the main players , It is not impossible to kill the opponent and regain the gold medal.

Of course, these are things for later. It is hard to say what will happen in four or even five years.
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After the Olympics, Wang Chao first returned to China with the Huaguo men's basketball team, stayed for more than half a month, and then left for the United States in mid-September.

There is one disadvantage of participating in international competitions, that is, the offseason is too short, and the national team's training plus the official competition will take nearly two months, resulting in a much shorter holiday.

The NBA 2016-17 season is about to start, and the trade, signing and signing work of all teams in the league is basically completed, and preparations for the start of the new season have already begun.

This summer was also a turbulent season. Many superstars switched to the court. Among them, the biggest name and the most influential one was Kevin Durant, who joined the Nets and partnered with Wang Chao.

In addition, Wade, who had failed to negotiate a contract extension with the Heat, joined the Chicago Bulls with a two-year $2 million contract because of Pat Riley's squeeze.

Chandler Parsons, who was poached by the Grizzlies for $4 million in four years, and after Parsons was poached, angrily poached the wall, and also poached starting small forward Harris from the Warriors for $9400 million in four years . Barnes' Dallas Mavericks.

From the perspective of external performance, Barnes is definitely much more cost-effective than Parsons for the same four-year contract of 4 million yuan, but both of them obviously have large premium contracts. This contract has nothing to do with their real value. Totally inconsistent.

But there is no way. After the new TV broadcast contract came into effect, the salary cap of the league skyrocketed, triggering a series of chain reactions, forcing teams to pay high premium contracts if they want to keep their own stars or poach people from other teams.

The most typical example is that in order to keep their main point guard Mike Conley, the Grizzlies shocked the league by offering him a five-year, $5 million contract extension.

Although this contract is slightly worse than James and Wang Chao in terms of an average annual salary of 5 in 3060 years, the total amount of the contract has broken the historical record of the NBA. His career is mediocre, averaging only 14.8 points and 5.7 assists per game, and he has never been selected. Mike Conley, who has been an All-Star and the best team, has shown his face in the league and even the world with this contract.

But in this crazy summer, the two major aircraft carrier teams in the league, the Cleveland Cavaliers and the Golden State Warriors, did not move. Not only that, but the players in the team were also poached.

The Warriors failed to keep Barnes because the four-year, $4 million contract was too expensive.

Although the head of the Warriors star Curry is currently holding a child labor contract of 1211 million US dollars, which does not put the Warriors under great pressure on the salary space, but Cousins, Klay Thompson and Green's contract annual salary exceeds 1500 million. Iguodala's 1113 million, these five people alone accounted for 7213 million US dollars, plus other substitute players, it is close to 9000 million.

In the 16-17 season, the salary cap of the league is 9400 million, and the bottom line of the luxury tax is 1.13 million US dollars.

The Warriors can indeed renew Barnes' contract with the bird rights cap, but if Barnes is given 4 years of 9400 million... No, if it is the bird rights, it is 5 million in 1.2 years. Reached 2212 million, becoming the Warriors' highest salary.

The total salary of the Warriors will therefore reach 1.1 million. Although it is a little short of paying the luxury tax, the problem is that the child labor contract of the team's core Stephen Curry will expire next year!

It is entirely predictable that the contract extension of the two-time regular season MVP, with the blessing of Bird Rights, can easily surpass Conley to become the largest contract in NBA history.

Therefore, if the Warriors renew their contract and keep Barnes, by next year, the team may have to pay more than 3000 million US dollars in luxury tax alone!
Considering Barnes' level, the Warriors chose to give up the match after some struggles, allowing Barnes to be poached by the Mavericks with a high salary.

In this way, although the Mavericks were poached by Chandler Parsons, they got a Barnes who was stronger than Parsons, plus Harden and Nowitzki at the end of his career. There is no chance, but they are among the strong players in the Western Conference, and it is not a big problem to break into the playoffs.

The Warriors lost Barnes, and the Cavaliers' situation was not much better, but after winning the championship, in order to keep Paul Gasol whose contract expired, the team had to pay him a three-year $3 million contract. Leave.

This price is somewhat high for a 36-year-old veteran, but the problem is where Gasol's value lies. Although his state has declined this championship season, he still has an average of 12+8 per game. Earl's frame protection and high position support ability, as well as the height advantage of forming an inside twin tower with Embiid are quite important for the Cavaliers.

In order to retain the winning lineup, the Cavaliers had to choose a high salary to keep the champion.

But the problem is that the annual salary of James’ newly signed contract for the Cavaliers has reached 3000 million. The team also has Irving’s 1764 million, Tristan Thompson’s 1533 million, Shumpert and Channing Frye are also close to 1500 million. , plus Gasol's 500 million, the Cavaliers' salary space exploded directly, ranking first in the league. The only signing this summer was to sign the former All-Star player of the Eagles with a [-] million mid-level contract. Shooter Kyle Korver.

The final result is that the Warriors and the Cavaliers, the two aircraft carrier teams of last season, did not make satisfactory reinforcements before the new season.

On the contrary, the Nets became the biggest winner in the free market by virtue of the Durant deal. The Nets also relied on the combination of Wang Chao + Durant to successfully become the third largest aircraft carrier tied with the Cavaliers and Warriors. The biggest favorite to win the championship before the start, the odds of winning the championship far exceed the two teams of Qiyong.

On September 9, all the members of the Nets assembled for the new season photo shoot. Durant, who had just successfully "beat" Wang Chao in the Olympics and won his first Olympic gold medal, appeared to be in high spirits. He expressed it in a high-profile interview with the media.

"I joined the Nets with only one goal, and that is to win the championship. I believe that the combination of me and Wang will become the strongest duo in NBA history. It can be combined with the Bulls Jordan Pippen, the Lakers and the Magic. It is comparable to or even stronger than the super magic combination! I believe we will definitely win the championship trophy in the new season."

It's just that even though the Nets beat the Knicks in terms of performance last season, New York is still the Knicks' territory, so even a reporter who supported the Knicks asked maliciously. "Kevin, since you said that, did you join Brooklyn because you took the initiative to play a Pippen-style role for Wang Chao?"

This sentence asks how much shrimp and pig heart.

Since Durant chose to join the Nets, the entire league has been full of criticism and accusations against him, thinking that he, as the core boss of a team, was too cowardly to run to hug Wang Chao's thigh.

But now, the reporter raised this question again, just to disgust Durant. Who made Wang Chao and the Nets disgust them and the Knicks last season?
Durant's expression was a bit ugly at the time, but he still said: "I'm not Pippen, and I won't play anyone, I am myself."

The reporters laughed when they heard this.

Any fool can see that Durant is upset. He doesn't like being compared to Pippen and being called the second head of the team.

This is actually quite funny, you ran over to join forces with others, but you are unwilling to admit that you are the second child, do you still want to compete with Wang Chao for the number one?If it can be used to stir up the conflict between Wang Chao and Durant in the locker room, it may destroy the Nets, causing them to fall apart in the new season and unable to compete for the championship.

Although this kind of thing hurts others and does not benefit oneself, as a rival in the same city, the failure of the Nets is itself a benefit to the Knicks.

For this reason, the New York media will try their best to provoke the relationship between Wang Chao and Durant.

It is unclear whether Durant will be fooled, but Wang Chao will definitely not be fooled.

Some reporters also asked Wang Chao questions.

"Wang Chao, will the arrival of Durant affect your possession of the ball? Are you willing to reduce your shot rights and distribute the possession of the ball to Durant, even if this will reduce your stats."

This is obviously rhythmic.

How could Wang Chao be fooled? He smiled flatly, and asked back: "Do you think things like scoring possessions are important to me now? My scoring has been high in the past few seasons, and that's because of where I am. My team has no other strong scoring points, so I can only score. Now that Kevin is here, I can focus more on other aspects of the game, so that I can win the game better. Why not for?"

After all, Wang Chao is not Curry. With the same number of shots, his performance will definitely not be worse than Durant, and even higher because of the three-pointer.

Moreover, Wang Chao is not only good at scoring, rebounding, assists, and defense, he is at the top level of the league.

On the other hand, Durant, except for scoring, is at the level of an ordinary player in other aspects. What is the threat?
What Wang Chao said was just right. He didn't belittle Durant, nor did he lower his value. He put the two on an equal footing to describe them. It's just how the follow-up performance on the field and the fans' judgments are, that is It's someone else's business.

However, there is one thing that will really be affected by Durant's arrival, and that is Devin Booker, who was originally regarded by Wang Chao as the second core player on the offensive end this season.

Booker's progress is very fast, especially in terms of offense. With the blessing of Wang Chao's training potion, he is also good enough, which makes Booker's offensive end greatly improved.

In fact, in the original history, the 16-17 season is the second season of Booker's career. He has become the main scoring point in the Suns, averaging 22.1 points per game. The only disadvantage is that his shooting percentage is a bit low. Only 42%.

In the third season of his career, Booker's scoring average continued to increase steadily to 24.9 points per game, and his shooting percentage also increased significantly. By the last year of his rookie contract, which was the 18-19 season, he had grown into an average of 26.6 points per game. A super scorer who contributed 46.7 points steadily and shot [-]% from the field.

In Wang Chao's original plan, when the goal of this season is to win the championship, the team will set up two scoring points besides him. One is Brook Lopez, who has a stable inside offensive ability, and the other is the grown-up German Wen Booker, the two should be able to share a lot of pressure for Wang Chao on the offensive end.

Now, with Durant, the original plan can be completely cancelled. Durant and Booker have similar styles, and they are completely enhanced versions of Devin Booker. When Wang Chao is double-teamed, he can attack with the ball to open up the situation.

In this way, Wang Chao and Durant will occupy a large number of possessions, and Booker can only act as a spot-up shooter in the new season, even if his strength can support him as the second leader of the team, with a stable average contribution of 20 points per game. + Score.

The same goes for Jokic.

In terms of offensive growth, Jokic is not as good as Booker. According to normal circumstances, Jokic will average 20+ points per game in the fourth season of his career, but he is not an offensive scorer. An inside center with comprehensive skills and versatility is synonymous with Jokic.

In the season when he averaged 20 points per game for the first time in his career, that is, the 18-19 season, Jokic averaged 20.1 points, 10.8 rebounds and 7.3 assists per game. Jokic, who is good at high-level organization support, also needs the ball on the offensive end , But the current Nets, there are really very few ball rights that can be allocated to him.

However, in view of Jokic's good long-range shooting ability, even if he only acts as a functional center for inside frame protection and fixed-point shooting three-pointers, it is very easy to use.

In the eyes of ordinary people, the lineup of the Nets mainly relies on Wang Chao and Durant. Only Wang Chao knows how exaggerated the current lineup of the Nets is. The general puts more energy into defense, and the Nets are even stronger than the Rockets during the 72-win period!

In the preseason stage, the Nets' super offensive ability has already begun to show their edge.

In a few preseason games, Wang Chao and Durant didn't play very well. The average playing time was less than 10 minutes. More often, the game was handed over to Jokic, Booker and the bench players. A group of rookie players went to play.

This group of rookies also showed a strong offensive ability, as Wang Chao expected.

What I mean here is of course not Jokic and Booker. These two averaged 13.4 points and 14.6 points per game last season. They both performed very well as rookies.

What really showed great strength in the preseason is the bench bandits planned by Wang Chao on the bench, such as Harrell, Powell and Brogdon who was just selected this summer.

Last season, due to the existence of Deron and Joe Johnson, Harrell and Powell didn't play much time, and because of their poor level, they played mediocre.

But after a season of training and learning, the level of both of them has improved to a high degree in the new season.

Although the two men are of different heights, one is 1 meters and the other is 93 meters, they are both players with explosive physical fitness and great impact.

In the preseason game, the two took turns to hit the basket with the ball, tearing the opponent's defense to pieces, and their performance was quite eye-catching.

This surprised many team scouts and even media reporters in the league. They focused their attention on Wang Chao and Durant, and occasionally paid attention to Jokic, Booker, and Bogdanovic. A starter who performed fairly well last season, he didn't care about the Nets' bench at all.

But now it seems that the Nets even have something on the bench. In this case, the combat effectiveness of the Nets in the new season will be even higher!Even if Deron and Joe Johnson both leave the team, the depth of the bench is still extremely strong.

As for the reporters in Huaguo, they paid more attention to Zhou Qi's development. Unfortunately, Zhou Qi didn't play much time in the preseason, only a few minutes, and his performance was mediocre. It can be seen that although the Nets have already started Training at the NBA level, but Zhou Qi's thin body is still difficult to adapt to the high-intensity confrontation in the NBA.

Wang Chao is already arranging a nutritionist to design a diet plan for Zhou Qi individually. On the premise of ensuring flexibility, gain weight as much as possible to strengthen the resistance ability. At the same time, Wang Chao will also supervise the whole process. Poor self-control ability?Show me the next one, if you don’t tell me you’re an autistic child, Wang Chao has spent so many years playing in the league for nothing.

In the preseason, relying on the outstanding performance of a group of rookies, the Nets directly ended the entire preseason journey with a record of victory.

The regular season is about to start, and ESPN announced the team strength rankings for the new season.

The Nets ranked first without any suspense, followed by the defending champion Cleveland Cavaliers, and then the Golden State Warriors.

The strength list starts from No.4, it is a group of demons dancing wildly, several teams are evenly matched in strength, but the Spurs succeeded in renewing Howard's contract in the summer, and they still managed to rank fourth, followed by the Rockets, Celtics, Raptors, Clippers and other teams.

From this ranking, it can be predicted that in the absence of unstable factors such as injuries, it is actually the three aircraft carrier-level teams of Qiyong and the Nets who have a chance to compete for the championship.

(End of this chapter)