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

Chapter 65 Does Floating Outside Shooting Work?
"Wang Chao?" Smith raised his eyebrows in surprise: "You care more about Wang Chao than Stoudemire, who has devoted himself to recovering from injury? Why?"

"There is no particular reason." Barkley said: "I just want to see, after last season, whether the teams in the league are still being used by this kid with a simple off-the-ball game like they did in the previous playoffs." The opportunistic way of running can score 20+ points per game."

As a representative figure of back-up singles in the peak period, Barkley has never been very fond of players who shoot three-pointers from the outside.

"I can't figure it out. What's wrong with the inside players now? Why don't they use the method that the closer they are to the basket, the easier it is to score, and they insist on shooting outside."

"Like Wang Chao, who has a height of 2 meters and a wingspan of 06 meters. As long as he trains his feet well and gains weight to strengthen his confrontation ability, he will definitely do a good job in the interior, but he insists on running outside. Shoot threes."

Smith, who heard Barkley's words, was a little unhappy.

Kenny Smith has been a standard shooter in his playing career. Although his main position is a guard, which is different from Wang Chao, this does not prevent him from admiring Wang Chao's outside shooting skills.

"What's wrong with shooting three-pointers from the outside? As long as you can score, you are good basketball skills. Last season, Wang Chao averaged 21 points per game in the playoffs, which is the highest score in the Suns. Isn't this enough to prove that Wang Chao is here? Was it successful?"

"Of course not." Barkley shook his head and said, "Last season's playoffs can only be said to be Wang Chao's luck. He was able to score high points with such a single offensive method. This was mainly due to the fact that he played against the Suns. The team mainly focused on Nash and Marion, and did not focus too much on defending Wang Chao."

"It's just running without the ball. As long as you are a player with good mobility, you can follow Wang Chao who is not fast. If you have a little better defensive awareness, Wang Chao can't catch the ball all the time. It's not impossible."

"Wang Chao's offensive style is too simple, relying heavily on Nash's passing assists and his own outside shooting touch. I don't believe he can maintain such a fiery outside touch every game. After last season's playoffs, The teams in the league must have carefully analyzed Wang Chao's technical characteristics, and it may be difficult for him to perform like that this season."

Having said a lot, the core meaning Barkley wants to express is very simple, that is, Wang Chao's new season is definitely not as good as before.

Many Suns fans watching the live broadcast were outraged by Barkley's comments.

Even before the game started, he had already started to bad-mouth Wang Chao's performance.

"Come on, Wang Chao! Hit this fat man hard in the face!"

"Shoot a few more three-pointers in this game, let Barkley see if you can do it!"

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On the field, the players of the two teams finished warming up and stepped onto the field one after another.

The starting lineup of the Lakers is not much different from last season. The only change is the center. After the poor performance of last season, Kwame Brown was finally replaced from the starting lineup in the new season. Replacing Kwame Brown in the starting lineup was the rookie insider Andrew Bynum who was selected last season.

Of course, the little shark is still young at this time. Although it looks full of talent, it is far from growing up and needs a long period of training and training.

Compared with last season, the Suns lineup has one more All-Star star Amare Stoudemire.

The starting lineup composed of Nash, Bell, Wang Chao, Marion and Stoudemire looks obviously stronger than last season.

In the jump ball stage, the scrimmage between Stoudemire and Bynum ended with the latter winning.

Bynum is 2 meters tall and has a wingspan of 13 meters. His static talent is terrifying.

Although Stoudemire has an amazing jump, his height and wingspan are much worse than Bynum's.

The Lakers had the ball and the basketball was handed over to Kobe. The latter launched an attack at the top arc of the three-point line, facing Bell's defense, forced a breakthrough to the free throw line with the ball and made an emergency stop jump shot.

On the first goal of the new season, Kobe had a good touch, made a steady shot and scored the first point.

Offensive and defensive transition, it's the Suns' turn to attack.

Nash dribbled the ball across the half, and the other players also settled down.

Then Nash lobbed the ball to Stoudemire, who was standing in the paint, and the latter singled Odom with the ball behind him.

Odom is currently one of the better power forwards in the league, but there is still some gap compared with Stoudemire.

Stoudemire, who was originally good at attacking the frame, directly used post-up singles in the face of Odom, shaking his shoulders and picking the basket sideways to score.

After returning from injury, Stoudemire was in pretty good condition, and Nash also deliberately asked his best partner to look for more condition, and handed over the ball to Stoudemire for the next few rounds.

During this period, Wang Chao was running back and forth on the field to play soy sauce. He was not in a hurry about this. The game had just begun, and the time was still long, and there were many opportunities for him to play later.

And even if he is running back and forth on the court at this time, Wang Chao is also playing a role. It is precisely because of him on the court that the Suns have three fairly stable three-point shooting points. The three-point shooting percentage is above 40%, especially Wang Chao, whose three-point shooting percentage is even as high as 50%.

These three points are the ones that the Lakers dare not relax at all. In addition, although Marion's three-pointers are not as accurate as these three, there are still baskets in the open space, which cannot be completely ignored.

As a result, the four defensive players of the Lakers were pulled out to the outside, completely leaving the inside to Stoudemire alone.

In the beginning, the Lakers used the highly mobile Odom to defend Stoudemire, but as Marion suddenly cut inside the basket several times on the outside, the clumsy Bynum couldn't keep up at all. After an easy cut layup by the other side, the Lakers had to let Odom mark Marion and hand over Stoudemire to Bynum to defend.

The rookie second-year center was even worse against Stoudemire than Odom.

When playing against Bynum, Stoudemire does not need to turn his back. Instead, he uses face-up skills. Standing in the middle distance with the ball depends on whether you can defend Bynum. If Bynum dares to defend, Staudemire Demire directly broke through with the ball, and Bynum's slow pace couldn't keep up.

But if you don't guard against it, Stoudemire's mid-range, especially the one-step range inside the free throw line, is quite accurate, and he can shoot casually with his hand raised.

第一节比赛太阳队在斯塔德迈尔的主攻下，进攻异常的流畅，单节轰下33分，其中斯塔德迈尔自己就8投6中罚球2中2得到14分。

(End of this chapter)