NBA: James wants to team up with me

Chapter 200 Embarrassing, Lao Zhan ran away from the All-Star vote

Losing at the hands of a super center is completely force majeure. No matter how strong the Bulls are under the leadership of the Big Three, they are not completely invincible. In other words, even the Bulls who won 72 games during the Jordan era still lost 10 times in the regular season. A game?

The Bulls' biggest weakness now is the relatively poor level of interior centers.

Gasol's performance has greatly exceeded everyone's expectations. This second-round pick, who was not expected by anyone, has already established himself in the Bulls, averaging about 10 points and 8 rebounds per game. Not only is he a The hand shot can help the Bulls occupy space on the offensive end, and the rim protection ability and rebounding ability at the basket are also good.

Normally, a center like this would have a contract worth at least five million in the league. Considering Gasol's age and future development potential, a contract worth tens of millions is not impossible.

What he has signed with the Bulls now is just a three-year rookie contract for a second-round pick, with a starting salary of $62.

This can no longer be described as high quality and low price, it is simply the king of cost performance.

Ben Wallace of the Cavaliers next door only has 5 points and 8 rebounds this season, and his defensive dominance has significantly declined with age and explosive power, while the opponent's annual salary is US$1550 million.

Fortunately, in today's league, the only player who can be called a super center is Dayao.

O'Neal is getting old, and his current average data has dropped to 14.2 points and 7.8 rebounds per game.

Although Howard's statistics are good, his style of play mainly relies on grabbing offensive rebounds for secondary scoring. His offensive skills inside are not solid, and his offensive ability has huge flaws. His main strength is still reflected in defense.

Although Duncan occasionally plays center, he is still essentially a power forward, and Garnett can mark Duncan very well.

So after counting, Yao can truly be called the league's top insider.

Although these words feel a bit flattering to Yao, it is the fact.

In the four years from 05 to 09, Dayao was the strongest center in the league. It was no joke to eat, drink and fight World of Warcraft.

Of course, Dayao is extremely dominant in the penalty area, but Dayao's weaknesses are also extremely obvious.

The first thing that bears the brunt is his physical fitness.

Compared with European and American players, Dayao's physical fitness is still far behind. Especially in the NBA's high-intensity confrontation and frequent back and forth running, Dayao is usually unable to sustain his physical fitness in the fourth quarter and is overdrawn in advance.

Secondly, Dayao is very afraid of forward defense, especially the forward defense of powerful inside players like Boozer. Even if Dayao can get rid of the opponent's entanglement, it will consume a lot of extra energy and lead to premature physical exhaustion.

Another point is the injury problem. In Dayao's four peak years, he averaged around 20+10 per game, but in three of the four seasons, Dayao played less than 60 games in the regular season. Only in the 08-09 season did Yao finally play 19.7 games in the regular season, with an attendance rate of over 9.9%, after reducing his playing time and number of shots, and his data dropped to 77 points and 90 rebounds.

But in the playoffs, the intensity of the confrontation increased, coupled with the team's reliance on Dayao's offensive firepower, Dayao was injured again, and this injury directly led to the end of Dayao's career.

There is nothing that can be done about Dayao Yao's physique. His lethality in the penalty area is comparable to that of O'Neal. This is due to his weight of 140 kilograms and height of 2 meters. His huge body puts a huge load on his legs and ankles, and his high-intensity It is extremely easy to get injured during competition.

After Dayao retired, especially after the advent of the small ball era, some people also reviewed it. If Dayao did not gain weight to strengthen his confrontation ability, but maintained a lighter weight and used his soft touch, Nowitzki Not only will his performance be better than his current performance, but his career will also be longer.

But this kind of thing is really hard to say.

There has only been one Nowitzki in the league in decades. Dayao's mid-to-long-range shooting touch is indeed very soft, but it is unknown whether he can reach Nowitzki's level if he takes a large number of shots.

Maybe Nowitzki's shooting is 100 points, and Dayao can only reach 80 points after some hard training. Although 80 points can easily average 20+ points per game in the league, he wants to go further. It would be as difficult as climbing to heaven.

In this regard, you can refer to the power forward players who also focus on shooting and scoring, Garnett and Bosh. Both of them are also very good at shooting inside players. Their offensive methods are mainly mid-to-long-range jumpers, but if you want to follow Compared with Nowitzki, it is obviously a grade lower.

Therefore, it is just a hypothesis to let Dayao lose weight and focus on mid-to-long-range shooting. Whether it can succeed is not clear, but Dayao's absolute dominance in the penalty area after gaining weight is real.
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On December 12, the Bulls faced the Boston Celtics at home.

As Wang Chong's most ruthless team, the Celtics lineup in the 07-08 season has changed beyond recognition.

The Green Army, which failed to successfully form the Big Three, has gained young and emerging players such as Durant, so its future development prospects are actually not bad.

The current starting lineup of the Green Army is point guard Rajon Rondo, shooting guard Paul Pierce, small forward Kevin Durant, power forward Al Jefferson, and center Kendrick Perkins. .

Although the current strength of this lineup is insufficient, it still allows the Celtics to maintain a positive record and rank around the seventh or eighth place in the Eastern Conference.

The draft template is Wang Chong's Durant, and his performance when he first entered the league was enough to satisfy people.

Although it is different from being drafted by the SuperSonics and directly becoming the team's number one core, enjoying a large number of shot rights, his status in the team is second only to Pierce and enjoying the second most shot rights. This makes Durant's field Both can contribute 18 points and 4 rebounds, becoming the Celtics' scoring player second only to Pierce, and also the highest scoring player among the 07 rookie class.

Since Oden was reimbursed for the season without any surprises in the Grizzlies and did not play a game, so as long as Durant can maintain his current data, the Rookie of the Year award is a sure thing.

This game was also the first match between Durant and Wang Chong in the league.

A game like this where emerging players face off against their own draft template is quite interesting.

At least Wang Chong's fans are looking forward to Wang Chong completely beating Durant in the game, and then saying the classic "Welcome to the NBA, rookie."

However, Wang Chong is not very interested in bullying the rookie Durant who has not grown up yet. He is quite curious. If he faces Durant at his peak at this time, what will be the outcome of the matchup?

If it is Durant who is at the top of the 2K game, there is a high probability that Wang Chong will not be his opponent. Although the overall ability value of the two is completely consistent, Durant has a total of 41 badges, including 5 highest-level purple Hall of Fame badges and 13 badges. Gold level badges, dozens of silver and bronze level badges.

In comparison, Wang Chong's current 13 badges are just a joke.

But if it is in reality, it stands to reason that there is no such thing as a bug in the game such as badges. In reality, it is impossible to score 100 or even 150 points in a single game as casually as in the game. of.

Therefore, Wang Chong feels that with the blessing of the badge, there is a high probability that he will be slightly stronger than Durant at his peak.

However, the battle between players not only tests personal ability, but also tests the player's touch, especially a shooter like Durant. When the touch is hot, it is really like a god blocking and killing a god and a Buddha.

However, Durant during the 07-08 season was certainly far from having such ability. Even in terms of mid-to-long-range shooting, Durant's ability was not particularly outstanding. Many people know that in Durant's rookie season, his offensive scoring mainly relied on ball-handling breakthroughs and free throws. Although he also took mid-range shots, the number of shots and shooting rate were far from the level of his unsolvable killer moves later.

When Durant and Wang Chong met and played against each other on the court, it was like looking in the mirror, but their efficiency was very different.

At the same time, it also proves another point. The best defender for Wang Chong is a player who has the same height and wingspan as him in the inside, but also has the mobility of an outside defender.

During the game, both Wang Chong and Garnett had a very good matchup with Durant.

Durant was also on the verge of tears. It was too tragic to meet two players on the same team at the same time whose height and wingspan were not inferior to him, and who could keep up with him or even be faster than him.

As a result, after the game, Durant was blocked on 14 of 4 shots and only scored 11 points and 2 rebounds.

On the other hand, his draft template Wang Chong scored 31 points, 7 rebounds and 5 assists, giving Durant a good lesson on how to play in the NBA.

The Bulls defeated the Celtics very easily and won the game.

But the Green Army's lineup is quite good in Wang Chong's time travel.

Needless to say, Pierce is the soul of the Green Army. Although Truth has not won many career honors, he has averaged 19 points, 19.7 rebounds and 5.6 assists per game in his 3.5-year career. He can definitely rank among the top in NBA history. Scorer.

Once the three young players of the Green Army, Durant, Rondo and Al Jefferson, grow up, they will surely become a formidable opponent in the Eastern Conference.

There is no need to say much about Durant's future upper limit, just refer to the current Wang Chong.

At his peak, Rondo was also a super point guard who averaged double figures in assists per game for several consecutive seasons. In the twilight years of the Big Three, the Celtics were still extremely competitive, fighting against the Heat's Big Three in seven games. Rondo was on the court. The carry plays a huge role in this.

In the seven games of the Eastern Conference Finals, Rondo faced the Heat's Big Three, averaging 20.9 points, 6.9 rebounds and 11.3 assists per game, ranking first in the Celtics in points and assists.

If it weren't for Ray Allen's performance in this series, with only 11.9 points and a shooting percentage of 37.7%, the Celtics would have really had the possibility of defeating the Heat and entering the finals.

Compared with Durant and Rondo, inside player Al Jefferson may be much inferior in terms of future achievements, but this guy is also an excellent inside player who can stably contribute 20+10 data in his peak period.

In the 13-14 season, Jefferson was successfully selected to the All-NBA Third Team by averaging 21.8 points and 10.8 rebounds per game with the Bobcats. However, the funny thing is that Jefferson has never been selected to the All-Star in his career, even though he was the most popular player in the NBA. When he is strong, he can reach 23 points and 11 rebounds.

Because of this, Al Jefferson was also known as the blind ball evaluator for a certain period of time.

But no matter what, Jefferson's skills at his peak were solid and comprehensive, and he was a rare offensive insider. His only shortcoming was his short height. When he was a center and an inside matchup with other teams, he would be misaligned due to the height difference.

The Celtics, who have three potential players, will have four All-Star-level players as long as they wait two to three years. You can imagine how strong they are.

But that's all for the future. The only thing Wang Chong is more curious about is that not only is there no pressure from Westbrook around him, but he even has a guard Rondo who likes to pass and assist. The grown-up Durant Whether the score will be stronger, he may soon become Wang Chongzhan's biggest enemy on the road to winning the scoring title.
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In mid-December, the All-Star voting opened again, and the announcement of the first-round voting results surprised many people.

Garnett joined the Bulls and parachuted from the West to the East, which was like dropping a bomb on the star circle in the East.

Although Garnett's personal data has declined significantly this season, his contribution to the Bulls is obvious to all. The duo of Wang Chong and Garnett has become the most popular duo in the league, far more popular than the Rockets. Yao Mai combination.

Therefore, when the results of the first round of voting were announced, Wang Chong and Garnett directly occupied the first and second place in the forward position.

Originally there was no problem, but James, who is also a striker, was directly pushed to third place because he received fewer votes than Wang Chong and Garnett.

This is a big problem!

Although James has been suppressed by Wang Chong in recent years, his personal data has not shrunk in any way. His super data dominance has made the league officials firmly regard him as the future card of the league. push.

If Wang Chong and Garnett take the first and second place in the Eastern Conference forward voting respectively, then James, who is in third place, will be pushed to the All-Star bench.

How can any of the league's future prospects come to play as a substitute? Especially when James has been a starter in the Eastern Conference All-Stars for the past two seasons.

Although this is only the first round of voting, James fans may also exert their efforts in the subsequent two rounds of voting and come from behind to complete the lead. But who can say for sure about this kind of thing, what if?

At this time, we have to admire the league officials’ wit.

In just a few hours after the first-round voting results came out, they made a small change, changing James' position from forward to guard.

The official statement is that James has been the Cavaliers' de facto point guard in the past few seasons, and this position is more suitable for his positioning on the court.

But the actual reason is well known to everyone, it is just in case.

Unlike Wang Chong and Garnett who block the way on the forward line, Wade is the only one with certain competitiveness at the Eastern All-Star guard position. James will definitely be the starting point guard at the guard position no matter what.

But this kind of thing, no matter how high-sounding it is, still makes James a big loser in the league.

Because he was afraid that he would not be able to compete with Wang Chong and Garnett for the All-Star starting spot, he would hide in the guard position to get a starting spot. This is too funny.

When Wang Chong learned about this, everyone was dumbfounded.

However, in his impression, the 2008 All-Star vote winner seemed to be Garnett.

In other words, if James does not move to the guard position, he may really be squeezed into the All-Star substitute.

Even Garnett has higher votes than James, so Wang Chong has no chance of losing to him.

(End of this chapter)