NBA: James wants to team up with me

Chapter 242 Crazy consumption, activate 7 badges!
Winning the championship for the second consecutive year, the Bulls moved even a notch faster than the rest of the league.

After the draft has completed the most important trade signings for the entire team, the time comes on July 7, the free market opens, and a large number of players with expired contracts invest in the free market to seek a new offer contract.

However, on the first day of the free market, the Bulls quickly completed the contract extension with main player Kevin Garnett.

3 million in three years, with an average annual salary of 5000 million. Considering Garnett's current status and position, the price of this contract is slightly low, but this is also Garnett's intention. In order to stay with the Bulls and compete for the championship, He chose to make some concessions on salary. Moreover, after these three years of playing, it will be 1666, when Garnett, who will be 2012 years old, will officially enter the end of his career.

In other words, this three-year contract is basically Garnett's last big contract.

Wang Chong also knows very well that Garnett's peak period will indeed last beyond the expiration of this contract.

Until the 11-12 season, Garnett could still average 15.8 points and 8.2 rebounds per game with the Celtics. He was selected to the All-Defensive Second Team that season. He was the absolute core of the Celtics' defense. In the playoffs in the East He was not afraid of facing the Heat's Big Three. He led the team to play seven games with the Heat, averaging 19 points and 9.4 rebounds per game as before. At the same time, he also beat Bosh and defended the opponent in 7 games. Averaged only 11.7 points and 7 rebounds per game.

Therefore, Wang Chong had no objection to the Bulls' contract.

With the Bulls officially renewing Garnett's contract, the team's lineup structure for the new season has been formed. The main starting players are Billups, Curry, Wang Chong, Garnett and Gasol. There is also Dan on the bench. Nick Green, Marcus Thornton, and other substitute players are completely secondary players and are not worth mentioning.

Wang Chong does not think that the Bulls' lineup is worse than last season that just ended. On the contrary, with Curry as a powerful outside scoring point, the Bulls have more options on the offensive end. Curry is not just like James Jones acts as a fixed-point three-point shooter, and his ability to attack with the ball is not inferior to Billups, or even slightly better.

Defensive Master with the Ball: Improves the defensive effect when facing players with the ball, making it less likely to be out of position on the defensive end. This is a badge that improves the overall defensive ability, but it is only a badge for defensive players when they are holding the ball.

Defensive perpetual motion machine: Reduces the player's physical consumption rate when defending and saves physical energy. It is a fatigue badge that belongs to the defensive badge. Even though Wang Chong's current physical ability value has reached the full value of 99, his persistence for the fatigue badge still exists.

The two badges activated by Wang Chong are the finishing scorer badge and the defensive interceptor badge.

This time, Wang Chong plans to directly improve his defense to the level of truly first-level waterproofing or even DPOY.

Even though James has contributed countless wonderful and domineering shots in his career, he still averages less than one block per game in his career.

As for the last hat-chasing master, in fact, the price-performance ratio is slightly worse than the first three badges. This is not to say that the effect of this badge is not good. This is James’ signature badge in 2K, but as the name suggests, this is a badge that requires A badge that only takes effect when chasing behind an offensive player.

As for the interceptor, there is no doubt that it is a very cost-effective defensive badge. Its main function is to judge the opponent's passing route in advance, so as to intercept and destroy the opponent's pass or even directly steal it.

The reason why I chose the cut-in scorer is because the Lakers used a full-court double-team tactic against him during the game. The easiest way to break the double-team is undoubtedly to run without the ball. Wang Chong already has silver-level running without the ball. Badge, combined with the newly activated cut-in scorer, the off-ball offensive ability has been greatly improved.

When a defensive player needs to pursue a defense, it means that the defense has been completely out of position. It is completely a defensive recovery behavior, and the success rate can be imagined.

Now, the finals are over, and the team has new requirements for his skills in the new season. Wang Chong will certainly not be stingy with points.

These five badges are all very cost-effective badges on the defensive end.

Defensive intimidation: When a player defends and interferes with shooting, it can reduce the opponent's shooting success rate. It is nicknamed eye defense in the 2K game. Although the effect of low-level badges is not obvious, when the badge is upgraded to a higher level, it will improve the ability. Players with relatively low overall ratings and no badge blessings have a considerable impact.

The first is the defensive badge. Any outstanding player must be able to attack and defend. Wang Chong does not intend to let his skills have shortcomings. Although he has been successfully selected to the All-Defensive Team this season, he understands everything. Wang Chong's actual defensive level is not up to this level. Like Kobe, he is praised by the media to a greater extent.

This is not just about working on badges. During the offseason, Wang Chong will also use training modules to strengthen his defensive abilities, a two-pronged approach.

Wang Chong chose these two badges because of his needs on the field at that time.

As for badges, Wang Chong currently has three badges in total, the gold-level Death Coil, the Basket Protector Elite, and the bronze Interceptor. They are all very cost-effective badges. He also plans to continue the principle of selecting cost-effective badges and choose another one. Received a total of 4 defensive badges, namely Defensive Shock, Ball Defensive Master, Defensive Perpetual Machine and Poker-Chasing Master.

But I have to say that chasing blocks looks really good. Destroying an offense has a greater impact on the team's morale than two successful defenses.

This is naturally what Wang Chong is considering.

Throughout last season, he completed various achievement tasks through the achievement module and obtained a very generous point reward. During the playoffs, the Bulls were invincible and did not get too frustrated even when facing the Lakers in the finals. It was a tough battle, so Wang Chong did not put a lot of points into use. He only activated two badges during the finals, which cost 1000 points.

It's undeniable that Millsap's departure has reduced the Bulls' defensive capabilities inside. Coupled with Curry's defensive black hole, the Bulls' defensive pressure in the new season will be significantly greater than in the previous two seasons.

Of course, this refers to Curry who has just joined the league, because Curry who will grow up in the future and get rid of injuries will not be able to compare even with two Billups bundled together.

In the 2016 NBA Finals, James used a chasing shot to destroy Iguodala's layup. This led to the classic scene of Irving's three-pointer to beat Curry.

Wang Chong is taller than James and has a larger wingspan. The gap in athletic ability can be made up for with static talent, so he chose this defensive badge.

After choosing four defensive badges, the number of Wang Chong's defensive badges increased to 7. Although the level is a bit low, five of them are the lowest level bronze badges. However, as Wang Chong's ability value increases and the game progresses, the number of badges will increase. As the upgrade tasks are completed, the levels of these badges will only get higher and higher.

Of course, Wang Chong has not forgotten his old profession. In the final analysis, it is offense, or shooting to be precise, that determines his upper limit. Durant at his peak, in the 2K game, has 16 shooting badges, most of which are gold level second only to the Purple Hall of Fame. These badges support Durant's super offensive scoring ability. .

Although Wang Chong has won the league's scoring title for several consecutive years, he only has 9 shooting badges, which he himself feels is a bit lacking.

Therefore, after choosing four defensive badges, Wang Chong chose another shooting badge to increase his offensive capabilities.

And the shooting badge he chose is called - Remote Turret.

The remote turret improves the player's three-point shooting range, and the degree of improvement is directly linked to the player's three-point ability value.

This is a badge that shooters love very much. Although it does not directly improve the player's shooting ability, increasing the player's shooting range is equivalent to improving the player's shooting ability in disguise.

The most representative player of this badge is Wang Chongxin’s teammate Stephen Curry. In the future, Curry will perform many long-range three-point shooting performances with the Warriors. Everyone knows that Curry’s three-point shooting range is longer than that of the NBA. The three-point line is much farther.

The reason why Wang Chong chose this badge was, of course, to welcome the arrival of Curry. If a team has two players who can do something like a three-pointer, the intimidation effect will definitely be 1+1 greater than 2. to the extent.

A total of 5 badges were activated, plus the 2 badges activated during the finals. Wang Chong activated a total of 7 badges before and after, spending a total of 3500 points.

Wang Chong had a total of 4500 points before the start of the playoffs. During the playoffs, two consecutive championships and two consecutive FMVPs allowed the achievement module to bring Wang Chong 1000 points, for a total of 5500 points.

After deducting the consumption of 3500 badge points, there are still 2000 points left. These 2000 points are what Wang Chong spent on the training module during the offseason. Wang Chong's defensive end ability is generally not high.

The main defensive-related ability values ​​are 75 blocks, 54 steals, 85 outside defense, 75 inside defense, 77 blocking ability, and 85 assist defense ability.

This is much lower than the physical strength and comprehensive durability that Wang Chong mainly strengthened before. According to the characteristic that the lower the ability value, the faster the upgrade speed, 2000 points are enough to greatly improve these abilities.

Wang Chong estimated that at the end of this summer, after all the 2000 points are used up, his overall ability score will most likely break through the shackles of 97 and reach 98.

This is not surprising. Wang Chong's overall ability evaluation based on Durant has reached 97. The main ability evaluation is highly concentrated in the two categories of offense and spirit. The average ability of defense and quality is not the same. high.

As the defensive ability value has increased significantly, it is not surprising that the overall ability value has reached a breakthrough. If it goes well enough, it is not surprising that the overall ability value will directly reach 99. After all, the overall ability value of 2K is not Simply add up all the ability value data to get the average value, and there is also a part of the comprehensive evaluation compensation. Otherwise, if it is just the average of the total ability value, even Jordan's comprehensive ability value evaluation meter will barely reach the early 90s.

Of course, the final result still depends on the actual situation.
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The Bulls' offseason work has ended in just one day, but for other teams in the league, the free market has just begun, especially the strong teams that failed in the playoffs. There is no doubt that They all want to further strengthen their lineup to challenge the Bulls and prevent the opponent from completing three consecutive championships and creating a dynasty.

No player or team wants a dynasty team to appear in their era. After all, it also represents the incompetence and failure of other teams of the same era, because they were completely dominated by this team during this period. .

The first to bear the brunt was naturally the biggest loser, the Los Angeles Lakers who fell in the finals.

The first thing the Lakers did during the offseason was to renew the contracts of the team's main players whose contracts had expired.

The contracts of many Lakers players expired in 09, including the three main players of Odom, Artest and Bynum.

The Lakers renewed Odom's contract with US$4 million in four years and US$3300 million in five years with Artest. Their starting salaries for the new season are US$5 million and US$3395 million respectively. Based on their performance in the game Based on the strength shown, the contract is already considered to be of high quality and low price.

The successful renewal of the two contracts freed up a lot of salary space for the Lakers, because last season Odom's annual salary was as high as 1400 million, and Artest also had an annual salary of 740 million. The Lakers talked very successfully.

But this doesn't relieve the Lakers too much of their burden, because the real leaders of the team are not these two.

Kobe's 2300 million and Gasol's 1600 million are the main proportions of salary space.

The real headache for the Lakers is young shark Andrew Bynum, whose rookie contract has expired.

Although Bynum played like a blue-collar soy sauce center in the playoffs, this still did not prevent his talent from bringing great attraction to league teams.

There are many teams that originally expected Bynum to offer high salary. In order to keep Bynum, the Lakers can only grit their teeth and offer him a contract with an annual salary of tens of millions.

In the end, what Bynum got was a four-year contract worth $4 million, with an average annual salary of $5740 million. This was certainly not the maximum salary, but it was quite enough for a center who averaged 1430+14 per game during the regular season. Taller.

After reaching a consensus, the Lakers were not in a hurry to sign a contract with Bynum immediately, because once the signing between the two parties was completed, the Lakers' salary space would be locked instantly, and there would be no possibility of signing reinforcements.

And if the Lakers sign other players first and then complete the contract extension with Bynum, because Bynum has played for the Lakers for four years and meets the Bird clause, he can ignore the salary cap limit and can renew the contract above the cap.

Although this method may bring high luxury tax fines to the Lakers, falling in the Finals for two consecutive years has made the Lakers management and Kobe red-eyed. They cannot accept the next step of the team no matter what. Continue to lose to the Bulls.

(End of this chapter)