NBA: James wants to team up with me

Chapter 254: Brutal torture of Durant, I am the one who knows him best!

Durant didn't expect that Wang Chong's shot would be so crisp and clean. After the basketball was slapped away, he was stunned for a moment and didn't react immediately.

Durant was stunned, but Wang Chong was not. After completing the block, he immediately rushed forward, picked up the basketball rolling on the ground and ran straight to the Celtics backcourt at full speed.

His long legs were so fast that the Celtics players could only chase after him desperately, and then watched Wang Chong score a dunk in front of his eyes.

Wang Chong immediately gave Durant a blow, which caused a burst of cheers from the Bulls home fans.

Wang Chong vs. Durant, the collision between the core players of the two teams, this is the plot that everyone wants to see, especially since his own star Wang Chong had the upper hand from the beginning and gave Durant a big blow. This script shouldn't be too perfect.

4: 0.

The Celtics attacked and Rondo once again handed the ball to Durant.

It is normal for the offense to fail once or twice. The Green Army still hopes to see Durant compete with Wang Chong on the court.

In this attack, Durant was obviously a lot more careful. After all, he learned a lesson from every experience. After the painful lesson just now, he already understood that frontal toughness was almost the same as his height and wingspan, and his athletic ability was even better than his own. Chong is not a wise choice.

But this does not mean that he cannot score in front of Wang Chong. There are many ways to score offensively, including mid-range scoring, and he can also use fake moves, fadeaway jumpers, etc. to avoid opponents' blocks.

Especially the fade-back, which is the skill that pitchers rely on the most. Even if you are facing an opponent who is taller than you and has better bounce, as long as you have a slight fade-back angle in your shot, it will be difficult for the opponent to block your shot.

Durant did the same.

He first called his teammates for a pick-and-roll screen, and used Millsap's pick-and-roll to move to a mid-range position facing the basket. Then he leaned against Wang Chong with his back to the basket. He lightly bumped Wang Chong with his shoulders and used the reaction force to turn over and lean back. Shot release.

The effect of this move was really good. After the basketball was released, it passed Wang Chong's blocking palm and flew straight to the basket, but... "Bang!" The basketball hit the edge of the basket and missed the basket. Xiaojia, who was standing under the basket, Sol immediately grabbed the defensive rebound.

While it is difficult to defend when leaning back, it also represents a high degree of difficulty. After all, it is extremely difficult to exert force when leaning back in the air, which requires extremely high core strength of the players.

Of course, Durant's back-up technique is no problem, but even if Wang Chong did not directly block the shot in the process, the pressure brought by the defense exerted considerable interference on him. Moreover, Wang Chong now has multiple defenses. Badge blessings, which also include defensive badges to face this kind of attack.

Defensive Stun, when a player with this badge interferes with the opponent's shooting, it can reduce the opponent's shooting percentage.

This is definitely a versatile badge on the defensive end. The only drawback is that Wang Chong’s badge is relatively low-level. When it was first activated, it was only the lowest bronze level. Fortunately, during the regular season, with his outstanding performance on the defensive end, Wang Chong has completed the upgrade conditions for the badge and has successfully upgraded it to the silver level before, so the effect on the field is quite good.

Durant chose a difficult fadeaway shot, which happened to hit the wall of defensive shock. It's not that it was completely impossible for him to make the ball in this case, but his shooting rate was still seriously affected.

Durant missed three consecutive attacks, and Wang Chong is here again for the Bulls!

Still playing the same stand-up singles as Durant, Wang Chong even went so far as to kill people. He took the ball to the same position as Durant before, and used the same moves to shoot behind his back.

Unlike Durant's shot, Wang Chong's shot went smoothly into the net and scored another 2 points.

6: 0!

Celtics head coach Doc Rivers couldn't sit still and chose to call a timeout to adjust.

After the timeout, the Celtics changed their offensive center. Durant did not continue to attack with the ball. Instead, he served as a wingman in the feint attack, leading Wang Chong to the weak side, while letting Pierce take charge of attacking Billups in singles.

Although Billups was successfully selected to the All-Defensive Team this season, the size gap made him suffer greatly when facing Pierce. Pierce carried the ball all the way to the basket, and scored a layup with a low-hand lever. Successfully stopped the bleeding for the Celtics.

6: 2.

The Green Army finally scored, but before the whole team had time to breathe a sigh of relief, the Bulls' offense immediately came again.

The outside pick-and-roll cooperation between Wang Chong and Curry was very effective in the regular season. Curry averaged 20+ points per game in the regular season during his rookie season, which is inseparable from the pick-and-roll cooperation between the two.

The offensive coordination was the same this time. With the help of the pick-and-roll, Wang Chong successfully attracted the attention of Durant and Rondo, and then distributed the ball to Curry who retreated outside the three-point line.

Curry raised his hand and dropped the knife, making a steady three-pointer.

9: 2!
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In the first quarter of the game, both teams focused on offense, and Wang Chong, who was full of firepower, completely suppressed Durant on the court. While scoring on the offensive end, Durant was also helpless on the defensive end.

结果便是第一节比赛下来,公牛队34:27领先凯尔特人7分,同时王崇单节8投5中,三分球3中1,罚球2中2,单节砍下13分,个人表现也全面压制仅有5分2篮板入账的杜兰特。

In the second quarter of the game, the Celtics realized that it was a very wrong decision to let Durant go head-to-head with Wang Chong. They began to change their tactical thinking and began to work on the inside attack.

The person currently in charge of guarding Green Army power forward Millsap is, after all, just a forward player, Danny Green, and his flaws are quite big.

When the Celtics began to strengthen their interior offense in the second quarter, the offensive end finally began to pick up. Millsap, in particular, frequently used his physical advantage in the interior to beat Green, scoring 6 points on 6-of-11 shooting in a single quarter.

But even so, the Celtics and Bulls only tied at 30:30 in the second quarter, with almost no offensive advantage.

At half-time of the game, the Celtics discovered a very serious problem, that is, their defensive ability could not limit the Bulls' offensive scoring. Let alone Wang Chong, the Bulls' Curry on the outside was better than It was also difficult for Lupus and the others to deal with it.

Even the penalty area, which was originally thought to have an advantage, actually turned out to be less advantageous than imagined after the match.

Gasol usually doesn't have a strong position in the Bulls' offensive tactics, but against a center like Al Jefferson who is short in height and does not have an advantage in tonnage, his offensive ability at the basket is also quite threatening. sex.

Of course, the most critical thing is Durant's performance.

No one, including head coach Rivers, expected that Durant would be defeated by Wang Chong like this. In the league, head-to-head duels between stars are not uncommon, including O'Neal and Olajuwon, Kobe and Iverson, Duncan and Garnett, all of which had one-on-one duels.

When both sides are at their peak, the most they can do is destroy each other. It is difficult for one party to completely defeat the other.

The reason is very simple. Compared with offense, defense itself has lag and passivity. Even the strongest defensive player can hardly completely prevent the strongest offensive player.

Including Wang Chong and James, a pair of rivals that many fans in the league consider to be rivals. Although Wang Chong won with an absolute number of wins, if you just look at the performance of both sides, James is not inferior to Wang Chong, and can even be evenly matched. to describe.

But Durant's encounter with Wang Chong was an exception.

It's not that Durant is too weak now and Wang Chong can beat him at will.

In the third season of his career, Durant's current level of ability evaluation has definitely reached above 90. Wang Chong's visual evaluation is at least above 92, and even 94 is not an exaggeration.

At this level, in fact, since Wang Chong has not yet reached the top defensive value, it is difficult to completely lock him down.

But Durant's unlucky thing is that when Wang Chong first entered the league, he was the growth template he chose.

This caused Wang Chong to be so familiar with Durant that when they met face to face, he even had a strong sense of looking in the mirror.

Whenever Durant makes a move, Wang Chong will involuntarily and subconsciously think of the next move and attack method that the opponent will make. With psychological expectations in advance, his defensive reaction will naturally be better than usual. The defense is half a beat faster.

Just this small gap is enough to make Durant doubt his life.

At the end of half the game, Durant was completely stunned.

He couldn't figure out what was going on, but every time Wang Chong defended him, he always appeared in the most uncomfortable position at the most perfect time.

It's not like he hasn't played against Wang Chong before. They are both Eastern Conference teams. The Celtics played against the Bulls four times every season. The Celtics were also eliminated by the Bulls in the playoffs last season.

But before this game, Durant had never been so embarrassed and at a loss when facing Wang Chong.

"Is it because I'm not in a good condition today and my hand feels bad? That's why it's like this?"

Durant couldn't figure it out and could only explain it with this reason.

Of course he didn't know that his previous level was not good enough and he was not worthy of Wang Chong's serious defense.

But it's different now. On the one hand, Durant, who averaged 30+ points per game in the regular season, is already the strongest on the Celtics in terms of personal ability and is more threatening than Pierce.

On the other hand, without Garnett, the Bulls' playoff journey is actually not that stable. Wang Chong is of course confident that he can lead the team to defeat the Celtics, but whether they face the Magic or Cavaliers in the Eastern Conference Finals, The winner of the game or the Finals showdown with the Lakers will be a tough battle.

In order to be able to cope with the Eastern Conference Finals and the Finals in the best competitive state, it is best for the first two rounds to be played as quickly as the autumn wind sweeps away fallen leaves, giving the Bulls more rest and preparation time.

Therefore, Wang Chong does not intend to save face for Durant and the Celtics. He will go all out from the beginning in order to defeat the opponent in the shortest time, preferably a 4:0 sweep, and then the team can wait and work. , waiting for the winner of the deadly battle between magic and knight.

In the second half of the game, Durant tried various methods to score under Wang Chong's defense, but without exception, they were all resolved by Wang Chong.

Wang Chong is very familiar with Durant and knows all the moves he is good at.

The final result was that Durant made 14 of 5 shots in the entire game, with a shooting percentage of only 35.7%. He scored 12 points, 5 rebounds and 6 turnovers, and was completely beaten by Wang Chong.

Wang Chong, on the other hand, was full of firepower. He scored 41 points, 10 rebounds and 6 assists, shooting 58% from the field, and led the Bulls to defeat the Celtics 106:92 and win the first victory of the series.

The result of this game was unexpected by many people before the game.

I thought the biggest highlight of the showdown between the Bulls and Celtics would be the offensive battle between the top two scorers, Wang Chong and Durant.

Unexpectedly, in the first game, Wang Chong defeated Durant with his absolute strength, and used his actual performance to tell the entire league that Durant was still far behind if he wanted to be compared with him.

After the game, Durant had a dark face and remained silent at the post-game press conference.

It was obvious that he was not convinced. Although he did not understand why Wang Chong was so defensive until the end of the game, his arrogance as a top player did not allow Durant to give up easily.

On May 5, in the second game of the series, Durant, who was unwilling to admit defeat, once again challenged Wang Chong on the court, but this time there was no obvious difference from the previous game.

Durant made 17 of 5 in the game, and his shooting percentage dropped below 30%. However, in this game, he increased the number of breakthroughs with the ball. He made 8 of 7 free throws and scored 17 points, which was slightly better than the previous game. But in front of Wang Chong, who had 36 points, 8 rebounds and 4 assists, he was still destined to be ruthlessly beaten.

Durant stretched his hips in two consecutive games and was suppressed by Wang Chong throughout the game, causing the Celtics to lose two games in a row, with the score reaching 2:0.

"Obviously, although the series is not over yet, the duel between Wang Chong and Durant has already been won or lost."

"Durant is indeed talented. He is the best scorer in the league after Wang Chong, and his future growth is unlimited. But now he is still a little behind Wang Chong, especially in one-on-one duels. Weaknesses such as lack of experience, unstable offense, and slight lack of physical strength are all points that need to be improved one by one in the future.”

"We are very much looking forward to Durant being able to compete with Wang Chong in the scoring list in a few years, but for now, this league obviously still belongs to Wang Chong."

In the subsequent game, back to Boston, the home court of the Celtics, the Celtics, who had the home court advantage, failed to regain their momentum. Instead, they were defeated by the Bulls in two consecutive games and were swept out 4:0. .

The Bulls defeated the Celtics 4:0, becoming the first team to decide the winner in the second round of the playoffs, and the only team that has been determined to sweep its opponents, because the remaining three sets of matchups , both have already won and lost each other, and there is no possibility of a second 4:0 team appearing. (End of chapter)

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