NBA: James wants to team up with me

From the end of June to mid-September, for two and a half months, Wang Chong basically did nothing. He was just taking care of his baby and accompanying his wife at home every day. He was extremely happy.

However, happy times always pass quickly. More than two months passed by in the blink of an eye, and soon it was mid-September, and the new season was about to start. Even though he was a little reluctant, Wang Chong left Los Angeles and returned to Chicago began preparations for war.

Jessica and Xiao Kexin did not return to Chicago with Wang Chong.

After two months of slacking off, Wang Chong needs to focus on intensive training to regain his competitive status. At the same time, he must invest all the points earned last season into the training module to continue to strengthen his abilities.

Wang Chong is now completely a standard numerical monster. Not only has his overall ability value reached 99 early, but all of his specific ability values ​​are already ridiculously high.

But even so, Wang Chong still has many ability values ​​below 90, and theoretically there is still a lot of room for improvement.

Not only in terms of ability value, but also in terms of badges, Wang Chong has made rapid progress.

Although Wang Chong has stopped redeeming badges in the past two seasons, the badges he already owns have been continuously upgraded in the process of playing in the NBA.

Among the 30 badges currently held by Wang Chong, in addition to the chasing master, the post defense master and the dunk master are used less frequently on the court and the upgrade conditions are more stringent than other badges, so they currently only reach Silver level, the rest of the badges have all been upgraded to gold level.

Looking around, there is a dazzling golden light on the wall of badges.

The only pity is that so far Wang Chong has not found a way to upgrade the golden badge to the highest level, Purple Hall of Fame. Currently, there is only one marksman badge that is at the Purple Hall of Fame level.

Wang Chong also discovered that even a lower-level gold-level badge would bring him enough bonuses to dominate the alliance. Although the concept of the system was based on the 2K game, it was ultimately different from the 2K game. Most players have different badge systems. At least his badge bonus will not be reflected on other players in the league. Otherwise, the overall rating should be at least 2 at this time, and he should hold forty or fifty badges, including purple Hall of Fame level badges. James, who has six or seven coins, should turn around and beat Wang Chong.

So even if there is currently no way to upgrade the badge to the highest purple Hall of Fame level, Wang Chong doesn't particularly care.

With this intensive training, he plans to raise several defensive ability values ​​to over 90 in one go, becoming a true defensive gate.

Although he was successfully elected as the best defensive player this season and received countless praises, we have to admit that Wang Chong's defensive ability mainly focuses on his strong assist defense effect. His single defense ability is still slightly inferior due to his ability value. , the reason why I was able to get DPOY,

Blocking, steals, defensive awareness, and internal and external defense all hover around 85-88. Such ability values, with the blessing of the badge, can indeed make him a super expert in assisting defense, but he is not that strong in one-on-one defense. .

The most intuitive manifestation is that during the playoffs, the Bulls played against the Heat. Although Wang Chong's performance completely suppressed James, throughout the series, James averaged close to 30+10+8 quasi-triple-double data per game. This performance is absolutely It's not bad, and it's also the reason why James fans can still be tough after James was defeated countless times by Wang Chong.

They always believed that the reason why James lost to Wang Chong was not because James was weaker than Wang Chong, but because the strength gap between the two teammates was huge. Even if James chose to join the Heat to form the Big Three, his teammates were still not as good as Wang Chong.

One thing to say, with James' ability and playing style, it is very easy to produce good statistics as long as he has the ball in hand. With Wang Chong's current defensive ability, there is really nothing he can do against James who is full of firepower. He can do it. The only way to beat the opponent is to score more points than James.

But if his defensive ability can go further and directly limit James' performance on the court, then what excuse will the James have?

Therefore, Wang Chong plans to continue to strengthen defense this time.

From mid-September to early October, for half a month, Wang Chong practiced behind closed doors and spent all the reward points he received last season, and the benefits were also very significant.

As he expected, those defensive ability values ​​hovering around 87 have basically all been enhanced to above 90 after this intensive training.

91 blocks, 90 steals, 90 outside defense, 89 inside defense and 92 defensive awareness. This is 89 inside defense, which is only one step away from breaking through the 90 mark.

The main reason why he failed to improve the inside defense to above 90 was because Wang Chong drew some points and used them to redeem badges.

Previously, because after the total number of badges reached 30, the cost of redeeming each badge increased from the original 500 points to 1000 points. Wang Chong had not redeemed badges for a long time.

But in order to take his defensive ability to the next level, Wang Chong chose to spend a huge amount of money to exchange for a badge.

This is a defensive badge called Quick Reaction.

The effect of this badge is to improve the reaction speed of defensive players in one-on-one marking, and to predict the opponent's offensive options and directions in advance, thus allowing the badge holder to react faster when facing offensive actions.

Although this badge is only the lowest level bronze badge after redemption, as the subsequent games progress, Wang Chong can gradually upgrade this badge to silver or even gold level. By then, the effect of this badge will not be underestimated. watch for. As a result, Wang Chong's defensive badges are basically quite complete, especially the badges that improve his single defense ability, including death coil, defensive shock, ball-holding defensive master, defensive perpetual motion machine and the quick reaction he just changed. Combined with Wang Chong's Chong has improved his defensive abilities to above 90. At this time, he absolutely deserves to win the DPOY Defensive Player of the Year, rather than due more to the Bulls' overall defensive system like in previous seasons.

The result is that the Bulls will have perhaps the strongest defense in the league, with Gasol and Wang Chong forming a tightrope on the inside, and Jimmy Butler, Danny Green and Drummond on the outside. De Green, even if the latter still needs time to grow up, the defense of this lineup still makes people feel almost abnormal. The defense on the outside and inside is impeccable, and there is also a help defense ability like Wang Chong that is not inferior to that of the peak plus inside. Special existence, how can other teams play?
What's even more shameful is that the Bulls are not only strong defensively, but their offense is not bad at all. Don't count other players. The partnership of Wang Chong and Curry alone can rival most of the league in terms of offensive firepower. All the team’s starters added together.

At least Wang Chong couldn't imagine anything that could stop the Bulls from defending the championship, even if the Spurs got Gobert in the summer and Leonard has further grown up, not to mention that in Wang Chong's view, there are big problems with the tactical system. The Big Three of the 2.0 Heat.

But this time, it is rare that the outside world is unanimously optimistic that the Bulls can defend the title.

In the past few years, most local American media have repeatedly belittled Wang Chong and the Bulls' championship prospects. Although there are also selfish considerations in this, their analysis is also reasonable, because the Bulls' lineups were There have been changes. For example, Garnett left the team, the team suffered injuries, and the Heat and Lakers formed the Super Big Three. Faced with these situations, it is completely understandable that they looked down on the Bulls without having a God's perspective at the time.

But this time is different. Although the Bulls have not made any moves compared to other teams that have been in full swing to strengthen their lineups throughout the summer, the Bulls have maintained the winning lineup of last season. This alone is enough.

The current Bulls lineup is complete and very young. At the beginning of the new season, among the Bulls' three main players, Wang Chong is 29 years old, Curry is 25 years old, and Gasol is 28 years old. They are all in the prime period of their athletes' careers, unless they suffer injuries. Otherwise, there is no possibility of a decline in status, and we can only get better and better as we play.

At the same time, players in the Bulls such as Jimmy Butler, Danny Green, Isaiah Thomas and other players will continue to get stronger as they age, and they don’t even need to replace Della, who is as transparent as the Bulls. Including Mond Green, the Bulls' lineup still looks terrifyingly strong.

After some comparison and measurement of strength, they all found in despair that even if the Heat upgraded their lineup and traded Bosh for Howard, they still had no advantage against the Bulls.

Indeed, Howard's existence makes up for the Heat's biggest shortcoming, which is the strength of the inside line. The Bulls can no longer use Gasol to bully the Heat's inside line, but now the league has a certain understanding of Howard's ability, despite his super athletic ability. , his defensive ability is full, but on the offensive end, Howard is not much different from blue-collar players. He does not have the ability to attack independently and cannot beat opponents in the paint like O'Neal. In addition, he can compete with O'Neal in free throws. , the shortcomings are also obvious.

With Howard, the Heat may be able to take the initiative in interior defense and rebounding when facing the Bulls, but these alone cannot win the game.

Only one thing is that the Heat can't find a way to limit Wang Chong's scoring, and they can't find someone who can match Wang Chong in terms of scoring, so it is destined to be difficult to win the game.

James is very strong and can perform well every time he faces Wang Chong, but versatility is not all his advantages in the NBA.

The two teams have played against each other many times, and Wang Chong has also scored countless times at critical moments to help the team gain an advantage and win the game. At this point, James is obviously far behind, especially at many critical moments. Compared with his offense with the ball, James , or more inclined to attract the defense and then pass the ball to an open teammate, commonly known as dumping the blame.

Theoretically speaking, this choice is correct. In any sport, the emphasis is on winning in the simplest and most efficient way. A player in an open position must be more likely to score a shot than a player who is flanked by multiple players.

But the problem is that a truly great player has the ability to make the impossible possible.

The reason why Jordan is firmly ranked as the number one player in the history of the league is that six championships, five MVPs, six FMVPs and ten scoring champions are of course crucial, but what is more vivid in people's memory is Jordan's various critical moments. Offense is a winning shot that no matter how many people can guard it.

Why is it that after Jordan, Kobe Bryant is obviously far inferior to Jordan, and his honors are even less than those of many players in the top ten in history, but his popularity and status in the minds of many fans and players are second only to Jordan. The reason is also Here it lies.

Compared with the history of the iron king, who made countless crazy shots and ruined the team's victory, what fans remember more clearly is the image of Kobe resolutely taking action and then hitting the shot when facing multiple defenders. The shocking feeling of that image is far more It beats the feeling of James choosing to pass and then a teammate making a mediocre shot in the open space, that's the difference.

In 2018, without a reliable teammate around him, James also performed like this in the playoffs. This is why the 18-year-old Thanos James is so popular, even though he was defeated 4:0 in the finals without any suspense. The Warriors swept through, but who could have imagined that such a Cavaliers team could go all the way in the Eastern Conference and reach the finals? In the three rounds of the playoffs, James scored key goals and even buzzer beaters several times, which is indeed tough enough.

But unfortunately, this was not the case for most of his career, especially in the later stages of his career, when he defended with his arms akimbo and scored two points at critical moments, which made passersby feel even worse about him.

So the question is, what type of player is Wang Chong?
The answer is undisputed. The closer the critical moment comes, the less likely Wang Chong will pass the ball to others, not even Curry. He only believes in his own ability, and Wang Chong's ability has also saved the ball at critical moments countless times. Team.

His classic scoring scenes at critical moments are no less than those of Jordan and Kobe. And in terms of shooting percentage when scoring at critical moments, let alone Kobe, even Jordan is slightly inferior to Wang Chong.

There is no way, Wang Chong, who is based on the growth template of Durant, nicknamed the God of Death, is really talented in scoring.

It is said that death only comes in Golden State. Because of physical fitness, when the game reaches the final moment, Durant often suffers a significant drop in efficiency due to lack of physical strength. On the Warriors, because of Curry, Thompson and even It is Draymond Green who shares the pressure, and Durant can save his energy for the last burst. This is the script where Durant broke out many times in the last quarter of the finals during the two consecutive championships and took away the Cavaliers.

The biggest difference between Wang Chong and Durant is physical ability. Wang Chong, whose physical ability value was trained to the full value of 99 early on, can transform into the god of death at any time and deliver fatal blows to his opponents.

As a result, it is not surprising that the outside world is more optimistic about the Bulls defending their title. (End of chapter)