Chapter Twenty-Three: Anthony: Where Do I Lose Face?
Wang Chao's shooting speed has indeed become a lot faster, even this kind of shooting after dribbling is very fast.
hit two three-pointers in a row, and Wang Chao directly approached the difference to 10 points.
The Nuggets, on their part, were a little blindsided by these two three-point shots.
But Nuggets head coach George . Carl didn't choose to call a timeout, this situation feels like a coincidence to anyone, just pure luck.
Although Wang Chao's recent performance has been good, and he scored 27 points in the last game, he still hasn't reached the level where the rest of the league can be specifically analyzed and studied.
Before the Nuggets' game, the player analysis report given by the scouts specifically noted that although Wang Chao's recent three-point performance is good, his own comprehensive ability deviation, except for three-point shots, has no other skills that are enough to gain a foothold in the NBA, and the shooting speed is slow, as long as a player is arranged to follow the whole defense, it can be completely contained.
So at this time, Carl thought that Wang Chao's two three-point shots were only because of the underweight of the defenders.
He stood on the sidelines and rushed to the backup striker De Mar, who was responsible for defending Wang Chao. Johnson shouted: "Defend and stare at that Asian player!" Don't give him a chance to shoot outside the three-point line! ”
The Nuggets attacked, and the basketball was hoisted to Marcus on the inside. Camby, who carried the Suns' interior player and forced a layup to score.
In the next few rounds, due to being marked by the opposing defenders throughout the whole process, Wang Chao never had a good chance to receive the ball, and Barbosa did not take the initiative to create a suitable opportunity for Wang Chao to receive the ball when he had a reasonable reason not to pass the ball to Wang Chao. Jones made a couple more shots from the outside, but none of them were very good.
Wang Chao didn't know what kind of relationship Barbosa had with Jones, and why he would help Jones to suppress his own play, and even all this was just his guess, but it was enough for Wang Chao to remember Barbossa.
In his impression, this guy is not a good thing either, and later it seems that he had an affair with Nash's wife, and he cuckolded Nash, so Nash asked to trade away from the team.
This matter was rumored at the beginning, and Wang Chao didn't know whether the gossip news was true or not, but there was no wind and no waves, no matter whether Barbossa was green or not, it was an indisputable fact that he was later traded away from the Suns.
This alone is enough for Wang Chao to look at Barbossa with colored eyes, and now he is still stumbling on him in such a crucial game against Wang Chao.
Wang Chao has secretly decided in his heart that if he has the right to speak in the Suns, he will definitely find a way to force this out as soon as possible, and it can be regarded as a "clean house" for Nash......
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After Wang Chao scored 6 points in a row to chase back the difference, in the next few minutes, the scores of the two teams were always rising, which naturally made D'Antoni a little dissatisfied.
Taking advantage of a dead goal, he replaced Barbossa and the underperforming James. Jones, get Nash and other key players back on the field.
Wang Chao, who also came on as a substitute, was not replaced, but continued to stay on the field as the team's small forward.
The Nuggets saw that the Suns were replaced by Nash, and they immediately replaced Anthony, and they did not want to be caught up by the score advantage that they had built up so hard.
In this way, Wang Chao actually formed a counterpoint with Anthony.
Glancing at Wang Chao, Anthony didn't pay attention to this Chinese player who had no impression in his memory at all.
What Anthony didn't know was that if he called his banana boat brother James, the latter would have remembered the name Wang Chao very well, because just half a month earlier, Wang Chao shot a game-winning three-pointer in front of him, allowing the Cavaliers to bury a whopping 20-point lead and eventually lose the game.
However, he will soon remember Wang Chao's name, because Nash's first ball back on the court helped Wang Chao find an opportunity.
Because he didn't take Wang Chao seriously, Anthony was not like the previous Nuggets backup forward Demar. Johnson followed Wang Chao reluctantly.
In other words, Anthony, who is the main scoring point of the Nuggets, has not invested much energy on the defensive end, and he prefers offense to defense.
After Nash organized the offense to attract the attention of the Nuggets' defense, he immediately noticed Wang Chao, who ran to the bottom corner of the three-point line and waited for an opportunity.
In the breakthrough march with the ball, Nash directly passed the ball to the ground and sent the basketball to Wang Chao.
Wang Chao, who received the ball, immediately jumped out of his hand, and when Anthony found out that Wang Chao was going to shoot and wanted to go forward to defend, it was too late.
"Huh!"
Three points again, 9 points!
Nuggets possession.
Anthony received the ball in the top arc and broke through with the ball directly in the face of Wang Chao's defense.
His breakthrough speed is not fast, but the explosive power is full, the moment the body contacted, Wang Chao was hit by Anthony and stumbled, the latter rushed into the inside line and scored with one hand.
Anthony was very happy with this ball, and he didn't feel any pressure on the defensive end at all.
Turning his head to look in the direction of Wang Chao just now, Anthony was about to complain, "Was anyone defending me just now?" I don't feel it at all. ”
But this turn of his head, the imaginary Wang Chao standing behind him with a dejected face did not exist, and the only thing Anthony saw was a back rushing towards the front.
"Hurry back to defense!"
The Nuggets player shouted.
At the same time, the Suns served the ball to Nash, who quickly advanced two steps with the ball and threw the basketball in the direction of the front court before halftime.
Nash's passing accuracy was completely black, and Wang Chao, who had just run outside the three-point line, immediately received Nash's pass, and he didn't need to adjust his posture additionally, and he raised his hand to shoot.
At this time, Wang Chao was followed by only Nuggets guard Greg. Buckner, when Wang Chao was in his hand, he tried to jump up to interfere with Wang Chao, but Buckner, who is only 1.9 meters tall, is difficult to interfere with in the face of Wang Chao, who is 2.06 meters and has an arm span of 2.18 meters, not to mention that Wang Chao's ability to interfere with three points is 99 full value!
The basketball flies to the basket under everyone's gaze and then hollows into the net.
4 of 4 three-pointers, less than a single quarter, Wang Chao has scored 12 points!
On the sidelines, D'Antoni's face blossomed with happiness.
Wang Chao is really his lucky general, the original backward point difference, replaced by Wang Chao in less than a few minutes, has actually narrowed to within double digits, no matter what else, just this three-point shooting ability is enough to make any team in the league pay attention to his role!
was chased by Wang Chao's three-pointers one after another, but the Nuggets still did not call a timeout.
Anthony was a little unhappy and continued to hold the ball and singles Wang Chao.
Just now it was just a careless kung fu, Wang Chao actually got 6 points in front of him, where did this make his face?