On May 2, Game 5 of the first-round series, the court returned to the Phoenix Suns' home court, and the Suns did not give the Lakers a chance at home.

At 114:97, the Suns completed the finish against the Lakers at home, fixing the overall score at 4:1.

Kobe Bryant continued his hot form in this game, shooting 10-of-17 from the field and 8-of-9 from the free-throw line, scoring 32 points, 9 rebounds and 7 assists. Brown scored in double figures.

On the other hand, on the Suns' side, this game can be described as a multi-point flowering, with Dio scoring a team-high 25 points, Marion 21 points, Nash 20 points, and Wang Chao also scoring 20 points.

The Suns scored 20+ points in four people, and unless Kobe Bryant broke out in the small universe and scored 50+ points, he was destined to be powerless.

The game was uneventful, and the Suns maintained the lead until the end of the game.

But for Wang Chao, this process is a little "exciting".

In this game, Nash's state in the first half was really good, and before the end of the half, he had already scored 14 points on 5 of 7 shots and 4 of 4 free throws, which surprised Wang Chao in a cold sweat.

You must know that in the first four games, Wang Chao's average score per game was only 0.25 points higher than Nash's, and the 0.25-point gap only required Nash's score to be 2 points higher than Wang Chao's score in this game to complete the overtake.

While Nash scored 14 points in the first half, Wang Chao had just scored six points.

Fortunately, Nash is a master passer rather than a super scorer, and after discovering that his teammates were all feeling good in the game, Nash decisively gave up his own attack in the second half of the game and instead assisted his teammates to score.

As a result, Nash only took four shots in the second half and scored six points.

Even so, Wang Chao finally scored his 20th point of the game with a mid-range shot when there were about three minutes left at the end of the fourth quarter.

In this way, Wang Chao and Nash both scored 20 points, and after five games, Wang Chao averaged 21 points per game, Nash scored 20.8 points, and Wang Chao became the team scoring champion in the first round of the game with an extremely narrow margin of 0.2 points.

One thing to say, this scoring champion is actually not a big deal, because Nash has 10.6 assists in addition to averaging 20.8 points per game, which is the standard 20+10 data base.

On the other hand, Wang Chao, in addition to a dry 21 points, the number of rebounds and assists is pitiful.

But Wang Chao doesn't care about this, being able to complete the system task and get a reward is the best reward for him.

Moreover, no one will compare the current Wang Chao with Nash.

Nash is the soul of the Suns and the key to the operation of the whole team, the Suns can do without Stoudemire, without Marion, without Wang Chao, but absolutely not without Nash.

And the performance is not as good as Nash, it does not mean that Wang Chao's performance in the series is not bright enough, after all, he is the team's scoring champion, the highest scoring player in the team, and can shoot 6.4 three-pointers per game in 5 games, which is about to catch up with the average three-point shooting per game of the Lakers.

If it weren't for Wang Chao, the Suns would have been cornered by the Lakers and almost eliminated, and with Wang Chao, the score changed from 4:3 to 4:1, which is enough to see Wang Chao's role and contribution on the court.

The Suns eliminated the Lakers to advance to the second round, while the Lakers went home early to fish.

Kobe's first playoff journey without O'Neal ended like this, and after five games, Kobe's personal data was extremely luxurious, one 50+, two 30+, and two 20+, showing his super scoring ability to the fullest.

However, he was eliminated by a big score in the first round, which still put Kobe Bryant on the cusp, after all, there is still an O'Neal who is eyeing the ground in the east.

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The Suns, who entered the second round of the division semifinals, will face the Los Angeles team next and the Los Angeles Clippers, who are sixth in the West in the regular season.

The Clippers faced the Nuggets in the first round against the third-place team in the West.

Originally, from the regular season record to the team's lineup, the Nuggets were on the more advantageous side.

However, the first round meeting between the two teams turned out to be that the Clippers completely defeated the Nuggets.

4:1, like the Suns, the Clippers eliminated the Nuggets in five games.

The core of the Clippers during this period was Elton Captain. Brand.

This dude looks inconspicuous, and many people may not remember his name, but at his peak, he was a top power forward who maintained 20+10 data all year round, and was once a strongman who could compete with Duncan of the Spurs in the West.

In addition to Brand, the Clippers also have the likes of Corey. Margeti, Mobley the Cat, Cassel the Alien and Chris Carman are just a few.

This is also a strong team, and in another time and space, the Suns also relied on seven bloody battles with the opponent to win the Western Conference finals.

However, like the game with the Lakers, the current Suns have one more Wang Chao, and there are many more variables.

What's more, Wang Chao had just completed the task released by the system not long ago and obtained new talent skills.

Long-distance runner talent.

This is the name of the talent that Wang Chao will reward after completing the system task.

After the reward was issued, Wang Chao entered the consciousness space to check that this talent appeared in another branch of the talent tree, and was not next to the marksman and fast gunner talents.

This is actually not surprising, the sharpshooter and fast gunner talents are both shooter-related types of skills, but long-distance runners can tell just by listening to the name, and it has nothing to do with shooting.

This talent is systematically classified in the physical fitness talent, and it is obvious that if Wang Chao obtains other quality talents, he will also share the same branch with the long-distance runner talent.

The function of the long-distance runner's talent is similar to what Wang Chao imagined, but the effect is far beyond his imagination.

Long-distance runners: Players who run more than 1 km in a race will receive a 10% fitness bonus, those who run more than 3 km will receive a 20% fitness bonus and a 5% running speed bonus, and those who run more than 5 km will receive a 35% fitness bonus and a 10% running speed bonus.

The introduction of this skill seems a bit complicated, but to put it simply, the farther Wang Chao runs on the field, the more physical bonuses and faster running speed he can get.

Assuming that Wang Chao has a physical fitness of 100, if he runs a distance of 1 km in the whole game, then the physical fitness he can use in the whole game is 110, if the running distance is 3 kilometers, the available physical fitness is 120, and he will run faster than at the beginning, if he runs more than 5 kilometers, then the physical fitness can reach 135!