"Wang Chao?" Smith raised his eyebrows in some surprise: "Compared to Stoudemire, who has recovered from injury, what do you care more about is Wang Chao?" Why? ”

"There's no particular reason." Barkley said: "I just want to see if after last season, the teams in the league are still like the previous playoffs, and this kid can average 20+ points per game by using the opportunistic way of simple running without the ball." ”

As a representative of the interior back-to-back singles in his prime, Barkley has always had a low opinion of players who shoot three-pointers from the outside.

"I just can't figure it out, what's wrong with the current interior players? Why don't you use the method of getting closer to the basket to score the easier it is, and you have to float on the outside to shoot. ”

"Like Wang Chao, he obviously has a height of 2.06 meters and an arm span of 2.18 meters, as long as he practices his steps and gains weight to strengthen his confrontation ability, he definitely has a good job on the inside, but he has to run to the outside line to shoot three points."

Barkley's words, Smith on the side was a little unhappy.

Kenny. Smith has been a standard shooter in his playing career, and although his main position is guard, which is different from Wang Chao, this does not prevent him from appreciating Wang Chao's outside shooting skills.

"What's wrong with a three-point shot from the outside? As long as you can score, it is a good basketball skill, and Wang Chao averaged 21 points per game in the playoffs last season, the highest scoring in the Suns, isn't that enough to prove Wang Chao's success in this regard? ”

"Of course not." Barkley shook his head and said: "In the playoffs last season, it can only be said that Wang Chao was lucky, and he could still get high scores with such a single offensive method, which is mainly due to the fact that the teams that played against the Suns mainly focused on Nash and Marion, and did not focus too much on defending Wang Chao." ”

"It's just running without the ball, as long as it is a player with better mobility, you can keep up with Wang Chao, who is not too fast, and if your defensive awareness is a little better, it is not impossible for Wang Chao to receive the ball throughout the whole process."

"Wang Chao's offensive style is too simple, very dependent on Nash's passing assists and his own outside shooting touch, I don't believe he can maintain such a hot outside touch every game, after last season's playoffs, the league teams must have carefully analyzed Wang Chao's technical characteristics, this season he may be difficult to play that kind of performance."

Having said a lot, the core meaning that Barkley wants to express is very simple, that is, Wang Chao's new season is definitely not as good as before.

Many Suns fans who watched the live broadcast were furious when they heard Barkley's comments.

Before the game started, he had already begun to sing about Wang Chao's performance.

"Come on, Wang Chao! Slap this fat man in the face hard! ”

"Shoot a few more threes in this game and let Barkley see if you can do it!"

……

On the field, the players of the two teams warmed up and walked onto the field one after another.

The Lakers' starting lineup is not much different from last season, with the only change being at center. After a poor performance last season, Brown was finally replaced from the starting line-up in place of Kwame. Brown started with rookie interior Andrew, who was drafted last season. Bynum.

Of course, at this time, the baby shark is still young, and although it seems to be full of talent, it is far from growing up, and it will take a long time to hone and cultivate.

The Suns' roster has an All-Star-caliber star named Amare compared to last season. Stoudemire.

The starting line-up of Nash, Bale, Wang Chao, Marion and Stoudemire looked significantly stronger than last season.

In the jump ball phase, the batter between Stoudemire and Bynum ended with the latter winning.

With a height of 2.13 meters and an arm span of 2.29 meters, Bynum's static talent can be called terrifying.

Although Stoudemire has an amazing jump, his height and reach are much worse than Bynum's.

The Lakers possessed the ball, and the basketball was handed to Kobe, who launched an attack at the top of the three-point line, and forced a breakaway jump shot to the free throw line in the face of Bell's defensive possession.

On the first shot of the new season, Kobe Bryant felt good, shot steadily, and scored the first point.

Offense and defense switched, and it was the Suns' turn to attack.

Nash dribbled past half the court, and the other players were in their own positions.

Nash then hoisted the ball to Stoudemire, who was in position on the inside, who singled Odom with the ball on his back.

Odom is one of the better power forwards in the league right now, but it's still a bit of a gap compared to Stoudemire.

Stoudemire, who was originally good at attacking with the face frame, directly used a back-to-back single in the face of Odom, shook his shoulders and scored a sideways pick-up.

After returning from injury, Stoudemire was in good shape, and Nash was interested in letting his best partner find more form, leaving the ball to Stoudemire for the next few rounds.

During this period, Wang Chao was running back and forth on the field to play soy sauce, but he was not in a hurry, the game had just begun, and the time was still very long, and there was a chance for him to play later.

And even if he is running back and forth on the court at this time, Wang Chao is also playing a role, it is precisely because of him on the court that the Suns have three fairly stable three-point shooting points, Wang Chao, Nash, and Bell all had a three-point shooting rate of more than 40% last season, especially Wang Chao, whose three-point shooting rate is even as high as 50%.

These three points are completely untenable for the Lakers, and although Marion's three-point shot is not as accurate as these three, there is also a basket under the open position, which cannot be completely ignored.

As a result, all four of the Lakers' defenders were pulled out to the perimeter, leaving Stoudemire alone on the inside.

At the beginning, the Lakers also used Odom, who was relatively mobile, to defend Stoudemire, but as Marion suddenly cut inside the basket several times on the outside, the clumsy Bynum couldn't keep up at all, and after the opponent scored an easy empty cut layup, the Lakers had to let Odom mark Marion and hand Stoudemire to Bynum to defend.

The sophomore rookie center was even worse than Odom against Stoudemire.

Playing Bynum, Stoudemire doesn't have to carry his back, but instead uses the face frame technique, holding the ball and standing in the middle distance to see if you Bynum can prevent it from coming out, if Bynum dares to defend it, Stoudemire will directly hold the ball to break through, and Bynum's slow pace can't keep up at all.

But if you don't defend it, Stoudemire's mid-range, especially the one-step range inside the free throw line, is quite accurate, and he can shoot casually.

In the first quarter of the game, the Suns were unusually smooth in offense under the main attack of Stoudemire, scoring 33 points in a single quarter, of which Stoudemire himself scored 14 points on 6-of-8 shooting and 2-of-2 free throws.