Chapter Seventy-Three: In the first week of the regular season, he averaged 21.8 points per game

With the Suns beating the Spurs, the regular season record has also moved to 4-1 and is currently in first place in the West.

And Wang Chao scored 30 points in the game with the Spurs, and his personal average points per game directly exceeded 20 points, reaching 21.2 points.

As Popovich said, Wang Chao's extremely stable three-point shooting outside the three-point line, as well as tireless running on the court, so far the league really has no particularly good way to deal with it, and only a monster like Kirilenko's dynamic talent and static talent can really limit Wang Chao's play.

Wang Chao's efficient scoring also successfully gave D'Antoni a taste of sweetness, and he began to realize that Stoudemire, who had not yet fully recovered to his peak form, did not seem to be as good as Wang Chao.

Therefore, in the subsequent home game against the Dallas Mavericks on November 9, D'Antoni once again arranged his tactics around Wang Chao as the main core of the scorer.

Although the Suns finally lost to the Mavericks 112-119 in this game, Wang Chao once again played a brilliant performance of 25 points and 3 rebounds, shooting 8 of 15, 6 of 10 three-pointers, and 3 of 4 free throws.

The Suns lost to their old rival in the Western Conference last season, and in the matchup between the two All-Star power forwards, Nowitzki scored 35 points, 7 rebounds and 4 assists, while Stoudemire only had 16 points and 8 rebounds.

Regarding the Suns' loss to the Mavericks, Wang Chao was not surprised.

Because according to the original historical process, the Mavericks' final record this season should be 67-15, first in the league, and higher than the Suns' winning rate of 61-21.

And only the Mavericks and Suns have won 60+ games this season.

Of course, the story that followed is as many longtime fans know that the Mavericks, who were unbeatable in the regular season, entered the playoffs but were defeated by Byron in the first round. The Davis-led Warriors were eliminated and became a big joke in the league.

It is not without the Black Eight miracle in the history of the league, but the proud record of 67 wins in the regular season like the Mavericks is the only one that has been blacked eight.

And the funniest thing is that the reason why the Warriors can enter the playoffs is that the Mavericks released water at the end of the playoffs and gave the Warriors a victory, which made the Warriors narrowly ranked eighth in the West and entered the playoffs, and the Los Angeles Clippers also missed the playoffs this season.

But no matter how bad the Mavericks play in the playoffs, the Mavericks are really strong in the regular season this season.

You must know that even the Lakers, who are at the peak of the OK combination, have a best record in the regular season of only 67, and looking at the history of the league, 67 wins is already the top record that can be ranked, especially before the Warriors' 73 wins happened, only the Bulls' 72 wins, the Lakers' 69 wins and the Celtics and the 76ers' 68 wins are better than this record.

Further down is the 67-win bracket, and although there are many teams, each one is at least a few years apart.

Nowitzki also relied on the Mavericks' 67-win record to get the only regular season MVP trophy in his career this season, otherwise his average of 24.6 points, 8.9 rebounds and 3.4 assists per game was nothing in that strongman season.

The loss against the Mavericks turned the Suns' record to 4-2, and the first week of the regular season was over.

In the first week of the league, the Suns surprised many.

First of all, after Stoudemire returned from injury, he seemed a little uncomfortable with the game, although he played well in the first two games, but his performance in the subsequent games was not particularly good, so he averaged only 16.6 points and 7.9 rebounds per game.

Nash, Marion's two starters also saw a significant drop in the number of shots they took from last season, after all, they had to hand over the ball to Stoudemire.

Nash averaged 15.4 points and 11.6 assists per game, while Marion had 18.2 points and 9.8 rebounds.

Of course, another big reason for the decline in the statistics of the two is that they not only gave the ball to Stoudemire, but also gave some of it to Wang Chao.

No one expected that after the start of the new season, Wang Chao actually showed such a stable and efficient performance on the offensive end, averaging 21.8 points per game in the first week, and the three-point shooting rate was as high as 49%, directly becoming the team's scoring champion and the team's main scoring point in the game.

Many fans are happy, because not long ago, many people were still commenting on the incident of Barkley's gambling king averaging points per game in the regular season and trying to taste donkey dung if he loses.

At that time, many people were still saying that Barkley was cunning, and with Wang Chao's ability, it was almost impossible to achieve an average performance of 20+ per game around Stoudemire, Marion and other scorers.

Who would have thought that after a few games, Wang Chao's average score per game was almost 22 points!

Although a total of 6 games have only been played so far, and there are still 76 games waiting for Wang Chao in the future, if he really continues to play according to the current tactical play, Wang Chao's average of 20+ points per game is really a little bit possible.

The situation seems to have changed.

Only Wang Chao himself can clearly feel the existence of pressure.

As a traverser, he was well aware that Stoudemire's misperformance was only in the first few games of the regular season.

It won't be long before the opponent will quickly get back into shape and play efficiently.

When the time comes, the Suns' offensive focus will definitely be refocused on Stoudemire, after all, Wang Chao's style of play by constantly running to find opportunities and relying too much on outside touch is not stable enough in everyone's opinion, at least compared to Stoudemire's efficient scoring ability under the basket.

Once the strategic focus changes, Wang Chao will definitely get fewer opportunities, and he doesn't know whether he can maintain an average of 20+ points per game.

Wang Chao remembers that the final average of Stoudemire's regular season this season should be about 20 points and 10 rebounds per game, and the shooting rate of 57.5% is a career high.

Although it is a bit inappropriate to say this, Wang Chao clearly understands that if he wants to complete the task of the season, his teammates who are on the same team at some point are also his competitors!