(It's a little late today, there is something to do in the morning, there are guests at home in the afternoon, and there is an estimate that it will be eleven or twelve o'clock in the evening,)

In the first quarter of the game, it was obvious that Wang Chao had the upper hand.

Hamilton's running, Wang Chao can keep up, and once Wang Chao keeps up, with his height and arm span advantage, it is naturally very simple to prevent the opponent's shot, but when it is changed to Wang Chao's side to run, Prince is quite difficult to follow.

Throughout the first quarter, Hamilton only made three shots, hitting one of them and making 1 of 2 free throws to score three points.

On the other hand, Wang Chao's side scored 9 points on 3-of-5 shooting from beyond the three-point line, although he was not the highest scorer in the first quarter of the Suns, but his performance obviously suppressed Hamilton.

Stoudemire faced Ben in the first quarter. Wallace's defense was amazingly efficient, shooting 6-of-7 from the field and 1-of-2 from the free-throw line, scoring 13 points and 4 rebounds, and other players also scored on the offensive end, which allowed the Suns to score 32 points in the first quarter.

The Pistons were limited by Wang Chao's marking because of Hamilton, the main scoring point in the team, coupled with the slow pace of the overall offense, only 22 points in the first quarter, and they fell behind by 10 points.

The game entered the second quarter, which was supposed to be the time for the bench players to play.

But when Wang Chao sat on the sidelines to rest, he saw that Hamilton had been sitting on the field for less than a minute before re-entering the field at a dead ball.

As soon as he saw Hamilton playing, Wang Chao immediately couldn't sit still.

He was really afraid that guy would take advantage of the time when the substitute player came on to score crazy points.

Wang Chao's scoring ability is limited after all, if Hamilton scores 30+ points in this game, it is unrealistic to rely on himself to score 40+ points to complete the task.

So what Wang Chao has to do is to limit Hamilton's score to less than 20 points as much as possible, the lower the better!

Therefore, after Hamilton came on the court, Wang Chao immediately stood up and walked to the side of head coach D'Antoni.

"Coach, I'm going to play."

D'Antoni was stunned for a moment, turned his head to look at Wang Chao, who was wet with sweat, and shook his head slightly.

"Don't be in such a hurry, we have the advantage in the score, you can wait and see, you consumed a lot in the first quarter, let's rest off the court more."

How hard Wang Chao worked in the first quarter of the game, D'Antoni saw it.

Defensively following Hamilton's long run, the offensive end was also very aggressive.

His physical exertion is greater than Hamilton's.

D'Antoni didn't want to see that before the game was halfway through, Wang Chao was already unable to play because of too much physical exertion.

"It's okay coach, I can do it." Wang Chao also shook his head and said seriously. 'In this game, I want to give it my all and really compete with Hamilton.'

"......" D'Antoni looked at Wang Chao, was silent for a moment and said: "Prepare, play when the dead ball is in the next round." ”

……

With most of the opponents on the bench, Hamilton on the field finally found the feeling he had not felt for a long time.

With a run away from the ball, he got an open opportunity 18 feet from the basket, hit a mid-range shot, and then broke through with the ball to draw a foul on a defender, making 2 of 2 free throws and scoring four straight points.

Wang Chao leaned on the technical table and watched Hamilton score 4 points in just 2 minutes, and his eyelids jumped.

In the entire first quarter of the game, the opponent only scored a total of 3 points, and in the second quarter of the game, it took less than 2 minutes to score 4 points.

In this way, Hamilton's personal score has come to 7 points, which is not much different from Wang Chao's 9 points.

Fortunately, with Hamilton standing at the free throw line, Wang Chao finally ushered in the opportunity to play.

Hamilton, who made 2 free throws and 2 hits, didn't have the slightest smile on his face when he stepped back, because he saw Wang Chao re-entering the game when he made free throws.

The other starters were still resting off the court at this time, but Wang Chao appeared on the court, which was clearly aimed at himself!

"That stinky boy, think he can really guard me?"

Rao is Hamilton has a good temper, and he is also angry enough.

After all, he is an All-Star level player who has been famous in the league for a long time, and the clay man still has three points of fire, and he is not something that anyone can knead at will in the arena!

The Suns attacked, and Barbosa held the ball for half the court, and immediately prepared to attack with the ball himself.

But before he could make a move, he saw Wang Chao not far away raise his hand to ask for the ball.

Barbossa: "......"

He really wanted to ignore Wang Chao and fight himself.

But the sight of the substitute coach D'Antoni made him not dare to do it.

Before this game, D'Antoni made it clear in the team that Wang Chao would face off against Hamilton of the Pistons, and asked the players in the team to assist Wang Chao as much as possible on the court.

Barbossa can scoff at this, but ignore the consequences of the manager's words...... He better not try it himself.

Very unhappy to pass the ball to Wang Chao, Barbosa ran to the other side to open up space for Wang Chao.

Standing at a 45-degree angle of the three-point line, Wang Chao held the ball and looked at the defenders in front of him.

Standing in front of him at this time was no longer the difficult Prince, but the Pistons' backup forward Jason. Mark Hill, a 2.01-meter-tall striker with a strong body.

Jason. Mark Hill was last year's rookie, and this is his second season of career, and it's noticeably tender, and even if he plays a few more seasons later, this guy is still just a bench role player, which is not a good reason.

Wang Chao raised his hand and pretended to shoot, and the opponent immediately nervously stepped forward to defend.

Obviously, he is very jealous of Wang Chao's three-point shooting ability.

But now Wang Chao doesn't only shoot three points.

Seeing that the opponent jumped directly and tried to block, Wang Chao directly withdrew the ball, accelerated to the left side to break through, and stopped near the free throw line to make a quick stop jump shot.

Wang Chao's mid-range shooting ability is much inferior to the 99 full-value three-point shot, but after all, it has also been practiced hard, and the mid-range shooting has reached a high level of 90, and the mid-range shooting after dribbling is also 83.

Facing the opponent's empty basket before he had time to make up for the defense, Wang Chao easily hit the shot.

The improvement of dribbling ability has greatly improved Wang Chao's independent offensive ability, and it may not be easy to face a top defender like Prince, but if the opponent is Jason. With a player like Mark Hill, it's too easy to score.

The Pistons possessed the ball, Hamilton frowned, and looked at Wang Chao, who was closely following him.

Wang Chao is really difficult to entangle, once he follows him, it is extremely difficult for him to catch the ball and attack.

There was no way, Hamilton could only lead Wang Chao to run all over the field and consume excess energy.

"Hmph, aren't you very good at running? Then you can run better than anyone else. Hamilton snorted coldly.

Wang Chao consumed a lot of physical strength at both ends of the offensive and defensive ends of the game in the first quarter, and he saw it in his eyes.

Hamilton doesn't think that Wang Chao's physical fitness will be better than him, which may not be reflected yet, but as the game progresses, the huge consumption of physical energy will definitely make Wang Chao's pace slower and slower.

"When the time comes, let's see how you defend yourself!"

It's just that I don't know if it's an illusion, Hamilton feels that compared to the first quarter, Wang Chao's speed seems to have become a little faster.

This is certainly not an illusion.

"The second layer of the long-distance runner effect is activated, ah......"

Feeling that his body had become a little lighter, and the fatigue of his body was not so obvious, Wang Chao knew that it was the talent of long-distance runners that began to exert his strength.

In the first stage of the long-distance runner's talent, if you run more than 1 km, you will receive a 10% fitness bonus.

In the second stage, if you run more than 3 km, you will receive a 20% fitness bonus and a 5% running speed bonus.

In the third stage, if you run more than 5 km, you will receive a 35% fitness bonus and a 10% running speed bonus.

Each of the above three phases is calculated independently and superimposed, that is, when all three phases are activated, Wang Chao can get 65% of his peak physical strength and 15% of his running speed bonus.

It is now clear that he has reached a distance of 3 km, so the second phase is activated, and his energy is restored by 30%, and his running speed has also increased.

Originally, Wang Chao and Hamilton's speed was only between the best, and the latter was only a little more flexible because it was lower than Wang Chao.

However, with the second phase effect activated by the long-distance runner talent, he has achieved a reversal in speed, and is already faster than Hamilton.

This also led to the fact that on the field, no matter how aggressive Hamilton was running without the ball, he couldn't get rid of Wang Chao, and many times he couldn't even get a chance to catch the ball.

On the other hand, on Wang Chao's side, the abuse of vegetables flew up, and Makhill was too tender, even in the face of Wang Chao, who was attacking with the ball, he was helpless.

After a few rounds, the Pistons, for their part, had to reintroduce Prince.

Among the inside and outside players of their team, the only one who can slightly limit Wang Chao is Prince, who has static talent and excellent defensive ability.

But even so, Wang Chao still shot 3 of 6 and 1 of 3 three-pointers in the first 5 minutes of the second quarter of the game, scoring 7 points.

The Pistons managed to narrow the gap to less than double digits thanks to Hamilton's scoring at the start of the second quarter, and in the blink of an eye, the margin went up to double digits again, and it widened by two points.

As the game progressed, the main players of both teams began to return to the field one after another.

Wang Chao also began to change his style of play, and on the defensive end, he still followed Hamilton closely throughout the whole process, not giving the opponent any chance to shoot easily.

On the offensive end, Wang Chao began to gradually reduce the frequency of running without the ball and switched to fixed-point shooting.

This is also a helpless move, Wang Chao certainly wants to get more points, so as to ensure that Hamleton is suppressed by more than 10 points.

But the problem is that even with the physical strength of the talent bonus of long-distance runners, Wang Chao can't play a lot in the first and second quarters of the game while running all over the court at both ends of the offensive and defensive ends.

Not to mention Wang Chao, even a big guy with a physical strength value of 99 is impossible to do.

In order to continue to limit Hamilton's scoring, Wang Chao can only make some trade-offs.

The efficiency of standing in the fixed position and waiting for Nash's pass to assist is certainly not high, but it is not completely impossible, the Suns are after all a run-and-gun team known as a 7-second offense, and they can still create a lot of open opportunities to shoot in the course of the game.

In the second half of the second quarter, Wang Chao played for about 4 minutes, and waited until Hamilton on the opposite side came off the court before going down to rest.

And in these four minutes, he got another 3-point shot and successfully took it.

In doing so, he scored another 10 points in the second quarter and 19 points in the half!

On the other hand, Hamilton, except for scoring 4 points in a row at the beginning of the second quarter, and then under Wang Chao's perseverance and defense, he basically didn't touch the ball much, and his 3 attempts were also interfered with by Wang Chao and deviated from the basket, and finally only relied on free throws to score 2 points, and scored 9 points at halftime.

19:9, exactly 10 minutes.

Such a result naturally made Wang Chao feel a little more determined.

The two teams also scored 29 and 28 points in the second quarter, respectively, and the Suns returned to the locker room with an 11-point lead.

"Wang, you are really a genius."

In the dressing room, D'Antoni praised Wang Chao without hesitation: "It may be a little difficult for you to defend players who can break through with the ball, but if the opponent is a projection-oriented player like Hamilton, your defensive ability is not bad at all." ”

D'Antoni is not exaggerating, based on excellent static talent, Wang Chao's defensive ability, no matter how bad, when he raises his hands in front of the opponent, he will still give a lot of pressure to players who are not as tall as him.

More importantly, Wang Chao not only successfully limited the play of Hamilton, the main scorer of the Pistons, in this game, but also played well, with 19 points in the half, which was 3 points higher than Stoudemire's halftime score!

"In the second half, you continue to defend Richard, we will win this game!"

……

There is no need for D'Antoni to say that in this game, in order to complete the task, he will desperately defend Hamilton.

In the third quarter, Hamilton made a rare absence at the start.

In the first half, he played for nearly 18 minutes, and the marathon race with Wang Chao did not run at all, and the physical exertion was huge, so in order to be able to play on the court in the fourth quarter, he could only rest a little more in the third quarter.

This also gave Wang Chao a chance to breathe.

Hamilton consumes a lot, his consumption is greater than that of the opponent, and if it weren't for the talent of long-distance runners, he would have been tired and lying on the bench like a dead dog.

The two sat on their respective benches and spent most of the third quarter peacefully.

When the ball was broken out of bounds at 8 minutes and 26 seconds into the third quarter, Hamilton, who had a break of more than 20 minutes at halftime, finally came back into play.

It's just that when he just walked to the technical table, he saw Wang Chao on the side of the Sun team also standing up and walking in his direction.

Hamilton: "......"

You're a kid, aren't you?

Wang Chao and Hamilton's playing time overlapped highly, and it was obvious that this game was specifically aimed at him!

The clay man still has three points of fire, let alone a long-established All-Star like Hamilton?

In the first half of the game, Wang Chao was suppressed throughout the whole game, with only 9 points, of which 4 points were obtained when Wang Chao was not on the court, and the shooting rate was less than 40%, which made Hamilton very unhappy.

Do you really think I'm a soft persimmon that can be kneaded at will?

After the two came on at the same time, Hamilton ran desperately even on the field.

Do you really think you're a good runner? I'd like to see how long you can last you run!

As an NBA player, the matchup between Hamilton and Wang Chao on the court is somewhat unusual.

Everyone competes in ball skills on the field, but when it comes to these two people, it has become a marathon competition, just like who can run better and who is the better one.

Hamilton, who is a little anxious, has not even thought about the tactics of the team, even if Billups is already making a breakthrough with the ball in the pick-and-roll cover, he will continue to run around the field, which naturally does not help the team's attack, but at this time he really doesn't care about the outcome of this game.

"You kid deceives people too much! I won't give you a run in this game, even if I lose! ”

Wang Chao must admit that Hamilton is simply an animal.

Looking at the whole league, there are probably not many players who can run on the field like him, as teammate Billups said about him.

"Sometimes I even wonder if he has some kind of illness – because he doesn't know what exhaustion is, it's crazy."

Unfortunately, Wang Chao is one of the few players in the league who can keep up with Hamilton.

At 10 minutes and 34 seconds into the third quarter, Wang Chao suddenly felt a surge of power, and even his steps on the court were a little lighter.

It's clear that the third stage of the long-distance runner talent has been achieved!

In other words, the third quarter of the game is not over yet, and Wang Chao's running distance has broken through the 5-kilometer mark!

5 kilometers is already the level of a mini-marathon, after all, basketball games are not really running marathons, in addition to the running distance, there are many places that will consume physical energy, such as attack, defense, physical contact and confrontation with opponents, etc.

Combined with the 48-minute limit of a game in the NBA and a maximum of 24 seconds per round, it is difficult for an average starter to reach a distance of 5 kilometers when he plays about 35 minutes.

However, Wang Chao has already run more than 5 kilometers at this time, and even he himself is the first time to activate the third stage of long-distance runner talent in the third quarter of the race.

Stage 3 Bonus: 35% Stamina and 10% Running Speed Bonus!

Wang Chao, who was already very tired, immediately became calm and fast, and he followed easily in the next few rounds.

Hamiltonians are stupid.

"Why is this guy getting more excited the more he runs?"

Before he could figure out what was going on, the third quarter was over.

Obviously, Hamilton lost again, and with Wang Chao accompanying him throughout the game, he still didn't have many chances in the third quarter, scoring only 2 points on 1-of-2 shooting.

Wang Chao also did not have many scoring opportunities in the third quarter, in order to keep up with Hamilton's footsteps, he had completely abandoned the offensive end, did not make a single shot, and still scored 19 points.

But it doesn't matter, there's the fourth quarter of the game.

……

Looking at Wang Chao, who was still radiant and seemed tireless, D'Antoni was really a little scared.

"Wang, don't be reckless, just rest when you're tired, with our lead, even if the fourth quarter of the game is given to Hamilton to score, we can't lose."

D'Antoni is really afraid that this game will collapse Wang Chao.

The Suns, as a run-and-bomb team, have a lot of running in each game, and if calculated according to the 7-second offensive time per round, the average number of main players of the Suns is around 4,000 meters to 4,500 meters per game.

But even so, D'Antoni has never seen a player run like this on the field.

Hamilton is exaggerated enough, and Wang Chao is even more exaggerated than the other party!

These two weren't here to play basketball at all, and they should have signed up for a marathon.

(End of chapter)