(The second watch is coming.) ）

"Don't worry, coach, I know my own situation, and I can continue to play in the fourth quarter."

Wang Chao took the trouble to explain to D'Antoni.

Wang Chao, who has just activated the third stage of long-distance runner talent, is in a state of excitement after recovering his physical strength, and it is no problem to play another seven or eight minutes in the fourth quarter.

On the other side of the Pistons bench, Hamilton's expression was like he had seen a ghost.

"Is there any mistake, what's going on with that guy?"

Not to mention Hamilton, even the other Pistons players were a little incredulous.

It's an exaggeration that this league has players who can outrun Hamilton.

"The fourth quarter was our last chance." Pistons head coach Philip Brown. Sanders doesn't care about that.

He looked at the team members with a solemn expression.

"We are now 13 points behind, you should know better than anyone else, we can't compare with a team like the Suns in terms of scoring explosiveness, how difficult it is to catch up with the 13-point difference in a single quarter, so in the fourth quarter of the game, we have to fight to the death, Richard, I don't care what method you use, you have to get rid of that kid and restore the ability to score offense!"

Hamilton nodded emphatically.

When he played again, Wang Chao knew that Hamilton was going to fight hard.

The 13-point margin is indeed quite difficult for the Pistons to catch up, and it would have been almost impossible without the support of Hamilton, the team's leading scorer.

As a result, Hamilton will definitely do everything he can to score in the final fourth quarter.

In fact, this is not a lot of pressure for the Suns, after all, they hold a 13-point lead, and Stoudemire is unstoppable on the inside, and it is difficult to be reversed by the opponent in any way.

But for Wang Chao, he must limit Hamilton's score to more than 10 points below him, otherwise the upgrade task of the system will not be completed!

Therefore, the fourth quarter, which is not very stressful in the eyes of the Suns players, is the key to determining whether his hard work for the whole game is worth it.

Sure enough, as soon as the game began, Hamilton was running, running significantly faster than before, and there were other players on the pitch to help him cover off the ball.

Hamilton, who had come around in a big circle to find an open space on the other side, received a pass from his teammate and immediately jumped on the spot to shoot.

But at the moment when he made a move, Wang Chao followed the horse and rushed to raise his hand to interfere.

Box ——!

Although Wang Chao was half a beat slower, he still caused some defensive pressure on Hamilton, causing the opponent's shot to deviate from the basket.

"What ?!!"

Hamilton looked at Wang Chao in astonishment.

He had a faint feeling before that Wang Chao seemed to be running faster and faster, but the feeling was not very obvious.

But with this attack, he really felt Wang Chao's improvement in speed!

This speed is already much faster than him, no wonder he can catch up and defend in the first time after being blocked by an off-ball screen.

"Doesn't this guy really feel tired?"

Wang Chao is not tired or not, but he is still worried that the score at this time is not 10 points ahead of Hamilton!

After finishing the defense, he immediately rushed to the frontcourt, the defensive rebound was handed to Nash, and the Suns' fast break came again!

The Pistons were quick to get back to defense, but the Suns' offense was noticeably quicker.

Nash passed the ball to Wang Chao, who had run to the three-point line, and in front of Prince, Wang Chao directly raised his hand to shoot, and then retracted the basketball when Prince jumped to defend and went straight to the basket.

At this time, the only point guard Billups who could get back to the Pistons basket was able to defend him, and Wang Chao's offensive ability under the basket was worse, he was a 2.06 meter forward, and it was more than enough to play a 1.91-meter Billups under the basket.

rushed to the basket and jumped two steps, and gently picked the basket, Wang Chao easily sent the basketball into the basket.

The Pistons attacked, Hamilton still couldn't get rid of Wang Chao, and with the superposition of the buffs in the second and third stages of the long-distance runners, Wang Chao wanted to keep up with the opponent's footsteps very easily.

Several offensive attempts were fruitless, and the Pistons not only failed to score the ball, but were instead seized by the Suns with several opportunities to play a counterattack and fast break.

Instead of shortening, the difference between the two teams began to widen.

The Pistons finally gave up.

At 4:51 of the fourth quarter, the Pistons began to substitute their main players off the court.

Hamilton, who was sweating profusely and panting heavily, couldn't help but glance at Wang Chao on the side when he left the game.

At the same time that they were off the court, the Suns also replaced the main team.

Wang Chao's appearance is not much better than Hamilton, his whole body is as if he has just come out of the water, and his face is even a little pale.

But even so, the other party's eyes were still bright and flashed with excitement.

Obviously, the other party can continue, although I don't know how long I can last, but this physical ability, Hamilton is really convinced.

"I didn't expect that I would lose to others in this regard......" Hamilton shook his head and smiled bitterly, he was just 28 years old, he was at the peak of his competitive state, and he had not suffered any major injuries before, he never dreamed that he would not be able to outrun Wang Chao.

On the other side, Wang Chao also breathed a sigh of relief.

"It's finally over."

The five minutes of the fourth quarter were not easy to resist at all.

In order to create opportunities for Hamilton to shoot, the Pistons covered him a lot of off-ball screens, causing a lot of trouble for Wang Chao.

At this moment, Wang Chao actually felt a little unable to lift his legs, obviously his physical fitness was also on the verge of limit, and it was the belief that he wanted to complete the task that supported him.

The moment he sat on the bench, fatigue came like a tidal wave, and he felt like he didn't want to move even a finger.

But it doesn't matter, when the game is over, no matter how tired he is, a bottle of stamina potion will be knocked down, and he will be able to live in no time.

This is a small trick that Wang Chao has figured out in his long-term training.

The stamina potion rewarded by the system is for training, and it is useless to drink too much in official matches, but in fact, as long as it is not in a match, taking stamina potions will also take effect.

The effect of the Stamina Potion is to restore a portion of its stamina immediately after taking it, and gain a buff that increases its stamina recovery rate for the next 12 hours.

It's also a good thing to use to relieve fatigue after a game, but it's a little bit wasteful.

However, if it is used during back-to-back away games, it can effectively relieve the fatigue accumulated by players over the years.

This is also the reason why Wang Chao can still maintain high-intensity training during the intensive and intense regular season.

Stamina Potion! yyds！

He thought silently in his mind.

Halfway through the fourth quarter, both teams have already switched to full bench lineups, because the difference has reached more than 20 points at this time, and the Pistons have voluntarily abandoned the game.

In the first five minutes of the fourth quarter, the Pistons did try to mount a counterattack, but as previously said, they couldn't activate Hamilton's offense, and their offensive efficiency was not guaranteed.

But they tried to help Hamilton score more than once in the previous rounds, but they were all destroyed by Wang Chao one by one.

In those five minutes, Hamilton made just 1 of 5 shots.

Wang Chao's ability to keep up with the defense in time every time is one of the reasons, on the other hand, Hamilton is also a human being, although he is famous in the league for not being able to run to death, but if he really keeps running and not stopping, there is a high probability that he will still die......

After three quarters of competition with Wang Chao, Hamilton's physical fitness was also seriously lost, although he could still run in the fourth quarter, but his hand felt the impact of the decline in physical fitness, and he no longer had the accuracy he had in the past.

Wang Chao's situation is similar, but after all, he has a super high base value to support, so in the fourth quarter of the game, he made a cold shot and scored a three-pointer, and his personal score was fixed at 24 points.

24 points is not high for the Suns, as Stoudemire scored 31 points in this game, which is a team-high score.

But Wang Chao doesn't care about that, what he cares about is Hamilton's score.

Due to Wang's defense, Hamilton scored only 2 points in these 5 minutes, and with the scoring in the first three quarters of the game, the final score was fixed at 11 points, shooting only 37.5% from the field.

Just from Hamilton's play, you can see how good the whole process of the king is super kraft candy in this game.

112:95, this is the final score of both teams.

As the whistle blew at the end of the game.

Wang Chao's ears sounded the voice of the system.

"Ding - Congratulations to player Wang Chao for completing the mission conditions and helping the team win the game and score 10 points higher than Hamilton."

"The long-distance runner talent has been upgraded, please check."

Listening to the sound of the system, Wang Chao couldn't wait to enter the consciousness space.

He was curious about what talent upgrades were like.

Then when Wang Chao saw the talent tree standing in the consciousness space, he found that on the fork that originally belonged to the talent of long-distance runners, there were actually leaves growing up, which looked luxuriant, which was completely different from the bare branches before.

At the same time, he also saw a change in the introduction of long-distance runner talent.

Long-distance runner talent (upgraded): Players who run more than 1 km in the race will receive a 10% fitness bonus, 10% reverse running flexibility, and a 20% fitness bonus, a 5% running speed bonus, and a 3% increase in catch-and-shoot shooting percentage. Running distance of more than 5 kilometers increases the physical fitness bonus by 35%, the running speed bonus by 10%, and reduces the negative impact of shooting shots by 30% under fatigue.

"Is this an upgrade?"

Wang Chao was stunned.

To put it simply, the upgraded version of the long-distance runner talent has increased the reverse running agility by 10%, the shooting percentage after receiving the ball by 3%, and the negative impact of shooting in a fatigued state by 30%.

If you don't consider the long-term buff effect of the marksman's 30% shooting training effect bonus, Wang Chao would like to call the upgraded long-distance runner the strongest talent!

In today's race, Wang Chao truly appreciated the horror of long-distance runners' talent.

Although it is only a talent that increases physical strength and running speed with the distance traveled, it is really exaggerated to achieve the cumulative increase of 65% physical strength under certain conditions.

Even Hamilton, a well-known player in the league, made him tired enough, you must know that Wang Chao's physical strength value has just reached 90, and there is still a big gap with Hamilton.

Of course, it is still more demanding for the characteristics of long-distance runners to be triggered in full, especially the effect of the third stage, which needs to run a distance of 5 kilometers on the field before it can be activated.

Since he acquired the talent of a long-distance runner, Wang Chao has activated the third stage trait on one hand and counted them on one hand.

And the other few times were not long after the trait was activated, and the game was over, and he was not given a chance to play at all.

Today's game was a special situation, he followed Hamilton around on the defensive end, and he was running like crazy on the offensive end, so he activated the third phase early in the third quarter and played it out in the fourth quarter.

In any case, the evolved version of the long-distance runner is obviously more talented, and it is more distinctive, whether it is 10% anti-run sensitivity, or 3% shooting rate after receiving the ball, it will be of great help to Wang Chao's performance in the game, as for the negative impact of reducing fatigue shooting by 30% in the third stage, when Wang Chao is physically exhausted and needs this feature, his running distance should be almost enough, and this feature is very suitable for use at the last critical moment of the game.

Wang Chao was happy, but he couldn't help but have another idea.

“…… Since the talent of long-distance runner can be upgraded, is it possible that the talents of marksman, fast gunner, and sniper can also be upgraded? ”

Wang Chao thought in his heart, and his eyes couldn't help but fall to the other side of the shooting talent.

Over there, there are three branches that extend out, representing the Marksman, Sharpshooter, and Sniper talents.

If these three talents could grow leaves like a long-distance runner, they would definitely be more powerful than they are now, right?

It's a pity that Wang Chao has no clue about how to upgrade his talent skills, and only the tasks randomly released by the system can help him complete the upgrade.

……

After briefly checking the effect of the upgraded version of the long-distance runner's talent, Wang Chao withdrew from the consciousness space, stood up and high-fived his teammates at the same time, and celebrated the victory of another game.

By the way, before leaving the consciousness space, he still knocked a bottle of stamina potion, he didn't want to walk with weak legs when he walked to the player's tunnel for a while, it would be too embarrassing.

Wang Chao, who stood up, saw Hamilton walking from the Pistons bench to this side.

"Hey, brother, I'm really convinced of you."

Hamilton looked at Wang Chao and said from the bottom of his heart: "You can really run, I didn't expect that there are players in this league who can run better than me, come on, you will definitely become an All-Star." ”

On the field, they are opponents, but off the field, they can be friends.

Although Hamilton is a player for the Pistons, he doesn't have the ruffian style of the bad boys in the '80s, but is very easy-going and friendly.

"Thank you." Wang Chao said modestly: "I just took advantage of the younger physical fitness, and there is still a lot to learn from you in terms of the skills of running without the ball." ”

He's not talking nonsense.

Wang Chao's off-ball style of play is learned by watching a large number of Hamilton game videos, the talent of long-distance runners just makes him have the most suitable talent to play without the ball, running without the ball is not like a headless fly on the field, the route of running, the choice of position is very important, otherwise it is meaningless to run, not to mention that there is no vacancy, and it will affect the offensive rhythm of teammates.

Now that the talent of long-distance runners has been upgraded, Wang Chao will definitely invest more energy in this area in the future.

Hearing Wang Chao's business blows made Hamilton quite happy.

In the subsequent press conference, Hamilton praised Wang Chao's performance in this game.

"You have all seen that in this game, I was completely locked up by the Chinese player Wang Chao of the Suns, according to him, his off-ball running was self-taught by watching my game video, so he knew me very well, and he almost didn't leave an inch in the game, as if he was running with me."

"I couldn't outrun him, so being limited by him in the game led to poor performance, after all, Wang Chao has excellent footwork and running ability, but also has better static talent, I think he will become the league's top scorer in the future."

Pistons head coach Philip Brown. Sanders said helplessly.

"In today's game, I saw two Richards running on the court, and the other one was taller, had a longer range, and even ran faster, and if we want to beat the Suns, the first thing we need to think about is how to limit the opponent's scoring, which is obviously not ...... in today's game."

……

There was no doubt that it was a very good game, but the reality was that not many people paid attention to it.

How many fans would be idle enough to follow how far a player has covered in a match?

Why is Hamilton consistently underrated?

The lack of career points per game is one thing, and the lack of flashy and eye-catching off-ball play is another important factor.

No matter how outstanding Wang Chao's performance in this game is, the 24 points and 4 rebounds in the game are significantly inferior to Stoudemire's 31 points and 13 rebounds and Nash's 18 points and 15 assists.

That's the reality.

Wang Chao didn't particularly care about this.

The system task is completed, the talent of the long-distance runner is upgraded and evolved, and the score is maintained at more than 20 points, which is the best result for Wang Chao.

In the next races, he can also test how well the upgraded long-distance runner talent works.

(End of chapter)