"Brush!"

"Oh my God! Shoot again! This is Wang Chao's 5th shot in this quarter, 5 of 5 in a single quarter, including 3 three-pointers! Wang Chao has scored 13 points in the fourth quarter of the game! And it's a 100% hit rate! ”

"With this three-pointer, the Magic team has successfully built a five-point gap in the fourth quarter, and with 51 seconds left before the end of the game, the Suns may have run out of tricks!"

The cheers of the Magic's home fans were like waves, and they kept chanting the names of Wang Chao and Howard, and it was clear that the team could win this game, and Wang Chao and Howard were the biggest contributors.

At the last moment, the Suns fought for a three-point shot outside the three-point line, and the previous three-point shot was extremely accurate, Barbossa, who shot 8 out of 13, also lost his accuracy when he was strictly guarded at the last moment, and missed two consecutive three-point lines, and the Suns lost the last chance to turn the tables.

113:106.

The Magic won the game by seven points at home, beating last season's defending champions, the Phoenix Suns.

"Ding-the task is complete, the player Wang Chao's personal score in this game has reached 40+, the team has won the game, and the rewards will be distributed now, please pay attention to check."

Wang Chao's ears rang with the sound of the system's prompt.

As the mission is completed, the 100 points reward has also arrived.

To be honest, this mission is not particularly difficult, at least it is a lot easier than he imagined.

Of course, there are many reasons for this.

The Suns are not a team that is good at defense, although because of the existence of Bell, Marion and others, the one-on-one defensive ability is good, but the Suns' fast-paced offensive and defensive transition, there will still be many flaws.

On the other hand, the overall strength of the Suns this season has declined, and according to the original historical process, the Suns ranked sixth in the West with only 55 wins in the regular season this season.

And the most important thing is actually as mentioned earlier, Wang Chao's own evolution makes the Suns, who think they know him very well, extremely uncomfortable, including Marion and others, who will suffer when defending Wang Chao.

The above reasons led to Wang Chao scoring 41 points, 5 rebounds and 3 assists in this game, with a shooting percentage and a three-point shooting rate of more than 50%.

The reason why the Suns lost the game was not only caused by Wang Chao alone, but Howard's performance in this game was also impeccable.

He shot 13-of-24 from the field and 7-of-16 from the free-throw line, scoring 33 points, 18 rebounds and 3 assists, including 7 offensive rebounds.

Under his defense, the Suns' No. 1 scorer, Stoudemire, had only 13 points and 6 rebounds in the game, and left the game with six fouls early in the fourth quarter.

It was also thanks to the strong performance of Barbossa on the Suns' side, shooting 15 of 28 from the field, 8 of 15 from three-point range, and 38 points, 7 rebounds and 6 assists, otherwise the game would not have been decided in the last few minutes.

In this way, Wang Chao and Howard combined to score 74 points, such an amazing performance, how could they lose the game.

Not to mention the Suns' side losing the game, watching Wang Chao score 41 points efficiently, the mood was even more uncomfortable.

After the game, Nash took the initiative to hug Wang Chao and send blessings.

"Wang, it's definitely the wrong decision for the team to give up on you, but I'm very happy that you can play well for the Magic, and I hope you can play better and better in the future."

Whether it's because the two of their agents are also Bill. Duffy's sake is also the reason why Wang Chao helped Nash win the championship and FMVP last season, and he was quite touched by Nash's kindness to Wang Chao.

Wang Chao thought about it and said: "I hope we can meet in the playoffs." ”

The Magic are the Eastern team, the Suns are the Western team, and there is only one possibility for the two teams to meet in the playoffs, and that is on the stage of the Finals.

This is not the kind of cruel words, "I will let you know how good I am in the finals", but I wish the other party a successful breakthrough in the west.

But in fact, Wang Chao is clear that in the middle of the season, the Lakers will get Paul through a trade. Gasol, whose strength has been greatly improved, has become the only one in the West, and even the Spurs were easily defeated 4:1 when they met the Lakers in the Western Conference finals.

And Wang Chao also has a unique team in the east, the Boston Celtics led by the Big Three.

The Magic look very good right now, but they want to get past the Celtics...... It's difficult.

……

"Wang Chao Howard teamed up to score 74 points, and the Magic reversed the Suns to win the game."

"Wang Chao scored 41 points in a single game, proving with his strength that the Suns management has no eyes."

"The Magic team has two stars shining on the field, and the Magic team in the new season is unstoppable!"

The battle with the Suns successfully pushed the reputation of the Magic team to the peak, the Suns are not those opponents that the Magic have encountered before, this is a real strong team, even without Wang Chao, it is still one of the favorites to win the championship.

The Magic's ability to beat the Suns proves that they can already rank among the league's powerhouses.

And it's not just the Suns, a few days later, the Magic face another team on the road that was a participant in last season's Finals, the Cleveland Cavaliers.

The two teams fought until overtime, and finally relied on a key three-pointer hit by Wang Chao in overtime, and the Magic narrowly defeated the Cavaliers by one point with a score of 117-116.

This is not a preseason game of performance in China, but a regular season.

James was on fire, scoring a big triple-double of 39 points, 13 rebounds and 14 assists on 15-of-27 shooting.

However, on the Magic team's side, Howard also scored 35 points, 16 rebounds and 4 blocks, while Wang Chao also scored 28 points.

Looking at Wang Chao and Howard's tacit cooperation on the court, James felt sour, obviously he came first, and providing Wang Chao with a maximum salary offer is also a faster step for the Cavaliers, why is Wang Chao's final choice indeed the Magic team? Because is Orlando bigger than Cleveland?

It's really a very sad story.

The Magic, who defeated the Cavaliers, have a record of 8 wins and 1 loss, second only to the Celtics who have won nine consecutive games in the East, and second in the East and second in the league.

On November 16, the Magic defeated the Nets 95-70 on the road, bringing the number of wins to 9-1.

Having never fought such a rich battle, the Magic fans were a little carried away with excitement.

Then they were dealt a painful blow.

On November 18, the Magic welcomed the big devil of the East at home, the Boston Celtics, who have won nine in a row.

Before the start of the game, many Magic fans still believed that even if the Celtics were strong, they were fighting at home, and winning the game still had a great chance of ending the Celtics' winning streak.

But when the game officially started, they realized how big the difference in strength between the two teams was.

From the first quarter of the game, the Celtics always pressed the Magic, and until the end of the game, the Magic team did not close the score to within 5 points.

109：104。

The final score between the two teams was also the Celtics' five-point victory over the Magic, winning 10 consecutive victories and giving the Magic their second loss in the regular season.

In this game, Wang Chao and Howard performed very well, Wang Chao scored 26 points, and Howard had 24 points and 11 rebounds.

But in this game, Wang Chao's shortcomings in defensive ability were infinitely magnified.

Whether it's Paul at the small forward position. Pierce, as well as Garnett at the power forward position, can easily score on him.

Especially Pierce, whether it is Wang Chao or Turkoglu to defend, there is no way to limit the opponent's scoring, Pierce shot 14 of 24 in the game, 7 of 8 free throws, and got 35 points, 5 rebounds and 6 assists.

Garnett also had 22 points and 9 rebounds, plus Ray Allen with 19 points, the Celtics' big three combined to score 76 points and win the game easily.

Facts have proved that although the strength of the Magic team with the 04 double heroes has made a qualitative leap compared with last season, it is still not an opponent against the top teams that have a triumvirate combination of the Celtics and whose overall strength can reach the historical level.

……

After losing to the Celtics, the Magic team finally achieved a 5-2 record in the remaining seven games in November, and the two losses were against the San Antonio Spurs on November 21 and were slaughtered by the opponent 128-110, in this game Howard cut 34 points and 16 rebounds, Wang Chao also had 26 points and 5 rebounds, but he couldn't stand the Spurs' six team scoring double-doubles, Parker 32 points, Ginobili 27 points, Duncan 24 points.

The Spurs' GDP combination is also strictly a big three combination, but Ginobili, who has the starting strength, ran to play as a substitute.

As for the other loss, it was the last game in November, against the Suns on the 30th.

In this game of losing to the Suns, the Magic team faced the same problem as the Spurs, Howard scored 30 points and 23 rebounds in the game, and Wang Chao scored 25 points on 6 of 14 three-pointers, but the Suns had 6 people score double-doubles, and the run-and-gun tactics were fully brought into play, and finally defeated the Magic 112-109, avenging the previous one-arrow revenge.

There is nothing Wang Chao can do about this, the Magic team can't expect him to score more than 40+ points every time, right? Maybe Wang Chao can do it in the future, but now it is still difficult with his ability.

In fact, as the season progresses, the change in Wang Chao's style of play has made other teams in the league gradually adapt and find ways to deal with it.

Although no one can completely limit Wang Chao's scoring due to Wang Chao's strong three-point deterrent power outside the three-point line, these teams have gradually realized that although Wang Chao's ability to break through with the ball is good, the finishing and lethality are still somewhat lacking, far less threatening than his three-point shot.

Of course, Wang Chao has been practicing hard for three and a half months, and he has only practiced layups, close-range shots and throws to an average of 88 ability values, and even the three ability values in the middle distance are only 90.

Of course, there is no problem in relying on these abilities to score, but compared with Kobe, James, Iverson and other breakthrough masters, it is obviously a notch behind.

Therefore, the current team, when facing Wang Chao, will take the initiative to choose to defend, let Wang Chao break through with the ball, and hand it over to the inside defenders to deal with.

Wang Chao can use the time difference to score in the face of the help defense, and the shooting rate can also be maintained at more than 45%, but in this way, the extremely explosive three-point shot that can shoot the opponent alive has no chance to be played, and only when he plays blocking and dismantling tactics with Howard, can he occasionally have the opportunity to play it.

Of course, having said a lot, such a defensive strategy is just a compromise that other teams can't limit Wang Chao's scoring, and even if he targets Wang Chao like this, he can still contribute more than 20+ points per game with a shooting rate of more than 45%.

As a young player in his fourth season, it was already quite an impressive performance.

After all the schedules in November, the Magic, who played 18 games, finished with a 14-4 record, second in the East behind the 15-2 Celtics.

Wang Chao averaged 24.8 points, 4.2 rebounds and 2.2 assists per game in 18 games, with a shooting rate of 47% and a three-point shooting rate of 48%, ranking fifth in the league's scoring list.

Before the start of the regular season, who would have thought that Wang Chao would play like this in the Magic team? Who would have thought that Wang Chao would focus on attacking with the ball in the Magic team, instead of his old business of running without the ball in the Suns?

Even with such a scoring efficiency in the offense with the ball, Wang Chao is bound to become a top superstar in the league in the future!

And the Chinese fans on the other side of the ocean have already chosen a very "appropriate" name for the combination of Wang Chao and Howard.

"Ultra Magic Combo"

The combination of the super word in Wang Chao's name and Howard's nickname Warcraft also sounds wild.

The popularity of the Super Magic Group in China soared rapidly, and it approached the Yao Mai combination of the Rockets and became the second most popular partner group in China after Yao Mai.

……

In December, the Magic team will face the Dallas Mavericks, Houston Rockets, Utah Jazz and other Western powerhouses on the road, and the Boston Celtics and Detroit Pistons will also play another game in the East.

The slightest mistake is highly likely, and it will be a series of defeats.

Fortunately, after the schedule entered December, the Magic's Turkoglu began to usher in a wave of strong outbursts.

Originally, the 07-08 season was the highest period of Turkoglou's entire career, averaging 19.5 points, 5.7 rebounds and 5 assists per game in 82 games in the regular season, with a three-point shooting rate of 40%, and an annual salary of $6.37 million, which was more efficient and excellent than Mr. Lewis.

At the beginning of this season, because of Wang Chao, Turkoglu had fewer opportunities to hold the ball, and his personal data did not improve significantly, with an average of 14.6 points, 5.1 rebounds and 4.6 assists per game, although it was significantly improved from last season, it was obviously much worse than the results that should have been played.

But it turns out that what should come is still coming.

Entering the first game of December, facing the Los Angeles Lakers, Turkoglu broke out strongly, scoring 24 points, 4 rebounds and 7 assists, and teamed up with Wang Chao with 20 points and Howard with 17 points and 10 rebounds to defeat the Lakers 104-97.

Immediately following the second game on December 3, Turkoglu scored 22 points, 8 rebounds and 11 assists in a quasi-triple-double, plus Wang Chao, who also scored 22 points, and Howard, who also scored 21 points and 23 rebounds, helped the Magic defeat the Golden State Warriors 123-117.

For a while, the Magic team seemed to have a triumvirate combination, Howard, Wang Chao, and Turkoglu were all able to contribute close to 20+ scoring output, plus Nielsen, Bogans and other players scored steadily, the Magic team was still soaring in early December, and continued to win games.

The Magic's first loss in December came against the Houston Rockets on Dec. 16.

Prior to that, they had won seven in a row.

But against the Rockets, the Magic's winning streak was ended.

This can't be helped, Rocket's restraint on magic is a blood suppression.

Da Yao's nickname of eating and sleeping and fighting Warcraft is not for nothing.

Howard has an absolute advantage against most interior centers in the league, but he always suffers against Da Yao.

The two have played each other a total of 9 times in their careers, and Da Yao leads the overall game with a 7-2 record, while the statistics of the two are 23.6 points and 10.4 rebounds for Da Yao and 12.2 points and 9.8 rebounds for Howard.

Even in the early seasons of Howard's career, just looking at the three seasons of 07, 08 and 09, Howard has not once had the upper hand in a direct matchup.

This time was no exception, Da Yao scored 22 points and 13 rebounds in the game, but Howard only had 13 points and 9 rebounds, and his performance was comprehensively suppressed.

At the same time, the two giants of Maddie and Lewis scored 23 and 18 points respectively, and played all online.

On the Magic side, although Wang Chao and Turkoglu also had 20+ points, Howard's crotch pull still made the team lose.

I have to admit that Wang Chao joined the Magic and directly helped the Rockets, and they took the risk of salary space explosion to get Lewis by signing first and then exchanging for Lewis, forming a triumvirate combination, which is obviously much stronger than the Rockets at the same time.

At present, the Big Three in the Rockets, Da Yao averaged 21.8 points and 11.4 rebounds per game, Maddy averaged 22 points, 5 rebounds and 6.5 assists per game, and Lewis averaged 19.7 points and 4.8 rebounds per game.

The current Rockets have a record of 16 wins and 8 losses, ranking third in the West and second in the championship odds list, second only to the Boston Celtics in the East, and higher than the Spurs, Suns and other teams.

Maybe this time the Rockets can reach the second round or even the Western Conference finals, but if they want to beat the Los Angeles Lakers in the Western Conference finals, I am afraid it will still be quite difficult.

No matter how inexplicably strong Maddie was at his peak, it is an indisputable fact that he is inferior to Kobe Bryant in terms of offensive ability, especially in the key arena of the playoffs, Maddy's ability is always controversial.

As for Da Yao, considering his physical fitness and resistance ability, it is difficult to take on the team's heavy responsibility as the first offensive core, and Lewis is also not allowed.

The Rockets' Big Three seem to be quite powerful, but when it comes to playing a tough game, this lineup always gives people a feeling that it is not very stable, unlike the Spurs' Duncan who is like a needle god, the Celtics Big Three have top strength and can make up for each other's shortcomings.

……

After losing to the Rockets, the Magic then lost at home to the Boston Celtics on Dec. 21.

The Big Three, who are still in their final prime, are really strong and terrifying, and what is even more terrifying is that they also have a point guard Rajan who has an amazing IQ, although his ability is still a little lacking, but he can use his superb basketball IQ to put the team together very well. Rondo.

In this game, Rondo, who was still a sophomore rookie, had 23 points and 6 rebounds in the game, and Garnett, Pierce, and Ray Allen all had 20+ points, and the Celtics, who scored 20+ points among the four members of the team, defeated the Magic with a score of 113:101.

The Magic, who lost to strong teams such as the Rockets and Celtics in succession, began to be a little impatient, and the remaining games in December did not perform very well, losing games against the Pistons and Jazz respectively, losing three consecutive defeats in a row, and the Celtics instantly opened up the winning difference.

This is the defect that the lineup is too young, and the two inner and outer cores of the Magic team are only in their early 20s, and it is normal for them to have little problems due to lack of game experience.

But there is another advantage of being young, that is, there are more problems, and the speed of adjustment and learning progress is also very fast.

The Magic, who had lost three in a row, quickly adjusted to the rest of the game and won back-to-back games against the Knicks, Heat, Bobcats and Bulls for a four-game winning streak.

This is the end of the December season, and the Magic have a 10-5 record in the December schedule to move to 24-9 overall.

The Boston Celtics, who are at the top of the Eastern Conference and are far ahead in terms of record, have a 25-3 record at the end of the December season and have lost just three games in two months in November and December.

The Magic team has been completely pulled away by the Celtics in terms of wins, especially in December, which lost more games, which also made the Pistons begin to gradually catch up, although the current Magic team still occupies the second place in the East with a record of 24 wins, but the Pistons team is 23-7, and the winning rate is higher than that of the Magic team, just because of the arrangement of the league schedule, it is only a matter of time before the Magic team plays a few games less.

Of course, the Magic team does not want to lose the second place in the East, not only a matter of face, according to the current situation, although the regular season has only been played for more than 30 games, but it is not surprising that the East side from first to fourth, there is a high probability that there are four teams: Celtics, Magic, Pistons and Cavaliers.

The Cavaliers are far behind the Magic and Pistons in terms of wins and win percentage, so the battle for second and third place in the East is very likely to determine the home-and-away advantage of the two teams once they meet in the playoffs in the future.

Naturally, neither side wants to lose their home advantage because they didn't work hard enough in the regular season and when it comes to the playoffs.

Therefore, in the next January schedule, whether it is the Magic or the Pistons, they will go all out and are bound to compete for a championship.

In addition to the competition, at the end of December, the league's 2008 All-Star Weekend poll also held the first round of voting and announced the results of the first round of voting.

Garnett, who joined the Celtics and helped them play their best start in recent years, became the first-round vote winner, and the number of votes was much ahead of second-place James.

Howard and Bryant Bryant in the West are third or fourth in the number of votes, and it is clear that they will be eligible for All-Star starters.

And Wang Chao's situation is a little embarrassing.

Wang Chao, who joined the Magic team in the new season, did play the best performance of his career, averaging 25 points, 4 rebounds and 2.8 assists per game, which also made him get a lot of votes in the All-Star vote and was among the best in the East.

But the embarrassing part is that he was voted for as a forward in the East, which means that his direct competitors are the first and second places in the first round of voting, Garnett and James.

In Wang Chao's impression, these two people were the two players with the highest votes until the end of all the votes, and finally Garnett got nearly 2.4 million votes and James 210 votes.

As for Da Yao, who has the advantage of the Chinese crowd, the number of votes this year is only 1.7 million.

Wang Chao will definitely not be able to compete with Garnett and James, the two perverts, at least not yet.

Therefore, he is likely to only be selected as an All-Star bench, even if his vote percentage is second only to Wade among guards, completely crushing all other guard players in the East.

In addition to the All-Star Vote, the rest of the All-Star Weekend is also calling for players.

As the winner of the past two three-point competitions, many fans are looking forward to Wang Chao completing the three-point contest for three consecutive championships.

Therefore, the league officially invited Wang Chao to participate in this three-point contest early.

In this regard, Wang Chao readily agreed.

His three three-point ability values are as high as 99, looking at the history of the league is really rare, if not in the three-point contest to leave some records that are difficult for future generations to surpass, it is somewhat a pity, Wang Chao knows very well, even if it is entertainment, there is no gold in the three-point contest champion, if he can make a three-point contest five consecutive championships, six consecutive championships, in the future will still be as a capital worth boasting about by fans.

It's like Vince. Carter, although he did not have a particularly strong performance in his career, and was only selected once for 2 and 3 teams, but when it comes to it, he always feels that he is one of the top superstars in the league in the early 2000s, and was even named the title of the four quarterbacks, a large part of which is due to Carter's shock in the 2000 slam dunk contest, being named a half-human and half-god, and the name has been spreading in the rivers and lakes.

In fact, Carter's highest scoring season was only 27.6 points per game, which is not necessarily much better than Ray Allen at the same time, and Ray Allen is also 2 teams and 3 teams at a time, why is Ray Allen not a big four quarterback? That's the difference in fame.

With a low-key Ray. Compared with Allen, the dunk is gorgeous and gorgeous, and Carter, who has a handsome title like a demigod and a demigod, must have more fans and fans.

Wang Chao has no way to win the hearts of fans with a handsome dunk now, so using an alternative way of three-point shooting is also a good choice.

Dominating the three-point contest and becoming the most representative three-point shooter of this era is a shortcut on Wang Chao's road to superstardom.

At the same time that Wang Chao signed up for the three-point contest, Howard also participated in the slam dunk contest.

It's just that after signing up, Howard was sad and distressed.

"What kind of action should you use in the slam dunk contest?"

Howard participated in the slam dunk contest last year, but was eliminated in the preliminary stage, which can't be helped, even if he has extremely strong physical fitness, but it is generally difficult for big interior players to make a difference in the slam dunk contest that pays attention to the fancy degree of dunk action.

In this slam dunk contest, Howard felt that last year's champion Gerald. Green will certainly continue to compete in an attempt to defend his title, and he can't match the opponent when it comes to dunk movements, so he'll have to work creativity.

Therefore, he began to prepare for the action and creativity of the slam dunk contest early, and often tried to dunk some complex movements between training sessions on weekdays.

But the pain of the creative process can be felt by anyone who has ever had a writing or other creative experience.

After a few days, Howard, who felt that he was not satisfied with how to dunk, had no moves, holding his head and sighing.

"It seems that in this year's slam dunk contest, I can still only be eliminated in the preliminaries like last year."

When Howard sighed like this, Wang Chao sat aside, he thought about it, and then said to Howard. "Dwight, I have a good idea, I think your bounce and explosiveness are like Superman, why don't you put on Superman's clothes during the slam dunk contest and have a Superman-transformed flying dunk?"

“？？？”

Howard's eyes suddenly widened, and he turned his head to look at Wang Chao in surprise, and then jumped up and hugged him and laughed.

"Hahaha, King, I love you to death! You're such a genius! ”

Wake up the dreamer with a word, why didn't he think of such a good idea?

The return of Superman will be staged on the all-star stage, and there will be a phone booth transformation link!

If this scene is really staged on the stage of the slam dunk contest, it will definitely amaze the audience, and the creativity is simply invincible!

"Stay away from me." Wang Chao pushed Howard away with a look of disgust.

In fact, even without Wang Chao, Howard will still think of Superman's idea, whether it is reminded by others or his own inspiration, the 2008 slam dunk contest Superman flying dunk is one of the classic pictures in the entire slam dunk contest history.

Wang Chao just gave a reminder before Howard didn't think of this idea.

"King! You're going to help me, in the slam dunk contest, you help me put on my Superman cape, and then help me pass the ball and dunk it! Howard said to Wang Chao: "When I win the slam dunk contest, I hope you will help me on the court!" As long as you help me, I will introduce the best beauties to you! You know, All-Star Weekend is a carnival day for everyone, and there are a lot of celebrities in attendance......"

Wang Chao: "A word is a certainty!" ”

(End of chapter)