Chapter 151: Assist with Nash Biao

(I'm sorry, Kavinka's awesomeness today, it's still only one change, I'll adjust it as soon as possible.) )

Wang Chao's 31 points in the game are not surprising, and it can even be said that it is deserved.

However, 11 assists were sent in a single game, which was the first time in the world, Wang Chao directly broke his personal single-game assist record, and the number of assists doubled for the first time in his career.

In three games, the Magic team started with a wave of three consecutive wins, and Wang Chao averaged 27.6 points, 3.6 rebounds and 8.6 assists per game in the three games, and his all-round performance was a big surprise.

TNT live-streamed one of the Magic's three games, and Barkley, who had previously bet and suffered a big loss because of Wang Chao's performance, highly praised Wang Chao's performance in the new season.

"Wang Chao in the new season, not only maintains strong firepower on the offensive end, but also shocks me with his play in passing assists, is this really Wang Chao? He was in control of the game, his passes were just right, and he had a few passes that were as good as those who had made a name for himself in the league. ”

Kenny. Smith also chimed in: "In this case, Turkoglou's departure will not have any impact on the Magic team, because at least in the course of these three games, Wang Chao's ability in passing and assisting has been significantly higher than that of Turkoglou, especially under the containment of his strong offensive ability, Wang Chao's passing is more threatening than Turkoglu and easier to help teammates score easily." ”

On Nov. 3, the Magic played their third consecutive road trip against the Detroit Pistons.

The Pistons in the 09-10 season have completely lost their former bravery, and Billups has become the main core of the Nuggets. Wallace joined the Celtics at a low salary, although the team leader of the year, Ben Brown. Wallace finally returned to the Pistons after a few years of going round and round, but four years on, the best defensive player of yesteryear is no longer the defensive gate that could give everyone a lot of confidence under the basket.

The Magic had no difficulty beating the Pistons and won 110-85 with ease.

In this game, Wang Chao scored 36 points and 8 assists, continuing to perform efficiently, and Prince, the main defender of the Pistons, had no way to limit Wang Chao's play.

The Magic, who defeated the Detroit Pistons, came to a four-game winning streak to start the season, and their next game against the Phoenix Suns who finally got rid of O'Neal's burdensome face.

It must be admitted that the Suns' broken wrist was almost for nothing when they gave the Cavaliers an O'Neal. Wallace was cut immediately, and it is precisely because of this that the Suns in the new season have finally regained the feeling of the previous run-and-bomb tactics.

After the start of the new season, the Suns showed great offensive ability, and like the Magic, they won a wave of four consecutive starts.

This can't help but make Phoenix fans feel immensely happy that their Suns are finally back in contention for the championship after two dark seasons.

On November 4, the Magic team was at home, and the two teams with a 4-0 record in the regular season met, which was a strong matchup and attracted the attention of many fans in the league.

The Amway Arena in Orlando was packed with fans early.

At the beginning of the game, the first to have the upper hand was the Magic.

Howard's desire to attack under the basket is extremely strong, especially against a team like the Suns, which focuses on fast-paced run-and-gun tactics and will no longer arrange heavy centers like O'Neal to shoot themselves in the foot, Howard's personal advantages are maximized.

In the first quarter alone, Howard shot 5-of-7 from the field and 7-of-8 from the free-throw line to finish with 17 points and seven rebounds, including four offensive rebounds, with extremely efficient efficiency.

The Suns' interior line was torn apart by Howard and was powerless to resist, not even Stoudemire.

Both are brutalist insiders, and Stoudemire and Howard's styles are actually a bit similar, both have outstanding footwork, agility and bounce on the inside.

But there is still a difference between the two, after all, Stoudemire is still a player with a dominant style of power forward, even if the Suns often appear on the court as a center, but there are still some differences with a real center like Howard.

Stoudemire is at a disadvantage in terms of height, weight, strength, etc., and even Stoudemire is not as good as Howard in terms of speed and bounce.

Of course, looking at the entire league and even the history of the NBA in these aspects, there are very few players who can compare with Howard, and Stoudemire is not ashamed to compare.

Although he can't guard Howard, Stoudemire is not useless, at least on the offensive end, he can still cause some problems for Howard.

Compared to Howard, who is quite poor in offensive skills and more like a super blue-collar with strong physical fitness, Stoudemire is a real offensive interior lineman, proficient in various interior offensive skills, flexible and changeable, and at his peak, even against Duncan, who is also in the prime of the Spurs, he does not show weakness.

Stoudemire has averaged more than 20 points per game in seven seasons in his career, and his career average of 18.9 points and 7.8 rebounds after retirement is also among the best among interior players.

What's more, after suffering a serious injury in the 05-06 season, Stoudemire, whose explosiveness was affected by injury, practiced a more stable mid-range shooting, and the offensive end became more changeable and difficult to defend.

Howard also felt quite tricky against Stoudemire on the defensive end, because the opponent would not take the initiative to rush to the inside to face him, but chose to shoot from mid-to-long range, forcing Howard to defend.

With Howard's mobility, he can naturally keep up with Stoudemire, but as the absolute core of the Magic's defensive system, the Magic need Howard to guard the basket and ensure the quality of the defensive end.

As a result, Howard doesn't follow Stoudemire for the most part, even if the opponent frequently relies on mid-to-long-range shooting to score.

Anyway, even in terms of scoring, don't look at the Suns' run-and-bomb tactics alone in the league, the Magic team with the rudiments of magic ball tactics is not false at all, as long as the outside shooters fire at the same time, no team in the league can compare to them in terms of scoring explosiveness.

In the first quarter of the game, the score of the two teams was 33:25, and the Magic led by 8 points at home.

Howard was the one who played the most eye-catching in the game, but even so, many people still discovered Wang Chao.

Wang Chao only took four shots in the first quarter, all from outside the three-point line, and scored six points on 2-of-4 three-pointers, but at the same time he also dished out five assists in a single quarter.

Correspondingly, the Suns' main point guard on the side, Steve. Nash had four points and four assists in the first quarter.

Statistically, Wang Chao is like a point guard, competing with Nash in another field.

"I didn't expect that Wang Chao would compete with Nash in the field of assists in the game! Speaking of which, Nash averaged 12.2 assists per game in the first four games, and is the league's assist king, and Wang Chao's average of 8.5 assists per game is also in the top ten on the assist list. ”

The fans who bought the tickets for this game only felt that the tickets bought today were really profitable.

The two teams started the offensive battle from the first quarter of the game, and the game was exciting and full of highlights, which was a perfect score!

The game entered the second quarter and it was the turn of the bench players to play.

The Suns' bench has always been recognized as the league's outstanding sixth man, Leonardo. Barbosa leads the way, and a number of good role players can often dominate against other teams.

But this time it was clear that they hit the iron plate.

Although the Magic team's bench is not widely known, Wang Chao knows very well that it is definitely the most luxurious bench lineup in the league.

Jamal. Crawford leads the way, with Dragic, Barnes, Ariza, Gortat and others in the roster rotation, and this roster could even build a team to compete with the main lineup of the league's bottom teams.

And Barbosa is no longer the Brazilian lightning of two or three years ago, affected by injuries and age, Barbossa's offensive ability is getting worse every day, especially this season, in Wang Chao's memory, Barbossa continued to suffer injuries during the regular season, and his average score per game dropped to 9.5 points, and he only played 44 games for the team during the regular season, and the playoffs played 16 games in the entire Suns playoffs, but the average data per game has further slipped to 7.2 points, so there is still a little glory of the best sixth man bench bandits?

Speaking of which, in the 09-10 season, the Suns, who finally sent O'Neal away, finally returned to the top, and went all the way to the Western Conference finals in the playoffs, and lost to the Lakers 2:4 after 6 games and was eliminated.

Considering the Suns' roster at the time, this result was already quite good, and reaching the Eastern and Western Conference finals would be one of the four best teams of the season.

But Wang Chao is not sure if the current Suns can break into the Western Conference finals like in the original history, who made him a little ruthless?

Two of the Suns' key players for the '09-10 season are now on the Magic roster, namely Dragic and Channing. Fry.

Originally Channing. Frye should be the main power forward for the Suns, averaging 11.2 points and 5.5 rebounds per game and starting 41 of the 82 games he played.

And Dragic, as Nash's first bench, also played 7.9 points, 2 rebounds and 3 assists.

But under Wang Chao's operation, these two players were all poached to the Magic team, although the Suns also made some reinforcements through trades, but in Wang Chao's opinion, the overall strength is still a little behind the original 09-10 season Suns.

It's just that the Suns will be affected, Wang Chao doesn't care, anyway, even if they keep their original lineup, they will definitely not be able to beat the Lakers.

However, the ability to learn from Nash to pass and assist was quite interesting to Wang Chao.

In the second quarter of the game, Wang Chao didn't have much time to play, but in the 4 minutes of playing time, Wang Chao still delivered 3 assists, and at the end of the half, he had 8 personal assists.

On the other side, Nash was not to be outdone, dispelling out four assists in the second quarter and eight in the half.

In the third quarter of the second half, the Suns were already trailing by more than double digits, and they couldn't limit Howard, the Monster, and they couldn't stop the Magic's offense from the outside, especially when Wang Chao frequently relied on his offensive ability to attract defensive assist teammates to score.

"That guy Wang, he's really changed a lot!"

The layman looks at the bustle, and the insider looks at the doorway.

As a grandmaster in passing assists, the shock in Nash's heart became stronger as the game progressed.

He could see that Wang Chao's passing assist was really something, and many times he chose to pass the ball to choose players who should be in the blind spot of his vision.

Of course, Nash can do this kind of thing, but it is because of this that he understands how difficult it is to do it.

Before the action, everyone on the court must remember the position of the player, but also remember the running habits of each teammate and the position where they are most likely to land, this kind of thing is simple to say, but in the fierce NBA arena, everything happens in a flash of lightning, and many times there is no time to think and observe.

Wang Chao did show strong three-point and offensive ability when he was with the Suns before, but he never had this kind of passing talent, at least Nash never found it.

He's only been away from the Suns for a few seasons now, huh? In just two years, will this guy be able to develop such outstanding passing ability while further becoming impeccable in scoring?

At this moment, Nash has only one word in his mind to describe Wang Chao.

"Demons!"

In the third quarter, the assist battle escalated further.

The Suns were behind, and Nash had to step up in crunch time to help the team out of trouble.

Eight straight points on the offensive end and six assists allowed the Suns to narrow the score to less than five points at one point.

However, Nash's efforts failed to save the Suns.

Because of the Magic team, Wang Chao followed closely and fought back.

With 6 points and 5 assists, Wang Chao seems to be on the same page with Nash, and he did not use his best score to help the team, but concentrated on passing the ball to his teammates.

At the end of the third quarter, the difference between the two teams was still fluctuating around 10 points, and the assists of Wang Chao and Nash reached 13 and 14 times unconsciously.

The fans on the court watched the two pass the ball in various ways to assist their teammates again and again, and Nash's passing was chic and elegant, which was pleasing to the eye.

Wang Chao's passing is solid and steady, most of them use their own ball-holding attacks to attract the opponent's defensive center of gravity before passing the ball to his teammates, and almost every time he can find a teammate in the crowd and pass the ball to the opponent's hand.

At 8 minutes and 11 seconds in the fourth quarter, Nash took the lead in 20 assists, and two minutes later, Wang Chao cooperated with Howard to block and dismantle, and then threw the basketball into the air.

Until the end, the Suns couldn't catch up with the score, and when the game was over, the score was 121-115.

Howard had 36 points, 18 rebounds and four blocks, while Stoudemire, who was opposite him, had 25 points and 14 rebounds.

In the other set of matchups, Wang Chao scored 24 points and 20 assists, and Nash had 14 points and 21 assists.

(End of chapter)