Being "bukkake" by Wang Chao in front of him made Durant feel gloomy, and he was eager to return Wang Chao's ball.

The Thunder team attacked, Durant couldn't wait to get the ball from his younger brother Westbrook, Westbrook, who was just a sophomore, was still an obedient baby at this time, although in the face of a slow-paced guard like Nelson, he wanted to use his speed advantage to teach the other party to be a man, but he could only obediently pass the ball to Durant.

In the face of Wang Chao's defense, Durant also accelerated with the ball, but the difference was that Durant did not use a step-back three-pointer, but chose to make a stop-and-go jump shot one step before the free throw line.

Wang Chao must admit that Durant's talent in scoring is definitely one of the top in the history of the league, his height and arm span are so exaggerated, and his shooting point is ridiculously high.

Durant's offense can't be defended......

In the future, the boasting words of many basketball celebrities and even Durant die-hard fans do not seem to be groundless.

If you want to limit Durant, there are only two possibilities, the first is that he is not in good shape, and the other is to contain Durant.

Due to his physical fitness, Durant's physical fitness is also of average level among top stars, and he has never averaged more than 40 minutes per game in his entire career, has never scored more than 60+ points, and has scored 50+ points in a single game is not much, at least compared to those top scorers who can compare with him.

After all, he is a big man with a height of more than 2.10 meters, and the center of gravity of the dribble is also high, and the probability of losing the ball is very high once he encounters a bag clip.

But Wang Chao is not ready to wrap Durant in this game, because he is very willing to seriously compete with Durant for scoring ability.

……

The first few minutes of the game completely became a heads-up show between Wang Chao and Durant, and the two sides did not give in to each other, showing their scoring ability on the court without reservation.

Wang Chao turned into an offensive kaleidoscope, broke through the frame with the ball, made a mid-to-long-range pull-up jump shot, and even singled Durant with his back, showing off a wave of his back-to-back skills that he had worked in the summer.

And Durant's side is a trick to eat all over the world.

Relying on his height and arm span, which is stronger than Wang Chao's, Durant repeated the mid-range pull-up jump shot over and over again.

For a while, it looked like the two sides were scoring alternately and the battle was inextricable, which also made the Thunder fans at home extremely excited.

Wang Chao is a super scorer who has proven himself in the league last season, and Durant's ability to score with Wang Chao is enough to prove his strong scoring ability.

But his own family knows his own business, and Durant has suffered from constant offense.

Wang Chao's defense is not strong, which is a common perception in the league, but Durant, who played against Wang Chao, did not feel how bad the opponent's defense was.

To be precise, in addition to some necessary experience, the most important thing in defense is attitude, a player with a good defensive attitude, as long as it is not limited by a huge height difference, can basically show good defensive ability.

Wang Chao is a typical representative of this.

His physicality is among the best in the league at the moment.

Speed and agility are both 94, strength is 86, bounce is 88, and explosiveness is 85.

With the blessing of super high physical fitness, Wang Chao has extremely flexible feet and reflexes on the field, and as long as he wants, he can keep up with the speed of most opponents.

It's just that compared to putting energy and physical energy into defense, Wang Chao is more inclined to offense, so on the defensive end, it is often good to achieve an ordinary level, anyway, as long as the Magic team can defend the outside shot, the opponent will naturally have Howard to deal with it when he rushes inside.

But this time in the face of Durant, Wang Chao did not have the slightest intention of releasing water, and went all out, staring at the other party deadly.

This has undoubtedly put a lot of pressure on Durant.

The speed and strength are all crushing, so that whenever Durant makes any move, Wang Chao can block him one step in advance.

Durant's use of mid-to-long-range pull-up jump shots in the face of Wang Chao is not because this move is good for Wang Chao, but under Wang Chao's oppressive defense, he can't think of other ways to score for a while, and the only thing he can use is the advantage of static talent, and use the undefensible pull-up jump shot to ensure scoring efficiency.

But this kind of offense is undoubtedly to quench his thirst, and Durant can't guarantee that he has a very high mid-to-long-range shooting feel throughout the game, especially the continuous single-way offense, which is very likely to be spotted by the opponent and targeted defense.

Box ——!

Sure enough, it didn't last long, Durant's offense began to have problems, two consecutive mid-range jumpers missed the basket, and the third emergency stop shot was cut off by Wang Chao at the right time to raise the basketball.

It's a pity that Wang Chao's steal ability value is not high, only 54 at present, which also leads to his unclean action when cutting the ball, a bit of a suspicion of hitting Durant's hand, and being whistled by the referee for a foul.

Durant, who went to the free throw line, made 2 free throws of 2, but it is an indisputable fact that the efficiency on the offensive end has begun to decrease.

In the first quarter of the game, Wang Chao scored 12 points on 5 of 6 shots and 2 of 3 three-pointers, while Durant scored 4 of 7 and 11 points on free throws.

In the 6 minutes of the second quarter, Wang Chao scored 3 three-pointers and scored 9 points, and his personal score came to 21 points at halftime, on the other hand, Durant, only 4 points in 2 of 5 shots in the second quarter, and 15 points in the half Although it is not low, both scoring and efficiency have obviously begun to fall into disadvantage.

In the third quarter of the game, the Thunder began to make tactical adjustments, and Durant no longer defended Wang Chao because he couldn't prevent it.

The job of defending Wang Chao was given to scoring guard Sabo. Sephorosa.

This is a player with excellent defensive ability, rich defensive experience, not afraid of confrontation, and a tough style of play, so it is no surprise that he will be selected to the best defensive second team this season.

But this tactical arrangement obviously doesn't play a role, Wang Chao can face Artest's defense in the finals and score high scores in several consecutive games, how can a mere Sephorosa stop him?

Moreover, the Thunder team has not yet established a mature enough defensive system, and the blocker Ibaka is still sitting on the team's cold bench at this time, and it is difficult to limit a super scorer with his individual defensive ability.

In the face of Seferosa's defense, Wang Chao's attack was not contained, but intensified.

In the third quarter of the game, Wang Chao hit 4 of 8 shots, with a decent 50% shooting rate, but he got 6 free throws and hit all of them, which also allowed him to score 14 points in a single quarter.

On the other side, Durant has completely fallen behind, shooting 1-of-2 from the field and 2-of-2 from the free throw line in the third quarter, scoring just four points as in the second quarter.

Durant, who scored 19 points in the third quarter, finally ushered in a small outbreak in the fourth quarter, scoring 9 points on 3-of-4 shots and 3-of-4 free throws in a single quarter, but the game had already lost its suspense at this time.

Wang Chao only played 5 minutes in the fourth quarter of the game, because the Magic team had established a more than 20-point advantage at this time, and the victory was in control.

In the fourth quarter, he only shot 3 times and scored 6 points on 2 shots, but even so, Wang Chao still scored 41 points in the whole game, with a shooting rate of 67%, winning the scoring ability competition.

Durant, who scored 28 points in the game, didn't play badly, but compared with Wang Chao, he lacked a lot in both scoring efficiency and explosiveness.

With this game, Wang Chao successfully told Durant a truth.

"Don't be presumptuous, it's useless."

Whether it's scoring or anything else, you're no match for me at all!

……

The light win over the Thunder brought the Magic's winning streak to seven, and on November 10, the Magic defeated Charlotte Bobcats 102-81 on the road to make it eight in a row.

The 8-0 record has pushed the Magic to the top of the league and, as they did last season, continued to show strong regular-season dominance.

It's just that the Magic's opening winning streak ended at 8 consecutive wins.

On November 11, the Magic sat at home to welcome the challenge of the Cleveland Cavaliers, the strongest opponent of the new season.

This is definitely the most closely watched battle of the regular season, with the defending champions taking on the strongest big three of the new season.

The battle ended with the Cavaliers' victory, ending the Magic's winning streak at 102:93.

On the Cavaliers' side, James was as efficient and stable as ever, scoring 36 points, 8 rebounds and 4 assists. Carter also had 29 points and five rebounds on 11-of-23 shooting.

The only one who played more stretched was the big shark O'Neal, who only had a double-double of 10 points and 11 rebounds in the game, but considering O'Neal's age, it was already good that he could continue to help the team on the court, not to mention that O'Neal once again successfully pinched Howard in this game, limiting his success to only 11 points and 7 rebounds in the game.

It's been said 10,000 times before, but I still have to repeat it again, even Howard at his peak, in the face of O'Neal, Da Yao, these heavy traditional interior lines do not have any advantage at all, his lower body strength is too weak, and he can't carry O'Neal at all on the inside, although his feet are flexible and bounce explosive, but there is no point in attacking without the inside line.

This is Howard's shortcoming, and I am afraid that he will not be able to make up for it in his career.

Wang Chao played against James and Carter at the same time in this game, scoring 46 points, 3 rebounds and 7 assists in the whole game.

It seems normal for the Magic to lose this game, and there is no team in this league that does not lose at all.

can lose to the Cavaliers, and Carter scored 29 points in the game, which still made many Magic fans a little explosive.

Because it reminds them that they had a chance to get Carter in the summer offseason.

Crawford is not bad, in fact, the Magic team was able to win a wave of eight consecutive wins at the beginning of the regular season, and the contribution of the Super Magic combination is important, but the reinforcement that Crawford brought to the Magic team by switching to the bench is more obvious.

Crawford, who is averaging 31 minutes per game, is currently averaging 17.6 points per game, the Magic's third-highest scorer, and it is his activity on the bench that gives the team the upper hand when playing against opponents.

In contrast, Carter's performance in the new season can only be regarded as ordinary, even if this 29-point play is included, Carter averaged only 17.2 points per game in 8 games, and the shooting rate was just over 40%, but it happened to explode in this game with the Magic team and helped the Cavaliers win the game.

Compared with the Magic, who still topped the league with an 8-1 record after the loss, the Cavaliers didn't start well, with only 4 wins and 3 losses before the game against the Magic, which made many people who were looking forward to the Cavaliers' performance in the new season feel disappointed.

But the outbreak of this game between Carter and the Magic gave restless Cleveland fans a reassurance.

What is the regular season record? They want a historic breakthrough in the playoffs, they want a championship!

As long as the Cavaliers' Big Three can play a good enough role in the playoffs and provide enough support for James in the game like they did today, then it's worth it.

……

Although the loss to the Cavaliers made many Orlando fans quite unhappy, the Magic themselves were not affected too much, and soon returned to normal in the subsequent games to continue to win.

They won against the Nets and Bobcats, and then won again 108-94 against the Thunder on Nov. 18.

The rematch between Wang Chao and Durant ended with Wang Chao's victory again.

In this game, Wang Chao shot 10 of 19, including 6 of 10 three-pointers and 5 of 5 free throws, and scored 31 points, 6 rebounds and 9 assists.

Durant, on the other hand, had no touch in this game, scoring only 12 points and 3 rebounds on 4-of-12 shooting, and also had 5 turnovers.

After 12 games, Wang Chao's average points per game have unconsciously increased from the previous 28.6 points to 32 points, while Durant has slipped from 35 points at the beginning to 29.8 points.

At this time, people found out that Jiang is still old and spicy, although Wang Chao is not very experienced, but compared with Durant, who has only been in the league for two seasons, at least in terms of scoring stability.

In fact, as a player who is known to the public as a shooter, Wang Chao's play almost never particularly pulls his hips, no matter what kind of strong defenders he faces, Wang Chao always has a way to score while ensuring a relatively stable shooting rate.

Since the beginning of the 05-06 season, Wang Chao's shooting rate has never been lower than 45%, including three-point shooting percentage.

Of course, this is thanks to the system, the body data brings about the stable efficiency like a machine, and many of his abilities on the court are actually the probability of ability value feedback, so it will not be like Durant in this game, suddenly one day he has no hand at all, and he can't hit the shot no matter what.

Of course, such a Wang Chao is rarely like an ordinary player, and suddenly one day if there is a god to help how to shoot, but at this point, another function of the system, that is, natural skills, can play a good role in making up for it.

(End of chapter)