On Nov. 20, the Magic traveled to the Boston Celtics.

This is the biggest rival of the Magic in the East except for the Cavaliers, the Magic and the Celtics have met on the Eastern Conference finals stage for two consecutive years, and each time the Magic team has the last laugh.

Because of this, every time the Magic team visits the Celtics' home court, they will receive the most "cordial" greetings from Boston fans.

Receiving the baptism of the Devils' home court many times has made the players of the Magic team gradually begin to get used to this feeling.

No way, the Celtics can be regarded as the most familiar team of the Magic, with four regular season meetings every season, plus playoff matchups, more than ten meetings a year make each other quite familiar with each other.

This season, the Celtics got a small upgrade to their roster, signing former All-Star Rashid to a mid-level contract. Wallace, while also a veteran who is dying, has a wealth of experience that allows him to add to the Celtics on both ends of the floor.

Before the Magic play, the Celtics were 9-3, second only to the 11-1 Celtics in the East.

And this game, the Celtics really want to win, for the Celtics, who have lost many games against the Magic, especially the two Eastern Conference finals, even a victory in one of the regular season games is very precious.

However, in the end, it was the Magic team who had the last laugh.

83：78。

It was an unusually low scoring game, with both sides losing their offensive efficiency under high-intensity defense, and the game was so intense that it was almost like the Eastern Conference Finals.

Both teams committed more than 25 fouls, and the game was shattered by frequent whistles.

On the Celtics side, Garnett had four fouls, Perkins had five, Wallace had five fouls, and Pierce Allen and Rondo had three fouls each.

On the Magic side, Howard directly committed 6 fouls and left the court early, and players such as Wang Chao, Ariza, and Afflaro also had more than 3 fouls.

The ferocious fouls and the friction of the big moves on the court made the two teams almost clash at one point, and even Howard, who has always advertised happy basketball, frowned and had a hot temper throughout the game.

It must be admitted that the Celtics are really a tough bone, and the Magic team can be said to have done everything in their power to win this game in Boston.

After the game, the Magic players felt like their bones were falling apart.

"Holy! These old guys are really bad at playing. ”

"The referees in this game are also a group of black whistles! The foul action on the opposite side is so obvious that he doesn't blow the whistle, obviously favoring the home team! The next time they go to Orlando, this revenge must be avenged! ”

Howard grumbled, but with a smile on his face.

Although the game was very difficult, the result was good, and when the game was over, it was so cool to look at the unwilling expressions of the guys in the Green Army!

"The best opponent in the Eastern Conference Finals this season is the Cavaliers, and I really don't want to play with these old guys."

Although the only game the Celtics have lost so far is due to the Cavaliers, the Magic will still find the Celtics a little more difficult to deal with.

The reason why the game against the Cavaliers was lost was mainly because of Carter's sudden outburst and the Magic's own outside feel problems, if it was a playoff series, the Magic would probably be able to beat the Cavaliers.

Moreover, after defeating the Magic, Carter's state immediately became sluggish again, which fully proved that he was no longer the league's top scorer at that peak, the half-human and half-god Vince. Carter too.

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The Magic have a 4-1 record in the remaining five games in November, with the only one they lost was at home to the Miami Heat.

In this game, Wade broke out strongly, as if he had returned to the peak of '06, scoring 42 points with a burst shot, and hitting a whistle-blowing kill, helping the Heat narrowly defeat the Magic 99-98.

No one can stop this kind of fairy ball, and this loss is only the second game that the Magic have lost since the start of the new season.

After all the November schedules are over, the Magic's record has reached 16-2, leading the league, leaving the Cavaliers, Celtics, Lakers in the West, Suns and other first-tier teams in the league far behind.

Wang Chao averaged 32.2 points, 4.4 rebounds and 8.4 assists per game in November, beating James' 29.2 points, 6.7 rebounds and 8 assists, and was elected Player of the Month in November.

Wang Chao, who scored and assisted, surprised everyone who was waiting to see the Magic team make jokes without Turkogru.

Wang Chao's progress is too fast, how many seasons has it been? He went from being good at nothing at the beginning to having the league's top scoring ability, and now even his passing ability has become so outstanding, this guy is simply a demon! Give him a few more seasons, and what else is there he can't do on the field?

They really guessed correctly, not to mention a few more seasons, even at the end of this season, Wang Chao will have a small improvement.

As November passed, Wang Chao decided to suspend his training in other aspects.

In the two months from October to November, Wang Chao's training of passing assists had little effect, and even a lot of training with the blessing of training potions could not further improve the passing ability that had reached 92.

This shows that at least in terms of passing, he has reached a bottleneck period, and no matter how hard he trains and passes, he will not improve significantly.

Instead of wasting a lot of time improving your passing ability by one or two points, you can start with something else.

The same is true for physical fitness and shooting training.

Unconsciously, whether it is shooting or physical fitness, Wang Chao's basic ability value has reached a high level, and it takes a lot of training to go further, which cannot be achieved overnight.

Therefore, Wang Chao has begun to change his training strategy.

Now that the offense and passing have reached a good level, it is natural to strengthen some of his weaker abilities next.

And now Wang Chao's weakest thing on the court is defense and rebounding.

As a player with a height of 2.06 meters and a very good bounce and strength, Wang Chao has only averaged about 4 rebounds per game so far, which is definitely a serious failure level, and in the ability value of the system, Wang Chao's defensive rebounding ability value is 84, offensive rebounding ability value is 50, card ability is 68, and the above three rebounding-related ability values are 67.3 on average, which is a lower middle level among forwards.

In terms of defense, 64 blocks, 54 steals, 66 outside defense, 65 inside defense, 56 defensive awareness, and 69 assistant defense awareness, all of which basically belong to the passing line level, and it is okay to defend some role players, but it is a little less enough to face opponents with slightly stronger scoring ability.

Even though Wang Chao has top-level static talent and athleticism, the defensive end still does not get too high praise from the outside world, which is precisely the reason.

The next step is that his training direction will start to shift towards rebounding and defense, and he's already told his coach. Van Gundy will soon arrange for an assistant coach who specializes in defense to develop a tailored defensive training for Wang Chao.

It is now the beginning of December, nearly 5 months before the playoffs, even if the game days are removed, there are more than 80 days, and the training time is at least 60 days, which is enough for Wang Chao to improve a certain ability to a high level, and can catch the opponent off guard and suffer a big loss in the playoffs.

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Entering December, the Magic have a total of 13 games in December, of which the stronger and more difficult teams are the Jazz, Suns, Trail Blazers, Rockets, and the game against the Boston Celtics at home on December 25.

The Magic continued their dominance, winning 11 of their 13 games to put up an 11-2 record, including one loss in two home and away games against the Jazz and a shock loss against the Indiana Pacers.

One of the more noteworthy of these matchups is the game against the Portland Trail Blazers.

Last season, the Trail Blazers' highly-anticipated center Oden finally returned to health, playing in 61 games and contributing 8.9 points and 7 rebounds.

Wang Chao is not surprised by this, 09-10 season, Oden played only 21 games, averaging 11.1 points and 8.5 rebounds per game, and then reimbursed due to injury, December 6, 2009 with the Rockets game was Oden's last game for the Portland Trail Blazers, and in the three years since, Oden has not played a professional game, not that he has no ball to play, but that he is constantly repeating the process of injury recovery, and there is no chance to play at all.

In 2012, the unbearable Trail Blazers announced the official elimination of Oden, a super center who was once expected by the entire league and thought to be a period of domination of the league, and finally ended up being cut, which is embarrassing.

In his five seasons with the Trail Blazers, Oden appeared in 82 games, averaging 9.4 points, 7.3 rebounds, 0.6 assists and 1.4 blocks per game.

After being cut by the Trail Blazers, Oden joined the Heat and the CBA's Jiangsu team, but he failed to play any outstanding performance.

Oden may have the qualities of a super-center forward, but injuries ruined his career.

However, in Wang Chao's view, the talent that cannot be fulfilled is not a talent at all, and the body's ability to resist is also a reflection of a player's talent, and Oden really feels a little blown over.

As with the best that can't be obtained, players who have not lived up to expectations due to injuries will always be difficult to look back on.

Like the youngest regular season MVP in history, Derek. Rose, in the future, there are still countless people who think that if Rose hadn't experienced that serious injury, he would have ruled the league a long time ago, and there would be no Curry at all, and Westbrook would have done nothing.

But does Ross really have that ability?

The season Rose got the MVP, the efficiency value of 23.5, ranked ninth in the league, and above him were James, Howard, Wade, Kobe, Durant, Paul and other players, and even Westbrook was slightly ahead of Rose with an efficiency value of 23.6.

The reason why Rose was able to be elected MVP, on the one hand, was that the Bulls played the league's No. 1 record of 62-20 under Thibodeau's defensive system at that time, on the other hand, James's decision 1 caused Stern's dissatisfaction, so he did not plan to continue to praise James, but instead supported other players, Rose was young, playing passionately and energetically, so under the promotion of the league, Rose won the MVP for 11 years.

If you make a hypothesis and Rose is injury-free in the following seasons, how far will he be able to go with his style of play and technical characteristics? Will it be like Curry who uses his three-pointer to revolutionize the league, or can he do Westbrook's triple-double every game over several seasons?

There is no doubt that Rose is very capable individually, and it is certain that the league will have a place for him if he stays healthy, but it is a bit difficult for him to say that Rose can beat Curry and Westbrook to become the league's No. 1 point guard.

The topic is far away, let's get down to business.

After the Trail Blazers, the Magic host the Rockets.

Things aren't going well for the Trail Blazers, and the Rockets aren't much better, if not worse.

First of all, Maddy, who returned from injury in the new season, played extremely poorly in the first few games of the new season, and at the same time he also had a conflict with the Rockets management, and then was hidden by the team, only playing in 6 games, averaging only 3.2 points and 1 assist per game.

The Rockets have now begun to openly peddle Maddy, hoping to trade Maddie away before the All-Star weekend, after all, this guy's $23.24 million burden is too big.

The house leak happened to rain overnight, and Da Yao was also injured in the subsequent game, but fortunately, Da Yao's injury was not serious, but he twisted his ankle, and he could be healed after about four to six weeks of recuperation.

When Wang Chao learned the news of Da Yao's injury, he was also scared into a cold sweat.

As a traverser, Wang Chao certainly knows that Da Yao's last glory is the 08-09 season, originally in the 09-10 season, Da Yao was reimbursed for the season because of an injury in the playoffs and the Lakers, and he failed to play throughout the season, and then in the 10-11 season, the comeback Da Yao only played 5 games before suffering a serious injury again and the season was reimbursed, and then officially announced his retirement and farewell to the NBA.

Now that Da Yao can stay healthy, it is a miracle in itself, an opportunity for the butterfly effect brought by Wang Chao.

In the 08-09 season, because the Rockets are a Big Three configuration, Lewis's presence made Da Yao not overly tired as in the original history, and there was no injury in the division semifinals with the Lakers.

Therefore, after the start of the new season, Da Yao played in the regular season in a completely healthy state, and averaged 17.7 points and 9.1 rebounds per game for the Rockets.

Now although Da Yao is injured and Maddie is refrigerated, the Rockets still have a certain amount of combat power, after all, there is still one Rashad left in the Big Three. Lewis.

If it is Mr. 100 million yuan, Lewis's ability obviously cannot match the high salary.

But when the Rockets didn't get that big a contract, Lewis was very good for money.

This is his third season with the Rockets, and the Rockets without Maddy have smoothly pushed him to the position of the main scoring point on the outside, and Lewis did not disappoint the Rockets, averaging 13.2 shots per game, averaging 18.1 points per game, plus Aaron Brooks, who can contribute 19.6 points and 5 assists per game, as well as a number of high-quality role players such as Scola and Landry, who are still dragging the Rockets forward in the absence of Da Yao.

Of course, in the battle with the Magic, the Rockets still lost the game by a large score, without Da Yao, Howard was like a dragon in the sea, overturning the river and the sea in the Rockets' inner line, and there was no enemy.

After the game, Wang Chao and Da Yao had a brief gathering at his home, and took this opportunity to repeatedly warn Da Yao to take his own injury seriously, and not to rush to play for the sake of the team's record.

The butterfly effect may well have changed the trajectory of Da Yao's entire career, and if Da Yao can stay healthy and gradually lose weight to a reasonable state, it is not impossible to extend his career for a few more years.

Wang Chao is still counting on the 2012 Olympics in the future, and Da Yao can still continue to appear in the men's basketball squad to fight side by side with him, and find a way to do his mother's shot again.

Da Yao, who was born in 1980, was only 32 years old even in 2012, and as a player, he should still be at the end of his prime, but the original Da Yao has retired in 12 years, which also makes the majority of Chinese fans uneasy.

"Wang Chao, you're really good enough to mix now, especially"

After chatting about Da Yao's problem, the topic shifted to Wang Chao.

Da Yao couldn't help but shake his head and sigh as he spoke.

"A lot of people say I'm talented and born to play basketball, but now it seems that you're the most talented player in China."

"It's over, I'm just lucky." Wang Chao said honestly, indeed, he was indeed lucky, not only traveled back to the present, but also carried a bug-like system with him.

Because of this, Wang Chao will cherish the opportunity given to him by God even more, and there is no day when he is lazy and does not train, and he will win every game seriously, and there will be no slackness.

Since God has given him this opportunity, he must be the best and the strongest, so that he can be worthy of the powerful functions of the system.

Wang Chao and Da Yao talked a lot about things, including the situation in the league, the trend of this season, and the upcoming 2010 Men's World Basketball Championship after the season.

Winning the gold medal in the capital Olympics has made Chinese fans and even the basketball association ambitious, and the slogan of winning the World Championships has now been shouted in China.

Da Yao is quite worried about this, he is very aware of the true strength of the Chinese men's basketball team, the Olympic Games can defeat the United States men's basketball team to win gold, and the momentum bonus and luck of the home game occupy a very important role.

The 2010 World Championships were held in Turkey, and it is difficult to say whether the Chinese men's basketball team can reach the top four in the case of non-local combat.

However, Wang Chao's performance in the NBA is getting better, but it makes Da Yao feel a lot more at ease.

As long as Wang Chao can continue to maintain such efficient scoring and passing assists in the NBA in the national team, the Chinese men's basketball team will not have the power to fight in the World Championships, after all, the strongest opponent The United States team has never attached importance to the World Championships, and has never sent a global star lineup to play, since 1994, the United States men's basketball team has never won the World Championships, and this time I am afraid it will not be an exception.

(End of chapter)