The Magic, who signed O'Neal, continue to look in the free market, hoping to further enhance the Magic by signing another player who is worth a mid-level contract.

But looking at the league, there are not many players who meet the requirements of the Magic team, and the management of the Magic team does not want to spend this money too unjustly, after all, for every $1 they spend, they have to pay an extra $1 luxury tax to the league, and cost performance and instant combat power are the core elements they consider.

Wang Chao didn't plan to ask about the recruitment of the Magic team management, and he wasn't interested, anyway, they didn't look for themselves, so it depends on their own ability.

For Wang Chao, after the end of next year, he is ready to leave the Magic team, and there is no need to think about the future for the Magic team. By the end of the 2010-11 season, Crawford, Dragic, and Afflalo will have their contracts expiring, and it is no surprise that the Magic will have a hard time keeping them.

In order to poach the championship merits of the three-consecutive champion dynasty team, other teams in the league are afraid that they will not hesitate to violently dismantle the team with premium contracts, and with the tactical position and role of the three in the Magic team, I am afraid that they can get a contract offer close to the annual salary level of tens of millions.

After all, even without the Magic's championship-winning experience, Dragic and Afflalo both signed contract extensions with an annual salary of nearly 8 million after the end of their rookie contracts. Crawford is a little older and only signs a middle-class contract when his contract expires, but a few years later, when he is nearly 35 years old, he can still get a contract with an annual salary of 10 million, which shows his strength.

The Magic team will lack three fierce generals at that time, and the strength will definitely decline significantly, of course, if you add Wang Chao who left the team, it will be four, and you can imagine what level the strength of the Magic team will fall to at that time.

……

At the end of July, Wang Chao returned to China by plane and officially reported to the national team training center on August 1.

In 2010, there was a very important event for international basketball, that is, the 2010 World Men's Basketball Championship, the predecessor of the Men's Basketball World Cup, the world's highest level of basketball competition after the Olympic Games.

Since winning the Olympic Games, the Chinese men's basketball team has risen in the ranking of world basketball, once entering the top five.

This also makes Chinese fans look forward to the prospects of the Chinese men's basketball team in the World Championships, and hopes that the Chinese men's basketball team can win the World Championship in one go and complete the Grand Slam achievement!

Such an idea is understandable, Wang Chao is currently in full swing, with two consecutive championships in hand, and was crowned the MVP of the regular season and the finals at the same time, which can be described as the strongest player in the entire NBA.

Although Da Yao's state has declined slightly compared with previous years with the growth of age and the impact of injuries, he has not been seriously injured enough to affect his career, and he is still the pillar of the Chinese men's basketball team.

And another reason why Chinese fans are looking forward to winning the World Championships is that compared with the Olympic Games, the strength and quality of opponents in the World Championships have declined significantly.

The biggest rival, the Dream Team of the United States, has always paid little attention to the World Championships, and has not sent any outstanding top superstars to participate in the past years, and this year is no exception.

In the 2010 Men's Basketball World Championships, the list of the United States men's basketball team was mainly based on Kevin . Durant, Derrick. Rose, Russell. Westbrook, Stephen. Curry and others lead the way.

These names are well-known, including four regular season MVP winners and seven future or current (Odom) NBA championship winners.

But in 2010, except for Durant, these people were all rookies who had not yet become a climate.

Before the start of the World Championships, this "Dream Nine Team" was known as the dream team with the darkest stars in the past, after all, the best team + All-Star players in the team are only Durant and Rose, and there are as many as 5 newcomers below the second grade, young and lacking big-name towns.

Many people generally believe that the Dream Nine team will most likely be like the predecessors of the previous two World Championships, and will fail in this international event.

The lineup is not only the Dream Nine team, the overall situation of this World Championship is not very good, perhaps because of the gold content of the World Championships, many stars of the world's top teams have chosen to withdraw from this World Championships.

Including but not limited to Nowitzki of the German men's basketball team, Ginobili of the Argentine men's basketball team, and Paulo of the Spanish men's basketball team. Gasol, French men's basketball player Tony. Parker.

The absence of these core players has seriously affected the strength of the team that was originally at the top of the world men's basketball team.

In this case, the Huaguo men's basketball team is one of the few teams in the world that can ensure a complete lineup, and it has naturally become one of the favorites to win the championship.

Wang Chao knows very well that the 2010 Men's Basketball World Championship can be regarded as the easiest opportunity to speed through the Grand Slam in recent years.

Four years later, in the 2014 Men's Basketball World Cup, the lineup of the Dream Team will be led by Curry and Harden, plus Anthony Brown. Davis, Clay. Thompson, Carrey. Irving, Cousins and others are much stronger than the 2010 Dream Nine team, and they are more difficult to deal with.

What's more, in 4 years, Da Yao will be almost 35 years old, even if he can be lucky not to experience major injuries in the next four years, the increase in weight and age will make Da Yao's competitive level fall uncontrollably.

At that time, Wang Chao will have to fight alone, although he is very sure that he will be stronger than he is now in four years, and may even be very strong.

But on the field, 1v5...... He still doesn't have an absolute chance of winning.

Therefore, if you can win the World Championships while Da Yao is still there and the opponent is not strong, and achieve the Grand Slam of the two top international events of the Olympic Games and the World Championships, it is naturally the best.

The start time of the men's basketball World Championship is August 28, and there is still a month-long training period after Wang Chao reports.

The results of the grouping of the lottery ceremony have already been determined.

This was not greatly affected by the butterfly effect brought about by Wang Chao's crossing, and the Chinese men's basketball team, as in the original history, was in Group C with the host Turkey, Russia, Greece, Puerto Rico and Ivory Coast.

From the perspective of overall strength, Group C is actually a weaker group of the four groups, Group A has Serbia, Argentina and Australia, Group B has United States, and Group D is Lithuania, Spain and France.

The only more troublesome point is the Turkish men's basketball team, as the host, how strong is the effect of the home bonus, and the Chinese men's basketball team, which won the gold all the way in the 08 Capital Olympics, has the most right to speak.

……

"Smack!"

Wang Chao slammed out from the flank, cut off Liu Wei's lateral pass, and then smashed to the basket with a tomahawk smash and score with a super speed that no one could catch up.

It was an intra-team match, and Wang Chao's dunk made the assistant coaches watching the game from the sidelines applaud.

One of the teaching assistants couldn't help but let out a heartfelt sigh.

"Wang Chao's steal sense of smell is really good, any player who dares to pass the ball horizontally in a wide range in front of him must be mentally prepared to be stealed, is this NBA-level defense? Wang Chao is not a player who is good at defense in the NBA and still has this defensive ability, how terrifying are the real defensive giants in those leagues? ”

The other nodded, thoughtful.

"It's no wonder that the UAE is almost out of play in the NBA, it has the top strength in the CBA, and it is just an insignificant little shrimp in the NBA, and there is still a big gap between us and the NBA."

On the field, Wang Chao, who had completed the steal and a dragon buckle, nodded with satisfaction, and said secretly in his heart: "The new talent is quite easy to use." ”

The two melon-eating people who just sighed thought that Wang Chao's sense of steal and smell on the court just now was a quality that many NBA-level players have, but they didn't know that Wang Chao at this stage was already the top level in the league in terms of his ability to steal and pass.

This is all due to the natural skills that Wang Chao chose not long ago.

After reporting to the national team, Wang Chao used the rewards of the two natural skills in the consciousness space.

After some thought, Wang Chao did not use both skills on defense, but chose one attack and one defense.

Wang Chao knows that he is destined to leave the Magic team in the future, and without Howard's pick-and-roll cooperation and defensive assistance, and without a group of role players with outstanding projection ability, his personal ability will be tested even more.

Defending is just the icing on the cake for him after all, and making the offense stronger and more difficult to defend is the key.

The natural skill in defense, Wang Chao finally got the talent skill related to steals, the interceptor.

The name is exactly the same as the badge in NBA2K, and has a similar effect, both of which are specific to steals when passing.

Interceptor: When the opponent passes the ball and the player is within 3 meters of the passer or receiver, the agility, explosiveness and steal ability are increased by 20%, and after completing the steal, they will receive a 10% speed bonus that lasts for 5 seconds.

The system's Interceptor Talent Skill is obviously an upgraded and enhanced version of the Interceptor Badge in 2K games, which not only improves the speed and explosiveness of steals in the passing path, but also provides a speed bonus for the fast break after the steal, which can be described as a combination of offense and defense.

Of course, there are conditions for this ability to be triggered, that is, the talent holder must be within 3 meters of the passer or receiver for the talent to be activated.

The premise of activation is the moment when the opponent chooses to pass, which means that Wang Chao must have an extremely fast reaction speed to give full play to the bonus of his stealing ability provided by his talent.

Although the conditions are more demanding, the effect is still quite powerful, which directly improves Wang Chao's external defense ability to a very high level.

As for the other offensive talent skill, Wang Chao's luck was a little worse, and he drew the talent skill of a corner shooter, and the skill effect is to enhance the shooting rate of the two bottom corner positions, and the improvement is quite large, increasing the three-point shooting rate in the bottom corner by 25%.

Obviously, this is a standard skill for 3D players, which is the baseline three-point shooter badge in NBA2K games.

But the problem is that now Wang Chao is already a big core with the ball, and he rarely plays off-ball offense, and the number of shots in the bottom corner is also limited.

After all, he can't just run back to play a role player in order to play the effect of the talent of the bottom corner shooter, right?

But no matter what, the two talents of interceptor and bottom corner shooter still really brought an improvement to Wang Chao's ability.

In the month of the national team's training camp, Wang Chao's main training direction is still around the defensive aspect, mainly strengthening the steal ability value, the higher his tackling ability value, the better the effect of the interceptor's talent.

Time flies, and soon it will be the end of August, and the group stage of the Men's Basketball World Championship will begin.

On August 28, the Chinese men's basketball team ushered in the first opponent of the group stage opener of Group C, the Greek men's basketball team.

The Chinese men's basketball team defeated the Greek men's basketball team 94-85 and won the group stage.

Wang Chao scored a game-high 34 points, 8 rebounds and 7 assists to lead the team to victory.

To the surprise of Chinese fans, Da Yao only played about 10 minutes in the first game and got 8 points and 4 rebounds.

The next day, the Chinese men's basketball team defeated Ivory Coast 104-74 to win two consecutive victories, Wang Chao cut 27 points, 10 rebounds and 11 assists triple-double, and Da Yao did not appear at all.

The abnormal situation made many Chinese fans faintly worried.

Da Yao: What's going on? Could it be that he was injured?

After all, in the past ten years, Da Yao has been the pillar of the Chinese men's basketball team, and even if Wang Chao has risen strongly in recent years, Da Yao is still the anchor of the Chinese men's basketball team.

Therefore, although the Chinese men's basketball team won two consecutive victories in the group stage, Da Yao's absence still made people feel panicked.

On August 31, the Huaguo men's basketball team defeated Puerto Rico 99-84, and after three consecutive wins in the group stage to determine the group qualification in advance, the Huaguo men's basketball team finally gave the anxious Chinese fans a reassurance.

"Da Yao is very healthy."

Faced with the questions asked by reporters during the interview, Guo Shiqiang, then head coach of the Huaguo men's basketball team, replied like this. "The reason why we didn't let Da Yao play more games in the first three group games is to protect him, Da Yao is 30 years old, as a professional athlete, he has experienced high-intensity and intensive competition in the NBA, and the consumption of the body is extremely huge, so we made a decision after a meeting within the team to let Da Yao rest as much as possible in the definite victory, relieve his physical fatigue, which will also help to prolong his career."

Saying that, Guo Shiqiang laughed: "You may not know, this idea is Wang Chao's, in his original words, these opponents in the group stage, it is enough to have him, how can you use Da Yao to come out?" ”

As soon as the interview was reported, the Chinese fans were immediately relieved.

I see.

It's enough to have him!

Wang Chao said this domineering enough, and the results of three consecutive wins in the group stage also proved that Wang Chao does have the confidence and strength to say this.

(End of chapter)