Chapter 197: The Devil's Schedule and the Tired and Immortal Wang Chao
(The title of the previous chapter was written incorrectly, it should be 48 points, and the title can't be changed by yourself, so I can only wait for the editor to work tomorrow and contact me to revise it.) )
"The furious scoring mode is on, and Wang Chao's new season shows the ability to score explosively, and no one can stop it!"
"The strongest scorer after Jordan may be born, with an average of 48 points in all three games! What will be the level of points per game that Wang Chao will average in the new season? ”
"The Rockets' new lineup lacks scoring ability? Wang Chao will give you the answer with actual performance, and I will make up for the lack of scores! ”
Wang Chao was elected the Western Player of the Week in the fourth week of December without any suspense with an average of 48+9+7 data in the three fields.
The East and Wang Chao were selected as the best player of the week with James of the Miami Heat, who averaged 33 points, 7.5 rebounds and 7 assists per game in 4 games.
The schedule officially entered January 2012, and I have to admit that unlike the previous seasons of the Magic, the Rockets' schedule, especially the schedule at the beginning of the season, is obviously much more intense.
However, this is also a problem that Western teams have always faced.
The West has been strong and the East is weak for many years, and the West is clearly more difficult and intense than the weaker opponents in the East.
After winning three in a row at the end of December, the Rockets played Game 4 on Jan. 1 at home against the Atlanta Hawks and beat them 95-84 to win four in a row.
But the Rockets didn't have a five-game winning streak, because on January 3, the Rockets rushed to Los Angeles to challenge the Los Angeles Lakers and lost 108-99 to the Lakers.
In fact, the Lakers in this period are no longer the favorites to win the championship, at least compared with the Heat, Spurs and other teams, the Lakers team with an aging roster structure has no advantage.
Before the start of the regular season, the Lakers will win the championship. Odom traded to the Dallas Mavericks in exchange for a $9 million trade exception and a 12-year first-rounder, further weakening the team's overall strength.
But this is Kobe Bryant's team after all, and this season is also the center that the Lakers have cultivated for many years. Bynum's season of real rise.
Not surprisingly, this season's Bynum will be selected to the All-Second Team with an average of 18.7 points and 11.8 rebounds per game and become the mainstay of the team.
Of course, with Da Yao staying healthy, it's hard to say whether Bynum will be able to make the All-Star team this season.
Unlike Howard, Bynum weighs 129 kilograms, which is almost the same as Da Yao after weight loss, plus there is an All-Star inside Paul on the side. Gasol foiled, and he didn't fall behind in the fight with Da Yao on the inside.
And the real focus of this game is on the outside of the game.
Wang Chao vs Kobe, a matchup that has been staged countless times in the NBA Finals in the past few years, is still extremely fierce and exciting.
Bryant shot 14-of-29 from the field, 3-of-7 from three-point range and 7-of-9 from the free-throw line to finish with 38 points, eight rebounds and six assists.
Wang Chao made 15 of 25 shots, 6 of 10 three-pointers, and 6 of 6 free throws, scoring a triple-double of 42 points, 11 rebounds and 12 assists.
Wang Chao has a clear lead in scoring, shooting percentage and rebounding assists, but the gap between Kobe and Wang Chao is not big.
In this way, the performance of teammates becomes the key to winning or losing.
At this point, it's clear that the Lakers have the upper hand.
Bynum basically completed the mutual explosion with Da Yao, one scored 18 points and 13 rebounds, and the other scored 21 points and 8 rebounds, which can be described as comparable.
But the Lakers' Paul. Gasol also has a standard double-double of 20 points, 10 rebounds and 4 assists.
This became an important reason for the Rockets' loss.
Leonard, Butler and others are still too tender, and the support they can provide for Wang Chao on the court is obviously insufficient, and even on the defensive end, Leonard has no way to reduce the opponent's offensive efficiency when defending Kobe, but is frequently played, and he has two fouls in just 1 minute.
It can only be said that defensive experts have grown up in the beginning of being abused and played by superstars.
After losing to the Lakers on the road, the Rockets continued to play the Los Angeles Clippers for the second back-to-back road trip in Los Angeles the next day.
The Clippers in the new season can be described as an aircraft carrier setting sail, and the biggest beneficiary of the Paul trade event is the Clippers. With a handful of players like Gordon and a first-round pick, the Clippers got the league's best point guard with the most potential and potential.
Paul + Griffin's inside and outside partnership is a lot of imagination, and the Clippers have built a championship-contending roster around the two, and have acquired Jamal through trades and signings. A number of cadres, including Crawford, have become one of the giants in the West.
In this game with the Clippers, the Rockets played quite hard, after all, it was a continuous back-to-back, and yesterday just had a bloody battle with the Lakers, all members of the Rockets were quite tired, and because of concerns about Da Yao's health problems, Wang Chao made a plan early on, and Da Yao will not participate in consecutive back-to-back away games this season.
Although the head coach of the team and even Da Yao himself did not agree with this decision, under Wang Chao's strong request, Da Yao still obediently chose to rest the game.
Already because of Wang Chao's supernatural performance in the first few games, McHale, who perfectly incarnates Wang Chao licking the dog, will not disobey and question Wang Chao at all, and Da Yao actually knows very well that Wang Chao's move is to protect him from injury.
The game was very difficult, and the Rockets once trailed by nearly 20 points, but relying on Wang Chao's strong outburst from the third quarter, the team still caught up with the score and Wang Chao hit a three-point shot, and finally won the game with a 95:94, 1-point advantage.
In this game, Wang Chao scored 51 points, 15 rebounds and 11 assists with a super triple-double, completely relying on his own strength to turn the tide of the battle.
In 6 games of the regular season, Wang Chao has scored 50+ points twice, although he is accustomed to scoring high scores every day, but such an explosive scoring performance still makes Wang Chao make headlines on the front pages of major media.
On January 6, the Rockets ushered in their third consecutive road trip to Oklahoma to challenge the Thunder, which is still a tough battle.
Although Da Yao played in this game, the Rockets still lost the game.
The Thunder scored 34 points, 22 points and 6 assists and 23 points and 3 assists respectively, and the three combined for 79 points.
On the Rockets' side, Wang Chao scored a game-high 39 points, 13 rebounds and 9 assists, and Da Yao scored 22 points and 6 rebounds, and the two combined for 61 points.
However, a day later, the Rockets, who returned to their home court, played the Thunder again, and after the home-and-away switch, it was the Rockets' turn to make a difference.
At home court, Brooks, Courtney. Li, Korver and others have divine help on the outside, how to shoot, the Rockets scored 6 double-doubles in the game, Wang Chao didn't even take on too much on the offensive end, only 22 points, 8 rebounds and 11 assists in the whole game, and the Rockets won the game 109-94 to pull one back.
From January 3 to January 7, in five days, the Rockets experienced four games, three away and one home, which can be described as a death schedule.
After four games, almost everyone was exhausted, even Da Yao, who had a break for a while, was tired enough.
To their surprise, Wang Chao was still alive and well, and even after the two games with the Thunder, the head coach went to the stadium to practice the next day when he gave all the players a holiday.
This really surprised the Rockets players who didn't know much about Wang Chao.
What kind of physical reserve is this?
You must know that Wang Chao has played an average of nearly 42 minutes per game since the beginning of the season, and the ball of the Rockets is almost concentrated in his own hands.
Although the effect of the stamina potion cannot be effective in the official match, after the game, Wang Chao can use the stamina potion to relieve the fatigue accumulated in his body, which allows him not to accumulate too much fatigue no matter how intensive and difficult the schedule is.
The current Wang Chao is a tireless devil terminator, the problem of physical consumption is solved by physical fitness potions, the problem of injuries is guaranteed by the talent of steel and iron bones, and it is natural to see what the top athletes who will not get tired or injured represent in this league!
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When the Rockets didn't start the regular season, the league didn't have much optimism about them, but now nearly half a month after the start of the new season, after 8 games, the Rockets are ranked first in the West with a 6-2 record, and the league-wide record is second only to the Chicago Bulls with a 7-1 record.
This is almost entirely the credit of Wang Chao alone.
8 games, two of which scored 50+, and an average of 40+9+8 per game so far, can be called the craziest solo show.
The owners of the Rockets are crazy with happiness, and Wang Chao is too fierce, even Kobe, who scored 81 points in a single game in the 05-06 season, is far inferior to Wang Chao this season.
In vain, in order to get Wang Chao, the Rockets did not hesitate to fire the general manager of the team and give Wang Chao all the requirements he put forward, and offered Wang Chao as an uncle.
And after 5 days and 4 games, the Rockets finally ushered in a short two-day rest.
On January 10, the ninth game of the new season for the Rockets, they finally met a weaker team, the Charlotte Bobcats.
Joe's Bobcats last season brought the core of the team, Elvis Presley. Wallace with Captain Stephen. Jackson cleared up and left the team, and the new season is fully prepared to lie down and win the championship, and the team has won 2-7 so far, and has played steadily.
This is the first team the Rockets have faced since the start of the regular season, and naturally they will not be welcome, and they will easily win Game 7 at 96-70.
But then the nasty back-to-back games came back, and after Charlotte's game against the Bobcats, the Rockets flew to San Antonio to take on the Spurs on the road.
In consecutive away back-to-backs, according to the rules previously formulated by Wang Chao, Da Yao hung up the exemption card as usual.
This also caused the Rockets to lose this road game.
At the end of 10 games, the Rockets are 7-3 and have a 70% win rate.
In the past 10 games, the Rockets have successively encountered strong teams such as the Magic, Spurs, Grizzlies, Hawks, Lakers, Clippers, and Thunder, as well as an exaggerated schedule of 4 games in 5 days and three consecutive deaths.
And now it's finally going to be bittersweet.
Over the course of seven days from January 13 to January 19, the Rockets had five games, and the schedule was as dense as ever, but four of them were home games, and more importantly, these five games were against the Sacramento Kings, Portland Trail Blazers, Washington Wizards, Detroit Pistons and New Orleans Hornets.
All five teams are the bottom of the league, and the comparison with the opponents in the first 10 games is simply intimate.
Wang Chao was not ambiguous, seizing the opportunity was a heavy punch, winning all 5 games, winning a wave of five consecutive victories, and improving the team's record to 12 wins and 3 losses.
In mid-January, the NBA officially announced the results of the first round of voting for the All-Star Weekend.
Wang Chao won the first round of voting with an absolute advantage, and the 850,000 votes were 100,000 votes higher than the second-ranked Howard!
The organizer of the 2012 All-Star Weekend was the Orlando Magic, and Howard, who had the home court advantage, had a great advantage, but Wang Chao's recent performance was too exaggerated and explosive, and Wang Chao originally belonged to the Orlando Magic star, even if he switched to the Rockets in the new season, he still has a very large fan base in the Magic team.
This allowed Wang Chao to stabilize Howard in the number of votes.
Da Yao ranked fifth among Western stars in terms of votes, behind Wang Chao, Kobe, Durant and Chris. Paul, and Bynum, who is in sixth place.
If nothing else, these five are the West's All-Star starters, although this is only the result of the first round of voting.
It is worth mentioning that three of the four rookies of the Rockets are on the roster for the first-year roster of the Rookie Challenge.
This is not surprising, after three months of special training during Wang Chao's suspension, the strength of Leonard and the other four was already stronger than the original period, and in the past month in the Rockets, the four rookies have been in the Rockets' rotation list, and they have all played well.
Leonard is the only player in the starting lineup of the four, playing an average of 28 minutes per game in the first 15 games, averaging 10.7 points, 4.4 rebounds and 1.6 steals per game, especially on the defensive end.
Chandler is 2.08 meters tall. Although Parsons is a substitute at the forward position, because he can swing between the small forward and the power forward position, he also averages a lot of playing time per game, which can reach about 25 minutes, and his average of 7.8 points, 4.2 rebounds and 1.8 assists per game is also decent.
Isaiah. Thomas is perhaps the most surprising of the four rookies, with a height of only 1.75 meters Thomas Jr. who was not favored when he entered the league, which is too low for the NBA.
But Thomas Jr.'s performance was surprisingly good.
In fact, the main thing is the vacancy of talent at the point guard position of the Rockets. Brooks has limited ability and only has Thomas Jr. off the bench at the point guard position, which allows him to get about 20 minutes of playing time per game.
Although Thomas Jr. is small, he is very bold, as long as the ball is in hand, he dares to fight, holding the basketball is like carrying a dynamite bag to the inside, and his height of 1.75 meters makes his speed and flexibility quite good, so he often plays a miraculous effect in bench time.
The only player out of the four rookies who couldn't make it to the Rookie Challenge was Jimmy. Butler.
Compared to the other three rookies who played well, Butler's performance was somewhat disappointing.
(End of chapter)