In addition to these three statistics at the top of the rankings, Wang Chao can also average 2.3 steals and 1.1 blocks per game, ranking third on the steals list, second only to Chris Paul and Ricky Rubio with 2.4 steals!

1.1 blocks is not enough to make Wang Chao on the blocking list, but coupled with the average of 2.3 steals per game, it really looks a little exaggerated.

Looking at the league, players who can average more than 1 steal and block per game are the top defensive players, and the 2+1 data is only possible by some talented top defensive players in the league.

For example, Kevin, who is now on the same team as Wang Chao. Garnett has done it in two seasons in his career, but Garnett usually has 1.5 steals and 2.2 blocks and things like that.

And Andre, who once caused a lot of trouble to Wang Chao and was known as a defensive wizard. Kirilenko has done it in five seasons, averaging 1.6 steals, 3.3 blocks and 1.9 steals and 2.8 blocks per game at his peak.

Future Drummond. Green did a similar defensive stat performance that season when he was named Defensive Player of the Year.

Although steals and blocks cannot fully reflect a player's true defensive ability, they are definitely an important reference standard for defensive strength.

Wang Chao's defensive efficiency this season can reach 98, ranking fifth in the league, and there are only four players with higher defensive efficiency than him, namely Spurs' Tim. Duncan, Roy of the Pacers. Hibbert, Paul. George, Grizzly Bear's Mark. Gasol.

This season, various media in the league have praised Wang Chao's defense more than once, Wang Chao, who mainly plays point guard, can almost defend from the No. 1 position to the No. 5 position on the field, even in the face of a center who is stronger than him in height and weight, he can rely on his good explosiveness to temporarily top for a while, and stick to Garnett or Da Yao to support, and there is basically no obvious defensive shortcoming.

How can a player who is invincible on the offensive end now have such outstanding ability on the defensive end that is not scary?

After the end of the regular season, various season awards have begun to be selected, with Wang Chao's performance, the regular season MVP and the best team will definitely be a certainty, and the best defensive team may also have a place for him, and even the best defensive player DPOY award, Wang Chao can rub a place to participate in voting even if he can't win the award.

Excellent offense and defense, all-round without dead ends......

Wang Chao, who was born in November 83, is now almost 30 years old, and he is not young in age, and he is still making progress and becoming stronger, which is really terrible!

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The first round of the playoffs begins on April 21.

The Rockets are at home and take on the challenge of the Dallas Mavericks.

The Mavericks, who are ranked eighth in the West with a 42-40 record, are certainly no match for the Rockets, and it is not only a problem of being crushed in terms of record, but the Mavericks' current starting lineup is point guard Da Lun. Collisson, point guard Harden, small forward Sean. Marion, power forward Nowitzki, center Elton. Brand.

The team mainly revolves around the two core players of Harden and Nowitzki, plus Vince on the bench with an annual salary of 3 million. Carter's performance of 13.4 points, 4 rebounds and 2 assists per game made the Mavericks stand out from a crowd of strong competitors.

But against the Rockets, this lineup does not have an advantage in any position.

In the point guard position, Collison, who is only 1.83 meters tall, has to face Wang Chao, who is 2.06 meters, which has no to play at all, and Harden has to face Leonard and Butler, two top outside defensive players. Marion is now 35 years old, and he is no longer the "hacker" who flew away when he was with the Suns.

This season, Marion averaged only 12.1 points and 7.8 rebounds per game, and his main role on the court is defense, but considering that he is now worth 8 million annual salary, such a data performance is also qualified, but it is only qualified.

In the position of power forward, Dirk Nowitzki is indeed a difficult opponent, with a height of 2.13 meters and a projection style of play as a completely outside player, which makes Nowitzki have a very good offensive environment.

But it just so happened that the Rockets had a tough opponent in the team that was enough to give Nowitzki a headache. Garnett.

Garnett's height and weight are almost the same as Nowitzki, but unlike Nowitzki, who has a soft style of play, the league's evaluation of Garnett has always been tough play, tough style and so on.

You can see how terrible stereotypes are.

Is Nowitzki soft? Indeed, his offense mainly relies on mid-to-long-range shooting, and he doesn't like to avoid hand-to-hand combat with other big men on the inside.

And what about Garnett? During the draft, in order not to play center, Garnett deliberately lowered his height, and his mid-range jumper score accounted for more than 50% of Garnett's career offensive scores, although the proportion is not as high as Nowitzki, but it is definitely not small.

But why is it that people have a soft impression of Nowitzki, while Garnett's impression is hard?

Presumably, Garnett roared loudly and hammered his chest every time he hit a shot, giving people the impression that he had scored a great goal, which is also the origin of the iron-blooded jumper.

The topic is far away, regardless of whether Garnett is soft or hard, it is indeed an indisputable fact that his defensive ability is at the top level among interior players, and he is best at defending is a shooting skill flow interior player like Nowitzki, who is not known for his weight and strength.

In this game with the Mavericks, Garnett didn't need to think about the offensive end at all, and the only task was to stare at Nowitzki and not give him any chance to shoot easily.

The two veterans have played each other a lot in their careers, and they have also won and lost each other.

Nowitzki averaged 23.9 points, 8.8 points and 2 assists per game against Garnett, while Garnett had 22 points, 12 rebounds and 4.4 assists against Nowitzki.

In terms of scoring, Nowitzki won by a narrow 2 points, but lost to Garnett by 3.2 rebounds and 2.2 assists, which fully reflects the difference in style between the two players.

It's just that in this series, neither of them is clearly the protagonist of the game, to be exact, there is no player on the Mavericks' side who can be called the protagonist.

In the first game, the Rockets opened the series with a crisp victory.

At 120:91, the Rockets beat the Mavericks by 29 points at home.

In the first half alone, the Rockets led the Mavericks by 13 points at 60:47, and in the second half, the Mavericks were even more unable to support the collapse of the whole line.

The two cores of the Mavericks, Harden, under the rotation of Leonard and Butler, shot 6 of 19 from the field, with a shooting rate of only 31.6%, but it was also thanks to Harden that he had awakened the gene of touching porcelain at this time, and he barely scored 20 points on 7 of 7 free throws in the whole game.

Nowitzki, on the other hand, was 7-of-15 from the field and 4-of-5 from the free-throw line under Garnett's entanglement, finishing with 18 points and 7 rebounds.

The Mavericks, whose dual-core efficiency is not high, naturally cannot be the opponent of the Rockets.

Wang Chao didn't even exert much effort, and scored 24 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists symbolically in the whole game, got a small triple-double, and clocked out early before the third quarter of the game.

Like him, Da Yao, who clocked in and out of work, scored 21 points.

Unlike Garnett, who battled wits with Nowitzki, Da Yao was simply invincible under the Mavericks' basket.

Mavericks main center Elton. Brand is just a mediocre blue-collar center, with a height of only 2.03 meters, although his weight is similar to that of Da Yao after weight loss, but the huge height difference makes him unable to defend Da Yao's offense under the basket.

Da Yao in a healthy state, without considering physical fitness, his offensive ability under the basket is really a BUG.

If it was ten years ago, the league could still find some capable centers that could cause some trouble for Da Yao, but now it is 2013, in the era of the league's center withering, Da Yao is indeed a bit of a big shark O'Neal.

The Rockets, who easily won the first game, then won three games in a row and swept directly at Dallas, the home court of the Mavericks.

Mavericks owner Cuban is going to be angry, it's not that he can't accept the Mavericks losing, after all, Black Eight has not appeared a few times in the history of the league.

But such a fiasco without the power to resist is still too annoying to the opponent.

In four games, the Mavericks lost by an average of nearly 20 points per game, and almost every game collapsed around the third quarter.

The offense and offense are not smooth, the defense and defense can't prevent the opponent, and the whole series is completely like an adult beating a child, is the Mavericks' strength so poor now?

Of course not, it's just that the Rockets are too strong, and it's no joke to tie the Bulls' record with a 72-10 record in the regular season.

The Rockets, who easily swept the Mavericks 4-0, were the first to enter the second round, while the Heat, who swept the Celtics 4-0, like the Mavericks, swept the Heat in the first round.

Without Garnett's defense, the Celtics are no match for the Heat.

The Rockets' second-round opponent is the winner between the Nuggets, who are fourth in the West, and the Clippers, who are fifth in the West.

These two teams can be described as chess opponents, and in the first round staged a life-and-death battle.

In terms of roster strength, the Clippers are clearly superior, after all, they have Chris. Paul is one of the league's top superstars, and he also has the '09 No. 1 pick Blake. Griffin.

Under the standard premise of internal and external dual-core, the Clippers also have the best sixth man, Jamal. Crawford, interior blue-collar center DeAndrew. Jordan, as well as Cuarón. Butler, Matt. Barnes and other players.

But with such a lineup, the Clippers still lag behind the Nuggets in the Western Conference regular season record rankings, which shows that the Nuggets track and field team is by no means in vain.

Although the Nuggets don't have any particularly strong superstars this season, the only All-Star player is Andre. Iguodala, but the athleticism of the whole team is very strong, especially at their home stadium Denver, one of the most terrifying devil home stadiums in the league, the Denver Nuggets, located in the plateau, have achieved an exaggerated record of 38 wins and 3 losses in 41 regular season games at home this season, and even the Rockets have been planted on the Nuggets' home court.

In the first round of the playoffs against the Clippers, the Nuggets immediately showed their strong fighting power at home, a neat 2:0, and the Clippers who returned to Los Angeles at home tenaciously scored two consecutive games to tie the score to 2:2, but then lost the key battle of Kings Mountain at the Nuggets' home court.

In the sixth game of the series, Paul slashed 31 points, 5 rebounds and 11 assists to lead the Clippers to win the game and tie the score again, but in the final tie-break, the game returned to Denver, the home of the Nuggets.

The Nuggets, who eliminated the Clippers, will face the Rockets in the second round of the playoffs.

The Nuggets and Clippers are over, and several other sets of games in the East and West have also decided the results.

On the Western side, the Thunder defeated the Warriors 4-2, and the Spurs eliminated the Grizzlies 4-3.

The Eastern Knicks beat the Bucks 4-1, the Pacers beat the Hawks 4-2, and the Bulls beat the Nets 4-3.

In the second round of the divisional semifinals, the four sets of matchups are Rockets vs Nuggets, Thunder vs Spurs, Heat vs Bulls, and Knicks vs Pacers.

Before the start of the second round, according to the league's practice, the results of the season's awards will be announced one after another.

First of all, the results of the All-Team and All-Defensive Team.

There is actually no suspense in the list of the best formations, as in the past, they are all familiar faces.

The five players selected for the best team are Wang Chao, Kobe, James, Durant and Duncan.

Interestingly, Wang Chao, who was voted on according to the forward position when he was an All-Star, changed his position to point guard in the final season, but Wang Chao has indeed been serving as a point guard this season, the only difference is that the player who was squeezed out of a position by Wang Chao is Paul instead of Durant.

This is probably also the meaning of the league, although Paul is also very popular, but it is obviously worse than the rising Durant, and the league also wants to praise Durant and shape him into a similar image of Wang Chao's old enemy.

After all, in addition to James in the league today, only Durant can get a little bit of Wang Chao, and the two have been in the first and second places in the scoring list for many years.

Moreover, Durant is much ahead of Paul this season in terms of personal data and team record, so he is more worthy of the best team list than the latter.

Paul, who was left behind, was left in the best second team, along with Westbrook, Anthony, Griffin and Da Yao.

At the end of the regular season, Da Yao's average data per game was 17.8 points and 8.2 rebounds, which was close to the Duncan data of a while, of course, Da Yao's contribution on the defensive end was still much worse than the Spurs' Duncan, combined with the Rockets' 72-10 record in the regular season, and was finally ranked in the best second team position, which is well deserved.

The five players in the best three teams are Tony of the Spurs. Parker, Mavericks Harden, Pacers Paul. George, the Heat's Chris. Bosh and Mark of the Grizzlies. Gasol.

Here is a big change from the best three teams in the original history of the 12-13 season, mainly Wade and Howard, who should have been selected for the best three teams, were squeezed out by the extra Wang Chao and Da Yao because of the butterfly effect.

But the Heat also got 65 wins in the regular season, and only James was selected for the best team, so Chris Bosh, who averaged 16.6 points and 6.8 rebounds per game, replaced the Warriors' David Lee and was selected for the best three.

(End of chapter)