However, in the eyes of everyone, the Rockets only chose Gobert, who was technically rough and only a little bit more visible on the defensive end, and there was definitely no way to replace either Da Yao and Garnett.

The problems that the Rockets need to face on the road to defending their title next season are what all teams in the league like to see, they don't believe it, and they are one year older, and Garnett, who is already 38 years old, can still maintain extremely high defensive efficiency like this season, and Da Yao, who has been injured in previous seasons, can still be like this season, fortunately not injured.

Once the dominance of the Rockets' interior line declines, they will all have a chance, especially the Heat and Thunder, who are mainly outside players and not very outstanding on the inside, and they are already eager for Da Yao and Garnett to retire in situ.

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The Rockets made this trade for the entire draft and didn't do anything else.

Immediately after the draft kicks out, free agency market begins, and teams begin to make various trades in preparation for the new season.

On the day the free market opened, the Boston Celtics made a deal to send Paul Brown. Pierce, Jason. Terry and Jeff. Green, who traded from the Nets for Wallace, Humphries, and five other players, plus two first-round picks from the Nets in 2014 and 2016.

Pierce, the soul of the Green Army, was traded away from the team, and all the former Celtics Big Three left the team, which has completely become history, and also reflects the ruthlessness of the team's capital, Pierce has been conscientious since he was drafted by the Celtics in 98, and has been working hard for the Celtics for fifteen years, but in the end he ended up uprooted, which also proves that Garnett and Ray have been uprooted. Allen's behavior of running away early is completely correct, especially Garnett, although he chose to take a salary cut to join the Rockets and lost some of his financial benefits, but now he has won an NBA championship, which is definitely worth it.

The Celtics traded Pierce for two draft picks, apparently to knock the team down and rebuild, and kept Rajan. Rondo, which will be cultivated as the core of the new Green Army.

At this time, the Celtics did not expect that Rondo would only play a total of 50 games in the next two years, and he had been plagued by injuries and his form had declined rapidly, which eventually led to the Celtics having to give up with Rondo, but it was precisely because of this that Thomas Jr., the strongest 1.75 meters on the surface, had the opportunity to rise.

The Celtics got the draft picks, while the Nets got the instant power.

Paul Pierce is currently 36 years old and is still averaging 20.1 points, 6 rebounds and 5 assists per game in the Green Army this season, while Jason Terry and Jeff Green are also players who average double-doubles per game and have good ability.

With the addition of these three people, plus the Nets themselves Deron Williams, Joe Johnson, Brooke. With three Lopez All-Star players, the Nets have built a team that is quite good on paper at the cost of overdrawing their future.

With this deal, the Nets instantly became one of the league's favorites to win the championship, second only to the Rockets, Heat, Thunder and other teams.

Of course, Wang Chao is clear about the combat effectiveness of this Nets team.

In the 2013-14 season, the Nets, who originally formed the Big Five with Garnett, only scored 44-38 in the regular season, ranking sixth in the East, and in the playoffs, the Nets defeated the Toronto Raptors 4:3 in the first round, and then were swept by the Heat 4:1 in the second round.

There are many reasons for the Nets' failure to form a supercarrier, and center Brooke, who is seen as the core of the interior and the hope for the future. Lopez's season reimbursement due to injury is one thing, and the two veterans Garnett and Pierce are not adapting to the Nets' tactical system and aging and declining form are another.

In the 2013-14 season, Garnett's form ushered in a cliff-like decline, and his average data per game dropped sharply from 15+8 last season to 6.5 points and 6.6 rebounds, and in the following seasons, whether it was in the Nets or the Timberwolves, Garnett's average data per game was only about 6+6.

This can't be helped, by 2014, Garnett has reached the age of 38, as an interior player, as he gets older, his state declines faster than that of outside players, and outside players can still rely on experience and shooting to contribute to the team after they are old, and interior players are different.

The aging of the body, the weakening of the confrontation ability, and the decline in mobility and explosiveness have greatly reduced Garnett's effectiveness on both the offensive and defensive ends.

The same problem actually exists with Duncan, who is only a month behind Garnett, but unlike Garnett, whose strength is completely based on the defensive ability brought about by physical fitness, Duncan is bigger than Garnett, has more strength, and has excellent confrontation ability under the basket, plus he also has a good team and a wise head coach, who can use it reasonably to maximize Duncan's advantages.

In addition, Garnett, who was born as a high school student, played two more seasons than Duncan, although he was the same age, but in fact, his body was more consumed, and it was normal for him to decline earlier than Duncan.

Now this problem needs to be a headache Wang Chao.

As analyzed by many media sports experts and commentators, the difficulty of defending the Rockets title in the new season is much more difficult than winning the championship this season.

Don't see that next year's 34-year-old Da Yao is much younger than the 38-year-old Garnett, but his physical condition is really not much better than the other party.

The Rockets in the new season must be prepared to fight in the case that the interior twin towers cannot play the ideal state, that is, the tactical play will change from a combination of inside and outside to an outside-based offense.

Fortunately, Wang Chao is ready.

The Rockets' current roster could be transformed into a similar roster structure to the 73-win Warriors in 15-16 at any time, if desired.

The 73-win Warriors, the league's most famous tactic, is the Death Five.

Curry, Thompson, Iguodala, Barnes plus Green at the center position, with an average height of 1.98.8 meters in the five positions, completely sacrificed the interior, relying on Green alone to top the basket, and then used the ultimate offensive rhythm to blow up the whole league.

The current Rockets, under the control of Wang Chao, have initially possessed the ability to reproduce the Warriors' five-small lineup.

Under the tempering of Wang Chao's sparring potion for two seasons, the strength of the players in the Rocket team has made great progress compared with the same period in the original history, among which the performance of three-point shooting is particularly obvious, after all, Wang Chao arranges the most three-point training in his daily training.

Leonard, Chandler. Parsons's two players who were originally good at three-point shooting averaged more than 40% of their three-point shooting per game this season, and even Butler, who is not particularly good at three-point shooting, can maintain a three-point shooting rate of about 37% this season. Middleton is the most accurate three-point shot among several people, and even in the entire Rockets, only Wang Chao and Korver are more accurate than Middleton in three-point shooting.

Therefore, around these four people, Wang Chao can completely build the Rocket version of the Death Five Little of him + Middleton + Butler + Leonard + Parsons, the average height is higher than that of the Warriors version of the Death Five Little At the same time, the offensive and defensive abilities are also stronger!

As for Wang Chao, there is a high probability that he will play in this set of five small lineups of death, which is Green's position.

Green of the Warriors, on the offensive end, is tasked with standing at the top of the three-point line and responsible for organizing and dealing cards...... After the three-point shooting ability slipped in the later stage, it was a useless position, and on the defensive end, Green's job was to protect the rim and protect the rebound.

It must be admitted that Green has done a very good job defensively, and looking at the league, there are really very few players who can play both inside and outside the defensive end like Green, and it is not an exaggeration to say that Green was stronger than Leonard in his peak season, that is, the season when he won the best defensive player.

And now Wang Chao is confident that he will not lose to the peak of Green, and his self-confidence certainly comes from his own ability.

A long season is often accompanied by a large increase in the king's super ability value.

Originally, Wang Chao had accumulated more than 15,000 points in a few seasons, but after the new high-priced training potions were put on the shelves of the upgraded version of the store in these two seasons, Wang Chao's speed of consuming points became amazing.

After the All-Star Weekend this season, Wang Chao stopped exchanging points for training potions, because he didn't have many points left, just over 200 points left.

The massive consumption of points naturally brings the improvement of Wang Chao's basic ability value, of which the biggest and most obvious improvement is naturally the defensive attributes.

Wang Chao was able to be selected for the best defensive team at the end of the season and ranked second in the voting for the best defensive player, which is definitely not a joke.

At present, his average defensive ability value has reached 90, including 94 defensive rebounds, 85 blocks, 92 steals, 92 outside defense, 89 inside defense, 92 card ability, 90 defensive awareness, and 88 assistant defense awareness!

Purely measured by the current defensive ability value, Wang Chao is already the top defensive expert in the league, and like the peak Garnett and Green, he has strong defensive ability inside and outside.

This summer, Wang Chao is ready to further improve his ability on the defensive end, after all, his ability value on the offensive end has been comprehensively improved to more than 90, with an average of 94, it is very difficult to continue to improve, and the current Rockets team does not need him to continue to strengthen his scoring ability on offense.

This time, he led the team to win the championship, which was unexpected, and the system gave a very high evaluation, and the season evaluation score was as high as SS level.

This is the first time that Wang Chao has won the double S season evaluation, and the rewards are naturally extremely rich.

The talent rewards are still two, but the reward for points has skyrocketed from 7,000 points in S+ to 10,000!

Coupled with the double points reward for the playoff victory, Wang Chao, who had spent all the points left, had a deposit of tens of thousands of points, which was enough for him to squander in the offseason and further improve his strength.

And right now, his ability value has reached an exaggerated 95, and if it is calculated according to the mechanism of the 2K system with a total rating compensation, there will already be a total rating of 99 when it reaches 90 earlier.

Of course, the overall evaluation of the ability value is only to ensure the numerical embodiment of Wang Chao's basic ability value, and what really makes him invincible in the arena is the various powerful talent skills of the talent tree module.

This season, Wang Chao used all of the two talent skill choices evaluated in defense by Wang Chao.

As before, the upgraded talent tree gives him one of three options.

The first defensive talent has the following three talents.

Chase Block: Briefly increases the player's speed and bounce while chasing an offensive player and preparing for the block.

Bully less: After forming a trap on the player with the ball, the pressing defense can force the opponent to stop the ball and is more prone to mistakes.

Brawler: When on the defensive, increases the probability of winning a physical confrontation with an opponent, while reducing the physical cost of physical confrontation and increasing the physical consumption of the opponent.

Three defensive skills, the first is one of James's signature moves, Wang Chao has opened it before, but I think it is less versatile and not very practical, so I chose pass, but I didn't expect it to come out again.

The name "bullying less" sounds similar to the rebounding idiot, but it doesn't sound like an honest talent, and the actual effect is actually the effect of strengthening the bag.

Therefore, Wang Chao's final choice is a fighting maniac, which sounds domineering, and the effect is also to increase the confrontation ability when defending.

Wang Chao currently weighs 105 kilograms and has a strength of 88, and can have the upper hand in most cases in the outside confrontation, and there are only a few outside players who are stronger than him, such as James and Artest.

But if it comes to the inside, compared with those center players, Wang Chao is still at a disadvantage most of the time.

With the talent of a fighting maniac, the situation is different, effectively improving the confrontation ability on the defensive end can improve Wang Chao's defensive ability on the inside line to a higher level, even if he faces some players who are taller than him and weigh more, he will not be too inferior.

As for the choice of another talent, in the same case of choosing one of the three, Wang Chao chose a talent called Shadow.

As the name suggests, this talent skill can increase the pace of the defensive player with the ball when defending, so that the opponent will not easily break through, as if it is a shadow!

Once the two defensive talents are selected, the number of Wang Chao's defensive talents has directly increased from the previous two to four, and with an average defensive ability value of up to 90, it is more than enough to be competent for Green's work on the defensive end.

While Wang Chao is making various preparations for next season, free market transactions are still in full swing.

The Lakers have been committed to keeping Howard after the season, although this season, the Lakers' super F4 combination results are disappointing, and Howard, the league's No. 1 center, has completely failed to shoulder the expectations of Los Angeles fans, but keeping Howard is still the Lakers' top priority, after all, if Howard leaves as a free agent, it will really be a chicken and egg loss for the Lakers.

The Lakers formed a lobby group for Uncle Niang, met with Howard many times, and knew that he wanted to keep this immature super center with his ideals.

However, in the Lakers lobby, there is also a guy as immature as Howard, that is Kobe, and the result can be imagined.

(End of chapter)