The Warriors' current starting five are Curry, Thompson, Barnes, and David. Lee and Cousins, on the bench sat Drummond. Green, Andre. Iguodala, Andrew. Bogut and other players, this lineup is already very exaggerated just by looking at it.

Curry has finally returned to a normal level of competition since last season after suffering from ankle injuries in previous seasons, playing 78 games in the regular season, contributing 22.9 points, 4 rebounds and 6.9 assists, shooting 45% from three-point range, and making 272 three-pointers throughout the season, ranking second in the league, second only to Wang Chao, who scored more than 360 goals.

The following season, Curry averaged 24 points, 3 rebounds and 8.5 assists per game, and helped the Warriors win the best record in more than a decade in the regular season, 51-31.

Different from the original historical process, today's Warriors have one more Cousins on the basis of the original lineup.

Of course, in the Warriors, which focus on outside firepower, Cousins' statistics cannot reach the standard of close to 23 points and 12 rebounds like in the Kings, but after all, he is an extremely rare center in the league who can attack with the ball, and it would be a pity not to use it.

So this season, Cousins has averaged 18.2 points and 10.4 rebounds per game so far, the second-highest scoring point in the Warriors, behind Curry with 22.7 points and 8.7 assists, as well as Thompson with 18 points per game and David Lee with 14.2 points per game.

The league uses one word to describe this Warriors team, the future is promising.

This group of young people is bound to become a powerful force to be reckoned with in the western region in the future.

With such a Warriors team, Wang Chao can finally get a little interested, especially with Curry and Thompson, it's still quite interesting to hit a three-point shot.

What's more, Wang Chao doesn't know if it's a coincidence.

Before the game against the Warriors, Wang Chao checked in the consciousness space, and the progress bar for his empty three-point ability value to advance to 100 has reached 2991/3000, and he is only 9 three-pointers away from completing the promotion conditions and strengthening the empty three-point ability value from 99 to 100.

After such a long time, some readers and friends may have forgotten, but after Wang Chao completed the first dynasty to win the championship, the system was upgraded to version 2.0, bringing many new features, including a new training potion in the store module, a random talent in the talent tree, and the effect of the ability value breaking through the 99 critical value.

But unlike the first two, the conditions for the ability value to break through the upper limit were too harsh, resulting in Wang Chao not being able to achieve the promotion conditions as soon as possible.

For example, if you are only one step away from being promoted, you can make a 3,000 three-pointers if you go from 99 to 100.

When the system was first upgraded, Wang Chao's progress was 2213/3000, and in the two seasons of the Rockets and the previous games of this season, the progress was successfully changed to 2991.

Wang Chao is still very much looking forward to what kind of improvement will be made when the empty three-point breaks through the critical value of 99 ability value, and it just so happens that this game will be against the Splash Brothers, who will be famous all over the world for their three-point shots in the future, and it is quite rewarding to step on the other side to achieve this achievement.

Therefore, before the game, Wang Chao had decided that he would only play outside the three-point line in this game to achieve the condition of 100 ability points in the empty three-point position, and also win the game as a celebratory gift for the achievement.

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On December 6, the Toyota Center, home of the Houston Rockets, was packed.

To the cheers of the fans, the Rockets' starters appeared one by one.

Warriors head coach Mark Murphy. When Jackson saw the starting lineup of the Rockets, he was obviously stunned, because the lineup of the Rockets today's game has obviously changed from the previous game, they actually did not send the questionable five swingman starting lineup, but replaced a set of Wang Chao, Butler, Middleton, Leonard and Whiteside as the starting lineup.

Although this lineup is only different from the five-swingman lineup, Whiteside is the only one, but the situation on the field is completely different.

The five-forward swing Rockets, the center position is Wang Chao, and now in this lineup, the starting center is undoubtedly Whiteside.

The 2.13-meter-tall Whiteside doesn't care how good Jackson is, but it will be a big problem for Wang Chao to return to the point guard position he was most familiar with when he won the championship last season, because in this way, the Warriors' point guard Stephen . Curry is about to play against Wang Chao!

No one will be optimistic about this set of matchups, and against Wang Chao, Curry will definitely be blown up.

The Warriors can arrange for players in the forward position to mark Wang Chao, but on the defensive end, they can't stop Wang Chao from defending Curry.

Both teams came on the pitch, with Whiteside and Cousins jumping in the middle circle.

The two are close in height, but the bounce and explosiveness are very different.

Cousins is 2.11 meters tall and weighs 122 kilograms, and is a player with low speed and explosiveness, relying on weight tonnage and interior footwork to attack, while Whiteside is a standard spring man, everything on the court is based on his strong explosiveness, in this regard, Whiteside is actually almost exactly the same nature as Jordan Jr. and Drummond.

In the future, Whiteside won a rebounding king and a block king, relying on his bounce and explosion.

Therefore, in terms of jump ball, Cousins was no match for Whiteside at all, and the latter easily dialed the ball to the Rockets' backcourt.

After Wang Chao received the basketball, he dribbled unhurriedly across the half court, and sure enough, although he served as the team's starting point guard, the defender standing in front of him was the Warriors' small forward Harrison. Barnes.

Mark. Green in the Jackson era has not been reused, and the main players in the Warriors' forward position are still Barnes and David. Li, the latter, as a big forward with a height of 2.06 meters and a weight of 111 kilograms, can theoretically be directly opposite Wang Chao.

But the reality is that although they are all 2.06 meters, David. Lee's speed may be outstanding among interior players, but compared to Wang Chao, he is like a snail, and he can't keep up with his speed at all.

Besides, David. It's no secret that Lee is a defensive black hole, not good at and doesn't like defense, and the habits that have been developed during the Knicks are not so easy to change, which is why after Kerr coached the Lakers, David. Lee's tactical position has declined rapidly, from a star power forward who could still contribute 18+9 rebounds per game in the previous season to the team's bench, and was traded out of the team after winning the championship in the 14-15 season.

Wang Chao's ball-holding breakthrough is no less lethal than a three-point shot, so even if Mark Jackson doesn't pay attention to defense, it is impossible to arrange David. Li went to defend Wang Chao, and because Green was not on the throne at this time, this unlucky guy who went to defend Wang Chao naturally took Barnes' turn.

In fact, Barnes' defense is not very good, but at least it is better than David. Li Qiang has a lot, and he will not be thrown away too much by Wang Chao in terms of speed.

But this is only relative, how can Barnes be able to defend against Wang Chao?

Standing outside the three-point line with the ball, Wang Chao's expression was calm, while Barnes, who was standing in front of him, was engrossed in his nerves, staring at Wang Chao with his eyes, waiting for him to launch an attack at any time.

Then Wang Chao moved.

Holding the ball and lowering the center of gravity, Wang Chao accelerated to break through to the right side of Barnes, seeing Wang Chao's breakthrough path, Barnes hurriedly adjusted his pace to keep up with Wang Chao, but he just had a movement under his feet, but Wang Chao dribbled the ball under his crotch to pull the basketball back, and at the same time, the whole person withdrew from the three-point line in one step, and raised his hand to shoot.

Breaking through the connection and stepping back to shoot, Harden's signature trick, but in recent years, it has become Wang Chao's representative move, and it is also his most threatening offensive method outside the three-point line in addition to Curry's signature three-point blocking.

Barnes was completely deceived by Wang Chao, his center of gravity was seriously deviated, and when he wanted to stop and catch up to make up for the defense, the basketball in Wang Chao's hand had already flown in the direction of the basket.

"Brush!"

The basketball hit the net, drawing cheers from the Rockets' home fans.

3:0, Wang Chao scored a crisp three-pointer for the Rockets.

"Don't be too nervous."

Wang Chao, who scored three points, looked at Barnes, who looked a little annoyed, and comforted him kindly: "It's not your problem that you can't prevent it." ”

Barnes: "......"

This is also so TM infuriating! But for Wang Chao, who has been recognized as the first person in the active league by the whole league, Barnes really has nothing to do.

The Warriors attacked, and after Curry dribbled across the halfcourt, the basketball passed through a circle and finally hung to Cousins on the inside.

Cousins was a center who could contribute 18+10 stably last season, and was the core backbone of the Warriors' interior line, and he was playing against Whiteside in this game, and no one would take the current Huaishen to heart, after all, last season, when Da Yao and Garnett almost occupied the playing time of interior players, Whiteside played only about 15 minutes per game, averaging only 4.7 points and 5.2 rebounds per game, and there was no outstanding performance on the defensive end at all.

Cousins received the ball with his back to Whiteside and immediately used his weight advantage to squeeze towards the basket.

Whiteside was indeed inferior to Cousins, and was pushed to the basket by the opponent a few times, and then Cousins sat back hard, squeezing Whiteside to stagger back two steps, and raised his hand to send the basketball in the direction of the basket.

But at this moment, Whiteside, who took two steps back, stopped in time, jumped up suddenly, pressed a big hand on the basketball, and directly capped Cousins' layup.

In the next 15-16 season, it will be one of Whiteside's best seasons, averaging a double-double of 14 points and 11.8 rebounds in 29 minutes per game, and he is most talked about for averaging 3.7 blocks per game to win the blocking title and be named to the best defensive second team that season.

The average of 3.7 blocks per game is the highest average of blocks per game in the past ten years, and the season when Ibaka got the block king in the 11-12 season was also 3.7 blocks per game, and if you continue to go back, only Mourning averaged 3.9 blocks per game in the 98-99 season and is higher than this data.

Of course, like Mutombo, Olajuwon and David. Robinson and a few other blockers were even more years old.

The current Whiteside is still a slight gap compared with the 15-16 season, but Wang Chao's sparring potion is definitely not in vain, and Whiteside itself contains potential.

Cousins underestimated Whiteside too much, and the choice of offensive style was relatively simple and straightforward, and the result was a hat slapped by Whiteside.

Wang Chao was not far away, just stretched out his hand to copy the fanned rebound ball in his hand, and the next second he rushed towards the Warriors' backcourt!

The signature counter-attack is on.

The Warriors hurriedly returned to defense, but there were no players who could keep up with Wang's speed.

Wang Chao first dribbled behind Curry who tried to steal his dribble, and then lowered his center of gravity to accelerate, leaving Barnes and Thompson exhausted.

Wang Chao, who rushed all the way to the three-point line, braked sharply and stopped at the edge of the three-point line, and raised his hand to shoot.

"Not good!"

Seeing this scene, Barnes and Thompson almost stopped at the same time and retreated towards Wang Chao, but Wang Chao's shot was too fast.

"Brush ——!"

It's still hollow into the net, 2 of 2 three-pointers!

Wang Chao scored 6 points in a row at the beginning of the game, which caught the Warriors off guard.

Seeing that Wang Chao scored three points in a row, the Warriors couldn't bear it anymore.

It's like who's not good at shooting three-pointers, and if you can shoot a three-pointer, I won't?

Curry stood at the top of the three-point line with the ball, looked at Wang Chao, who was standing in front of him and almost blocked the basket, and had no desire to shoot at all.

For Curry, Wang Chao is too tall, and high is not the key, the key is that Wang Chao is not only tall, but also fast and strong, and Curry has no advantage over Wang Chao.

However, in order to maximize Curry's three-point shooting ability, the Warriors have of course formulated a series of corresponding tactics for him, among which the more used is to imitate Wang Chao's signature three-point tactics, blocking and dismantling to grab three points.

In the eyes of the Warriors, including Curry, their tactics are to imitate Wang Chao's style of play, and the effect is surprisingly good, which is very suitable for Curry, they don't know, in fact, Wang Chao is copying Curry's style of play to practice this trick, Curry is learning by himself in this wave.

Giving a look to the inside position, Cousins, who has been partnered with Curry for three seasons, understood and ran out of the interior with heavy steps, blocking Wang Chao and Curry.

The moment the pick-and-roll cover was formed, Curry immediately found a suitable gap and threw the basketball to the basket before Wang Chao bypassed the pick-and-roll defense.

"Brush ——!"

It was also a hollow three-pointer, and watching Curry respond with a three-pointer, Wang Chao couldn't help laughing.

That's what he wants to see, well, the three-point battle is about to start now!

(End of chapter)