Wang Chao really didn't know that Candace would come to Houston to watch him play on Christmas Day, because when the two talked on the phone before, Candace only asked him about Miranda's pregnancy, and did not mention her coming to Houston in the near future.

Unexpectedly, she actually raided silently, this Christmas surprise is really amazing......

Candace sitting in the stands smiled like a flower, there was no angry expression on her face, and she smiled at Wang Chao, but this is what made him feel the crisis, it seems that he and Miranda secretly gave birth to a monkey from her, which really made Candace very angry!

"No matter, early death or late death is death, whatever."

Wang Chao shook his head and threw the distracting thoughts out of his mind.

After that, at least on the arena stage, Candace can't do anything to him, he's going to have to focus on the game and win the battle of the spotlights.

The Heat may not be the strongest team this season, after all, the Heat was swept out of the Western Spurs 4:1 in the historical Finals, but just like the previous pre-game analysis, the Heat is still the team with the best chance to break out of the encirclement and enter the Finals in the East, and with this, the Rockets must pay attention to this game.

The Heat's starting lineup is Chalmers, Wade, James, Battier and Bosh, a standard small-ball lineup, and the Rockets' lineup is Butler, Middleton, Leonard, Chandler. Parsons and Wang Chao, the starting lineup is more extreme than the Heat.

Wang Chao and Bosh jump the ball in the middle circle.

Looking at Bosh who had posed in advance, the muscles of his whole body were tense, and he was ready to jump at any time, Wang Chao couldn't help but comfort. "Don't be nervous, it's not a shame to lose to me in a jump ball."

Bosh: "......"

Wang Chao did see through his thoughts.

Bosh does not want to lose to Wang Chao in the jump ball link, although he is not known for his physical fitness, but Bosh's talent also belongs to the top ranks in the NBA league, with a height of 2.11 meters, an arm span of 2.22 meters, first-class speed and agility among interior players, although the bounce is slightly inferior, but it is definitely not bad.

Bosh's career jump ball win rate has been maintained at more than 50%, not more than 50% too much, but it is also more wins and fewer losses, if the jump ball loses to Wang Chao a 2.06 meter outside player, it is really a bit embarrassing.

But Bosh still overestimated himself.

Although Wang Chao's height and arm span are not superior to Bosh, his bounce and explosiveness are a few streets behind the other party, so he will definitely not be able to win compared with a monster like Little Jordan who can reach 75% of the success rate of the jump ball, but he is still comfortable bullying and bullying Bosh!

The moment the referee threw the basketball into the sky, Wang Chao's feet were like stepping on a spring, and the whole person jumped up suddenly, grabbed the basketball to his side in front of Bosh, and then landed and ran towards the Heat basket without stopping.

Although there are no point guards, Butler and Leonard are both players with the ability to carry the ball, and they do not consider organizing the offense, but simply dribbling over the half court is naturally not a big problem.

Just after half of the court when Butler held the ball, he saw Wang Chao, who had run to the inside of the Heat team, leaning his back against Bosh and raising his hand to signal the pass.

"Wang Chao wants the ball from the bottom line, this is wanting to play Bosh alone! The outside player took the initiative to ask for the ball to play the inside player with his back to the ball, and if Bosh couldn't prevent it, it would be a shame. ”

Like many people think, Bosh also has the same idea, it is embarrassing enough to lose the jump ball, if Wang Chao beats himself on the inside again, then how can he still mix in the league?

Butler hit the ground and passed the ball to Wang Chao on the inside, and Wang Chao, who was holding the ball with his back to Bosh, made a force behind his back.

Suddenly, Bosh felt a huge surge of force, and suddenly couldn't help but take two steps back, and his heart was inexplicably surprised.

In the previous games, Bosh rarely played against Wang Chao, and the player who was mainly responsible for defending Wang Chao had always been James, who he didn't expect at all that Wang Chao didn't look particularly strong, but his strength was much greater than he imagined.

Bosh, who was thin and bamboo-shaped, couldn't bear Wang Chao's back at all, and was squeezed under the basket a little bit, Wang Chao was also enough for shrimp and pig's heart, and suddenly exerted force, knocked Bosh away and then jumped on the spot to score a layup.

This is exactly the way the center plays, and it's the dumbest kind of play, which relies entirely on the strength advantage of the back play.

If it was Da Yao of the Rockets in front of Bosh, it would be normal to play like this, but now it is Wang Chao who uses this trick, and even the fans of the Rockets forgot to cheer and celebrate Wang Chao's goal for a while.

Bosh's face completely collapsed, what is this TM? Are you sure this is an outside player? How do you feel that his strength is more exaggerated than James?

In fact, in terms of pure strength, Wang Chao is actually inferior to James, but in addition to the basic strength and ability value, Wang Chao also has the talent of a fighting maniac, which allows him to have a more advantageous advantage in physical confrontation.

Of course, what is more important is that Bosh itself is too soft.

Bosh, who is 2.11 meters tall, weighs only 107 kilograms, which is only 2 kilograms different from Wang Chao, who is 105 kilograms.

In the NBA, weight tonnage is very important, even if the strength of the player is not strong, relying on the tonnage can still have the upper hand in the basket confrontation.

The prime example of this is Howard.

The strength of Warcraft is definitely not bad, it belongs to the top level in the interior, but he always suffers when facing Da Yao, and the dominance of the basket on the offensive end is not as strong as that of other top centers in the league, the main reason is that Howard's strength is mainly focused on the strength of the upper limbs.

The maximum weight of Howard's bench press at his peak can reach about 195 kilograms, while the data of Big Shark O'Neal is only 190 kilograms, and Da Yao's bench press is only 158 kilograms, but Howard will always be suppressed by Da Yao in the counterpoint, because his weight tonnage has a huge gap with Da Yao, the strength of the lower limbs is insufficient, and the lower plate is unstable, so there is no such strong effect when he is stuck in the basket and facing the back.

Although Wang Chao's confrontation ability and strength are very strong, if he is facing a heavy center weighing more than 120 kilograms, it is impossible for him to carry the opponent into the basket and force the score like this.

It's just that who made Bosh an interior player of his weight and far less confrontational than him?

The Heat attacked, James stood on the outside to face Leonard's defense, and with the help of his teammates to block and cover, he held the ball and accelerated to the basket.

Then he saw Wang Chao, who was guarding the Rockets' basket, coming up to him.

To be reasonable, this is the first time he has encountered such a situation.

In the past, although Wang Chao also defended him, it was completely a one-on-one defense or package on the outside, and the inside defense was usually Da Yao or Garnett.

Wang Chao is responsible for guarding the basket and helping to defend like a center, is this realistic?

James didn't think it was a good idea, he just felt that Wang Chao was carried away by previous successes, and this kind of work must be handed over to a tall, muscular heavy center.

James himself has an advantage over Wang Chao in terms of strength and weight, and at this time there is still the impact of breakthrough acceleration, how can a mere Wang Chao stop him?

"Want to stop me? Then give it a try! ”

Thinking of this, James did not dodge or dodge, and went straight to Wang Chao.

The two collided fiercely in the air in front of the basket, as James expected, Wang Chao was at a disadvantage in the confrontation with him, but at the same time, there was something he didn't expect, that is, after the two collided in the air, the power fed back from each other exceeded his expectations.

Losing his balance, James could only hurriedly throw the basketball in the direction of the basket, but the basketball bounced off the back edge of the basket and missed the shot.

James, who stumbled to the ground, immediately continued to jump, trying to grab the offensive rebound, but Wang Chao was faster than him, took the first step and slammed forward, grabbed the basketball into his arms, and then immediately ran in the direction of the frontcourt.

James, who was almost in a parallel position to Wang Chao, immediately accelerated to catch up, but was stunned to find that Wang Chao ran faster than he imagined, and with his sprint speed, he couldn't catch up for a while!

Fast Breaker: When a player dribbles from the backcourt to the frontcourt after completing a steal, block, or defensive rebound, his speed, agility, and dribbling ability will be increased by 3%.

Wang Chao's speed itself is faster than James's, and with the blessing of natural skills, even in the state of dribbling and running, James can not easily catch up.

galloped all the way into the front basket of the Heat, only Wade was in front of Wang Chao at this time, but James always chased after Wang Chao, the distance between the two was only half a position, as long as Wang Chao stopped and shot, James could immediately catch up to assist in defense, and even use his signature defensive moves, chasing after Wang Chao to give Wang Chao a big hot pot to taste.

Wang Chao naturally knew this, so he did not directly force the layup, but rushed to the basket and then slowed down and stopped, made a Buddha worship action, deceived Wade Center, and then jumped to the left hand to make a layup.

When he sent the basketball to the direction of the basket, James behind him also jumped up, and a pair of big hands covered the sky and wanted to give Wang Chao a big hat.

But Wang Chao in the air was a cat waist, took back the basketball and passed it from his left hand to his right hand, his waist and abdomen suddenly exerted force, his whole body was in the air, and his right hand pulled the rod to make a layup from the other side.

James's chase block was completely dodged by Wang Chao's lever, and the basketball was easily sent into the basket by Wang Chao's soft touch.

4:0。

At the beginning of the game, Wang Chao's two attacks and one defense were all successful, and the effect of appearing on the field as a center forward was completely played!

And the game has just begun, and as the game continues, the Heat are starting to see the seriousness of the problem.

Wang Chao can attack like a center on the inside, or he can defend like a center, and he can also transform from a center position to an outside player at any time, whether it is a counterattack fast break or an outside three-point shooting, which will make the Heat anxious.

What's more...... His rebounding seems a bit good over-the-top, right?

In the first quarter of the game, Wang Chao actually didn't shoot much with the ball, because many times he was ambushed in the restricted area, when the Rockets players shot outside and missed, he was like a ghost, I don't know where to come out, and then grabbed the rebound in front of Bosh and James, and then scored the second offense or caused the Heat to defend the foul.

In the first quarter alone, Wang Chao grabbed 7 rebounds, including 3 offensive rebounds and 4 defensive rebounds.

The Heat team let Wang Chao rob him.

The Heat, who are seriously lacking in interior strength, has always been a shortcoming in rebounding.

Especially so far this season, the Heat team has averaged only 37.4 rebounds per game, ranking first in the league, and the highest average rebounds per game on the team is James with 7 rebounds, then Bosh with 6.6 rebounds, and the third is Birdman Anderson with 5.3 rebounds.

The Heat, who are severely lacking in rebounding ability, have to be grabbed by opponents at least 10 or more offensive rebounds in almost every game, which is one of the main factors limiting the Heat's record this season.

Even though they signed multiple centers in the summer but still ended up in such a situation, the Heat team is also declining enough.

But even so, this is not a reason for them to let Wang Chao stand on their heads and casually in the Heat's restricted area.

At the end of the first quarter, the Rockets led the Heat by eight points at 36:28.

Wang Chao's three offensive rebounds were all converted into secondary offenses, which also allowed him to shoot 5 of 8 and 4 of 4 free throws in the first quarter of the game to score 15 points, 7 rebounds and 3 assists.

When the game entered the second quarter, the Heat replaced Anderson, plus Bosh and James, and wanted to team up to protect the Heat's rebounds.

But what they are facing is Wang Chao, who has the talent of a rebounding man.

I have to admit that although the name of this talent is terrible, it is quite apt.

Wang Chao's sense of smell for rebounding is really like an idiot for a girl in the tail line, always able to judge the basketball landing point in front of others, and then rely on 90 offensive rebounds and 94 bounce ability value to grab the frontcourt rebound first.

Successfully incarnated as a rebounding maniac...... No, Wang Chao, who incarnated as Rodman, completely dominated the interior of the Heat, leading the Rockets to play another wave of 12:2 attack in the second quarter of the game, and by the end of the half, the difference between the two teams was close to 20 points.

Naturally, the Rockets' home fans were overjoyed by the result.

In the absence of Da Yao, the Rockets still have absolute dominance on the inside, Wang Chao alone turned the river and the sea on the inside of the Heat, making the opponent miserable, and Wang Chao is simply incarnated as Garnett on the defensive end, with excellent mobility, he can help defend the players who are out of position at any time, which greatly reduces the offensive success rate of the Heat team.

With one increase and one decrease, it is natural that the Heat team will fall behind.

It's just that this result still makes the Heat team a little difficult to accept, Wang Chao is too exaggerated, right? He really plays like a center forward, and what else is there in the five positions on the court that he can't play?

(End of chapter)