Chapter 292: Beat the Knicks, the Nets are the king of New York!

The loss to the Cleveland Cavaliers was not the end of the world for the Nets, because even if the winning streak ended, they still have a 15-1 record in the first place in the East, but they fell behind in the winning streak.

The Golden State Warriors' winning streak in the West continues, and the Warriors have just won their 18th straight game when the Nets lost their first game.

Curry's super individual performance and the team's good chemistry make the Warriors invincible on the court, the Death Five has the ultimate offensive firepower, and when Cousins is on the court, the Warriors can also be on the court, and the efficiency of the Warriors is not low. Plus top 3D player Clay. Thompson, Green, who focuses on defense and playmaking, and excellent rotation players such as Iguodala on the bench, the Warriors, who are perfectly adapted to any game situation, really can't find any shortcomings.

Many people have seen in this Warriors team that the Houston Rockets won the 12-13 season with 72 wins in the regular season and all the Finals wins, that is, the Garnett and Da Yao team are still at the end of their prime, and they still have good personal strength, while Leonard and Butler have risen one after another, and there is Isaiah on the bench. Thomas & Chandler. Parsons' season.

To this day, among the players of that Rockets, except for Da Yao and Garnett, who have retired one after another, the young players have almost all received tens of millions of big contracts.

This can also prove the toughness of the Rockets in the 12-13 season from another angle.

And the current Warriors also have a little shadow of the Rockets, Curry, Thompson, Green, Cousins and even Barnes are all players who are eligible for an annual salary of tens of millions, and Iguodala, Bogut, Barbosa and Livingston on the bench are also players who have dominated one side, or have been selected as All-Stars, or have been the main players on a certain team.

Originally, before the start of the regular season, the Cleveland Cavaliers were the first team in the power rankings and the team with the highest odds to win the championship.

But as the first natural month of the regular season is about to pass, the Warriors have come from behind and overtaken the Cavaliers.

The Cavaliers' three-top lineup is luxurious and strong, but there are too many strongmen who can't stand the Warriors, and with Cousins and Bogut in the presence of Cousins and Bogut, the Cavaliers' interior line does not have an advantage, and the outside firepower is not comparable to the Warriors.

On Nov. 30, the Warriors came to an 19-game winning streak after beating the Utah Jazz 106-103, and the November schedule officially ended.

The Warriors, who won all 19 games in the opening game and had no defeats, are at the top of the league with no suspense, while the Brooklyn Nets led by Wang Chao are second in the league with a 16-1 record.

The Cavaliers and the Spurs in the West are tied for third place in the league with a 14-4 record, and second in the East and West respectively.

With the team's record and super individual performance, Wang Chao and Stephen. Curry was named the Player of the Month for November in the East and West.

Curry averaged 34.6 minutes per game in 19 games, contributing 31.6 points, 5.2 rebounds and 6 assists, shooting 51.2% from the field and 44.5% from three-point range.

The era of Kuritian is finally coming.

It's a pity that it is different from the original time and space, here, there is one person who is always high above all the players in the league, and that is Wang Chao.

Wang Chao, who was elected Eastern Conference Player of the Month in November, played in 17 games, averaging 41.8 minutes per game, averaging 28.2 points, 11.2 rebounds and 10.4 assists per game, shooting 57% from the field and 48.4% from three-point range.

It is foreseeable that this season is very likely to be Wang Chao's fourth consecutive season of average triple-double performances, and the league has become accustomed to the performance of Wang Chao's personal ability.

Comparing anyone with Wang Chao is a hooligan's behavior, even Ku Ritian.

Curry averaged 11.1 three-pointers per game in November and was able to hit 4.9 shots, which is quite exaggerated, because if he plays 82 games according to this three-point shooting number, Curry will achieve the achievement of making 400+ three-pointers in a single season, an achievement that only Wang Chao has done so far.

It would have been an incredible feat, but this season, Wang Chao can also hit 4.6 three-pointers per game, and uses fewer shots than Curry to shoot nearly 49% from the field.

In this comparison, the peak and most glorious season of Curry's career does not seem to be particularly remarkable, the only thing that can be a little better than Wang Chao is that Curry's average of 31.6 points per game is higher than that of Wang Chao with 28.2 points.

But everyone knows this better.

Wang surpassed the existence of the scoring champion for 7 consecutive years, and his scoring ability is comparable to Jordan's, no...... Considering Wang's super-high three-point shooting percentage and physical fitness that almost never runs out, his scoring explosiveness is even stronger than Jordan's.

Although Curry has performed well this season, if he wants to compete with Wang Chao's scoring ability, he should rest.

As for the reason why Wang Chao's average points per game will decline, the main reason is that he has divided part of the ball and shots.

Unlike the previous Rockets, the Nets can help the team win with defense and the likes of Leonard and Butler.

In the absence of strong defensive players, Wang Chao needs to focus more on helping the team build a defensive system, which means that he does a lot of work in the game with players like Garnett and Green, helping his teammates to help defend and wipe their butts.

The strength of the Nets lies in the offense, Lopez on the inside is an offensive interior that can contribute 20+ points per game, Jokic also needs a certain amount of ball control if he wants to fully play his strength, as for Booker and Bogdanovic on the outside, although they are role players based on off-ball tactics, they also need a lot of shots to enhance the deterrence of outside projection.

Plus there's a former point guard on the bench, Delon Brown. Williams, after a split up, Wang Chao's number of shots and ball possession naturally declined compared with the Rockets.

Of course, the decline in Wang Chao's data is more because of the sacrifice of focusing on defense, so he can continue to maintain the average triple-double data per game, after all, Wang Chao's achievements and honors have proven countless times that handing over the ball to him is the most efficient way to play, and there is no one.

That's why the Nets started the season with a 15-game winning streak and finished November with a 16-1 record and the second in the league.

In addition to Wang Chao, who averaged 28.2 points per game, the remaining four starters all scored double-doubles per game, the highest is Brook Lopez, who averaged 17.7 points per game, after all, he was the main center of the Nets who could contribute 20+ points per game steadily, and his accurate mid- and long-distance shooting made him like a fish in water in the current Nets' tactical system.

Last season, Lopez, who played in 72 games and started only 44 of them, averaging 29 minutes per game due to injury, ended up with 17.2 points and 7.4 rebounds in the regular season.

In the new season, his playing time has increased to 32.4 minutes, and his average number of shots per game has decreased from 13.7 last season to 12.4 due to the increase in the team's scoring points.

Lopez formed a twin tower with Jokic on the inside, and used his height advantage to draw a large number of mid-to-long-range shots, away from the basket he didn't like, and even though his personal data was not as good as in previous healthy seasons, he still played very happily.

The other inside lineman who partnered with him in the Twin Towers, that is, Nikolai. Jokic's past 17 games for the Nets have also been surprising.

Before the Nets introduced Jokic as the starting center, no one in the league noticed the little-known European fat man.

At first, it was only because he was selected by Wang Chao that he received some media attention, but after Jokic played a whole season off the bench with the Rockets without success, most reporters have lost interest in Jokic.

No one expected that after Wang Chao left the Rockets, he would find a way to bring Jokic to the Nets, let alone let the Nets make the substitute who played less than 10 minutes per game when the Rockets last season play directly as a starter in the new season.

In the first few starts of his career, Jokic didn't play well because of his nervousness, but he was a professional player who had experienced the Europa League, and he adapted very quickly, and after a few games, he began to gradually grasp the essentials and began to become more comfortable.

Moreover, as I said before, all opponents who play against the Nets are all focused on Wang Chao, who cares about him, a little-known little character?

Many teams have paid the price for such contempt, after all, Jokic's personal ability is not bad at all, whether it is the basket offense, mid-to-long range shooting, three-point shooting, rebounding, assists and other skills, Jokic has been polished in the European League before coming to the NBA.

In addition, Wang Chao has been using the training effect bonus of the sparring potion to train Jokic's skills last year, and the latter's strength is not weak now, far stronger than people think.

In the past 17 games, Jokic has averaged 33 minutes per game, longer than Lopez, and can score 13.4 points, 9.6 rebounds and 4.8 assists, the second most assist-making passer in the Nets after Wang Chao, and even more assists per game than Deron Williams on the bench.

Jokic doesn't take many shots and therefore doesn't score much, and he is more often on the court to cooperate with Wang Chao to protect rebounds and use his range to help the team pull up space, with brief playmaking work.

But Jokic has done every task very well, and Wang Chao is ready to let Jokic take on more responsibilities in the next games.

The general manager of the Rockets is now numb.

With an average of 13+10+5 per game, an offensive organization center with a well-balanced technique and the ability to shoot three-pointers, was sent away by him in vain?

If he regrets that the medicine has to be sold, he must show off a few bottles before he can calm down.

The inner twin towers averaged 17.7 points per game and 13+10+5, and their performance was already very eye-catching.

At the same time, the Nets' outside players are also playing very well, Wang Chao naturally needless to say, this year's Nets at any cost to trade Devin. Booker, who also had a very impressive rookie season.

Booker himself is a player who shines as soon as he enters the league, and in his original history, Booker did not receive much attention from the Suns in his first season, averaging only 13.8 points in 28 minutes per game.

But the following season, the Suns discovered Booker's outstanding ability on offense, and cultivated it as the core of the team, giving enough ball and shots.

Then Booker in the 16-17 season, the average points per game increased from 13.8 points last season to 22.1 points, although the 42.3% shooting rate is slightly inefficient, and the Suns' bottom record in the league cannot reflect the value of the core players' scoring data, which is questioned by many people as a hard brush data, but Wang Chao knows that Booker is indeed the strongest offensive player in the league since Kobe Bryant and Harden.

On Wang Chao's side, Booker does not need to develop offensive skills with the ball, at least not for the time being, he only needs to improve the off-ball play that he is already proficient in, and the shooting rate outside the three-point line is more stable.

As for Bogdanovic, he is a standard spot shooter, and he can play the bottom corner three-point line with Booker to maximize the space.

The extreme offense brought about by the range of the starting five players is the main reason why the Nets have been able to win consistently.

And the game against the Cavaliers also exposed the current flaws and problems of the Nets.

First of all, the Nets' lineup offense is very dependent on the outside feel, once the shooter group feels bad, the Nets only have Wang Chao alone to attack.

Booker and Bogdanovic don't have the ability to attack with the ball, and Jokic's skills also have shortcomings. Lopez is a good offensive player, even under the basket, he can rely on solid interior footwork to score, but that's about it.

Secondly, the team's defensive problems have always existed, only Wang Chao can be regarded as a defensive top soldier among the starting five, and the others can only do it at most, like Brooke. Lopez's defensive ability was later taken by head coach Mike Lopez after coming to the Bucks. Budenhall was trained by Lopez, and when he was with the Nets, Lopez's defensive habits were not good at all, to be precise, he had long been spoiled.

In college, Lopez was the star player of the team, and he was responsible for only one thing on the court, and that was to score offensively, defend and grab rebounds, and naturally his younger brother Robin. López and the rest of the players went to take charge.

After entering the NBA league, Robin. Lopez became a blue-collar player in the league with his best rebounding and defense, and Brooke, who was drafted by the Nets. López, on the other hand, continued his habit of playing only star ball.

This can be seen from the fact that Lopez is 2.13 meters tall and averages only 6.3 rebounds per game, which is similar to the average number of rebounds per game in the career of Carmelo Anthony, Kawhi Leonard and other forwards who are more than 2 meters tall at the small forward position.

It's not that Lopez can't or can't grab rebounds, but the habit of playing since childhood has degraded his sense of smell and enthusiasm for rebounding.

It is worth mentioning that Lopez's career record high of blocks per game was only achieved after joining the Bucks. Lopez averaged a career-high 2.5 blocks per game, and was named to the All-Defensive First Team for the first time in his career.

In the 19-20 season, he was also named to the All-Defensive Second Team with an average of 2.4 blocks per game.

Lopez has averaged more than 2 blocks per game in four seasons of his career, three of which were with the Bucks, which shows how important an option Lopez is to join the Bucks at the end of his career.

At this time, Lopez, who was still in the Nets, did not show the shining point on the defensive end at all, and even the range did not reach beyond the three-point line.

Wang Chao's plan is to help Lopez complete the transformation as much as possible this season, and train him to be the one who will win the championship of the Bucks in the future, who can defend the interior frame and shoot three-point shots outside the three-point line.

However, this will take time, especially if Lopez has not yet reached more than 60 in his relationship with him, and he will not be able to enjoy the training bonus of the Sparring Potion.

While the performance of the main lineup is not stable enough, the Nets' bench lineup seems luxurious, but there are also flaws.

Delon and Joe. Johnson's two veterans are now in a stage where fame is greater than strength, and the period when they became famous was also famous for their offensive strength and weak defense, and they also have problems with the Nets' starting lineup.

This makes the Nets very good at playing tailwind, once the opponent's resistance is not strong enough, the situation enters the tailwind stage, and the Nets are terrible strong, after all, the offensive firepower determines this.

However, if the opponent is a top team in the league, with good offense and defense, and can limit the Nets' offense or be able to play against the Nets, the probability of the team losing will be greatly increased.

That's why we lost against the Cavaliers.

Wang Chao knows the problems that the team has now, and he also knows how to solve them. Lopez's defense is the same as outside shooting, and the Nets need time to make up for their shortcomings, and they need Jokic and Booker to grow further.

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It's December.

On Dec. 1, the Nets defeated the Phoenix Suns 108-94 at home, bringing their record to 17-1.

Then, three days later, the Nets face the New York Knicks on the road.

This is the first city-to-city derby of the season between the two teams in New York City, and the fourth season since the Nets relocated to Brooklyn.

In the past three years, Knicks fans have always looked down on this team that has been rubbed from New Jersey to Brooklyn. Anthony, Amare. Stoudemire and other top stars in the league, although their performance in recent years has been slightly less than ideal, but the strong sense of superiority when facing the Nets is something that every Knicks fan has.

In their eyes, the Nets are a hillbilly who wants to gain exposure in the New York metropolis, and even if the team owner is rich, they will not have the rich background of the Knicks.

But all this began to change with the addition of Wang Chao.

Before the start of the regular season, the war of words between the two sides has opened, and the local media in New York have repeatedly criticized and ridiculed the ambitions of the Nets and Wang Chao for being self-sufficient, and they are trying to compete for the NBA championship in three years, and Wang Chao also said wildly that he wants the Nets to win 66 games this season, as a benchmark for the Knicks, who lost 66 games last season.

When the news first came out, New York fans were all smiling with disdain.

You Wang Chao is indeed recognized as the number one person in the league now, but even so, don't be too arrogant, with the current lineup and strength of the Nets, you want to win 66 games? Pipe dream!

Then the regular season begins.

The Nets won game by game, and they really didn't lose.

At the beginning of the five-game winning streak, the New York media could still be hard-mouthed, and when the ten-game winning streak was made, not many people were willing to take the initiative to mention the Nets and the promise that Wang Chao said before the start of the season.

By the time of the fifteen-game winning streak, New York reporters and Knicks fans were numb.

You must know that the longest winning streak in the history of the New York Knicks is only eighteen consecutive wins, and it was the 1969-1970 season, the season when the Knicks won the first NBA championship in team history.

The Nets have won 15 consecutive victories to put it mildly, which can fully prove that their strength is far beyond the imagination of the league!

The Nets, who won fifteen in a row, finally lost to the Cavaliers to end the winning streak, which made Knicks fans breathe a sigh of relief, but the loss of this game was completely unable to make New York reporters write about it, losing to the opponent on the Cavaliers away, the scores of the two teams were still very close, the game process was very close, and Wang Chao's personal performance was as perfect as ever, what can they say?

The Cavaliers are not a weak team, with the third record in the league and the second in the East, the win is not much different from the Nets, and the lineup is more luxurious than the Nets. Gasol, along with a group of excellent role players, are the favorites to win the championship.

It's normal for the Nets to lose to the Cavaliers on the road.

As things stand, as long as the Nets can continue to dominate as much as they did in November, they won't have a big problem winning the regular season with 66 wins.

And now, the Nets, who have won 2 consecutive victories, are coming to Madison Square Garden Arena!

Knicks fans were clamoring before the game, looking like they wanted to make the Nets go and never return.

"We're not the same as before, we have a healthy Cameron, and we have the talented and the quality of the top Downs Kristaps. Porzingis! It will be the Knicks, the real NBA team in New York City who will win this game! ”

The clamor was fierce, but the brutal truth was that the Nets were 17-1 before this game began, while the Knicks had a 9-10 record.

Cameron. Anthony has experienced a serious injury last season, although he has returned from injury, but the competitive state has declined significantly, and so far in the new season, Anthony has averaged only 20.4 points, 7 rebounds and 4 assists per game in 19 games, shooting 43.4%.

This data can't even be described as the lowest since the rookie season in the past, because Anthony's career belongs to the standard high opening and high walking mode, and he averaged 21 points, 6 rebounds and 3 assists per game in the first season of his career, and two seasons ago, Anthony could also compare with Wang Chao and Durant a little, competing for the honor of the regular season scoring champion, even if he can't compete for Wang Chao, he can't even compete for Durant, but he is also the only super scorer in the league who can compete with the two in recent years.

In Wang Chao's impression, Anthony's career peak only has these last two seasons, 15-16 season, 16-17 season.

In the past two seasons, Anthony has barely scored 20+ points in the Knicks, and with the 17-18 season joining the Oklahoma City Thunder to challenge for the NBA championship, his form has plummeted, and he has completely fallen from the top superstar position in the league.

As for Porzingis, his first season in his career was indeed amazing, and he often played very beautiful games, but the statistics of Porzingis in his rookie season were actually not very outstanding, averaging 14.3 points and 7.3 rebounds per game compared to the champion Towns in the same period, and compared to Jahir Okafor, who averaged 17.5 points and 7 rebounds per game, he was also much inferior.

Of course, Porzingis has grown rapidly, averaging 18+7 per game in the second season of his career, and is the main scorer with a stable score of 22.7 points in the third season.

It's a pity that Boshen is a typical high-offensive and low-defense interior player, the ball style is soft, the frame protection and rebounding ability are weak, and he is also a small crispy skin, easy to get injured, and in his career, except for 72 games in his rookie season, the highest attendance rate in other seasons is only 65 games.

Therefore, Porzingis can only be regarded as a very good all-star player, and the ceiling is only that.

In the 15-16 season, the Knicks, who had Anthony and Porzingis, did perform a lot better than in the 14-15 season, with a 32-50 record in the regular season, winning more than twice as many games as last season.

Of course, the 32-win record is unlikely to make the playoffs even in the less competitive East, which is only 13th in the East.

In front of Wang Chao and the Nets, such a team is a weak team no matter how you look at it.

The Nets are best at playing weak teams, because any weak team in the league will definitely not be good defensively, and the Nets team that is good at offense and playing downwind will have a better performance.

On December 4th, the Nets who came to the Madison Square Garden arena were already gearing up to win a hearty victory here and win another three-game winning streak!

As soon as they entered the court, the Nets heard an overwhelming boo from the Knicks' home fans.

As a competitor in the same city, the relationship between the Nets and the Knicks is not the same as that of the Lakers and Clippers.

Although the latter is also a direct competition, and fans on both sides often quarrel because of the team, but because the two teams share the same court, the Staples Center, the same city derby, whether it is the Lakers or the Clippers, the number of hostile fans on the court is quite large, and the teams fighting away can still see players cheering for their side after all.

The Knicks and the Nets are different, one in Manhattan and the other in Brooklyn, so the number of fans who can be seen supporting the Nets at Madison Square Garden is very small, and most of them are drowned out by the vast number of Knicks fans.

"Go back to your country! You're not welcome in New York, hillbilly! ”

"Even if the Nets can win, what if they can win the championship? We are the team with a larger fan base and a bigger market! How do you compare yourself to us? ”

"In this game, Cameron and Kristaps will teach you a good lesson and win the game and let you go back to Brooklyn!"

How loud the Knicks fans shouted, how embarrassed the expressions on the faces of the Knicks players off the court.

Can they beat the Nets, don't they players know yet?

In the video lesson, they have watched countless videos of this season's game of the city rival, and because they have seen it, they know very well how big the gap between the two sides is.

Unless Wang Chao doesn't play, they don't have any chance of winning at all.

But looking at the Nets, Wang Chao warmed up on the court with a relaxed expression, and knew that this was not very likely.

Wang Chao is a well-known model worker in the league, basically every season 82 regular season games will be full, plus the playoffs every year finals, Wang Chao's appearances have always been the first in the league, and the average playing time per game is also maintained at around 40 minutes, like an iron man tireless and will not be injured.

Wang Chao, who was born in November 1983, is now 33 years old, an age that is at the end of the peak of his career for NBA professional athletes, and his state should decline, especially in terms of physical fitness, explosiveness, bounce and other aspects that rely heavily on age.

But there is no downward trend in Wang Chao's body at all, and his physical condition is as perfect and strong as ever.

On the contrary, it is his teammate Delon, who is 6 months younger than him. Williams has already taken a nosedive in form as he gets older.

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Nets starting lineup: Wang Chao, Booker, Bogdanovic, Lopez, Jokic.

Knicks starting lineup: Jose. Calderón, Aron. Avlalo, Cameron. Anthony, Kristaps. Porzingis, Brooke. López's younger brother Robin. Lopez.

At the start of the game, Jokic and Porzingis jumped the ball in the midcourt.

The clash between the two white centre-forwards, who are not very strong in jumping, ended with Porzingis, who is 2.21 meters tall and has an arm span of 2.29 meters, win.

The Knicks possessed the ball, Calderon dribbled across the half court, handed the ball to Anthony, who stood with the ball at a 45-degree angle on the left outside the three-point line, looked at Wang Chao standing in front of him, and did not choose to attack with the ball himself, but hoisted the basketball to Porzingis, who had already stood in a position on the inside.

Porzingis, who plays as a power forward, is opposite Brooke on the field. López, this is a situation that both sides are happy to see.

Jokic weighs more than Lopez, and Boshen is a poor interior player who doesn't like to play against heavy centers.

And Brooke. López is also reluctant to face his brother Robin on the inside. López was taught by a master, and he can't break the tricks...... No, the two brothers are very familiar with each other, and Robin is good at defense and rebounding. López knows very well how defending his brother can make him very uncomfortable, and his shooting percentage plummets.

Boshen has his back to Brooke. Lopez, suddenly a deft turn accelerated, one step past the unresponsive Lopez, and lightly picked the basket to send the basketball into the basket for the Knicks to take the lead.

Lopez's defensive ability at this stage is really poor, especially Porzingis, a highly mobile interior power forward, which is a little difficult to parry.

It was only the cheers of the Knicks crowd that Jokic stepped back to the baseline and threw the basketball hard towards the front court as soon as Porzingis' goal rang out.

Wang Chao had already rushed across the halfcourt at this time, turned around and jumped to catch Jokic's pass, and continued to accelerate towards the Knicks basket.

It's fast break again.

On the Knicks' side, Anthony and Afflalo returned to the defense in time to stop in front of Wang Chao, but the defense of these two was not taken seriously by Wang Chao at all.

Anthony himself is a representative figure of strong offense and weak defense, and Afflalo's defense is good, but as a defender, his height, weight and strength cannot confront Wang Chao head-on.

Holding the ball and accelerating past Anthony, and dribbling under the crotch to avoid Afflalo's steal, Wang Chao raised his hand to throw the basketball on the rebound, and scored with both hands on his own dunk.

Being able to stage this kind of trick in an official game shows that Wang Chao does not feel much defensive pressure.

This is also the problem that the Knicks have now, the team's defense is sparse, there is no systematic defensive tactics at all, and the easiest and most efficient way to win the game in basketball is to do a good job of defense, after all, there was a classic saying in the league, offense can bring fans, defense can bring championships.

Even if the league began to enter the era of small ball in the next few years and became offensive first, all the teams that won the championship were all teams that were good both offensively and defensively.

The Knicks' defense was seriously flawed, and they couldn't defend against Wang Chao, who had super offensive firepower, so the game was actually doomed from the beginning.

At the beginning of the game, the Nets quickly took the initiative in the game and established a score advantage with frequent offense.

On the other hand, on the Knicks' side, except for Porzingis' first goal, which was relatively easy, the offense at other times was very difficult.

After all, Porzingis is only a first-year rookie, his offensive moves are relatively simple, easy to target, and his confrontation ability is really poor, facing Brooke, who also has a soft style of play. López also has no advantage.

As for Anthony, it is quite difficult to attack even when facing Wang Chao's defense in his prime, let alone now near the end of his career?

Anthony's technical characteristics are that he has a variety of scoring methods, shooting, breaking through with the ball, and being proficient in back-to-back singles, and has been known as an offensive kaleidoscope.

In the face of players who are shorter than him, Anthony can use his height advantage to shoot the basketball, and in the face of players who are thinner than him, he can also pout his big ass and squeeze into the inside line to attack with his back, and players who are taller and stronger than him are often inferior to him in terms of speed and can use speed to pass the opponent.

Anthony, who has no shortcomings at the technical level, is indeed the most scoring player in the league at a certain stage.

However, the back waves of the Yangtze River pushed the front waves, looking at Wang Chao in front of him, Anthony could only sigh like this.

Wang Chao, who is 2.06 meters, is taller than him, stronger than him, and even stronger than him in all aspects such as speed, bounce, and explosiveness, and even Wang Chao can be almost perfect in terms of offensive technology.

In front of Wang Chao, Anthony felt like facing a hedgehog, and he was completely at a loss to speak.

The worst thing is that compared with Wang Chao, it is really not the back wave of the Yangtze River pushing the front wave, because Anthony was born in May 1984, about 7 months older than James and 6 months younger than Wang Chao......

"What? Don't you hit me with the ball? ”

Seeing that Anthony didn't want to hold the ball and play himself, Wang Chao couldn't help asking.

Although Tony Esan is no longer the top ten stars in the league, there is still a little gas in the gas tank after all, and the most important thing is that if Anthony's side does not attack, the Knicks will not have to play this game.

Of course, Anthony also knew this, so he still chose to take over the ball, and then called for a pick-and-roll cover, wanting to use his teammate's pick-and-roll to separate Wang Chao from attacking again.

Blue-collar player Robin. Lopez ran out from the inside to help Anthony block and dismantle, but before Anthony, who had just gone around to the other side with cover, could do anything, Wang Chao had already come around and followed.

With the talent of screen prediction, it is difficult for the pick-and-roll cover to delay him too much time.

Never found a good offensive time, watching the offensive time pass minute by minute, Anthony could only shoot on the spot, but was interfered with by Wang Chao and missed the shot and deviated from the basket.

Even Anthony, the team's No. 1 core scorer, is restricted, how can the Knicks' offense be able to play?

At the end of the first quarter, the score of the two teams was 37:24, and the Nets led the Knicks by 13 points in a single quarter, with a very obvious advantage.

Knicks home fans were disappointed with the situation, thinking it would be a battle between Anthony and Porzingis to win the game and deal a blow to the hated Nets.

But as a result, the team trailed by 13 points in the first quarter?

During the break at the end of the first quarter of the game, Wang Chao and others sat on the bench to wipe their sweat, and then saw the well-known director Spike who was sitting in the front row of the court not far from them. Li looked unhappy at them and forced Lai Lai.

At Madison Square Garden, Spike. Lee is also almost a mascot-like existence, and it is often seen that the media report Spike. The scene where Lee and the away players are spraying on the pitch, the big director is definitely a professional troll.

It's just that the noise on the court is very loud, and Wang Chao and the others can't hear what the guy is saying, but it can be seen from the other party's excited expression and body movements that it will definitely not be a good word.

"In the second quarter, we kept up the good work and expanded the score and told them all to keep their mouths shut."

Wang Chao smiled and said to the other teammates.

The intensity of the battle with the Knicks is really low, and the difference in strength is too great.

A few minutes later, the second quarter of the game began, and before the Knicks were ready, the Nets were pressed and blasted out a wave of 12:0, and the difference instantly reached 25 points.

The Knicks head coach couldn't stop the decline even after calling two timeouts, and the game was completely out of suspense not long after the second quarter began.

Wang Chao and other main players were off the court to rest when the game was about 4 minutes into the third quarter, because by this time, the difference between the two teams had reached more than 30 points, whether it was the starting lineup or the substitute rotation, as long as the game was going on normally, the score difference was in a continuous and stable expansion.

Knicks fans, who really couldn't keep watching their team get beaten up, began to leave the court early at halftime.

In the end, the Nets defeated the Knicks by 34 points 128-94 on the road, beating the big brother in the same city derby.

The most desperate thing for Knicks fans is not the team's big loss, but the humiliating game process, the Nets' five starters, including Wang Chao, none of them played more than 30 minutes, and they didn't use their full strength at all, and even when Wang Chao and other main players went down, the Knicks still couldn't catch up with the difference.

After Wang Chao and others got off the court, the Knicks' main team had a brief exchange with the Nets' bench rotation lineup for a few minutes. The scene of Johnson scoring each other is unbearable to look at, it is too spicy to the eyes.

(End of chapter)