The Nets' stop in the Eastern Conference means that they officially say goodbye to the 15-16 season.

As I said before, the Nets have been successful enough this season, and Wang Chao's performance in the playoffs, especially in the Eastern Conference finals, is perfect enough.

In the six games of the Eastern Conference Finals, Wang Chao averaged 42.2 points, 14.7 rebounds and 8.6 assists per game, with a shooting rate of 54% and a three-point shooting rate of 47%.

The great individual ability was revealed in the course of the competition.

In the course of the game, the Cavaliers used a variety of defensive strategies against Wang Chao, with a full-court double package, one-on-one rotation of single defense consumption, and an interior multi-person defense package.

But even so, Wang Chao can still score an average of 40+ points per game in six games, and his super offensive ability is unstoppable.

It's a pity that the Nets' strength is indeed a lot worse than the Cavaliers' at the moment, just like those media commentators said, but as long as the Nets have an All-Star-level player who can give Wang Chao some support at critical moments, the series will be completely different.

Wang Chao has indeed been unreserved in these six games, showing all the skills he has, including using God's perspective and wonderful passer talent to pass the ball to open teammates to score when encountering a bag, using bullet time to score key goals at critical moments to tie the score, and even using the combination of ruthless iron elbow and rebounding skills to grab offensive rebounds on the inside of the Cavaliers.

It is precisely because Wang Chao fully used all these talents and skills that the difference between the two teams in the next few games was not so big.

Unfortunately, because of this, at the last moment of the game, Wang Chao has reached the end of the crossbow, and he needs a lot of investment at both ends of the offensive and defensive ends, even if he has the talent of a long-distance runner, his physical fitness is still on the verge of the limit, and he frequently uses bullet time to deal with the opponent's defense at critical moments, which also leads to Wang Chao playing in the last few minutes of the game under the sequelae of a serious headache.

"It's still not enough...... If you want to be truly 1v5. ”

Wang Chao can also accept such a game result, but in retrospect, he always feels a little unwilling.

Wang Chao tried his best, teammate CBA, this sentence is very appropriate in the Eastern Conference Finals.

The Nets' main lineup did not play well on the Eastern Conference finals stage. Booker & Bojan. Bogdanovic missed three points and shot 34 percent and 31 percent from three-point range in six games, well below the nearly 40 percent he saw during the regular season.

On the inside, Brooke. López was replaced by Paulo, who was 8 years older than him. Gasol was easy to handle, and his shooting percentage was reduced to 41.2.

The only one of the starters who didn't perform much worse than during the regular season was Nikola. Jokic is just one person, the problem is that Jokic at this stage is positioned as a blue-collar functional player, with an average of 13+8+4 per game in the regular season, and it has become 12.8+7.8+3.5 in the Eastern Conference finals, with no obvious change.

On the other hand, on the Cavaliers' side, James averaged 29 points, 8.8 rebounds and 8.1 assists per game, Irving averaged 23.2 points and 4.5 assists per game, and Gasol averaged 16.2 points and 9.4 rebounds per game.

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On the Eastern side, the Cavaliers defeated the Nets 4-2 to advance to the Finals, while the Western Conference also had a 4-2 score, and the Warriors defeated the Spurs to advance to the finals.

However, unlike the Nets Cavaliers, who were very close and fierce throughout the game, although the score was also 4:2, the Warriors won more easily.

The Spurs of Howard + Butler + elderly GDP, compared with the Spurs of Leonard + Aldridge + elderly GDP at the same time, it is really difficult to say which is stronger or weaker.

Howard's tactical position and role in the Spurs is definitely inferior to Aldridge's, because the functions overlap with Duncan, but Butler's strength is stronger than Leonard at the same time, after all, he has played next to Wang Chao for four years, has the blessing of sparring potion training, and Wang Chao's one-on-one heads-up training, and the level of improvement is quite fast.

Originally, Leonard + Aldridge's Spurs were defeated by the Thunder in the division semifinals, while the Thunder led by Durant and Westbrook will lead the Warriors 3-1 in the Western Conference Finals, forcing the opponent into a desperate situation.

But the Spurs replaced by Butler + Howard, perhaps because of the restraint relationship, no one on the Thunder team inside could match Howard, and Adams was unilaterally pressed and beaten, and as a result, the Spurs defeated the Thunder, and then were defeated by the Warriors in the Western Conference finals.

The shocking reversal of falling behind 1:3 in the Western Conference has not been repeated, but the classic 16-year Finals of Cavaliers vs Warriors has been successfully reproduced.

It's just that unlike the original 15-16 season, the lineups of both teams have changed dramatically, with Embiid and Gasol on one side and Cousins on the other.

Judging from the overall strength and regular season record and even the performance of the game, the Warriors must have the upper hand, but the Cavaliers have James after all, and they have just defeated the Nets led by Wang Chao, and the momentum is unprecedentedly high.

As for Wang Chao, he doesn't care very much about the outcome of the finals.

Whether it is James successfully realizing his dream and winning the first championship trophy in team history for the Cleveland Cavaliers, or Curry's Warriors leading the Warriors to beat the Cavaliers, it has nothing to do with Wang Chao.

This season, his goal has been achieved, although he did not exceed the target task and led the team to win the championship, but it was enough.

After the baptism of this playoffs, the strength of the rookie newcomers of the Nets will usher in a period of rapid growth, and if any team wants to use the depth of the team to bully Wang Chao next season, they will have to ask Jokic, Booker and others will agree.

After the playoffs, Wang Chao first gave himself a short vacation and took Miranda and Xiao Keer to the beach in Hawaii for a vacation and rest.

This can be regarded as a small compensation brought by the defeat of the Eastern Finals.

If Wang Chao leads the Nets to defeat the Cavaliers and break into the Finals, then at this time, he should still be fighting with the Warriors on the Finals stage, how can he have spare time to come to the beach and ocean for a leisure vacation?

In the summer of 2016, Wang Chao was very busy.

The Nets' offseason signings and signings are still secondary issues, but the important thing is that the time comes to 2016, and the quadrennial Olympics are coming again.

Previously, Wang Chao said in a public interview that he would no longer participate in some other smaller international events of the men's national basketball team, but this certainly does not include the Olympic Games, which is the highest honor in international basketball events, even if the system has quite rich rewards, how can Wang Chao give up easily?

But this time in the 16-year Rio Olympics, for Wang Chao and the Huaguo men's basketball team, the difficulty will be unprecedentedly higher.

There is no other reason, in the past 08 years of the Capital Olympics and 12 years of the London Olympics, although the Chinese men's basketball team successfully defeated the United States men's basketball team to win the championship, but in the two games, Wang Chao has a mainstay by his side, the inner line Dinghai Shenpin, and the mobile Great Wall of Huaguo.

At that time, Da Yao was at the peak of his career, with extremely strong combat effectiveness, and the lethality and threat of the interior line alone were not inferior to the peak O'Neal, as long as he could receive the basketball normally in the restricted area, the opponent would not want to stop him except for fouls.

The Huaguo men's basketball team relied on Wang Chao and Da Yao's dual-core drive to defeat the United States men's basketball team and win the gold.

But now in 2016, it has been a full year since Da Yao retired, and it is impossible to return to the competition in his physical condition, so the only person the Chinese men's basketball team can rely on is Wang Chao.

In the past few years, Wang Chao did not participate in the national team competition, which also made Chinese fans clearly understand what kind of combat effectiveness of the Chinese men's basketball team without Wang Chao is.

Even if Wang Chao returns to the national team after a long absence, in the absence of Da Yao, the mainstay of the inner line, the Chinese men's basketball team will no longer have an advantage in the face of the United States Dream Team, or international teams such as Spain, Argentina, and Lithuania.

It's hard to say whether they will win a medal at the Olympics.

Wang Chao plans to return to China after the draft to participate in the national team training, using the training bonus effect of the sparring potion to improve the combat effectiveness of the men's national basketball team as much as possible, in his opinion, the difference between the men's national basketball team and the Nets at this stage is not particularly big, maybe the strength of the players is worse, but as long as the whole team revolves around him as the absolute core, with his strong personal ability to drive the whole team, the performance will not be too bad.

After all, on the international stage, Wang Chao's combat effectiveness is definitely stronger than in the NBA, and there are many reasons.

First of all, the three-point line under the FIBA rules is shorter than that of the NBA, which is a big plus for Wang Chao, who is the best at projecting three-pointers, and secondly, FIBA allows joint defense without a three-second defense limit, which will greatly affect the play of those players who are good at holding the ball and breaking through the ball of the United States Dream Team, and can also give full play to the height advantage of the Chinese men's basketball team.

Finally, and most importantly, FIBA rules are 10 minutes per game, and the whole game is 40 minutes, which is a full 8 minutes less than the NBA, and for Wang Chao, who has a physical ability value of 99 and a long-distance runner's talent, it is not impossible to play the whole court and always concentrate the ball in his own hands.

Therefore, in the international arena, Wang Chao is more likely to defeat his opponent by himself than in the NBA.

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A week later, the results of the NBA Finals were becoming clear.

As everyone expected, it was a close and fierce battle of the century.

The Cavaliers and Warriors both won at home to tie the score at 2-2.

Then in the key tie-break battle, the Warriors, who had home-court advantage, defeated the Cavaliers and took the lead in winning the match point 3:2.

In the battle of life and death in the finals G6, James and Irving both broke out, scoring 40+ points at the same time, and changed their lives against the sky and equalized the score difference to 3:3.

Then on June 19, the finals G7 tie-break battle, which is definitely a battle of the century that can go down in the history of the NBA.

In order to compete for the championship, both teams tried their best, and they wanted to win the championship at all costs, and the game was very close, and the scores of the two teams alternated as many as dozens of times, and it was always difficult to solve.

But the development of history was amazing, and the game came to the final minute, the score of the two teams was tied at 98-98, and Irving faced Curry's defense and hit a three-pointer from beyond the three-point line.

This ball really looks like Owen's god-saving shot in another plane.

With this three-pointer, the Cavaliers led by three points, and then Curry also tried to tie the score with a three-pointer, but Gasol's defense failed to hit it and the shot missed the basket.

In this way, the Cavaliers narrowly beat the Warriors by 3 points and won the championship in the 15-16 season.

The moment the whistle blew at the end of the game, James couldn't help but hide his face and cry.

It's too hard, it's really too hard.

As a generation of pride, James never imagined that it would be so difficult for him to win a championship.

In the past three years, he has been repeatedly rubbed by Wang Chao and his team in the finals, and there is darkness in front of him, and there is no hope at all.

Especially after the Cavaliers formed a super luxury squad last year but were easily defeated by the Rockets in the Finals, James even felt that it would be difficult for him to win another championship in his entire career.

Unexpectedly, Wang Chao took the initiative to leave the rocket, which rekindled his hope.

In the face of the swarming reporters, James could not suppress his emotions, looked up to the sky and roared, shouting that classic line.

“Cleveland，this is for you！”

The Warriors' defeat was both unexpected and reasonable.

The Warriors, who won 71 wins in the regular season and have four All-Star players, are indeed the biggest favorites to win the championship, with a 91% approval rating before the Finals begins, compared to only 9% for the Cavaliers, and the odds for the two teams to win the championship are also huge.

But as long as you are a traverser, you must know that the Cavaliers made a shocking 1:3 comeback in the 15-16 season.

Although the Cavaliers' comeback in the Finals has many objective factors, such as James's shocking leap, which made Green suffer a technical foul and directly missed a game, and James's key block and three-point tie, which created the premise for Irving to be able to shoot three points from outside the three-point line.

But it must be admitted that the Warriors have also exposed many problems in the series, such as Curry, as the first core of the Warriors, is not stable enough to play and is very easy to be targeted by opponents, the average points per game in the Finals series is even worse than that of the Cavaliers Irving, and the Warriors' entire team is still not experienced enough in key battles, especially at the critical moment of life and death, lacking a super scorer who can step up and make a final decision, of course, this role will come soon next season.

The Warriors in this time and space are stronger in the lineup than the same time and space, because there is one more Cousins on the inside, but this is not necessarily a good thing.

Last season, the Warriors were eliminated by the Rockets in the Western Conference Finals, so the team has no Finals experience, which also lays some hidden dangers for this Finals loss, and the presence of Cousins is not entirely a good thing for the Warriors.

In the 15-16 season, although Cousins has developed some three-point shooting ability, he is still a heavy interior player at heart, relying on the advantage of physical tonnage to attack under the basket.

His style is inherently at odds with the Warriors' dominance of the league's Death Five, and if he's on the floor, the Warriors' interior stalwart defender, Bogut, won't be able to play.

Cousins is really strong on the offensive end, but his defensive ability is not very good, and his ability to protect the rim is not even as good as Green's.

These problems are not exposed under the strength of the Warriors, but when the opponent is the Cavaliers, who also have the best roster in the league, it becomes very obvious.

In order to contain the combination of Gasol and Embiid of the Cavaliers, the Warriors had to keep Cousins on the court, but he couldn't make the Warriors' defense any better.

In addition, there is another thing that is not good for the Warriors, that is, Wang Chao let the elevator door tactics appear in the league in advance and carry forward, at the moment when Wang Chao won 7 championships, the league has been quite strict about the problem of elevator door moving block and dismantling, which is equivalent to putting an end to a big killer move in the early days of the Warriors in disguise.

All in all, the Cavaliers were able to defeat the Warriors 4-3 in the Finals, just like in the original time and space, and also occupied the right time, place and a variety of factors, which created the first championship trophy in the history of the Cleveland Cavaliers.

This championship is very important for the Cavaliers and for James, so much so that after the game, James couldn't hide his excitement when he faced reporters and said the following words.

"From a basketball perspective alone, when I won my first championship for the Cavaliers, I was already the best basketball player in history, because this season, I defeated Wang Chao in the Eastern Conference Finals, and defeated the Warriors who won 71 wins in the regular season in the Finals, and there has never been a team in NBA history with more than 70 wins that is not a championship, or even a dynasty team, Jordan's 72 wins over the Bulls, the 70 wins of the Magic, and the 72 wins of Wang Chao and Yao Ming's Rockets, we beat the Warriors with 71 wins. Beating the Nets with 67 wins is a great thing that a lot of people have been asking for in their entire careers. ”

It is not at all strange for people to say irrational things when they are emotionally high.

James was so immersed in the joy of winning his second career championship that he didn't realize how his words would reverberate in the league.

Many media people collectively commented on this incident in just one day.

"James declares him the best basketball player of all time? Make no mistake, if it weren't for the fact that my family is still online, I would even think that LeBron has won the seventh championship of his career, but if I look closely, I'm sorry, this is the second championship of his career, and he has just equaled his former teammate Wade in the number of championships. ”

"I can understand LeBron's emotion after winning the championship, no matter how excited he is, I can't ignore the objective facts, he brought Cleveland the first championship in team history, which is indeed very great, but there has never been a shortage of great players in this league, and there are quite a few of them, LeBron. James can only be regarded as a relatively mediocre one of these. ”

"Let's break down LeBron. James' career resume, one regular season MVP, two NBA championships, two FMVPs, ten All-Round Team selections, two-time All-Second Team, two-time All-Star MVP...... These accolades add up to greatness, and if I were to rank him, he would be around 12th to 15th all-time by now, and if he has a chance to win another regular season MVP trophy or win a third championship, he may be close to the edge of the all-time top 10, but he is obviously still a long, long way from the all-time best player. ”

For a while, the heat of comments about James was even more hot than that of the Cavaliers winning the championship.

Even Wang Chao, who had just returned to New York from a vacation in Hawaii, was stopped by reporters to interview his views on the matter.

"I think it's funny, LeBron just won the championship, he does have the capital to say that, but are you sure? We can wait until next season to talk about it. ”

Wang Chao's answer was somewhat of gunpowder.

You James has 1 regular season MVP, two championships and FMVP, how dare you touch the first in porcelain history?

Now there is still some controversy in the league about the ranking of the real historical No. 1, and there will often be some controversy about who is the all-time No. 1 between Wang Chao and Jordan.

From the perspective of hard honors, Wang Chao and Jordan are basically the same, except that there is one more championship than Jordan.

The championship won during the Suns period, although Wang Chao is also one of the main forces, the tactical status of the team is definitely lower than that of Nash and Stoudemire, at most it can only be regarded as a third champion, and the honor blessing is not high.

Therefore, holding on to this, there are still many local fans in the United States who believe that Jordan is the first person in history who deserves his name, and Wang Chao wants to surpass Jordan and continue to prove himself, such as winning the championship in the Nets.

It's just that judging from the support of most ordinary fans, the number of people who think that Wang Chao is the first person in NBA history has accounted for more than 60%, Jordan has about 40%, and about 10% of fans think that it is Abdul-Jabbar, Russell and other superstars in ancient times.

But LeBron. James is certainly not on the table, that's no longer in dispute.

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Wang Chao returned to New York before returning to China, of course, there was something to do.

The NBA Finals are over, which means that the preparations for the new season are about to begin.

The first is the NBA's annual draft meeting, which is still held at the Barclays Center, home of the Nets.

On June 24, the 2016 draft was held as scheduled.

The Nets traded multiple draft picks last season, but the 2016 first-round pick is still in hand.

It's just that due to the 67 wins in the regular season this season and the Eastern Conference record in the playoffs, this first-round pick doesn't have much value and is at the bottom of the first round.

And in fact, among the rookies in 2016, there are very few valuable players. Simmons is full of talent, and the draft template is James, but this guy can be slightly compared to James below the head, and his brain is 10,000 European immortals behind Emperor Zhan.

Among the rookies in the lottery area, there are a few good candidates, such as Brandon. Ingram, Jalen Tanhua. Brown, as well as Jamal with the seventh pick. Murray, 11th overall pick Domantas. Sabonis is a potential rookie with good prospects for future development.

But if you go on, there are no particularly good candidates, especially the Nets' No. 25 pick in the first round, and there are no potential rookies to choose from.

However, if you look at the second round, there are still a few things that can be made, such as Ivica. Zubac, Malcolm. Brogdon, of course, this is indispensable for the hope of Huaguo's future insider, the big demon Zhou Qi.

Although Zhou Qi has many black spots in China in the future, such as Poles, egg scones, NBA affiliates and so on.

But it is undeniable that Zhou Qi is really the only hope for the rise of the Chinese men's basketball team in the post-mobile Great Wall era, after Da Yao, UAE, Dazhi and others retired one after another.

With a height of 2.16 meters and an exaggerated arm span of 2.33 meters, Zhou Qi is at the top level even in the NBA, of course, as a Chinese player, Zhou Qi's dynamic talent is not outstanding, and his weight of 98 kg is too thin, and his confrontation ability is seriously insufficient, even if he gains weight to 112 kg in the future, he still does not have enough physical advantages.

Putting aside the fact that he can't adapt to the intensity of the NBA's confrontation, Zhou Qi successfully won the title of the big demon in the CBA with his top static talent. Russell, of course, because of the strength of the team, he can't do the 11 championships that Russell has won with the Celtics.

There are two important factors restricting Zhou Qi's development in the NBA in the future, the first is the serious lack of his body and confrontation ability, his thin body makes him unable to survive in the fierce NBA, and the second is his professional attitude and ability to withstand pressure on the court.

The two black dots of egg scones and Poles are the best illustration of it.

The former proves that Zhou Qi, as a professional athlete, is not responsible for his own body management.

It is not unforgivable for sports athletes to occasionally eat one or two meals of junk food, including many stars in the NBA who occasionally eat a mouthful, but most of the time they can still strictly manage their eating habits.

But Zhou Qi is different, when he was in the NBA, he was complained by the Rockets trainer that he had no self-discipline, not only did he not eat the food that the professional nutritionist gave him many times as required, but also often went to the street to buy junk food.

As for the ability to resist pressure at the spiritual level, it is directed at the black spot of the Poles.

In the key round of the key game that directly determines the qualification of the Huaguo men's basketball team for the Olympic Games, Zhou Qi, who is responsible for serving the sideline ball, made a fatal mistake, and the serve was too casual, resulting in the opponent easily stealing and hitting a counterattack, causing the Huaguo men's basketball team to bury the game that should have been won.

After that game, Zhou Qi was sprayed by angry Chinese fans and dubbed Poles because their opponent at the time was the Polish men's basketball team.

Later, many people also washed Zhou Qi, saying that netizens should not put too much pressure on the players, the players of the Huaguo men's basketball team have tried their best to play hard, and what we should give them is support and encouragement, not endless abuse.

In Wang Chao's opinion, this is all bullshit.

Is the national football team being scolded less? As the pillar of the team with high hopes, he played poorly throughout the game, and there were consecutive fatal mistakes at critical moments that led to the burial of a good game.

Being scolded can only show that you deserve it, why are they all scolding you, no one scolded the captain of the Chinese men's basketball team at that time? Because they did their best throughout the game, they scored a team-high 24 points and 8 rebounds, and their performance was impossible to fault with at all.

After the 2019 Men's Basketball World Cup, as the United Arab Emirates gradually faded out of the national team, he was extremely sad to find that the only thing that the Chinese men's basketball team could rely on and look forward to was really only one Zhou Qi left.

Therefore, even if he didn't like Zhou Qi very much, Wang Chao was still ready to pull Zhou Qi along.

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The draft was in full swing, and Zhou Qi and his agent were sitting on the sidelines, looking a little nervous.

Originally, they didn't plan to come to the United States, Zhou Qi decided to participate in the 2016 draft, just an attempt by them, everyone knows that Zhou Qi's level is not able to play in the NBA, what they are looking forward to is Zhou Qi's excellent static talent, and Wang Chaoda Yao's brilliant results in the NBA in the past few years, which can allow them to get the blessing of some off-court factors, and the team can look at and choose him.

Such a strategy is definitely correct, even if you sit on the cold bench in the NBA, it is stronger than in the CBA, because Zhou Qi can enjoy NBA-level training when he sits on the cold bench, which is very important for Zhou Qi, who is only 20 years old and has a lot of room for growth.

In fact, when Zhou Qi officially announced his participation in the draft, many teams immediately became interested in him and invited him to participate in team tryouts, including but not limited to the Celtics, Lakers, Clippers, Grizzlies, Suns and other teams.

The Houston Rockets, who have chosen Da Yao, are also interested in Zhou Qi, but they currently have two centers in the team, Whiteside and Gobert, both of whom are young and strong interior pillars, and even if Zhou Qi is selected, he can't give him much playing time and training.

And the reason why Zhou Qi really decided to come to the United States to participate in the draft came from a phone call from Wang Chao.

Wang Chao is an absolute legend for any Chinese basketball player, especially for post-90s players like Zhou Qi, who is a real idol.

Wang Chao, who entered the league only two years later than Da Yao, is now the real spokesperson of Huaguo basketball, and his influence and appeal are far greater than Da Yao, after all, Wang Chao is too capable in terms of personal honor.

Zhou Qi grew up watching Wang Chaoqiu, but Wang Chao has withdrawn from the national team since the first two years, resulting in Zhou Qi, who has only gradually entered the men's national basketball team since 2014, has not played with Wang Chao's serious partner so far.

On the phone, Wang Chao's meaning was concise and to the point.

"Since you have the idea of wanting to join the NBA team to improve and become stronger, I can help you and arrange for the Nets to sign you, but you have to be mentally prepared, I will use the strictest standards to demand you, supervise your daily training, if you can't stand it or don't obey the discipline, I will not hesitate to kick you out of the team, remember, my patience is limited, you only have one chance, understand?"

Wang Chao's tone is not very good, after all, he himself is not very interested in Zhou Qi, but Wang Chao also feels that people will also change, such as some players with poor self-control and weak willpower, if there is a tough mentor around him who forces him to keep moving forward, he can also be raised to a higher height.

Former Lakers All-Star center Andrew. Bynum is a good example of this.

Bynum, who was once known as a little shark, is a typical player who lacks self-discipline, and the Lakers selected him for his outstanding talent and cultivated him for many years, and finally cultivated him into a super center who can cut 19+12 per game at his peak.

However, after leaving the Lakers, Bynum began to quickly let himself go, did not train seriously, and ran to bowling during the injury, which caused the injury to worsen and gain weight rapidly...... Within two or three years of leaving the Lakers, Bynum had degenerated into a situation where he had no ball to play at all.

In the 13-14 season, Bynum played a total of 26 games for the Cavaliers and Pacers, averaging 8.7 points and 5.6 rebounds per game, and then disappeared from the league forever, when he was only 26 years old.

It was only at this time that people realized that Bynum's passable professional attitude and hard work when he was on the Lakers at first were completely the super paranoid Kobe Bryant, who was strict with himself and almost paranoid on his teammates. Bryant.

Even Bynum, who is not afraid of heaven and earth, has to behave in front of Kobe Bryant and dare not make any moths.

Wang Chao feels that with his current status in the rivers and lakes and his great status in the hearts of Chinese fans and players, he is fully qualified for this job.

Just need to bother a little bit to supervise Zhou Qi, and then add the blessing effect of the sparring potion training, maybe you can really make Zhou Qi practice something, not to mention it, even if you can train Zhou Qi into a Gobert, it will not be a loss.

In the future, everyone will laugh at Gobert as just a super blue-collar who can defend, and he has the defensive honor of DPOY, and he really faces Jokic on the inside, Embiid and other top interior lines are still beaten by all kinds of fancy hangings, and they are completely toys for the top interior line.

But Gobert is holding the league's top salary, with a maximum annual salary of $46.65 million.

Gobert and Zhou Qi are close in height and arm span, and even after Zhou Qi gained weight, their body shape is very similar, of course, in terms of upper limb strength, even Zhou Qi after weight gain cannot be compared with Gobert, and there is also a gap in defensive skills.

In addition, Zhou Qi's habit of playing in the CBA makes him dislike to take the initiative to find confrontation on the inside, and he will always subconsciously choose to avoid when facing the opponent's aggressive playing style, which is a problem that Wang Chao wants to find a way to correct after the team selects Zhou Qi.

If you can really train a Gobert version of Zhou Qi, it is also a good thing for Wang Chao, after all, at the moment of Da Yao's retirement, the combat effectiveness of the Chinese men's basketball team has decreased sharply, and the only helper for Wang Chao in the team is only one person, Wang Chao must have enough helpers if he wants to continue to maintain enough dominance in the international arena.

This is also the reason why he wants the Nets to pick Zhou Qi next and is willing to spend time and effort to give him a chance to embark on a different life trajectory.

The draft continues.

Zhou Qi sat on the court, his palms were already full of sweat, although he had learned the news from Wang Chao in advance that the Nets would choose him, he would still be nervous.

Soon, the draft went to the 25th pick in the first round, which was the Brooklyn Nets' draft pick.

The NBA president held the envelope, smiled at the camera and said, "The 25th pick in the first round from the Brooklyn Nets, their choice is Malcolm from the University of Virginia. Brogdon. ”

Hearing this, Zhou Qi was stunned, and even his agent was a little dumbfounded.

After Zhou Qi participated in the joint trial before, he really received a lot of attention, after all, there are too few Huaguo players with such static talent as him, and the last Huaguo player who joined the league purely by static talent was Wang Chao in 04.

Therefore, most of the mainstream media in the league gave Zhou Qi's draft predictions at the end of the first round, about the twenty-seventh or eighth-pick.

Even the radical Chinese media touted it to the top 10 picks in the lotto area, and of course it can only be seen by a happy one.

The Nets' first-round pick with the 25th pick just happened to get Zhou Qi, but they used this first-round pick to select another player.

This is, of course, Wang Chao's arrangement.

Although with a little selfishness, it is still a bit too extravagant and wasteful to use a first-round selection of Zhou Qi.

Zhou Qi's draft pick prediction is very high, but how can these old fritters in the league have a fuel-efficient lamp? Outstanding static talent does not mean that it is truly invincible, the NBA league has been in the league for so many years, how many geniuses have appeared, and there are many people who surpass Zhou Qi in terms of static talent, but just like talent, there are two kinds of talent: static talent and dynamic talent, and a static talent alone is not enough to make the league's teams fall in love with it.

Zhou Qi's physical fitness, confrontation ability and technique are all serious detractions, it is said that his bench press data during the trial is only 60 kilograms, even if an ordinary person can reach 60 kilograms of bench press weight after a little training for a while, not to mention a professional basketball player like Zhou Qi, which obviously lost a lot of points in the hearts of scouts.

Therefore, in the original historical process, Zhou Qi, who was predicted to be the 27th pick in the first round, fell all the way to the 43rd pick in the second round before being selected by the Rockets.

Wang Chao knew this very well, so he did not rush to sign Zhou Qi with a first-round pick, but chose Brogdon.

Originally, Brogdon was also a second-round pick, showing good instant power when he first entered the league, shooting 38.8% from three-point range in his career, and averaging 21.2 points, 5 rebounds and 6 assists per game in 56 games in the regular season for the Pacers in the 20-21 season.

Brogdon was selected to enhance the three-point firepower of the Nets' outside bench.

As for Zhou Qi, it is okay to find a way to trade for a draft pick in the second round, anyway, the second-round pick is not worth much, and you can get it by paying some chips.

The draft quickly made it to the second round.

Zhou Qi, who was already sweating on his forehead, finally heard his name being read.

"The Boston Celtics' pick in the second round of the 35th pick, their choice is from Huaguo, 7'1" (2.16 meters) tall, 210 pounds (95 kilograms) center Zhou Qi!"

It wasn't until this moment that Zhou Qi's hanging heart finally fell.

(End of chapter)