In the final finals of the Olympic Games, there are indeed no miracles.

The United States Dream Team, which has gathered 12 of the NBA's top superstars, does not have any opponents at present, as I said before, unless the Chinese men's basketball team can have another top interior line of Da Yao's level, and partner with Wang Chao inside and outside, otherwise no matter how strong Wang Chao's personal ability is, it will be difficult to be outnumbered.

The final result was that the United States men's basketball team finally won the gold medal after 16 years, while the Chinese men's basketball team won a silver medal and the bronze medal was won by the Spanish men's basketball team.

At the end of the men's basketball program of the Rio Olympics, most of the media in China were generally satisfied with the final results of the men's basketball team in this Olympic Games.

Three Olympic Games, won two golds and one silver, such a result, before 2008, who would dare to imagine? At that time, the Huaguo men's basketball team was just a team that tried to keep its record in the quarterfinals and tried its best to reach the top four.

It was Wang Chao and Da Yao who brought the men's national basketball team to its current heights.

"The Huaguo men's basketball team once again defended the dignity of the world's top teams, although Da Yao's retirement had a serious impact on the strength of the team, they still passed all the way, overcame obstacles, and won a valuable silver medal for Huaguo!"

"While welcoming the glorious moment, we must think about a problem, that is, the current situation of the Chinese men's basketball team, since Da Yao and Wang Chao, the Chinese men's basketball team has not had this kind of phenomenal star for more than ten years, although the United Arab Emirates, Zhou Qi, Wang Zhelin, Guo Allen and other players have good strength, but the strength in the international arena is still slightly lacking."

"Wang Chao, who was born in 1983, will be 34 years old this year, and four years later at the Tokyo Olympics, Wang Chao will be 37 years old, I am afraid that he has withdrawn from the national team, I can't imagine at all, if the Chinese men's basketball team does not have Wang Chao, what will happen in the future, who can take over Wang Chao's baton and lead the Chinese men's basketball team to move forward?"

Obviously, this is a very serious problem, and it is also a major problem that the Chinese men's basketball team must solve in the next four years.

In this Rio Olympics, Zhou Qi, who had high hopes, did not perform very well, and his ability to fight inside was extremely poor, and he did not have an advantage when confronting almost all the team's inside players, and his performance was far inferior to that of the United Arab Emirates, at least although the United Arab Emirates did not have the inner dominance of Da Yao, but he also gave Wang Chao some help on the field, and he averaged 15.6 points and 5.5 rebounds per game throughout the Olympic Games, which was the second scoring point in the team, second only to Wang Chao, who averaged 40 + 15 + 10 per game.

What fans can expect now is that Zhou Qi, who has joined the Nets and will play with Wang Chao for a period of time in the future, can quickly learn experience in the NBA, strengthen his confrontation ability, and become the new interior pillar of the Chinese men's basketball team.

No one knows that Wang Chao is actually not worried about the Tokyo Olympics, even if the Tokyo Olympics are the same as the original time and space, postponed to 2021 because of masks, by that time the 38-year-old Wang Chao should still have the strength that is not inferior to the current one, four to five years of accumulation, let him get more blessings of talent skills and improve his ability value, and his strength will be even more terrifying.

This self-confidence comes from the upgraded version of the talent steel and iron bones.

The effect of this innate skill is to strengthen the bones and other aspects of the body, avoid injuries, and prolong the career.

Although Wang Chao does not know how long the so-called extended career can be extended, considering that the system must be a boutique style, he will definitely not let his physical condition decline significantly at the age of thirty-seven or eighteen.

Wang Chao has a perfect reference template for this.

In the next 2022-23 season, 38 of LeBron. Although James is no longer in peak form, But he can still contribute an average of 28.9 points, 8.3 rebounds and 6.8 assists per game in the regular season, although he is often criticized during the regular season for his inactive defensive attitude on the defensive end and always becomes a hole on the defensive end, but after entering the playoffs, James still successfully incarnated as an offensive and defensive one, although the average score per game was reduced to 24.5 points, but the defensive efficiency has been greatly improved, which is an important force for the Lakers to counterattack all the way to the Western Finals in the playoffs, and although the Western Finals with the Nuggets were swept 4:0, the performance of the 40-point slash in the last game is still shocking.

The 38-year-old James is certainly not the strongest star in the league, but his combat power can still rank around 10-15 in the league at that time.

James is still like this, not to mention Wang Chao, who has an upgraded version of steel and iron bones, not to mention it, he conservatively estimates that his peak state can be maintained at about 40 years old, and then he may continue to decline, and maybe even longer.

Therefore, at least he will be able to participate in the London Olympics once, and if the men's basketball team of the United States is the same as in the original history, led by Durant, Tatum, Booker, Lillard and Green as the main force, it is not impossible to kill the other party to regain the gold medal.

Of course, these are all for later, four or even five years from now, and it's hard to say now.

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After the Olympics, Wang Chao first returned to China with the Chinese men's basketball team, stayed for more than half a month, and then left for the United States in mid-September.

One of the disadvantages of participating in international competitions is that the off-season is too short, and the training camp of the national team plus the official competition will be close to two months, resulting in a much shorter vacation.

The start of the NBA2016-17 season is imminent, and the trade signings of the league's teams are almost complete, and preparations have begun to begin the new season.

This summer, it was also a turbulent season, and many superstars switched to the court, among which the biggest name and the most influential one was Kevin who joined the Nets and partnered with Wang Chao. Durant.

In addition, there are also negotiations with the Heat to renew the contract to no avail. Riley joined Wade of the Chicago Bulls on a two-year, $47.5 million contract.

Chandler, who was poached by the Grizzlies for four years and $94 million. Parsons, and after Parsons was poached, he was angry and poached starting small forward Harris from the Warriors for 4 years and 94 million. Barnes' Dallas Mavericks.

From the perspective of outside play, with the same 4-year 94 million contract, Barnes must be much more cost-effective than Parsons, but both are obviously premium contracts, and this contract is completely inconsistent with their true value.

But it can't be helped, after the new TV contract went into effect, the league's salary cap skyrocketed, triggering a series of chain reactions, forcing teams to pay high premium contracts if they wanted to keep their own stars or poach people from other teams.

The most typical example is that the Grizzlies are trying to keep their main point guard, Mike. Conley, who offered him a five-year, $153 million contract extension, shocked the league.

Although this contract is slightly worse than James and Wang Chao in terms of an average annual salary of 3060 for 5 years, the total amount of the contract has broken the NBA record, and his career is mediocre, averaging only 14.8 points and 5.7 assists per game, and even Mike Conley, who has never been selected for the All-Star and the best team, has greatly shown his face in the league and even the world with this contract.

And in this crazy summer, the two major aircraft carrier teams in the league, the Cleveland Cavaliers and the Golden State Warriors, have not moved, not only that, but the players in the team have also been poached.

The Warriors couldn't keep Barnes because a four-year, $94 million contract was too expensive.

Although the Warriors' star Curry is still on a $12.11 million child labor contract, which does not put a huge pressure on the Warriors' salary space, Cousins, Klay. Thompson and Green have contracts with annual salaries of more than 15 million, plus Iguodala's 11.13 million, these five alone account for $72.13 million, plus other bench players, it is close to 90 million.

The league salary cap for the '16-17 season was $94 million, and the luxury tax floor was $113 million.

The Warriors can indeed re-sign Barnes with the Bird Cap, but if they give Barnes 4 years and 94 million...... No, if it's bird power, it's 120 million for 5 years, and the starting salary of the new contract alone will reach 22.12 million, making it the highest salary in the Warriors.

As a result, the Warriors' total salary will reach 110 million, although it is still a little short of paying the luxury tax, but the problem is that next year's child labor contract of the team's core Stephen Curry will expire!

It was entirely predictable that the two-time regular season MVP's contract extension could easily surpass Conley to become the largest contract in NBA history with the blessing of Birdpower.

So if the Warriors renew his contract to keep Barnes, by next year, the team will have to pay more than $30 million in the luxury tax alone!

Considering Barnes' level, the Warriors chose to give up the match after some struggle, allowing Barnes to be poached by the Mavericks with a high salary.

In this way, the calf was poached by Chandler. Parsons, but got a stronger Barnes than Parsons, plus Harden and Nowitzki at the end of his career, although there is no chance of winning the championship, but he is among the top players in the West, and it is not a big problem to break into the playoffs.

The Warriors lost Barnes, and the Cavaliers didn't get much better, but after winning the championship, in order to keep Paul, whose contract expired. Gasol, the team had to keep him on a three-year, $46 million contract.

This price is a bit high for a 36-year-old veteran, but the problem is that Gasol's value is there, although his form has declined this championship season, he still has an average of 12+8 data per game, Gasol's rim protection and high-level playmaking ability and the height advantage of forming an inside twin towers with Embiid are quite important for the Cavaliers.

In order to retain the championship team, the Cavaliers had to choose to keep the championship player with a high salary.

But the problem is that the Cavaliers' new contract salary on James' new contract will reach 30 million, and the team also has Irving's 17.64 million. Thompson's 15.33 million, Shambaught & Channing. Frye is also close to 10 million annual salary, plus Gasol's 15 million, the Cavaliers' salary space exploded directly, ranking first in the league, and the only reinforcement this summer is to sign the Hawks' former All-Star player and three-point shooter Kyle with a 5 million mid-level contract. Korver.

The end result is that the Warriors and Cavaliers, two aircraft carrier teams from last season, have not been able to make up for the new season before the new season.

On the contrary, the Nets became the biggest winner in the free market by virtue of getting the Durant trade, and the Nets also relied on the combination of Wang Chao + Durant to successfully become the third largest aircraft carrier tied with the Cavaliers and Warriors, and is the biggest favorite to win the championship before the start of the new season, and the odds of winning the championship are far higher than those of the two teams.

On September 20, all members of the Nets team assembled to take makeup photos for the new season, and Durant, who had just successfully "defeated" Wang Chao in the Olympic Games and won the first Olympic gold medal, looked high-spirited and said in a high-profile interview with the media.

"I joined the Nets with only one goal, that is, to win the championship, I believe that my partnership with Wang will become the strongest duo in NBA history, which can be comparable to or even stronger than the Bulls Jordan Pippen, the Lakers OK combination and the Magic team's super magic combination! I believe we will win the championship in the new season. ”

It's just that even though the Nets beat the Knicks in results last season, New York is still the Knicks' turf, so even if there are pro-Knicks reporters who ask maliciously. "Kevin, in that case, did you join Brooklyn on your own initiative to play a Pippen-like role for Wang Chao?"

This sentence asks how many shrimp and pig hearts there are.

Since Durant chose to join the Nets, the entire league has been overwhelmingly criticized and blamed against him, believing that he, as the core boss of a team, ran to hug Wang's super thighs and acted too cowardly.

And now, the reporter throws this question again, just to disgust Durant, who made Wang Chao and the Nets successfully disgust them and the Knicks last season?

Durant's expression was a little unpleasant at the time, but he still said: "I'm not Pippen, and I won't play anyone, I'm just me." ”

When the reporters heard this, they laughed.

Fools can see that Durant is unhappy, he doesn't like to be compared to Pippen, called the team's second leader.

This is actually quite funny, you ran over and joined forces with others, but you don't want to admit that you are the second, do you still want to compete with Wang Chao for the boss? If you can use this to provoke the conflict between Wang Chao and Durant in the locker room, it may be able to destroy the Nets, causing them to fall apart in the new season and be unable to compete for the championship.

Although this kind of thing is harmful to others and not to themselves, as a sworn enemy in the same city, the Nets' failure is a good for the Knicks.

For this reason, the media in New York will try their best to spare no effort to provoke the relationship between Wang Chao and Durant.

It is unclear whether Durant will be fooled, but Wang Chao will definitely not be fooled.

Some reporters also asked Wang Chao questions.

"Wang Chao, Durant's arrival, will it affect your ball possession, and whether you are willing to reduce your shot rights and give the ball to Durant, even if it will lead to a decrease in your stats."

It's clearly in rhythm.

How could Wang Chao be fooled, he smiled flatly, and asked rhetorically: "Do you think things like scoring balls are important to me now?" I've been scoring a lot in the last few seasons because my team doesn't have any other strong scoring points, so it's up to me to score, but now with Kevin, I can focus more on other aspects of the game so I can win the game better, so why not? ”

In the final analysis, Wang Chao is not Curry, and with the same number of shots, his performance will definitely not be worse than Durant, and even higher because of the three-point shot.

Moreover, Wang Chao is not only scoring, rebounding, assisting, and defensive he is the top in the league now.

On the other hand, Durant, except for scoring, is at the level of an ordinary player in all other aspects, what is the threat?

Wang Chao's words were just right, he did not belittle Durant, nor did he lower his value, and put the two in an equal position to describe it, but what the follow-up performance on the court and the evaluation of the fans was someone else's business.

However, there is one thing that Durant will really affect after he comes, that is, Dewen, who was originally regarded by Wang Chao as the second core of the offensive end this season. Booker.

Booker's progress is very fast, especially in terms of offense, with the blessing of Wang Chao's sparring potion, he himself is good enough, which makes Booker's offensive end improve greatly.

In fact, in the original history, the 16-17 season, which is the second season of Booker's career, he has become the main scoring point for the Suns, averaging 22.1 points per game, and the only drawback is that the shooting percentage is slightly low, only 42%.

In his third season, Booker continued to steadily increase his scoring average to 24.9 points per game, while his shooting percentage also improved significantly, and by the end of his rookie contract, the 18-19 season, he had grown into a super scorer who averaged 26.6 points per game and shot 46.7% from the field.

In Wang Chao's original plan, when the goal is to win the championship this season, the team will set up two scoring points in addition to him, one is Brooke, who has stable interior offensive ability. López, the other is the growing up Devon. Booker, the two should be able to share a lot of pressure for Wang Chao on the offensive end.

Now, with Durant, the original plan can be completely reversed, and Durant and Booker have a similar style and are completely enhanced versions of German. Booker, with a strong ability to attack the ball on his own, can completely open up the situation with the ball when Wang Chao encounters a bag.

As a result, Wang Chao and Durant will occupy a lot of possession, and Booker can still only serve as a fixed-point shooter in the new season, even if his strength can already support him as the team's second leader, steadily contributing 20+ points per game.

The same applies to Jokic.

In terms of growth on the offensive end, Jokic is not as good as Booker, according to the normal situation, Jokic will not average 20+ points per game until the fourth season of his career, but he is not an interior center who focuses on offensive scoring, and his skills are comprehensive and versatile are synonymous with Jokic.

In the season when he averaged 20 points per game for the first time in his career, that is, in the 18-19 season, Jokic averaged 20.1 points, 10.8 rebounds and 7.3 assists per game.

However, given Jokic's ability to shoot from a distance, it would be a good fit to use as a functional center for interior rim protection and fixed-point three-point shooting.

In the eyes of ordinary people, the Nets' lineup mainly relies on Wang Chao and Durant, only Wang Chao himself knows how exaggerated the current Nets lineup is, if Wang Chao is willing to sacrifice his ball rights and put more energy into defense on the court, the Nets are even stronger than the Rockets team during the 72-win period!

In the preseason stage, the Nets' super offensive ability has begun to show its edge.

In a few preseason games, in fact, Wang Chao and Durant didn't play very well, playing less than 10 minutes on average, and more often they handed the game to Jokic, Booker and a group of rookie players on the bench.

These rookies also showed strong offensive ability as Wang Chao expected.

Of course, this is not Jokic and Booker, who averaged 13.4 points and 14.6 points per game last season, and have performed very well as rookies.

The real preseason show is the bench with a few of the Bucks' planned bench gangsters, such as Harrell, Powell and Brogdon, who was drafted this summer.

Last season, thanks to Delon and Joe. Johnson's existence, Harrell and Powell did not play much, and because of their own poor level, they played mech.

But after a season of training and study, the level of both of them has improved to a high degree in the new season.

Although these two are different in height, one is 1.93 meters and the other is 2.01 meters, they are both players with explosive physical fitness and great impact.

In the preseason game, the two took turns to hold the ball and attack the basket, tearing the opponent's defense to pieces, and the performance was quite eye-catching.

This surprised many team scouts and even media reporters in the league, and their eyes themselves focused on Wang Chao and Durant, and occasionally paid attention to Jokic, Booker, Bogdanovic, these starters who performed well last season, and didn't care about the Nets' bench at all.

But now it seems that the Nets even have something on the bench, and in this way, the Nets' combat effectiveness in the new season will be even higher! Even Delon and Joe. Johnson is both gone, and the bench depth is still extremely strong.

As for the reporters in Huaguo, they pay more attention to Zhou Qi's development, but unfortunately Zhou Qi did not play much time in the preseason, only a few minutes, and his performance was mediocre, it can be seen that although the Nets have begun to carry out NBA-level training intensity, Zhou Qi's thin body is still difficult to adapt to the high-intensity confrontation of the NBA.

Wang Chao has already arranged for a dietitian to design a diet plan for Zhou Qi individually, and on the premise of ensuring flexibility, gain weight as much as possible to strengthen the ability to fight, and at the same time, Wang Chao will also supervise the whole process, poor self-control? You send one to show me, don't spray you as an autistic child, Wang Chao has been playing in the league for so many years.

In the preseason, with the outstanding performance of a group of rookies, the Nets directly ended the entire preseason journey with a winning record.

With the start of the regular season just around the corner, ESPN has released its team power rankings for the new season.

The Nets are undeniably at the top of the list, followed by the defending champion Cleveland Cavaliers, and then the Golden State Warriors.

Starting from the fourth place in the power list, it is a group of demons dancing, and several teams are of comparable strength, but the Spurs still managed to rank fourth by virtue of the successful renewal of Howard in the summer, and then the Rockets, Celtics, Raptors, Clippers and other teams.

From this ranking, it can be predicted that in the case of injury instability, it is actually the three aircraft carrier-level teams of the Riders and the Nets who have a chance to compete for the championship.

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