After Wang Chao arrived at the Jazz team to report, he began to reorganize the team.

What? Is this the job of a manager?

A coach's job is not to sit on the sidelines, clapping and chanting 666 when he sees a goal, and reciting a set of mantras when he encounters headwinds. "Wang Chao is going to think of a way?"

At least in Wang Chao's team, the job of the head coach is more or less the same.

The determination of the starting and main lists, tactical play and even the content of daily training items are all Wang Chao's final say, which has been the case since the Rockets period.

Now that Wang Chao has eleven crowns in hand, there are countless personal honors, and no one dares to question this.

Not to mention the head coach of the Jazz, Quinn. Schneider is a coach with only six years of coaching experience, and his coaching experience is not as long as Wang Chao's championship.

The Jazz team in the new season will start the main lineup as follows.

Point Guard: Russell. Westbrook.

Quarterback: Jordan. Clarkson.

Small forward: Wang Chao.

Power Forward: Aaron. Gordon.

Center: Howard.

It can be seen from the starting lineup alone that this lineup can be regarded as Wang Chao's weakest lineup in recent years, and there is a big problem, that is, the three-point shooting ability is seriously insufficient.

In the past, the teams that Wang Chao has been in, including the Magic, Rockets, Nets, Nuggets and Clippers, will hoard a large number of outside three-point shooters, especially when the Clippers played magic ball tactics, and the three-point shot is even more crazy, which is more exaggerated than Harden's Rockets.

But in the current Jazz team, in the starting lineup, the only player with a career three-point shooting rate of more than 40% is Wang Chao, and even if you put the standard down, only Wang Chao has a three-point shooting rate of more than 35%.

Jordan. Clarkson's three-point shooting percentage was so-so last season, at 36.8 percent, but his career three-point shooting percentage was just 34.1 percent.

As for Westbrook and Gordon, both are in the early 30 percent, and Westbrook has shot less than 30 percent from three-point range for three consecutive seasons.

Then there's the center forward position.

Howard is now just a veteran who grabs rebounds under the basket and protects the basket, but he can't count on the offensive end, let alone let him pull outside the three-point line to shoot like Da Luo.

The only thing that can be commended about the current Jazz team may be that the athleticism is not bad.

Westbrook himself is a well-known breakaway fast-breaker. Clarkson and Aaron. Gordon is a well-known spring man with outstanding athletic talent.

Not to mention Wang Chao.

Therefore, the Jazz's main style of play in the new season is to work athleticism.

In addition, it is the distribution of the ball between Wang Chao and Westbrook.

Wang Chao thought very clearly, Westbrook's technical characteristics were there, and it didn't make sense for him to make changes.

Therefore, Wang Chao also plans to give up part of the ball in the new season and hand it over to Westbrook to deal with.

At this stage, Wei Shao is not as sick as he was when he was with the Lakers, and the efficiency value is still there, and the regular time can be trusted.

When the game enters a critical moment, Wang Chao will immediately take back the ball and replace Westbrook on the court with a player who can shoot, such as Anthony, or other players with good projection ability.

Although this is a palliative rather than a cure, it is at least the best way for Wang Chao to think of using Westbrook.

In short, whether the Jazz can win or not depends on Wang Chao, especially the role he can play in offensive scoring and three-point shooting.

After the main team and bench lineup were decided, the Jazz only had two days of training before the preseason of the 20-21 season came.

As a shrinking season, the preseason was also affected by the mask incident, and the preseason schedule was tight and much less than usual.

The league's teams are also more protective of their stars than ever, with the main players playing less than 15 minutes before resting and leaving the bench players to play freely.

The Jazz's bench lineup can be said to be indescribable, except for Anthony and Jeff. Green barely had the power to fight, and as a result, the Jazz lost all four preseason games without a win.

Even though you know it's just a preseason, it's hard to be favored when combined with the Jazz's roster.

ESPN is on the list of pre-season strength predictions.

The Warriors, Nets, Raptors, Bucks and Lakers are in the top five in the power rankings, and for good reason.

Wang Chao's Jazz team is ranked sixth, and further down, there are teams such as the Rockets, Spurs, Nuggets and so on.

The Jazz with Wang Chao is only sixth, which is somewhat unbelievable.

But for Wang Chao, the winner of the eleventh crown, ESPN has great respect.

If the Jazz didn't have Wang Chao, they would be outside the top 20 teams on this list.

It is because of Wang Chao that he will enter the top ten.

The sixth place may not seem very high, but it is second only to the Warriors and Lakers in the West, and according to this ranking, it will be the third team in the West in the regular season, and it is by no means a weak team.

Perhaps in the eyes of the media, Wang Chao, as a veteran who is already 37 and about to enter the age of 38, is really rare to be able to give such a high evaluation.

But Wang Chao's fans don't think so.

"What are you kidding? What kind of dogs are the Warriors and Lakers? In the past, he lost to Wang Chao's subordinates countless times, and he really thought that Wang Chao would not be able to win against them if he went to the worse Jazz? ”

"Do you dare to take a gamble? Wang Chao will still be the champion next year, haven't you understood after so many years, it's not that Wang Chao's team has a strong lineup, but because of his existence, the lineup of those teams looks so strong! ”

"I can't wait to see Wang Chao slap these guys' faces in the new season!"

Amid the buzz, the regular season officially kicked off on December 23.

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The Jazz's first game of the regular season was on the road against the Dallas Mavericks.

In the opening game on the road, the Jazz lost 106-113 to the Mavericks.

Many fans of Wang Chao are a little blind, because since the rise of Wang Chao, the opening game of the regular season has never been lost, this is the first time.

In the course of the game, Wang Chao shot 10 of 19 from the field, 3 of 6 three-pointers, and got 26 points, 10 rebounds and 6 assists.

Especially on the opposite side of the Mavericks star Harden scored 37 points in the whole game, and he actually scored and won Wang Chao once in the game with Wang Chao, which is even more incredible.

Attentive fans who watched the whole game found the problem with this game.

Although Wang Chao's shots are not small, the Jazz's long-term player with the ball is Westbrook.

Wang Chao is more often on the field with no ball or passing tactics.

The Jazz's tactical arrangement is actually understandable.

Wang Chao can play without the ball without the ball, and if Westbrook doesn't hold the ball, then he really has no chance to play.

But the problem is, Westbrook doesn't play well with the ball!

In this game, Wei Shao made 6 of 16 shots in the game, and the iron hit "bang" sounded, and he scored 18 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists in the whole game, but he got a triple-double that even Wang Chao did not have.

But the problem is that with Westbrook's 10 assists, there are as many as six turnovers.

Coming to the new team, Westbrook's brush-style assist passes were not working well, and the Jazz players were completely unaccustomed to Westbrook's passing style, resulting in frequent turnovers.

After a game, the Mavericks held a celebration banquet Westbrook didn't think about moving chopsticks.

If one game is the exception, then the Jazz will not be able to use an example to defeat the San Antonio Spurs at home in Game 2 of the regular season.

In this game, Westbrook performed even more unbearable, shooting only 4 of 15 from the field, and the proud triple-double was not achieved, but an alternative triple-double of 14 points, 10 rebounds, 6 assists and 10 turnovers was achieved.

The Jazz started with two consecutive defeats, and it was also the first time in Wang Chao's career that he had a losing streak at the beginning of the regular season.

Many people sighed that Wang Chao may really be old, and even if the team is facing difficulties, there is no way to stand up and turn the tide.

And more people are spraying Westbrook, after all, although Wang Chao failed to play a lone hero in the two games, the average data of 25+8+6 per game is definitely not bad, but Westbrook is different.

One game is 18+10+10, one is 14+10+6, the shooting rate in both games is less than 40%, and there are as many as 17 turnovers, what is this not undercover?

Many Jazz fans have already started scolding.

"Made, I was fooled, I knew that it was better to leave Conley, Mike. Although Conley's data is not as luxurious as Westbrook, at least it is not as good as Westbrook! And there is also an outside three-point hand, which can play off-ball offense, and there is no ball conflict with Wang Chao, isn't it better than Westbrook? ”

There are also fans of Wang Chao who are appealing.

"Wang Chao, don't give Westbrook the ball, he can't do it at all, let's do it."

The Jazz team, which has lost two in a row, is on the cusp, but Wang Chao is unmoved.

This season itself is very special, the 19-20 season finals will end on October 12, and the new season regular season will start on December 23.

For the Jazz, a team that took less than a month to build, basically did not have time to carry out any run-in, and there was no tacit understanding between the players, how could they play a good game as soon as they came up?

Not to mention the average Jazz, even in the past, when the Heat Big Three were just formed and the Lakers Super F4 was formed, the record at the beginning of the regular season was not satisfactory, and a re-established team will definitely need time to run in tacit understanding.

The Jazz's lineup itself is not good, and the defeat in the first two games is also expected.

And Wang Chao did not do his best in these two games, he also needs to observe the ability of the players at this stage to judge how he wants to play in the game.

After the first two games, he probably knows how to play the next game.

As he thought, the Jazz team has a lot of problems, quite a lot, and the biggest problem is the lack of offensive firepower.

Since the start of the 2020-21 season, Westbrook's scoring ability has been declining.

While his three-point shooting ability has never improved, the increase in age and the accumulation of injuries have also reduced the explosiveness that he relies on to survive.

Westbrook's current problems are similar to Wade's at the end of his career, as a defender who uses breakthrough as the main offensive means, after losing the necessary explosive power to break through, his offensive ability has declined rapidly, and he no longer has a stable and efficient scoring method.

The difference is that Wade can still use a more stable mid-range shot to ensure the efficiency of his offense after losing his explosive power.

Wei Shao is not good, his mid-to-long-range shooting is not much different from three-point shooting, he was slightly accurate when he was young, and the older he gets, the more inaccurate his mid-range shooting is.

The result is that what Wei Shao can do on the court is to keep holding the ball and impacting the basket, and when encountering the opponent's targeted defense or even the bag, the shooting rate is naturally not high.

Westbrook can't count on it, and the rest of the Jazz can't count on it, without the bench bandits of the Clippers period, Louwe, Harrell, and the starting lineup without a consistent three-point shooting spot.

The Jazz's offense is indeed a big problem.

"The offensive firepower is not enough, and it is easy to solve, so it is up to me to support the team's offensive firepower."

Wang Chao thought so.

Speaking of which, Wang Chao, who has an unusually explosive scoring ability, has also had several seasons with mediocre performance on the offensive end, even if last season's average of 32 points per game made him win the league's scoring championship again, but compared with the average of 36 points per game a few years ago or even the average of 40+ points per game in the 11-12 season, it is indeed relatively flat.

It's not that he doesn't have the ability to score, but it's easier and easier to use his super offensive ability as a deterrent on the field than to score alone, and to drive his teammates to score and win the ball with his passing strategy.

So in recent years, Wang Chao has assisted Wang even more than the scoring champion.

But at this time, the Jazz team, if they want to win, it is definitely not something that Wang Chao can do just by assisting the king.

Through two games, Wang Chao, who saw the situation clearly, finally began to act.

The Jazz played Game 3 of the regular season at home against the Saramento Kings.

Facing this weak team with the lowest record in the West, the Jazz finally won their first win of the season, and it was a hearty victory.

At 121:99, the Jazz beat the Kings by 22 points at home.

Wang played 37 minutes, most of which was in the third quarter, and scored 41 points, 11 rebounds and 5 assists in only three quarters, shooting 60% from the field to help the Jazz win their first win of the season.

Although the team won the game, the Jazz fans were not happy for long, because the team's status quo has not changed, and the win was able to win on the one hand because the Kings themselves are the bottom weak team and their combat effectiveness is not worth mentioning, and on the other hand, Wang Chao's outburst and 41 points in the third quarter helped the team win the game.

The Jazz team can't meet the weak team every day, and expect Wang Chao to score 40 points to help the team win every game, right?

Under the worries of Jazz fans, the Jazz went to the road for Game 4 to challenge the Houston Rockets.

The Rockets are different from the Kings, but they are a strong team in the West that has steadily entered the playoffs every year, and the combination of Leonard + Paul has been running in for a season, with tacit understanding, and it is extremely difficult to deal with.

Originally, Jazz fans thought that the Jazz were going to lose the game again, and the record came to an embarrassing situation of 1 win and 3 losses.

But I never expected that this away Jazz team would actually win. (End of chapter)