NBA: I am the god of basketball

Chapter 17
This rare starting opportunity is really a very rare opportunity for Wang Chao.

Not only because the starters will have more exposure and playing time, but also because the Suns' opponent this time happens to be the Saramento Kings.

The Kings at this time are no longer the Kings of the classic Princeton system a few years ago. At this time, only Mike Bibby and Brad Miller are left in the old Kings team. Although the Kings rely on a fairly good lineup depth, Never missed the playoffs over the years, but the record began to decline year by year as Webber, Peja and others left the team one after another.

This season, the Kings can barely maintain a winning percentage of just over 50%, hovering at the No. 9 position in the Western Conference, which is far from the record of the Suns, which ranks second in the Western Conference.

More than that, Wang Chao played Bell's original shooting guard position in this game.

The current player of the Kings at shooting guard is Kevin Martin, a typical player who is strong offensively and weak defensively.

Kevin Martin has a good scoring ability, averaging 24.6 points per game at his peak.

Wang Chao didn't even need to think about it, it was definitely impossible to prevent the opponent from scoring.

But fortunately, Martin's defense is quite bad. Not only is his physical confrontation ability poor, his defensive awareness is not good, and he often misses people in the game.

Perhaps because of this reason, although Martin averaged 20+ points per game for six or seven consecutive seasons in the peak years, he has never been selected to the All-Star and has no best defensive team.

Wang Chao doesn't care how many points Martin can score in the game against the Kings. The only thing he cares about is how many points he can get during the game.

According to the requirements of the system task, he must score 25.5 points in the next two games to reach the condition of averaging 15 points in eight games.

In the next game, the Suns' opponent will be the Denver Nuggets. There is no way to think about it now, so Wang Chao wants to get as high a score as possible in this game against the Kings, so that the next game The pressure will be reduced accordingly.

……

That night, the Suns home court was brightly lit, and a large number of Phoenix fans gathered in the arena, hoping to witness the team's seven-game winning streak.

The fans didn't have to wait long before the lights in the venue dimmed, and at the same time, the live DJ's passionate explanation sounded.

This is the welcome ceremony for the starters.

However, at the beginning, many fans were a little stunned.

Because what the DJ read out was not information they were familiar with.

"Let us welcome Wang Chao, who is 6 feet 9 inches tall and weighs 216 pounds, and comes from the far away country of China!!!"

Wang Chao, who was standing in the player tunnel, trotted out and waved to the fans in the stands.

Some strange fans did not hesitate to applaud and cheer, but many people were a little confused.

Why did Wang Chao suddenly start playing?Who is he replacing?

Most of the fans at this time did not know the news that Bell was unable to play because of the flu, but everyone knew the rules for the starting players to appear. The first player to appear must be the one with the smallest wrist among the starting five.

With Tim Thomas, Dior, Marion and others appearing one after another, people guessed that Raja Bell should be replaced by Wang Chao in this game.

"Wang Chao's three-pointer is more accurate than Bell's, but his defense... This game is against Kevin Martin of the Kings, can this guy do it?"

In the end, accompanied by the passionate roar of the DJ on the scene, Nash, who appeared in the finale, made the fans cheer loudly, and completely left behind Wang Chao's concerns about starting the game.

After all, whether it is Wang Chao or the original team's starter Bell, they are only role players in the team and will not play a decisive factor in the outcome of the game. As long as the Suns have Nash on the court, they will always be have enough competitiveness.

After a brief warm-up, the game officially started, with a jump ball in the middle circle, and the Suns won the ball.

The starting five for the Kings are point guard Mike Bibby, shooting guard Kevin Martin, small forward Ron Artest, power forward Kenny Thomas, and center Brad Miller.

After the start of the game, Wang Chao immediately ran towards his most familiar position, the corner three-point line.

Martin of the Kings followed Wang Chao to the three-point line. Although he followed closely, Wang Chao could tell from Martin's absent-minded eyes that the opponent didn't care about him at all.

This is not surprising.

Although Wang Chao's performance in the last few games is remarkable, in the final analysis he is just a role player who played less than 20 minutes.

As the first scoring point for the Kings, Martin was not an All-Star, but he was a real star player.

He doesn't even know who Wang Chao is, and he doesn't know much about Wang Chao's technical characteristics and good style of play.

Isn't the opportunity here?

Martin, whose defense was already terrible, ignored his own existence. In this case, if Wang Chao still can't get high scores in the game, he deserves that he can't complete the system tasks!

Nash dribbled the ball over halftime, and Bibby followed him closely to guard against sticking.

One thing to say, Bibby is the type of point guard that Nash is not very good at dealing with.

Strong body, not afraid of confrontation, solid defense, excellent overall view...

If you have to say it, Bibby is a version of Kidd with enhanced long-range shooting ability and weakened assist ability.

Nash, who is thin and thin, feels a headache when he sees this kind of guard who is as strong as the striker.

Of course, not being good at dealing with it doesn't mean that you can't deal with it. Nash just hates having too much physical contact with the opponent.

Nash and Kidd have comparable statistics in their careers. Even Kidd at his peak failed to fully suppress Nash.

Kidd couldn't do it, and Bibby certainly couldn't.

Nash's continuous dribbling rhythm changes, forcing Bibby to retreat and keep a safe defensive distance.

But even so, he was still found by Nash, took advantage of his speed, and went straight to the basket.

The direction of Nash's breakthrough was just close to the three-point position in the left corner where Wang Chao was.

Although Martin's defense is extremely poor, as an NBA player, he still has the awareness of assisting defense, especially when he doesn't know the power of Wang Chao's three-point shooting. Martin almost subconsciously leaned towards Nash's breakthrough, thinking To assist teammates in defense.

How could Nash, who is a master of pass assists, let go of this opportunity?
The next second, the basketball was passed to Wang Chao, who was beyond the three-point line in the bottom corner.

Nash passed the ball just right, so that Wang Chao didn't need to do any preparation work, and he could take off immediately after receiving the ball.

It was too late when Martin turned around and wanted to go back to defend Wang Chao again.

The basketball flew across the sky, and after drawing an elegant parabola in the air, it entered the net accurately and hollowly.

"Shh!"

(End of this chapter)