NBA: I am the god of basketball

Chapter 295 Beat the Knicks violently, the Nets are the king of New York!

Losing to the Cleveland Cavaliers is not the end of the world for the Nets, because even if the winning streak ends, they still have a record of 15 wins and 1 loss in the Eastern Conference, but they fall behind in the winning streak.

The winning streak of the Golden State Warriors in the West continued. When the Nets lost the first game, the Warriors had just won their 18th consecutive victory.

Curry's super personal performance and the team's good chemical reaction make the Warriors invincible on the court. The Death Five has the ultimate offensive firepower. Not low.Coupled with the top 3D player Klay Thompson, Green who is mainly defensive and organized, and excellent rotation players such as Iguodala on the bench, the Warriors, which are perfectly adapted to any game situation, really can't find any shortcomings .

Many people have seen in this Warriors team the Houston Rockets that won 12 wins in the regular season in the 13-72 season and won the finals with all victories. Good personal strength, while Leonard and Butler have risen one after another, and there are seasons of Isaiah Thomas and Chandler Parsons on the bench.

Today, among the Rockets players, apart from Dayao and Garnett who have retired one after another, the young players are almost without exception, and all of them have received big contracts of tens of millions.

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

And now the Warriors, there are also some shadows of the Rockets. Curry, Thompson, Green, Cousins ​​and even Barnes are all players who are qualified to earn tens of millions of annual salary. Iguodala on the bench, Bogut Special, Barbosa, Livingston and others are also players who once dominated one side, or were selected as All-Stars, or were the main players in a certain team.

Originally, before the start of the regular season, the Cleveland Cavaliers were the number one team in the strength rankings, and they were also 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' lineup of No. [-] picks is luxurious and powerful, but there are too many strongmen who can't stand the Warriors. With Cousins ​​and Bogut, the Cavaliers don't have an advantage inside, and the outside firepower is even worse than that of the Warriors. There is no comparison.

11月30日，勇士队106：103击败犹他爵士后，取得19连胜，11月赛程正式结束。

The Warriors, who won all 19 games in the opening game, have no suspense in their record, ranking first in the league, while the Brooklyn Nets led by Wang Chao rank second in the league with a record of 16 wins and 1 loss.

The Cavaliers and the Spurs in the West are tied for third in the league with a record of 14 wins and 4 losses, and they are respectively ranked second in the East and West.

Relying on the team's record and super personal performance, Wang Chao and Stephen Curry were elected as the best players of November in the East and West respectively.

库里19场比赛场均出战34.6分钟，可以贡献31.6分5.2篮板6助攻，投篮命中率51.2%，三分命中率44.5%%。

The era belonging to Ku Ritian 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 as the Eastern Conference Player of the Month in November, played 11 games, averaging 17 minutes per game, averaging 41.8 points, 28.2 rebounds and 11.2 assists per game, shooting 10.4% from the field and 57% from the three-point range.

It is foreseeable that this season is most likely to be the fourth consecutive season for Wang Chao to average a triple-double show. The league has become accustomed to the performance of Wang Chao's personal ability. Instead, it will surprise people.

Comparing anyone with Wang Chao is an act of hooliganism, not even Ku Ritian.

In November, Curry averaged 11 three-pointers per game and was able to hit 11.1 goals. This number is quite exaggerated, because if he played 4.9 games according to this number of three-pointers, Curry would reach 82+ in a single season. The achievement of three-pointers, so far only Wang Chao has achieved this achievement.

Originally this was an unbelievable feat, but this season Wang Chao also averaged 4.6 three-pointers per game, and used fewer shots than Curry, with an exaggerated shooting rate close to 49%.

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

But this point, everyone is more aware of it.

Wang Chao has been the scoring champion for 7 consecutive years in the past, and his scoring ability is comparable to that of Jordan, no... Considering Wang Chao's super high three-point shooting rate and almost never exhausted physical fitness, his scoring explosiveness is even better than Jordan's. stronger.

Although Curry has performed very well this season, he should rest if he wants to compare his scoring ability with Wang Chao.

As for the decline in Wang Chao's scoring average, the main reason is that he has allocated part of the ball and shots.

The Nets are different from the previous Rockets. Leonard, Butler and others can use defense to help the team win.

In the absence of strong defensive players, Wang Chao needs to put more energy into helping the team establish a defensive system, which means that he does a lot of work for players such as Garnett and Green in the game, helping his teammates cooperate. Anti-replenish anti-wipe ass.

The strength of the Nets lies in the offense. Lopez is an offensive insider who can contribute 20+ points per game. Jokic also needs a certain amount of ball possession if he wants to fully exert his strength. As for Booker on the outside And Bogdanovic, although both are role players based on off-ball tactics, they also need a lot of shots to enhance the deterrence of outside shooting.

In addition, there is also a former point guard Deron Williams on the bench, and after a pass is divided, Wang Chao's number of shots and possession of the ball will naturally decline compared with the Rockets.

Of course, the decline in Wang Chao's data is more due to a small sacrifice of focusing on defense, so he can continue to maintain the average triple-double data. After all, Wang Chao's achievements and honors have been proven countless times. Yes, handing over the ball to him is the most efficient way of playing, not one of them.

This is why the Nets were able to directly hit a wave of 15 consecutive victories at the beginning of the new season, and have the second record in the league with 11 wins and 16 loss after the end of November.

The current Nets team can be said to be blooming. Except for Wang Chao, who averaged 28.2 points per game, the other four starters all scored in double figures per game. The highest was Brook Lopez, who averaged 17.7 points per game. The main center of the Nets who has contributed 20+ points per game steadily, and his precise mid-range and long-range shooting makes him a fish in water in the current tactical system of the Nets.

Last season, affected by injuries, he played 72 games and only started 44 games. Lopez, who averaged 29 minutes per game, had 17.2 points and 7.4 rebounds in the final regular season.

In the new season, his playing time has increased to 32.4 minutes, and the average number of shots per game has dropped from 13.7 times last season to 12.4 times due to the increase in the team's scoring points. Improvement, this is the credit of the Nets' current tactical system and Wang Chao's ball-holding core that attracts the opponent's high defensive attention.

Lopez and Jokic form twin towers in the interior to cooperate with each other to pass and cut. He uses his height advantage to involve space to shoot a large number of mid-range and long-range shots, staying away from the basket he doesn't like. , but still played very happily.

Another insider who partnered with him in the Twin Towers, Nikola Jokic, played 17 games for the Nets in the past, which is also surprising.

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

At the beginning, it was only because he was selected by Wang Chao that he received some media attention, but after Jokic played a whole season in the Rockets as a bench substitute without any achievements, most reporters have already paid attention to Jokic. Lost interest.

No one expected that after Wang Chao left the Rockets, he would find a way to bring Jokic to the Nets, let alone that the Nets would let the Rockets play less than 10 minutes per game last season. The dragon set directly hits the starting lineup.

In the first few starting games of his career, Jokic did not play well due to nervousness, but he himself is a professional player who has experienced European leagues, and his adaptability is extremely fast. After a few games, he gradually mastered the essentials and began to become Get up with ease.

Furthermore, as I said before, all the opponents who played against the Nets were all focused on Wang Chao. Who would care about him, a little-known little player?

Many teams have paid the price for such contempt. After all, Jokic's personal ability is not bad at all, whether it is offense at the basket, mid-range and long-range shooting, three-point shooting, rebounding, supporting assists and other skills, Jokic had already begun to take shape in the European league before coming to the NBA.

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

In the past 17 games, Jokic averaged 33 minutes per game, which was longer than Lopez. He could score 13.4 points, 9.6 rebounds and 4.8 assists. He is the second passer in the Nets after Wang Chao in assists. The assists average is even higher than the 4.4 assists averaged by Deron Williams on the bench.

Jokic doesn't take many shots, so he doesn't score many points. He is responsible for cooperating with Wang Chao to protect rebounds and using the deterrence of his own range to help the team involve space, with short-term organization and support work.

But Jokic has completed 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.

An offensive playmaker with an average of 13+10+5 per game, a well-balanced skill set and a three-point shot was sent away for nothing like this?
If regret medicine is available for sale, he has to show off a few bottles to calm down.

The inside twin towers averaged 17.7 points per game and the other 13+10+5, and their performance has been very impressive.

At the same time, the outside players of the Nets also performed very well. Needless to say, Wang Chao, Devin Booker, who was traded by the Nets at any cost this year, also performed very well in his rookie season.

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

But in the second season, the Suns discovered Booker's excellent offensive ability, and trained him as the core of the team, giving him enough ball and shot rights.

Then in the 16-17 season, Booker's scoring average increased from 13.8 points last season to 22.1 points. Although the shooting percentage of 42.3% was slightly inefficient, the Suns' record at the bottom of the league could not reflect the scoring data of core players. However, Wang Chao knows that Booker is indeed the player with the strongest offensive ability at the shooting guard position in the league after Kobe and Harden.

By Wang Chao's side, Booker doesn't need to develop ball-holding offensive skills, at least for the time being. He just needs to improve his already proficient off-ball play and make his shooting rate more stable outside the three-point line.

As for Bogdanovic himself, he is a standard fixed-point shooter, and he can just line up with Booker on the left and right on the three-point line of the bottom corner to maximize the space involved.

The extreme offense brought by the shooting range of the starting five players is the main reason why the Nets can always win.

The match against the Cavaliers also exposed the current flaws and problems of the Nets.

First of all, the offense of the Nets' lineup is very dependent on the touch of the outside line. Once the shooters feel bad, the Nets will only have Wang Chao to attack.

Neither Booker nor Bogdanovic has the ability to attack with the ball. Jokic's skills also have shortcomings. Brook Lopez is a good offensive player. Even at the basket, he can rely on solid inside footsteps to score. But that's all.

Secondly, the team’s defensive problems always exist. Among the starting five, only Wang Chao can be regarded as a top player on the defensive end. Trained by head coach Mike Budenhall, when he was in the Nets, Lopez's defensive habits were not good at all. To be exact, he was already spoiled.

In college, Lopez was the star player of the team. He was only responsible for one thing on the court, that is, scoring offensively. Naturally, his younger brother Robin Lopez and other players were responsible for defending and rebounding.

After entering the NBA, Robin Lopez used his best rebounding and defense to become a blue-collar player in the league, while Brook Lopez, who was selected by the Nets, continued the habit of only playing star football.

This can be seen from the fact that Lopez is 2 meters tall and only averaged 13 rebounds per game. This data is comparable to Carmelo Anthony, Kawhi Leonard and other forwards who are in the early 6.3 meters at the small forward position. Career rebounding averages are similar.

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

It is worth mentioning that Lopez's career high in blocked shots per game came only after joining the Bucks. In the 2022-23 season, Brook Lopez's average blocked shots per game can reach 2.5 times, which is a new high in his career , and was selected to the best defensive team at the same time, which is also the first time in his career.

In the 19-20 season, he was also selected to the best defensive second team with an average of 2.4 blocks per game.

In four seasons in Lopez's career, the average number of blocked shots per game exceeded 2 times, and three of them were in the Bucks period. It can be seen how important it is for Lopez to join the Bucks at the end of his career.

Lopez, who was still in the Nets at this time, did not show any flashes on the defensive end at all, and he didn't even have a shooting range 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 into the one that the Bucks won the championship in the future. He can defend the inside line and shoot three-pointers outside the three-point line. .

But it will take time, especially when the relationship between Lopez and him has not yet reached 60 and cannot enjoy the training bonus effect of the training potion.

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

The two veteran players, Deron and Joe Johnson, are now at a stage where their fame is greater than their strength, and when they became famous, they were also famous for their strong offense and weak defense. They also have the problems of the Nets' starting lineup.

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

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

This is the reason for the loss against the Cavaliers.

Wang Chao knows the problems that the team has now and how to solve them, but just like Brook Lopez's defense and outside shooting, what the Nets need to make up for their shortcomings is time. What they need is Jokic and Bush The two generals will grow further.
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Time to enter September.

12月1日，篮网队在主场108：94击败菲尼克斯太阳，战绩来到17胜1负。

Then three days later, the Nets played away against the New York Knicks.

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

In the past three years, Knicks fans have always looked down on this team that just moved from New Jersey to Brooklyn. The Knicks are a well-known giant in the league, sitting on the largest ball market, with Carmelo Anthony, Amar Ray Stoudemire and other top stars in the league, although their record performance has been a little unsatisfactory in recent years, but the strong sense of superiority when facing the Nets is something that every Knicks fan has. of.

In their eyes, the Nets are a country bumpkin who wants to gain exposure in the New York metropolis. 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 joining of Wang Chao.

Before the start of the regular season, the war of words between the two sides had already started. The local media in New York criticized and ridiculed the Nets and Wang Chao’s ambitions for being overreaching. They actually tried to compete for the NBA championship in three years, and Wang Chao also uttered wild words. , The Nets need to win 66 games this season, so as to match the Knicks who lost 66 games last season.

When the news was first published, all New York fans smiled disdainfully.

You, Wang Chao, are indeed recognized as No.1 in the league now, but even so, don’t be too arrogant. With the current lineup and strength of the Nets, do you want to win 66 games?What an idiot!

Then the regular season begins.

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

At the beginning of the five-game winning streak, the New York media were still stubborn. When the ten-game winning streak came, not many people were willing to take the initiative to mention the commitment made by the Nets and Wang Chao before the start of the season.

By the fifteenth consecutive win, the 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 1969 consecutive victories, and it was the 1970-[-] season, which was the season when the Knicks won the first NBA championship in team history.

The Nets won 15 consecutive victories in an understatement, which can fully prove that its strength is far beyond the league's imagination!

The [-]-game winning streak of the Nets finally lost to the Cavaliers to end the winning streak, which made the Knicks fans breathe a sigh of relief, but the loss of this game did not make the New York reporters write a lot. Losing to the opponent, the scores of the two teams are still very close, the game process is very stalemate, Wang Chao's personal performance is also perfect as always, what can they say?

The Cavaliers are not a weak team. They have the third best record in the league and the second best in the East. Their wins are not much different from those of the Nets. A group of outstanding role players are already favorites to win the championship.

It is normal for the Nets to lose to the Cavaliers in an away game.

According to the current situation, as long as the Nets can continue to maintain their super dominance in November against other moderate or weaker teams, there is really no big problem in winning 11 games in the regular season.

And now, the Nets, which have regained their 2-game winning streak, are coming to Madison Square Garden!

The Knicks fans clamored before the game, as if they wanted to let the Nets go and never return.

"We are not the same as before. We have a healthy Cameron, outstanding talents, and the strength is not inferior to Kristaps Porzingis of Towns! The Knicks will win this game, New York A real NBA team in the city!"

The clamor is fierce, but the cruel fact is that before the start of the game, the Nets had 17 wins and 1 loss, while the Knicks had a record of 9 wins and 10 losses.

Carmelo Anthony was reimbursed for his serious injury last season. Although he has returned from injury, his competitive state has declined significantly. Up to now in the new season, Anthony has only averaged 19 points, 20.4 rebounds and 7 assists in 4 games per game. The hit rate is 43.4%.

This data can’t even be described as the lowest since his rookie season, which is customary in the past, because Anthony’s career is a standard high-speed and high-going model. In the first season of his career, he averaged 21 points, 6 rebounds and 3 assists per game. Before the season, Anthony was still able to compete with Wang Chao and Durant for the regular season scoring title. Even if he couldn't compete with Wang Chao or Durant, he was the only player in the league who could compete with the two in recent years. A super scorer who competes for points.

In Wang Chao's impression, only the last two seasons of Anthony's peak career are left, the 15-16 season and the 16-17 season.

In the past two seasons, Anthony can barely score 20+ points in the Knicks. After joining the Oklahoma City Thunder in the 17-18 season to hit the NBA championship, his state has plummeted and he has completely fallen from the position of the league's top superstar.

As for Porzingis, his performance in the first season of his career was indeed amazing, and he often played very beautiful games, but the data of Porzingis in his rookie season was actually not very outstanding. His average of 14.3 points and 7.3 rebounds per game was not comparable to that of the same period Towns, the No. 17.5 pick, is also much inferior to Jahlil Okafor, who averaged 7 points and [-] rebounds per game.

Of course, Porzingis's growth rate is very fast. In the second season of his career, he can average 18+7 per game. In the third season, he is the main scorer with a stable score of 22.7 points.

It's a pity that Boshen is a typical high-attack and low-defense inside player. His style of play is soft, and his ability to protect the frame and rebound is nothing more than that. In addition, the highest attendance rate in other seasons is only 72 games.

Therefore, Porzingis can only be regarded as a very good All-Star player, and the upper limit is nothing more.

In the 15-16 season, the Knicks, with Anthony and Porzingis, performed much better than in the 14-15 season. They scored 32 wins and 50 losses in the regular season, which was a full win over the previous season. times the game.

Of course, with a record of 32 wins, even in the less competitive Eastern Conference, it is impossible to enter the playoffs, only ranking No.13 in the Eastern Conference.

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 must not defend well, and the Nets who are good at attacking and playing downwind will perform better.

On December 12th, the Nets generals who came to Madison Square Garden are already gearing up, wanting to win a hearty victory here and win a three-game winning streak!

As soon as they entered the court, everyone in the Nets heard boos from the Knicks home fans.

As competitors 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 competitive relationship, the fans of both sides often quarrel because of the teams, but because the two teams share the same stadium, the Staples Center, the same city derby, whether it is the Lakers or the Clippers at home, hostile fans on the field There are a lot of players, and the away team can still see players cheering for their side.

The Knicks and the Nets are different. One is in Manhattan and the other is in Brooklyn. Therefore, at Madison Square Garden, there are very few fans supporting the Nets, and most of them are submerged in the vast Knicks. Among the fans.

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

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

"This game, Cameron and Kristaps will give you a good lesson and win the game, let you go back to Brooklyn!"

As much as the Knicks fans clamored, the expressions on the faces of the Knicks players off the court were as embarrassing as they were.

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

In the video class, they had watched countless times the game video of the rival in the same city this season. Because they had watched it, they knew exactly how big the gap in strength between the two sides was.

Unless Wang Chao does not play, they have no chance of winning at all.

But looking at the Nets, Wang Chao was warming up on the court with a relaxed expression, and knew that this possibility was unlikely.

Wang Chao is a well-known model worker in the league. Basically, he will play all 82 regular season games every season. In addition to the finals of the playoffs every year, Wang Chao's number of games played has always been the first in the league, and his average The playing time is also maintained at around 40 minutes, like an iron man who is tireless and will not get injured.

Wang Chao, who was born in November 1983, is now 11 years old. For NBA professional athletes, he is already at the peak of his career at this age, and his state should decline, especially those who rely heavily on age, such as physical fitness, explosive power, and jumping. aspect.

But Wang Chao's body did not show the slightest downward trend at all, and his physical condition was as perfect and strong as ever.

On the contrary, his teammate Deron Williams, who is 6 months younger than him, has seen his competitive state plummet due to his age.
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Nets starting list: Wang Chao, Booker, Bogdanovic, Lopez, Jokic.

Knicks starting lineup: Jose Calderon, Aron Afflalo, Carmelo Anthony, Kristaps Porzingis, Brook Lopez's younger brother Robin Lopez.

At the beginning of the game, Jokic and Porzingis jumped the ball in midfield.

The confrontation between the two white centers who are not strong in jumping ended with Porzingis, who is 2 meters tall and has a wingspan of 21 meters, won.

The Knicks had the ball. Calderon dribbled the ball across half court and handed the ball to Anthony. The latter held the ball at a 45-degree angle on the left side of the three-point line. Looking at Wang Chao standing in front of him, he did not choose himself. Instead of attacking with the ball, he hoisted the basketball to Porzingis, who had already established his position inside.

Porzingis, who serves as a power forward, is facing Brook Lopez on the court. This is a situation that both sides are happy to see.

Jokic weighs more than Lopez. Boshen himself is an inside player with poor confrontation ability and doesn't like to face heavy centers.

And Brook Lopez is also unwilling to face his brother Robin Lopez in the interior. They are both taught by a master, so they can't break the trick... No, the two brothers are very familiar with each other, and they are good at defense and rebounding. Robin Lopez knew very well that how to defend his brother would make him very uncomfortable, and his shooting percentage plummeted.

With his back against Brook Lopez, Boshen suddenly made a deft turn and accelerated, passing Lopez who was unable to react in time, and lightly picked the basket and sent the basketball into the basket for the Knicks to take the lead.

Lopez's defensive ability at this stage is indeed poor, especially for Porzingis, an inside power forward with excellent mobility, which is a bit difficult to parry.

It was only the cheers of the Knicks audience that just after Porzingis' goal sounded, Jokic stepped back from the bottom line and threw the basketball toward the frontcourt.

Wang Chao had already crossed the half court at this time, turned around and jumped up to catch Jokic's pass, and continued to accelerate and sprint towards the Knicks basket.

Another fast break.

On the Knicks side, Anthony and Efflalo returned to defend in time to block Wang Chao, but Wang Chao ignored their defense at all.

Anthony himself is a representative figure of strong offense and weak defense. Afflalo's defense is good, but as a defender, he is unable to confront Wang Chao head-on with his height, weight and strength.

Holding the ball and speeding past Anthony with one step, he dribbled the ball under his crotch and changed hands to avoid Afflalo's steal. Wang Chao raised his hand and threw the basketball on the rebound, and scored with a dunk with both hands.

Being able to perform this trick in an official game shows that Wang Chao doesn't feel much defensive pressure.

This is also the problem that the Knicks currently have. The team's defense is fragmented and there is no systematic defensive tactics at all. If you want to win a basketball game, the easiest and most efficient way is to do a good job of defense. After all, there is a classic saying in the league. Can bring fans, defense can bring championships.

Even if the league began to enter the small ball era in the next few years and became offensive first, all teams that won the championship were all teams with excellent offense and defense.

The Knicks' defense has serious flaws, and they can't defend Wang Chao, who has super offensive firepower, so this game is 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 offenses.

On the other hand, for the Knicks, except for Porzingis who scored the first goal relatively easily, the offense at other times was very difficult.

After all, Porzingis is only a first-year rookie. His offensive moves are relatively single, and he is easy to be targeted. Moreover, his confrontation ability is really poor, and he can't gain an advantage against Brook Lopez, who also has a soft style of play.

As for Anthony, it is quite difficult to attack against Wang Chao's defense even at his peak, let alone when he is near the end of his career?
Anthony's technical characteristics are a variety of scoring methods, shooting, breakthrough with the ball, proficiency in post-up singles, and he was once known as an offensive kaleidoscope.

Facing players who are shorter than him, Anthony can use his height advantage to pull up and shoot. Facing players who are thinner than him, he can also push his big butt and squeeze inside to attack with his back. Players who are taller and stronger than him, He is often inferior to him in terms of speed, and can use his speed to pass the opponent.

Anthony, who has no technical shortcomings, is indeed the player with the strongest scoring ability in the league at a certain stage.

However, the waves behind the Yangtze River pushed the waves ahead, and looking at Wang Chao in front of him, Anthony couldn't help but sigh like this.

Wang Chao, who is 2 meters tall, is taller and stronger than him. He is even stronger than him in terms of speed, jumping, and explosive power. Even Wang Chao can achieve near-perfect offensive skills.

In front of Wang Chao, Anthony felt like he was facing a hedgehog, completely speechless.

The worst thing is that compared with Wang Chao, it is really not like the waves behind the Yangtze River, because Anthony was born in May 1984, about 5 months older than James, and 7 months younger than Wang Chao, although he is one year earlier than Wang Chao Entered the league this season, but judging from his age, he is more like a latecomer...

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

Seeing that Anthony didn't intend to play him singles with the ball, Wang Chao couldn't help asking.

Although Dong Nisan is no longer a top star in the league's top ten, there is still some fuel in the fuel tank after all. The most important thing is that if Anthony does not attack, the Knicks will have no chance to play this game.

Anthony certainly knew this, so he still chose to take over the ball, and then called for a pick-and-roll to cover, trying to use his teammates' pick-and-roll to separate Wang Chao before attacking.

The blue-collar player Robin Lopez ran out from the inside to help Anthony pick and roll, but before Anthony, who had just circled to the other side under the cover, had no time to do anything, Wang Chao had already circled behind and followed up.

With the talent of screen prediction, the low-quality pick-and-roll screens have been difficult to delay him too much time.

Still unable to find a good opportunity to attack, watching the attack time pass by every minute and every second, Anthony could only make a shot from the spot, but was interfered by Wang Chao and missed the shot and deviated from the basket.

Even the team's top core scorer Anthony is restricted, how can the Knicks' offense be able to play?

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

The Knicks home fans were disappointed with the situation. They thought it would be a battle between dragons and tigers. Anthony and Porzingis could win the game together and deal a heavy blow to the hated Nets.

But the team fell behind by 13 points in the first quarter?
During the break at the end of the first quarter, Wang Chao and others sat on the bench to wipe their sweat, and then saw not far from them, the well-known director Spike Lee sitting in the front row of the field, threatening them with an unhappy expression. Force Lai Lai.

In Madison Square Garden, Spike Lee is almost a mascot. You can often see media reports of Spike Lee sparring with away players on the field. This big director is definitely a professional troll. birth.

It's just that there was a lot of noise on the field, and Wang Chao and others couldn't hear what that guy was saying, but from the excited expression and body movements of the other party, it could be seen that there was absolutely nothing good to say.

"In the second quarter, make persistent efforts to expand the score and make them all shut up."

Wang Chao smiled and said to the other teammates.

The intensity of the match against the Knicks was really low, and the gap in strength was too great.

A few minutes later, the second quarter started. Before the Knicks were ready, they were pushed by the Nets and blasted a 12-0 wave. The point difference reached 25 points in an instant.

The head coach of the Knicks couldn't stop the decline even after calling two timeouts. Not long after the start of the second quarter, the game had completely lost its suspense.

Wang Chao and other main players clocked in and rested around 4 minutes into the third quarter, because by this time, the point difference between the two teams had reached more than 30 points. As usual, the point difference is in a continuous and stable expansion.

Knicks fans who couldn't keep watching their team's brutal beating began to leave the field early at halftime.

In the end, the Nets beat the Knicks by 128 points in the away game 94:34, and beat the big brother in the same city in the same city derby.

What makes Knicks fans most desperate is not the team's big loss, but the humiliating game process. None of the Nets' five starters, including Wang Chao, played more than 30 minutes, and they were useless at all. Go all out, and even when Wang Chao and other main players are off the court, the Knicks still can't catch up with the point difference.

After Wang Chao and others took a break, the Knicks' main players had a brief encounter with the Nets' bench rotation for a few minutes. I can't bear to look directly at it, it's too hot for my eyes.

(End of this chapter)