NBA: I am the god of basketball

Chapter 309 It's too bad, not only to grab the Warriors' old 1.5, but also to grab the record of 73 wins!
On the NBA's 2017 trade deadline, there were no big deals worth mentioning.

The current situation in the league has tended to be stable. The three-super-multi-strong system is solid. The favorites to win the championship are only the Nets, Cavaliers and Warriors. Other teams such as the Spurs, Rockets, Celtics, Raptors, etc. The team can only be regarded as a strong team in the playoffs.

Putting aside the premise of commercial value, few teams will make big moves, especially this season.

As for some small trade signings, don't mention it.

The time came to February 2, and the Warriors ushered in a rematch with the Nets at home.

This game has been considered by most people as a preview of the finals duel, because the regular season records of these two Eastern and Western teams are too dominant.

Needless to say, the record of the Nets is already rushing to break the record of 72 wins.

Although the Warriors gradually lost pace with the Nets as the schedule progressed, their record of 48 wins and 9 losses so far is also an excellent record at the historical level. If this winning percentage continues, they can win 69 games in the regular season , with a little effort, it is not impossible to strive for 70 wins in a season.

If the Warriors can really do it, it will be the first time in NBA history that two teams have won 70+ games in the same season.

However, in the second half of the regular season, the difficulty will rise sharply. This is also a consensus that everyone knows. Whether the Warriors can maintain their current high winning percentage is still unknown.

In this game against the Nets, the Warriors certainly don't want to lose, but whether they can win the game is really not just what they say.

At home, the Warriors showed off their super offensive ability. Curry felt very good in this game. He hit 7 three-pointers and scored 34 points. Cousins ​​and Thompson also had 20+ The scoring performance and the hit rate are maintained above 50%.

Such an outstanding performance allowed the Warriors to score 132 points without overtime.

But even so, the Warriors still failed to win the game at home.

No way, compared to scoring ability, if the Nets claim to be second, no team in the league dares to say that they are number one, and the Warriors are no different.

Durant scored 28 points and 5 rebounds, Jokic scored 21 points and 11 rebounds against Cousins, and Booker also scored 18 points. As for Wang Chao, he only scored 4 points in the first half of the game. Taking over the game, he blasted 41 points in the half and scored 45 points, 15 rebounds and 12 assists in a large triple-double.

The total score of these four players alone reached an astonishing 112 points.

In the ultimate confrontation, the Warriors lost again.

The Nets are really too strong!Especially since February, due to minor injuries and illnesses and accumulated fatigue during the season, Durant's number of shots has gradually decreased. Correspondingly, the number of times Wang Chao has taken over games has gradually increased, and the record of the Nets has become more stable. , more and more invincible.

At the end of the February schedule, the Nets had a record of 2 wins and 52 losses. Although there are still 6 games in the regular season from March to April, the more difficult opponents such as the Warriors, the Spurs, and the Cavaliers have all ended. There is only one game away. Most of the teams in these 3 games are relatively weak teams. There are not many teams that can cause trouble for the Nets.

This is indeed the case. In 3 games in March, the Nets achieved a record of 17 wins and 14 losses. The 3 games they lost were to the Cavaliers, Celtics and Thunder.

The regular season duel record is already 3:0 for the Cavaliers, and they finally won a game by luck. However, Durant has a truce in this game, and they are facing the Nets led by Wang Chao's single core. Stalemate, the Cavaliers fell behind and almost lost the game. Thanks to Irving and Embiid's three-pointers with extremely high luck at critical moments, they turned the tide of the game and won by chance.

As for the Celtics and Thunder, the Nets lost to a state where their own team felt bad and their opponents felt overwhelming.

It is worth mentioning that the duel with the Thunder is particularly interesting.

The Thunder led by Westbrook's single-core team ranks sixth in the Western Conference. Although it is not high, considering the current lineup of the Thunder, it is very rare to have such a record, and they can contribute 32+10+10 triple-doubles per game. Westbrook of the data is obviously the biggest contributor.

Regardless of how Westbrook will be criticized in the future, his dominance during the regular season this season is definitely not black.

Westbrook in the post-Thunder era has one of the most classic stalks, that is, whenever he meets the Warriors where Durant is, he will always explode in a small universe and overthrow the Warriors with super luxurious personal data.

Now that Durant has switched to the Nets, the results are surprisingly consistent.

The Nets lost this game because Westbrook's small universe exploded, scoring 49 points, 12 rebounds and 14 assists in a large triple-double, and even mobilized the rest of the Thunder team. The sudden click and cut made Wang Chao look stupid.

Williams is really worried about holding grudges, just because Durant left the Thunder to join the Nets, and when he was happy, he said something bad about his old team and his teammates, so he kept remembering it, and there was really no one.

Lost 3 games in March, bringing the number of negative games of the Nets to 3 games. As long as they lose 9 game, the Nets will have no chance to break the record of 1 wins.

Although Wang Chao himself has no interest in breaking this record for a long time, he has brought out two teams with 70+ wins in the history of the league. evaluate.

But since I have this opportunity, I still have to work a little bit harder. There is nothing wrong with getting 73 wins and 9 losses. If you have money on the ground, don’t you take it?
In the last few games in April, the opponents of the Nets were not strong enemies. They were the Magic, the Hawks, the 4ers, the Bulls, and the Heat. The only one that was more difficult to deal with was the Celtics.

With the hard work of Wang Chao and all the players of the Nets, the schedule in April ended with a wave of winning streak, and the final record was successfully fixed at 4 wins and 73 losses.

"Didn't expect, Warrior, I not only stole your old 1.5, but also stole your record!"

Wang Chao reckoned that if there was a second traverser in this world, everyone would be stupid.

The record of 73 wins and 9 losses in the regular season also surpassed the record of 72 wins and 10 losses in the regular season maintained by the Jordan Bulls and Wang Chao Rockets, becoming the best record in league history. This record can fully demonstrate the strength of the two top superstars in the league. dominance.

Correspondingly, the Golden State Warriors in the West, their final record was 66 wins and 16 losses. From March to April, they lost a lot of games, and the Warriors were also double-killed by the Nets in the regular season. Afterwards, the main players of the team began to be rested one after another, learning from the Cavaliers to recharge their batteries for the playoffs. After all, although the regular season record is not as good as the Nets, they are shaking ahead of other teams in the West. There is no need to continue to work hard at the end of the season.

The 2016-17 season is a special season. The team with the highest record in the East and West is far ahead, and it is completely different from other teams.

In the East, the Nets with 73 wins and 9 losses are far ahead and rank first. The second place in the East is the Boston Celtics with only 51 wins and 31 losses. The third place in the East is the Cleveland Cavaliers with 50 wins and 32 losses. From the fourth start in the Eastern Conference, the record fell below 50 wins.

排名东部第四的多伦多猛龙，战绩只有48胜34负，第五的华盛顿奇才46胜36负，第六亚特兰大老鹰42胜40负，第七夏洛特黄蜂41胜41负，第八密尔沃基雄鹿40胜42负。

Compared with the east, the west side is also not much better.

第一金州勇士66胜16负，第二圣安东尼奥马刺55胜27负，第三休斯顿火箭51胜31负，第四洛杉矶快船50胜32负，第五达拉斯小牛48胜34负，第六波特兰开拓者46胜36负，第七俄克拉荷马雷霆45胜37负，第八孟菲斯灰熊43胜39负。

There are only 4 teams in the entire West that have won 50 wins, which is really rare for the West where there are so many strong teams. After all, in the Wild West, there has been an exaggerated performance of the eighth 50 wins in the West.

It is conceivable that the appearance of two regular season super teams at the same time will have an impact on other teams in the league.
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The determination of the regular season record also allowed the results of the first round of the playoffs between the East and the West to be announced.

The No. [-] Nets in the Eastern Conference will face the eighth-ranked Milwaukee Bucks in the first round of the playoffs.

The Bucks have really begun to rise this season.

After wasting a few seasons, Antetokounmpo finally showed his potential as a top star in the fourth season of his career. He averaged 22.9 points, 8.8 rebounds and 5.4 assists per game in the regular season, beating Anthony Davis to become the All-Star The star started in the East, and quickly attracted a large number of fans with his super visual impact.

At the same time, the Bucks' lineup is not too bad. Although there is no Middleton, the Bucks got Andrew Wiggins because of a blessing in disguise.

Originally, Andrew Wiggins should have been the No. 2014 pick in [-], but the butterfly effect saved Embiid from injuries and also made Wiggins fall to the second pick in the draft, so he was selected by the Bucks .

The 2016-17 season is the third season of Wiggins' career. He is extremely talented and has become an excellent right-hand man next to Antetokounmpo. This season, he can contribute 21 points, 4 rebounds and 2 assists per game. team into the playoffs.

It's a pity that meeting the Nets in the first round basically announced the end of their playoff journey in advance.

The Bucks can beat the Nets to create a black eight miracle, sows can climb trees, and they can avoid being swept by 4:0.

There is no way, the Nets are too strong this season, 73 wins and 9 losses in the regular season is not a joke.

The only regret is that when Wang Chao and Durant were on the same team, their statistics were affected. This season, Wang Chao averaged 27.1 points, 13.2 rebounds and 13.5 assists per game. He averaged a triple-double for the fifth consecutive season in his career, but his 5 points per game average was a career low since the 27.1-07 season, and this season he only won two honors in assists and steals. In terms of statistics and honors, Wang Chao had the least harvested season.

Wang Chao didn't have any special feelings about this, but some of Wang Chao's fans became dissatisfied.

"Wang Chao is still too selfless on the court. As the leader of the team, his number of shots has dropped again and again because of his teammates. If I were Wang Chao, I would definitely not be like this, regardless of my teammates. Whoever, I will be the star with the highest score!"

Some people expressed similar opinions on the Internet, and of course some people refuted it.

"So you can't become Wang Chao. Without Wang Chao's sacrifice in terms of statistics, how could the Nets achieve a record of 73 wins in the regular season? Besides, do you care about the decline in the average data of 27+13+13 per game? Wang Chao's The scoring has indeed decreased, but the average of 13 assists per game is higher than before, and based on the calculation of 1 assist and 2 points, the offensive performance is not worse than before.”

"Not only that, Wang Chao's contribution to the Nets on the defensive end is obvious to all. This season, his defensive efficiency is still at the top of the league. If there is no accident, he will win the best defensive player again. At that time, he will have four DPOYs. Mutombo and Ben Wallace are tied for the most Defensive Player of the Year awards in NBA history!"

What these fans said is not wrong, there is something to gain if you give up.

Wang Chao knows that many fans are expecting him to break the record of Jordan's ten-time scoring champion. Currently, he has seven scoring champions, tied for second in history with Wilt Chamberlain, and is four times away from surpassing Jordan. king.

In Wang Chao's view, surpassing Jordan's scoring record is not a difficult problem. With his scoring ability, it can be done easily.

But the primary goal right now is to win the championship. For this goal, he has to devote more energy to the defensive end. powerful.

Durant's defense is quite satisfactory, Jokic and Devin Booker are typical players who are more offensive than defensive, not to mention Bogdanovic.

Wang Chao must assume duties similar to the peak Garnett on the defensive end in order to make the Nets' defensive system impregnable and invincible in the league.

Next season, if he changes to another team and finds a few players who are good at defense, he won't need to bother so much. At that time, he will surpass Jordan in one go and become the player with the most scoring titles in history.

Wang Chao's scoring average was affected, and Durant naturally couldn't avoid this problem. Although at the beginning of the season, the Nets' offensive system kept Durant in a hot state. In the first month, he averaged 30+ points per game. However, as the season progressed, his scoring average began to decline gradually, and finally settled at 27.9 points.

The average of 27.9 points per game is not Durant's career low. Even in the original history, Durant's scoring leader in the 10-11 season averaged only 27.7 points per game.

And assuming that Durant joins the Warriors as in the original history, then in the 16-17 season, his scoring average will also drop to 25.1 points per game.

In contrast, an average of 27.9 points per game is considered a high score for Durant.

In addition to Wang Chao and Durant, two players averaging 27+ per game, the Nets also have two players averaging double figures in scoring, namely Devin Booker averaging 16.3 points per game and Kevin Booker averaging 15.2 points per game. Jokic.

These two players are definitely underestimated models this season. If they are not in the Nets, but switch to any team that can give them enough shot rights, both of them can easily average 20+ per game. Score.

Wang Chao's sparring potion training buff effect is definitely not a joke. He estimated that after the end of this season, Jokic and Booker should start to be dissatisfied with their current tactical positioning in the team. The boss of a team should at least be number two. Now that the status of the team's third is unclear, it is definitely not acceptable for any top superstar player, especially at a young age. A player with great development potential.

But this issue is not something Wang Chao needs to consider, because after the end of this season, he will leave here as the Nets win the championship.

On April 2017, 4, the opening game of the first round of the playoffs began. The Brooklyn Nets played against the Milwaukee Bucks at home.

Facing the Bucks with Antetokounmpo and Goji Wiggins, the Nets really shouldn't be too relaxed.

These two players are still too immature at this stage. Wiggins will not mention it for the time being. The future two-time regular season MVP winner, Antetokounmpo Giannis Antetokounmpo has begun to gain weight this season and has performed well. His muscles are full of momentum on the court, but they are still a little bit less interesting than the future Greek monsters that rampage like James' meat tank.

What's more terrible is that the player Antetokounmpo was facing in the game was Wang Chao.

Wang Chao can be regarded as the top static talent in the league. It can be said that it is not worth mentioning in front of Antetokounmpo. The physical talent of Antetokounmpo is at the same level as Durant, with a height of 2 meters and a wingspan of 11 meters , When you stand still with your arms outstretched, the sense of oppression is really full. Unlike Durant, Antetokounmpo's static talent is also the top in the league, and his sprinting and acceleration speeds are amazingly fast. Being able to resist the strength of the inside center, these are the capital that Antetokounmpo will rely on to win the regular season MVP in the future.

It's just that in the matchup with Wang Chao, Antetokounmpo's static talent can't help, because he doesn't have the ability to shoot from mid-to-long distances, and he can't rely on his height and wingspan to pull up shots.

As for dynamic talent... how many players in this league dare to compete with Wang Chao in terms of static talent?Perhaps James, who is at the peak of his body, can barely do it, but the current Antetokounmpo is definitely not good. Even in terms of strength, Antetokounmpo during the 16-17 season is slightly inferior to Wang Chao, who is talented in fighting madness. As for speed, In terms of agility, explosive power, etc., Wang Chao was able to throw him so that he couldn't even see the taillights.

This caused Antetokounmpo to face Wang Chao's defense after receiving the ball from the outside. There was no way to break through to the basket with the ball. Bulldozer-style forced breakthroughs also had little effect.

Several forced breakthroughs, either made a mistake and lost the ball under Wang Chao's oppressive defense, or was forced to stop the ball at a distance less than the free throw line.

After a few rounds, Antetokounmpo learned how to behave. He no longer tried to break through Wang Chao on the outside, but wanted to catch the ball inside and take advantage of his height and wingspan to hit Wang Chao behind him.

But the question is, does Antetokounmpo have the ability to play back?

The answer is obviously no.

Antetokounmpo's style of play is a standard face-to-face style of play. His back-up skills are average, and although he is physically strong, his tonnage is still slightly inferior to that of inside players, so his back-up strength is not enough. Even if he is at his peak in the future During the period, the efficiency of back-ups was not considered the top level of the league, let alone facing Wang Chao at this time?
In this way, Antetokounmpo was almost completely crushed by Wang Chao on the offensive end, and the offense could not be opened at all. Even if he called his teammates to pick and roll to cover, he couldn't get rid of Wang Chao, who had the talent of screen prediction.

As for the other side, Wiggins has a fairly good performance when the defensive pressure is not high, but the famous Gouqi brother has long known that he only needs 7 points to play. Impossible thing.

The final result was that the game was only halfway through, and the point difference had already gone straight to 30 points, and the suspense was completely lost.

Even the Nets fans at home were uninspiring, and many chose to leave the stadium early to avoid traffic jams after the game.

"It's too good. If I knew it, I wouldn't have bought a ticket to watch it. It's a waste of time."

"Actually, it's not the opponent's dish. The main reason is that we are too strong, which makes the opponent appear to be too weak. This year's championship must be the Nets!"

At 128:99, the Nets finally beat the Bucks by 29 points at home.

Wang Chao, Durant and other starting main players did not play in the second half of the game. After only playing for about 10 minutes, the statistics are actually very average. They only scored in their early 20s. Wang Chao did not complete the triple-double data check-in .

Antetokounmpo Antetokounmpo is in a particularly bad mood.

Although he was the player with the highest score in the game, with 28 points, 8 rebounds and 3 assists, anyone who has watched the game knows that 28 of Antetokounmpo's 22 points came from the second half of the game. Score by a Nets bench player.

In the first half, under Wang Chao's full-time marking, he scored only 6 points. He made 8 of 2 shots and 4 of 2 free throws. His shooting percentage was terrible.

In this regard, Antetokounmpo would also like to thank the Nets for establishing an exaggerated score advantage early, allowing the substitute players to appear early in the second half of the game, giving him the data to brush up and avoid the embarrassment of looking too ugly.

Of course, such an idea is just deception. This game is destined to be widely reported by major media, especially the direct confrontation between Wang Chao and Antetokounmpo, the new and old stars, will undoubtedly become the focus of heated discussions.

"If you want to play against Wang Chao, Giannis Antetokounmpo still has a lot to learn. He may represent the future of the league, but now this league still belongs to Wang Chao."

"Technical flaws are fully exposed. Although Giannis has a talent envied by everyone in the league, his technical skills are too rough, especially the ability to shoot mid-range and long-range shots. There is no need to expect him to have the mid-range shooting ability like Kevin Durant. , as long as he can reach the level of Jimmy Butler, Paul George and other forward players, the offensive threat level will be greatly improved. We can only expect that in the next few years, Giannis can develop a stable center. Throwing ability, strength has further evolved."

Fans have good expectations for Antetokounmpo's future development, but Wang Chao, who has been there, knows exactly how far Antetokounmpo will grow in the end. Even by 2023, Antetokounmpo will not grow at all. , is still the three tricks that he was good at, and he was defeated by the Heat in the first round of the playoffs, ruining his reputation.

In the next few games between the Nets and the Bucks, there is not much suspense. The difference may be that the point difference is not so exaggerated, and that's all.

G2, 112:97.

G3, 108:85.

G4, 119:88.

Four games, a clean 4:0, the Bucks ended the playoffs early and went home early to fish.

For Antetokounmpo, this result made him breathe a sigh of relief, because the torture is finally coming to an end.

Throughout the series, Antetokounmpo and Wang Chao faced each other all the way, and they also deeply realized how terrifying the defensive ability of the three-time best defensive player is.

Everything that Antetokounmpo is good at is useless in front of Wang Chao, which makes him doubt life.

Obviously during the regular season, the gap between the two players wasn't that big.

Of course, Antetokounmpo cannot understand that for Wang Chao, the energy and strength invested in the regular season and playoffs are completely different concepts.

In fact, if you look at the average data of the entire series, Antetokounmpo's performance is actually not bad. In 4 games, he averaged 24.8 points, 9.5 rebounds and 4 assists, 2.2 steals and 1.7 blocks per game, which can be called excellent offensive and defensive.

It's just that these data are basically obtained by Antetokounmpo when facing the Nets' substitute players, which is a bit intriguing.

The main force of the Bucks faced the Nets' substitute players in this round of the series even longer than facing the main players. There is no way to let the game basically lose suspense when it reaches the third quarter?
On the contrary, the data of Wang Chao and Durant, the two core players of the Nets, look a bit bad, as if they were restricted by the Bucks' defense. They are both in the early 20s, not as high as Antetokounmpo.

This can also be regarded as a way to reversely target and limit the performance of superstars.

In the first round of the playoffs, in addition to the Nets, the teams that eliminated their opponents 4:0 also included the Cavaliers and the Warriors in the East.

At the beginning of the season, the three major aircraft carrier teams recognized by the league all completed a sweep of their opponents in the first round, which shows the strength of their dominance.

The Nets' opponent in the second round was the Raptors who defeated the Wizards 4:3.

The Raptors are ranked fourth in the Eastern Conference, and the Wizards are ranked fifth in the Eastern Conference. The styles of the two teams are quite similar. Bill + Bill.

The similar style made the two teams staged the most tragic matchup in the first round. The game reached the tie-break, and the Raptors relied on DeRozan's relatively more stable and efficient performance to defeat the Wizards and enter the second round.

But entering the second round is not a good thing for them, because they will play against the Nets in the second round.

Referring to the experience of the Bucks being unilaterally hammered in the first round, it is completely conceivable that the Raptors with the fourth record in the Eastern Conference will not be better than the Bucks against the Nets.

In this regard, the Wizards can be regarded as premature death.

(End of this chapter)