NBA: James wants to team up with me

Chapter 149 Wang Chong, the best player in the Eastern Conference in November, LeBron is once again hated

"In the past partner matchup, 50-point Wang Chong vs. 45-point Kobe Bryant was slightly better. The Bulls defeated the Lakers 106:98 and won three consecutive victories."

"In a battle between top scorers, Wang Chong won by scoring 50 points in a single game. In this game, whether it was scoring or shooting percentage, Wang Chong was higher than his previous big brother Kobe, and he led the Bulls, whose lineup was inferior to the Lakers, to win. Win the next game!”

"For Wang Chong, this is definitely a game worth a thousand dollars. It not only proves his ability to lead the team with a single core, but also proves in front of Kobe that he made the right choice to leave the Lakers, because only in a team Only by serving as the absolute main core of the team can Wang Chong's strength be brought out to the maximum extent!"

"Was the Lakers right to choose Kobe and give up Wang Chong? I'm afraid even their management will start to regret it now. Wang Chong has a scoring ability that is no less than that of Kobe, and at the same time, he is far better than Kobe in terms of efficiency, plus his age Advantage, in fact, if the Lakers keep Wang Chong, it will be more beneficial to the team's future development prospects."

"The whole game took 40 crazy shots, and the meaningless obsession with Wang Chong's scoring competition caused the Lakers to lose when they should have been in an advantage. When will Kobe Bryant mature and truly shoulder the responsibility of being the core of the team? ?”

"It was the same last season. The Lakers were originally far ahead in record, but after returning from injury, Kobe was obsessed with fighting for power with Wang Chong, which led to the team losing one after another and falling out of the top half of the Western Conference. Such a person who is easily driven by emotion Can a player really be a good leader of the Lakers?"

Just as Kobe thought, it's easy to say anything when you win, but once you lose, all kinds of doubts and criticisms will follow.

No way, this is the path he chose. In order to become the boss of the Lakers, he forced O'Neal away and squeezed out Wang Chong. Now he finally got what he wanted, but it's really not that easy to be the boss of the Lakers. In the big football market, while the exposure is high, various behaviors will also be exposed to the spotlight. Every action will be infinitely magnified and interpreted, criticized, and must be held to extremely high standards.

Wang Chong is different. Although he is also the boss of the team and the absolute core of the Bulls, the attitude of the fans and the media towards him will be much more tolerant than that of Kobe. As long as he can play some good games, he will be praised.

This also has something to do with their ages.

Wang Chonggang was 21 years old, and Kobe is now 27 years old.

One is a rising star, and the other is a top superstar who has reached his peak and needs to prove himself with results.

Although Kobe now holds four championships, few people in the league can compare with him in terms of team honors.

But O'Neal is surrounded by O'Neal for these four championships, and the FMVP is all O'Neal's. It is really not convincing enough.

Kobe now urgently needs to prove himself and needs a lot of personal honors, such as scoring champion, regular season MVP, finals FMVP and other honors to enhance his prestige.

These have nothing to do with Wang Chong.

Leading the team to defeat the Lakers with 50 points in a single game has already proved Wang Chong's value. Next, he only needs to continue to play well in every game, and his status in the league will continue to rise.

On November 11, the Bulls returned to their home court for the first time in a long time and defeated the Orlando Magic 20:95 at home.

The Magic's current strength is still not strong. In the second season of Howard's career, Warcraft has already shown considerable talent.

In this game, facing Tyson Chandler, Howard's performance was extremely eye-catching, scoring a huge double-double of 17 points and 19 rebounds. Chandler, who had not originally taken Howard seriously, was caught off guard. Shen 6 committed a full foul and was sent off directly.

It's just that despite winning the competition of personal ability, Howard still failed to prevent the Magic from being completely defeated.

There's no way, Howard still doesn't have super defensive dominance under the basket. At the same time, the Magic's lineup also has big problems. The main players on the offensive end are still Florida boss Steve Francis and Grant Hill.

Both of them were very strong at their peak. One was the eldest brother of Yao Yao of the Rockets. He was a top guard who was selected as the All-Star starter many times. The other was even better. He was known as the successor of Jordan. He was jealous of the talent and never retired due to injuries. Hill has never reached his true peak.

But this was 2005, and both Fred and Hill were already Balloon stars.

上个赛季，两人在魔术队还分别能够贡献21+5+7以及19.7+4.7+3的全明星级别数据。

However, by this season, the time span was only less than a few months, and the competitive status of both of them had declined to varying degrees, both falling to the level of only averaging about 15+ points per game.

This can't help but make Orlando fans who were looking forward to the Magic's re-emergence feel doubly disappointed.

Not surprisingly, in the middle of this season, Francis will be traded by the Magic to the New York Knicks, and he will be completely devastated and will never regain his former courage.

After the Bulls defeated the Magic, their winning streak reached 4 consecutive games, and their regular season record also reached 5 wins and 4 losses, returning to a positive record.

After a slow start to the season, the Bulls have begun to get back on track.

As the game progresses, even Bulls fans can feel that the team's tacit understanding is constantly improving. The offense on the field is obviously not as disorganized as it was at the beginning, including being defeated by them due to poor offensive choices at the beginning. Monta Ellis, who was so angry, his recent performance has begun to gradually improve.

On November 11, the Bulls lost to the San Antonio Spurs 24:99 in an away game, ending their winning streak and suffering a doubleheader from the Spurs in the regular season.

Although the game was lost, the process and results were within acceptable limits.

The game between the two teams was extremely intense, and the game was inseparable until the end of the fourth quarter.

As the defending champion last season, the Spurs were actually pushed to this extent by the Bulls at their home court. This really surprised many people and proved from the side that the Bulls' strength is indeed improving significantly.

On November 11, the Bulls defeated the Houston Rockets away from home.

The Rockets have not had an easy season this season. At the beginning of the season, McGrady, one of the core players, was accidentally injured. Only Dayao led the team in a single game. In Wang Chong’s memory, the Yao-Mai combination was plagued by injuries this season and only played in one game. After 47 and 57 games, a large number of absences caused the Rockets' record to be as high as diving. In the end, they only achieved a record of 34 wins and 48 losses in the regular season, ranking 12th in the Western Conference and missing the playoffs.

In this game, facing the single-core leader Dayao, the Bulls had no reason to lose. Although Dayao completely defeated Tyson Chandler in the paint and scored a double-double of 30 points and 12 rebounds, Wang Chong also scored 34 points, and was even more efficient than Dayao, who made 19 of 8 shots and a 50% shooting rate.

The Bulls' remaining three games in November were against the Knicks, Celtics and Hawks. All three teams were at the bottom of the Eastern Conference record, so the Bulls naturally won easily and once again won one. Four consecutive wins.

At this point, the November schedule is all over.

The Chicago Bulls played a total of 11 games in November, achieving a record of 13 wins and 8 losses, with a winning rate of 5%, ranking fourth in the Eastern Conference, behind only the Detroit Pistons, Miami Heat and Cleveland Cavaliers.

What needs to be mentioned here is the Cavaliers.

Being blocked from the playoffs again last season, the Cavaliers learned from the pain and finally spent a huge amount of money in the offseason to bring in Larry Hughes to protect James.

Larry Hughes, who serves as a shooting guard, is also considered the number one figure in the league. He averaged 22 points, 6 rebounds and 4.7 assists per game for the Wizards last season. There is no doubt about his strength.

Although after coming to the Cavaliers, the ball rights were affected, causing his personal data to plummet from 22 points to about 15 points, it is an indisputable fact that the Cavaliers' strength has been improved to a certain extent because of the addition of Larry Hughes.

In the first month of the new season, James led the Cavaliers to a record of 10 wins and 4 losses. In 14 games, he averaged 28.4 points, 6 rebounds and 4.5 assists per game. His shooting percentage was close to 50%, and his performance was flawless.

With such a performance, he should have been elected as the Eastern Conference Player of the Month in November.

But it was not James who was elected the best player in the Eastern Conference in November, but Wang Chong.

There is no way, even though the Bulls' record is 8 wins and 5 losses, which is slightly worse than James' Cavaliers.

But Wang Chong's performance in terms of personal data is really explosive.

In 13 games, Wang Chong averaged 33.2 points, 8.4 rebounds and 4 assists per game, shooting 54% from the field, and maintained a three-point shooting rate above 40%, ranking first in the league in efficiency.

Not to mention anything else, just averaging 33.2 points per game has surpassed Allen Iverson, currently ranking second in the scoring list, and only one step away from Kobe Bryant, who leads the scoring list.

In the 05-06 season, Kobe's scoring average really exploded after entering 2006, especially in January. In 1 games, Kobe averaged an exaggerated 15 points per game and maintained a super-high shooting percentage of 43.4%. Led the team to a record of 47 wins and 9 losses.

Prior to this, although Kobe's scoring average was also very high, it was not that explosive. His current average of 33.6 points per game is only 0.4 points ahead of Wang Chong.

The explosive score earned Wang Chong a huge amount of praise and praise, and the Bulls management went crazy with joy.

Even the Bulls management, which made a huge gamble to trade Wang Chong, could not have imagined that Wang Chong's performance in the new season would be so explosive.

What is the concept of averaging 30+ points per game? At least in the past few decades, players who can reach this level are without exception the league's top superstars.

There may be a lot of brush-type players in the league who squander a lot of statistics on the bottom teams. The statistics may look beautiful and luxurious, but in fact they are just paper tigers that will shatter at a touch.

But even if you are a data brush, there are very few who can average more than 30 points per game. Coupled with Wang Chong's 54% field goal percentage, if this can also be regarded as a data brush, I am afraid that if you look at the entire league, you will not be able to find many. A player who is not considered a brush anymore.

Regarding James's loss to Wang Chong in the selection of Player of the Month, although James' fans are very unhappy, they really can't fault it at all. The only thing they can point out is the team's record.

Wang Chong's points and rebounds are higher than James's. The only assists that are lower than James's are increased to 4 times due to the improvement in the time he holds the ball after joining the Bulls, which is not much lower than James.

But the problem is that in terms of team record, James' advantage is simply untenable.

Just like in the past two years, when someone made a fuss about Wang Chong's team's better record than James, there would always be someone who would angrily explain, what is the lineup of James' Cavaliers? What is the lineup of the league’s giants? It's natural for Wang Chong's team to have a good record and even win the championship. How difficult can it be to pick up the champion who is so ambitious?

But this excuse is a bit useless this season, because the Bulls' lineup this season is obvious to all. Among the five starting players, only Wang Chong is an All-Star, and the biggest among the rest of the players is just a passing game. Tyson Chandler, a blue-collar inside player with an average of around 7+8.

No matter how bad the Cavaliers' lineup is, they still have Big Z, who was successfully selected as an All-Star last season, and Larry Hughes, who was introduced this summer.

Even though Wang Chong's team suffered a loss, his team's record was close to that of the Cavaliers, ranking fourth in the Eastern Conference. This result has surprised many people.

After all, in their opinion, the Bulls' lineup should be as messy as they were at the beginning of the season, losing consecutive games.

This may also be one of the important reference factors for Wang Chong to be elected as the best player in November.

As the schedule enters December, the Bulls are starting to get better.

Although in the first game in early December, the team lost to the Pistons 12:84 at home, and the winning streak was once again stopped at four consecutive games. However, the Bulls subsequently failed to face teams such as the Mavericks, Wizards, and Raptors. Won them all with one exception.

On December 12, the Bulls will face the Lakers for a second time at home.

Since the two teams belong to the East and West teams, they will only play each other once in the regular season at their respective home courts, and there is a high probability that they will not meet again this season. Unless both teams reach the finals, there will be a chance to meet again. Considering that the Bulls Compared with the Lakers' lineup and team record performance this season, this possibility is really slim.

This second and basically last confrontation of the 05-06 season once again ended with Wang Chong and the Bulls winning.

<divclass="contentadv">Neither Wang Chong nor Kobe Bryant had the same explosive scoring performance as in the first game.

王崇17投10中得到26分9篮板5助攻，而科比则是21投9中得到23分6篮板8助攻。

From a data perspective, the two are basically evenly matched.

But the Lakers still lost, and the loss was due to the cooperation of the entire team.

After the past month of regular season training and running-in, the Bulls' tactical system has tended to be complete. The players perform their duties and know their position and what they are doing on the field.

Shooting guard Laga Bell is mainly responsible for defending the opponent's core players on the outside. He also serves as a fixed-point shooter on the offensive end. He is stationed in the bottom corner for three-pointers all year round. Whenever he has a chance to catch the ball, he will immediately shoot.

Luol Deng is also responsible for defense, and when attacking, he usually stands on the other side of Bell, ready to cut into the penalty area to receive passes and directly score layups. For Luol Deng, who specializes in off-ball tactics, this kind of play is The method can be said to be very handy.

Compared to these two, the functions of the other two starters, Monta Ellis and Tyson Chandler, are much simpler. One is only responsible for offense and the other is only responsible for defense.

In the game, Tyson Chandler only needs to guard the basket and protect the basket. Almost all the offensive points come from the second attack of grabbing offensive rebounds, plus a small amount of open balls under the basket to catch the ball and score. .

As for Monta Ellis, it would be a good thing if he could defend, but his height and weight determine that he is not a qualified defender even at the point guard position.

In this case, it is better for him to devote all his energy to offense, learn as quickly as possible, adapt to the rhythm of NBA games, and maximize his speed advantage in breaking through with the ball.

After being beaten in various ways in the first month, Ellis, who has paid enough for his tuition, has now learned well. Even if he is trying to break through with the ball, he will observe the situation on the court and will not rush to the basket without hesitation.

Ellis, who learned this, was assigned an additional tactic, Wang Chong's pick-and-roll tactic.

The key points of the tactics are simple. Ellis holds the ball and stands in the top arc, and Wang Chong takes the initiative to step forward to pick and roll for him.

After blocking the defensive player, Ellis needs to maximize his breakthrough speed advantage and rush towards the basket immediately, forcing the opponent players who are defending Wang Chong to help and restrict him.

Once someone comes to guard Ellis, he must give up the attack decisively and pass the ball back to Wang Chong on the outside, thereby creating an opportunity to misplace the opponent's defender in singles.

With Wang Chong's height and wingspan, any player whose height is less than 2 meters will have almost zero defensive interference.

And once the defensive player hesitates for a moment, Ellis, who goes straight to the basket, can also pose a huge threat to the basket in the penalty area.

This trick can be said to be tried and tested on the field, and any team will have a headache when encountering it.

Obviously, this pick-and-roll tactic was also written by Wang Chong. To be precise, he should have learned from the classic pick-and-roll tactics of Curry and Durant.

In terms of offensive ability alone, I can barely compare with Durant in his peak period, and Monta Ellis is not worthy of even lifting Curry's shoes. Not to mention anything else, Curry in his peak period can only shoot three-pointers. The shooting percentage is almost comparable to Ellis' overall shooting percentage.

Therefore, the pick-and-roll cooperation between Wang Chong and Ellis may not even reach 60% of the lethality of Curry and Durant.

But even so, this pick-and-roll tactic is enough to cause headaches for other teams in the league.

Whenever the two of them cooperate in a pick-and-roll on the court, most teams choose to give up guarding Ellis and focus on Wang Chong. Ellis, who rushes into the penalty area with the ball, only needs to deal with the opponent guarding the basket. center.

Playing small and playing big is a specialty of defenders, and Ellis certainly knows this.

Therefore, in the second half of the November schedule, Ellis's scoring average and field goal percentage began to gradually increase.

Bulls fans didn't react at first, but after a quick look, they were shocked to find that after the schedule entered December, Monta Ellis's average of 12 points per game had actually become the team's second-highest scorer. Luol Deng's 15.4 points and Raja Bell's 13.6 points are even higher.

Although Ellis's shooting percentage at this time is only 41.5%, according to his continuously improving efficiency value, the shooting percentage may continue to increase in the future.

You know, Monta Ellis was only a second-round pick in 05. When he was selected by the Warriors and traded by the Bulls, no one paid attention to him at all.

The first time many fans knew his name was because the Bulls actually let such a rookie serve as the team's starting point guard in the new season, sparking heated discussions.

In the first week of the regular season, Ellis played in a mess and could be regarded as the Bulls' biggest war criminal. At that time, he was almost drowned out by all kinds of criticism and abuse. Even the team's coaching staff and head coach once criticized Ellis. The idea of ​​​​replacement.

But Wang Chong advocated continuing to give Ellis a period of time.

Although he is only a first-year player, there is no problem with Ellis' hardware strength. He is a player who uses his speed to break through offense. If he plays in the league for two or three more years, his speed will not change qualitatively compared to when he was first drafted. What has become stronger is only his confrontation ability, ability to read the game and shooting and other basic abilities.

In this case, letting him serve as the team's starter and start training in advance is by no means a waste of time.

Most of the players who can be stars in the NBA have sufficient talent and potential, and are destined to become stars before they land in the NBA.

There are not many players who have truly learned skills in the NBA and have made a qualitative leap in their personal abilities, but the number is almost negligible.

Monta Ellis is definitely not the latter. In fact, his growth rate itself is very fast.

When the Warriors came in and out of the league, his performance was poor because he did not have enough playing time. However, in the second half of his rookie season, due to the injury of the Warriors' main guard, he briefly served as three starts and quickly passed the test. His performance took hold and he was taken seriously by the Warriors management.

Ellis, who averaged only 6.8 points per game in his rookie season, basically secured his starting position in the second season of his career. His average increased to 16.5 points per game, and in his third season, he averaged more than 20 points per game. The characteristics of the basket, in the 07-08 season, he averaged 20.2 points, 5 rebounds and 3.9 assists per game, while shooting 53% from the field, which is quite rare among guards.

It is precisely because of this consideration that Wang Chong chose to let Ellis bear the pressure of starting the starting lineup in advance, because he can be sure that the opponent will never collapse due to the huge pressure and become helpless. On the contrary, there is a high probability that he will grow and develop rapidly under the pressure. Get up and become Wang Chong's side. To be precise, he is the only independent offensive point with the ball other than Wang Chong in the Bulls.

This is quite important. Wang Chong knows very well that the Bulls' lineup does have big problems. The most troublesome point is that Wang Chong currently only has one offensive point with the ball.

It was a little better during the regular season. If in the playoffs, when the opponent uses extreme tactics such as full-court press and double-teaming against Wang Chong, the other Bulls players can't just watch helplessly, right?

Wang Chong can be considered a precautionary measure. Even if he sacrifices his regular season record, he must train Ellis quickly to avoid difficulty in dealing with the sudden increase in defensive intensity in the playoffs.

Monta Ellis's ability to produce results also made both the Bulls general manager and head coach a little dumbfounded.

During the summer offseason, Wang Chong made a total of two suggestions. One was for the team to sign Lagar Bell, and the other was for Monta Ellis to be traded from the Warriors.

No one really cared about these two players at the time, and head coach Skiles even worried about the Bulls' poor lineup for a long time.

Who would have thought that this regular season has been going on for almost a month and a half, and the two players appointed by Wang Chongqin have already secured their starting positions in the team. One can play a huge role in both offense and defense, and the other is constantly performing with astonishing performance. He learned and adapted to the NBA game rhythm at a fast pace and gradually grew up.

Seeing the team's record getting better and better and steadily rising, Skiles felt incredible and at the same time deeply admired Wang Chong.

It’s okay if you don’t admire me.

Not only the selection of the starting lineup, the Bulls' main tactics on both offense and defense this season were all suggestions given to him by Wang Chong.

Although this will make him, the head coach of the team, seem to have no sense of presence, the fragrance is really fragrant!

The Bulls currently rank fourth in the Eastern Conference. As long as he continues to perform stably, his position as head coach of the Bulls can basically be considered very secure.

As time enters December, the annual All-Star Weekend voting begins.

In this year's All-Star voting, both the East and West are very competitive. Needless to say, there are many stars in the West. In the past two years, there have been more stars in the East, such as O'Neal and Wang Chong, and it has gradually begun to become more popular. stand up.

On December 2005, 12, the results of the first round of All-Star voting were officially announced by the league.

There is no suspense in the West. Dayao of the Houston Rockets ranks first in the Western Conference with 72.9 votes, and is also first in the league, followed by Kobe with 66 votes and Tracy McGrady with 60 votes.

This result is not surprising at all. The Rockets' Chinese fans have had the strongest voting support in recent years. Dayao's high number of votes in the All-Star voting led to the league later making changes to the voting mechanism.

There is no way. After all, the literal translation of NBA means American Professional Basketball. We cannot let a Chinese player steal the limelight all the time.

The top vote-getter in the Eastern Conference was Wang Chong, who won the title of Player of the Month in November. His vote count was 11, lower than Dayao, but higher than Kobe.

This is naturally due to the vast Chinese market and the support of a large number of Chinese fans. At the same time, the contribution of Chicago fans cannot be ignored.

But as a result, the emperor of Cleveland will become unhappy again, because James, who received 66 votes, can only succumb to Wang Chong again.

Wang Chong and James ranked first and second in the first round of voting in the Eastern Conference. In third place was O'Neal, who received 64 votes.

In fact, after the start of the new season, O'Neal's dominance has obviously declined compared to the previous season.

The average is only 20+9 per game. Although the shooting efficiency of 60% is still astonishingly high, everyone can see that the Sharks are getting old.

This makes people begin to doubt whether O'Neal's bold statement when he came to the Heat - to assist Wade in winning the championship can actually be achieved?

If it can be done, I'm afraid it will only be in the past two years. As O'Neal grows older and his competitive status continues to decline, the chance will become even slimmer.

To be honest, Wang Chong is really not sure whether the Heat can win the championship this season even though he has traveled to this world for more than three years and brought great changes to the league.

In fact, even if he can't, O'Neal will still make a lot of money. After all, because of Wang Chong, he has won the fourth championship of his career in the 03-04 season, and won the fourth FMVP that he should not have.

The four championships with the Lakers will obviously add more to O'Neal's historical status than the original 3+1 championships between the Lakers and the Heat. The Heat's championship FMVP is Wade, not him.

If O'Neal continues to win championships this season, as in his original history, he will have won five championships, and his historical status after retirement will definitely be further improved than before.

Of course, these have nothing to do with Wang Chong for the time being.

Although he is very confident, he also knows that at least this season, the Bulls have nothing to do with the finals. What he needs to do is to develop in the shortest possible time, improve his own strength, and also try his best to integrate the Bulls' The lineup has become more complete, and we strive to create a championship lineup with ourselves as the core within two to three years.