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Chapter 168 Wang Chong, who almost touched the regular season MVP

The first half of the game between the Bulls and the Heat was basically a battle between Wang Chong and Wade O'Neal.

The Bulls can't guard Wade O'Neal, but the Heat can't guard Wang Chong either.

This is normal. Even the Pistons, who have the best defensive ability in the league, can't guard Wang Chong, let alone the Heat?

The Heat's defensive ability is not bad, but they don't have high-quality defensive players like Prince and Rasheed Wallace of the Pistons at the forward position.

The main players on the Heat's front line are former All-Star small forward Antoine Walker, All-Star power forward Alonzo Mourning, and the Heat's future team spirit Udonis Haslem.

Walker and Haslem are limited by their height of only 2 meters and cannot guard Wang Chong at all. Mourning is similar in stature to Wang Chong, but the 03-year-old Mourning still has a history of multiple injuries. The Heat's tough guy who never admitted defeat was slow in his steps and couldn't keep up with Wang Chong's speed.

In the first half alone, Wang Chong made 9 of 6 shots, 4 of 2 three-pointers, and scored 17 points with free throws.

But although Wang Chong scored as efficiently as ever, the Bulls trailed the Heat by 41 points at 48:7 at halftime.

Because for the Heat, Wade scored 13 points and O'Neal scored 15 points. The two scored 28 points in half a game, completely defeating the Bulls' defense.

What's even worse is that it's not just these two core players who have performed well on the Heat.

追随奥尼尔来到热火的加里.佩顿替补出战，半场便6投4中，三分球2中1得到9分，表现出色让人严重怀疑04年在湖人队季后赛场均仅36%的投篮命中率是不是演的。

The Bulls' main lineup can still barely compete with the Heat thanks to Wang Chong's efficient scoring, but the bench lineup is the Bulls' shortcomings. They don't have players who can perform well on the bench. Even during the regular season, the bench came on The one with the highest average score is Chris Duhon with 6.4 points.

In the third quarter of the second half of the game, Wade began to show off his power and continuously broke through with the ball to cause damage. As a result, Tyson Chandler received his fifth defensive foul and had to leave the game to avoid the edge. As soon as Chandler came off the court, The pressure on the Bulls' defense surged, and the point difference further widened to more than double digits.

In the fourth quarter of the game, Wang Chong fired frequently from the outside and led the Bulls to an 8:2 offensive wave, approaching the point difference.

But at this time, O'Neal, who was recharging his energy in the third quarter, also began to exert his strength.

The current head coach of the Heat is Pat Riley. This legendary head coach is much more cunning than the Pistons coach Saunders in the second round. Obviously, he has already carefully studied Wang Chong and the Bulls. The technical characteristics of Wang Chong's scoring explosion on the court are very clear.

Under normal circumstances, whether the team is at an advantage or at a disadvantage, Wang Chong tends to hold the ball continuously at the beginning of the fourth quarter and lead the team in a strong attack. With Wang Chong's strong offensive ability, few teams If you can withstand it, and then watch the leading score being continuously eroded and caught up, your opponent will definitely be impatient and eager to score and regain the initiative.

But often such a mentality will fall into the Bulls' trap. Under the Bulls' rock-solid defense, impatient offense is in vain in most cases.

Riley, who understood this, deliberately did not let O'Neal play for too long in the third quarter. The Heat were led by Wade in the entire third quarter, while O'Neal silently gathered strength and waited in the fourth quarter. Following Wang Chong's strong outburst.

Sure enough, Wang Chong broke out at the beginning of the fourth quarter, hitting a series of steady and outrageous mid-range shots, narrowing the point difference to less than 5 points in the blink of an eye.

Seeing this scene, Riley immediately waved his hand.

"Shaq, come on!"

Shark O'Neal made a brutal appearance and launched a fierce attack on the Bulls penalty area!

then……

"squeak--!"

Two minutes after O'Neal came on the court, the referee's whistle sounded. Tyson Chandler received his sixth foul of the game and was sent off after the full number of fouls.

Without Chandler's restrictions, O'Neal was unstoppable in the penalty area. As a last resort, the Bulls could only resort to shark-cutting tactics in advance in the hope of containing the shark's performance.

But the difference between O'Neal and Ben is here. Although the two of them are like crouching dragons and phoenixes in the field of free throws, at the critical moment, O'Neal's free throws can still be slightly balanced and will not really give the opponent the ball in vain. right.

Being sent to the free throw line for three consecutive times, O'Neal made 6 of 3 shots and maintained a shooting percentage of 50%. Although it is not high, the 50% free throw shooting rate is as good as the 50% shooting rate under the foul tactic of slashing the shark. The percentage can be equated. Although it is still lower than O'Neal's career shooting percentage of 58.2%, in the playoffs with extremely high defensive intensity, it is still enough at this critical moment in the final quarter.

The Bulls used a shark-cutting tactic against O'Neal, and the Heat immediately responded without being disrespectful. Wang Chong responded with a full-court double-team press, which made it clear that if you have the ability, you can give the ball to others, but then you will Forget about catching the ball.

Walker and Haslem surrounded Wang Chong one after another, and the Bulls could only hand the ball over to other players. When others were playing four-on-three, it was not difficult to find open players.

But even if the shot is taken in an open position, it may not be certain that it will be successful.

Laga Bell made one shot from outside the three-point line and one long two-point shot from mid-to-long distance, but failed to hit either one.

Luol Deng cut to the basket, caught the ball and tried to dunk, but was slapped away by O'Neal.

The Bulls' offense stagnated, but the Heat were able to score steadily with O'Neal's 50% free throw shooting rate.

The score soon stretched to over double digits. At this time, Wang Chong spent a lot of energy trying to get rid of the double-team players and force the shooting attack, but it was already too late and there was no way to save the day.

At 92:86, in the first game of the Eastern Conference Finals, the Heat successfully won the game at home and achieved their first victory in the series.

In the whole game, Wade had 25 points and 5 assists, O'Neal had 22 points and 8 rebounds, Antoine Walker had 17 points, and Gary Payton had 14 points. Both the main team and the substitutes performed extremely well, playing a perfect game.

As for the Bulls, as always, only Wang Chong performed superbly, scoring 34 points, 7 rebounds and 2 assists in the entire game.

<divclass="contentadv"> As expected, Monta Ellis was manipulated by Wade throughout the game, scoring only 13 points on 5 of 12 shots.

Both Raja Bell and Luol Deng failed to score in double figures, and Tyson Chandler was beaten by O'Neal. He had 6 points, 8 rebounds, and 6 fouls and was sent off in the fourth quarter.

This is an absolute gap in lineup strength. In fact, the Bulls also had the same problem in the first two rounds of the playoffs. There were few people around Wang Chong who could stand up to help him share the pressure on the offensive end. Ellis could occasionally break out of the universe. Help me.

The reason why the Bulls were able to make it all the way to the Eastern Conference Finals is because of Wang Chong's near-invincible offensive scoring ability, and secondly because the Bulls' defensive ability has always been underestimated by the league. This lineup was already in Wang Chong's plan when it was first created. , after a season of training and running-in, even if the real defensive ability is not as good as the Pistons and Spurs, there will not be much difference.

But in this game, it was difficult to perform against the Heat's two players, Wade and O'Neal, who can easily tear apart the Bulls' defense.

The same situation was the same two days later on May 5th.

Wang Chong scored a game-high 37 points, but on the opposite side, Wade and Wang Chong scored 33 points. In addition, O'Neal, who scored 21 points, and the rest of the Heat players won the game again and turned the score into 2:0.

This is the first time since the playoffs that Wang Chong and the Bulls have trailed 0:2 at the beginning of the series. This once again proves the disparity in strength between the Bulls and the Heat.

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During the Eastern and Western Conference finals, the league announced its annual awards for the 2005-06 season.

There is no suspense. Nash won the regular season MVP for the second consecutive year and became the second point guard in NBA history to win two consecutive regular season MVPs. Before him, only Magic Earvin Johnson in the league had done it.

It is worth mentioning that in the MVP voting, Nash received 25% of the votes, which was a thrilling victory. The second place was Wang Chong, who received 24.2% of the votes. The two votes were very close. A narrow victory is a very appropriate description.

This is not surprising. After all, Wang Chong scored an exaggerated 35.6 points in the regular season. Although based on pure data comparison, Nash's 18.8 points and 10.5 assists were all converted into points. Even if calculated as 2 points per game, the average The scoring contribution also reached a high of 39.8 points, and Wang Chong averaged 3 assists per game and his score was about 41 points, which was completely in the middle.

But Stoudemire of the Suns was reimbursed for the season, and Nash carried the team full of injuries forward. In the regular season, they achieved a record close to that of the Bulls, and they still have the Spurs, Mavericks and many strong teams in the West. In this case, the gold content is obviously higher.

Therefore, it is not unbelievable for Nash to win the regular season MVP with an extremely narrow advantage over Wang Chong, and there is no shady story.

And the reporters who voted for Wang Chong are actually a little worried. If Wang Chong really wins the regular season MVP this season, then Wang Chong, who was born in July 1984, will break the record of Washington Bullets star Wes Unseld. The youngest NBA regular season MVP record held at 7 years and 23 days old.

Wang Chong's performance on the court is indeed impeccable, but whether he is suitable for him to break the history of the league at such a young age has become one of the important reasons why many reporters gave Nash their first vote.

Nash got 25% of the votes, and Wang Chong got 24.2%. Moving on, the third in the MVP list is LeBron James, who is a few months younger than Wang Chong. With the regular season average of 31+7+6.6 According to the data, James has also been pursued by many media, and the final vote rate was 18.6%. Compared with Nash and Wang Chong, there is a big gap, but he is obviously better when compared with other players in the league.

Ranked fourth is Dirk Nowitzki, who received 14% of the votes. During the regular season, he had a scoring battle with Wang Chong and had the best regular season performance of his career, averaging 35.5 points, 5 rebounds and 4 assists per game. Kobe, ranked fifth on the MVP list, received 9.8% of the votes, less than 10%.

As for Duncan, Wade, Billups and others who continue to go down, although they all received votes, their vote rates were so low that together they could only be compared with one of Wang Chong or Nash.

Nash won the MVP award for the second time, and DPOY, the best defensive player, also won the award for the second time.

Ben Wallace won the Defensive Player of the Year honor for the second consecutive year with his super dominance on the defensive end. This is also the fourth time in his career that he has won this award. As a blue-collar defensive player, this award is a big one for Ben. The highest honor award that can be received in one's career.

As for other season awards, the Rookie of the Year was still won by Paul, who averaged 16+5+8 per game.

The Best Sixth Man was Mike Miller of the Grizzlies, and the Most Improved Player Award was awarded to Suns forward Boris Diaw, who was replaced in the starting position when Stoudemire was injured. On average, he averaged 15 points, 6.9 rebounds and 6.2 assists per game. Because Lagaber was intercepted by Wang Chong, he was assigned more ball rights on the court, and his data was further improved compared to the original time and space.

The last award of the season award, the best coach was won by Dallas Mavericks head coach Avery Johnson. At this point, all the awards for the 05-06 regular season have been announced. The only suspense is the winner of the Eastern and Western Conference finals and the final championship. and ownership of FMVP.

As for the outcome of the Eastern and Western Conference finals, the next step is really confusing.

In the East, the Bulls, who had lost two games, finally returned to their home court and launched a fierce counterattack against the Heat under the leadership of Wang Chong.

东决G3，王崇全场狂砍42分11篮板5助攻，率领公牛在主场扳回一城，比分1:2。

On May 5, in Game 29 of the Eastern Conference Finals, when the Bulls had a bad start, Wang Chong made 4 of 35 shots, including 20 of 11 three-pointers and 5 of 9 free throws. He scored 8 points and led the team to reverse the game. victory.

At this point, the score between the two teams is tied at 2:2, and the crucial fifth battle of Tianwangshan will be held.

The Bulls were able to pull back two games tenaciously, which surprised the fans in Chicago. However, at the same time, the next battle at Tianwangshan will be held in Miami, which also cast a shadow on everyone's minds.

Everyone can see the huge gap in the strength of the two teams. The Bulls can recover two games thanks to Wang Chong's explosive personal scoring performance. But this kind of thing can be expected in one or two games, and we cannot rely so much on Wang Chong every game. worship.

Sure enough, on May 5, in the Battle of Tianwangshan at the Heat's home court, Wang Chong performed poorly due to physical exhaustion in the first two games. He only scored 31 points on 17 of 7 shots. The Bulls also won 24:78 without any suspense. The score lost the Battle of Tianwang Mountain.

Wang Chong's performance in this game was completely different from before. His 41.2% field goal percentage was the first time since entering the playoffs that his field goal percentage fell below 48%.

But no one would blame Wang Chong. Everyone has seen Wang Chong's efforts in the past games. They swept the Cavaliers in the first round, defeated the Pistons in the second round, and are currently fighting against the Heat. The Bulls rely heavily on Wang Chong. , Wang Chong's physical fitness was severely exhausted in almost every game.

Wang Chong was bound to Durant's growth template card, not James's. The high-intensity consumption made his body overwhelmed, and his physical reserves had been drained to nothing. This cannot be blamed on Wang Chong's poor physical fitness. It can be said that the Bulls rely too much on Wang Chong on the offensive end. The main reason why no one can stand up and help him share some of the pressure at critical moments is.

So, in the final analysis, it is ultimately because of the team's lineup.

The Heat have O'Neal in the league's best team this season and Wade in the second team, but the Bulls can only rely on Wang Chong in the best team, and there is no way.