NBA: James wants to team up with me

Chapter 181 The long-lost random mission and All-Star Weekend

The 07 All-Star Game was hosted in a special location. It was not hosted by an NBA team city, but by the famous casino city of Las Vegas.

The competition will be held on the 2th, 16th and 17th of February. As before, the Rookie Challenge, the Skill Three-Point Slam Dunk Contest and the final highlight of the All-Star Game will be held respectively.

The All-Star Game is a carnival day for NBA fans because they can see multiple of their favorite stars competing on the same stage at the same time.

But for people like Wang Chong who pay attention to actual results, there is no need to take the All-Star Game seriously at all in a performance-based game where victory and honor are worthless.

Especially when the schedule entered early February, the system, which had entered the upgrade task stage, released new tasks for the first time in a long time, which made Wang Chong unintentional about the trivial matters of the All-Stars.

"Ding-random mission released."

"Mission goal: lead the team to win the first record in the regular season in the 2006-07 season, and also win the best team, scoring champion and regular season MVP."

"Task reward: 1000 points and a random gold-level badge."

The system has become a blockbuster even if it is silent. It has not sent out a task for a long time, and now a big task comes directly.

The difficulty of the task is moderate in Wang Chong's opinion. The Bulls are currently ranked first in the regular season. Although the Mavericks, Suns and Spurs are chasing behind them, as long as the Bulls can maintain their current status, they will most likely be ranked first in the league. record ended the regular season schedule this season.

In terms of scoring leader, Wang Chong is currently ranked second, averaging 31.2 points per game, which is slightly lower than Kobe's 32 points per game.

But as long as Wang Chong is willing, it will only be a matter of minutes to surpass Kobe in scoring per game. After all, averaging 31.2 points per game is not the limit of Wang Chong's scoring ability, but the result of him focusing part of his energy on the defensive end.

Now that the Bulls have Billups, the defense has been further improved, and there is no problem even if the defensive contribution is slightly reduced.

As for the final regular season MVP, as long as the team's record and Wang Chong's personal data continue to maintain their current status, basically no one can compete with him.

On ESPN's MVP strength list, Wang Chong has dominated the list for two consecutive months, steadily suppressing other players in the league.

All in all, as long as Wang Chong and the Bulls can maintain the status quo, then the completion of this system task is a certainty, which is equivalent to a free benefit.

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In the schedule for the first half of February, the Bulls continued to maintain a super high winning rate, with a record of 2 wins and 8 loss in 7 games. The only defeat was an upset loss to the Golden State Warriors on the road.

This defeat was a non-competition defeat. All members of the Warriors were feeling great, no matter how hard they shot, not even the Bulls' strong defense could do anything about it.

The Warriors during this period were in the period of Nelson's run-and-gun tactics. The team relied heavily on offense. In many cases, the outcome of the game depended on the player's condition and feel.

It can only be said that the Mavericks are worthy of being able to have the best record in the eight-league league in the playoffs. They are really powerful when they go crazy.

On February 2, after the Bulls defeated the Charlotte Bobcats 14:100 in an away game, the team took a short six-day holiday because the All-Star Weekend was coming.

As mentioned before, this year's All-Star event is in a special situation. The host is not an NBA team, but Las Vegas.

The famous gambling city can be regarded as the most complete and rich place in the United States in terms of entertainment facilities. Naturally, it is also deeply loved by NBA players. After all, there are many among these multi-millionaires who like to have fun. The most typical The two are Gang Leader Qiao and Flying Pig Barkley, both of whom are addicted to gambling.

NBA stars who have been looking forward to the All-Star Weekend for a long time can’t wait to go to Las Vegas after the regular season schedule comes to an end. This kind of opportunity to "relax" in the middle of the season is quite good. For rare.

Wang Chong was not interested in this. He did not go with his opponent Billups, who was selected as the Eastern All-Star substitute. Instead, he went to Los Angeles first, picked up Jessica, and went to Las Vegas with her. Vegas.

The filming of Transformers has ended, and post-processing of computer special effects has begun. For this movie, post-production special effects are the real soul and the bulk of the investment in the entire movie.

Not surprisingly, in less than half a year, the movie will be officially released, giving fans around the world a little bit of Autobot shock.

By then, while the Transformers movie will make a lot of money from the box office, Wang Chong will also be able to make a small profit from his previous investment.

This income may not be worth mentioning compared to his current advertising income, but if you don't make money, you won't make it in vain.

On February 2, the All-Star Rookie Challenge begins.

With Paul, Deron, Monta Ellis and other second-year players who are thriving in the league, they defeated the first-year team without any suspense.

Although the 06 rookie class also has outstanding players such as Brandon Roy, Rudy Gay and Aldridge, their strength and experience are far from being comparable to the second-year rookies.

The final score of the two teams was 155:114, a huge disparity of 41 points.

It is worth mentioning that Bulls backup forward Paul Millsap also participated in the Rookie Challenge on behalf of the first-year rookies. Unfortunately, he did not have any particularly outstanding performance in the game.

But although it has not been mentioned much before, Millsap's performance in the Bulls team is also remarkable. However, because the Bulls' current main forward positions are Wang Chong and Luol Deng, Millsap His playing time is not that much, averaging just over 20 minutes per game.

But even so, in his limited playing time, Millsap can still average 8 points and 5 rebounds per game, making him the highest scoring player on the Bulls bench.

Wang Chong is not in a hurry to help Millsap take the position. This is enough for now.

For Ellis last year, because the Bulls had no good candidates, they could only let him take over in advance and serve as the team's main starting player as a first-year rookie.

But Millsap is different. The Bulls currently have a complete lineup and no problem with their tactical execution. Therefore, there is no need to rush to train Millsap immediately. After all, Wang Chong is not a professional trainer. He just based on the player's future prospects. The performance of the league determines their strength and potential, and it is impossible to determine whether entrusting these players with important responsibilities in advance will hinder their success.

This season, it is enough for Millsap to contribute to the team on the bench. After that, when he is strong enough, there will be no problem in placing him at the power forward position.

It's just that by then, Wang Chong will definitely not have a problem, but the starting issues and playing time of Luol Deng and Millsap are actually a bit conflicting.

This can be regarded as a happy trouble. Sometimes there are too many excellent players in the team, which is not entirely a good thing. After all, there is only one basketball, and the playing time a team has at its disposal is also fixed. There are five positions, each 48 minutes, a total of 240 minutes. If someone plays more time, it will affect the playing time of others.

Having said that, although Luol Deng and Millsap have different positions, one is a power forward and the other is a small forward, but whether it is comparing their peak abilities or their career achievements, they are really close to each other.

Neither of them has the honor of the All-NBA Team. Both have been selected to the All-Defensive Second Team once in their careers. Luol Deng has been selected to the All-Star twice and averaged 14.8 points, 6 rebounds and 2 assists per game in his career.

Millsap was selected to the All-Star four times and averaged 13.4 points, 7.1 rebounds and 2.2 assists in his career.

If Wang Chong was forced to choose one of the two, he would definitely prefer Millsap. The reason is very simple. Compared with the power forward, he wants to play the small forward position positioned on the outside, and inside players have always been required in the league. More scarce and precious than outside lines.

<divclass="contentadv"> Fortunately, both of their rookie contracts still have some time left, so at least for the time being, there is no need to consider the issue of choosing one of the two players.

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On February 2, the all-star solo event was held.

Due to the low popularity of the Skills Challenge, the league specially recruited superstars who can attract the attention of fans to participate. The four contestants are Kobe Bryant of the Lakers, Wade of the Heat, James of the Cavaliers and Paul of the Hornets. The traffic is immediately full.

Wade lived up to expectations, defeated three other competitors, successfully defended his title, and achieved two consecutive championships in the Skills Challenge.

The player who won the Three-Point Contest was the little-known Heat player Jason Kapono. In Wang Chong’s impression, this player will continue to win the All-Star Three-Point Contest next year.

This year, like previous years, the league sent an invitation to Wang Chong when preparing for the three-point contest. Wang Chong’s three-point shooting percentage this season has remained above 40%, and his output is not low. In addition, he has won three-pointers before. The three-point contest champion will definitely gain a lot of attention if he can return to the three-point contest stage.

But Wang Chong did not hesitate and directly chose to refuse.

I, Wang Chong, will never work overtime!

He previously participated in the three-point contest just for the system's task rewards. In his opinion, this kind of competition is extra overtime. The regular season is tiring enough, so why do he have to continue to work overtime during the All-Star Weekend?

If it weren't for the All-Star Game, it would still be relatively important. If he participated less often, he would be questioned about the lack of star players. Wang Chong even wanted to skip the main game.

The three-point contest was mediocre, and so was the dunk contest. The judges of this dunk contest were even more eye-catching than the contestants.

“Dr. group.

After a dunk contest, many fans don't even have an impression of who won the dunk contest in the end.

All-star individual event events, especially the slam dunk contest, which tests creativity and drama the most, have become increasingly lackluster with the increase in the number of events held. That is to say, next year's super creative Superman costume dunk by Howard, and in the future Gordon and LaVine's dunk duel of the century can bring some vitality back to the dunk contest.

Watching these dunkers perform all kinds of explosive and difficult dunks, one said Wang Chong was a little envious.

No way, as a middle-aged boy, who doesn’t have a dream of a handsome dunk?

Of course, for Wang Chong now, dunking is like a commonplace thing, and he can do it casually.

But whether it is him or Durant, due to their physical fitness and height and arm length, there is a big gap between them and the top dunkers in the league in terms of dunking action, stretchability and other aspects.

The in-situ dunk ability value of 60 and the cut-in dunk ability value of 85 can explain everything.

If Wang Chong had chosen the growth template card of Giannis Antetokounmpo, his dunking ability would have been much stronger than it is now. Not only that, but he would also have greatly improved in terms of physical fitness, confrontation ability and other aspects. promote.

But correspondingly, he will lose his ability to accurately shoot from the outside. Although he still has the ability to average more than 30 points per game, his scoring explosiveness is definitely not as good as it is now.

It can only be said that compared to romantic dunks, practical mid-to-long-range shots are more popular.

After all, no matter how gorgeous and cool the dunk action is, it is no different from a mediocre mid-range shot, and it is one point less than a three-point shot.

Vince Carter's dunks are so gorgeous, but they can't hide the fact that among the four major shooting guards, he has the most outstanding performance and the weakest achievements.

The name sounds great, but in fact he has only been selected to the All-NBA Second Team once and once to the All-NBA Third Team in his entire career, which is the same as Ray Allen's personal honor.

But the problem is that Ray Allen will still be crowned the historical three-point champion for a long time. In addition, he won the championship during the Green Army's Big Three period and the key three-pointer during the Heat period to force a renewal of the championship. Two championships added up. The honor is simply not comparable to Carter's.

The topic has gone a bit far, and the perspective returns to the All-Star Weekend.

On February 2, after two days of All-Star Weekend activities, the highlight of the All-Star Game finally arrived.

At the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas, the All-Star Game officially begins.

On the night of the game, a large number of fans flocked to the stadium just to see the supporting stars playing on the field.

The starting players of the Eastern and Western All-Stars made a brilliant appearance amidst the passionate commentary of the on-site DJ, which aroused cheers like a tsunami from the fans in the audience.

Eastern All-Star starters: Arenas, Wade, James, Wang Chong, O'Neal.

Western Conference All-Star starters: Kobe, McGrady, Garnett, Duncan, Nowitzki.

As in the original time and space, Dayao missed the All-Star game due to injury, and Nowitzki took his place as the All-Star starter.

Game start.

Duncan and O'Neal won the jump ball, and the Western Conference All-Stars had the ball.

Wang Chong retreated while winking at Jessica, who was sitting in the sidelines.

Just like last year, he didn't plan to play seriously in this year's All-Star Game. He just pretended to be cool.

But it seems not everyone thinks the same way.

Before Wang Chong, who fell into his defensive position, could stand still, Kobe, who was holding the ball halfway across the court, made a gesture. Then Duncan, who was opposite Wang Chong, took the initiative to step forward to screen Kobe for the pick-and-roll.

Wang Chong didn't react at first and subconsciously followed him to help defend.

Then after the pick-and-roll, the matchup situation became him defending Kobe.

Wang Chong raised his eyebrows slightly as he looked at Kobe, who was slowly dribbling the ball and staring at him firmly.

"What does this mean?"