NBA: James wants to team up with me

At the end of September, the NBA preseason is about to start.

Teams across the league have recalled players and begun preparing for the new season.

Bulls players also returned to the team to report.

The Bulls' lineup for the new season has no changes from last season, because in Wang Chong's opinion, the current Bulls lineup is very complete and does not need additional reinforcements. If I insist on it, it is James Jones, the starting player at the shooting guard position. The functionality is not strong enough.

As far as the ability to shoot fixed-point three-pointers is concerned, Jones definitely has no problem and is completely competent.

But the league is now paying more and more attention to the importance of functional 3D players. Although Jones has 3, he does not have D, which means he has no defense.

But the current 3D players in the league who are somewhat advanced are basically worth a lot of money. For example, Artest, who joined the Lakers, is a top 3D small forward.

Although Artest's three-pointers seem to be good, this guy is not soft at all at critical moments. In the 09-10 season, Artest saved the Lakers with three-pointers at critical moments many times. One of the contributors to the Lakers' championship.

Wang Chong really wants to introduce a good 3D player to improve the quality of the lineup, but with the Bulls having the Big Three of Wang Chong, Garnett, and Billups, their salary space has been completely occupied, and they currently do not have the luxury of paying. The tax also has to thank Wang Chonghui for his eye for talents. The players such as Gasol and Millsap signed were all on cheap rookie contracts. Otherwise, if they just signed a few starting-level players, the Bulls would have to pay a high amount of luxury money every year. Tax.

Of course, the rookie bonus can only be paid for three or four years, just like power forward Paul Millsap, who has firmly established himself as the team's sixth man. He originally signed a three-year rookie contract with the Bulls, etc. After this season, which is the 08-09 season, Millsap will become a restricted free agent.

Millsap averaged 10 points and 5 rebounds per game despite limited playing time last season, which earned him a very high rating in the league. Unless his performance in the new season shows a high level of diving, there will definitely be a ball in the league. The team is willing to offer him a good contract.

In the original history, in the 08-09 season, Millsap had a breakout season, averaging 13.5 points and 8.6 rebounds per game. With his outstanding performance, the Jazz successfully renewed his contract with a four-year, $4 million contract.

The average annual salary is 800 million, which is already a very high price for Millsap, a second-round pick. Most first-round players cannot get such a contract.

Of course, Millsap's biggest career contract was the three-year, 3 million contract he signed with the Nuggets a few years later, with an average annual salary of 9000 million, which is definitely superstar-level treatment.

The Bulls couldn't afford Millsap even 3000 million, let alone 800 million.

Wang Chong estimates that after this season, Millsap may not be able to retain him, but three years is enough to exploit cheap labor. He is not a sinister business owner who can exploit employees for a lifetime.

In the final analysis, although Millsap is of good quality, he is only positioned as the sixth man in Wang Chong's lineup plan and is by no means irreplaceable.

All in all, regardless of whether Millsap stays or stays next season, at least this season, he will still have to compete for the Bulls during his rookie contract. And after growing and training in the first two seasons, his strength has become the same as his own during the same period. Almost the same.

Wang Chong will give Millsap some training suggestions based on his own technical characteristics, so Millsap is even stronger than himself in the 08-09 season at the same time.

As the team's sixth man, Millsap is definitely among the best among all sixth men in the league.

At the same time, Marc Gasol, who has been successfully promoted to the second grade and has also experienced some battles in the Olympics, will undoubtedly improve his strength to a higher level.

If Gasol was mainly positioned as a blue-collar role player for the Bulls last season and basically had no ball rights, then in the new season, some tactics can be arranged for Gasol.

Gasol himself is an excellent insider whose organizational and support capabilities are not inferior to those of his brother Pau Gasol. At his peak, he averaged 19.5 points and 4.6 assists per game on the offensive end, and his shooting range can reach beyond the three-point line. It would be too wasteful not to make good use of it.

With the Bulls surrounding the Big Three of Wang Chong, Garnett and Billups as the basic framework, there are still many players on the team who are still on the rise, so there is no doubt about their strength.

The new season has not yet started, and Wang Chong already has a preliminary target plan for the upcoming 08-09 season.

Regarding the team's record or achievements, Wang Chong made no secret, and his goal was directly towards the championship.

With the Bulls' current lineup, if they can't win the championship, that would be a failure. Two consecutive championships or even three consecutive championships and creating a dynasty is what the Bulls should achieve. After all, a team with two regular season MVP-level players in their prime years, looking at it, There are not many teams in the history of the league.

As for his personal abilities, Wang Chong also set goals.

The first goal is to increase his overall ability rating to 98 before the end of the season.

The peak overall rating of Kevin Durant's growth template card is 97. Wang Chong now has two ability values ​​that have exceeded the upper limit of Durant's template, namely physical strength and overall durability, but even so, his overall rating is still Stayed at 97.

Although there is only one point difference between 97 and 98 overall ratings, this gap is already big enough, because even among all the games in the 1K series, there are only a few players who can get 2 overall ratings.

In Wang Chong's impression, there are only a few people such as Jordan, Magic Johnson, O'Neal, Kobe Bryant, and James.

Although Durant is also a top-ranked superstar in league history, his overall evaluation is still inferior to the above players.

Now that he has an intensive training module, Wang Chong can break through the upper limit of his own growth. It is natural for Wang Chong to continue to strengthen and improve the comprehensive evaluation of his ability value to make himself more versatile and impeccable on the court, rather than just limited to the field of offensive scoring.

After all, his ultimate goal is the god of basketball, Michael Jordan. Jordan is of course best known for his scoring, but in addition, as one of the few players in history to win the best defensive player DPOY as a defender, Jordan's defense ranks first in the NBA. It is also a name that can be ranked in history. In addition, Jordan has averaged 5.3 assists per game in his career, ranking among the top ranks among shooting guards.

Wang Chong can now compete with Jordan in terms of scoring ability, and he has also benefited from changes in league rules and three-pointers, otherwise he may not be able to compare.

As for other aspects, the gap between Wang Chong and Jordan is not even a little bit big. Wang Chong's defense can only be regarded as the upper-middle level in the league. It mainly relies on his outstanding height and arm length advantage as a striker, his own defensive skills and experience, and his ability to play in the league. The proportion of defense invested in the game is not high.

In terms of assists, although Wang Chong has a passing ability value of 88, passing does not represent a direct assist ability. It can only ensure that the passing error rate is reduced. What really affects assists is passing awareness. This ability is worth Wang Chong. Chong is currently at 78, which can only be considered average among players with a ball-playing style.

Wang Chong, whose physical ability value has been strengthened to 99, has completely solved the problem of insufficient physical fitness. He will definitely develop in these aspects and further become an all-round hexagonal warrior, so that his dominance on the field will be strong enough.

<divclass="contentadv">In addition to the goal of improving the overall ability value, Wang Chong also has a second personal goal, which is to upgrade his badge.

After the system was upgraded to version 2.0, the badge function has been improved. Now all badges can be upgraded through daily training and completing a series of target achievements on the field.

Upgrading high-level badges like those at the Gold All-Star level to the top Purple Hall of Fame level requires a lot of energy and time, and is not easy.

However, it is not difficult to upgrade the lowest level bronze badge to the silver level, including upgrading the silver badge to the gold level. Although it is a bit difficult, it can be achieved with hard work.

The bonus effect of the lowest level Bronze Badge can no longer meet Wang Chong's needs. It is a special situation like changing a few badges in the Olympics to bring miraculous effects. The NBA is not a single-elimination competition like the Olympics.

In the playoffs, even if Wang Chong produces unexpected effects on the field by obtaining new badges, his opponents will immediately make tactical adjustments in the next game, so the stability of the badge bonus effect must be greater than the surprise.

Wang Chong currently has a total of 16 badges, including 4 bronze level badges and 4 silver level badges. And this season, with the achievement of certain achievements in the achievement module and the distribution of rewards for random tasks in the system, there will definitely be more points to redeem. Activate new badges.

Therefore, Wang Chong plans to upgrade all low-level badges during the regular season. Even just upgrading 4 bronze-level badges to silver-level will bring a considerable improvement to his combat effectiveness.

When Wang Chong upgrades all his badges to the highest level of the Purple Hall of Fame, he will be truly invincible.

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At the beginning of October, the preseason games arrived as scheduled.

In the Bulls' 10 preseason games, they surprisingly achieved a record of 9 wins and 1 loss.

The average playing time of the Big Three of Wang Chong, Garnett and Billups in the preseason is actually not very long, only about 25 minutes, but the Bulls still show strong combat effectiveness.

Mainly because there are too many young rookie players who have performed well.

Third-year Paul Millsap, second-year Marc Gasol and point guard Ramon Sessions, who is in the same class as Gasol, all showed great strength.

Especially Sessions, as Billups's substitute last season, Sessions' performance can only be described as ordinary.

Averaged 5.4 points, 3.2 rebounds and 3.8 assists per game. This is Sessions' data performance in his rookie season.

To be honest, as a second-round pick, Sessions' performance is pretty good, and he is completely a qualified backup point guard.

But Wang Chong's products must be high-quality, and all the players appointed by Wang Chong have performed extremely well without exception.

In comparison, Sessions' performance seemed a bit mediocre.

But Wang Chong is not in a hurry. He did not choose Sessions to make him the main player, but just as an insurance just in case.

Although Billups is a few months younger than Garnett, his condition declined much earlier than Garnett. In addition, Garnett is a forward player. Even if he is accidentally injured, Wang Chong and Millsap can temporarily On top of that, if Billups gets injured, the Bulls will be without their main point guard.

With that in mind, he drafted Sessions.

Of course, the more important reason is that Sessions is very cheap. A second-round pick does not cost anything at all. Even if it is not used, it is not a loss to be used as a bench player on the bench to recharge.

In fact, Sessions performed well in the 08-09 season and gained the attention of the league.

Sessions, who was originally going to be selected by the Bucks, became the Bucks' starting point guard in the second half of the 08-09 game. He played in 79 games throughout the season and averaged 27.5 points, 12.4 rebounds and 3.4 rebounds in 5.7 minutes per game. Assists, as a starting point guard, his performance is already at a qualified level.

As long as Sessions can play as well as he should in the Bulls, he will be enough to become a powerful weapon on the Bulls' bench.

If Sessions' performance exceeded many people's expectations, then the inside duo of Millsap and Gasol was within reason.

Both of them are promising potential players. After training last season, it is natural that their strength will increase.

But many people didn't expect that the two could actually cooperate well when they were on the court at the same time.

Millsap is 2 meters tall and is a particularly short player among inside players. It feels a bit strange to call him "Twin Towers" together with Gasol.

But he has quite a lot of inside offensive methods, flexible feet, solid basic skills, and also has accurate mid-to-long-range shooting, which can cooperate with Gasol a lot.

Not to mention Gasol, the European insider is characterized by his comprehensive skills and soft touch.

The two's inside partnership defeated all opponents in the preseason. Even if they occasionally faced off against other teams' main inside combinations, they did not fall behind at all.

As a result, the Bulls achieved a record of 9 wins and 1 loss in the preseason. Before the regular season started, they were already at the top of the league's strength rankings and became the favorite to win the championship in the new season.

ESPN, the media that conducts the rankings, gave a very high rating to the Bulls in the new season.

"There is no doubt about the strength of the Bulls in the new season. Wang Chong just competed with the stars of the Dream Team in the Olympics and won the Olympic gold medal with his super dominance. His personal strength has reached the level of the league's top stars."

"Although Garnett and Billups are both one year older, at 32 years old they have not yet reached the point where their competitive status has declined significantly, and they still have the strength and quality of the league's All-Stars."

"Under the basic plan of the Big Three, several young players of the Bulls have also grown. The Bulls, who have maintained the original main lineup to win the championship, not only have a tacit understanding that other teams cannot match, but also have further improvement in strength. The road to defending the championship is There is light.”