NBA: James wants to team up with me

11月6日，湖人104：98战胜布鲁克林篮网，战绩来到4胜1负，但紧跟着11月8日便在客场又以101:107不敌迈阿密热火，战绩变为4胜2负。

Facts have proved that this Lakers team does have problems, and Wang Chong himself has noticed it, so the Lakers began to make adjustments in subsequent games.

Lakers fans intuitively felt that the team's offensive rhythm was slowing down and began to focus more on positional warfare. At the same time, the team's defensive intensity was also greatly improved. Mainly around Wang Chong, Green and Thompson, a very oppressive defensive system was established.

This change makes the Lakers' games not so good to watch, at least compared with other teams that are increasingly moving towards small-ball tactics. The offensive rhythm has slowed down, and most of the offensive rounds are based on Wang Chong's singles with the ball, making the game monotonous and boring.

But the Lakers' record stabilized. In subsequent games, they defeated the Magic, Mavericks, Pistons, Suns and Raptors, winning five consecutive games, bringing the team's record to 9 wins and 2 losses. This record also allowed the Lakers to rank first in the Western Conference.

The outside media also gave a certain degree of praise for this.

"At the beginning of the season, the Lakers played in a very chaotic manner, with no organization on the court, like a headless fly. The Lakers relied almost entirely on Wang Chongchao's strong personal ability to win. However, the Lakers soon realized the problem and began to use defense as the basic tactic of the team, which achieved excellent results."

"Although the Lakers' current lineup is still disappointing, it is undeniable that the defensive system established by Klay Thompson and Draymond Green, led by the best defensive player Wang Chong, is still unique."

"The performance of power forward Green was particularly eye-catching. After three years of professional career in the Bulls, Green finally got the chance to start. It can be seen that he cherishes this opportunity very much, so he is very active on the court and fights for almost every ball. I believe that any player who has played against the Lakers and faced Green will not want to play against him again."

Of course, the one who received the highest praise was undoubtedly Wang Chong.

During the period when the Lakers' tactical play was chaotic, Wang Chong almost single-handedly supported the entire team's offense, which led to an explosive increase in his personal data this season. As of November 11, the Lakers defeated the Raptors away and won five consecutive games. The Lakers have played 16 regular season games, and in these 11 games, Wang Chong's average data reached an exaggerated 11 points, 38.6 rebounds and 10.6 assists.

The score is even higher than Wang Chong's previous seasons in his career, and higher than Jordan's average of 86 points per game in the 87-37.1 season.

If Wang Chong can maintain this scoring efficiency throughout the season, then at the end of the season, Wang Chong will not only win the tenth scoring title in his career, but will also average 38+ points per game, surpassing Jordan's average score of 37.1 points that year, becoming the record holder for the highest average score in a single season after the NBA merger.

Looking at the current trend, this possibility does exist.

After all, at first glance, Kobe really can't hold on any longer. As the season goes on, both his number of shots and the time he holds the ball have been further reduced. He currently averages 15 points, 4 rebounds and 6 assists per game, with a shooting percentage of 37%. His scoring ranks only third in the Lakers, lower than Wang Chong's 38 points and Thompson's 19 points.

The Lakers' offense has been really bad this season, and they haven't played out the smooth tactical coordination that Wang Chong had imagined.

But because of this, Wang Chong's scoring and assists also reached career highs.

Soon, the November schedule ended, the Lakers had a record of 11 wins and 12 losses, and were overtaken by the Spurs with a record of 4 wins and 14 losses, falling from the top of the Western Conference to second place.

However, Wang Chong was undoubtedly elected Western Conference Player of the Month in November with his super luxurious data of 38.4 points, 10.8 rebounds and 7.6 assists per game.

Compared with Wang Chong, Paul George, the Eastern Conference Player of the Month who led the Pacers to an 11-5 record after returning from injury, averaged only 27 points, 8 rebounds and 4 assists per game.

There would be absolutely no fault with this data in the past, but when put together with Wang Chong's data, it seemed so shabby and not presentable at all.

As the schedule entered December, the Lakers began to gradually adapt to the current playing style, and the cooperation between the players began to become tacit, which also made the Lakers' dominance on the court stronger.

They achieved a record of 12 wins and 14 losses in December, and their overall record reached 3 wins and 26 losses. Although they are still slightly inferior to the Spurs with 7 wins and 27 losses, when the two teams met head-on this month, Wang Chong led the Lakers to teach the young Leonard and the Spurs a good lesson.

In the whole game, Wang Chong scored 54 points, defeated Leonard who was defending him the whole time, and won the game.

Apart from the Spurs in the West, the pressure from the East is also not small.

Of the three games the Lakers lost in December, one was a home loss to the Chicago Bulls on Christmas Day on December 12.

I have to admit that when Curry, who is at his peak, joins forces with James at his peak, the power is really exaggerated, even comparable to Durant and the Splash Brothers.

This is definitely not an exaggeration. James' technical characteristics are different from those of the Warriors' outside players when he was a five-star Warrior. His dribbling breakthrough is extremely lethal.

And when the team needs to take a key shot, Curry, who is good at three-pointers and never shows mercy, becomes James' best target for blame.

Besides these two, the Bulls also have a center, Marc Gasol, who can play inside and outside, attack and defend, and can even organize and support.

This enabled the Bulls to demonstrate great dominance at the beginning of the season, crushing all the strong teams along the way and showing their considerable strength.

常规赛截止到12月底，芝加哥公牛的战绩是夸张的30胜2负，一共只输掉了2场比赛，简直能跟当初王崇率队打出的常规赛73胜9负时期相媲美。

On the day of the Christmas game, the Lakers led by Wang Chong met the Bulls head-on and were also ruthlessly crushed.

After dominating the alliance for so many years, this was the first time that Wang Chong encountered a situation where he truly felt that he was no match for his opponent.

This is actually normal.

Even though Wang Chong is already a super numerical monster and a perverted existence, in this game, he needs to face Kurita and Thanos James at the same time, and he also has a touring performance section that is holding him back.

I can’t carry you with me, I really can’t carry you with me.

Although he lost the game, Wang Chong was aroused by the desire to win for the first time in a long time.

It's interesting only if it's challenging.

His career has been greatly extended by completing the system tasks last season. If he doesn't find some challenges for himself, what's the difference between it and repeatedly brushing? It's really meaningless.

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The schedule has come to January. In every January, the fans' biggest concern is the annual All-Star voting.

This year, because Wang Chong switched to the Western Conference All-Stars, the Eastern Conference All-Stars breathed a sigh of relief because they all had a chance to compete for the Eastern Conference's top vote-getter.

In fact, it is exactly as they thought.

In the first round of voting in early January, Wang Chong was ahead of everyone else by a near-dominant margin.

There is no way, the eight-time champion, the new No. 38 in NBA history, averaging super luxurious data of 10+7+ in the regular season, and the Los Angeles Lakers are a big ball market.

These buffs made Wang Chong's popularity reach its peak, which was completely unmatched.

But James was still a little depressed.

Because it was thought that after Wang Chong went to the West, no one could threaten his position as the vote king in the East.

然而万万没想到，自己的队友库里由于状态火热，完全化身库日天，这个赛季场均30分5篮板6助攻的数据比他场均26分7篮板9助攻的数据更加抢眼。

This also means that Curry's vote rate has always been slightly higher than James' during the All-Star voting process.

The result was that after three rounds of voting, Curry was elected the Eastern Conference All-Star vote leader, and he and the Western Conference vote leader Wang Chong became captains of the Eastern and Western Conference All-Star teams.

By the way, in the Western Conference, although Kobe played poorly on the court, his past popularity was there after all. In addition, the Lakers ranked second in the Western Conference, so he received the second highest vote rate in the Western Conference after Wang Chong, and was also selected as an All-Star starter.

Eastern Conference All-Star starters: Curry, Wade, James, Durant and Paul George.

Western Conference All-Star starters: Westbrook, Kobe, Wang Chong, Leonard and Anthony Davis.

Because Wang Chong had made suggestions to the league, the captain system had been applied to the All-Star Game in advance. So a few days later, in a nationwide live broadcast, Wang Chong and Curry, as the Eastern and Western Conference vote leader and captain, began the All-Star selection process.

Wang Chong chose the starting lineup of Kobe, Wade, George and Davis, and Curry's four starting partners were Westbrook, James, Durant and Leonard.

In addition to the two All-Star starters Wang Chong and Kobe Bryant, Klay Thompson was also selected as an All-Star reserve and recruited by Wang Chong thanks to his average scoring of 19.7 points per game.

However, in this All-Star Game, Wang Chong no longer has the idea of ​​competing for the AMVP like he did in the previous All-Star Game.

This All-Star Game turned into a confrontation between Paul George of Wang Chong's team and Westbrook of Curry's team.

Both of them want to compete for the All-Star AMVP, and they are not willing to give in to each other.

乔治全场轰下41分5篮板，而威斯布鲁克则是31分8篮板5助攻。

But it is undeniable that Wang Chong took more personal factors into consideration when selecting players. The two All-Star starters he selected, Kobe and Wade, are no longer in their prime. On the other hand, the five starters on Curry's team are all at their peak.

库里拿下26分6助攻，杜兰特23分，连打酱油划水的詹姆斯也有17分8助攻。

Although Paul has Wang Chong, the undisputed number one player in the league, Wang Chong was also slacking off, with only 21 points, 8 rebounds and 6 assists.

结果便是库里队以夸张的186：173击败王崇队，威斯布鲁克也凭借着31分8篮板5助攻的数据如愿获得全明星AMVP。

The All-Star Weekend is over and it is the end of February.

Before the trade deadline, there were several trades in the league, but they were all insignificant because the situation of this season was basically clear.

In the Eastern Conference, the Bulls are the dominant team, followed by the Celtics led by Durant, the Heat led by Wade Butler and Howard, and the Pacers led by George, three teams with a certain degree of competitiveness.

In the Western Conference, the Spurs and the Lakers are on par with each other, while the remaining Clippers and Thunder are obviously a level weaker.

Basically, if nothing unexpected happens, the champion of this season will be decided among the Bulls, Spurs, Lakers, Celtics and other teams. Among them, the Bulls certainly have the highest odds of winning the championship.

After more than half a season of running-in and training, the Lakers' record has completely stabilized.

Just like before, it is still a positional battle based on defense. The offensive rhythm is relatively slow in the current league, but with steady progress, the efficiency is still very good.

Moreover, as the game progressed, Wang Chong discovered that Jokic, who had been unknown in the first half of the schedule and failed to play any highlight performances, seemed to be emerging. In the subsequent games, his offensive scores gradually increased, and his average points per game exceeded double digits, making him the fourth player on the Lakers to score in double digits.

This is normal. In Jokic's first season in the league, he averaged 10 points and 7 rebounds per game with the Nuggets, and this was when he played for just over 20 minutes.

Logically speaking, Jokic, who has played for the Lakers for such a long time and whose average playing time has remained stable at around 28 minutes per game, should have higher performance statistics than his peers.

This is actually a bit Wang Chong’s fault.

In the past dozen seasons, there have been countless inside players who have performed well after being instructed by him.

Including but not limited to Gasol Jr., Whiteside, Millsap, and even Pau Gasol, who had a second spring in his career last season.

Therefore, when Wang Chong stated loudly at the beginning of this season that Jokic would be the Lakers' starting center, the entire league felt that this guy would definitely become a serious threat. Whenever the team played against the Lakers, Jokic would become a target in the interior.

Jokic, who has just entered the NBA, should keep a low profile and develop slowly. When he grows to a certain level, he will not be afraid of any targeting.

Now, Jokic, who felt the league's malice in advance, has suffered a lot and experienced the treatment of a superstar in advance.

If the players have poor character and lack the ability to withstand pressure, this wave of forcing things to happen may directly ruin their performance.

But Jokic is, after all, a superstar who will win the regular season MVP three times in the future, and his ability to withstand pressure is not that fragile.

Even these external pressures prompted him to grow faster.

Wang Chong can probably judge that if Jokic is at his current level at the beginning of the new season, he should be able to average a double-double of around 16+10 per game in the regular season. Although there is still a big gap between him and the future "essence of human streaky meat", he is definitely an All-Star level inside player.