NBA: James wants to team up with me

The Lakers actually didn't have any proper tactical system last season. They played very chaotically at the beginning of the season and relied almost entirely on Wang Chong's strong personal ability to win.

By the middle of the season, the Lakers gradually figured out their rhythm and began to focus on defense. They first established the league's top defensive system, and then focused on Wang Chong's personal ability to score and win games. This gradually got the right track.

But this season, the Lakers don't need any tactics at all. Wang Chong plays one-on-one, then Durant plays one-on-one, and then the opponent collapses and the game is won.

After defeating the Spurs in the first game, the Lakers played like this throughout November.

Wang Chong averaged 30 points per game, Durant averaged 28 points per game, plus Thompson, whose off-ball ability is top-notch and who can still contribute 18 points per game despite being sandwiched by two ball-holding scoring masters.

The Lakers averaged 76 points per game from these three players alone.

In fact, these three players were the only ones on the Lakers who scored in double digits.

Kobe started his retirement tour in the new season. Although he started in every game, his average playing time was less than 20 minutes, and he had very little time holding the ball on the court. He averaged only 8 points, 2 rebounds and 4 assists per game.

On the contrary, because the proportion of ball possession was greatly reduced and most of his shots were open shots, Kobe's shooting percentage actually improved and returned to around 45%.

With less than 20 minutes of playing time, Kobe was able to contribute 8 points and 4 assists with normal efficiency. He still brought some help to the team and was not completely a burden.

Green is still doing his old job.

Although Durant's arrival made him return from the starting position to the bench, which made him very unhappy, but because Kobe became a pseudo starting player, Green's playing time did not decrease. He still averaged about 33 minutes of playing time per game and contributed 7 points, 7 rebounds and 4 assists.

The one who is really affected by Durant's arrival should be Jokic.

In Wang Chong's plan, Jokic should be able to take on the responsibility of being the main force in the interior this season.

毕竟在掘金队的约基奇，16-17赛季已经可以场均贡献16.7分9.8篮板4.9助攻，展露出不俗的能力。

At the same time, the Lakers' Jokic received Wang Chong's targeted training plan early on, and had more playing time and more games. After all, the Nuggets' Jokic couldn't even make the playoffs in the early days, and his first playoff trip was in the 18-19 season, let alone the finals.

Therefore, the Lakers version of Jokic is much stronger than the Nuggets version of Jokic. If given the ball, Wang Chong estimates that Jokic can at least average 18+10+5 per game in the regular season.

But now Jokic can only be regarded as the fourth person in the Lakers. The ball rights he gets are what are left over from Wang Chong, Durant and Thompson, and he has to share it with Kobe and Green. How much ball rights can he get under this circumstance?

This resulted in Jokic averaging only 10.2 points per game, plus 9.4 assists, despite his good rebounding performance in the new season, grabbing 4.2 rebounds per game and being the team's rebounding leader.

The average statistics of 9+10+4...it's really hard to describe.

Of course, Jokic himself is quite satisfied with the result, and even the entire league is full of praise for Jokic's current performance.

Who made Jokic just a second-round pick?

In the second season of his career, he was able to average close to a double-double and had 4 assists per game, which was really not a bad performance.

But if someone like Wang Chong has a clairvoyant eye and knows Jokic's future achievements, they will definitely think that the Lakers are really wasting a talent.

This is also the reason why Wang Chong asked Durant to sign only a 1+1 contract. He did not want Durant to stay in the Lakers for a long time. Doing so would not only make the Lakers too invincible, but would also stifle Jokic's opportunities for growth and development.

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Throughout November, the Lakers, who implemented a rotational one-on-one tactic, had an incredibly good record.

连带10月的3场比赛，湖人一共进行了20场比赛，取得18胜2负战绩。

The two games lost were due to Durant's absence due to injury.

In fact, Durant missed a total of 11 games due to injury in November, but the Lakers only lost 6 games, because even without Durant, the Lakers were still ridiculously strong.

In fact, Durant's health has been average since 2016.

In the original 16-17 season, Durant, who joined the Warriors, only played 62 games in the regular season. In the 17-18 season, he played 68 games. In the 18-19 season, he was finally healthier in the regular season, playing 78 games with an attendance rate of 95%. Unexpectedly, he saved up until the playoffs and made a big move.

This is also because the Warriors had a record of 73 wins and 9 losses before Durant arrived, but the Warriors' best record after Durant joined was only 67 wins, and even in the 17-18 season, the Warriors had less than 60 wins. The Rockets took away the league's top record because of injuries.

But Durant, who is with the Lakers, doesn't need to worry about this.

First of all, the one who is targeted the most in the Lakers is always Wang Chong, not Durant.

Secondly, Wang Chong has always been extremely careful about injury management in the past. It is absolutely impossible for him to ask Durant to play with an injury in order to win the game when Durant already has hidden injury risks.

To some extent, the Lakers are a more suitable team for Durant than the original Warriors. The only regret is that with Wang Chong by his side, Durant doesn't even have the slightest chance to grab the FMVP.

As the schedule entered December, the Lakers continued to advance, far ahead of all teams including the Bulls.

In the Christmas game on December 12, the Los Angeles Lakers faced off against the Chicago Bulls for the first time in the regular season.

At the Lakers' home court, the Staples Center in Los Angeles, the two teams recognized as the strongest in the new season faced off.

And this much-anticipated battle ended with the Lakers' complete victory.

No one expected that when the two teams met, the Bulls would be shattered like a small broken ship.

Wang Chong didn't even start the serious mode in this game, because Durant was particularly excited when facing the Bulls. He made various strong shots facing James and easily helped the Lakers gain an absolute advantage on the court.

Throughout the game, Durant scored 38 points and helped the Lakers beat the Bulls 121:102.

At the post-game press conference, Durant looked refreshed.

Feel proud!

In the past few years, Durant has been suppressed by James' Heat in the Celtics, so much so that he has no time to attack his ultimate goal, Wang Chong.

How can you talk about surpassing Wang Chong if you can’t even surpass James?

Especially last season, after James joined the Bulls, the Bulls almost beat the Celtics, which caused a huge impact on Durant, which also indirectly contributed to Durant's joining the Lakers to join Wang Chong.

It can only be said that the way of heaven is good for reincarnation, no one will be spared by heaven.

James should be depressed again. He just won one championship, and now he is going to start the pattern of being beaten every year again?

At the end of the December schedule, the Lakers' record was 12 wins and 33 losses, with a winning rate of 3%. If they continue with this winning rate, the Lakers are expected to break through 91.6+ wins in the regular season and become the second team in NBA history to win 70 games. However, it is still unknown whether they can break the league's best record of 70 wins and 73 losses set by the Bulls led by Wang Chong.

By January, the Lakers were at their most dominant, with Wang Chong and Durant averaging more than 1 points per game in the month. The Lakers had an exaggerated record of 30 wins and 15 losses, and did not lose a single game in the entire month, making the entire league feel desperate.

"The NBA has really reached its grand finale. Wang Chong + Durant, a unique super combination in the league, has become the ultimate goal that all teams in the league are eager to defeat!"

In February, the All-Star Weekend arrives.

The Lakers had four players selected to the All-Star Game in the 16-17 season.

Wang Chong was elected the Western Conference vote leader, Kobe and Durant were both selected as All-Star starters, and Thompson was selected as an All-Star reserve.

The All-Star format this time is the same as before, with the captain selecting the players.

Wang Chong was elected captain of the Western Conference, while in the Eastern Conference, James defeated Curry by a very slight margin, becoming the Eastern Conference top vote-getter and was elected captain.

This made James feel like tears welled up in his eyes.

It’s not easy. It’s really not easy.

He couldn't even remember when was the last time he topped the ticket sales charts.

Ever since Wang Chong moved from the West to the East, James has never experienced what it feels like to be the top vote-getter.

After Wang Chong returned to the West last season, James joined the Bulls to cling to Curry, so his final All-Star vote count was not as high as Curry's.

This year, with the bonus of his first career championship and FMVP, and the fact that Curry is no longer in the "everyday" mode this season and his personal data has declined to an average of 25+ per game, James won the Eastern Conference vote lead.

During this All-Star weekend, Wang Chong just sat there to watch the fun as usual, and this year's All-Star game was really exciting to watch.

The player with the highest popularity in the All-Star Game is not Wang Chong, James, Curry and others who are used to slacking off, but the player with the most explosive statistics during the regular season this season - Russell Westbrook!

Although I have not experienced the Thunder's Big Three and the love-hate relationship with Durant.

But in the 16-17 season, Westbrook started an era in which he single-handedly lowered the value of triple-doubles.

Before the All-Star Weekend, Westbrook averaged 32 points, 11 rebounds and 10.6 assists per game, and his 30+ triple-double stats stunned everyone. Although Wang Chong's 38.4+10.6+7.4 stats last season were even more shocking, Wang Chong failed to average a triple-double after all.

NBA历史上只有过一次场均三双，是由“大O”奥斯卡.罗伯特森于1962-1963赛季打出的场均34.8分15.2篮板11.4助攻。

But in that era of data explosion, Big O's average triple-double was not that shocking, because in the previous season, Wilt Chamberlain averaged 50 points and 25.7 rebounds in the regular season, and in the season when Big O averaged a triple-double, Chamberlain's data was 44.8 points and 24 rebounds.

Back to the present, there was a time when people believed that the exaggerated statistics from the ancient barbaric period were basically impossible to achieve as the overall basketball level improved.

But Westbrook has done it now, and as a time traveler, Wang Chong knows very well that Westbrook will be able to replicate this feat many times in the future.

Westbrook's amazing statistical performance has allowed him to always rank at the top of the MVP list despite his mediocre record with the Thunder.

Westbrook has long coveted the All-Star AMVP and has made no secret of wanting to win it.

But Wang Chong knows that this year's All-Star AMVP still doesn't belong to Westbrook, even though Westbrook scored 41 points, 5 rebounds and 7 assists in this All-Star game. But there is a player on the same team who is even crazier than him.

Anthony Davis.

In the 2017 All-Star Game, Davis made 39 of 26 shots and scored 52 points and 10 rebounds, setting a new record for individual scoring in a single game in the All-Star Game, and also beat teammate Westbrook to win the All-Star AMVP trophy.

Unexpectedly, this era has been shattered by Wang Chong, but Davis and Westbrook are still fighting for the All-Star AMVP.

However, what was different from the original was that the Eastern and Western Conference selection rules appeared ahead of time, so the two became opponents instead of teammates.

This makes the All-Star game a lot more interesting.

Because of this, Westbrook, who scored 44 points, 4 rebounds and 5 assists, was able to win the All-Star AMVP trophy thanks to the team's victory.

And Anthony Davis, who scored 51 points and broke the All-Star scoring record, can only become a tragic hero on the All-Star stage.

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The All-Star Weekend is just an interlude, a topic of conversation after dinner. After it ends, fans' focus quickly returns to the regular season games.

At this time, many fans are focusing on several main issues.

First, can the Lakers win 70+ games or even surpass the Bulls' best record of 73 wins and 9 losses?

Second, can Westbrook maintain his triple-double average until the end of the regular season and truly become the second player in NBA history to average a triple-double?

Third, Westbrook currently ranks first on the scoring list, and Wang Chong is second. Did Wang Chong want to surpass Westbrook at the last moment, win the eleventh scoring title trophy in his career, and officially surpass Jordan to become the number one in history?

As the subsequent schedule continued, these questions began to surface one after another.

First of all, there is Westbrook's average triple-double. How could Westbrook, whose goal was to achieve this, let his stats fall below an average triple-double? Later, Westbrook had many scenes of frantically passing the ball to his teammates to get assists in order to get an average triple-double, and even lost many games that should not have been lost because of this. He was criticized, but in order to achieve an average triple-double, Westbrook didn't care about many things.

This also made him unwilling to compete with Wang Chong on the scoring list, and his average points per game dropped to 31 points per game.

Wang Chong made his mark in the second half of the regular season. To be precise, in the games when Durant was absent due to injury, Wang Chong scored 40+ or ​​even 50+ in every game, which greatly increased his average points per game.

And because of Wang Chong's superb performance when Durant was absent, the Lakers' record was not affected by Durant's absence and they still maintained a super high winning rate.

2017年4月12日，湖人主场109：98击败金州勇士，正式完成常规赛的全部比赛。

With the victory in this game, the Lakers' regular season record was fixed at 74 wins and 8 losses, which actually surpassed the Bulls and enjoyed the best record in league history!