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Chapter 48 Super F4? One god brings four pits!

"Malone and Payton join the Lakers and form a super F4 combination with OK, aiming to win the championship!"

"The strongest lineup in history! With four superstars joining forces, who can stop the Lakers in the new season?"

"Perhaps the Lakers are not just the top four, Wang Chong, who performed well in the summer league, may become the fifth giant of the Purple and Gold Army!"

Overnight, news about the Lakers was everywhere. After all, the Lakers' big spending was so exaggerated that it was unprecedented.

As the main promoter who directly promoted the joining of the two veterans, O'Neal was particularly excited during the phone interview.

"Last year, I had two tanks and two grenades, but now, I have nuclear weapons! To hell with the abominable shark-killing tactics!"

While proud, O'Neal even commented on his two opponents from last season.

"San Antonio played great last season, and it's time for them to win the championship. Congratulations to them, but now, their window is closed because they no longer have two 7-foot big men. We will be the strongest in the NBA. team!"

O'Neal is indeed excited enough. The joining of Malone and Payton has cleared away the haze caused by Kobe Bryant some time ago. Although Kobe's mess has not been dealt with so far, will he spend the new season in jail or can he continue? It's still unclear who will play on the court, but at least the team has two superstars and Wang Chong, who has great potential, is unprecedentedly powerful!

However, at the end of the interview, O'Neill cautiously added another sentence.

"Of course, what we are imagining now is just theoretical. If we really want to get things right next season, then we still need to work hard and be careful."

Obviously, this playoff defeat to the Spurs made the arrogant O'Neal know that he cannot truly completely dominate the game.

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Wang Chong knew about Malone and Payton joining the Lakers early on, and it was not surprising.

However, although they have great names, it is not necessarily a good thing for these two to join the Lakers. After all, they are still too old. During the regular season, they were slightly better. In the playoffs, Malone suffered from injuries. Troubled, Payton's condition also plummeted.

Although the Lakers relied on the OK combination to get through all the way and reach the finals, Malone and Payton performed completely like two undercover agents.

In the 5 finals, facing the Pistons' tough defensive system, Malone averaged 6 of 2 shots per game and only 5 points and 7 rebounds. Compared to Malone, Gary Payton did not make more concessions, making 5.6 of 1.8 shots and averaging 4 points and 3 rebounds per game. Assists, the two shot 33.3% and 32.1% respectively.

Of course, no one should laugh at this thing.

Derek Fisher, the hero of the Lakers' three consecutive championships, averaged 7 of 2 shots, 6 points and 3 assists in the finals. His shooting percentage was not as good as Payton and Malone.

The most ruthless one is Kobe. Although the shooting percentage of these three is not high, at least they don't take many shots.

In order to compete with O'Neal for FMVP in the finals, Kobe averaged an insane 22.6 shots per game and only made 8.6 goals. He averaged 38.1 points and 22.6 assists per game with a 4.4% shooting rate.

<divclass="contentadv">In the entire Lakers team, there were only two players with a shooting percentage of more than 40% during the Finals. They were obviously shooting 63.1%, but they always couldn't catch the ball. They were helpless. I watched Kobe play alone, O'Neal, who could only keep running back and forth on the court, and Rick Fox, who was completely reduced to a substitute, averaging only 10 minutes per game and scoring 57 points with a 2.7% shooting rate.

The standard one god with four pits would have been 15 shots if it had been someone else.

Thanks to O'Neal being strong enough and Kobe Bryant only being eager to compete for FMVP in the Finals, he failed in the Finals. His previous performance in the Western Conference playoffs, including the Western Conference Finals, was not bad.

Wang Chong didn't know what kind of changes would happen to such a team with different ideas and one more player like him, and whether it could change history better than the Pistons in the finals.

Under normal circumstances, it should be possible. After all, although Wang Chong's current strength is not as good as O'Neal and Kobe, he is much better than Malone and Payton. With his big help, the shortcomings of the Lakers' small forwards are also reduced. To make up for it, the paper strength should be stronger than the Pistons.

But the problem is that his existence cannot avoid or solve the Lakers' own problems, which is the conflict between Kobe and O'Neal.

On the finals stage, Kobe was so reckless that even O'Neal couldn't catch the ball, let alone Wang Chong, a first-year rookie named Kalami.

No matter how strong his personal ability is, what's the use if he can't catch the ball?

Of course, we have to struggle with this issue in the future. The strength of the Lakers F4 is almost to the point of being sent to the Finals. They have no opponents at all in the Western Conference, especially since Spurs Admiral David Robinson has officially retired. With only Duncan left in the interior twin-tower combination, the only team capable of threatening the Lakers is the Pistons in the Eastern Conference.

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The Southern California Summer League is played from July 7th to July 7st. The time period and span are relatively long. Teams participating in this summer league are equivalent to missing the Orlando Summer League due to the overlap in time. and the Boston Summer League.

But in the early days of the NBA, the Summer League was just a friendly competition between a small number of NBA teams. It would have to wait until the Las Vegas Summer League officially emerged in 2006 to truly evolve into a large-scale event.

By 06, the Las Vegas Summer League expanded directly from the original 6 teams to 16 teams, and again increased to 07 teams in 22, becoming the most representative and largest summer league. The league was still used until Wang Chong traveled through it.

During the period when Wang Chong traveled through, the number of participating teams in the Las Vegas Summer League had exceeded 30, plus some national teams from other countries, such as China, Croatia and other national teams. 32 teams.

It’s just that this has nothing to do with Wang Chong. This year’s summer league will be the only time he participates in the summer league. With his ability and strength, as soon as he lands in the league, he will become an absolute main player. How can there be any reason for the main players to go to the summer league? This league itself is just a platform for rookies and players who don't have a ball to show off.

At least the effect Wang Chong showed in this summer league was quite good.

Because the summer league had just ended, his agent Thomas called him with good news.

"Wang, good news! Nike has contacted me and they hope to sign a sneaker endorsement contract with you!"