NBA: James wants to team up with me

Chapter 69 Barkley: Another bet? This time I beat Wang Chong!

"This Wang Chong is difficult to deal with!"

In one game, Wang Chong successfully gave Nelson a headache.

In his opinion, Wang Chong is even more troublesome than O'Neal.

After all, although O'Neal has no solution on the offensive end, there is nothing he can do about Nowitzki on the defensive end, and they also have a trick to curb O'Neal's tried-and-tested move, the shark-cutting tactic created by him.

Therefore, although O'Neal is very fierce, at the critical moment, he is just a tiger with his teeth pulled out.

But Wang Chong is different.

After a brief encounter in the first quarter of the game, Nelson realized that Wang Chong was very similar to Nowitzki, and even more difficult to deal with on the offensive end, because although Nowitzki shot well, his position was still inside. His footwork and movement speed can only be considered above-average among inside players, and most offenses still have to be launched from the inside or from the mid-range.

Wang Chong is completely different. He is a true outside player. He has superb dribbling skills and good combination of man and ball. He can break through Walker's defense with the ball, and he can also dribble in a wide range while traveling quickly. Change direction.

In this case, Wang Chong's height advantage is fully utilized. The environment for mid-range shots is much better than Nowitzki's, making it difficult to defend.

If Wang Chong's shooting accuracy was a little worse, it would actually be acceptable, but his shooting is still quite accurate. The Mavericks are not good at defense and will not be able to find a way to solve Wang Chong's offense for a while.

At the beginning of the second quarter, Wang Chong did not play, but was replaced by Phil Jackson.

In the first quarter, Wang Chong was almost the main point of attack for the Lakers. He played for nearly 10 minutes, which was longer than O'Neal's time on the court.

At this time, the Lakers already held a double-digit lead, so naturally they would not be trying to pluck out the wool of a sheep. After all, before the start of the season, among the F4 Big Four that the Lakers advertised, there was no young boy like Wang Chong.

The Lakers' lineup has been adjusted to Fisher, Devin George, Brian Russell, Malone and O'Neal.

The main attack point of this lineup is naturally O'Neal and Malone on the inside.

As for the Mavericks, they replaced Antoine Jamison.

Although Jamison is a substitute player for the Mavericks, he is much more threatening than Walker. After all, he is known as Little Nowitzki.

At the beginning of the second quarter, Jamison scored consecutive mid-range shots to help the team tighten the score.

Instead, he regained some strength. O'Neal, who wanted to teach the Mavericks a lesson in the second quarter, did not have the expected effect.

Because O'Neal was troubled by fouls, one was an offensive foul for unintentionally raising his elbow during the offense, and the other was a defensive foul caused by Nash breaking through the basket with the ball.

O'Neal, who had already committed one foul in the first quarter, had already accumulated three fouls. Although he was not substituted, he began to be timid on the offensive end.

As for Malone, he is as stretched as ever. He obviously averaged 20.8 points and 7.8 rebounds per game with the Jazz last season, but his condition has declined significantly in just one summer.

In Wang Chong's impression, Malone's scoring average during the Lakers period dropped to 13.2 points per game, and he averaged only 9.5 shots per game, which was not as high as Gary Payton's.

第一节比赛马龙便4投0中一分未得，到了第二节比赛，3投1中，加上2中2的罚球才勉强得到4分。

On the bench, Phil Jackson was silent.

This is true for the Mavericks, who have weak defensive capabilities. You can imagine what if the opponent is the Spurs or the Pistons, a team that focuses on defense and has strong defensive players inside?

I have to admit that even though he dislikes Kobe very much, Kobe is indeed extremely important to the Lakers...

"Ok?"

<divclass="contentadv">Jackson was stunned when he thought of this, feeling that he seemed to have forgotten something.

Turning to look to the side, Wang Chong was sitting on the bench and watching the game carefully.

Wang Chong's offensive performance in the first quarter is still vivid in his mind. That was exactly what he wanted Kobe to achieve.

He is crisp and clean, does not stick to the ball, and does not waste shots. He can step forward to help open up the situation when the team's offense is at a stalemate.

Phil Jackson thought for a while, and then said to Wang Chong: "Wang, how are you resting? Can you play?"

Wang Chongzheng was very excited and stood up immediately after hearing the head coach's words. "Of course, Coach!"

He wishes he could play 48 minutes in this game and score 30+40+ or ​​even 50+ points.

Although the system's task requires him to score no less than 20 points in this game, combined with another task goal-the average points per game within a week must not be lower than that of James and Anthony, the higher the better.

Because if the score is high in this game, there will still be room for error even if the score is slightly lower in the next game.

So when the game reached 5 minutes and 21 seconds in the second quarter, Wang Chong returned to the game taking advantage of a dead ball opportunity.

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Inside the TNT studio.

"Look, let me just say this guy is not simple. His offense is really difficult."

When Wang Chong scored 8 points in the first quarter, Barkley was already proudly showing off to Kenny Smith. "With such a height and wingspan, ordinary outside players cannot be guarded at all. Over time, his mid-range shot will definitely become the most terrifying offensive weapon in the league."

"And that shot when he defended Walker just now? It had nothing to do with defensive awareness, it was all about the defensive ability given to him by his physical talent. I really love this damn rookie!"

Listening to Barkley's chatter, Smith rolled his eyes impatiently.

Somehow, he suddenly had a flash of inspiration and spoke immediately.

"Charles, since you are so optimistic about him, how about we make a bet? Let's bet on who has the best overall performance among the 03 rookies in the first week of the regular season. I bet that LeBron James will have the best performance among all the rookies. Okay, do you dare to bet on Wang Chong?"

"You guys are so cunning!" Barkley shouted angrily after hearing this. "Wang Chong and LeBron are different players. LeBron is the absolute core of the Cavaliers. He has sufficient ball rights and can produce beautiful statistics as long as he is capable."

"Wang Chong is different. The Lakers have O'Neal and Kobe. He is not even the third offensive point. Even if he is better than James, it will be difficult to compare with him in terms of statistics."

"What? Are you scared?" Smith twitched the corners of his mouth, showing a disdainful expression.

Buckley, who is a gambler and impulsive by nature, immediately slammed the table.

"Just bet, no matter who you are afraid of!"

If Wang Chong heard what these two people said at this time, he would probably have serious doubts about whether this system has the ability to predict. Otherwise, how could it be such a coincidence that he would just bet on the performance of the first week of the new season?

But this is actually a coincidence.

Smith originally wanted to talk about the first game, but Wang Chong had already scored 8 points in the first quarter, was very efficient and had a hot touch. He was worried that James might not be able to beat Wang Chong in his debut.

If we talk about one month, as Barkley said, James, who has the core position of the main force, will definitely have better data than Wang Chong, and the other party will definitely not agree to such a losing bet.

In contrast, the first week of the season only involves three games. It is not surprising that Barkley would take the bait with a little provocation.