NBA: James wants to team up with me

Chapter 70 33 points in a single game! Is this a rookie?

While Barkley and Kenny Smith were having an heated discussion about the bet, the game on the field continued.

After Wang Chong appeared on the scene, the situation of the battle immediately changed.

At 6 minutes and 13 seconds, the Lakers attacked. Wang Chong cooperated with Fisher in the pick-and-roll and then quickly cut inside to the basket and successfully scored.

At 6 minutes and 54 seconds, Wang Chong held the ball in the mid-range and beat Antoine Jamieson in singles, and hit a fadeaway jumper.

At 8 minutes and 40 seconds, Wang Chong stole the Mavericks' pass and scored a dunk on a fast break counterattack.

At 10 minutes and 24 seconds, Wang Chong made a mid-range pull-up jumper. At this time, the player guarding him had been replaced by Josh Howard from Walker Jamison.

It is necessary to mention here that Josh Howard was also a rookie in 03, but his draft pick was the 29th pick in the first round.

As a member of the 03 Platinum Generation, although Josh Howard was drafted lower, he is still a very capable player. In his peak period, he averaged 19.9 points, 7 rebounds and 2.2 assists per game, and was selected to the All-NBA Team. star.

Josh Howard also performed quite well as a rookie. As a substitute for the Mavericks in the 03-04 season, he averaged 8.6 points and 5.5 rebounds per game and was successfully selected for the All-Rookie Second Team.

But Josh Howard at this stage is definitely not comparable to Wang Chong. Even at his peak, he may not be as good as Wang Chongqiang at this time.

Facing Josh Howard's defense, Wang Chong hit another mid-range shot and was replaced before halftime.

Throughout the second quarter, Wang Chong made 8 of 5 shots and scored another 10 points. At halftime, he had already scored 18 points. The Lakers also entered the second half with a 61-point advantage with a score of 45:16.

In the third quarter of the game, Wang Chong did not get much playing time. He only appeared at the end of the game and caused a defensive foul on the Mavericks near the end of the third quarter. He made 2 of 2 free throws and scored the 20th goal of the game. point.

"Rookie, you played so well in this game!"

The break between three quarters.

O'Neal patted Wang Chong on the shoulder hard and laughed loudly: "Come on, when I first entered the league, I only had 12 points in the first game. You are now better than me at that time."

"By the way, although I only scored 12 points in that game, I also had 18 rebounds and 3 blocks."

Wang Chong: "..."

He seriously suspected that O'Neal was showing off, although he had no proof.

But it doesn’t matter, there’s still one quarter left in the game.

Although the Mavericks were already trailing by nearly 20 points at this time and the victory was basically determined, depending on the head coach's intentions, it is estimated that he could still get a lot of time in the fourth quarter.

Wang Chong, who has already scored 20 points, has completed the first goal of the system task, but as mentioned before, for him, the higher the score in this game, the better. If possible, he can't wait to score 50+. .

After a short break, the fourth quarter began.

Sure enough, Wang Chong started the game in the fourth quarter. The Lakers' lineup at this time was Fisher, Gary Payton, Devin George, Wang Chong and backup center Horace Grant.

Malone and O'Neal rested off the court.

In this game, Malone has a bad touch. He currently makes 9 of 3 shots and only scored 8 points.

O'Neal's performance was average. Although he looked like a ferocious beast when facing Nowitzki's defense on the offensive end, he was slipped away by Nowitzki on the defensive end, which consumed a lot of energy. In the middle of the game, he was deeply involved in foul problems, resulting in I couldn't use my strength on the field, and it was very frustrating to play.

<divclass="contentadv"> Therefore, Phil Jackson decided to let the two rest off the court in the fourth quarter to adjust their condition.

With a lead of nearly 20 points, the Lakers have a high error tolerance rate in this game.

Moreover, so far in the game, the Mavericks have not found a defensive strategy that can target Wang Chong. As long as Wang Chong is on the court, it is very stable.

The battle situation was indeed as he expected.

After the start of the fourth quarter, the Lakers focused on the pick-and-roll cooperation between Payton and Wang Chong.

In order to limit Wang Chong's scoring, the Mavericks chose to defend Wang Chong after the pick-and-roll. The result was that Payton used the pick-and-roll screen to hit the basket with the ball many times and score consecutively.

Payton and Malone are both veterans who joined the Lakers with a minimum salary. Malone is 40 years old and it is natural that his condition will decline.

But Payton is only 35 years old and is still at the end of his prime. He is by no means an old, weak or disabled person.

The Mavericks paid a heavy price for letting Payton go. It was obvious that the Lakers did not even have O'Neal on the court at this time, but instead of narrowing the score gap, the Mavericks had a tendency to further widen the score gap.

Before I knew it, nearly 4 minutes had passed in the fourth quarter.

Seeing that the point difference remained above 20 points and could not be shortened, the Mavericks chose to give up the game and took the initiative to replace all the main players.

Seeing this situation, the Lakers also took Gary Payton off the court, but Wang Chong did not come off the court. Instead, he continued to compete with the substitute players of the two teams on the court.

As soon as Payton came off the court, Wang Chong became the absolute core of the Lakers' offense. Point guard Fisher was as sensible as ever. Basically, he consciously passed the ball to Wang Chong as soon as he got the ball.

In the next few rounds, Wang Chong took frequent shots, clearly showing a tendency to score points.

As a person who has traveled back from the future era when personal data in the league exploded, no one knows better than Wang Chong how to make the data look good and beautiful. This is James' special skill.

Wang Chong is not against brushing up on statistics at all. On the basis of winning, if he can brush up his statistics to look good, why not do it?

Especially in this period when the Internet is not yet developed, how many people will bring up such things as grabbing the last minute to gain points?

When Kobe's 81 points first came out, it was simply shocking. Who would care that Kobe continued to score 5 points when the team led by 12 points in the last 14 minutes and the victory was basically determined?

With this idea in mind, Wang Chong felt at ease and took crazy shots in garbage time. Before being replaced by the coach, he scored 7 points in a row and scored 11 more points in the fourth quarter.

The full-time whistle sounded.

The Lakers defeated the Mavericks 112:93, winning a good start to the regular season. They also defeated the Western Conference powerhouse Dallas Mavericks by a huge score in the absence of core perimeter player Kobe Bryant.

The fans at the Lakers' home court stood up and applauded the team's victory.

"Wang Chong—Wang Chong—Wang Chong!"

Some fans kept chanting Wang Chong's name.

Wang Chong is undoubtedly the biggest contributor to the victory in this game.

When the team lacked Kobe and O'Neal, Malone and others were not performing well, Wang Chong, who had just arrived, stepped forward and made 19 of 12 shots, 5 of 2 three-pointers, and 7 of 7 free throws, scoring 33 points. 7 rebounds and 2 assists, shooting rate as high as 63%!