NBA: James wants to team up with me

Chapter 76 Christmas War, Classic Yao Shark Showdown

The NBA schedule has an average of one game every two days. Half of the schedule in a season is away from home and requires traveling all over the United States. In fact, time passes very quickly.

In just the blink of an eye, Wang Chong has been playing for the Lakers for more than a month.

In the past more than 20 games, Wang Chong has gradually become familiar with and adapted to the rhythm of NBA games.

Wang Chong had a relatively easy time playing with the Lakers. After all, he was not the team's main core player. The OK combination shared most of the team's tough work, and correspondingly also shouldered various responsibilities when the team suffered a failure. Accusation.

During this process, Wang Chong also had times when his hands felt cold, and he made 10 of 2 shots in the entire game, less than 30%, but those were only a few. In the vast majority of cases, Wang Chong's shooting percentage could be maintained. Above 50%, it is the Lakers' most stable and efficient perimeter offensive point.

For Wang Chong, a rookie, both the media and the team's fans are more tolerant than harsh. After all, as a rookie with the 13th pick in the first round, Wang Chong's current performance has been very surprising, even surprising. He didn't dare to have too many demands on Wang Chong.

Wang Chong currently averages 18.2 points, 6.4 rebounds and 1.8 assists per game, shooting 51% from the field. He is the third-highest scoring player on the Lakers, second only to Kobe Bryant who averages 22.4 points per game and O'Neal who averages 20.5 points per game.

In the original 03-04 Lakers season, the regular season scoring averages of Kobe and O'Neal should have been 24 and 21.5 points respectively. Obviously, the arrival of Wang Chong still divided up some of the ball rights between the two, and this impact is not only on the OK combination. , and the same goes for other players.

Payton averaged only 10.8 points per game, and Malone's scoring average dropped sharply from 20.6 points per game last season to 9.4 points.

Although the data of the Lakers F4 combination is very different from what the media predicted before the start of the season, this is a good thing in Wang Chong's view.

Payton and Malone themselves are not trustworthy. Both of them are now in a stage where their reputation is greater than their strength. It can be seen from the pure undercover performance of both of them in the finals that they only had a shooting percentage of over 30%. The team should not rely on these two players. Players, it is better to start to rely on themselves gradually now. At least Wang Chong is confident that he will perform better than these two people when facing the Pistons' defense in the finals.

In fact, at this stage of the game, Wang Chong's role for the Lakers has been continuously reflected.

As the regular season progresses to mid-December, the Lakers' record ranks first in the league.

12月24日，湖人主场101：99击败掘金后，战绩已经来到20胜3负。

In this game, Anthony finally showed his authority in front of Wang Chong, scoring 17 points on 8-of-24 shooting.

After ordinary performance at the beginning of the season, both James and Anthony gradually adapted to the rhythm of NBA games and began to gradually play some highlight games. Their personal data are also constantly improving. Currently, in terms of scoring data, both James and Anthony are It has reached the 20-point line and achieved a lead over Wang Chong.

But in terms of scoring efficiency, there is still a big gap between the two and Wang Chong, because Anthony's shooting percentage is only 42%, and James is even lower, just over 41%.

Compared with Wang Zhongdao's 50% shooting rate, which is second only to O'Neal in the entire Lakers team, the difference is not even a little bit different.

As for the two men's lead in scoring over Wang Chong, it did not cause much reaction. Not to mention that the score only exceeded the minuscule gap of 2 points. The ball possession and number of shots between them were fundamentally different.

In a team like the Lakers with multiple superstars, Wang Chong doesn't have much shot power. Being able to become the most stable scoring point under the OK combination is a great thing in itself.

The most striking contrast to Wang Chong is the second pick winner Darko Milicic who joined a strong team in the league. He also had high hopes during the draft and surpassed Anthony.

Milicic, who joined last season's runner-up team, had a miserable time with the Pistons. He played less than 5 minutes and averaged only 1 point and 1 rebound per game. He has long since disappeared from the public eye.

<divclass="contentadv"> Even the Pistons, known as a grassroots civilian team, are like this, let alone the Lakers, who only play superstar ball?

From this we can even see Wang Chong’s excellence.

Wang Chong's popularity is also getting higher and higher, especially in China, which is far away on the other side of the ocean. Even though the news is limited due to the factors of the times, many people who don't even know much about basketball know that the NBA has A Chinese-American who played even better than Dayao. After all, Dayao during this period only averaged 17 points and 9 rebounds per game.

And on December 12th, the traditional American holiday of Christmas, the NBA’s traditional Christmas game, the league presented a big show to Chinese fans.

The Lakers face the Houston Rockets at home.

Although the regular season has been going on for two months, and the Lakers and Rockets are both Western Conference teams, the two teams have not really played against each other for the first time this season until now.

Obviously, the league originally wanted to play the Little Giants vs. Big Sharks card, but they didn't expect that Cheng Yaojin would show up halfway. Wang Chong has been very popular recently, and there is even a fake Chinese derby with Dayao to hype.

Speaking of which, although Wang Chong and Dayao have not met until now, they already know each other.

This is mainly due to Dazhi.

After the summer league, Wang Chong and Da Zhi left each other's contact information. Later, Wang Chong emerged in the league, which naturally attracted Dayao's attention. Then Dayao got Wang Chong's contact information through Da Zhi, and the two knew each other.

Dayao's idea is actually very simple. He is a stranger in a foreign land. Although Wang Chong is not strictly Chinese, he has the same skin color and hair after all, and both have Chinese blood flowing through them. Moreover, he has also seen Interview with Wang Chong, knowing that Wang Chong can speak fluent Mandarin, naturally made me feel more friendly.

At this time, Yao was only 23 years old. He was not yet the pillar of Chinese basketball in the future, and he did not have a big brother-like image. He and Wang Chong were quite close to each other.

However, in this game that can be regarded as the focus of the game, both sides showed no mercy and presented the fans with an extremely exciting Christmas battle.

Of course, Wang Chong and Dayao can't compete with each other. The focus of this match is Yao Shark's duel.

Dayao, who was still a rookie last season, was beaten one-sidedly when facing O'Neal. The two faced off twice in the 02-03 season due to injuries and appearances.

O'Neal scored 31 points, 13 rebounds and 39 points, 5 rebounds in two games respectively.

Dayao only had 10 points and 10 rebounds and 6 points and 10 rebounds in these two games. It can be said that he was completely beaten.

However, although Dayao was beaten badly, he also had a highlight moment, which was when he faced off against O'Neal and gave the opponent several hot pot blocks.

After a season, the two met again, but the situation was completely different.