NBA: James wants to team up with me

Chapter 85: Starting against the wind, Wang Chong's "Kehua" makes crazy moves

2004 1 Month 22 Day.

The Lakers challenge the Mavericks away from home.

On the field, the audience cheered.

Because just now, Mavericks star Dirk Nowitzki once again faced the defense and hit a standard mid-range shot independently.

At this time, the game had entered the second quarter, and the Mavericks held a 6-point lead. With Nowitzki's shot, the lead reached 8 points.

In this game, Nowitzki feels very good. He scored 6 points on 4 of 10 shots in the first quarter. So far in the second quarter, he has scored another 4 points. He has already scored 14 points before halftime. Just look at it. Then he went straight to score 30+ points in a single game.

"hateful……"

The person responsible for defending Nowitzki on the Lakers side is Wang Chong, but just like he usually bullies players whose height and wingspan are not as good as his, he makes all kinds of pull-up mid-range shots.

Although Nowitzki, who is 2 meters tall, is not as far ahead in height as Wang Chong usually does when facing small forward players, and his wingspan is even inferior to Wang Chong, his independent stunt allows him to create It is a similar undefendable field as when Wang Chong shoots, and the result is the same.

Fortunately, when facing Nowitzki, it was different from when facing Garnett and Gasol. Although Wang Chong could not guard Nowitzki, Nowitzki had nothing to do with Wang Chong's offense. What a great idea. After all, he doesn't have the same speed as Wang Chong like Garnett or Gasol. Therefore, when Wang Chong runs without the ball, it's difficult for Nowitzki to keep up with Wang Chong's speed. .

In this way, although Wang Chong can't guard Nowitzki, the opponent can't guard him either.

When Nowitzki scored 14 points, Wang Chong also scored 11 points, and his scoring efficiency was not much worse than that of his opponent.

But this is obviously not enough.

The half game is not over yet, the Lakers are already 8 points behind, and the situation is extremely unfavorable for them.

"We can't continue to sit there and wait for death!"

Wang Chong gritted his teeth. If he lost this game, he would really fall short, and all his efforts in previous games would be in vain.

Now the only thing he can gamble on is the badge ability given to him by the system.

The Lakers attacked, and Payton held the ball across half court. As soon as he took his position, he saw Wang Chong taking the initiative to greet him.

The regular season has been going on for less than half a season, and Payton certainly guessed that Wang Chong wanted to use pick-and-roll tactics.

Glancing at Nash in front of him, Payton changed hands on his crotch and accelerated towards Nash's right side.

Nash moved his steps to keep up, but bumped into Wang Chong who was blocking for Payton.

Payton, who threw away the defender, continued to accelerate and rushed towards the Mavericks penalty area. Seeing this, Nowitzki, who was following Wang Chong, could only defend Payton, which played into Payton's hands.

The basketball was immediately thrown backward by him. After the pick-and-roll, Wang Chong took two steps laterally and was just within the effect of the hot zone hunter's hot zone. After receiving the pass from Payton, he jumped up and shot without any pause.

On the badge wall in the consciousness space, several badges flashed at the same time.

Hot zone hunter, pick-and-roll shooter, mid-range shooter, and golden rhythm badge take effect almost simultaneously.

<divclass="contentadv">Facing Nash's defense, Wang Chong hit the shot steadily without any surprises.

What Wang Chong wants to bet on is not only the stable offensive efficiency at this stage, but also the improvement in shooting feel that the golden entry rhythm badge will bring to him after it is superimposed to a certain extent!

Enter the Rhythm Badge: After a player shoots a small number of shots, each subsequent shot will bring additional bonuses to the shooting attributes, regardless of whether the shot is hit or missed.

Yes, he's going to start taking a lot of shots.

Regardless of whether the shot goes in or not, you have to keep taking shots to add the buff effect of entering the rhythm. With a large number of shots, the bonus effect of entering the rhythm will be fully stacked, and then the outcome of the game will be decided in the last quarter!

In the next few minutes, Wang Chong frequently cooperated with Payton in pick-and-rolls. If the timing was not good, he would take the initiative to ask for the ball for singles.

On the Lakers bench, Phil Jackson frowned.

He was keenly aware that Wang Chong's playing style had changed.

Although Wang Chong took a lot of shots in the past, almost every shot was taken under the most reasonable circumstances. Coupled with his superb mid-range shooting ability, it is natural for him to be highly efficient.

But today's Wang Chong made many unreasonable offensive moves. If I want to describe it simply, his playing style today is a bit like Kobe.

If it were normal times, he would have immediately stopped Wang Chong's gradual "scientific" behavior.

It's enough for the Lakers to have one solitary player. If they don't develop a second solitary player, how can they still win this game?

But at this stage, the Lakers lack the three generals of O'Neal, Kobe, and Malone. They can no longer find any player with a higher offensive efficiency than Wang Chong. Instead of allowing other players to attack with a shooting rate of less than 40%, , it’s better to let Wang Chong continue to play. Maybe he can really score 50+ points in a single game like Kobe and lead the team to reverse and win?

Therefore, even after noticing the change in Wang Chong's playing style, Phil Jackson still refrained from calling a timeout to make tactical adjustments.

In the second half of the second quarter, Wang Chong alone took as many as 8 shots, making 11 of 5 shots in a single quarter, 2 of 2 free throws, and scored 12 points. At the end of the half, he had scored 19 points.

A large number of shots inevitably caused Wang Chong's shooting percentage to decline. However, the Lakers failed to restore the decline in the second quarter and were already 57 points behind with a score of 46:11.

"Hey, it really doesn't work..."

Many Lakers fans could only sigh helplessly when they saw this scene, but they were not too disappointed.

The opponent was the top team that reached the Western Conference Finals in the playoffs last season. It was not easy for the Lakers to still struggle with the opponent despite the lack of three main players. It would be better to say that if the Lakers were in this situation It would be incredible to be able to defeat your opponent.

After the halftime break, the game continued in the second half.

The Mavericks replaced half of their main players, including Nowitzki and Nash, who both took a break. Nowitzki's replacement was Antawn Jamison.

On the Lakers side, Payton left the game and Wang Chong continued to stay on the court.

Without Payton holding the ball, Wang Chong has more ball rights. He is not polite at all. As long as he gets the ball, he will hold the ball and play alone.

Then after a while, the Mavericks gradually discovered that something was wrong.

Wang Chong's offense... is a bit too stable!

After the start of the third quarter, Wang Chong's offensive efficiency was obviously higher than in the first half, with a shooting percentage of almost 50%.

The Mavericks were just a little careless, and Wang Chong scored 8 points in a row, leading the Lakers to launch a 12:4 attack wave, directly closing the point difference from 11 points to 3 points!