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Chapter 243 Open three-point promotion progress 29913000!

The current starting five of the Warriors are Curry, Thompson, Barnes, David Lee and Cousins. Draymond Green and Andre Iguodala sit on the bench. Andrew Bogut and other players, this lineup is already very exaggerated just by looking.

Curry has finally returned to his normal competitive level since last season after suffering from ankle injuries in the previous seasons. He can contribute 78 points in 22.9 games in the regular season. With 4 rebounds and 6.9 assists, his three-point shooting percentage can reach 45%, and he has scored 272 three-pointers throughout the season, ranking second in the league, second only to Wang Chao, who has scored more than 360 goals.

In the following season, Curry averaged 24 points, 3 rebounds and 8.5 assists per game, and helped the Warriors achieve their best regular season record in more than a decade, with 51 wins and 31 losses.

What is different from the original historical process is that today's Warriors have one more Cousins ​​​​on the basis of the original lineup.

Of course, in the Warriors, which emphasizes outside firepower, Cousins's data cannot reach the standard of 23 points and 12 rebounds as he did in the Kings, but after all, he is an extremely rare center in the league who can attack with the ball. It would be a pity.

Therefore, this season, Cousins ​​​​has averaged 18.2 points and 10.4 rebounds per game so far, which is the second scoring point in the Warriors, second only to Curry who averaged 22.7 points and 8.7 assists. David Lee with 18 points.

The league used one word to describe this Warriors team, the future can be expected.

This group of young people is bound to become a powerful force that cannot be ignored in the West in the future.

In such a Warriors team, Wang Chao can finally arouse a little interest, especially with Curry and Thompson, it is quite interesting to shoot a three-pointer.

More importantly, Wang Chao didn't know if it was a coincidence.

Before the game against the Warriors, Wang Chao checked in his consciousness space, and his progress bar for advancing to 100 for open three-pointers has reached 2991/3000, and he is short of completing the promotion conditions, strengthening the open three-point ability from 99 to 100. 9 short of [-] three-pointers.

After so long, some readers and friends may have forgotten, but after Wang Chao won the first dynasty, the system was upgraded to version 2.0, which brought many new functions, including new training potions in the store module, talents The tree's random talent can choose one of the three functions, and there is also the effect of the ability value breaking through the 99 critical value.

But different from the previous two, the conditions for the ability value to break through the upper limit were too harsh, which made it impossible for Wang Chao to meet the promotion conditions in the first place.

For example, for the open mid-range shots that are only one step away from being promoted, the condition for advancing from 99 ability points to 100 is to score 3000 three-pointers in total.

When the system was first upgraded, Wang Chao's progress was 2213/3000. During his two seasons with the Rockets and the previous games of this season, he successfully made his progress to 2991.

Wang Chao is still looking forward to what kind of improvement will happen when the open three-pointer breaks through the critical value of 99 ability value and reaches 100, and it just so happens that this game will be against the Splash Brothers, who will be famous all over the world for their three-pointers in the future, stepping on each other It's quite an achievement to achieve this.

Therefore, before the game, Wang Chao has decided that he will only shoot from outside the three-point line in this game to meet the condition of 100 ability points for open three-pointers, and at the same time, he must win this game as a celebration gift for the achievement.
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On December 12, the Toyota Center Arena, home of the Houston Rockets, was packed.

Amidst the cheers of the fans in the audience, the starting players of the Rockets appeared one by one.

The head coach of the Warriors, Mark Jackson, was obviously taken aback when he saw the Rockets' starting lineup, because the Rockets' lineup for today's game has obviously changed from the previous game. Instead of a starting lineup, Wang Chao, Butler, Middleton, Leonard and Whiteside were replaced by a starting lineup.

Although this lineup is only different from the five swingman lineup, Whiteside is the only one, but the situation on the field is completely different.

For the Rockets with five forwards and swingmen, Wang Chao is at the center, but in this lineup, the starting center is undoubtedly Whiteside.

Jackson doesn't care how the 2-meter-tall Whiteside is at the center position, but it is a big problem for Wang Chao to return to the point guard position he is most familiar with when he won the championship last season, because in this way, the Warriors' Point guard Stephen Curry is about to face off with Wang Chao!

No one will be optimistic about this matchup. Against Wang Chao, Curry will definitely be blown away.

The Warriors can arrange forward players to mark Wang Chao, but on the defensive end they can't stop Wang Chao from defending Curry.

Players from the two teams came on the stage, Whiteside and Cousins ​​​​jumped the ball in the middle circle.

The heights of the two are similar, but their jumping and explosive power are completely different.

Cousins ​​is 2 meters tall and weighs 11 kilograms. He is a player with relatively low speed and explosiveness, who relies on weight tonnage and inside footsteps to attack, while Whiteside is a standard spring man. Everything on the court is based on him. Under the powerful explosive power, in this regard, Whiteside is actually almost exactly the same as Jordan and Drummond.

In the future, Whiteside won the rebounding and blocking titles once, all thanks to his bounce and explosion.

Therefore, in terms of jump balls, Cousins ​​​​is not Whiteside's opponent at all, and the latter easily dials the ball to the Rockets' backcourt.

After Wang Chao received the basketball, he dribbled the ball across the half court unhurriedly. Sure enough, although he was the team's starting point guard, the defensive player standing in front of him was the small forward of the Warriors. Harrison Barnes.

Green in the Mark Jackson period has not been reused. The main strikers of the Warriors are still Barnes and David Lee. Super direct counterpoint.

But the reality is that although they are all 2 meters, David Lee's speed may be considered outstanding among interior players, but compared with Wang Chao, he is as slow as a snail, and he can't keep up with his speed at all. .

Besides, David Lee is a defensive black hole. He is not good at defense and he doesn’t like defense. Wei Li's tactical status declined rapidly. The star power forward who averaged 18+9 rebounds per game in the previous season directly became the team's substitute, and was cleared out of the team after winning the championship in the 14-15 season.

Wang Chao's breakthrough with the ball is no less lethal than a three-pointer, so no matter how much Mark Jackson doesn't pay attention to defense, it is impossible to arrange David Lee to defend Wang Chao. In addition, Green is not yet in the position at this time. It was Barnes' turn to defend Wang Chao.

In fact, Barnes' defense is not very good, but at least he is much stronger than David Li. In terms of speed, he will not be thrown away by Wang Chao too much.

But this is only relatively speaking, how could Barnes prevent Wang Chao?
Standing outside the three-point line with the ball, Wang Chao had a calm expression, while Barnes, standing in front of him, was concentrating on his nerves, staring at Wang Chao, waiting for his attack at any time.

Then Wang Chao moved.

Holding the ball and lowering the center of gravity, Wang Chao accelerated and broke through to the right of Barnes. Seeing Wang Chao's breakthrough path, Barnes quickly adjusted his footsteps to keep up with Wang Chao, but his feet had just moved, but Wang Chao dribbled under his crotch. The ball pulls the basketball back, and at the same time, the whole person withdraws from the three-point line after one step, and raises his hand to shoot.

Breaking through and stepping back to shoot is Harden's signature trick, but it has become Wang Chao's representative move in recent years. It is also his most threatening offense outside the three-point line except for Curry's signature pick-and-roll three-pointer. Way.

Barnes was completely deceived by Wang Chao, and his center of gravity was seriously deviated. When he wanted to stop and catch up to defend, the basketball in Wang Chao's hand had already flown towards the basket.

"brush!"

The basketball crashed into the net, which drew cheers from the Rockets home fans.

At 3:0, Wang Chao scored a neat three-pointer for the Rockets to take the lead.

"Don't be too nervous."

Wang Chao, who made a three-pointer, looked at Barnes, who looked a bit annoyed, and said kindly, "It's not your problem that you can't prevent it."

Barnes: "..."

This is too fucking annoying!But for Wang Chao, the No. 1 active player in the league who has been recognized by the entire league, Barnes really has nothing to do.

The Warriors attacked, and after Curry dribbled the ball for half the court, the basketball went through a circle and was finally hoisted to Cousins ​​​​inside.

Last season, Cousins ​​was able to contribute 18+10 stably. He is the core backbone of the Warriors inside. In this game, he is facing Whiteside. No one will take his current thoughts to heart. After all, last season, when Dayao and Garnett almost occupied the playing time of inside players, Whiteside averaged only about 15 minutes per game and only 4.7 points and 5.2 rebounds per game. What an outstanding performance on the defensive end.

Cousins ​​caught the ball with his back against Whiteside, and immediately took advantage of his weight to squeeze towards the basket.

Whiteside's tonnage was indeed at a disadvantage compared to Cousins, and he was pushed to the basket a few times by the opponent. Then Cousins ​​sat back hard, squeezing Whiteside back two steps, and raised his hand to throw the basketball towards the basket The direction of the basket was sent over.

But at this moment, Whiteside, who took two steps back, stopped in time, jumped up suddenly, pressed a big hand on the basketball, and directly blocked Cousins' layup.

In the next 15-16 season, it will be one of Whiteside's best seasons, averaging 29 points and 14 rebounds in 11.8 minutes per game, and his most talked about, That is, he averaged 3.7 blocks per game, won the block king and was selected to the best defensive second team of the season.

The average of 3.7 blocks per game is the highest average value of blocks per game in the past ten years. Ibaka also averaged 11 blocks per game in the season when he won the block king in the 12-3.7 season. If we continue to go back, Only Mourning averaged 98 blocks per game in the 99-3.9 season, which was higher than this data.

Of course, several shot-blockers like Mutombo, Olajuwon and David Robinson are from a longer period.

The current Whiteside is still slightly behind compared with the 15-16 season, but Wang Chao's sparring potion is definitely not in vain. Besides, Whiteside itself contains potential. After last season, Wang Chao targeted Under his training, Whiteside already has the shadow of Huai Shen who has experienced the baptism of Huaguo CBA.

Cousins ​​underestimated Whiteside too much, and the choice of offensive method was relatively simple and direct. As a result, he was slapped down by Whiteside.

Wang Chao was not far away, just as soon as he stretched out his hand to grab the rebound that was blown away, he ran towards the backcourt of the Warriors in the next second!

The signature counterattack and fast break started.

The Warriors quickly returned to defense, but there was no player who could keep up with Wang Chao's speed.

Wang Chao first dribbled behind Curry who was trying to steal his dribble, and then lowered his center of gravity and accelerated, leaving Barnes and Thompson exhausted.

Wang Chao, who rushed all the way beyond the three-point line, slammed on the brakes and stopped on the edge of the three-point line, raised his hand and shot.

"not good!"

Seeing this, Barnes and Thompson stopped their retreat almost at the same time and rushed towards Wang Chao, but Wang Chao's shot was too fast.

"brush--!"

Still hollow into the net, 2 of 2 three-pointers!

Wang Chao scored 6 points in a row at the start, which caught the Warriors off guard.

Seeing Wang Chao's consecutive three-pointers, the Warriors couldn't bear it anymore.

It's like who can't shoot three-pointers, you can shoot three-pointers, but I can't?

Curry stood at the top arc of the three-point line with the ball, looked at Wang Chao who was standing in front of him, almost covering the basket, and had no desire to make a shot at all.

For Curry, Wang Chao is really too tall, and the height is not the key. The key is that Wang Chao is not only tall, but also fast and strong. Curry has no advantage against Wang Chao.

However, in order to maximize Curry's three-point shooting ability, the Warriors of course formulated a series of corresponding tactics for him. Among them, the most used one is to imitate Wang Chao's signature three-point tactics, and the pick-and-roll goes around and rushes to shoot. three points.

From the perspective of the Warriors, including Curry, their tactic is to imitate Wang Chao's style of play, and the effect is surprisingly good. It is very suitable for Curry. Trick, this wave of Curry can be regarded as learning from himself.

Passed a look to the inside position, Cousins, who has been partnered with Curry for three seasons, understood it, and ran out from the inside with heavy steps, blocking Wang Chao and Curry.

The moment the pick-and-roll screen was formed, Curry immediately found a suitable gap, and threw the basketball to the basket the moment before Wang Chao bypassed the pick-and-roll and stepped forward to defend.

"brush--!"

It was also a hollow three-pointer. Watching Curry respond with a three-pointer, Wang Chao couldn't help laughing.

This is what he wants to see, very good, the three-point battle is about to begin now!

(End of this chapter)