NBA: I am the god of basketball

Chapter 174 Selection of Innate Skills
The Magic team that signed O'Neal continued to search in the free market, hoping to sign another player whose value reached the level of a middle-level contract to further enhance the strength of the Magic team.

But looking at the league, there are not many players who meet the requirements of the Magic team, and the Magic team management does not want to spend too much money. After all, they have to pay an extra dollar of luxury tax to the league for every dollar they spend. Immediate combat power is the core element they consider.

Wang Chao didn't plan to ask about the signings of the Magic's management, and he wasn't interested. Anyway, they didn't look for him. If that's the case, it depends on their own abilities.

For Wang Chao, after the end of next year, he is going to leave the Magic team, and there is no need to think about the future for the Magic team. The "Jiangshan" he played before will have the last year experience card next season, that is, in terms of combat power. There is no problem.When the 2010-11 season is over, the contracts of Crawford, Dragic, and Afflalo will expire. Not surprisingly, it will be very difficult for the Magic to keep these three.

In order to poach the championship feats of the three consecutive championship teams, other teams in the league may not hesitate to use premium contracts to violently dismantle the team. Given the tactical status and role of the three in the Magic, I am afraid that they can all get close to tens of millions of annual salary. Contract quotation.

After all, even without the experience of the Magic winning the championship, Dragic and Afflalo both signed contract extensions with an annual salary close to 800 million after their rookie contracts. After the expiration, he only signed a middle-class contract, but a few years later, when he is nearly 35 years old, he can still get a contract with an annual salary of tens of millions, which shows his strength.

At that time, the Magic team will be short of three strong players, and their strength will definitely decline significantly. Of course, if Wang Chao who left the team is added, there will be four players. One can imagine how the Magic team's strength will drop by then.

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At the end of July, Wang Chao returned to China by plane, and officially reported to the national team training center on August 7.

In 2010, there is a very important event for international basketball, and that is the 2010 World Men's Basketball Championship, the predecessor of the Men's Basketball World Cup, the highest level of basketball in the world after the Olympic Games.

Since winning the Olympic Games, the ranking of the Huaguo men's basketball team in the world basketball has been rising all the way, once reaching the top five ranks.

This also makes the Huaguo fans look forward to the prospects of the Huaguo Men's Basketball Team in the World Championships. I hope that the Huaguo Men's Basketball Team can also win the World Championships in one go and complete the Grand Slam achievement!

There is nothing wrong with this kind of thinking. Wang Chao is currently in full swing, with two consecutive championships in hand, and was crowned the MVP of the regular season and finals at the same time. He can be called the strongest player in the entire NBA.

Although Dayao's state has declined slightly compared to previous years with age and the impact of injuries, he has not suffered serious injuries that would affect his career. He is still the backbone of the Huaguo men's basketball team. Although the mix in the NBA is not satisfactory, they can barely gain a firm foothold. The four of them are named the Four King Kongs of Huaguo by Huaguo fans. They are the leaders of Huaguo men's basketball team. The biggest reliance.

Moreover, another reason why Chinese fans are so looking forward to winning the World Championships is that compared with the Olympics, the strength and quality of opponents in the World Championships have declined significantly.

The biggest opponent, the American Dream Team, has always paid little attention to the World Championships. It has never sent any outstanding top superstars to participate in the World Championships, and this year is no exception.

In the 2010 Men's Basketball World Championships, the roster of the American men's basketball team was mainly led by Kevin Durant, Derrick Rose, Russell Westbrook, Stephen Curry and others.

These names are all big names, including four regular-season MVP winners and seven future or current (Odom) NBA championship winners.

But in 2010, except for Durant, these people were all rookies who hadn't matured.

Before the start of the World Championships, this "Dream Nine Team" was hailed as the dream team with the dimmest stars in the past years. After all, the team's active team + all-star players are only Durant and Rose. There are as many as 5 newcomers, young and lack of big names.

Many people generally believe that there is a high probability that the Dream Nine Team will fail in this international competition like their predecessors in the previous two World Championships.

It is not only the Dream Nine team that has an unsatisfactory lineup. The overall situation of this World Championship is not very good. Perhaps because of the gold content of the World Championship, many stars of the world's top teams have chosen to withdraw from this World Championship.

Including but not limited to Dirk Nowitzki of the German men's basketball team, Ginobili of the Argentine men's basketball team, Paul Gasol of the Spanish men's basketball team, and Tony Parker of the French men's basketball team.

The absence of these core players has seriously affected the strength of the team that was originally at the forefront of the world's men's basketball team.

Under such circumstances, the Huaguo men's basketball team is one of the few teams in the world that can guarantee a complete lineup to play, and it has naturally become one of the favorites to win the championship.

Wang Chao knows very well that the 2010 Men's Basketball World Championships can be regarded as the easiest opportunity to speed through the Grand Slam in recent years.

Four years later, in the 2014 Men's Basketball World Cup, the lineup of the American Dream Team will be led by Curry and Harden, plus Anthony Davis, Klay Thompson, Kyrie Irving, Cousins ​​and others. It is much stronger than the Dream Nine team in 2010, and it is also more difficult to deal with.

More importantly, Dayao will be almost 4 years old in 35 years. Even if he is lucky enough not to experience major injuries in the next four years, the increase in weight and age will make Dayao's competitive level uncontrollable a cliff-like fall.

At that time, Wang Chao can only fight alone, although he is sure that he will become stronger than now in four years, and may even be very strong.

But in the arena 1v5...he is still not absolutely sure of winning.

Therefore, it would be the best if he could win the World Championships, reach the Olympics, and the Grand Slam of the two top international events of the World Championships while Dayao is still there and his opponents are not strong.

The start time of the Men's Basketball World Championships is August 8, and there is still a one-month training time after Wang Chao reports.

The results of the grouping of the lottery ceremony have already been determined.

This was not greatly affected by the butterfly effect brought about by Wang Chao's crossing. The Huaguo men's basketball team was the same as in the original history. It was divided into Group C with the hosts Turkey, Russia, Greece, Puerto Rico and Côte d'Ivoire.

In terms of overall strength, Group C is actually the weaker group among the four groups. Group A has Serbia, Argentina and Australia, Group B has the United States, and Group D has Lithuania, Spain and France together.

The only thing that is more troublesome is the Turkish men's basketball team. As the host, how strong is the effect of the home court bonus?

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"Snapped!"

Wang Chao slammed out from the flank, cut off Liu Wei's lateral pass, and then rushed to the basket with a tomahawk dunk at a super fast speed that no one could catch up with.

This was an intra-team match, and Wang Chao's dunk made the assistant coaches watching the game applaud.

One of the teaching assistants couldn't help but sighed sincerely.

"Wang Chao's sense of stealing is really good. Any player who dares to pass the ball horizontally in front of him must be mentally prepared to be stealed. Is this NBA-level defense? Isn't Wang Chao famous in the NBA? Players who are good at defense have this defensive ability, how terrifying are the real defensive champions in the league?"

The other person nodded in agreement.

"It's no wonder that the UAE has almost no ball to play in the NBA. In the CBA, it has the top strength. In the NBA, it is just an insignificant little shrimp. There is still a big gap between us and the NBA."

On the field, Wang Chao, who had completed a series of steals and dunks, nodded in satisfaction, and thought to himself, "The new talent is quite useful."

The two melon eaters who just sighed thought that Wang Chao's sense of stealing on the court just now was a quality that many NBA players possess, but they didn't know that Wang Chao at this stage has the ability to steal passes. It is already the top level of the league.

This is all due to the talent skills that Wang Chao chose not long ago.

After coming to the national team to report, Wang Chao used the rewards of the two talent skills in the consciousness space.

After some thinking, Wang Chao did not use both skills on defense, but chose to attack and defend.

Wang Chao knows that he is destined to leave the Magic in the future. Without Howard's pick-and-roll cooperation and defensive assistance, and without a group of role players with outstanding shooting ability, his personal ability will be tested even more.

Defense is just icing on the cake for him after all, making the offense stronger and more difficult to defend is the point.

For the defensive talent, what Wang Chao finally got was the talent related to steals, the blocker.

This name is exactly the same as the badge in NBA2K, and the effect is similar, both of which are specially aimed at the stealing talent when passing the ball.

Interceptor: When the opponent passes the ball and the player is within 3 meters of the passer or receiver, the agility, explosive power and stealing ability will increase by 20%. After completing the steal, a 5% speed bonus will be obtained for 10 seconds.

The interceptor talent skill of the system is obviously an upgraded and enhanced version of the interceptor badge in the 2K game. It not only improves the speed and explosiveness of interception in the passing path, but also provides a speed bonus for the fast break after the interception , can be described as a combination of offense and defense.

Of course, there are conditions for the triggering of this ability, that is, the talent holder must be within 3 meters of the passer or receiver for this talent to be activated.

The premise of activation is the moment the opponent chooses to pass the ball, which means that Wang Chao must have an extremely fast reaction speed in order to use the bonus of stealing ability provided by his talent.

Although the conditions are relatively harsh, the effect is still quite powerful, which directly improves Wang Chao's ability to assist defense on the outside to an extremely high level.

As for another offensive talent skill, Wang Chao was a little less lucky. He got the talent skill of a corner shooter. The effect of the skill is to increase the shooting percentage of the two corner positions. The increase is quite large. 25% increase in corner three-point and long-range shooting percentage.

Obviously, this is a standard skill for 3D players, which is the bottom line three-pointer badge in the NBA2K game.

But the problem is that now Wang Chao is already a big core with the ball, and he rarely plays off the ball offense, and the number of shots from the bottom corner is also limited. That icing on the cake skill.

After all, he can't run back to play a role player in order to bring out the effect of his corner shooter talent?

But no matter what, the two talents of interceptor and corner shooter have really improved Wang Chao's ability.

During the month of national team training, Wang Chao's main training direction is still around defense, mainly strengthening his stealing ability value. The higher his stealing ability value, the better the effect of interceptor talent.

Time flies, and soon came the end of August, the men's basketball world championship group stage kicked off.

On August 8, the Huaguo men's basketball team ushered in the first opponent of the group stage opener of Group C, the Greek men's basketball team.

The Huaguo men's basketball team defeated the Greek men's basketball team 94:85 and won the group stage.

Wang Chao scored a game-high 34 points, 8 rebounds and 7 assists, leading his team to victory.

To the surprise of Huaguo fans, Dayao only played about 10 minutes in the starting game, scoring 8 points and 4 rebounds.

The next day, the Huaguo men's basketball team defeated Côte d'Ivoire 104:74 to achieve a two-game winning streak. Wang Chao scored a triple-double with 27 points, 10 rebounds and 11 assists, while Dayao did not appear at all.

The abnormal situation made many Huaguo fans faintly worried.

Dayao, what's the matter?Is he injured?

After all, in the past ten years, Dayao has been the pillar of the Huaguo men's basketball team, supporting the sky and the sea. Even if Wang Chao has risen strongly in recent years, Dayao is still the pinnacle of the Huaguo men's basketball team.

Therefore, although the Huaguo men's basketball team won two consecutive victories in the group stage, the absence of Dayao still made people feel panic.

On August 8, the Huaguo men's basketball team defeated Puerto Rico 31:99. After the three-game winning streak in the group stage confirmed the group qualifying in advance, the Huaguo men's basketball team finally gave the restless Huaguo fans a reassurance.

"Dayao is very healthy."

Faced with the questions asked by reporters during the interview, Guo Shiqiang, then the head coach of the Huaguo Men's Basketball Team, answered in this way. "The reason why we didn't allow Dayao to play more games in the first three group matches was to protect him. Dayao is 30 years old. As a professional athlete, he has experienced high-intensity and intensive competition in the NBA. The consumption is extremely huge, so we made a decision after a meeting in the team, and in a certain victory, let Yao rest as much as possible to relieve his physical fatigue, which will also help prolong his career."

As he said that, Guo Shiqiang laughed: "You may not know that this idea is Wang Chaoyue's. In his own words, these opponents in the group stage, he is enough. How can Dayao be used?"

Once the interview was reported, Huaguo fans were immediately relieved.

It turned out to be the case.

It is enough to have him!

What Wang Chao said was domineering enough, and the result of the three-game winning streak in the group stage also proved that Wang Chao did have the confidence and strength to say this.

(End of this chapter)