NBA: I am the god of basketball

Chapter 211 A new playoff record!66 points in a single game!
Dayao's injury and retirement made the Rockets completely lose their mind to play the game. Everyone including Wang Chao was worried about Dayao's injury.

Although Perkins was called a second-degree malicious foul and left the game, the Rockets did not have Dayao, who was like a pincer on the inside, and could only rely on Wang Chao alone in offense.

The result was the fourth quarter. The Rockets failed to withstand the Thunder's offense. They lost to the Thunder 103:109 and lost the game. The total score was chased to 2:1.

As soon as the game ended, Wang Chao and others hurried back to the locker room to check Dayao's injury.

The team doctor's preliminary judgment was that there was no fracture, but the exact extent of the injury would not be known until the hospital used instrumental examinations.

After waiting anxiously for half a day, Dayao's inspection report came out, and it turned out to be bad news.

"A second-degree sprain of the ankle joint will take about three to four weeks to recover based on the initial judgment of the injury."

After hearing the answer given by the team doctor, all members of the Rockets fell into silence.

Three to four weeks, which means that Dayao will miss the subsequent Western Conference finals, and even if the Rockets win the Western Conference finals, they will not be able to play in the finals.

So far in the playoffs, Dayao has averaged 24.6 points and 10.2 rebounds per game. He is the second scoring point in the team and the core of the inside offense.

Everyone knows how much the lack of Dayao will affect the Rockets.

"Doctor, if you recover for about a week, can you play the game with a closed injection?"

When everyone was silent, Dayao asked suddenly.

The team doctor froze for a moment, nodded after thinking about it, and was about to speak, but Wang Chao interrupted him before he could speak.

"No, Brother Yao, since you're already injured, you should take good care of your injury, and you can't play with an injury again."

Wang Chao looked at Dayao firmly, and said in an unquestionable tone: "There will still be chances to compete for the championship in the future, but I will never allow you to gamble with the rest of your career for the sake of a mere championship."

A mere championship...

Everyone present looked at Wang Chao speechlessly for a moment.

Is the NBA championship so easy to win?How many outstanding basketball superstars have never had the chance to touch the championship in their entire lives. What you say here is as simple as eating and drinking.

It doesn't matter if you don't have a meal today and you're hungry, just eat more tomorrow, right?
But if you think about it carefully, Wang Chao now has four championship rings. For him, winning the championship seems to be a common occurrence.

"But such a rare opportunity, I'm afraid this is the only time in my entire career..." Dayao was obviously not willing to end like this.

"I can assure you that there will be many opportunities like this in the future." Wang Chao said immediately: "But if you don't listen to me now and insist on playing with an injury, I'll just give up. You can’t win a game by leading a team alone, can you?”

Dayao: "..."

If Wang Chao is bad, he really doesn't have the confidence to lead the team to win.

Dayao knew that Wang Chao was doing it for his own good. Playing closed games with injuries would be a great risk to the career of an athlete. A little carelessness would affect the follow-up treatment. Like him, he is already in his 30s and entering the end of his career. The risk is greater for players.

But... There are many ways to persuade people, do you have to use this kind of extreme behavior?

Wang Chao was not in a good mood at this time. Throughout the regular season, in order to avoid Dayao's injury, he was careful and paved the way for Dayao. Unexpectedly, in the end, it was because of Perkins' malicious step.

It can only be said that time is fate, and sometimes injuries are also a part of the game.

In the 15 playoffs, the Cavaliers Love was forced to dislocate his arm by his opponent, resulting in reimbursement for the season. James, who was alone, lost to the Warriors in the finals.

The five-star Warriors were invincible in 19 years, but Durant and Thompson were injured one after another, resulting in Curry being the only one in the finals. As a result, Leonard and the Raptors picked the peaches, and the dream of the three consecutive championships was shattered.

In the Eastern Conference semifinals in 21, Antetokounmpo stepped into Irving, which changed the trend of the entire series. In the end, the Bucks successfully eliminated the Nets and won the championship all the way.

It is indeed a pity that Dayao was injured, but in Wang Chao's opinion, it does not mean that the Rockets have lost the biggest chance of winning the championship.

On the contrary, theoretically speaking, the Rockets this season is the most difficult season to win the championship compared with the next few years.

Dayao's state is well protected, but even so, there are only two immediate combat strengths in the team, Wang Chao and Dayao. The other players are not strictly qualified players required by a championship-level team.

Leonard, Butler, Parsons and others are still just rookies in the first year, with little experience in the game, and they have not grown up at all. Even with the help of Wang Chao's training potion, it is impossible to grow from a rookie to an all-round player Star level players.

But if the rookie season is not good, it does not mean that the following seasons are not good.

With the tempering and experience of this season, plus the training effect of the training potion, Wang Chao is sure that next season, several people will have good combat effectiveness, especially Leonard and Butler, will definitely As the main combat force, Dayao will not be as important in the interior as it is now. He can be like Duncan of the Spurs and only need to play a role at critical moments.

Therefore, as time goes on, the strength of the Rockets will only become stronger due to the growth of rookies, and the more capable they will be to win the championship.

But even so, Wang Chao is unwilling to see the Thunder team reverse the game and reach the finals because of Dayao's injury.

Even if they enter the finals and lose to the Heat, they can't take advantage of these guys. Otherwise, wouldn't it prove that as long as they can't beat the opponent, they can try their best to play tricks and get stuck?
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Once the news that Dayao's ankle sprain would take three weeks or even a month was announced, it immediately caused a violent shock in the world.

There was a lot of quarrel in Huaguo because of this incident. Kendrick Perkins became a household name overnight from an unknown player. To be precise, he should be notorious.

Everyone knows that Dayao's injury was caused by his malicious stepping. Dayao is a representative figure of basketball in China. He has fought for the country for many years and won championships in the Olympics and World Championships. It's hard for anyone to accept that it ended with such an insignificant and despicable person.

Even in the United States, many people commented and criticized Perkins' behavior.

Shaq O'Neal, who signed a contract with TNT to become a basketball commentator after retiring, immediately stood up to support Dayao.

"As the last outstanding center I have played against at the end of my career, Dayao is very good, he is an incredible person, as long as the players who have defended him should be able to experience the feeling similar to that of me in the peak period, he is too tall It’s impossible to defend at the basket!”

"But being unable to defend does not mean that you can use some despicable off-court methods to stop him. Such behavior is unsportsmanlike and unprofessional. This kind of thing should not happen in the NBA league, and Perkins does not deserve to be a player. athlete!"

But while people are indignant, they are more regretful.

The Rockets lost Dayao in the playoffs, which is tantamount to the Lakers losing O'Neal during the OK combination.

Even if Wang Chao is far stronger than Kobe in the OK combination period, but without an All-Star starter and the best third-team star, can the Rockets still win the Western Conference Finals?
During the regular season, although the Rockets had the best record in the league, the more than a dozen games they lost were basically games in which Dayao truce and Wang Chao led alone.

It is undeniable that Wang Chao's personal strength is definitely the strongest player in the league today, not even one of them, but it is difficult to support the Rockets, except for him and Dayao, there is no one player who can support the main beam, and the Lakers Thomas Jr., who played well in the game, was only aimed at the specific situation of the Lakers' overall clumsiness and slowness. The effect was not good when they played against the Thunder. Westbrook was taller than Thomas Jr., but his speed was not much less. Ibaka, who has top frame protection and blocking ability.

In the previous games, Wang Chao and Dayao teamed up to defeat the Thunder's three young masters. Now it has become a three-star battle against Lu Bu. Facing a group of talented and energetic young players, Wang Chao can still lead the Rockets to break through to the Western Conference Finals. finals?
With this question in mind, the time soon came to May 5, the fourth game of the Western Conference Finals.

At the Thunder's home court on this day, the fans were extremely active, because the team had a great possibility of winning the game and tied the score to 2:2.

Kendrick Perkins received an additional one-game suspension for a flagrant second-degree foul and will not play in this game.

But even so, compared with the absence of Yao on the Rockets side, it is definitely a great advantage.

The Rockets, with only Wang Chao alone, are not as invincible as before.

The Thunder fans who saw the possibility of their team winning the Western Conference Finals were very excited, and even some extreme fans chanted Perkins' name on the sidelines to support the opponent, as if they regarded him as the hero who saved the team.

This scene made Rockets fans very angry.

Wang Chao was also annoyed.

"Are you happy? Hmph, soon I won't make you happy!"

Rockets starters: Courtney Lee, Korver, Leonard, Wang Chao, Jordan Hill.

Thunder starters: Westbrook, Sefolosha, Durant, Ibaka, Collison.

Jordan Hill won the scrimmage in the jump ball, and the game officially began.

As Wang Chao said, not long after the start of the game, the home fans of the Thunder were a little unhappy.

Because from the very beginning, the Rockets frequently used Jordan Hill's mobility to pull out the outside line to cover Wang Chao's pick-and-roll.

Wang Chao is not polite at all, but whenever there is a chance to shoot, he does not hesitate to take a three-pointer. His shooting rate is astonishingly high. He hit 5 goals in the first 4 shots. The game started less than 5 minutes They scored 12 points, and the Thunder had to call a timeout to formulate defensive tactics against Wang Chao's pick-and-roll three-pointer.

But even if he could stop Wang Chao from firing from outside the three-point line, when Wang Chao changed his style of play and switched to a pick-and-roll and singled out from a wide distance, the result was still the same.

The Rockets, just like Curry in the infinite military training against the Warriors in Harden's future, continued to help Wang Chao with pick-and-roll screens. Because they were worried that Wang Chao would use the screen to immediately shoot a three-pointer, the defensive players had to follow Wang Chao closely. If the distance between the players is widened, a misplaced heads-up will be formed.

The opponent Wang Chao picks the most is naturally Thunder point guard Westbrook.

1 meters vs. 91 meters, the huge height and weight gap makes Westbrook unable to defend Wang Chao at all, and the Thunder cannot double-team Wang Chao, otherwise his excellent passing ability can be found immediately open teammate and make the pass.

首节比赛，王超11投8中，三分球6中4，罚球2中2，单节砍下20分2篮板3助攻。

With Wang Chao's performance, the Rockets led by 31 points at 27:4 in the first quarter.

The game entered the second quarter. The Thunder, who originally expected Wang Chao's physical fitness to decline and his scoring ability to decline, failed to do so. Wang Chao continued to show extremely high offensive efficiency in the second quarter. He scored 17 points in a single quarter and ended halftime. The personal score has come to 37 points.

For the Thunder, Durant also scored 21 points in the halftime, but it was obviously completely incomparable with Wang Chao.

I thought that Yao's absence would make the Rockets no match for the Thunder. Who would have thought that at the end of the halftime game, the Rockets would lead by 58 points 51:7.

The lack of firepower caused by Dayao's absence was completely made up for by Wang Chao. At the same time, the Rockets without Dayao did not suffer any impact on the defensive end. A little stronger, because Jordan Hill's mobility is good, and he is the best candidate for the Thunder, whose main defensive players are all outside players and play briskly with a small ball style.

Many times when the Thunder team is playing fast break, Dayao's footsteps are slow and he can't keep up with the situation where he can't return to the defense immediately, but Jordan Hill can do it. After all, he is also an inside player with a height of 2 meters.

And in this game, Westbrook's old problem was committed again. He thought that without Yao, he would have no threat to the basket. He frequently attacked the basket with the ball, but the efficiency was not high, which caused the Thunder's offensive efficiency to be inferior The Rockets led by Wang Chao's single-core team.

In the third quarter of the second half, Wang Chao began to reduce the number of shots to save energy, but even so he still scored 9 points, raising his personal score to 46 points in the three quarters.

The Thunder recovered a little in the third quarter, and the two sides entered the final fourth quarter with a score of 86:84.

By the fourth quarter of the game, the Thunder could no longer hear much cheering at home, and it was quiet and even a little scary.

Because at the beginning of the game, Wang Chao scored consecutively under the double team of the Thunder team, and even scored two 2+1s, leading the Rockets to play a wave of 12:2 attacks, directly widening the point difference to more than 10 points .

On the Thunder's side, Durant was unwilling to fail like this, and made consecutive hits in an attempt to catch up with the score.

But every time he took a shot to score, Wang Chao from the Rockets would immediately fight back, without giving him a chance to recover the point difference.

Finally, in the fourth quarter, Wang Chao scored another 20 points in a single quarter and scored 66 points in the whole game, breaking the single-game scoring record in the playoffs. At the same time, he led the team to beat the Thunder 113:108 to win the game, taking the lead with a total score of 3:1 Get match points!

(End of this chapter)