NBA: I am the god of basketball

Chapter 335 Harden: Did I take the wrong medicine?Compete with Wang Chao to score?
Relying on his outstanding performance in the past few games, Harden has surpassed Wang Chao in scoring average. He currently ranks first in the league scoring list with 34.7 points, which is 0.2 points higher than Wang Chao's.

A mere 0.2 points is a shock to Wang Chao.

But if you're serious about scoring in previous games, it's really not that challenging.

So what Wang Chao plans to do in the last few games in January is to surpass Harden in terms of scoring average through a wave of explosive scoring, and give the opponent a fatal blow. This trick is called killing the heart.

The first of these was the home game against the Dallas Mavericks on January 1.

That's right, Wang Chao and Harden, the two players who staged the strongest scoring duel performance in January, finally met head-on at the stall near the end of January.

From the perspective of the team's record, the Nuggets are far ahead. After all, until now, the Nuggets are still the team with the best record in the Western Conference and even the league.

On the other hand, the Lone Ranger, even if Harden staged an explosive scoring show, the winning percentage is only 8 wins and 6 losses. It is almost entirely Harden who carries the entire team on his shoulders by himself.

This alone can see the gap in strength between the two teams.

Although the Nuggets seem to be the single-core leader of Wang Chao, several players in the team have the ability to attack independently. Of course, this is not the key. The real key is the defense built around Gobert, Tucker and others System, enough to keep any team in the league against them scoring below average.

The Lone Ranger obviously does not have this point, and even this season's Lone Ranger is one of the teams with a higher average score per game in the league. After all, the team's lineup structure is really not good.

It is also because of this that the Lone Ranger's current record of seventh in the Western Conference is even more commendable, which can reflect the importance and strategic value of Harden.

So far in the regular season, Harden's efficiency value exceeds 30, and he is one of only two players in the league with an efficiency value exceeding 30. The other is Wang Chao.

Harden's efficiency value is much lower than Wang Chao's, but it is an unwise choice to compete with Wang Chao's numerical monsters in various statistics. To put it bluntly, there are players in today's league who can It is already a rare thing to be close to Wang Chao in terms of high-level data.

In the past few seasons, only James and Curry have been able to do this in the entire league. Even Westbrook, who reproduced Wang Chao's triple-double miracle last season, is actually as efficient as Wang Chao. There is also a large gap.

Harden's ability to stand at the same level as Wang Chao this season is already quite commendable in the eyes of many people, which also makes the league really begin to recognize Harden as a top star in the league.

"If Harden can win the regular season MVP this season, then his historical ranking of NBA shooting guards will undoubtedly rise, and he will be placed under the platform of comparison with Wade, Iverson and others."

"If you want to do this, it's not enough just because of his excellent personal statistics. The record of the Dallas Mavericks must also become better, at least to squeeze into the upper half of the Western Conference, so that it is real to win the regular season MVP." Well deserved."

The old problem of the local media in the United States has committed again. There is no way, who will let Wang Chao's performance and leadership results this season go to the MVP again?
Wang Chao now has six regular season MVPs, including an unprecedented five consecutive MVPs. If he continues to win the MVP, the NBA will once again have a record of being singled out by Wang Chao. The league has won the regular season MVP in history No one with the most players.

At least so far, even if the gold content of Tiangou-Jabbar’s six regular season MVPs has been criticized, he is still six in number, and he is now tied for the first place in history with Wang Chao. This is undisputed, but if Wang Chao Take one and there's nothing wrong with Kareem.

Based on this alone, many people are unwilling to give Wang Chao another chance to create history.

It's just that whether Harden can afford the regular season MVP depends on the performance of himself and the team.

The American media's frequent inversion of right and wrong has aroused the dissatisfaction of a large number of fans. If you want to vote for Harden in the regular season MVP voting, you must at least have a reasonable and tenable reason.

As for the game between the Lone Ranger and the Nuggets, the media are actually not optimistic about the Lone Ranger.

No way, who made the gap in strength between the two teams too great?Even if you don't mention the disparity between the teams, Wang Chao and Harden, when the data is close to the advanced data, the actual combat effectiveness is still very different in the eyes of many people who understand the game.

The difference in shooting percentage between the two is close to 10%, and Harden's free throws are almost double that of Wang Chao.

In this case, the average scoring difference between Harden and Wang Chao is only 0.2 points per game. This alone is actually useless.

And when the two players face each other head-on in a game, the feeling of Li Kui and Li Gui is even more obvious.

The Nuggets sit at home, and the result is actually pretty close. They won the game easily. After all, so far, the Nuggets have only lost 2 games at home in the regular season. Denver Plateau The Devil's home game is by no means in vain, and it is not something the Lone Ranger hovering on the edge of the playoffs can contend with.

But the process of the game still surprised many people.

The focus of everyone's attention in this game is the scoring battle between Wang Chao and Harden.

From the beginning of the game, the eyes of the fans watching this game lit up, because the defender standing in front of Harden did not contribute more and more defensively in the regular season, and has gradually become the core of the Nuggets' perimeter defense PJ. Tucker, but Wang Chao!

Wang Chao personally marked Harden, which is a super high-level treatment.

After having Tucker this season, Wang Chao has seldom been responsible for one-on-one defense of the league's top stars. This is Tucker's job, and there is no need for Wang Chao to compete with him for a job.

Therefore, whether it is facing James of the Cavaliers, Durant of the Nets, Antetokounmpo, Leonard and other top perimeter players in the league, Wang Chao will give this task to Tucker, and he will devote more energy to it. offensive and organizational aspects.

This also led to the decline of Wang Chao's defensive data. Whether it is the obvious steals, blocks, or high-level data that cannot be directly observed, Wang Chao has no way to be the best in DPOY in the past few seasons. When compared to defensive players.

However, no one will think that Wang Chao is caused by the decline in his personal level. As long as he is serious, he will definitely be a more terrifying defensive player than Tucker... No, even if he is currently famous on the defensive end, he has already Gobert, who is recognized as the league's top defensive center, may also be inferior.

In this game, Wang Chao also proved this very well.

面对王超的防守，哈登全场25投9中，三分球13投2中，命中率分别为36%和15.4%，罚球11中8，最终得到28分2篮板7助攻5失误的数据，表现可谓一塌糊涂。

The 28-point score has become the only game Harden has scored less than 1 points since entering January.

It's fine if it's just like this, what's more terrible is that in this game, Wang Chao changed his fishing state in the previous games, and he had a strong desire to attack. 31 points, 72 rebounds and 17 assists!

72 points in a single game, even in Wang Chao's career, he can rank in the top three super high scores. For this score, he even broke the rule of not playing during garbage time. After the game had completely lost suspense in the fourth quarter, Continuing to stay on the court to soar points, this is how to achieve this high score.

Of course, the Lone Ranger is unwilling to allow Wang Chao to score so unrestrainedly. Harrison Barnes, who was mainly responsible for defending Wang Chao throughout the game, left the field with six fouls, but there was nothing he could do.

The Lone Ranger itself is not a team good at defense, so how can they defend against Wang Chao?
It is worth mentioning that Wang Chao was also sent off for six offenses in the end. This happened with 1 minute and 42 seconds left at the end of the game. If not, in the last less than 2 minutes, with Wang Chao Explosive power, maybe even higher personal scores.

Harden is credited for Wang Chao's six offenders.

No matter how rich and sharp Wang Chao's defensive experience is, facing Harden's offensive fouls is impossible to defend against. There is no way. Foul, and he was forced to defend Harden with his hands behind his back like Paul and James later, but even so, with the help of Lion Roar talent, Wang Chao did not let Harden make a few shots. ball.

When this funny scene appeared, the fans of the Nuggets at home were going to lose their temper. Fortunately, this was a big victory with no suspense, otherwise the fans of the Nuggets at home would definitely scold the referee for eighteen generations. Only willing to give up over and over again.

72 points vs. 28 points. The bloody score made Harden look like a paper tiger to many people. It looked fierce with its teeth and claws, but in fact it shattered with a poke, and had no fighting power at all.

"Sure enough, if Harden wants to stand shoulder to shoulder with Wang Chao, he still needs to continue to grow, and it is not good for Harden to fight at the Nuggets' Devil's home court. The loss of this game does not mean that Harden is not good. It is strong, and it also takes advantage of the right time, place and people.”

The media who made such an evaluation did not expect that Wang Chao's scoring performance was not over yet.

After scoring 72 points, the highest score of the season, Wang Chao was not satisfied with it. What he wanted to do was to completely crush Harden in the last few games in January.

The head-to-head matchup with the Lone Ranger on January 1 was just the beginning, followed by the Nuggets' home game against the Boston Celtics on January 27.

Perhaps because of the butterfly effect, Irving was not injured in the Celtics. Not only him, but even Gordon Hayward avoided serious season reimbursement and even affected his career trajectory because of the change in the schedule. of serious injuries.

Therefore, the Celtics have a strong combat effectiveness this season, but the Nets, Cavaliers and Raptors performed more fiercely in the regular season, so they barely ranked fourth in the Eastern Conference.

But for such a powerful team in the league, when the Denver Devils played against the Nuggets at home, the game was not much better than the Lone Ranger in the previous game.

Wang Chao scored 64 points in the whole game and led the Nuggets to win the game 127:110, with a margin of 17 points!
The entire league was shocked.

"Hey, is Wang Chao going to heaven?"

Two consecutive games, one with 72 points and one with 64 points!
Aside from the ancient behemoths and record harvesters, Wilt Chamberlain who once averaged 50+ points per game, Wang Chao is the first player to score 60+ points in a row.

This month, Harden has scored 50+ points in two consecutive games, which has shocked the entire league. Who would have thought that Wang Chao's big move was behind him!

After the game, Celtics head coach Brad Stevens expressed helplessness in front of reporters.

"Wang Chao is the kind of player who can't defend at all. As long as he is on the field, I can't think of any way to stop him from scoring. This is a very frustrating situation for a team coach. , but I really can't find a way to limit him."

The Celtics have averaged 100.4 points per game so far this season, ranking third in the league, second only to the Nuggets and Spurs, and the Miami Heat, which ranks fourth in the league, averaged 102.9 points per game, more than the Celtics. A full 2.5 points higher, which shows that the Celtics' defensive efficiency is good.

But whether it is the Green Army or the Spurs, facing Wang Chaoshi, who has an extremely strong desire to attack, they can't find a good way to deal with it.

Coincidentally, after defeating the Celtics by a big score on January 1, the Nuggets went to an away game against the San Antonio Spurs a day later.

The schedule in January is actually not very friendly to the Nuggets. The two back-to-back away games are actually against the Spurs.

But Wang Chao doesn't care about you. His plan is to give Harden a fatal blow in the last few games in January. How can he let go of the last game against the Spurs on January 1.

So Butler and Howard once again suffered and suffered military training in the game.

Although Popovich continued to use the last three-person encirclement defensive tactic, it still couldn't stop Wang Chao from scoring a large triple-double of 60 points, 14 rebounds and 10 assists.

Three games, 72 points, 64 points and 60 points.

Although the score is lower than the game, the lowest score is enough to make more than 99% of the active players in the league look up.

And to get such a high score in three consecutive games, especially when the last two games were against the two teams with the best defenses in the league in the next two days, this is simply unimaginable.

After the game between Harden and the Nuggets, his mentality exploded. In the last two games in January, he scored 1 points and 37 points respectively. Although he continued to score 34+ points, it was obvious that his energy was completely lost by Wang Chao. .

"What kind of medicine did I take wrong to have the illusion that I can break up with Wang Chao?"

(End of this chapter)