NBA: I am the god of basketball

After Wang Chao scored 1 points, 72 points and 64 points in the last three games in January, there is no suspense in the battle for the strongest scoring champion.

Harden is very good. In January, he averaged 1 points, 41.2 rebounds and 8.7 assists per game. Even though his 7.7% shooting rate is a little low in this small ball league where the shooting rate is more than 43%, but free throws are counted Inside, Harden's true shooting percentage is not low, even far exceeding the league average.

Unfortunately, what he met was the monster version of Wang Chao.

1月王超的场均数据是恐怖的45.2分11.4篮板8.5助攻，投篮命中率54%，三分命中率48%。

Even if the super high scores in the last three games are excluded, Wang Chao's scores in those games before January can still be maintained at more than 1 points, which is not much lower than Harden's score.

Of course, Harden only scored 28 points, 34 points and 37 points in the last three games, which also lowered his scoring average, which should also be counted on Wang Chao.

Under the ebb and flow, the gap is thus revealed.

It is worth mentioning that averaging 40+ points per game in a single month is not an easy task.

Stronger than Jordan, in the season of the highest scoring season in his personal career, that is, the season when he averaged 37.1 points per game, he did not average more than 40 points per game in a certain month.

Looking at the history of the league, other players who can do this can be counted on one hand, including the case of Chamberlain who averaged 50+ points per game in a season.

In the 11-12 season, Wang Chao once achieved the miracle of averaging 40.7 points per game in the regular season, and he averaged 40+ points per game for three months.

Although Harden was slammed by Wang Chao in terms of scoring this month, the monthly scoring average of 41.2 points is also a real data reflection. People may no longer compare him with Wang Chao in the same position, but look at the current league. However, Harden's scoring ability and scoring explosive power have indeed reached the strongest level under Wang Chao.

Under the two active players, no one else has done it.

And if you focus on retired players, apart from Chamberlain and Elgin Baylor in ancient times, only Kobe Bryant has done the same thing, and Kobe has averaged 3+ points per game three times in a single month His performance is the third person in history under Chamberlain and Wang Chao.

Looking at the history of the league, there are only these five players who can achieve this level of scoring performance. The rest, including Jordan, Durant, Iverson, and James, have never done it. This shows the difficulty of this achievement so big.
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In any case, the scoring contest between Wang Chao and Harden in January ended in Harden's defeat, and his performance in the head-to-head confrontation was still ugly, which can be described as losing and losing.

But Harden still relied on his explosive performance in January to gain a large number of fans and fans. The number of votes for the All-Stars has also risen all the way, and even overtook Curry at the last moment, second only to Wang Chao in the West.

As early as January 1, the league announced the final voting results for the 19 All-Star Weekend.

Wang Chao was elected the league vote leader with an absolute advantage, while James in the East came in second and became the vote leader in the East at the same time.

It is still very important that Wang Chao and James are the top voters in the East and West.

Because in the 17-18 season, the league also made changes to the system of the All-Star Game, canceling the script of the confrontation between the East and the West, and replaced it with the leader of the East and West as the team leader, and selected the All-Stars through a similar draft. Teammates compete against each other.

I have to admit that the league has restructured many events during the All-Star Weekend, such as the three-point contest and the slam dunk contest. Most of them ended in failure and were slammed by unacceptable fans.

But the captain confrontation system of the All-Star Game is a rare successful reform.

In the past few decades, fans have long been tired of watching the confrontation between the East and the West. Even if all the fans on the field are their favorite fans, they can't help but feel aesthetic fatigue and dull.

But when the captain's competition system was announced, this novel way of confrontation immediately attracted the attention and interest of many fans.

Since this is the first restructuring and the league is inexperienced, for the sake of safety, the selection process of the All-Stars was not broadcast live on TV, but the selection of the Eastern and Western champions, Wang Chao and James were successively announced.

The All-Star Weekend draft is held at the end of January.

As the leader of the total votes, Wang Chao has the right to choose first. According to the rules, they must first select their All-Star starting teammates from the other 8 players selected for the All-Star starting, and then continue to choose among the substitute players.

As far as Wang Chao is concerned, he has not had much interest in the All-Star Weekend games for a long time, and the selection of players is relatively random.

His first choice was Antetokounmpo, the third-ranked player in the All-Star Weekend in total votes from the Eastern Milwaukee Bucks.

The 17-18 season is the season when Antetokounmpo has risen. So far in the regular season, his average performance of 27.1 points, 10.3 rebounds and 5 assists per game can rank in the forefront of the league. At the same time, Antetokounmpo also has 1.5 steals and 1.4 blocks on the defensive end, just like a freshman The projected weakened version of Wang Chao.

Antetokounmpo's explosive playing style and terrifying physical talent have allowed him to gain a large number of fans this season, and his popularity has risen sharply. In several rounds of voting, he even briefly surpassed James to become the top voter in the Eastern Conference. As for Durant's popularity It was also suppressed and could only be ranked No.3 in the Eastern voting.

Wang Chao didn't have any special ideas in choosing Antetokounmpo, it was simply because he had to choose a player.

Antetokounmpo this season has only just emerged. In the next few seasons, he will show strong dominance, winning the regular season MVP for two consecutive seasons, and winning the NBA championship in the 20-21 season.

It can be said that the future Antetokounmpo, the absolute top three top stars in the league, can even compete with Jokic, who won the championship in 23 years, for the first place.

当然，如果只看夺冠赛季的数据表现，字母哥20-21赛季场均30.2分12.8篮板5助攻，投篮命中率56.9%，确实跟约基奇22-23赛季场均30分13.5篮板9.5助攻，54.8%的投篮命中率相差不大。

Both of them have two regular season MVPs, one championship and FMVP. In the case of Bjokic leading 2 best teams, 4 best defensive teams and 1 best defensive player honor, Antetokounmpo, in the In terms of honor, it still seems to be slightly better.

However, this is only the difference in honor accumulation and historical status. If it is simply to compare the real combat effectiveness of the two players, at least in the 22-23 season, Jokic is far behind Antetokounmpo.

There is no way, as both are big players, the difference in technical characteristics between the two is really too big.

Antetokounmpo does have a physical talent that is rare in league history, like a monster, but his technical shortcomings cannot be made up for by his body anyway, especially in three-pointers.

In the 22-23 season, Jokic has hit an astonishing 38% of his three-pointers. For a seven-foot inside player, he can be used as a conventional weapon.

In addition, Jokic's offensive skills in the interior are also very rich. He breaks through the frame, backs up the interior, and is almost proficient in hooks. He averaged 9.8 assists per game in the regular season. He almost achieved a triple-double in the season. aspect capabilities.

Someone once said that Jokic is essentially an enhanced version of Doncic who is ten centimeters taller. There is actually nothing wrong with this statement.

Of course, Antetokounmpo also has his advantages. Although the offensive end is not as kaleidoscope and changeable as Jokic, he is superior in both offense and defense. Although Jokic's ability to protect the basket is not weak, his body fat is doomed. Insufficient in moving speed and defense.

In any case, let Wang Chao see that during the same period, that is, the 22-23 season, Jokic must be better, and there is no dispute that he is firmly established as the active No. 1 player in the league.

But now he is selecting four starting players. Jokic's performance in the Nets this season can only be described as quite satisfactory, let alone an All-Star starter, and he was not even selected as a substitute.

No way, the current situation of the Nets does not give him much possibility to play to his fullest.

The three generals on the perimeter, Durant, Paul and Booker have basically divided up the possession of the ball. The problem is that Jokic himself is still a player who needs a certain amount of possession to be effective. The result without the possession of the ball is self-evident .

The Nets have two players selected to the All-Star, one is Durant who was selected as the starter, and the other is Chris Paul who was selected as a substitute.

Therefore, Wang Chao, who does not have Jokic as an option, can only choose Antetokounmpo.

After Wang Chao chose Antetokounmpo as his first choice, James' choice surprised many people. His first choice was Kyrie Irving, who chose to leave him and the Cavaliers last summer and switch to the Celtics who wanted to be the boss.

This has to praise James' high emotional intelligence.

Even if Irving abandoned him, he did not complain about Irving in the slightest because of this, and even took the initiative to express his kindness to Irving in this way, regardless of whether it was ulterior motives or what, at least in the eyes of the fans on both sides, James and Irving were in the All-Stars. The reunion at the game is bound to become a good story.

In fact, according to some Zhan Hei's views, Owen's behavior is slightly different from James' decision 1 in detail, but the result is similar.

It also "betrayed" his own team, and the Celtics named by Irving had the best record in the Eastern Conference last season, and they had a battle with the Cavaliers in the Eastern Conference Finals, which is worse than James' grouping of the Big Three. Even better. After all, in order to form the Big Three, the Heat dismantled the entire team to pieces and completely rebuilt a team. It is not as complete as the Celtics who ranked first in the Eastern Conference in the 16-17 season. In theory, Irving's joining the Celtics is a perfect replacement for Thomas Jr.'s position in the Celtics.

For the Celtics, this is basically a hardware upgrade, and by the way, it also introduced All-Star small forward Hayward, and its overall strength has improved to a higher level, almost becoming the league's biggest favorite to win the championship.

But because of this incident, there are very few people who complain about Irving. Even the big Irving is regarded as the number one point guard in a certain music, and his gorgeous style of play has captured a large number of brain-dead fans.

Everyone knows the subsequent results. The Celtics were 55 wins and 27 losses in the regular season. The winning rate was 68% when Irving was there, and it was around 64% when Irving was not there. The difference is not particularly big. It's even more funny.

Irving was reimbursed for the season and didn't play a game in the playoffs. As a result, the Celtics made it all the way to the Eastern Conference Finals. They fought against the Cavaliers in seven games before losing. You must know that in the previous round, the Cavaliers just had nothing to lose. The rivalry swept the Raptors with the No. 4 record in the East 0:[-].

So, what did Irving bring to the Celtics?In addition to wanting to be the boss, but no one convinced him at all, leaving a lot of feathers, Irving accomplished nothing during his two years with the Celtics.

Not to mention the two years of the Celtics, even in the next few years of the Nets, they partnered with Durant, Harden and many other top stars one after another, and the results were the same.

Until the 22-23 season, people mentioned Irving's strength, and the most mentioned was the three-point lore in the finals of the 15-16 season.

The topic is far away, back to the All-Star Weekend.

Regardless of previous suspicions, James wanted to shake hands with Irving to make peace.

In contrast, Wang Chao does not have that kind of "high EQ".

His second choice did not choose Durant, his good partner from last season. The two had an unpleasant fight in the finals. It's full of resentment.

He didn't want to play with Wang Chao, and Wang Chao didn't have the same mind as James, so his second choice was Stephen Curry of the Warriors.

Then James chose the Hornets forward Anthony Davis with the second pick, and Wang Chao chose the Raptors guard DeMar DeRozan as the third pick.

At this time, there are three starters left, namely Durant in the east, Leonard in the west, and Cousins.

Then James chose Leonard, with a smirk on his face.

When he saw James choose Leonard, Wang Chao knew that this guy was really bad.

In the selection process of the 2022 All-Star Weekend in the future, Harden, who was in the Nets at the time, was in deep trading turmoil, and the top voters in the East and West happened to be Durant and James respectively.

James deliberately did not choose Harden during the draft process, and let Durant, who was still on the same team as Harden at the time, choose. Gobert, the whole James failed to control his expression. He used the tactical board to cover his face and snickered. Coupled with Durant's dull expression, it was too classic.

Now, facing Wang Chao, James actually used the same trick. The only difference is that there was no live broadcast of the selection process in the first East-West Contest, and James couldn't see the expression of smiling.

Wang Chao didn't care about this, he could express his disdain for Durant directly to the outside world calmly and calmly, but Du Xiaoshuai's narrow-minded personality probably really teamed up with him, and he couldn't sleep at night when he was so angry.

So Wang Chao chose DeMarcus Cousins ​​as his fourth pick, leaving Durant to James.

After the All-Star starting lineup is selected, it is the choice of the substitute lineup, but there is nothing to mention in this link.

In the end, only Wang Chao was selected as the All-Star for the Nuggets, and the rest, including Gobert, Murray, Mitchell and Rose, were all defeated. In the case of the poor commander, it really doesn't matter who Wang Chao chooses.

It's just that Wang Chao, the only one in the Nuggets team, was selected for the All-Star Game, which once again amazed people.

A team with only one All-Star in the team is currently the first in the league. How does this make those teams with three or four All-Stars survive? (end of this chapter)