NBA: I am the god of basketball

Wang Chao spent almost the entire offseason in Los Angeles.

In addition to accompanying Candice to the hospital for prenatal check-ups, she also accompanied Xiao Ker to play in various amusement parks in Los Angeles.

In addition, Wang Chao’s long-lost private training camp has also restarted in Los Angeles.

As in the past, only a small number of Clippers players are eligible to participate in the training camp, including young players such as Alexander, Keldon Johnson, and Kevin Porter Jr.

Wang Chao spends two to three hours every day training with the Clippers players. The purpose is of course to use the bonus effect of the sparring potion to help these young players grow and improve quickly.

In fact, the effect of Wang Chao's training improvement has been minimal. After all, most of his ability values ​​have reached the full value of 99, and many of them have even completed the system's promotion conditions, breaking through 99 and upgrading to 100.

Continuing to practice hard has no significant improvement effect for him, it is just a conventional method to maintain his competitive state.

Moreover, although Wang Chao has an upgraded version of the talent of steel and iron, which can extend the peak period of his career, he is still a 37-year-old veteran after all. He has to play to the finals every season, which takes a lot of physical exertion.

In this way, Wang Chao took his wife and children out for sightseeing every day, and trained appropriately with his teammates, and the days passed like this.

Before we know it, September is approaching.

The 2019-20 season is coming.

The trade signings of each team have also been basically completed.

As usual, ESPN rates the trade signings of league teams in the offseason.

The three teams with the highest ratings are the Raptors, Spurs and Rockets. They made a lot of moves in the off-season. They acquired powerful players such as Paul George, Chris Paul and Vucevic respectively. The overall strength of the team Take it to the next level.

The next level is the Milwaukee Bucks.

They also made gains in the offseason, spending huge sums of money to sign Khris Middleton.

After Middleton left the Rockets, he chose to join the Detroit Pistons with a four-year, $4 million contract.

In the past few years with the Pistons, although the team's record has not improved much, Middleton, as the team's only main outside scoring point, has a remarkable personal performance and can stably contribute 20+5 per game. Naturally, Made some value.

So when his contract expired, the Bucks, who were optimistic that Middleton's outside shooting ability could open up space for Antetokounmpo, decided to take action and signed Middleton with a maximum salary of 4 million in four years. Kings together form the Big Three. Although Middleton has never been selected as an All-Star in this world and his name is slightly inferior, his strength is unquestionable.

It seems to be God's will. Middleton was originally supposed to be a rookie selected by the Pistons. Then he played for the Pistons for one season and was traded to the Bucks. He gradually established a foothold in the Bucks and became Antetokounmpo's right-hand man.

Because of Wang Chao, Middleton was intercepted halfway. Unexpectedly, after going around in circles, he still played for the Pistons and Bucks, and began to partner with Antetokounmpo.

The strength of the Bucks, who have gathered the Big Three, has definitely improved compared to last season. Together with the Raptors, they have become the team most likely to enter the playoffs in the new season.

The Los Angeles Clippers, where Wang Chao belongs, also received high praise for their offseason work.

In fact, the Clippers did nothing at all during the offseason. They just renewed the contract of Brook Lopez, selected two rookies at the end of the first round, and then signed two veterans who were already without the ball, Anthony and Howard.

But they retained Wang Chao this summer, which was the most valuable move.

To put it bluntly, if Wang Chao hadn't been with the Clippers last season, and the offseason was just about implementing player options, not contract renewals, otherwise, just by signing Wang Chao, the Clippers would have become the most successful team in the league this summer. Team.

Wang Chao alone can equal an army of thousands!
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In mid-September, players from all teams in the league reported back to their teams to prepare for the preseason games of the new season.

All members of the Clippers also reported in and took the team's new season makeup photos.

After last season, the Clippers lineup has changed slightly in the new season.

The team roster is as follows.

Guards: Wang Chao, Lou Williams, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Kevin Porter Jr.

Forwards: Gallinari, Harrell, Carmelo Anthony, Keldon Johnson.

Center: Brook Lopez, Howard.

The above ten people are the main rotation players in Wang Chao's planned roster. In addition, in order to complete the 15-man roster, there are also five supporting role players. They are all candidates finalized by the team management. It doesn't matter. Wang Chao is not even among them. I can’t even remember the names of some of the players.

But it doesn't matter if you can't remember clearly. After all, several of them signed even short-term contracts without guarantees. During the preseason, more than half of them will pack up and leave, and then a new batch of new players will join the team.

For the Clippers' lineup, Wang Chao already has a preliminary idea for the starting list.

The position of starting point guard is indeed still needed for him.

The most suitable position for Lou Williams is always the sixth man on the bench. After all, as a point guard, he is too short in stature and lacks defensive ability. In fact, the offensive end is not very stable. It is okay to serve as a spearhead on the bench. , but it is not suitable to appear in the starting position.

Therefore, Wang Chao can only continue to appear at the point guard position. He can now play any of the five positions on the field. He has the advantage of misalignment in the point guard position, making it easier to perform.

As for the shooting guard position, Wang Chao plans to let Alexander give it a try.

Brogdon left the team, leaving the team's starting shooting guard position vacant.

In terms of personal ability, Alexander is definitely stronger than Brogdon. After all, Alexander in the future will be a superstar who can average 30+5+5 per game and be selected for the best team. His personal ability is extremely outstanding.

即便是19-20赛季的新秀第二个赛季，在雷霆队的亚历山大也能场均得到19分5.9篮板3.3助攻的准全明星数据了。

Alexander's shortcoming is that he needs a certain amount of ball power to show his strength, and his mid-to-long-range ability, especially three-pointers, is not very strong. His three-point shooting rate throughout his career is only 34.7%.

Wang Chao's ball-holding and big-core style of play prefers his teammates to be fixed-point three-point shooters who can catch and shoot. This is the same as James.

But this does not mean that Wang Chao cannot partner with ball-handling players. After all, when he started his career, he mainly played without the ball. If necessary, he can switch to off-the-ball offense at any time.Alexander recently trained hard for a month with the support of Wang Chao's sparring potions. Although there was a serious lack of playing time last season, his level is not much different from his own at the same time, and he can definitely be used. Useful.

Wang Chao decided to use Carmelo Anthony as the starting small forward.

Although he joined the Clippers with a minimum salary this season, Anthony's personal strength can still be believed. After Tobias Harris left the team, it was a good choice for Anthony to serve as the starting small forward and take on some of the offensive work.

Wang Chao remembers clearly that in the 19-20 season, Anthony started 50 games with the Trail Blazers, averaging 15 points and 6 rebounds per game, shooting 42.6% from the field and 37% from three-point range. As a starting player, he is absolutely It's considered qualified.

Moreover, the Clippers' magic ball play has a changeable lineup. Lou Williams averages more than 30 minutes per game. When Lou Williams comes on the court, Wang Chao will swing from the point guard position to the forward position. Although Anthony is He will start, but his playing time should be limited to less than 30 minutes at most.

The starting power forward is, as always, Danilo Gallinari.

Gallinari's strength has never been very strong, but he is not weak either. If he is given enough ball rights, it is not difficult to average 20 points per game, especially in the following seasons, Gallinari's three His point shooting percentage can be maintained above 40%, which is Wang Chao's favorite type of player.

Although Gallinari, who is 2 meters tall, has a thin physique and it is difficult to withstand opponents at the power forward position, this is not a problem at all. The Clippers have Lopez protecting the basket inside and Wang Chao on the outside to check for leaks and fill in the gaps. As long as he It doesn’t mean everything is easy just because we are defending a black hole.

As for the center, it is center Brook Lopez who the Clippers spent a lot of money to retain.

As a functional center, Lopez does not need to charge into the battle, he only needs to use his intimidating ability to protect the basket and open three-pointers from the outside.

This is also the reason why Lopez averaged only 14+5 per game last season, but got a four-year 4 million contract extension.

Under the starting five are the main substitute players.

Lu Wei, Harrell, plus two new rookies selected this year, Kevin Porter Jr. and Keldon Johnson, and then Dwight Howard at the center position.

In fact, with Lopez, Howard basically won't have much playing time and opportunities, but it's not absolute.

Although he is old, Howard still has some ability to rebound and protect the basket.

Especially in the 19-20 season, Howard, who was supposed to be with the Lakers, could contribute 20 points and 7.5 rebounds in an average of less than 7.3 minutes per game. In the playoffs, he made extraordinary achievements several times, especially In the showdown with the Denver Nuggets, Howard and McGee teamed up to limit Jokic, allowing the Lakers to easily defeat the Nuggets and advance to the Finals.

This is enough to prove that a blue-collar center like Howard still has certain value under certain circumstances.

This is also the reason why Wang Chao asked the team to sign Howard.
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In October 19, the preseason began.

The preseason games of Wang Chao's team have always been a stage for the main players to train new players.

This time is no exception.

Including Wang Chao, Gallinari, Lopez, Lu Wei and other main players, they all played less than 20 minutes. If they didn't have to give back to the fans who spent money to buy tickets to support the game, they wouldn't even bother to play at all.

The Clippers' main players participating in the game are first- and second-year rookie players such as Alexander, Johnson and Porter.

Then, the arena became Alexander's personal show.

Alexander really didn't have much playing time last season.

All 66 games he played were as substitutes, averaging less than 10 minutes per game and only 4 points and 1 rebound.

Even Alexander himself thought that his career might come to an abrupt end. After the four-year rookie contract ended, he could only move around the league with a minimum salary. When he couldn't get a contract at all, he would Will quietly disappear from the alliance.

He never dreamed that in the new season, Wang Chao would put him in the starting position without any warning, and also invited him to participate in the league's famous Wang Chao private training camp.

Obviously, Wang Chao is optimistic about him and thinks he can play.

You know, that is Wang Chao who has the Midas touch!In the past ten years, countless players have performed well under Wang Chao's guidance, been selected as All-Stars, and received big contracts.

There are almost countless similar examples, and there is never even an exception.

Since Wang Chao is optimistic about himself, doesn't it prove that he also has the possibility of becoming an All-Star?
Feeling greatly inspired, Alexander performed very positively in the preseason. He scored 24 points, 6 rebounds and 4 assists in the first game of the preseason, leading the team to their first win of the new season.

In the subsequent preseason games, although the Clippers lost many games due to less playing time for their main players, Alexander was the best performer on the team regardless of winning or losing.

Alexander is good at breaking through with the ball. His height of 1 meters and good physical fitness make him quite lethal when breaking through with the ball, especially when facing preseason opponents who are mostly substitute players, he can rush to the basket. It was like a tiger entering a flock of sheep, which surprised the media reporters.

"Unexpectedly, the bench player who was unknown last season could actually have such a level? In this case, the Clippers don't need to worry about who will be the starting shooting guard for the new season."

"However, Alexander is obviously a breakthrough player with the ball. He is not good at mid-to-long-range shooting. Compared with Brogdon, the team's starting shooting guard last season, it is obviously not suitable for Wang Chao's ball-holding and core style of play."

"Can the Clippers still achieve last season's super three-point dominance without two outside players, Harris and Brogdon, whose three-point shooting percentage exceeds 40%?"

The Clippers' final preseason record was 6 wins and 4 losses, and their performance was average, but everyone knows that what Wang Chao's team really depends on is its regular season performance.

On October 10, the NBA regular season officially begins.

The Clippers' regular season opener was against their city rivals, the wealthy Los Angeles Lakers.

I have to admit that the alliance understands the traffic code.

Clippers vs. Lakers is definitely the most watched and hottest matchup in the league. It is obviously the best choice to start the regular season with a duel between these two teams.

Lakers fans also hope to play against the Clippers as soon as possible.

In their opinion, the Clippers are missing two generals this season, and their strength will inevitably shrink. Facing the Lakers, who have become more and more tacit after a season of running together, they are really not sure who will win and who will lose. Their chance for revenge may come. Got it! (End of chapter)