NBA: James wants to team up with me

Chapter 59: 12 points vs. 11 points in a single quarter, not losing against James!
After Anthony, James also experienced personally the terrifying ability of Wang Chong's mid-range shooting.

The advantage of Wang Chong's mid-range shot is not the accuracy, but the collateral advantage brought by his height and wingspan at the small forward position.

Assuming that if Wang Chong was similar in height to James and Anthony, he would never be able to shoot as easily as he does now. Let alone James, even Anthony could use his not-so-outstanding defense to limit Wang Chong's shooting.

But that's exactly where the problem lies. Wang Chong, who is 2 meters tall and has a wingspan of 09 meters, is much taller than an ordinary small forward. He has the body of a standard center player, but he runs to play outside. This is not confusing for anyone.

James was a little confused at this time. How to defend against Wang Chong's style of play?

Wang Chong expressed that he wanted to tell the other party that not only will you be confused now, but you will be even more confused when you meet the Warriors in the finals more than ten years later.

In two consecutive finals, James was in the same position, at the same critical moment, and when facing Durant, he was hit by the opponent's winning three-pointer.

Durant is really impossible to guard. The only one who can guard him may really be Westbrook... No, Irving should be one of them later.

The ball was exchanged and it was the Cavaliers' turn to attack.

After halftime, James found that Wang Chong still did not take the initiative to defend him.

Wang Chong thought very clearly. Although he wanted to compete with James, there was no need to defeat his opponent on both offense and defense.

Whether it is Durant at his peak or Wang Chong at this stage, his defensive ability can only be considered above average in the league, and it is impossible to guard James.

Instead of wasting precious physical energy on futile defense of the opponent, it is better to devote all of it to the offense and use offense instead of defense!
If you have the ability, you can surpass me in scoring.

James continued to call for pick-and-roll screens, and this time he did not wait for Wang Chong to stand and confront him directly, but took advantage of the gap in the pick-and-roll to directly accelerate towards the penalty area.

It must be admitted that James' breakthrough is really strong, both in terms of strength and speed. Especially the breakthrough after the pick-and-roll. With a short-distance straight-line acceleration, James can quickly increase the speed and cannot catch up. To the point where nothing can be stopped.

Substitute center Horace Grant actively stepped forward to try to guard James, but when he stopped in front of James, he discovered that James, who had already taken off, was astonishingly high.

It was too late for him to raise his hand to interfere.

"boom--!"

James almost rode Grant and slammed the basketball into the basket with one hand. Wang Chong looked envious at the exciting scene.

To be honest, if he was given a choice, he would prefer James' template rather than Durant.

Although James has various black spots in his career, he takes shortcuts, sticks to groups, and calls himself the goat.

But his physical fitness is really the best in history, and it is not an exaggeration to describe him as the best in history.

The perfect combination of strength, speed, and explosive power. Except for the fact that his muscles are too strong to make elegant and unrestrained shooting movements, James' body is the most perfect benchmark for basketball players.

Even if this aspect is put aside, compared with the flawless mid-range shot, various explosive and exciting dunks are obviously more enjoyable to watch, and it is easier to attract a large number of fans.

"squeak--!"

The referee's whistle sounded. Not only did James dunk successfully, but the referee also called Grant for a blocking foul.

James successfully scored 2+1... No, to be precise, it should be 2+0.Although James' free throws are not as hopeless as O'Neal and Ben Wallace, they are definitely at a very poor level among outside players. If James, who is already highly praised by the league and has a superstar body hair whistle, If his free throw shooting percentage can reach over 80%, he may be able to break Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's historical scoring record at least a year earlier.

Sure enough, it was not what Wang Chong expected.

James stepped to the free throw line and made some preparations in a decent manner, and then shot the iron very simply.

Lakers offense.

Wang Chong did not choose to catch the ball from the outside this time.

Under James' defense, his weak breakthrough ability is still relatively obvious, and his offensive efficiency with the ball on the outside is not high.

Basketball has never been a one-on-one game. Even players like Jordan, Kobe and others will rely heavily on pick-and-rolls and off-ball movement to score points during the game.

For Wang Chong, who currently has the highest mid-range shooting ability, off-ball offense is the way to maximize his scoring ability.

In this attack, Wang Chong led James in a circle around the baseline. After reaching the outside line, he used the ball-free screen from his teammates to separate the distance from James. He almost received a pass from Fisher in an open position, and then he did not hesitate. A lingering shot.

James arrived late and could only watch Wang Chong make a shot.

"Shh!"

Although the process was unremarkable and far less shocking than James' personal dunk just now, the effect was exactly the same, both scoring 2 points.

"Damn..."

After two consecutive defensive misses, James couldn't help but become a little anxious. He couldn't help but glance at his teammates who were nearby after being separated by the pick-and-roll.

A bad team is a bad team. The Cavaliers' badness has been engraved in their bones. They don't even have the slightest awareness of assisting in defense. If someone could immediately step in to defend Wang Chong, they would definitely not let the opponent score so easily.

Why does Wang Chong care what you think?
When it comes to scoring, of course, it's easy to do it. Isn't this also James' consistent philosophy of playing?
In the next few rounds, Wang Chong followed the same pattern, either running without the ball and then catching the ball and shooting, or catching the ball with his back in the mid-range and shooting a fadeaway jumper. In short, he was implementing a belief and attacking and scoring in a way that James could not effectively defend. .

As for James, since he is not facing Wang Chong, the scoring efficiency is actually not low, but the efficiency comparison between on-ball and off-ball offenses actually has a big problem in itself.

After all, in addition to fast breaks, every time James breaks through to the basket with the ball, he has to face the Lakers center's defense. On the other hand, as long as Wang Chong gets rid of James' defense, it is basically a completely open shot.

As a result, in these few minutes, both players scored, which was different from the scoreless score when the main players of both teams were on the court, and their individual scores began to rise rapidly.

What makes Lakers fans even more excited is that Wang Chong scored higher than James!
Until the end of the first quarter, the main players of both sides did not appear again. In less than 8 minutes, Wang Chong and James almost monopolized more than 80% of their respective teams' shots.

Wang Chong made 10 of 6 shots and scored 12 points.

詹姆斯9投4中，罚球5中3，得到11分。

A contest between the two ended with Wang Chong narrowly defeating James.

Wang Chong actually did it to the point where he could not lag behind even against James!
(End of this chapter)