The Strongest Bishop in the NBA

Chapter 135 The upcoming key duel

The Wizards have won a wave of five consecutive victories, and the momentum is like a rainbow, but the Heat's Big Three, which NBA fans are most concerned about, did not perform well at the beginning of the season.

As many people are worried about, James and Wade really have conflicts in terms of possession of the ball.

The so-called conflict is not that the two have conflicts, but that the two players play similarly. When they are on the court at the same time, it often results in a situation where one is holding the ball and the other is at a loss and does not know what to do.

The Heat's opponent in the first game of the new season is the Celtics, and Stern has also worked hard on the schedule. It will be a showdown between the old and the new Big Three.

It's a pity that before Wang Xiao said that he didn't know the Big Three of the Heat and that they were not the opponents of the Wizards, the NBA schedule had been arranged and announced. Otherwise, the Wizards might meet the Heat earlier in the regular season.

Facing the Celtics' Big Three, the Heat's Big Three seemed to be struggling.

James, Wade, Bosh.

The lineup of the Big Three of the Heat looks so dreamy, but their regular season debut is not ideal.

James played well, scoring 31 points, 4 rebounds and 3 assists in 43 minutes of playing, but Wade made 4 of 16 shots, shooting 25% from the field, and only scored 13 points. Although he had 6 assists, he also had 6 Mistakes, as for another giant Bosh, under Garnett's pursuit and interception, only 8 points and 8 rebounds were recorded.

Compared with the Celtics' Big Three, which complement each other, the Heat's Big Three's cooperation with each other is chaotic and has no rules at all.

After losing to the Celtics in the first game, the Heat defeated the Philadelphia 76ers in the second game and won the first regular season victory of the Big Three.

But the win wasn't particularly pretty.

Wade broke out in this game, scoring 30 points, 7 rebounds and 4 assists, but James only scored 16 points and Bosh 15 points.

Such a situation does not give people a feeling that as long as one of the Big Three of the Heat plays well, the other two will not have a good chance to perform.

It was the same in the third game that followed, Wade scored 26 points, James and Bosh had only 15 points and 11 points respectively.

In the fourth game, James had 32 points, Wade had 17 points and Bosh had 12 points...

Although the Heat have won all these games, this is obviously not what the Heat fans expected to see. What they want to see is that the Big Three show their due strength and crush all opponents.

Wang Xiao is very clear that the integration of the Big Three takes a long time. In the 2010-11 season, the Big Three of the Heat have just formed their first year, and the cooperation between them is not tacit. The team's regular season record has been brought to the level of 58 wins.

In the playoffs, the problem of the cooperation of the Big Three still existed, and it was only because the two of James and Wei were too capable that they went all the way to the finals, and the problem broke out when they faced the Dallas Mavericks.

Due to unknown reasons, James was out of form. He averaged only 17.8 points per game in six games with the Mavericks. In one game, he only scored 8 points in the game, the lowest score in the playoffs of his career.

James' downturn caused the Heat to lose the championship at their fingertips, and at the same time caused the Big Three to make changes.

In the second season of the Big Three, Wade obviously gave up the ball and made sacrifices for the Big Three. With Wade's concession, James returned to his previous state, not only won the regular season MVP, but also averaged Scored 28.6 points, 10.2 rebounds and 7.4 assists, playing extremely efficiently.

Of course, it was a year after the Big Three of the Heat suffered a severe blow.

The current Heat team still has the problem of ball distribution.

Wang Xiao's confidence that the Wizards can beat the Heat's Big Three also comes from this.

After 5 games, the Heat tied with the Bulls for second place in the Eastern Conference with a record of 4 wins and 1 loss, second only to the Wizards who won all 5 games. Almost everyone believes that it will take minutes for the Heat to catch up with the Wizards.

But in fact it is not the case.

Time into November 2010, the Wizards' opponents were the Rockets, Bobcats, Raptors, Bulls and Celtics.

In these 5 games, the Wizards only lost to the Bulls on the road, and won all the remaining 4 games. The Wizards' record also came to 9 wins and 1 loss.

Correspondingly, the Heat lost 2 games at the beginning of the month, and their record dropped to 7 wins and 3 losses. Not only did they fail to catch up with the Wizards, they were even opened up by the 8 wins and 2 losses of the Bulls, falling to the third place in the Eastern Conference. .

As the game progressed, George's playing time began to gradually increase, and gradually increased to about 28 minutes.

This playing time on the bench is second only to Harden's average of 31 minutes per game.

In the starting lineup, only Curry played more minutes than him, and Butler and Jamison only played the same amount of time as George.

A lot of playing time also allowed George's scoring to rise to double digits, and his scoring average increased to about 11 points per game.

At this time, people also discovered that the Wizards let George play not to let him score, but to strengthen the defense.

In many cases, with George's debut, whether he replaces Butler or Jamison, the Wizards' defensive ability can be instantly improved to a higher level.

Of course, George still can't achieve the level that Howard Garnett can make a qualitative change in the entire team's defense, but for the Wizards, which is mainly offensive, this defensive strength is enough.

"Wang Xiao has obviously begun to realize that a team that can only attack can't win the final victory, and the Wizards have also begun to gradually strengthen the team's defense! From this point of view, it is really a challenge to select Paul George with the No. 4 pick. Wise choice."

Although George didn't average more than 20 points per game like Curry, nor could he get seven or eight assists like Harden, but the defensive improvement he brought was also a real help to make the team stronger.

It is entirely conceivable that after two or three seasons, George grows up, and there will be no problem in replacing Butler or Jamison.

At this time, even the general manager of the Wizards, Glenn Field, who had never had a good impression of Wang Xiao, began to think about it.

According to this situation... maybe within five years, the Wizards really have a chance to hit the championship...

When Wang Xiao made this promise to the team owner, Grunfeld's first reaction was that the other party was bragging.

Even if the Wizards finished second in the Eastern Conference last season and reached the Eastern Conference finals, he still thinks Wang Xiao is just lucky.

But now, looking at the players on the team, Curry, Harden, George, Green, Jordan, Beverly... None of these players are over 24 years old, and these players will grow again in five years To what extent?

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