The Strongest Bishop in the NBA

How to use the growth template card still needs to be considered by Wang Xiao, but in any case he will definitely guarantee a premise, that is, to use it as much as possible for Huaxia players while ensuring his own interests.

And now is not the time to think about these messy things.

The biggest issue facing Wang Xiao now is the finals.

After eliminating the Heat and entering the Finals, the Wizards will face the winner of the Mavericks and Spurs.

Whether it is the Mavericks or the Spurs, it is not easy for the Wizards to deal with.

First of all, the gap between the two sides is reflected in the experience.

Whether it is the Spurs or the Mavericks, both have experience in the finals.

Needless to say, the Spurs have been coached by Popovich and Duncan has been the core of the team. Since then, the Spurs have won three championship trophies in ten years.

As for the Mavericks, Nowitzki led the team to the finals in 2006. Unfortunately, they met Wade, who was descended from the gods, and O'Neal, who was still at the tail of his peak, and eventually lost the championship.

Compared with these two teams, the Wizards can be described as complete recruits.

Even for the oldest players in the team, Jamison and Butler, the best result in the previous playoffs was only the division finals, and it was the first time they experienced it under the leadership of Wang Xiao last year.

This is true of the two veterans, let alone rookies such as Curry, Harden, George, etc. who have entered the league for less than two or three years.

People say that the regular season and the playoffs are completely different concepts. Similarly, the finals are completely different from the ordinary playoffs.

Because at this point, if one step forward, one will become the champion and go down in history; if one step back, one will be nailed to the pillar of shame and become the biggest loser of the entire season.

Such huge psychological pressure is enough to break down many veterans who have been famous for a long time, let alone a group of young people who have never experienced anything?

These two days, before the Western Conference champion was decided, Wang Xiao could clearly feel that something was wrong with the atmosphere in the team.

Curry and others were very excited and excited, and they were extremely active in training, but under this excitement, there was a kind of anxiety hidden, a kind of anxiety of fear of failure.

In the final analysis, these are just a group of children in their early twenties. In China, this age group may still be studying in school. A small number of them have graduated and entered the society, but they are still in the stage of learning and growing up.

Faced with such a situation, Wang Xiao could do nothing.

He's a coach, not a psychiatrist.

Although a qualified coach should not only be in charge of games and training, but should also take care of other aspects of the players, but that kind of lightness on paper is not so simple in practice.

Talking to the players and telling them to relax, the Finals is nothing, it's not difficult, but the problem is that it doesn't work.

Changing a person's mind is not as simple as saying a few words.

This is Wang Xiao's shortcoming.

Although relying on the system and the foresight of the traversers, he has become an excellent head coach in terms of coaching and arranging tactical systems, but in the final analysis, he is only a young man. Naturally, he is in his thirties. As wise as Popovich's sixty-somethings.

On this issue, Wang Xiao also specially convened the coaching team to discuss, but there really was no particularly good solution.

Although the 11-year NBA has been very mature and rigorous, there is still a slight gap compared with a few years later. The most intuitive manifestation is that there is no such position as a psychological counselor in the current Wizards team. Psychological problems are not of particular concern.

Reasonably speaking, the pre-match anxiety facing the Wizards is actually not a big problem. It's just that the pressure of winning or losing the finals is too great, which makes the players' mentality a little unbalanced. Even as the finals progress, no matter whether they win or lose Negative, this mentality will dissipate.

But such a mentality will inevitably affect the state of the game more or less.

This is what Wang Xiao is most worried about. The Wizards' tactics rely too much on touch. In almost every game, the Wizards' three-pointers take almost 50% of the shots in the game. If the poor touch affects shooting If the hit rate is high, then the lethality of the team's tactics will drop significantly.

Facts have proved that Wang Xiao's worries are not unreasonable.

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The battle between horses and horses finally ended with the victory of the Mavericks. The two teams fought fiercely until the tiebreaker, but in the end, the Mavericks, which got Kidd, Chandler, and Haywood this year, had the last laugh.

In this way, the final matchup is the Washington Wizards VS Dallas Mavericks.

The first battle between the two sides began on June 2, 2011, and two days before the start of the game, the final voting results for the NBA regular season MVP awards finally came out.

Curry finally defeated Rose, who received 25% of the votes, with 33% of the votes, and became the youngest MVP in history.

Curry's victory was expected by most people. Regardless of personal statistics, the team's record in the regular season and playoffs, Curry is better than Rose. It is lower than Rose, which inevitably makes people wonder if there is some black box operation.

Although Curry entered the league a year later than Rose, in terms of age, Curry is a few months older than Rose.

Originally, if Rose could win the regular season MVP trophy, he could also drop the record of the youngest regular season MVP a few months earlier, but Curry was elected as the regular season MVP. Rose would have to wait until at least next year to win the MVP again. 23 years old.

At the same time, as the head coach, Wang Xiao was elected the best coach of the 2010-11 season without any suspense because he led the team to an amazing record of 68 wins in the regular season.

The double happiness has made the Wizards even more powerful. Many Wizards fans have already imagined how to celebrate when the team beat the Mavericks 4-0 and won the O'Brien Cup.

However, in the first game of the finals, the Wizards were hit in the face.

What Wang Xiao was worried about still happened.

At the beginning of the finals, as the core of the team, Curry was very active in trying to help the team open the situation.

But the defender he was facing was a man named Jason Kidd, Jeremy Lin's genuine, legendary point guard!

Kidd, who was born in 1973, is 38 years old, but as a floor fluid point guard, Kidd still maintains a pretty good state.

Wang Xiao was particularly impressed by Kidd in the 2011 finals, because in the finals at that time, Mavericks forward Sean Marion was the main defender against James, but there were many times in the game that Kidd was misplaced to defend James. .

Although James hadn't developed back-up skills at that time, relying on the breakthrough of the body tank version is by no means something ordinary people can defend against!

But Kidd survived, and his defensive efficiency was no worse than Marion's!

To put it bluntly, Kidd's defensive ability, even at the age of 38, can definitely be ranked among the top five point guards in the league.

When Curry, who was a little impatient in the finals stage, faced Kidd, it was a natural tragedy.