The Strongest Bishop in the NBA

At the beginning of the game, under Kidd's defense, Curry missed several shots in a row.

The 38-year-old Kidd is far less oppressive in defense than Jeremy Lin's. Even in many cases, Curry has the feeling that he can pass the opponent in an instant, or can shoot from a certain distance.

But when he really put his ideas into practice, he found that Kidd, who seemed to be slow, always arrived just in time.

That's not relying on speed to catch up, but a method similar to predicting in advance.

To put it simply, Kidd used his incomparable experience to judge what Curry wanted to do at the moment Curry acted, and reacted one step ahead.

It sounds ridiculous, but for a veteran who has played in the league for 16 years, Kidd can really do it.

Being defended by Kidd several times in a row seemed to happen, which caused Curry's mentality to change a little.

To be honest, before the game, although Curry also attached great importance to Kidd, he did not completely regard Kidd as an enemy.

This season, with the increase of age, Kidd's data has shrunk to a certain extent compared with the previous seasons. The average data in the regular season is only 7.9 points and 8.2 assists. In the playoffs, the average data is only 9.3. With 7 assists, there is no obvious increase.

And what about Curry? As a representative of the new generation of point guards, Curry has just won the regular season MVP, and so far in the playoffs, although Curry's data has shrunk due to targeted defense against the Celtics, but He still has the luxury data of averaging 26 points and 5.6 assists per game, and is the team's first scoring leader.

Faced with a player who is so old and whose speed and strength have declined, if Curry can't score alone with his personal ability, then the regular season MVP will be too cheap.

But it turns out that Curry is still too young.

In the first half of the first quarter, under Kidd's defense, Curry's hand feeling was poor. He only hit 1 goal in 7 shots and made 0 of 4 three-pointers.

Wang Xiao frowned and replaced Curry first to increase his status, but things were not as simple as imagined.

It's not just Curry, but other Wizards players have more or less problems.

The first is Jordan.

From the beginning of the game, Jordan was very active and completely gained the upper hand in the inside fight with Tyson Chandler.

But the good times didn't last long. Facing the Mavericks players breaking through and entering the paint, Jordan was too active, constantly stepping forward to make up defenses and blocks, but in the end, within three minutes, he fouled twice in a row, and When competing with Chandler for an offensive rebound, because of some anxiety, Jordan couldn't help but move a little bit bigger, and then he was late for the third foul of the game.

Under the third offense, Wang Xiao had to replace Jordan and let McGee step up.

The good news is that although the Wizards are weak on the inside, there are a lot of blue-collar players hoarding them. In addition to Jordan, there are McGee and Whiteside inside. Don't worry about no one is available. Maybe McGee and Whiteside are strong. He is inferior to Jordan in terms of performance, and it is difficult to gain the upper hand in the matchup with Chandler, but at least there will be no collapse.

The real problem is that with Curry off the court, the Wizards' offensive rhythm has stalled.

Harden did not take over the banner of offense, and his poor performance in the Eastern Conference Finals still seemed to be affecting him.

George's situation is slightly better than Harden's, but his offensive ability with the ball itself is not particularly strong. on the situation...

What Wang Xiao was worried about really happened. Compared with the Mavericks, the Wizards players are still too young.

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From the first quarter of the game, the Wizards have been in a state of chasing points behind. Although in the mid-term, Curry's state recovered slightly, and he practiced with Butler and Jamison, and the score gap was as close as 5 points. However, Nowitzki, the leader of the Mavericks, stood up at this time and used consecutive shots to widen the point difference again. In the end, the Wizards failed to tie or overtake the score and lost the first game of the finals at home. Contest.

After the game, at the press conference, Wang Xiao said frankly that the pressure of the finals might be too great for these young players, causing them to unconsciously fall into impatience during the game, so that they disrupted their own rhythm.

"I hope that through the failure of this game, my players can relax and deal with the next game with a normal heart. There is nothing in the finals. It is a 48-minute game just like the preseason and the regular season. It's just a game."

But like I said before, relax your mind, it's easy to say, but hard to do...

On June 4, in the second game of the finals, the Wizards lost at home again, and the big score became 0:2.

In this game, with the end of the first game and Wang Xiao's continuous guidance, the status of the Wizards players has improved a lot. At least they have reached a normal level in terms of performance, and the scores of the two teams were once anxious Hard to tell.

However, in the key hand, Nowitzki came out again and killed the game with a desperate hit rate.

I have to admit that Nowitzki in 11 years is really strong, and being able to lead the team to beat the Heat with a single core is really not just a fluke of relying on James to paddle.

After the whole game, Nowitzki's shooting percentage may not be high, only about 44%, but whenever the critical moment comes, this guy's efficiency is amazingly high, even if you know that the Mavericks will definitely let Nowitzki come The key ball is executed, and targeted tactics are arranged for this, but the opponent will still score.

Lost two games in a row at home and trailed 0:2 by a big score. For the Wizards, the situation is already quite unfavorable.

Next, the team will go to Dallas for the third game. If the Wizards lose again in the third game, it will basically go far.

There has never been a situation in history where a shocking comeback was completed after falling behind 0:3.

Wang Xiao also doesn't think this Wizards team with problems can do such a thing.

There is no way to retreat, and in the case of a back-to-back fight, the Wizards finally broke out with the powerful offensive ability they used to. On the home court of the Mavericks, they scored close to 20 points in just two quarters.

Even Wang Xiao once thought that the team had already won the match.

But the game is so unpredictable.

In the third quarter, the Wizards suddenly misfired and failed to score a goal for nearly three minutes. Even if Wang Xiao called two consecutive timeouts to adjust and arrange tactics, he still failed to score a point in those three minutes.

And taking advantage of this three-minute gap, the Mavericks directly played a wave of 10:0 offensive waves, chasing the point difference to single digits in one fell swoop.

At that moment, Wang Xiao couldn't help but feel a feeling... I'm afraid I'm going to lose this game!