The Strongest Bishop in the NBA

Last season, the reason why the Lakers were able to easily restrain the Wizards was that the Wizards could not defend the Lakers' two-tower combination on the one hand, and on the other hand, the Wizards' shooter lineup was not efficient when facing the Lakers' outside defense. .

Fisher, Kobe Bryant plus Artest's outside defense can be called an iron wall, making it difficult for the Wizards' shooters to play.

But this season, things have changed.

First of all, on the point guard side, Fisher, who passed his 38th birthday in August, slowed down again. Last season, with the help of experience and teammates, he could barely limit Curry's offense, but this season has completely failed to keep up. Curry's rhythm.

On the shooting guard's side, the pressure that Danny Green and Klay Thompson put on Kobe is completely different.

Although Thompson in the rookie stage is far from the future Splash Brother, he is far more frequent and sharper than Danny Green in terms of off-ball running.

Whenever Thompson moved, Bryant had to keep up with him, leaving him with little time to cover Curry.

Among the three outsiders, the only one who is not under great pressure may be Artest.

On the offensive end, Leonard does not have many opportunities to perform, and with his various scoring methods that have not been polished in the NBA, he is not suitable when facing the defensive giant Artest, so Leonard's only job on the offensive end , Standing at the bottom corner of the three-point line, waiting for teammates to pass the ball and shoot a three-pointer.

Artest tried to empty Leonard, and after the latter made a direct three-pointer, he obediently followed Leonard to hang up at the three-point line in the bottom corner.

In addition to these three outside players, the Wizards actually have another outside player, and that is Paul George who is placed at the power forward position.

George was very weak when facing Gasol on the defensive end. The height gap made it difficult for George, who is used to perimeter defense, to make a difference.

But on the offensive end, when Gasol faced George, he also had a very headache.

The reason is the same, Gasol is on the offensive, using the advantage of height and weight, he can grab George with his back in the paint.

But on the defensive end, facing George, who is fast and has a three-point shot, Gasol has a hard time defending.

He can't keep an eye on George's breakthrough at all when he stands forward to defend the shot, but if he stands behind and defends the breakthrough, he is often greeted by George's three-pointer.

As an inside player, Gasol's footsteps are considered fast among inside players. In Lakers games, Gasol is often seen as the fastest fast break in the team.

But that is only among the inside players. Compared with the outside players like George, Gasol's speed still has a big gap. After all, Gasol is not Garnett, and there is no way to defend from the first position to the fifth position. .

In this case, even though the Lakers are more efficient inside offensively and have an absolute advantage in rebounding, relying on Curry's precise three-pointers, the Wizards can still hang the score without being pulled Open the gap.

With the end of the first quarter, the team came off the bench one after another in the second quarter, and the situation changed.

Last season, the Wizards had Harden and Caron Butler in their bench lineup, which can be called the luxury of luxury.

And this season, although Harden has left the team, an experienced veteran, Antawn Jamison, has retired from the main lineup.

Even Jamison is over 36 years old, but in another time and space, in the 11-12 season, Jamison in the Cavaliers is still a scorer who can contribute 17.2 points and 6.3 rebounds per game.

When he's paired with Caron Butler, a veteran, the team's starting lineup is no different from a few years ago when Arenas was injured.

The two veterans teamed up and immediately supported half the sky of the Wizards' bench lineup. With the addition of Beverly, Jimmy Butler and other players, the gap immediately appeared.

The Lakers obviously do not have such a luxurious bench lineup.

On the Lakers' bench, the strongest is Matt Barnes, followed by Steve Blake, who averaged 4 points and 2 assists per game for the Lakers last season.

The huge gap in the substitute lineup made the score gap quickly caught up or even overtaken.

Faced with this situation, Mike Brown had no choice but to let Kobe play as soon as possible to maintain the team's offensive rhythm.

At this time, Mike Brown discovered another problem.

The offensive and defensive transition speed of the Wizards is too fast, so fast that the Lakers' inside twin towers consume a lot of physical energy.

Especially in the first quarter, after he arranged for the Twin Towers to play a lot of inside singles, both Bynum and Gasol had physical problems to a certain extent.

Gasol had to pull out to the outside line every time he defended George, and his strenuous defense exhausted his physical energy too quickly.

As for Bynum, who had no opponent in the paint, it was simply because he ran back and forth frequently, wasting a lot of physical energy in vain.

The Lakers' training for Bynum is completely to regard him as the second Shaquille O'Neal.

The slow pace brought about by the huge body, and the pure traditional center's inside attack style, these have become the weaknesses that are infinitely magnified when facing fast-paced small ball tactics.

Last season, when the Lakers' perimeter was able to contain the Wizards' offense, such disadvantages were not reflected, but this season, Curry has become stronger, Fisher is getting old, and pure shooter-type shooting guard Thompson The pressure brought by Kobe's arrival has made the Lakers' perimeter completely unable to contain the Wizards' offense.

When the game progressed to the fourth quarter, the physical fitness of the Lakers twin towers began to collapse across the board.

Bynum, who played for 30 minutes, was completely unable to run. He had been running back and forth throughout the game, and his energy was exhausted, so he had to be replaced and rest off the court.

Paul Gasol, who played 33 minutes, is still on the court, but his actions are obviously much slower.

At the end of the quarter, the entire Lakers could only rely on Kobe to score with difficulty.

Kobe, who had scored 26 points in the first three quarters, scored 11 points in the fourth quarter, but this score was obviously not enough to help the Lakers win the game.

In the end, Kobe, who scored 37 points in the game, had no choice but to swallow the failure of the first game of the regular season.

The total score is 109:96, with a difference of 13 points.

The Wizards can be said to have won the game from Los Angeles tepidly, and many people even looked a little baffled.

How on earth did the Wizards win? Obviously the Lakers have an absolute advantage inside, right?

Only a small number of professionals and data analysis experts understand how the Wizards won this game.