The Strongest Bishop in the NBA

Chapter 258 Total Score 31

123:98, the score gap of 25 points also means that the big score between the Wizards and the Celtics has come to 3:1. Half a foot off a cliff in a playoff game against the Wizards.

At the press conference after the game, as the former three-point champion and the most famous three-point shooter in the league, Ray Allen expressed his sincere sigh in an interview.

"Curry is a historical shooter. His three-point shooting ability is unique. I have never seen a player who can use three-pointers as a conventional weapon like him. What's more frightening is that he is only 24 years old now. It's hard to imagine how the league's three-point shooting will evolve under his leadership in the future."

As the historical three-pointer, Curry previously held the record for the number of three-pointers made in a single season, which made Ray Allen sigh. Curry's three-pointers are indeed strong to a certain extent.

Garnett, on the other hand, focused on praising Paul George's performance.

"When the team's main offensive point was targeted and felt bad, this second-year rookie was able to stand up and shoulder the banner of the team's offense. This tenacious spirit is worth learning for every professional player. Paul George is an excellent player, as long as he continues to uphold this spirit, he will definitely become a superstar in the future."

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Although the series is not over yet, the Celtics and the Wizards are still in a hostile relationship and are about to be eliminated, but the Celtics players are all positive when they evaluate the Wizards.

There is no way, facing a group of young people whose average age is not even 25 years old, if you want to say something provocative or unconvinced at this time, it will be a loss of demeanor.

The Big Three are all nearly 40-year-old veterans, each of whom is like a human being, and it is impossible to make such a low-level mistake.

But even so, when asked if they were confident of overtaking the score, the Big Three all gave affirmative answers.

"Of course, we will definitely do our best to win every game."

Praising juniors is the demeanor that seniors should have, and as a leader, it is absolutely impossible to be timid before the game. If even they admit that they have no confidence, what else will the other Celtics players use to fight to the death?

The fifth game between the two sides returned to Washington, the home of the Wizards. The difficulty of this game was far beyond everyone's imagination.

Already in a desperate situation, the Celtics team played very hard, even reaching the point where every ball must be contested.

The Wizards were caught off guard and were directly beaten in the first quarter. They were beaten 29:18 in a single quarter and trailed by 11 points at home.

Fortunately, Curry and others are not fledgling rookies. After the initial discomfort, they quickly regained their rhythm and began to catch up. Curry, Thompson, and George bloomed more and gradually caught up with the score.

Pierce played very hard in this game, but Leonard, who was facing him, has adapted to Pierce's offensive style.

Leonard's progress is astonishing. Unlike another time and space who spent many years in the Spurs, he led Wang Xiao's team for a season, and he enjoyed the highest standard training bonus of the system in almost every training session. Shang Wang Xiao has known Leonard's future technical characteristics for a long time, and can cultivate him towards the template of the future, making him grow very fast.

In the first round of the playoffs, the series matchup with Carmelo Anthony allowed Leonard's ability to evolve again.

As one of the small forwards with the richest offensive means in the league, Anthony is better than Pierce in scoring ability.

Now facing Pierce, Leonard has been able to handle it with ease. The candy-style defense and the terrifying wingspan made Pierce feel very uncomfortable.

In this game, several of Pierce's shots were effectively restricted by Leonard, and his shooting percentage was just over 40%, which was extremely inefficient.

At the home court of the Wizards, whenever Leonard successfully defended against Pierce's offense, there would be a burst of cheers from the fans.

To be reasonable, as the first-round lottery rookie selected by Wang Xiao this season, Leonard's performance has always made the fans dissatisfied. Unlike Thompson, who is hardworking and defensive with three-point precision running, he can help Curry stretch space. , Leonard's performance in the Wizards was not particularly brilliant.

After all, from the perspective of offensive ability, Leonard is really a bit bad, especially the three-pointer, not even as accurate as Chandler Parsons on the bench.

Throughout the regular season, Leonard's scoring average did not even exceed double digits, and he was only selected to the second team of the All-Rookie Team.

This can almost be regarded as the worst performance of the players selected by Wang Xiao in the first round of lottery picks.

But now, in the playoffs, fans are finally starting to realize how tough Leonard is.

Restricting Anthony in the first round and locking Pierce in the second round, what Leonard did was even better than George last season.

At least last season's playoffs, when George faced Anthony and Pierce, he couldn't effectively limit the offensive efficiency of the two.

From this point of view, Leonard's defensive ability has even surpassed that of George. No wonder Wang Xiao will let Leonard serve as a small forward, and George, who performed well at the small forward position last season, will be promoted to the power forward position.

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But even so, Leonard's excellent defense only helped the team narrow the score gap, but there was no way to overtake the score.

After all, the Celtics are a combination of the Big Three, not Pierce's team alone.

In the series that won the 2007 Finals, Pierce's shooting percentage was not high, averaging only 43% per game, but the Celtics still defeated the Lakers and won the championship trophy, relying on the joint efforts of the Big Three and the Greens. Army's suffocating defense, they successfully limited Kobe's shooting percentage to 40%, and the Lakers team except Kobe, no one player averaged more than 15 points per game.

Now the Celtics' defensive strength may not be as good as before, but they are still strong. At least in the regular season, the Celtics are still the second-lowest team in the league with an average of 89.3 points per game.

The next game seemed to turn into a defensive battle, with the Celtics strictly defending and the Wizards showing no sign of weakness.

Since the selection of Thompson and Leonard this season, although Jordan has gone, the Wizards' defense has improved to a higher level, and the Celtics have not been discouraged by their defense.

This also made the game progress to the fourth quarter, and both sides scored only a little over 70 points.

The fans of the Wizards who watched the suffocating defense and fierce confrontation were a little stunned. In previous years, they had never seen such a tough game from the Wizards.

Whether it was the Arenas period or the Curry + Harden double-gun period, the team was an offense-oriented team, focusing on offense rather than defense.

They couldn't even remember when Wang Xiao transformed the previous Wizards team, which only played, ran and bombed, and didn't care about defense at all, into the current all-around team with excellent offense and defense.