The Strongest Bishop in the NBA

At the beginning of the game, the Blazers showed a strong desire to attack.

Last season's finals were swept by the Wizards, which made Durant and other players feel like a failure. In the new season, they all worked hard and wanted revenge.

The entire Blazers team, from the team owner to every bench player, knows that the Blazers are currently one of the teams with the best talent and potential in the league. Their biggest opponents are those with better talent and potential. Wizards.

If you want to win the championship, you must cross the hurdle of the Wizards.

After a summer of hard training, Durant is stronger than before.

Facing Leonard's defense, he frequently made mid-range shots with extremely high efficiency.

However, his super high scoring efficiency did not help the Blazers gain an advantage on the court.

He was not the only one who used the summer vacation time to train hard.

"Klay Thompson! A three-pointer!"

As the basketball crossed a beautiful arc in the air, and then lightly entered the net, there were passionate shouts from the commentator on the field.

At the beginning of the game, Curry's touch was not particularly good, but Thompson's touch was overwhelming.

After a season of growth, under the training of Wang Xiao's training system regardless of the cost, Thompson already has the shadow of the future pair of Splash Brothers in the Megatron League.

He ran without the ball to cut the basket twice in a row, both of which successfully caused damage. Just now, he hit a three-pointer from the outside. Before halfway through the first quarter, he scored 7 points, and his efficiency was not inferior to Durant. .

Thompson has never been the first scoring point of the Wizards. Above him are Curry and George.

Durant can easily match Thompson's scoring efficiency. In this case, how can the Blazers hold down the Wizards?

At the end of the first quarter, instead of taking the lead, the vigorous Blazers fell behind by 6 points. As the game entered the second quarter, Curry also began to show off.

Thompson's excellent touch forces the Blazers to devote more energy to defending. In this case, Curry's gap will become very large, especially in the second quarter. The center Whiteside was replaced, and Draymond Green replaced him as a center.

When Green stood at the top arc of the three-point line with the ball and pretended to command tactical moves, Jordan was a little confused.

It's been a while since he has played in the league, but this is indeed the first time he has encountered such an opponent.

Which center does not run to the bottom line to grab rebounds, but stands on the outside and pretends to be Magic Johnson?

After thinking about it, Jordan didn't completely defend, but stood around the free throw line, as if you could shoot a three-pointer if you had the ability.

Of course Green would not shoot three-pointers, and Wang Xiao would not allow him to shoot three-pointers indiscriminately. This guy's three-point shooting percentage is not as good as Yi Jianlian's.

At this time, Curry, who was on the bottom line, had already started to act. He ran around the bottom line, then rushed out of the outside line and received the basketball handed by Green.

After passing the ball to Curry, Green immediately turned his body sideways, blocking Louis Williams who was following Curry.

At this time, Jordan was still at the free throw line, Williams was blocked by Green, and Curry ran out of a completely open space!

If you don't vote at this time, when will you wait?

"Shua!"

Curry's three-pointers are frighteningly high when he is open.

On the sidelines, Wang Xiao nodded in satisfaction.

Reasonably speaking, although Draymond Green is a very controversial player, his real strength has also been criticized. He is always considered to be useless if he leaves the Warriors system, but in the small ball lineup, such a player is indeed The effect is quite large.

Just like the way of holding the ball in the top arc just now, other centers are far less feasible than Green. First of all, they do not have the mobility of Green, and secondly, few centers have the vision and overall situation of Green.

Curry is not the only one in Green's sight. When he is standing on the top arc, once players in other positions are open, he can pass the ball in the first place.

This alone makes him a better fit than a traditional center.

Of course, Green also has certain disadvantages as a center. For example, although his ability to protect the frame is very good, it is still far inferior to tall and strong centers, especially the height of 2.01 meters determines that no matter how good he is in defense, Faced with a center with a height of more than 2.10 meters, he is still at a disadvantage.

It's only now that the tactic of Green acting as a center has appeared in the entire league for the first time. Most teams are still very unfamiliar with the real five-death tactic, just like the current Blazers, who are completely at a loss.

In the finals of last season, the Wizards swept the Trail Blazers or relied on shark-slashing tactics to target Jordan, but this season it is completely unnecessary.

If the Blazers have a center who is proficient in inside offensive methods, they will obviously be at ease, but a blue-collar defensive center like Jordan is completely useless in the face of the dead five.

No matter how strong your defensive ability is, it is impossible to expand the defensive range beyond the three-point line.

The ultra-high mobility and range of the Death Five were something that Jordan could not adapt to.

In the second quarter of the game, the point difference was expanded to double digits, and when the substitute lineup came on, the Blazers were still at a disadvantage as always.

Jamison and Caron Butler are one year older and have a competitive level, but at the same time, Jimmy Butler, Chandler Parsons, Thomas Jr. have grown another season, although these people are not enough However, Wang Xiao's training system modules are not vegetarian. Wang Xiao has always noticed the growth rate of the three of them, and it is definitely faster than that in another time and space.

The bench lineup led by three people is by no means something the Blazers can compete with.

After only three quarters, the game completely lost its suspense. When the point difference widened to more than 25 points, Wang Xiao took the lead in replacing the main players. Curry, Thompson, George and Leonard all went off to rest, and the Wizards lineup changed. Became Thomas Jr., Jimmy Butler, Chandler Parsons, Draymond Green and Whiteside.

What makes the Blazers deeply ashamed is that with this lineup of almost pure substitutes, the main players of the Blazers can't gain an absolute upper hand. Durant, Aldridge and Jordan are all on the court, but they can't chase points quickly. It took a full 5 minutes to recover the score from 25 points to 18 points.

In the end, the Blazers gave up resistance and replaced all the main players.

No one expected that the first confrontation between the two teams that met in the finals last season would end in such a result.

After the whole game, Durant scored a game-high 36 points, but he couldn't lead the team to victory, which was almost the same as last season's finals.