The Strongest Bishop in the NBA

In the initial tactical layout, Wang Xiao was obviously one step ahead of Budenholzer and had a slight advantage.

But this is only a temporary advantage.

After the timeout, Budenholzer made some adjustments to the Eagles' tactics and began to strengthen the defense of Jokic, preventing him from standing so easily at the free throw line.

But in this way, when the zone defense manpower is taken away, they must choose between defending the outside line and keeping an eye on the inside line.

Budenholzer's option is to defend the perimeter.

Korver came out of the Hawks. No one knows better than Budenholzer how accurate this guy's three-pointers are. He can't let Korver have an open and easy shot.

In comparison, both Oladipo and Antetokounmpo are slightly more lethal in terms of breakthroughs.

At least in his opinion, although Oladipo and Antetokounmpo's breakthrough ability in the regular season is good, they are definitely not a huge threat. After all, both of them scored less than 20 points in the regular season. For a player whose main offensive method is breakthrough, the score is too little.

This is the limitation of ordinary people. No matter how capable a coach is, when he sees Antetokounmpo, he will only think that this is a player with great potential. His future achievements may be very high. They are absolutely I would never have thought that in the future he would average 29.7 points, 13.7 points and 5.8 assists per game, and he would never have thought that he could win the regular season MVP trophy.

As a time traveler, Wang Xiao knows that Antetokounmpo has such potential, and has always guided him to develop in the future, so up to now, although Antetokounmpo is far from the strength of the future MVP level, but simply speaking This skill has begun to take shape when it is fully exerted!

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The ball began to be handed over to Antetokounmpo one after another, and facing his newly promoted All-Star power forward Paul Millsap, he did not have the slightest timidity.

Millsap is in the guaranteed floor flow inside line, characterized by his strong body and extremely flexible feet, which makes him much easier to defend Antetokounmpo than those tall and slow inside players.

At the same time, Millsap will be selected to the second team of the best defensive team in the 15-16 season in the future, and his defensive ability is also very good.

In Budenholzer's thinking, even if Millsap can't prevent Antetokounmpo, he can effectively limit the opponent's breakthrough.

But like Jokic, Antetokounmpo surprised him again.

Breaking through with the ball on the outside, Antetokounmpo passed Millsap like passing a tree stump!

quick! too fast! Antetokounmpo's breakthrough speed is not like a big man with a height of 2.11 meters, but like a defender with a height of only 1.9 meters!

It was just a simple bow to Buddha, and between Millsap's movements, Antetokounmpo passed Millsap with one step, followed by two steps, and after two steps, he had already reached the basket.

With a light flick of the fingertips, the basketball has already fallen into the basket.

"Giannis! Antetokounmpo!!!"

The scene fell into cheers. What they like to watch most now is Antetokounmpo's breakthrough. It only takes two steps to reach the basket from the three-point line. Such a breakthrough method is extremely rare and looks quite exaggerated.

Of course, this kind of breakthrough also has flaws. If the opponent is standing under the basket, there will be no room for Antetokounmpo to make such an unscrupulous straight breakthrough.

Look at Jokic's position around the free throw line, and Budenholzer can't let Korver go. As a result, there is no one inside who can stop Antetokounmpo in time, which has caused the current situation.

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The first quarter of the game ended quickly. Under the joint performance of Jokic and Antetokounmpo, the Bucks led the Eagles by 12 points 33:21.

In the second quarter of the game, Budenholzer didn't think of a particularly good way to deal with it, but he made some attempts while waiting for the bench lineup. Time helped the Eagles recover some points, but such an attempt failed. Knight seemed very active, trying to attack the Bucks inside, but he was a little too urgent, which disrupted his own rhythm. The offensive efficiency is not high.

Wang Xiao can understand his behavior. After all, as a player who was regarded by the Bucks as a hope of rising, Knight has attracted much attention in the Bucks. But after Wang Xiao came, everything changed. Detokunbo and Oladipo took it away, and he was traded away from the team in the middle of the season.

When he came to the Eagles, he didn't do well at all, and he lost his starting position. He had to substitute Teague on the bench, and his playing time and statistics further shrunk.

Now seeing the old owner on the stage of the playoffs, Knight very much wants to prove himself in front of the Bucks, making them regret their choice to trade themselves.

However, the reason why Wang Xiao traded Knight was because he knew what Knight's future would be like.

Injuries and technical characteristics have limited his development, making him destined not to become an All-Star player.

Just like now, Knight, who frequently hits the rim, is inefficient. Although he can score, he wastes a lot of shots. The gap came back until Budenholzer couldn't take it anymore and replaced Knight.

In the first half of the game, the Bucks have maintained a point difference of about 10 points, but in the third quarter of the second half, taking advantage of a gap that the Eagles didn't react to, Korver suddenly went crazy without warning.

First, after Antetokounmpo broke through, Korver made an open shot and hit a three-pointer after receiving a pass from the bottom corner three-point line. Then, in a fast break of offensive and defensive transition, Korver quickly settled to the three-point line At the 45% corner position, after receiving a pass from Oladipo, he pretended to shoot to deceive the defenders, and then took off again and hit the second three-pointer.

While scoring six points in a row, Korver also assisted Middleton and hit a three-pointer through a chance to pass the ball!

Three three-pointers and 9 points made the score gap on the court instantly expand to more than 20 points.

Budenholzer called two timeouts in a row, but it was hard to stop the decline, and the game had lost its suspense.

There were no ups and downs in the game in the fourth quarter. When the final whistle sounded, the score between the two sides was fixed at 109:84. The Eagles lost the first playoff game by 25 points, which also made it impossible The few audiences were amazed.

However, the traditional strong teams in the East have never missed the playoffs since 2007. They are rich in experience and tough in style. In contrast, the Bucks are a very young team. After the playoffs, but the team's main players Andrew Bogut, Brandon Jennings and other players have already left the team, and they have nothing to do with any of the current Bucks players.

I thought that after the two teams met, the Eagles would have the upper hand, but I didn’t expect the Eagles to lose 25 points in the first game. They were beaten by the Bucks from the very beginning of the game, and the score has always been behind. .

A discerning person who understands the ball can see that the Eagles seem to be completely unable to cope with the tactical system put forward by the Bucks.

At the post-match press conference, some reporters also asked this question.

Budenholzer's face was a little ugly.

"Yes, Wang Xiao is an experienced coach, he has three championship rings, he knows how to win in the playoffs, but my team and I also have rich experience, we will not surrender, After we go back, we will carefully analyze the game video, find a suitable tactic to deal with the Bucks, and win the next victory."

Budenholzer's words have been released, but it's hard to say whether it can be done.