The Strongest Bishop in the NBA

Such boasting by the media is not without reason.

Curry, Rose, Jeremy Lin, and Westbrook are similar in age, and their statistics this season have reached the star level. There are still younger potential point guards like Wall in the league, as well as Paul, Deron, and Rondo. A point guard in his prime.

Looking at other positions, you can't find a situation where there are so many talents like point guards.

Even Wang Xiao, who is a time traveler, knows that the excellent point guards in the future will also have the presence of point guards such as Irving and Lillard. The star's small forward is poor.

Of course, these are just things to talk about, and Wang Xiao, who has Curry, will not consider any other point guard issues for the time being.

The announcement of the major awards in the regular season did not affect the progress of the playoffs, and soon the results of the first round of the competition would be known.

The Celtics eliminated the Magic 4:2, the Heat eliminated the Eagles 4:1, and the score between the Bulls and the Nets was fixed at 4:2.

The gap in overall strength still caused the Nets to be eliminated by the Bulls.

And following Wang Xiao's instructions, Jeremy Lin's aggressiveness in the subsequent games was obviously worse than in the previous games.

The so-called aggressiveness can also be understood as the frequency of breaking through the inside line to create lethality.

However, even if Jeremy Lin continues to play like the previous games, he will not be able to beat the Bulls. After all, the strength gap in other positions is too great, and Jeremy Lin, a Kidd-style traditional point guard, can't reverse it.

In this way, the matchup table for the second round of the Eastern Conference has become clear, as previously guessed, Wizards VS Celtics, Bulls VS Heat.

Facing the Celtics, an old opponent, Wang Xiao's pressure was obviously much greater than when he played against the Knicks in the first round.

The Big Three of the Celtics are not comparable to the Big Three of the Knicks. Although the Knicks win in terms of star statistics, if these two teams meet in the playoffs, the Celtics will definitely win by a big score. win.

In the Eastern Conference finals last season, the Wizards lost to the Celtics, thus ending their trip to the playoffs.

Like the Bulls, this is a top defensive team in the league.

How to break through the Celtics' defense is the primary problem that Wang Xiao needs to solve.

The first game between the two sides was played at the home court of the Wizards. In this game, Wang Xiao did not make any targeted adjustments. The team still implemented the tactics of the regular season, and the starting player was still against the Knicks. The lineup, Curry, Green, George, Jamieson and Jordan.

As expected by Wang Xiao, the Celtics came up with a set of targeted rotation defensive tactics at the beginning, focusing on marking Curry.

Under Rondo's extremely targeted defense, Curry had a bad start, and several attempted long shots were blocked.

At the same time, under the control of Rondo, the Celtics are steadily progressing in tactical rankings, scoring points in a not fast but highly efficient way.

Unknowingly, the Wizards fell behind by more than double digits.

After Harden came off the bench, this situation has not been effectively changed.

"Sure enough, Ginger is still old and spicy, much more difficult to deal with than Nix."

Seeing this situation, Wang Xiao couldn't help sighing.

The Celtics are the Celtics after all, and they are far less easy to deal with than the Knicks.

However, although Curry Harden's touch on the outside double star is not particularly good, and he has been unable to open the situation for a long time, Wang Xiao is not in a hurry.

Although the Celtics are very strong, they still have weaknesses. The weakness of this team is obvious, and that is physical fitness.

The average age of Garnett, Pierce, and Ray Allen is as high as 34 years old, and they are all at the end of their career peaks. At this stage, their status will be affected.

Maybe it won't be particularly obvious in games against most teams in other leagues, but the confrontation with the Wizards is obviously another story.

The Wizards, whose average time per round is less than 13 seconds, has a very high attack frequency, which means more turning back and running distance.

For the Celtics' aging Big Three, this is undoubtedly a burden.

Especially compared to the Wizards who only played four games in the first round, the Celtics, who have been entangled with Magic for two more games, are obviously more exhausted.

As Wang Xiao thought, with the efficient appearance of the first quarter and the second quarter, the third quarter began, and the Big Three had to take more rotations to recover their strength.

At this time, substitute players like Jeff Green and Glenn Davis replaced the Big Three.

That's how the Wizards got their chance.

There is no feeling of being targeted on the perimeter, so just hit the basket. Whether it is Curry or Harden, the finishing ability at the basket is not bad at all, and they are even at the top of the league in their respective positions.

In this way, in the third quarter of the game, relying on constant pick-and-rolls to hit the inside and quick offensive and defensive transitions, the Wizards recovered the point difference little by little. When the fourth quarter was about three minutes into the game, with Ku With a long-lost three-pointer, the Wizards finally filled the big hole dug in the first and second quarters.

However, the goddess of victory is not on the side of the Wizards today.

When the game drew to a close, the man nicknamed "Truth" stood up.

Paul Pierce, one of the most underrated scorers in the league, Anthony's previous offensive kaleidoscope showed off.

Two consecutive accurate mid-range shots and a three-point pull-up jumper, just for a moment, before George even reacted, Pierce scored 7 points, opening up the point difference that was finally tied.

In the next few minutes, no matter how hard the Wizards tried to chase points, there was always someone on the Celtics side who could respond.

Garnett's post-up singles inside, Ray Allen's running and shooting three-pointers...

Until the end of the game, the Wizards failed to tie the point difference again or overtake it.

113; 108. In the end, the Wizards lost the first game of the two teams at home with a gap of 5 points.

"How about it?"

Looking at the Wizards players who seemed rather confused on the field, Wang Xiao asked Cole beside him.

"There is no doubt that our three-point tactics have not been played in this game. The opponents rarely give Curry and the others a chance to shoot three-pointers from the outside, so even if they put them inside..." Cole wrinkled Frowning, he pondered: "In this case, I think adjustments must be made in the next game. We can no longer rely on three-point tactics. We should study how to make more offensive methods within the three-point line more lethal."

Wang Xiao nodded.

"You're right, you should think about the offensive tactics within the three-point line..."