The Strongest Bishop in the NBA

The Eagles in the 2014-2015 season are actually the strongest Eagles in recent years.

Without Wang Xiao's butterfly effect, the Eagles should have topped the Eastern Conference with a record of 60 wins and 22 losses this season, and would have made it through the playoffs all the way to the Eastern Conference Finals.

However, due to the birth of Wang Chao Wizards and the Super Big Four Cavaliers, the Eagles lost many games this season that they should not have lost, so that their record plummeted, and even fell out of the first half of the division.

Wang Xiao didn't dare to underestimate this team.

This Eagles team is very much like the Spurs in the West. No player on the team scored more than 20 points, and the highest scoring average was Paul Millsap, who averaged 16.7 points per game.

The average score means that there is no scoring point for containment, and the most difficult thing for the Eagles to deal with is the offensive and defensive balance of the Spurs.

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Of course, this refers to the previous Bucks.

After the trade deadline, the Bucks got Korver, the three-point shooter will be a weapon against the Eagles!

In addition, the Bucks have a secret weapon against the Hawks, and that is center Nikola Jokic.

What the zone defense is most afraid of is an accurate long-range shooter, and the other is a big man who can go inside and outside, and has a wide vision to support.

And these two, the current Bucks have both, and even the long-range shooter is Kyle Korver, who was traded from the Eagles.

To be honest, even Wang Xiao didn't expect that Korver, who was traded from the Hawks on the trade deadline, would become the sharpest weapon against the Hawks in the playoffs.

Budenholzer, who studied under the Spurs coach Popovich, created a perfect offensive and defensive system for this Eagles team, which greatly increased the team's upper limit.

If you want to find opportunities from the more perfect system of the Eagles, you also need to rely on the performance of the players.

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On April 18, the first round of the playoffs officially began.

Due to record factors, the first game was played at the Bradley Center, home of the Bucks.

The Bucks' starting five are point guard Victor Oladipo, shooting guard Kyle Korver, small forward Khris Middleton, power forward Giannis Antetokounmpo, center Nikola Jokic.

The Hawks' starting lineup is point guard Jeff Teague, shooting guard Kent Bazemore, small forward DeMarre Carroll, power forward Paul Millsap, and center Al Horford.

Knight and Mayo, two players traded from the Bucks on the trade deadline, are sitting on the bench.

Wang Xiao understands why Budenholzer, the head coach of the Eagles, made such an arrangement. Neither Knight nor Mayo are excellent defensive players. The defensive strength of the lineup will be better.

Players from both sides jump the ball in midfield. Jokic, who is 2.13 meters tall, is almost the same as Horford, who is 2.08 meters in terms of jumping. Qi was the first to shift the basketball to his side.

Oladipo received the basketball, held the ball steadily across the half court, and looked up at the Eagles' defensive formation.

"Sure enough, it's the same as what the coach said."

In front of Oladipo, the Eagles put on a set of pseudo-zone defense positions.

The so-called pseudo-zone defense is a zone defense method born in response to the 3-second rule of the league's defense. After all, NBA centers cannot stand motionless under the basket like they do in international leagues.

With such a defensive formation, the defensive breakthrough is very good, and it will form a two-and-one or even a three-and-one at any time. Once the double-teaming situation is formed, it will be difficult for ordinary players to separate the ball from the crowd.

Of course, this refers to ordinary players.

Oladipo raised his hand slightly, and Jokic, who had just entered the inside line, understood it, and immediately pulled it out to screen for Oladipo.

After the pick-and-roll, Oladipo did not immediately speed up and rush into the paint. Instead, he passed the ball back to Jokic.

After the pick and roll, Jokic took two steps in, and when he caught the ball, he was just around the free throw line.

Seeing this scene, Budenholzer couldn't help but twitched his brows.

Center support...

In the regular season, Jokic showed a good coping ability, averaging 4.6 assists per game throughout the regular season, which fully proved his ability to assist his teammates to score.

but……

Holding the basketball high with both hands, Jokic, who seemed to be observing the position of his teammates, suddenly jumped up on the spot and shot a dry shot.

The Eagles player standing not far in front of him didn't even have time to react. He watched the basketball shot, drew an arc in the air and then fell into the basket.

"The two-point goal is valid!"

Jokic is not a traditional insider. In another world, since entering the league, his three-point shooting percentage has never been lower than 30%, and he even had a regular season with a 39% three-point shooting percentage. Hit 100+ three-pointers.

And his free throw percentage is as high as 82%, what he is best at is shooting from the free throw line!

"Have you forgotten? The opponent has the ability to shoot in the middle and long range! Concentrate!"

Budenholzer yelled a few words from the sidelines, but felt a little uneasy in his heart.

For this opponent, Budenholzer has already analyzed it.

The opponent's offensive tactics are very simple, that is, small ball tactics and simple block and cut cooperation. The defense more often relies on the personal ability of the players to defend one-on-one. Antetokounmpo made up defense.

It can be said that the reason why the Bucks can win depends more on the personal ability of the players than on the merits of the tactical system.

The best way to deal with such a team is to curb the opponent's offensive rhythm, that is, to limit the starting point of the opponent's attack.

Budenholzer has watched a lot of Bucks game videos, and he also knows that the main two points of the Bucks' offense are Oladipo and Antetokounmpo, and both of them are based on breakthroughs Players, that's why he let the players use the zone defense to limit the opponent's breakthrough from the beginning.

Unexpectedly, as soon as the opponent came up, they actually resorted to the move of the center forward.

During the regular season, Jokic rarely played like this, but in daily training, Wang Xiao often asked him to practice these, which also made Jokic handy as soon as he used it, without any rust.

With this move, the Wizards took the lead as soon as the game started.

Faced with Jokic's play style with the ball in the middle, the Eagles seemed at a loss. If they don't stare at him, it may be another jumper one step away from the free throw line. Just stare at him. It's too far away from the inside. When Detokumbo cut inside, no one had time to return to the defense immediately. After all, that guy's steps were too big and too fast!

Within 2 minutes of the start of the game, the Bucks succeeded in 4 consecutive offenses, took a free throw, and directly beat the Eagles 10:2, forcing Budenholzer to call a timeout.