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This season, the Warriors sent away Lopez and Gobert. The team’s only orthodox center is Jokic. The team’s only three players who can play inside are Chen Xiao, Jokic and Nong Mei. .

It is actually self-evident who this team configuration is actually built for.

For the Bucks, of course.

Therefore, the Bucks are the Warriors' biggest imaginary enemy this season, or even their only imaginary enemy.

In order to better deal with the threat of the Bucks, the Warriors made a desperate move.

A desperate bet that the Bucks will definitely qualify in the Eastern Conference.

The Warriors also have no opponents in the West.

Will such a gamble be successful?

The Warriors feel they have a good chance of success.

The Warriors really have no rivals here in the West.

In the East, the Bucks are still invincible this season.

However, despite this, there is not no team that can pose a threat to the Warriors or Bucks.

Which team is the threat to the Warriors and Bucks?

Of course it is the Cavaliers with Oden and James, who are now the best interior combination in the NBA!

There is no doubt that the Cavaliers are now the team that poses the greatest threat to the Bucks and Warriors in the league.

Because neither the Bucks nor the Warriors can stop the inside combination of Oden and James.

Oden and James' offense is really about to open up, and the Bucks and Warriors can only watch.

Of course, as a traditional team, the Cavaliers restrain small lineup teams like the Bucks and Warriors. Of course, small lineup teams also restrain traditional teams like the Cavaliers.

We all have a mutually restrained relationship.

The reason why the Warriors dare to bet on the Bucks is because the Cavaliers' current situation is not as good as the Bucks.

The Cavaliers are not as thick as the Bucks.

However, even so, the Cavaliers are still the biggest threat to the Bucks and Warriors in the regular season this season.

Therefore, the Christmas game on December 25th is quite important to the Warriors.

If the Warriors want to break the league's winning streak, the Cavaliers are the hurdle they must overcome.

Although the league has had one or even two 70-win teams every season over the years, the league's winning streak has never been broken.

This sounds quite magical.

This shows that although the league's super teams are very strong, there is no one dominant team in the league. You can win 70 games, but it is difficult to defeat the invincible opponents in the league.

Therefore, for this league's winning streak, the Warriors are actually bound to win.

If it hadn't been for the away win against the Bucks some time ago, the Warriors might have missed the longest winning streak this season.

Therefore, this opportunity really cannot be missed.

Compared with Chen Xiao and the Warriors' impact on the league's longest winning streak and three consecutive championships, Xiao Zhan and his Cavaliers are indeed not in very good shape at this time.

The main reason for the bad situation is Oden, the Cavaliers' second-in-command.

Since Oden was knocked down by Milicic with a punch in the Olympics, he has become the target of verbal criticism from the American media and ridicule from fans.

Oden's psychological quality was not that strong to begin with, but now that he is being manipulated like this, you can imagine it.

Therefore, Xiao Zhan complained to Chen Xiao more than once on the phone that he should have prevented Oden from accepting Popovich's invitation to play in the Olympics.

To be honest, Xiao Zhan and his generation were suppressed by Chen Xiao and Yao Ming for a whole generation.

They have completely lost their desire for the Olympics.

But players of Oden's generation are still different. If Popovich were not the head coach, Curry and Durant would actually be willing to play for the US team.

So Chen Xiao knew that Xiao Zhan was just talking like this and just wanted to take the responsibility on himself.

Of course, Xiao Zhan must be remorseful.

After all, he is not young anymore. December 30th is his 32nd birthday.

Xiao Zhan, Xiao Zhan, actually Xiao Zhan is already a veteran.

When Chen Xiao met Xiao Zhan, Xiao Zhan was only 18 years old at that time, but now he is 32 years old.

Time just slips away from your fingertips like a fleeting moment.

So for Xiao Zhan, although the team has no pressure on him, he still has pressure on himself.

He hopes his career can go further.

But now he doesn't seem to be close to the championship. Instead, he feels a little further and further away.

After all, the Warriors and Bucks are at their peak right now, and his biggest assistant is caught in the whirlpool.

Sometimes, James dreams that his little brother can turn pressure into motivation like Leonard of the Spurs, and then break through the constraints and soar into the sky.

After all, for Oden, at 29 years old, he is really still young. For a big center like them, 29 is when he officially enters his peak.

King-and-God Arena.

Before the game started, Chen Xiao and Xiao Zhan's family had a very friendly exchange.

Xiao Zhan's eldest son Brownie is now 12 years old and has become a big boy now.

And Xiao Zhan’s youngest son Blake is also 10 years old.

These two children both like basketball very much, which is very rare. To be honest, most second-generation basketball players don't actually like basketball very much. The most famous one is the son of the Magician.

There are many reasons why the second generation of stars don’t like basketball very much.

Who wants to always have the shadow of a celebrity dad over their head?

Therefore, James is very pleased that his two sons both like basketball and are very talented.

Although the two little James are not as famous as the number one genius in the United States like little Kobe.

But in their own age group and in their own state, they are all top-notch, which can be compared to Xiao Chen.

Xiao Chen is actually the second-rate genius in the United States.

One level away from the level of chosen ones like James, Oden, Irving and Kobe Bryant.

Before the game started, the friendship between Chen Xiao and the James family seemed to make people think that this game would be a very friendly game.

But this is not the case. Because of the grudges in the Olympics, Jokic and Oden, one of the two centers of the Serbian national team, were constantly teased by the media, saying that Oden wanted to take revenge on Jokic in this game. Jokic will humiliate Oden again after the Olympics and so on.

In fact, it is just rubbing fire.

This is actually very normal.

After Pierce led the U.S. team to failure in 2002, didn't the American media punish Chen Xiao and Pierce in the same way?

Then he successfully turned Pierce and Chen Xiao into a bunch of old enemies.

Now they are just repeating their old tricks.

Now, there are only a few powerful centers in the entire league. Oden, Milicic, Howard, and Jokic are considered the best.

And these four people happen to all have grudges about the Olympics, which is great.

Therefore, when the four people were confronting each other, the media was zooming in on the incident.

In this regard, the Warriors actually did some psychological work on Jokic before the game and hope that he will treat this matter normally.

I also hope Jokic can understand this game correctly.

This game is an away game, which would have been difficult.

And Oden wants revenge, which is even more difficult.

Oden and Jokic are of equal strength. Oden has the home court advantage and a revenge mentality, so Jokic will have a hard time playing this game.

This is how the Warriors coaching staff worked for Jokic before the game. After all, this is the Christmas game. No matter how sluggish Oden is this season, he will still rise.

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What embarrasses the Warriors coaching staff is that the work they did on Jokic before the game was really of no use at all.

Because, in this game, Oden is still sluggish.

It can only be said that the Warriors' coaching staff really thinks highly of Oden's mental quality.

Chen Xiao actually knows Auden well. Auden is actually not an ordinary black man with a weird personality. In fact, among the black people, Auden's character is definitely considered to be very good.

It's just that sometimes personality and psychological quality have nothing to do with each other.

It should be said that most of the time personality has nothing to do with psychological quality.

For example, Rodman, is he a good person? Most people don't think that Rodman is a good person in the usual sense. Of course, Rodman is not a bad person, he is a weirdo, but there is no doubt that his psychological quality must be very, very strong.

Weird people and bad people have strong psychological qualities.

The psychological quality of good people is not very strong.

This is actually no surprise.

The inside combination of Oden and James is the nemesis of teams such as the Warriors and Bucks.

But now that Oden, an important power forward, is in bad shape, how can you let James, a short power forward, turn the tide?

The reason why the combination of Oden and James is strong is not actually the intimidation of James, but the intimidation of Oden.

James is strong, but the Bucks and Warriors have a bunch of players who can match up to James.

However, Oden, the Bucks and the Warriors really have no one who can match up.

When no one on your team can match Oden and needs help, James standing next to Oden is invincible, and the combination of James and Oden is invincible.

Obviously, in this game, the Cavaliers did not show the strength of their invincible inside combination in front of the Warriors.

In the end, the Warriors, who played away from home, defeated the Cavaliers relatively easily 118-109.

In the game against the Bucks, the Warriors were severely defeated in the first and fourth quarters, and took the lead in the second and third quarters.

But in this game against the Cavaliers, the Warriors won every quarter.

The Cavaliers couldn't even catch the Warriors' slow start.

If your team's Oden is not in top form, how can he catch the Warriors' slow start?

In this Christmas game, Chen Xiao, Wade, and Ron Howard performed well. The three of them scored 26 points, 24 points, and 25 points respectively in this game. What’s interesting is that all three of them had more than 5 rebounds. , 5 or more assists.

The three of them have a tacit understanding of cooperation, and all three of them can attack and pass. According to this posture, all three of them are likely to produce 20+5+5 data this season.

After coming to the Warriors for a month, Wade and Ron Howard's scoring averages are also rising.

In fact, from the first month when the Best of the Month was awarded to G3 instead of one of Chen Xiao and the others, the Warriors knew what the league was planning for this season.

G3 is the number one legendary team in the United States, a team even more legendary than the Fab Five in Michigan.

The league's best player of the month in November is given to G3. This is to build momentum for G3. The official momentum is given to the three players, thereby attracting a lot of attention from NCAA fans.

Let's put it this way, NCAA fans are now paying attention to the NBA. Who doesn't want the Warriors' G3 to have a good ending this season?

When you watch the Warriors, you just watch the performance of three people. If you treat people as role players, do you believe that these people smashed the TV to protest?

We are not stupid, so the Warriors players and coaches are also supporting the three of them and supporting the three of them to be the protagonists of the team. At least, all three of them must average at least 20 points per game this season!

Of course, the styles of the three are all about doing big things with a little money. None of the three are the kind of players who take crazy shots and gobble up the ball like crazy.

All three of them are players with extremely high offensive efficiency and a career average field goal percentage of over 50%.

So they actually can't swallow up much of the Warriors' shot rights.

Chen Xiao averages 15 shots per game and can average more than 25 points per game.

Wade only needs 15 shots to average more than 20 points per game.

As for Luo Ge, if he wants to average 20 points per game, he only needs 14.5 shots.

Therefore, the three of them only need 45 shots per game to achieve this goal.

If the three of them play in every game, 45 shots per game is indeed not a small amount.

However, Wade and Luo Ge often take turns.

On average, the three of them only need 40 shots per game, and this season the Warriors averaged more than 90 shots per game.

The big-name superstars of the three teams took less than half of the team's shots. This put a lot of pressure on the other players of the Warriors.

After the Christmas Day game, the Warriors returned home and defeated the Raptors and Mavericks one after another.

As a result, at the end of 2016, the latest NBA winning streak record of 34 consecutive victories was achieved.

When the Warriors reached the latest NBA winning streak, the entire United States, whether it was the NBA or the NCAA, the basketball world was simply celebrating as a nation.

Soon, as 2017 arrived, NBA officials felt everyone's enthusiasm.

The best of the month in the Western Conference is still awarded to the Warriors in G3.

The alliance's behavior is no longer a hint, but an explicit statement.

The Best of the Month in the Eastern Conference goes to James Harden of the Wizards. This Wizards guard has really exploded this season.

Last month, he averaged 28.5 points, 12 assists, 9.1 rebounds and 1.5 steals per game. He is another triple-double player averaging close to 30 per game.

However, compared with Westbrook, James Harden leads the team much better. Last month, he led the Wizards to a record of 15 wins and 2 losses in the Eastern Conference.

This is in the east!

This record, this data, Dior's is not good.

It's a pity that despite his explosive growth this season, he was still largely overshadowed by the three leading players in the NBA.

This season, the three protagonists of the NBA are just them...