The Strongest Bishop in the NBA

The schedule is not very friendly, and Wang Xiao can't help it. After all, there are 30 teams in the NBA, and the schedule is complicated. It is difficult to guarantee that it is completely reasonable and has no loopholes.

What Wang Xiao can do is to appropriately reduce the amount of training and give the players better conditions to reserve physical fitness and energy.

After two days in Washington, the Wizards officially embarked on the first game of their four-game streak, the Portland Trail Blazers.

And in this first game, the Wizards fell into a hard fight.

Durant has grown up too fast. In just the fourth season, he has already shown characteristics that cannot be guarded at all.

In layman's terms, Durant, who plays the small forward position, is basically a misalignment with anyone.

Durant's registered height is 2.06 meters, but his actual height is almost 2.11 meters, which is similar to that of Jordan.

Such a height is almost equivalent to standing out from the crowd at the small forward position, and almost no defensive players can reach his height.

Taking advantage of his height, Durant's singles threat is quite high, and both George and Butler are struggling to defend Durant.

But when the defensive player is replaced by a big insider like Jordan or McGee, Durant can always take advantage of his speed to get rid of the defense.

In the Rose Garden Arena, home of the Trail Blazers, whenever Durant holds the ball, there will be warm cheers from the fans.

It only took Durant two seasons to conquer Portland fans, making them completely forget that they had the possibility of getting Oden.

They have Durant now, who cares what Oden? Who is that?

Many fans behind the Wizards' bench even kept calling out Wang Xiao's name, as if to express their gratitude to Durant for being selected by his discerning talents.

This made the players on the Wizards bench quite surprised. After playing for so long, it was the first time they saw home fans cheering for the away coach.

But they also know the story of Wang Xiao and the Blazers.

If it weren't for Wang Xiao, it would be impossible for the Blazers to have Durant now. What they have is the "Great Emperor" Oden who is constantly injured and unable to play for a long time.

Think about it, if that's the case, what will the Blazers be like this season?

An Oden, plus a Roy who had both menisci removed and suffered from injuries, now Aldridge may be the only one of the three well-known Trail Blazers in the league!

In fact, in an interview with the media a year ago, the Blazers owner Paul Allen had already expressed his apology for what happened to Wang Xiao.

"Facts have proved that the truth is only in the hands of a few people, such as Wang Xiao, or my partner Bill Gates when I was young. Their choices were quite incredible and completely incomprehensible to people at the time, but As time went by, they proved they were right.” As one of the richest men in the world, Paul Allen was very generous in admitting his mistakes in front of the media.

"I regret that I made the decision to let Wang Xiao go. It proves that I am just an ordinary person who doesn't know anything about basketball. I missed a great coach, but the property he left is now a The most valuable treasure of the Blazers... If it is possible in the future, I hope to continue to cooperate with this outstanding Chinese coach again."

Paul Allen's remarks already clearly stated that the Blazers are willing to hire Wang Xiao as the team's head coach.

To be reasonable, Wang Xiao thought he was dreaming at first, so he just did what he wanted. From the perspective of a boss, no matter whether something is right or wrong, making decisions without telling the boss and everyone is absolutely intolerable .

It is very rare for Paul Alanken to speak like this, and it fully reflects the courage that the most successful businessman in the world should have.

Not only the team owner Paul Allen, but even Durant has repeatedly expressed his gratitude to Wang Xiao for the attention he paid to him in interviews, and also revealed his desire to play under Wang Xiao.

Faced with the goodwill shown by the Blazers from the owner to the players, Wang Xiao expressed his touch and declined.

At that time, he had become the head coach of the Wizards and led the Wizards to achieve good results in the Eastern Conference.

Durant is good, but the Wizards have Curry Harden and future draft picks at the same time, which is obviously brighter than the future of the Blazers.

What's more, who knows if Paul Allen is just being polite? After all, the current head coach of the Blazers is doing well, and it is unlikely that he will be fired for no reason and hired himself.

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Closer to home, the Trail Blazers and Wizards game, the Blazers had the advantage from the beginning.

Curry didn't feel particularly good at the start of the Wizards, but the Trail Blazers seized the opportunity. Durant's consecutive singles successfully opened the gap.

Although Curry gradually regained his touch and began to dominate the offense, the score gap between the two teams has never narrowed due to the inability to guard Durant.

It wasn't until Harden played in the second half of the first quarter that he led the bench to tie the score.

Then in the second quarter and the third quarter, the scores of the two teams were very tight, and they kept rising alternately. Neither Butler nor Paul George could restrain Durant's performance on Wang Xiao's side, and Jamison and Aldridge was also completely at a disadvantage in the duel.

The situation of the game remained stalemate until the end of the fourth quarter. The Wizards relied on Curry's magic ball at a critical moment to widen the score gap, and kept the lead until the end of the game.

For the Blazers, Durant single-handedly scored 44 points, Aldridge scored 22 points, plus Roy, who scored 9 points in 21 minutes, the Blazers scored 75 points together.

It's a pity that this still failed to beat the Wizards with Curry's 29 points, Harden's 21 points, Jamison, Butler, George and Green scoring in double figures.

After a difficult victory over the Trail Blazers, the Wizards rushed to Phoenix non-stop to prepare for the game against the Suns before they could breathe a sigh of relief.

And the confrontation with the Suns was also not easy.

Although there is no head coach, nor the team's main core player Amare Ster's Meyer, but this Suns team still has Nash, and the word Nash alone is enough.

In this game, the two teams stalemate again until the fourth quarter to decide the winner.

Although the Suns did not have Stoudemire's powerful scoring point, under Nash's series attack, 7 people in the team scored in double figures.

As for the Wizards, perhaps due to fatigue, the players are generally not in good condition, and only 4 scored in double figures.

Simply Curry and Harden both performed very well. Curry scored 34 points under the defense of Nash, and Harden also scored 28 points. The scoring of these two people effectively pulled back the scoring disadvantage of other players.

However, after winning the Suns, the Wizards' four-game streak has been in the past two games, and their next opponent is the defending champion Los Angeles Lakers.