The Strongest Bishop in the NBA

After losing to the Lakers in the away game, the Wizards ended their winning streak, but even so, the Wizards' top spot in the Eastern Conference is still as stable as Mount Tai. The second-ranked Bulls still have a 3-game win gap with the Wizards.

And following the last stop of the 4-game streak, the game against the New York Knicks, Wang Xiao had no intention of letting go.

Both Curry and Jamison, who had recuperated for a game, started the game.

It may be a little straightforward, but compared with the Lakers, the Knicks are indeed a soft persimmon that is easy to pinch.

Although the Knicks have an All-Star player like Stoudemire in the lineup, there is only one Stoudemire who can do it.

The Knicks' starting five are Amare Stoudemire, Wilson Chandler, Raymond Felton, Danilo Gallinari and Ronnie Turiaf.

Chandler, Felton, and Gallinari are all good players, but that's all. At least in the eyes of someone like Wang Xiao who has the foresight ability of time travelers, these players are completely unqualified to start. .

In fact, when the trade deadline comes in February, these people will be traded to the Nuggets as trading chips in exchange for another superstar Carmelo Anthony and Finals MVP Chauncey Billups.

But now, under the indiscriminate bombardment of the Wizards, this starting lineup is simply vulnerable.

The Knicks have not paid much attention to defense for many years, and when the team's head coach was replaced by the Suns running and bombing godfather D'Antoni, it became even more exaggerated.

This is a game without suspense at all, just like when the Wizards played against the Lakers in the last game. At halftime, the point difference between the two teams had reached more than 20 points. The difference is that in the last game, the lagging It's the Wizards, and they're leading this game.

After the third quarter of the game, Stoudemire tried to lead the team to launch a counterattack. Although the Knicks' defense was not very good, their offensive ability was much better under D'Antoni's training. This season, they averaged 106 points per game. The total score ranks third among the 30 teams in the league.

Unfortunately, their opponent is the Washington Wizards, who can average 117 points per game and rank first in the league.

Although Stoudemire's attack was ferocious, the Wizards suppressed it with an even more ferocious attack!

In the end, the game ended with 127:102, and the Wizards won by 25 points on the road.

In this game, Stoudemire scored a game-high 36 points, but he was unable to support himself. Facing the team's seven players in double figures, and Curry, Harden and Jamison all scored 20+ points, only Can secretly sigh that his teammates are not strong enough.

After defeating the Knicks, the Wizards' hellish four-game streak finally came to an end.

In four games, the Wizards achieved a record of 3 wins and 1 loss. Such a result is already very rare.

Wang Xiao breathed a sigh of relief. After this wave of four-game winning streak, the next match schedule will be much better.

After four consecutive away trips, the Wizards had two consecutive home games against two weak opponents, the Kings and the Nets. Between these two home games, there was a full 6 days of rest. In terms of the NBA regular season schedule, which arranges one game every day, it can be regarded as a small long vacation. It is also because the league has specially arranged two more days of rest in consideration of the fatigue of the four consecutive visitors.

But... Wang Xiao couldn't relax for too long.

These two home games are on December 14th and December 16th respectively, and after 4 more games, it will be December 25th.

Christmas, Christmas Wars!

In previous years, the Christmas game had nothing to do with the Wizards. After all, under the leadership of Arenas, the best result of the Wizards was only the second round of the Eastern Conference.

But this year is different.

Last season, under the leadership of Wang Xiao, the Wizards played perhaps one of the most exciting performances in history. The team used the most gorgeous tactics to make it all the way to the Eastern Conference Finals, where they were finally eliminated by the Celtics.

And this season, the Wizards have also become a participant in the Christmas game. On December 25, their opponent was the Boston Celtics who eliminated the Wizards in the Eastern Conference Finals last season.

This game cannot allow Wang Xiao to ignore it.

Due to the appearance of Wang Xiao and the emergence of the Wizards, the Bulls, who should have been ranked first in the Eastern Conference this season, fell to second, and the Heat, which was ranked second, fell to third. Kyle, who should have been ranked third in the Eastern Conference The record of the Celtics at this time naturally fell to the fourth position in the East, and if predicted according to this ranking, in the playoffs, the Celtics are likely to compete with the first-ranked Wizards in the second round. meet.

Although only a quarter of the regular season has gone on so far, and the ranking of the final record is still uncertain, Wang Xiao feels that this possibility is extremely high.

In this case, the four regular-season games against the Celtics have become extremely important.

Wang Xiao's goal this season is to snipe the Heat's Big Three in the playoffs, but it would be too embarrassing if he fell in front of the Celtics before meeting the Heat's Big Three.

In order to achieve the goal, it is necessary to ensure the victory of the Celtics in the playoffs.

At the beginning of the season, the Wizards played against the Celtics once on the road.

And that game was lost by the Wizards.

The Celtics' lineup is also somewhat restrained by the Wizards, who mainly play small ball tactics.

Unlike the Lakers who used the twin towers to put tremendous pressure on the Wizards inside, the main reason for the Celtics to restrain the Wizards is that the team's defensive ability is too strong.

Rondo, Ray Allen, Pierce's perimeter defensive ability is not weaker than the combination of Kobe Bryant, Artest and Fisher of the Lakers. In the Celtics team, there is another player who claims to be able to defend from the No. 1 position. To the super defensive champion Kevin Garnett at the 5th position.

The same age as Jamison, the 36-year-old Garnett has dropped significantly in all aspects this season, averaging only 15 points and 9 rebounds per game, but no one dares to underestimate the former wolf king.

At least in the confrontation between last season's playoffs and the beginning of this season, Garnett seemed to be able to defend the Wizards' small-ball lineup with ease, especially the Wizards' most used inside players pull down the outside to assist in the pick-and-roll tactics. The quick Garnett was pretty ineffective.

"How to deal with the Celtics?"

While Wang Xiao was having a headache with this problem, he had to pay attention to another matter.

In the Christmas game on December 25, the Wizards will play against the Celtics, and on December 27, at the Wizards' home court, their opponent will be the Miami Heat.

That's right, after a lapse of nearly a month, the Heat will make a comeback. Wang Xiao has no doubts at all. The Heat, from the general manager to the head coach to the Big Three, are all eager to win this game.