The Strongest Bishop in the NBA

The Blazers are lucky. A decision made by Wang Xiao led them to get Durant, and with Durant as the core of the team, they became one of the strong players in the Western Conference. They also stood out from the Western Conference for two consecutive years and reached the finals.

But the Blazers are unlucky again.

Because Wang Xiao chose Durant, they fired Wang Xiao, thus losing an excellent coach full of magic, while the other party moved to the Wizards, and built the Wizards into a historical super strong team .

In the finals last year, the Trail Blazers and the Wizards met, and they were swept 4:0 without any resistance. Now that the two teams will meet for the second time in the finals, there are very few media who are optimistic that the Trail Blazers can defeat the Wizards and win the cup. There are only a few local sports newspapers in Portland that still support their home team.

Many Blazers fans have thought about it, if the team owner and general manager did not fire Wang Xiao back then, but chose to believe in him, what kind of team is the Blazers now? Is it possible to match the Wizards?

Of course, this is just a fantasy. The fact has already happened and cannot be reversed. They can only expect a miracle to happen.

This is obviously just wishful thinking.

And the Wizards' three major strikers, George, Leonard, and Green, even James failed to reap the benefits. Although Durant is not losing in terms of offensive ability and is even stronger than James, but other aspects are better than James. But still inferior.

What's more, even if Durant's fiery scoring ability is beyond the table, the Wizards also have Curry Thompson, the Splash Brothers. The combined lethality of these two is much more terrifying than Durant.

Whether it is more defensive or more offensive, the Wizards are completely worthy of the Blazers.

After defeating the Heat, there is no team in the entire league that is qualified to stand in the way of the Wizards winning the championship.

The first battle between the two sides began on June 6 at the home court of the Wizards.

The Wizards are based on a regular lineup that remains unchanged, Curry, Thompson, Leonard, George and Whiteside.

On the other side, the Blazers' starting lineup made some adjustments.

Louis Williams, who had been playing the sixth man before, was mentioned in the starting position.

Due to injuries in the regular season, Louis Williams only played more than 40 regular season games, almost all of which were played as a substitute, averaging 14.1 points and 3.6 assists per game.

Although this data is not particularly good, it has surpassed the Blazers' current starting point guard Andre Miller.

The 37-year-old Andre Miller's competitive level has dropped a lot compared to last season. While his scoring average has dropped to 5.9 points per game, his assists have also dropped to 5.5 times. He now uses his own skills more often on the court Experience helps the Blazers control the tempo.

In the playoffs, facing high-intensity competition, Andre Miller's performance was very poor, with a shooting percentage of only over 30%, and he was at a disadvantage when facing most of the team's point guards.

The Blazers will naturally not allow Andre Miller in this state to match up with Curry, who may have the strongest scoring ability in the league. Although Lou Williams' defensive ability is also very average, he can't do anything. Better than Andre Miller.

At the shooting guard position is defensive titan Wesley Matthews.

Small forward Durant, power forward Aldridge, and center Jordan have not changed in any way.

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The head coach of the Trail Blazers wants Louis Williams to more or less contain Curry on the defensive end, but this is obviously a dream.

Curry is by no means something Louis Williams can guard against.

As soon as the game started, Curry scored consecutively, not only hitting three-pointers from the outside, but also breaking into the inside with the ball to cause damage.

The efficient scoring rhythm made the Blazers extremely passive, but on the other side Durant failed to open the situation under Leonard's defense.

Compared to a powerful small forward like James, Leonard still prefers to defend a player like Durant who tends to be more technical.

Of course, this does not mean that Leonard can prevent Durant to death. Counting the duel between the two in another time and space, Durant has an absolute advantage in points, rebounds, assists and shooting percentage. Steadily suppress Leonard.

After all, Durant's height of nearly 2.11 meters is much higher than Leonard's, and Durant's extremely precise mid-range shooting can make full use of his height advantage.

Although Leonard can't guard Durant, his restrictions on Durant are far greater than those imposed on Curry by Louis Williams.

The Wizards' offense is horribly rich, and Curry, Thompson, George and even Leonard can attack.

As for the Trail Blazers, before Louis Williams had grown up, the only player who could give Durant some support on the offensive end was power forward Aldridge. As for the other member of the Big Three, DeAndre Jordan ……hehe!

Jordan's ability to protect the frame really made the Blazers snort when they got him at the beginning. With his presence, Durant and Aldridge, two players who don't like to play inside, can have no psychological pressure of playing their favorite style on the perimeter.

However, as the partner's time increased, Jordan's various disadvantages began to be revealed.

The first point is that the offensive ability is extremely lacking. Basically, it can only rely on the second offense after eating cakes from the basket and grabbing offensive rebounds.

The second point is that although Jordan has a strong ability to protect the frame, he is only very strong. As a blue-collar defensive player, his defensive ability is much inferior to that of Thunder center Dunn. Amazing jumping and wingspan, not personal defensive awareness and ability.

Jordan's defense is a bit similar to Howard, but it is far from the terrifying dominance of Howard on the defensive end in his peak period.

In another time and space, Jordan only won two best defensive team honors and two rebounding titles, not even as much as Bulls center Joakim Noah on the defensive end.

The third point, and the most fatal weakness, is his free throws.

Without O'Neill and Howard's life, O'Neill and Howard's disease.

Jordan's free throws and O'Neal, Howard didn't give in too much, or even worse, which also made Jordan be deliberately targeted in many cases, and became the target of the shark-killing tactics.

In the past two years of competition, the Blazers have often encountered the opponent's shark-slashing tactics. Even the reason why they were swept in the finals last season has a lot to do with Wang Xiao's extremely straightforward execution of the shark-slashing tactics.

As long as Jordan's free throws don't improve, he will become the biggest hole for the Blazers on the court.

In fact, if the Wizards hadn't taken the initiative from the very beginning, Wang Xiao didn't want to bb with them any more, and just followed the procedure to cut the shark and walk away.

(Something happened today, only one update, sorry.)