The Strongest Bishop in the NBA

After the time entered September, Wang Xiao ended the special training for Curry and the other four and gave them a short vacation.

At the end of September, the team will officially gather players to prepare for the preseason and regular season.

Taking advantage of this holiday, Wang Xiao also went back to China to visit his parents.

This time Wang Xiao returned to China very low-key and did not disturb any media.

Now he is not the unknown little coach two years ago. Although he has never appeared in the NBA, but in China, Wang Xiao's popularity is already quite high, especially not long ago when Dayao became the king in front of the media. After Xiao made his voice, his domestic popularity began to skyrocket.

Wang Xiao didn't want to be disturbed by the media when he went back to China to visit his parents, so many domestic media even thought that Wang Xiao was still in the United States.

After spending two weeks peacefully at home, Wang Xiao returned to Washington again.

The time for the players to return to the team to resume training is September 25, and the coaches have to return to the team some time earlier.

Unlike the summer league, whose main purpose is to examine the status and level of players, preseason games are very important for any team as preparations before the regular season.

For the Wizards who changed nearly half of their teams this summer, they need to run in the lineup in just 7 games, familiarize themselves with their respective team's style of play, and determine the team's lineup for the new season.

Time is a little tense.

Fortunately, Wang Xiao designed the general tactical system before, and also formulated several sets of tactics suitable for the Wizards with reference to the tactics of the two representative teams, the Warriors and the Rockets in the future.

Next, you only need to hand over these tactics to the offensive coach, and let the players practice and become familiar with them in daily training.

Wang Xiao cares more about defense than offense.

Curry, Harden, these two players are definitely not good defensive players.

In many cases, Curry was regarded as a breakthrough point for the Warriors on the court, and Harden was not much better.

Although the small ball tactic was born out of the running and bombing tactic, it is different from the running and bombing tactic. The small ball tactic is also quite good in defense.

The Warriors are mostly remembered for their quicksilver offense, but the team's defense is also pretty good.

The current Wizards lineup, especially Wang Xiao's tentative starting lineup, has a lot of deficiencies in defense.

Among the guards, Curry and Harden are not players who are good at defense. Butler on the front line is also a typical offensive strong and defensive weak. It feels weak to defend, but his defense is surprisingly okay.

Jamison is not good at blocking shots, but his rebounding protection, stealing ability, and awareness of assisting and supplementing defenses are all very good, and his defensive attitude is considered attentive.

Compared with the other four positions, the Wizards' center position is the only position that can be described as strong defensively.

Brandon Haywood, a typical defensive center, tall and strong, has the ability to eat cakes, low post skills are about zero, poor free throws, but the ability to grab rebounds and block shots is very good.

Last season, Haywood missed almost a season due to injury, but Wang Xiao still arranged him as the starting center without hesitation.

Although McGee and Jordan Jr. are very talented, and they are tall and tall centers who are good at blocking shots and grabbing rebounds, they are only second-year rookies after all, and there is a big gap between them and Heywood in terms of experience.

The current defensive ability of the Wizards is probably at the bottom of the entire league, and whether it can be raised to the bottom or even a dozen depends on the role of the center.

In Wang Xiao's tactical system, the center's main job is to defend, rebound and pick and roll.

As long as the opponent's player breaks through the outside line and rushes into the inside line, as long as he can assist in the defense in time and effectively restrict the opponent's ability to score easily, in Wang Xiao's opinion, he is qualified.

For this reason, Wang Xiao did not hesitate to get Jordan Jr., just to let the Wizards have the advantage of height inside.

Heywood, McGee, and Jr. are three big insiders. Whoever gets off the field because of too many defensive fouls, the other will immediately go up. Even if it is a pile of numbers, it must pile up defensive quality and rebounds!

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As time entered the end of September, players also returned to the team to report.

In the training hall, assistant coaches and players are undergoing recovery training.

And Wang Xiao stood on the sidelines, watching silently.

Except for the two transactions at the draft conference, no action has been taken, including the players whose contracts have expired, and the renewal of their contracts has not been discussed. Therefore, at present, the Wizards There are a total of 14 people on the big list.

Point guard: Stephen Curry, Patrick Beverley.

Shooting guards: James Harden, Nick Young, Mike James.

Small forwards: Caron Butler, Mike Miller, Danny Green.

Power forwards: Antawn Jamison, Andre Brac. Dominic McGuire.

Centers: Brandon Haywood, DeAndre Jordan, JaVale McGee.

"...Well, it's not bad, as long as it works well."

Rubbing his chin, Wang Xiao thought in his heart.

This lineup, as long as the rookies selected this year can grow up, it will undoubtedly become quite strong.

Even if there are not small deficiencies on the defensive end, they can be covered up by relying on strong offensive firepower, just like the Suns with the run-and-bomb tactics...

"The head coach..."

At this time, the chief assistant coach Walter came over, holding a document in his hand, frowning slightly.

"What's the matter?" Wang Xiao looked at Walter.

"Head coach, there are some problems with the training plan you gave me yesterday, and the amount of training related to three-pointers is too much. I want to ask if I made a mistake." Walter said.

"There is no mistake, the team has been training according to this training plan from today."

Wang Xiao's answer left Walt speechless.

He really couldn't understand the head coach's thinking.

Almost half of the entire training plan is related to three-pointers. What do you want to do? Shoot a lot of 3-pointers in the game?

Walt never imagined that he really guessed Wang Xiao's idea.

Soon, the players in training also noticed something was wrong.

"How come today's training is all about three-pointers?"

Butler asked with some doubts.

Caron Butler is a traditional offensive small forward. Although he has the ability to shoot three-pointers, his shooting percentage is not particularly high. Compared with shooting three-pointers from the outside, he is more used to hitting the basket with the ball.

He attempted fewer 3s from the perimeter last season than power forward Jamison.

There are many people who have the same doubts as him. Players such as Jamison, Mike Miller, and Nick Young are also surprised by this kind of training.

Only Curry and other four people who participated in Wang Xiao's training during the holidays were not so surprised. Throughout August, they spent almost every day shooting three-pointers, which is nothing compared to the original.