The Strongest Bishop in the NBA

Of course, Wang Xiao will not let Harden, a future league superstar, simply play as a substitute.

In any team, there can only be one core player.

Stronger than Wade, after James came to the Heat, he also had to sacrifice his possession of the ball.

Similarly, after Durant joined the Warriors, Curry's offense with the ball was greatly reduced. Even if Curry's offense with the ball was very efficient, he had to make way for the more efficient Durant.

Between Curry and Harden, Wang Xiao is more inclined to let Curry be the core of the team.

Although Harden made a certain sacrifice, Wang Xiao can give him a lot of playing time and possession of the ball in order to compensate Harden in the substitute position.

When Harden first arrived in the Thunder, he also played as a substitute, and he played for three full years.

Although the current Harden is ahead of schedule because of Wang Xiao, but other aspects are not much different from the Thunder in another time and space.

"Okay, coach, I'd love to be on the bench."

Facing the conditions offered by Wang Xiao, Harden's heart skipped a beat.

Although he is a substitute, it is not a bad thing if he can guarantee more than 30 minutes of playing time in each game and still have the ball in his hands.

"Very good." Wang Xiao nodded in satisfaction, then remembered something. "But don't forget our rules during training. More than half of your shots must be three-pointers, and you must ensure your hit rate."

"No problem, coach!"

Harden nodded fiercely and said.

With Curry starting and Harden on the bench, the tone was set.

When Curry is on the court, the team's tactics will revolve around Curry, and when Harden is on the court, the ball will be transferred to Harden. The vulgar Harden has played.

Wang Xiao didn't know how effective such an arrangement would be. Any tactic could only be verified in actual combat.

On October 25, 2009, the last round of the preseason game, the Wizards played against the Phoenix Suns at home.

This is an attacking game.

The Suns have been in turmoil for the past two years. Consecutive losses in the playoffs caused D'Antoni to leave get out of class, and the departure of Marion and others made the team's firepower weakened again and again.

Even so, the Suns are still one of the strongest teams in the West. As long as Nash is still there, this team will be the most gorgeous offensive team in the league, not to mention that there is an All-Star power forward Stoudemire in the team.

Steve Nash is recognized as a passing master, with sharp offense, wide vision, and gorgeous passing. Even if he is the best point guard in NBA history, Nash will definitely be on the list. Although he does not have the honor of a championship, he But has two regular season MVP trophies.

It is extremely difficult for a point guard to win the MVP trophy in the NBA. Before Nash, only Magic Johnson had won the MVP trophy for two consecutive years.

As strong as Kidd, he has never won the regular season MVP trophy in his life.

Of course, Kidd's failure to own the MVP trophy has a lot to do with luck to a certain extent. In his strongest years, his opponents competing for MVP were the peak O'Neal, Allen Iverson, Tim Duncan and Kevin Garnett, although Kidd's performance is not weaker than these superstars, but the team's record is relatively worse than that after all, so they can only drink their hatred.

Nash of MVP Lianglianzhuang is very strong, but compared with Kidd, he has a fatal flaw-weak defense.

Nash's weak defense is not the same as Curry.

Although some people always say that Curry's defense is poor and he is the weakest starter of the Warriors, but if Curry is taken out of the Warriors and compared with all the starting point guards of the 30 teams in the league, it will be found that, His defensive ability can be at the upper-middle level among the 30 starting point guards.

The reason why Curry gives people a feeling of weak defense is just because his teammates are too defensive, so that once the stars of many teams face the Warriors, they will selectively play Curry through pick-and-roll dislocation.

Nash is different. His defense is really weak, even if he is placed at the bottom of all the point guards of the 30 teams in the league.

So from the beginning of this game, the two sides have entered into a confrontation.

Both sides played very fast. Nash couldn't guard Curry, and Curry couldn't guard Nash either.

But when he hit it, Nash felt something was wrong.

Although both sides are playing run-and-gun tactics, most of them use breakouts to pass the ball to Aldridge and others to attack the basket, while the Wizards, Curry frequently uses the inside center to pick and roll. Out of space to shoot threes.

After a few rounds, the Suns, who had a good shooting percentage, were actually behind in the score. Before the first quarter was over, the Wizards had already shot 12 three-pointers frantically!

Curry made 5 of 6 three-pointers, Jamison made 1 of 3 shots, Green made 1 of 2 shots, and Butler made 1 of 1 shots!

Just relying on three-pointers, the Wizards scored 24 points in the first quarter!

At the end of the first quarter, the Wizards scored 34 points in a single quarter, fully suppressing the Suns who scored 29 points.

Immediately following the second quarter, the lineups of the two sides were greatly rotated, and the Wizards played Harden Beverly and others.

The Suns, who thought the Wizards' offensive rhythm would slow down, were shocked to find that the offensive rhythm of these guys was even more exaggerated than in the first quarter.

Harden, who has a lot of balls, constantly uses breakthroughs to hit the basket and then divides the ball. The Wizards' three-point rain has no intention of stopping.

When the halftime ended, the Wizards had already made 23 three-pointers. Although the three-point shooting percentage in the second quarter dropped, they still scored 28 points. Instead of narrowing the score gap between the two teams, it widened by 5. points, the point difference widened to double digits.

Facing Nash's weak defense, Curry felt that he was in a very good state, no matter how he shot, he had several breakthroughs with the ball and forced Nash alone.

Curry's high-light performance surprised the Suns, and even began to let the better defensive Jason Richardson switch to Curry.

But Curry, who has already warmed up, can't stop it at all.

In the third quarter, Curry made 4 of 7 shots and 2 of 5 three-pointers. He scored 10 points in a single quarter and scored a total of 39 points in three quarters!

In the fourth quarter, Curry did not play again, because the scores of the two teams had no suspense.

In the third quarter, the point difference between the two teams has widened to more than 20 points. Since it is a preseason game, the Suns have no intention of catching up. They directly replaced all the main players and let the substitutes play for training.

Wang Xiao also replaced the substitute players, and the two sides ended the fourth quarter tepidly.

Curry's performance in this game surprised many people. He scored 39 points in three quarters and made 9 of 15 three-pointers in the game, with a hit rate of 60%.

After the game, Nash described Curry in an interview, "He is like installing a scope, and he is so accurate."

Curry's performance of 39 points in three quarters occupied the headlines of major sports newspapers that day. Many people were surprised. They didn't expect this thin kid to have such a strong scoring ability.

But the surprise is the surprise, and many fans of the Wizards are still waiting and watching.

After all, this is only a preseason game, and the outcome is meaningless at all. The regular season is the real battlefield for NBA players.

And with the end of the last round of the preseason, the NBA regular season is finally coming!