The Strongest Bishop in the NBA

After a home win over the Heat, the Wizards have just one game left on their December schedule, a Dec. 30 road game against the Pacers.

Perhaps it was because of continuous confrontation with strong enemies, (the Christmas game defeated the Celtics, and then won the Heat.) The Wizards performed very mediocre in this away game, and finally lost the game 121:113, which also ended the 2010 season. All journeys.

The regular season began on October 28, 2010, and ended on December 31. The Wizards played a total of 30 games. In these 30 games, the Wizards achieved a record of 25 wins and 5 losses, ranking first in the East.

Followed closely by the Bulls with 25 wins and 6 losses. Because of the one more loss and the relationship between the two teams, even if the Wizards lose to the Pacers, the two teams have the same winning record, but the Bulls still rank The division below the Wizards ranks second.

And these two top two teams in the Eastern Conference are also ranked first and second in the league.

The No. 1 team in the Western Conference is the San Antonio Spurs, who currently have a record of 24 wins and 6 losses.

Such a result was something that most people could not have imagined at the beginning of the season.

With the Big Three, the Heat can only rank third in the Eastern Conference with a record of 24 wins and 8 losses, while the Wizards and Bulls, the two newcomers, are actually fighting for the top spot in the league.

This makes people not think deeply, are the Big Three really that strong?

Of course, this is just a slight suspicion. The super big three composed of James, Wade and Bosh is absolutely invincible in the league, and even so far, the team with the highest odds of winning the league is still the Heat Team, followed by the Lakers, Spurs, Celtics... As the Wizards team with the league's first record, because the lineup is too young, it only ranks sixth in the championship odds list, which is even lower than the No. Five of the bulls.

It is also a young team, the Bulls who are good at defense are still more trusted by people than the Wizards who are good at offense, even if the quality of defense of the Wizards this season has changed from last season.

However, the championship odds list has always been unreliable. Wang Xiao knows this better than anyone else, because the championship of the 10-11 season is not the Heat, nor the Lakers, but the Dallas Mavericks.

I am afraid that no one would have imagined that the combination of the Big Three of the Heat would be defeated in the face of the Mavericks with only Nowitzki leading the team with a single core.

Looking at the Mavericks' championship lineup, apart from Dirk Nowitzki, who averaged 27.7 points and 8 rebounds per game in the playoffs, the highest scorer was Jason Terry, who averaged 17.5 points per game. There are only three doubles, Nowitzki's 27.7 points, Terry's 17.5 points and Sean Marion's 11.9 points.

I have to say that the Mavericks this year are really strong, and they deserved the championship.

But Wang Xiao never set his sights on the western teams.

As the saying goes, if you fight against the outside world, you must first settle down at home. Even if the problems in the east cannot be solved, it would be ridiculous to think about the problems in the west.

Until the Heat were killed in the playoffs, Wang Xiao didn't think much about the Mavericks.

His goal was clear from the beginning, to snipe the Heat.

And after that comes the question of honor.

It would be great if he could win the championship trophy this season, but if he couldn't, Wang Xiao wouldn't worry about it too much. After all, he said when he came here that he would win the championship within five years, and this year is the time to win the championship. His second year coaching the Wizards.

Curry, Harden, George and others have not fully grown to the level of the future peak period. Even if they are performing quite well now, it is inevitable that there will be no mistakes in the high-pressure games of the playoffs.

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The end of 2010 is also accompanied by the arrival of 2011.

The Wizards' January 2011 schedule has 17 games, which is tighter than it was in December.

But it's not just the Wizards who have a tight schedule, it's the same for all 30 teams in the league.

The Wizards, who are only leading by a very small margin, are far from securing the top spot in the Eastern Conference or even the league under such circumstances.

Only those who stand out in this tight and difficult schedule are worthy of the league's first position.

Neither Wang Xiao nor the entire Wizards team wanted to give up their current No. 1 position in the league, so the Wizards showed amazing dominance as soon as the game started in January.

It was Curry who broke out first. After entering January, Curry seemed to turn on a switch suddenly. The three-point shooting rate was scary. The first three games in January were against the Hornets, the 76ers and the Bobcats. In the game, Curry scored 33 points, 31 points and 35 points respectively, and his three-point shooting percentage was as high as 56%, which is terrifying.

With Curry's strong firepower, the Wizards easily won these three games.

In the next few games, I found that Curry seemed a bit invincible this month, and other teams decisively defended him. Under constant double-teaming and targeted defense, Curry's shooting percentage outside the three-point line plummeted. The number of shots received by the ball has also been reduced a lot.

However, the Wizards are not a single-core operation. When Curry was targeted, Harden stood up.

Whenever the opposing player defends against Curry, there will inevitably be a gap in Harden's defense, and his opportunity will come at this time.

Today's Harden is not the Harden of the Thunder stage.

Under the vigorous training of Wang Xiao's training module, Harden's growth rate is also extremely astonishing. Even though there is still some gap with Curry at this time, compared with Harden in the Thunder's third youth period, he is already more than a little bit stronger. Even slightly stronger than Harden, who just arrived at the Rockets.

Although Harden averaged 25.9 points + 5.8 assists per game in his first year with the Rockets, his shooting percentage was only a little over 43%, and his efficiency was not very high.

The Wizards version of Harden is currently averaging 21+8 per game, shooting 47% from the field and 39% from the three-point range.

With such a high efficiency, when Curry was targeted, Harden was naturally the first to stand up.

In the next few games, Curry only scored about 20-25 points in each game, while Harden's scoring increased to about 28-30 points, and Harden even got a 30+10 double-double in two games score.

The dual-core-driven Wizards have fierce firepower. Almost all games in early January were swept away, without a single defeat.

However, the Bulls, which competed most fiercely with the Wizards, had a small problem in the January game.

During the Orlando game, Howard broke out without warning, scored 39 points and 18 rebounds, and single-handedly overwhelmed the Bulls' Joakim Noaga Carlos Boozer.

Losing to the Magic, the Bulls immediately fell behind the Wizards by one game, and then, the Bulls actually lost again. This time they were not even facing a traditional strong team like the Magic, but A team that finished last in the league last season.

New Jersey Nets.

The Nets led by Jeremy Lin.

In this game, Jeremy Lin scored 28 points, 14 assists, 7 rebounds and 4 steals. Rose only scored 19 points, 6 assists and 5 turnovers.

In the head-to-head confrontation with Jeremy Lin, Rose was completely defeated.

This is not the first time Rose lost to Jeremy Lin. In the semifinals of the 2008 NCAA Tournament, Rose's University of Memphis lost to Harvard University led by Wang Xiao at the time, and Jeremy Lin was also facing him at the time. .