The Strongest Bishop in the NBA

After the start of the second quarter, Wang Xiao immediately felt the Celtics' change in their defensive strategy.

The marking of George has increased a lot.

But still the same sentence, there are only 10 people on the court, 5 on each side, no matter how strong and perfect the tactics are, they can only be executed by these 5 people, and the number of people will inevitably lead to loopholes in the tactics.

George's mid-range threat made the Celtics take precautions. Correspondingly, other defenses will inevitably relax.

Wang Xiao made a decisive decision and immediately asked George to change his position from the corner area to a position one step inside the corner three-point line, echoing Curry who stood outside the corner three-point line at the other end.

After the space was further stretched, the Celtics' defense immediately had problems. Whether it was Harden or Curry, the pressure they encountered during offense was reduced a lot.

The Celtics' defense was established when Bulls coach Thibodeau was still an assistant coach for the Celtics. The main feature of their defensive tactics is the linkage defense between players, or a small-scale defense. zone defense.

Garnett's mobility can make up for the troubles caused by the NBA's three-second defense to the zone defense. Coupled with the coordinated defense of Pierce, Ray Allen and others, this Green Army's iron-blooded defense has been created.

But now, George's excellent performance in the first quarter of the game forced Pierce to concentrate on dealing with it. As a result, the Celtics' zone defense was forced to transform into a man-to-man defense.

In this case, both Curry and Harden have too many opportunities to play.

Using the pick-and-roll cooperation with Jordan, Harden rushed to the inside continuously. In the case of man marking, no matter how fast the Celtics reacted, it was too late to stop Harden.

"Squeak——"

The referee's whistle sounded, and Rivers' face was a little ugly.

Field, Garnett has received a second foul, but in just 2 minutes.

Although Harden's strength is far from reaching the peak level in the future, his foul-making ability is already a bit of a high-level meaning. Rao is an experienced player like Garnett, so he didn't care.

After being called two fouls in a row, Garnett was a little upset. He walked over to argue with the referee, but was pulled back by his teammates.

The current league has begun to implement a zero-tolerance system, which is especially strict in the fierce playoffs. As long as Garnett's words are a little bit harsher, he will definitely be whistled, and it will be even worse if he is called for a technical foul.

The Wizards seized the opportunity to pursue the victory and further expanded the score in the second quarter.

At 48:39, the score gap came to 9 points, and as the Celtics' defense was torn apart by George's mid-range shot, the Wizards' offensive firepower also began to pick up, scoring 48 points in the first half, and then It should not be difficult to score more than 100 points in the second half of the game.

George didn't get many opportunities in the second quarter, but even so, he still hit 1 3-pointer and 1 mid-range shot, and his score has risen to 19 points.

In the third quarter of the game, the Celtics still had no chance, because the Wizards' third quarter game was recognized as the strongest in the league.

The reason is simple. The Wizards' bench lineup is the best in the entire league.

When the stars of the two teams consumed too much in the first two quarters and wanted to use the intermission and the third quarter to recover more energy on the bench, it was time for the Wizards' bench to exert their strength.

Harden and Butler, who didn't play much time in the first two quarters, launched a fierce attack on the Celtics' defense in the third quarter.

In a few minutes, the 9-point difference was widened to 15 points.

The Wizards' offensive frenzy in turn made the Celtics Rivers have to call two timeouts, and then bit the bullet and put Garnett, Pierce and others on the field ahead of time.

Rivers knew that this was not a good sign, but the situation did not allow him to decide.

The Celtics' bench lineup is actually quite good. Jeff Green and Glenn Davis are both standard bench gangsters, but they are really not enough to face the Wizards.

Harden and Butler are not counted on the Wizards side. Beverly, McGee, and Whiteside alone can compete with the Celtics' bench lineup. When a player who is properly qualified as a starter on the team is on the court, the gap is quite large.

At the beginning, Rivers also tried to let the young Rondo and Ray Allen, whose style of play is not particularly energy-intensive, push through this difficult time.

However, the combination of Rondo + Ray Allen is completely no match for the combination of Harden + Butler. It's not that there is a huge gap in the strength of the two teams.

It's because the Wizards have a mad dog on the point guard.

At this time in another time and space, Beverley was still playing in Russia and was still unknown.

But in this time and space, Beverly, who was selected and trained by Wang Xiao, has become an excellent role player in the eyes of many scouts.

As Curry's substitute, Beverly averaged only about 18 minutes per game this season, and in these 18 minutes, most of the players were still in Harden's hands, resulting in Beverly's average per game being only 6.7. Points, 2 rebounds and 1.4 assists.

But that doesn't hide the fact that Beverley is a solid defender.

Tenacious style of play, excellent defensive awareness and top physical fitness among point guards have made Beverly trouble many point guards in the regular season.

In this game, Beverly, who came off the bench, immediately focused on Rondo.

Although Rondo has grown into the league's top point guard, as a point guard, his shortcoming is too obvious, that is, poor shooting ability.

Taking advantage of this, Beverly can easily lock Rondo, so that he can only use the overall situation and pass to support his teammates.

But under the entanglement of Beverly's mad dog, Rondo's offense was not particularly smooth.

With Rondo being entangled by Beverly, Ray Allen is naturally not an opponent in the face of Harden and Butler's offenses.

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The Celtics let Pierce and Garnett play early, while the Wizards, Wang Xiao did not replace the main players immediately, but pressed and continued to let the substitute lineup play on the court.

The appearance of Pierce and Garnett immediately reversed the unfavorable situation of the Celtics, especially Pierce. He clearly felt that when facing Butler, the pressure was much less than facing George. He is good at defense, and under Wang Xiao's training, George has begun to feel like a defensive champion.

Facing Butler's defense, Pierce scored consecutively, and Garnett used experience and skills to single McGee and Whiteside several times in the interior, and finally recovered the score gap to only 5 points.

At this time, there was not much time left in the third quarter.

At this time, Wang Xiao calmly replaced the main force here.

With the appearance of Curry, George, Jamison and other players, the rest time is not enough, and Pierce has played for four or five minutes on the court, Garnett and others are a little bit overwhelmed.