The Strongest Bishop in the NBA

351 Another 20?

In the first two quarters, the 50-50 open situation maintained by the two teams was completely broken in the third quarter. The Wizards continued to maintain a very high offensive efficiency in the third quarter and scored 31 points. Fell into an offensive drought, only scored 19 points in the entire quarter!

James sat off the court with an extremely ugly face.

"Damn it, why did it become like this again?"

He is very familiar with this rhythm. In the past few years with the Heat, whenever he played against the Wizards, most of the time the situation would evolve into what it is now.

Comparing the strength of the starting lineup alone, neither the Heat nor the Cavaliers lose to the Wizards, but the Wizards' bench depth, which is the best in the league, cannot be achieved by any team in the league.

Facing the same strong starting lineup of the Wizards, they cannot gain a decisive lead, and the huge gap in the bench often puts the team at a disadvantage. This is undoubtedly the most desperate thing.

The tactical system of the Wizards is not complicated. It is fast-paced small ball tactics coupled with frequent pick-and-roll passes and cuts.

The Wizards always have an inexhaustible supply of good players, what can be done about this?

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Relying on the score advantage established by the substitute lineup, when Curry and others reappeared, they immediately took the initiative on the court.

James also went into battle again, and relying on his explosive combat effectiveness, he led the Cavaliers to catch up with the score a little bit.

However, whenever the scores of the two teams are close, someone from the Wizards will always jump out.

"Curry! A three-pointer!"

"Thompson! Nice cut!"

"Leonard singles James successfully!"

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The score has been maintained at around 10 points and fluctuated until the end of the game.

When the whistle sounded for the end of the game, the Wizards' home court resounded with excited cheers.

At 117:109, the Wizards beat the Cavaliers by 6 points at home.

The team did not disappoint the fans at home. The victory over the rival Cavaliers in the first game is undoubtedly a reassurance for the majority of Wizards fans.

In this game, with Leonard and Green taking turns serving him, his shooting percentage was only about 44%, and he made as many as 6 turnovers.

But even so, he still contributed a quasi-triple-double of 34 points, 8 rebounds and 11 assists in the whole game, and his performance was incredible.

However, apart from James, the Cavaliers only played well with point guard Kyrie Irving.

Irving made 8 of 15 shots and scored 22 points and 5 assists including free throws.

The other two giants in the Cavaliers' Big Four, Dwight Howard only had 14 points and 9 rebounds, and Love only had 11 points and 5 rebounds.

Such a performance is obviously not enough to be called a giant, but it is an inevitable result in the Cavaliers.

Although both James and Irving have long-range shooting ability, both of them are undoubtedly players who are good at breakthroughs.

Since they are good at making breakthroughs, there should not be too many people on the inside when they are making a breakthrough, otherwise they will block their breakthrough route.

Love basically played the role of an outside turret throughout the game, and there were very few opportunities to catch the ball. It is strange that the data can be good.

Howard got a lot of opportunities throughout the game, but Howard did not have the explosive power and physical strength of his youth. Facing Gobert's defense, his offensive efficiency was very low, or it was difficult to find ease under Gobert's defense. The opportunity to make a move.

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Needless to say, after the game, Howard and Love became the targets of criticism from Cavaliers fans.

There is no harm without comparison.

Compared with the Wizards, where every player has played well, the Cavaliers can only blame these two for their loss.

You can't blame James, who scored 30 points + a quasi-triple-double, and Irving, who contributed 20 + 5 steadily, certainly can't blame him.

After the game, both Howard and Love apologized for their poor performance, and promised to recall their status as soon as possible in the next game to help the team win the series.

But obviously, the effect of such a promise is not significant.

The poor performance of Howard and Love is not entirely due to their personal problems, and most importantly, the key to the Wizards' victory is the huge gap in the bench lineup, not the poor performance of one or two players in the Cavaliers .

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The second battle between the two sides began on May 20. Unlike the previous game, the Wizards had an advantage throughout the game, and they maintained their advantage from the first quarter until the end of the game. The moment it rang.

At 113:88, the Wizards were completely defeated in this game, losing a full 25 points.

The Wizards won two consecutive victories, and the series score became 2:0.

Such a score did not exceed the expectations of most people in the league, but many people still did not expect this process to be so easy.

The fierce collision imagined did not happen, and the Cavaliers are indeed not the opponents of the Wizards. Even the Big Four still have a gap with the 73-win team.

What makes most teams in the league even more frightening is that this Wizards team is not yet at its strongest stage, and there is an All-Star player, Paul George, who can only watch the game from the sidelines.

In the absence of Paul, the Cavaliers are not an opponent of the Wizards, let alone after Paul returns from injury?

After the two games, many people basically think that there is no suspense for the Wizards' three consecutive championships.

And the Wizards, who won three consecutive championships and a record of 73 wins, may create even more terrifying records in the future, such as six consecutive championships, eight consecutive championships... After all, their lineup is too young. Some of the main players have few opponents in the alliance.

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After two home games, Wang Xiao and the Wizards will head to Cleveland for an away game.

Before that, he took the time to travel to New York with the Wizards management to participate in the lottery ceremony of the 2014 draft.

In the past, Wang Xiao didn't even bother to participate in events like the lottery ceremony. Anyway, the Wizards ranked first in the league every year, and the lottery basically had nothing to do with them.

But this year something is different.

Not long ago, the Milwaukee Bucks officially completed the equity transfer. Herb Cole, the former owner of the Bucks, sold the Bucks to Wesley Edens and Mark Leslie for $550 million. Among them, Wesley Edens holds the majority of shares and becomes the big boss of the Bucks.

This lottery ceremony is the first time for the new owner of the Bucks to participate in the work of the team, and Wesley Edens' daughter Mallory Edens will also be in this lottery ceremony as in another time and space The audience was amazed.