The Strongest Bishop in the NBA

Although they are both the Big Three, the Heat and the Celtics are very different.

On the one hand, there is a gap in the quality of the Big Three. When the Celtics' Big Three formed, they were slightly weaker than the Heat's Big Three in terms of age, strength, and fame. The real top star was only Garnett.

Although the strength of Pierce and Ray Allen is unquestionable, it is an indisputable fact that they only had two such honors before 2007.

However, apart from the quality of the Big Three, there is another big difference between the two teams, and that is the strength of other players.

In order to form the Big Three, the Heat have paid a lot, so that the team has very few capable role players. In this regard, the Celtics are much better.

Although the Celtics stud nearly half of the team in order to get Garnett, they left behind a young man with full potential.

Rajon Rondo.

As a player who grew up under the halo of the Big Three, Rondo's strength is beyond doubt. This season is his second season as an All-Star substitute, and he has also been selected to the league's best defensive team for three consecutive years.

In the position of point guard, there are very few people who can defend better than him, and I am afraid there are only Jeremy Lin, Paul and a few others.

Curry has already experienced this in the Eastern Conference semifinals.

Rivers' targeted defensive tactics are of course very good, but the direct cause of Curry's level of loss is Rondo's extremely oppressive defense.

It's a pity that the Heat don't have a strong defensive point guard like Rondo.

Mario Chalmers is already the best point guard the Heat can place in the starting position.

So in theory, the Heat cannot limit Curry's point.

Of course, the Heat can also match Wade and Curry and use Wade to limit Curry's performance, but compared to Rondo, Wade has to play the role of offensive finisher more often in the Heat, which is impossible Focus on defense wholeheartedly.

Therefore, when facing the Celtics, Wang Xiao focused on Paul George, and when facing the Heat, it was Curry's turn.

Before the game, Wang Xiao almost without hesitation chose the tactical skill of this game - long-range shooting. He wanted to stimulate Curry's power to the maximum.

The result was the same as Wang Xiao expected.

Curry played an extremely powerful offensive firepower at the beginning of the game.

Facing Chalmers' defense, Curry scored 3 three-pointers within 5 minutes, abruptly stopping the Heat.

The suffocation that Dong could never play last season, the frustration of being targeted everywhere when he played against the Celtics, the sudden decline in the defensive strength of the opposing players, and the bonus of long-range shooting skills...

The combination of all these factors has created Curry's extremely efficient offensive efficiency.

After the timeout, the Heat chose to switch defenses and let Wade mark Curry.

However, Wade's defense can only restrict Curry to a certain extent, but cannot completely lock him up, and with Harden coming off the bench, the Wizards began to focus on singles with Harden. It's hard to defend Curry, let alone Harden, who has a huge gap in height and tonnage.

Although the Heat's defense is also among the best in the league, it is still a bit worse than the Celtics, and more often they rely on the outstanding personal ability and mobility of the Big Three to drive the defense.

While the back line is at a disadvantage, the entanglement between the two teams in the front line is also extremely fierce.

Bosh and Jamison are similar in style. Leaving aside power forwards who tend to be face-up shooters, the duel between James and George at the small forward position can be said to have attracted the attention of most people.

"Damn it, this rookie just got tougher!"

Frowning and staring at Paul George in front of him, James thought to himself.

Compared with the regular season, after experiencing the Celtics series and confrontation with Pierce, Anthony and other All-Star small forwards, George's skills have become more proficient and his defense has become more difficult.

In just a few minutes of fighting, James has felt that George's defensive ability is already more difficult than the Bulls' small forward Ruel Deng, and what is even more troublesome is that George's offense has become extremely threatening Sex, so James had to deal with it carefully.

"Isn't this guy making too much progress? How did that Huaxia coach do it?"

While James was complaining secretly, there was also a lot of activity in George's heart.

After playing against Anthony and Pierce in the playoffs one after another, he became more and more aware of James' strength.

As a small forward, James is far less proficient in various offensive methods than Anthony and Pierce in terms of offensive skills, but his perfect combination of physical fitness, strength and basketball skills is unprecedented in the small forward position!

Just like what is described in Jin Yong's martial arts novels, the epee is not sharp and ingenious, and it is unfair. When the strength reaches a certain level, it can destroy any defense in a devastating manner.

Every time James catches the ball, George basically knows that the opponent will definitely break through, but even if he knows it and made preparations in advance, he still can't prevent it.

In front of him, it seemed that it was not a person at all, but an extremely savage beast!

"This monster..."

Rubbing his chest, which was sore from being hit by James in the previous confrontation, George gritted his teeth secretly, and followed.

"No matter what, your opponent is me!"

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In the first quarter of the game, the Wizards took the absolute initiative, staring at Chalmers' weakness, Curry and Harden both played very well.

Curry had 12 points in the first quarter, while Harden had nine.

Relying on the efficient points of the two, the score of the two teams in the first quarter reached 34:26, and the Wizards led by 8 points at home.

For the Heat, Wade scored 13 points and James scored 11 points. The two scored almost all the scores in the first quarter of the Heat. Only Bosh hit a mid-range shot from the rest of the Heat's starters.

In the first quarter of the game between James and George, James obviously had the upper hand, because George only scored 7 points in the first quarter.

But such a situation was expected by Wang Xiao.

After all, LeBron James is an existence that George has never defeated in the playoffs even at his peak.

As long as George can entangle James well on the court and consume the opponent's physical energy, it is considered a successful defense.

In fact, the teams that have defeated James have basically done so.

In the 2014 finals, against James, he claimed to limit James. The Leonard series data that won the FMVP trophy was only 17.8 points and 6 rebounds. James, who was restricted by him, averaged 28 points, 7.8 rebounds and 4 assists per game. .

In the 2015 Finals, Iguodala, who beat Curry to win the FMVP trophy because of defending James, averaged only 16 points, 5 rebounds and 4 assists per game, while James, who was marked by him all the way, averaged 35.8 points, 13 rebounds and 8.8 per game. assists.