The Strongest Bishop in the NBA

Wang Xiao doesn't believe that the Big Three can score 90+ points in every game.

You must know that the defense of the current Wizards is completely different from last season.

George, Green and Jordan are enough to support the Wizards' defensive quality.

Although Curry and Jamison are the shortcomings of the team's defense, the position of the Heat's point guard is not a good role.

As long as the Big Three's feel is slightly lowered, coupled with the defense of George and the others, they can contain their offensive posture, supplemented by the powerful firepower of the Wizards' bench lineup, winning the Heat is by no means empty talk.

As for Harden...

Wang Xiao thought about it. If Harden couldn't find his form under the targeted defense of the Heat, Wang Xiao did not rule out the possibility of reducing his playing time.

Harden's abnormal performance in the playoffs is not once or twice. This can be said to be Harden's third biggest black spot in the future besides touches and defense.

In 2012, as one of the Thunder's three young men, he performed abnormally in the finals under the aura of the best sixth man. The average shooting rate in the 5 games was only 37.5%, and the average scoring was less than 12 points per game. Little, Durant, who averaged 30 points per game in the finals, and Westbrook, who averaged 27 points per game, are not in the same class at all.

Wang Xiao felt that the reason why the Thunder refused to pay Harden an extra five million was also related to Harden's sluggish performance in the finals.

After joining the Rockets in 2013 and 2014, although his personal data soared, the playoffs went to the first round for two consecutive years.

In 2015, it was hard to get through the first round. As a result, the Clippers beat the Clippers 3:1 in the second round of the divisional semifinals. Thanks to McHale's quick response, he reused the headband in the next few games. Brothers (Josh Smith, Jason Terry, Ronnie Brewer), and resolutely pressed Harden on the bench at the critical moment, this was the miraculous 1:3 comeback from adversity.

In the following seasons, although the Rockets' performance got better and better, and Harden's statistics became more and more luxurious, but in the playoffs, Harden always gave people a feeling that it was difficult to trust.

This can be seen from the data.

Whenever it comes to the playoffs, Harden's shooting percentage will decline to a certain extent compared with the regular season.

In the regular season, Harden's field goal percentage can be maintained at around 44%, but in the playoffs, Harden's field goal percentage will drop to 41%. The top scorer is still slightly low.

By comparison, you can see that the average field goal percentage of James and Durant in the playoffs can basically be maintained at around 50%, which is almost the same as in the regular season.

As a guard, Curry, who was also criticized in the playoffs, averaged 45% of his field goals per game.

This can already explain some problems.

Reducing Harden's playing time is not a big problem for the overall tactical execution of the Wizards. What Harden can do on the court, Curry can also do it, and the efficiency is not lower than Harden. Just consider physical fitness Just a reasonable distribution, the Wizards have never been short of scorers, don't forget that there is an old fritter Butler on the bench!

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The third battle between the two teams will start on May 21, and the game will be held at Miami's home stadium, American Airlines Arena.

The fans of the Heat are in a very good mood these days, because the team finally won a game against the Wizards, which made them feel like serfs turned over and sang during the regular season, and many people also I believe that the Big Three will continue to win until the Wizards are eliminated and reach the finals.

However, their joy seems a little too early.

At the beginning of the third game, the Wizards showed extremely strong offensive firepower.

Not long after the opening, Curry made two three-pointers, and Green, George and Jamison also made one three-pointers each.

In the first quarter of the game, the Wizards made 5 of 8 three-pointers and scored 15 points with only three-pointers.

Throughout the first quarter, the Wizards scored 32 points, leading the Heat by 5 points with 27 points.

In the second quarter, the situation still did not improve. Butler, who came off the bench, took over the game and scored 8 points in a single quarter, helping the Wizards expand their lead to double digits.

At this time, the Heat also discovered that Harden, the best sixth man of the Wizards, seemed to have little playing time. He only played a few minutes in the first quarter and the second quarter, and had little time to touch basketball. The vast majority of the time is outside the three-point line waiting for the catch and shoot.

"What is that guy trying to do?"

Spoelstra frowned, not knowing the purpose of Wang Xiao's arrangement.

"Could it be that you want to preserve Harden's physical strength and let him exert his strength at the end of the quarter to dominate the offense?"

As soon as such thoughts arise, his heart can't help but jump.

He is not Wang Xiao, he has the foresight ability of a traveler. From his point of view, although Harden did not perform well under the targeted defense in the game, after all, this is the player who has won the best sixth man for two consecutive years , is definitely a very lethal player.

With this idea in mind, Spoelstra couldn't help being timid when mobilizing his staff, and he also gave Wade James and others more rest time just in case.

However, what he didn't expect was that the extra few minutes of rest time became the key to ruining the victory of this game.

With both Wade and James off the court for a few minutes of rest, the Wizards launched a wave of fierce offensive, instantly hitting a wave of 8:0 attacks, expanding the point difference to more than 20 points in one breath.

Sensing that something was wrong, Spoelstra quickly called a timeout, but it was too late.

Faced with such a situation, Spoelstra had no choice but to curse secretly.

The offensive rhythm of the Wizards is really too fast, just a little carelessness is a wave of consecutive scoring, and a little slower reaction will be instantly opened up the point difference.

Wade and James started chasing points after their reappearance, but it was a bit too late.

In the third and fourth quarters, the game was fleeting. When the whistle sounded for the whole game, the score of the two sides was fixed at 112:104. The Heat lost to the Wizards by 8 points at home.

This result has confused many Heat fans.

What's happening here? Why did the team lose again? After finally defeating the Wizards, the fans of the Heat have not calmed down from the joy of victory, but they actually ushered in another defeat head-on.

Is it because the Big Three didn't perform well?

Wade 29 points, James 27 points, Bosh 20 points, the Big Three scored 76 points together, can this be called a bad performance?

At this moment, the fans of the Heat all had this sentence in their hearts.

"It's not that our army is too incompetent, but that there are too many enemy soldiers!"

Curry 24 points, George 17 points, Jamison 16 points, Butler 14 points, Green 12 points, Jordan Jr. 11 points, Harden 10 points...

The seven members of the team scored in double figures, and the seven members scored a total of 104 points... Is this comparable?