The Strongest Bishop in the NBA

Until this time, no one noticed that without Jordan and putting Jamison on the bench, the Wizards' inside line can be regarded as the weakest in the league.

It stands to reason that such a huge defensive loophole should be easily targeted by other teams.

But after six games, in fact, the situation that people imagined did not happen.

What exactly is going on? It's completely different from what you imagined, right?

In fact, the reason is very simple. Under the current NBA rules, there are fewer and fewer traditional centers.

O'Neal, Dayao retired, Howard, and Bynum have been unable to develop powerful inside offensive means, while the rest of the league's inside players simply do not have that kind of dominance.

In fact, after 10 years, the insiders who can average 20+ points per game in the league, except for Howard, are basically all players whose style is biased towards the outside.

Dirk Nowitzki, DeMarcus Aldridge, Kevin Love...they are not good at and are not used to posting the ball in the interior position, and their playing style is actually more like an outside player .

And players like Stoudemire and Griffin also tend to play from the outside to the inside, which is the end point of the offense rather than the starting point.

The lack of powerful centers puts the Wizards under too much pressure on the inside.

As for the biggest shortcoming of the Wizards, rebounding is actually not as bad as imagined.

After all, McGee and Whiteside are both 7-foot tall men with long arms and good rebounding ability. In addition, the current small ball tactics implemented by the Wizards make every team have to attack. Be careful, for fear that the Wizards will make a quick counterattack if you are not careful, so you dare not invest too much manpower to compete for offensive rebounds.

In addition, George, Leonard and Thompson are outside players, but their rebounding judgment is not low. They can often rely on speed and bounce to grab rebounds first, so although the Wizards attack rebounds every game They are all at a disadvantage, but judging from the whole game, in addition to the overall disadvantage in offensive rebounds in the game against the Lakers, the offensive rebounds in games against other teams are at most about 2 to 5 behind.

In contrast, the quality of the Wizards' perimeter defense can be said to have made a qualitative leap compared to last season!

It was the two lottery players selected by Wang Xiao in the draft, Klay Thompson and Kawhi Leonard, that brought about such a leap in growth.

Although as rookies, the difference in experience makes the performance of the two on the field not stable, but their excellent defensive ability cannot be concealed at all.

When facing Kobe and James, they will be blown up without any resistance, but when facing the starting players of other teams, whether it is Thompson or Leonard, they can perfectly complete the team arrangement. tactical tasks.

Not only that, but the two rookies who were also selected in the first round, but ranked relatively low, Jimmy Butler and Chandler Parsons did not play much time, but in the short time they played, they also Showed an extremely positive defensive attitude.

When Beverly, Butler and Parsons appear on the bench at the same time, the defensive ability of the Wizards' bench can even briefly compete with the starting lineup of teams with lower offensive rhythm and efficiency in the league!

Although this is only the result of 6 games, such a terrifying offensive and defensive efficiency has made the entire league feel a chill down its spine.

What are you kidding? There has always been a saying in the league, "Offense can win audiences, and defense can win championships."

While this sentence covers the general trend of the league for decades, it also expresses another position-you can't have both.

If you want to attack, you must sacrifice defense. If you want to do a good job in defense, it is impossible to take offense into consideration.

No team can do both.

But now the Wizards seem to have a little sense of dominance on both offense and defense.

Of course, this is only the statistical result of the first 6 games of the regular season. With the increase in the number of games and other teams' research and understanding of the Wizards' new lineup and tactical system, the situation will inevitably change again.

In another time and space, the Warriors' defensive ability is at the top level in the league. Thompson, Durant and Draymond Green's perimeter defense is solid, but there are still many teams that have found ways to break through this defense.

For example, the Rockets in the 17-18 season played seven games against the Warriors in the Western Conference Finals, and even took the lead in winning the key Tianwangshan battle.

The reason why the Rockets can fight the Warriors to this point is inseparable from a key tactic.

Unlimited pick-and-roll misplacement and grabbing.

Harden, the main offensive point of the Rockets, kept using pick-and-rolls to form dislocation singles with Curry.

Curry's defensive ability is recognized as the weakest among the Warriors, and Curry, who is 1.91 meters tall and weighs 84 kilograms, faces Harden, who is 1.96 meters and weighs close to 100 kilograms. There is no way.

And that Warriors team is the same as the current Wizards team, with poor personal abilities of inside players.

After a player like Harden passes Curry and goes inside, McGee's defense alone cannot stop him.

Of course, the reason why the Rockets can play such unscrupulous dislocation singles is that their own tactical system also plays a vital role. That year, under the leadership of D'Antoni, the Rockets played magic ball tactics that were even crazier than the Warriors, regardless of the cost. His excellent three-point shooting makes no team in the league dare to casually assist in double-teaming.

Among the current teams in the league, Wang Xiao can't think of any team that can play like the Rockets in the 17-18 season.

To give a simple example, if James frequently uses pick-and-roll tactics to misplace Curry in singles, then Wang Xiao will definitely let Leonard cooperate with Curry to double-team James without hesitation.

With James' ability, there is no problem in distributing the ball when facing a double-team, but the one who can receive his pass is the point guard who cooperates with him in the pick-and-roll, that is, Chalmers or Norris Cole. Well, Wang Xiao doesn't think the Heat's point guard can do much damage to the team.

However, Wang Xiao is convinced that there is no absolutely unsolvable tactic in this world.

In order to deal with Jordan, the Pistons developed the Jordan Law.

O'Neill's invincible application gave birth to the shark-killing tactic.

So as time goes by, there will definitely be teams that will come up with tactics against the Wizards.

But at that time, I am afraid that Thompson and Leonard will also start to show their edge under the cultivation of the training system.