Chapter 283: Winning streak at the beginning
Seven players on the Wizards' side scored in double figures, with Curry scoring a game-high 26 points, Thompson 22 points, George 18 points, Leonard 13 points, and Caron. Butler 13 points, Thomas Jr. 11 points, Chandler. Parsons scored 10 points, while Drummond. Green was reused in his career debut, playing 28 minutes off the bench and scoring five points, seven rebounds and six assists, which was a surprise.
The surprise is far from over.
After the first game against the Trail Blazers, the Wizards next faced the Celtics at home, Ray Allen's departure further degraded the depth of the Celtics' roster, and the remaining two giants further aged.
Immediately after, the Wizards ushered in a wave of back-to-back games against the Bucks, Pacers and Bobcats.
Although it was a back-to-back game, the opponents were all weak teams in the league, and the Wizards won five consecutive wins without suspense and once again led the record list.
During the 5-game winning streak, Drummond. Green averaged 26 minutes per game, almost on par with Whiteside, averaging 8.2 points, 6 rebounds and 5.6 assists per game, which was surprisingly good.
Green's outstanding performance once again proves Wang Xiao's vision.
Wang Xiao's ability to turn stones into gold made other teams jealous, but there was nothing they could do.
A player like Green is not cared about at all in the draft, his offensive ability is average, and he has no special skills, which is very mediocre.
Who would have thought that Wang Xiao would put it in the center position and produce such good chemistry on the Wizards?
People have to sigh that Wang Xiao is really getting more and more BT.
At first, Jamison was the center, then George was the power forward, and now Green is the center, and according to this routine, it won't be long before the guards can act as interior lines under him!
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It's no surprise that the Wizards lead the record list with five straight wins, as last season's championship went to center McGee and backup guard Beverley in the new season, and Drummond was also reinforced. Green, strength does not fall but rises.
In the entire East, the only team that can compete with the Wizards is the Heat, and the Heat are currently 4-1 in five games, and their record is still below the Wizards.
And if you want to say that the most surprising team in the whole league in the new season, it is none other than the Los Angeles Lakers.
After forming a super F4 lineup that shocked the league in the summer, the Lakers have always been the most concerned team in the league, and finally waited for the regular season to arrive, but the Lakers team that was ready to go surprised many fans who were looking forward to it.
He lost the first game at home, followed by a wave of three consecutive defeats, and finally managed to win a victory in the fourth game thanks to the outbursts of Kobe and Howard, and then lost again in the fifth game.
Super F4 started with 1 win and 4 losses, and it was like a team at the bottom of the league.
This has disappointed many Lakers fans, of course, they also have reasons to excuse the Lakers, such as Howard has not yet shaken off old injuries, the team lineup has not yet been run-in, and the players still need time to develop a tacit understanding between them......
But no matter how much you make excuses, you can't completely excuse the poor record.
To add insult to injury, in the second game of the regular season, Nash left the game with an injury after less than 20 minutes, and the post-game inspection report showed that Nash needed to recuperate for three to five weeks and was expected to miss nearly 12 games.
F4 has become a Big 3, or is it a Big Three that doesn't have good chemistry...... The Lakers' results in the next period are not optimistic.
Super F4 sank, and the West side led the way with the 4-1 Trail Blazers.
Originally, in another time and space, this season in the West would be a contest between the Thunder and the Spurs, but now because Wang Xiao, the butterfly's instigated wings, is too fierce, too many things have changed.
Without Durant, even if there is Westbrook, Evans and Wang Xiao's disciple Dunn, the strength can only be ranked in the middle of the West, and the Trailblazers with Durant, Aldridge and Jordan Jr. have become a strong team in the West.
On the other hand, failing to get Leonard, the vacancy of the small forward position has made the Spurs' strength drop a notch, and although Popovich has found a replacement for Leonard, it is obviously impossible to be as good as the real Leonard.
However, even without Leonard, the Spurs are still the top team in the league, and they are currently 4-1 in five games, losing only one game to the Trail Blazers, ranking second in the West.
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There are a full 82 games in the regular season, and a mere five games is not much of a story.
Subsequently, Wang Xiao's Wizards won three more games, only to lose to the Kings on the road, suffering their first defeat of the new season.
This season, the Kings began to rise across the board.
In his second season with the Kings, Harden has shown the true strength of the Jingdezhen Porcelain Kings, averaging 28 points, 5.7 rebounds and 7.5 assists per game, while another core of the Kings, center DeMarcus Cousins, has also begun to realize his talent, averaging 21 points and 9.9 rebounds per game.
Under the leadership of the two, the Kings have also performed well in the new season, and are currently ranked fifth in the East, second only to the Wizards, Heat, Knicks, and Nets.
And the loss to the Kings once again exposed the weakness of the Wizards, the weakness of the interior defense.
In fact, under the Wizards' iron-clad outside defense, Harden shot only 6 of 18 from the field, and the shooting rate was only 30%, if it wasn't for 9 of 13 free throws, Harden might have scored less than 20 points.
The key to the Kings' real win was center Cousins.
In this game, Cousins's state was bursting, like a small O'Neal, turning over the river on the inside of the Wizards, neither Whiteside nor Green could stop him, and even Wang Xiao chose a double bag and failed to completely kill Cousins.
At the end of the game, Cousins had 34 points and 16 rebounds, including seven offensive rebounds, which completely blew up the Wizards' interior.
Of course, this data alone is not enough to defeat the Wizards, but it is not good to suffer from the outside of the Wizards' game, Curry, Thompson and others are not efficient, which is a bit embarrassing.
Although the small-ball tactics are extremely sharp in attack, they must be built under extreme precision, otherwise no matter how quickly the attack and defense are switched, the threat formed will not be enough to turn into victory.
Fortunately, although the whole league knows the weakness of the Wizards, it is difficult to really grasp this weakness to defeat the Wizards, after all, not every game of the Splash Brothers will feel cold, and not every team will have a center like Cousins, who is in full swing, who is proficient in interior offensive methods.