Chapter 379: Ending the Losing Streak

The Bucks have a lot of problems with their current roster, which is unavoidable, and if each team can strengthen their team just right and achieve perfection, then every team will be the favorites to win the championship.

The Kings are clearly not the favourites, so this team has obvious flaws.

The current starting lineup for the Kings is point guard: Darren Brown. Collison, Shooting Guard: James. Harden, small forward: Derek. Williams, power forward: Jason. Thompson, center: DeMarcus. Cousins.

With the exception of Harden and Cousins, everyone else is just a few ordinary role players, with poor offensive ability and not strong defense.

Last season, the Kings were able to rank fifth in the West, almost all of which relied on Harden, who grew up early.

The Kings' tactics were also simple, with Harden's ball-handling singles after everyone pulled away and the pick-and-roll cross-cutting between Harden and Cousins.

How to put it, there is a little bit of the future Rockets' magic ball play, but it does not have the Rockets' magical three-point firepower and bench depth.

This became even more evident after the start of the second quarter.

When Harden went off the court, the Kings obviously seemed to be a little less able to play, but on the Bucks' side, Brother Alphabet, who had been playing soy sauce in the first quarter of the game, finally began to touch the ball.

If it is only about the lethality of the breakthrough, Brother Alphabet is much stronger than Oladipo.

In contrast, Oladipo may be a Maserati supercar, while Antetokounmpo is a professional F1 car.

Almost easily, he tore apart the Kings' defensive line.

The originally evenly matched score began to widen the gap in an instant, and in just two minutes, Brother Alphabet forced his way into the inside line three times in a row, and he established a score advantage of more than ten points.

The head coach of the Kings was taken aback, and quickly called a timeout, looking at Brother Alphabet in disbelief.

He had seen the video of Brother Alphabet's game before, and the height and arm span of this young man were very exaggerated, just like a Greek version of Durant, but in fact he was not good at the mid- and long-range shooting that Durant was proficient in, and his skills were very rough.

You can see the talent of this child, but it is difficult to say when the talent will be realized into strength.

But now what Brother Alphabet has shown on the field is already quite dangerous!

"Giannis, good job."

The corners of his mouth were slightly hooked, and Wang Xiao looked at Brother Alphabet who came off the field because of the pause and said.

In terms of hard training, Antetokounmpo may not be as good as Oladipo, but he is by no means the type to train seriously or lazy, and the training tasks assigned to him by Wang Xiao can be completed perfectly every time.

In terms of talent, in the entire Bucks team, I am afraid that only Embiid, who cannot play, can barely stand shoulder to shoulder with Brother Alphabet.

With the addition of the training module, Brother Alphabet's daily progress speed is quite terrifying!

Wang Xiao estimated that by the middle of the season, other teams in the league would be able to experience how terrifying it would be for a 2.11-meter-tall Greek monster to hit the basket like James.

With a wave of offense brought by Brother Alphabet, the Bucks maintained the lead until halftime, and even Harden failed to equalize or overtake the score after he came on the court.

In the third quarter of the game, the two sides seemed to have returned to the mode of two guards exploding each other, this time it was obvious that Harden first hit the basket to make it 2+1, and then borrowed his teammates to block and dismantle three points on the outside to grab shots, and scored 6 points in a row to quickly close the difference.

But Oladipo's side was also not to be outdone, Oladipo, who took turns to break through the inside, did not succeed in scoring the ball once, but made two Kings interior fouls in a row, made 4 of 4 free throws, and scored 4 points.

Although slightly inferior to Harden in scoring, Oladipo's two fouls were all on Cousins, and Cousins, who had four fouls on his back, had to go off the court to avoid the edge.

But as a result, the Kings are left with only Harden as a consistent scoring point, and without Cousins as a pinpoint on the inside, the Kings' already poor defense has become even more porous.

In another world, Cousins was never named to the All-Defensive Team until he had no ball to play, and because of his impulsive and irritable temper, he was never considered an interior player who was good at defense.

But at this stage of the Kings team, this center who is strong in offense and weak in defense is also the pillar of the weak defense line of the Kings inside.

Now that the pillar is collapsing, it means that the Kings are collapsing.

In the third quarter of the game, Harden scored 16 points in a single quarter, but the Kings lost to the Bucks by 8 points in a single quarter.

Originally, there was a 10-point difference at halftime, but now the difference has not narrowed, but is about to expand to more than 20 points!

In the final quarter, the Kings, led by Harden, tried to chase down the score but failed.

When Harden missed three consecutive outside shots, the Kings began to replace the main lineup one after another and gave up early.

……

In the end, the Bucks won the game 102-85, ending a three-game losing streak.

The top scorer in the whole game was James, the core of the Kings. Harden, he hit 14 of 26 shots in the game, shooting 53.8% from the field, 4 of 12 three-pointers, 14 of 17 free throws, and scored a quasi-triple-double of 46 points, 11 assists and 8 rebounds.

Although he lost the game, Harden did not lose, such luxurious statistics made the media marvel again, Harden deserves to be a rising star among the scoring guards, and is taking a step closer to charging and challenging his predecessors.

On the other hand, Oladipo of the Bucks was the biggest winner of the game.

In the 36 minutes of his debut, Oladipo, who was opposite Harden almost the entire time, hit 11 of 20 shots, 1 of 4 three-pointers, and 6 of 7 free throws, scoring the second-highest 31 points in the game!

Such a wonderful and efficient performance surprised the whole league.

Oladipo still has such a skill?

And in the next moment, a lot of eyes couldn't help but focus on Wang Xiao's body.

This kind of thing may be a little strange on someone else's body, but in Wang Xiao's body, it doesn't seem to be a big deal.

What is Wang Xiao best at? Turning stones into gold!

But almost all the players he values are outstanding.

This can also be seen from the current performance of Harden, who is opposite Oladipo.

When he was on the Wizards, Wang Xiao held a champion pick, but Wang Xiao was very interested in Blake. Griffin was not interested in the slightest, and directly used the top pick as a bargaining chip, and traded the top pick and Jordan Jr. from the Clippers.

As it turned out, Wang Xiao's choice was the best solution, Jordan Jr. has now become one of the league's top interior defenders, and Harden has a tendency to become the league's No. 1 quarterback.

What people are most interested in now is not whether Oladipo's outburst is a thick accumulation or a flash in the pan, but whether Wang Xiao's several cores before the season have Oladipo's level!