Last season, the reason why the Lakers could easily restrain the Wizards was that the Wizards could not defend the Lakers' interior twin tower combination, and on the other hand, the Wizards' shooter lineup was not very efficient in the face of the Lakers' outside defense.

Fisher, Kobe Bryant and Artest are ironclad in their outside defense, making it difficult for the Wizards' shooters to play.

But this season, things have changed.

First of all, on the point guard side, Fisher, who turned 38 in August, has dropped his speed again, and last season with the help of experience and teammates was able to barely limit Curry's offense, but this season has completely failed to keep up with Curry's rhythm.

And on the shooting guard side, Danny. Green & Clay. The pressure Thompson put on Bryant was very different.

Although Thompson in the rookie stage is far from the god of the future splash brothers, he is far better than Danny in terms of running without the ball. Green is more frequent and sharp.

Whenever Thompson started moving, Bryant had to keep up with him, which left him with no time to defend Curry.

Among the three outside linemen, the only one who is not under a lot of pressure may be Artest.

On the offensive end, Leonard didn't have many opportunities, and with his various scoring tools that he hadn't honed in the NBA, he wasn't suitable for defensive titan Artest, so Leonard's only job on the offensive end was to stand in the bottom corner of the three-point line and wait for his teammates to pass and shoot three-pointers.

Artest tried to let Leonard go, and then after being directly hit by the latter for a three-pointer, he obediently followed Leonard to hang up at the bottom corner three-point line.

In addition to these three outside players, the Wizards actually have one outside player, and that is Paul, who is placed in the power forward position. George.

George was very weak against Gasol on the defensive end, and the height difference made it difficult for George, who was used to defending from the outside, to make a difference.

But when it comes to the offensive end, Gasol also has a lot of headaches when facing George.

The reason is the same, Gasol is attacking by taking advantage of his height and weight to snatch George with his back on the inside.

But on the defensive end, facing George, who was fast and had three-point shots, Gasol struggled to defend.

He can't keep an eye on George's breakthrough at all if he stands in the front defensive shot, but if he stands in the back and defends the breakthrough, he is often greeted by George's dry three-pointer.

As an interior player, Gasol's pace is considered to be fast among interior players, and in Lakers games, Gasol can often be seen as the fastest fast-break player on the team.

But that's only among the interior players, Gasol's speed is still far behind that of an outside player like George, and Gasol is not Garnett after all, and there is no way to defend from the No. 1 position to the No. 5 position.

In this case, even though the Lakers' interior offense is more efficient and has an absolute advantage in rebounding, the Wizards can still hang the score without being opened up by relying on Curry's accurate three-point shot.

And with the end of the first quarter of the game and the substitutions of the teams in the second quarter, the situation changed.

Last season, the Wizards had Harden, Caron, and Caron on the bench. Butler can be called the luxury of luxury.

And this season, although Harden has left, an experienced veteran has stepped down from the main lineup, Antoine. Jamison.

Even if Jamison is over 36 years old, in another time and space, in the 11-12 season, Jamison is still a scorer who can contribute 17.2 points and 6.3 rebounds per game.

When he was with Caron. When Butler, the veteran partner, came on the pitch not unlike the team's starting lineup when Arenas was injured a few years ago.

The two veterans teamed up and immediately propped up half of the Wizards' bench lineup, plus Beverley, Jimmy. Butler and other players, the gap immediately appeared.

The Lakers obviously don't have such a luxurious bench lineup.

On the Lakers' bench line, the strongest is Matt. Barnes, and then down is Steve, who averaged 4 points and 2 assists per game for the Lakers last season. Blake.

The huge gap between the substitute lineups made the score gap quickly catch up and even overtake.

Faced with this situation, Mike. Brown didn't have anything he could do, all he could do was get Kobe Bryant on the court as soon as possible to maintain the team's offensive tempo.

At this time, Mike. Brown found another problem.

The Wizards' offensive and defensive transitions are so fast that the Lakers' interior twin towers are extremely physically exhausted.

Especially in the first quarter of the game, after he arranged for the twin towers to play a lot of inside singles, both Bynum and Gasol had physical problems to a certain extent.

Gasol was defended because George had to pull out to the perimeter every time, and the struggling defense drained him too quickly.

And Bynum, who has no opponent on the inside, is simply because of the frequent back and forth running, wasting a lot of physical strength in vain.

The Lakers' cultivation of Bynum is completely regarded as the second big shark O'Neal.

The slow pace brought about by the huge body and the inside offensive style of the pure traditional center are infinitely magnified when facing the fast-paced small-ball tactics.

Last season, when the Lakers' outside line could still contain the Wizards' offense, such drawbacks were not reflected, but this season, Curry has become stronger, Fisher is dying, and the arrival of pure shooter Thompson has brought pressure to Kobe Bryant, so that the Lakers' outside line has been completely unable to contain the Wizards' offense.

In the fourth quarter of the game, the physical strength of the Lakers' twin towers began to collapse across the board.

After playing 30 minutes, Bynum was completely unable to run, and he was too physically exhausted to run back and forth throughout the game, so he had to be substituted off the field to rest.

Paul, who played 33 minutes. Although Gasol is still holding on on the field, his actions are also significantly slower.

The entire Lakers team in the final quarter could only rely on Kobe Bryant to score hard.

Bryant, who had already scored 26 points in the first three quarters, scored another 11 points in the fourth quarter, but that score was obviously not enough to help the Lakers win the game.

In the end, Kobe, who scored 37 points in the game, could only reluctantly swallow the defeat in the first game of the regular season.

The total score is 109:96, a difference of 13 points.

The Wizards can be said to have won this game from Los Angeles tepidly, and even many people are a little baffled.

How exactly did the Wizards win? Obviously, the Lakers have an absolute advantage on the inside?

Only a small number of professionals and data analysis experts can understand how the Wizards won this game.