Chapter 148: The nemesis of small-ball tactics
Of the four straight away games, the Lakers are the strongest and toughest team to play against.
The Lakers, who have won two consecutive championships, are still recognized as the strongest team in the league at present, and Kobe Bryant is still recognized as the first person in the league.
And the Lakers' lineup is precisely what the Wizards are most difficult to deal with.
The Los Angeles Lakers have the league's top interior twin tower lineup.
Paul. Gasol + Andrew. Bynum.
The Wizards, who mainly focus on small-ball tactics, are most afraid of this kind of team with an interior tower lineup.
And the Lakers' twin towers are very distinctive, whether it is Gasol or Bynum, they are players who move quite quickly, and when facing the Wizards' fast-break run-and-shoot tactics, they will not be tired of running back and forth like ordinary traditional centers.
Although Jamison of the Wizards is a power forward, he is actually more like a swingman who focuses on small forwards, and Jordan Jr. is the only one who is really on the inside.
Jordan Jr. has played well this season since he became the starting center, almost single-handedly supporting the Wizards' interior half of the sky, so far, he has averaged double-doubles in rebounds per game, averaging 11.3 rebounds per game, while also contributing 2.6 blocks, only lacking in scoring, averaging only about 8 points per game.
This performance has been even better than what Haywood did last season, which has surprised many people who think that the Wizards' interior defense will completely collapse after Haywood's departure.
But even so, in the face of the twin towers of the Lakers, Jordan Jr. alone is far from enough.
Not to mention that one against two, even Bynum is enough for Little Jordan to drink a pot.
In terms of age, Bynum is about the same as Jordan Jr., but Bynum, who participated in the NBA draft after graduating from high school, joined the NBA three years earlier than Jordan Jr.
Even if Bynum ruined his career later because of his lazy personality, at this stage, he is recognized as a future interior superstar in the league.
Compared to Jordan Jr., who is considered to be a blue-collar center whose ceiling is only favored by no one, is much better.
While the Lakers have an absolute advantage on the inside, the lineup on the outside is not inferior.
The outside line composed of Kobe, the league's No. 1 man, Artest and Fisher, the best defensive players, may be slightly weaker in offensive firepower, but they are quite tough defensively.
Needless to say, Kobe Bryant and Artest are the strongest defensive players in scoring guards after Jordan, and the other is the defensive titan who won the best defensive player.
And Fisher, who has the fewest personal honors among the three, or almost no personal honors, can firmly occupy the starting position of the Lakers with an average of about 6 points and 3 assists per game is because of his excellent defense.
Although he has not won any honorary awards, Fisher's defense is well placed in the top few point guards in the league.
A team like the Wang Xiao Wizards, who mainly focus on outside projection, suffers quite a lot when facing a Lakers lineup with excellent outside defense.
To make matters worse, the bench lineup, which the Wizards have always been proud of, does not have much advantage in front of the Lakers.
The Lakers' sixth man is Lamar, known as the left-handed magician. Odom.
Compared with Harden, who averages 20+8 per game, Odom's current average of 15+8+4 per game is inferior, but it is only slightly inferior.
Pair it with Shannon. Brown, Matt. Barnes and Steve. Blake, an excellent bench, has the ability to compete with the Wizards' bench.
It can be said that against the Lakers, the Wizards were restrained at almost every point.
In fact, last season, the two regular season battles between the Wizards and the Lakers ended in the Lakers' victory.
In this case, Wang Xiao decided to strategically abandon the game after careful consideration.
After all, it is now a four-game away game, and the whole team of the Wizards, who have experienced two big battles, is a little tired, rather than stumbling with the Lakers in a game that is at a disadvantage, it is better to strategically give up this game, let Curry and other main players take turns to rest and get some rest, so as to prepare for the fourth away game with the Knicks.
From the perspective of Wang Xiao's traverser, the Lakers, as a powerhouse in the West, are not competitors at all, only meeting in two games in the regular season, and it is impossible to meet in the playoffs because of the Eastern and Western regions.
Because of this, Wang Xiao's Wizards team has no need to fight the Lakers at all, and there is no need to think about ways to defeat them.
In the 10-11 playoffs, the Lakers fell 4:0 to the Mavericks in the second round of the West. Chandler & Brandon. Haywood's two strong blue-collar centers don't have much of an advantage.
And after the Lakers were swept 4-0 by the Mavericks in the playoffs, Lakers head coach Phil . Jackson also announced his departure, and the Lakers completely lost their playoff competitiveness, and then in the second round of the 12-year playoffs, they were eliminated 4-1 by the Thunder team led by the Thunder three teenagers.
And after two consecutive years of second-round tours, the Lakers formed an F4 lineup that shocked the league for the second time, and the Twin Towers lineup was further upgraded, from Gasol + Bynum to Gasol + Howard.
Needless to say, the Super F4 lineup did not play the desired result, and the disagreement between Kobe and Howard also caused Super F4 to fall apart in only one year, and finally Kobe Bryant's 14-year season was reimbursed, and Howard left Space City......
After deciding to give up strategically, in this game, Wang Xiao let Curry and Jamison take turns to rest, and the playing time of Harden, Butler and Jordan Jr. was also controlled under 30 minutes.
Without Curry and Jamison, the Wizards were naturally hung by the Lakers in the first quarter, and it only took two quarters to expand the difference to more than 20 points.
Lakers fans were a little disappointed with the result, after all, no one came to the arena to watch a game without suspense, but the home team's easy victory made them happy.
After the game, Wang Xiao did not directly say in an interview with reporters that he gave up the game strategically, and it is not good to admit this kind of thing too bluntly.
Wang Xiao's original words are that the continuous away games have greatly affected the physical fitness of his players, and the reason why Curry and Jamison are rested in rotation is to protect them, after all, Curry had a history of injuries in the playoffs last season, and Jamison, as the oldest player on the team, is also at the greatest risk of injury.
Wang Xiao's excuse is reasonable and well-founded, and people can't find any fault.
Everyone knows that Curry sprained his ankle in the playoffs last season, and Jamison is also 36 years old this season, so it was indeed too much for them to play three high-intensity back-to-back games in a row.