Chapter 337: A Lesson from the Future

Wang Xiao's vision is vividly reflected in the three Chinese teenagers.

Jack knows this better than anyone, he worked as an assistant coach and even a scout before he became a Harvard varsity team, and because of this, when Cheng Jie Wang Meng came to Harvard, it only took him two days to see that the talent of these two teenagers should be very bad, and they don't even meet the minimum standards of NBA professional players.

However, a month later, Jack's jaw dropped when the two boys, who seemed to him to have no potential, showed an almost terrifying rate of progress, and it seemed as if there was no upper limit at all.

Now, these two are basically at the level of NBA starters, and they are still improving.

And this may be the reason why Wang Xiao will pick these people from so many people in the whole of China.

Jack still can't figure out how Wang Xiao's divine vision was refined.

Now, although the three of them are still unable to participate in the draft because of their age, Cheng Jie and Wang Meng are already proper lottery candidates, and Hao Peng, whether it is in the draft in the next few years, will be the champion candidate without suspense.

In a little more than two years, Wang Xiao has cultivated three strong players for Huaxia, which is simply terrifying......

Of course, Jack didn't know that Wang Xiao was a traverser, and he also had a plug-in and a growth template card that turned decay into magical things, and even if Wang Xiao told the truth, there was a high probability that they would be regarded as neurotics.

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As the time enters April, the final sprint of the NBA regular season has quietly begun.

At this time of year, the teams in the top nine to ten teams in the East and West will fight hard to make it to the top eight and advance to the playoffs, while the teams in eighth place will do their best to hold on to their playoff spots.

This year is no exception.

The eighth-place Charlotte Bobcats in the East are very close to the Atlanta Hawks in ninth place and the Philadelphia 76ers in tenth, with only one win difference, and if the Bobcats lose two more games and the Hawks or 76ers win, then the Bobcats will fall out of the top eight.

The same is true for the West, where the eighth-placed Grizzlies will face the ninth-ranked Mavericks and the tenth-placed Suns.

This kind of life-or-death game is naturally very intense and exciting, but it doesn't particularly matter to the top teams.

This season, the gap between the top teams in the East and West is not small, and the competition for the playoff spot is much less intense, and the only one who does not dare to relax the strings in the slightest is the Washington Wizards.

They are just seven games away from breaking the Bulls' record of 72 wins!

No team is willing to see the Wizards walk on the altar of breaking the record, because when the Wizards break the record, it also means that the remaining 29 teams are nailed to the pillar of shame in history, just like the Bulls who won 72 games that year, the victory of the Wizards team was one step at a time, stepping on countless corpses.

And the rest of the league's 29 teams are these corpses that act as stepping stones!

Therefore, even the team that has the bottom record in the league and goes straight to the lottery zone is extremely hard working and refusing to back down when facing the Wizards.

This made it incredibly tough for the Wizards in the ensuing games.

On April 2, Odds played away against Celtic.

This season, Green Army general manager Angie risked being angry by countless fans by packaging Pierce and Garnett for trade, and the team's only remaining All-Star player Rondo was reimbursed for the season due to injury, and the Celtics officially entered the rebuilding process, with only 23 wins in the regular season as of April, ranking third from the bottom in the East.

With such a team, it should be difficult to pose a threat to the Wizards, but in fact, the Wizards are playing very hard.

Under the leadership of the Celtics' new head coach, young coach Stevens, the Green Army, which has the lowest record in the league, has caused huge problems for the Wizards.

Although it is only his first season in charge of the Green Army, Stevens has already vaguely incorporated into the game the team defense that the Green Army will rely on for years to come.

Of course, this is only secondary, and the current Green Army is nowhere near the same iron-clad defense that Celtic will have in the next few years.

The Celtics' defense is partly due to the Wizards' struggle, and partly due to the Wizards' internal problems.

Breaking the Bulls' 72-win record was a goal the team had set at the start of the season, and the entire Wizards team has been fighting for that goal throughout the season.

A lot has happened in the past few months, and the biggest impact has been George's season reimbursement.

It was precisely because of the absence of George that the Wizards had a difficult second half of the game, so much so that by the beginning of April, the team had lost eight games.

Losing only one game in April, and even one more loss would have the NBA record for the best regular season record to be shared with other teams, and perhaps even qualification.

The pressure was so intense that the Wizards' players looked a little nervous during the game.

Experience has always been a problem for the Wizards.

As a team, the average age of the Wizards is 25 years old, which is still too young.

This is not the Warriors who can almost be regarded as a late bloomer in the 15-16 season, but the Wizards team that is still being updated after being formed in the summer of '09.

In terms of ability to withstand pressure, this team does have hidden dangers.

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In the game with the Celtics, the Wizards still won the game without danger, but the difference between the two teams was extremely close, which also made the Wizards break out in a cold sweat.

This is only the first game in April, and if this game is lost, the Wizards, who have accumulated nine losses, will have no way back.

Although Wang Xiao is faintly worried about the pressure of the Wizards' players, he is not very worried.

After all, this is not the first time this situation has happened, and at Wang Xiao's suggestion, the Wizards have specially hired a psychiatrist to regularly conduct psychological decompression counseling for the players.

After this game, Wang Xiao wanted the players to go again, at least to solve the problem of mentality before the regular season.

In addition, Wang Xiao had to pay special attention to another aspect of the problem.

In the 15-16 season, the Warriors broke the record of 73-9 and were in the limelight for a while, but in the playoffs, they achieved James, and with a 3-1 lead, they were beaten by the Cavaliers for 3 consecutive games and became the runner-up with 73 wins.

And the Warriors also played stumbling throughout the playoffs, and were almost overturned by the Thunder in the Western Conference finals.

With such a lesson in the future, Wang Xiao will never allow the Wizards to have the same situation!