In the past two years, there has not been much controversy about who is the best point guard in the league, and three regular season MVPs and three Finals MVPs have put Curry firmly in the first point guard position.

However, anyone with a discerning eye knows that Curry is actually a two-way guard, more of a scoring guard than a point guard who organizes the team.

Similar to his style, there are Ross, Westbrook and others.

The true benchmark for traditional point guards is Paul, Jeremy Lin and Rondo.

Before Jeremy Lin entered the league, Paul was the first traditional point guard, but when Jeremy Lin entered the league, Paul's position was in jeopardy.

In previous seasons, Jeremy Lin defeated Paul and won the league's assist king and the best defensive team honor, until last season, Paul played the peak data, averaging 22.5 points and 10.2 assists per game, leading the Clippers to the Finals, which regained the assist king monopolized by Jeremy Lin in previous seasons.

There is no answer to the question of who is better organiser between Paul and Jeremy Lin, but Paul fans have to be silent on who has the better defensive ability on both sides.

Paul's defense has been the benchmark for short point guards in recent years, and he has been on the best defensive team for a while before Jeremy Lin entered the league.

But Jeremy Lin is different from Paul, Jeremy Lin, who is 1.93 meters tall (credit to Kidd Template), will not be eaten alone because of the height difference even when facing point guards or even some small forwards who are relatively tall.

In terms of physical fitness, Jeremy Lin is even strong enough to grab rebounds on the inside, while still being able to keep up with the vast majority of guards in the league.

The combination of physical superiority and an extremely good defensive sense has given Jeremy Lin the capital to compete for the best defensive player.

Compared to Jeremy Lin, Paul's defense is much inferior, and he is basically at a disadvantage except for a crisp steal.

But even so, Paul's defensive ability is still the best in the league, and when he faces the break-oriented Oladipo, his defensive toughness is on display!

Oladipo is 1.93 meters tall and has no obvious advantage in the face of Paul who is 1.85 meters, and the experienced and extremely fast Paul can see through Oladipo's moves in an instant and complete the defense in advance, which makes Oladipo's offense stumble, constantly making mistakes, and the rhythm of shooting is completely disrupted, and the iron is frequently hit.

In the first half alone, Oladipo had six turnovers and shot 3-of-12 from the field, which directly caused the Bucks to trail the Clippers by nearly 15 points at halftime.

In the second half, Wang Xiao decisively changed his tactics and shifted the main attack point from Oladipo to Jokic on the inside.

With the outbreak of Antetokounmpo and the arrival of Thompson in the new season, Jokic's chances of getting the ball have not increased compared to last season, but this does not mean that Jokic is not good enough.

In fact, in daily training, Wang Xiao still arranged a large number of Jokic tactics to respond to offense on the inside.

The assistant coaches are still puzzled by this, after all, the Bucks have a more efficient and lethal tactic, so why should they cling to Jokic's interior offense, which is not particularly efficient.

Of course, they don't know that Wang Yue's 2019 playoffs Eastern Conference Finals Raptors vs. Bucks matchup is still fresh in their memories.

Under the Raptors' targeted defensive tactics, the performance of the Raptors was greatly reduced, and the other players of the Bucks played even worse, resulting in the team's elimination.

Antetokounmpo's talent is indeed a historical rarity, but his poor outside shooting ability is also an indisputable fact, and his offensive efficiency will inevitably be greatly reduced when facing some teams with strong interior ability and arranging targeted joint defense.

At this time, you have to start from other aspects.

The first is to strengthen Brother Alphabet's outside shooting ability, so that the interior defense will not break down.

The second is to arrange more outside shooters to help Brother Alphabet pull space.

As for three, it is Jokic's card, a tall center's ability to respond on the inside is quite good, and the future Nuggets team will almost rely on Jokic's support on the inside, which shows its strong ability!

Of course, the current Jokic can't compare with the future Nuggets' ace, but fortunately, the Clippers' interior strength is not strong.

Jordan Jr. was abducted by Wang Yue a long time ago and transferred to the Knicks, and the Clippers interior center at this time was just an ordinary blue-collar center.

When Jokic starts to have a lot of possession and offense, it will be difficult for the blue-collar center to limit Jokic's scoring.

The situation on the court changed, and the Bucks began to slowly catch up with the difference, and with Thompson hitting two consecutive three-pointers, the Bucks managed to catch up and overtake the score in the middle of the fourth quarter!

No one thought that without Brother Alphabet and still playing on the road, the Bucks would still be able to play a difficult game with the Clippers.

In the final minutes, the two teams engaged in an extremely difficult offensive and defensive battle.

The Clippers relied on Paul's mid-range shooting to score steadily, while the Bucks, on their side, relied on Thompson.

In the final moments, Thompson missed a three-pointer and missed a chance to kill, causing the Bucks to lose the game by a narrow margin of one point.

After the game, Wang Xiao shook his head in an interview and lamented that the team still lacks a player who can make a final decision at a critical moment.

And Wang Xiao's words made reporters feel powerless to complain.

The Bucks played away and almost defeated the Clippers without the first core Antetokounmpo, so Wang Xiao is still not satisfied?

Missing a player who can make the final cut at a crucial moment?

Thompson scored eight points in the final three minutes and shot 3-of-4 from the field! It's just that I lost my last lore shot with bad luck, and this kind of efficiency is actually a lack of key ball ability?

The Bucks' opponent is the Clippers! Last season's NBA runner-up! One of the strongest teams in the West! The team with the best record in the West so far this season?

Although the Bucks, who have the best record in the league, have a better record than the Clippers, this is not a reason why you are not satisfied with the loss of the Clippers by 1 point after losing the main core, right?

Unconsciously, people were stunned to find that they didn't know when the Bucks had vaguely had the invincible shadow of the Wizards.

While the Bucks have lost a lot of games this season and haven't won games like the Wizards have clocked out in the fourth quarter of three quarters, they feel strikingly similar.

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Immediately after the Christmas War, the NBA officially announced the results of the first round of voting for the All-Star Weekend.