How to use the growth template card still needs Wang Xiao to think in the long run, but in any case, he will definitely guarantee a premise, that is, to use it for Chinese players as much as possible under the condition of ensuring his own interests.

And now is not the time to think about this mess.

The biggest topic in front of Wang Xiao now is the finals.

After eliminating the Heat to enter the Finals, the opponents the Wizards will face will be the winner between the Mavericks and the Spurs.

Neither the Mavericks nor the Spurs are tough for the Wizards.

First of all, the gap between the two sides is reflected in the experience.

Both the Spurs and the Mavericks have experience in the Finals.

Needless to say, the Spurs have won three championships in ten years under Popovich and Duncan as the core of the team, and the Finals are the most experienced in the league.

As for the Mavericks, in 06 nowitzki led the team to the finals, but unfortunately they met Wade and O'Neal, who still caught the tail of their peak, and finally lost the championship.

Compared to these two teams, the Wizards can be described as complete recruits.

Even the oldest Jamison and Butler on the team, the best result in the playoffs before was only the division finals, and it was the first time they experienced it under the leadership of Wang Xiao last year.

The two veterans are still like this, not to mention the rookies who have been in the league for less than two or three years, such as Curry, Harden, and George.

It's been said that the regular season and the playoffs are completely different concepts, and similarly, the finals are very different from the regular playoffs.

Because at this point, if you take a step forward, you will become the champion and go down in history, and if you take a step back, you will be nailed to the pillar of shame and become the biggest loser of the whole season.

Such a huge psychological pressure is enough to collapse many veterans who have been famous for a long time, let alone a group of young people who have not experienced anything?

In the past two days, the Western Conference champion has not yet been decided, and Wang Xiao can clearly feel that there is something wrong with the atmosphere in the team.

Curry and others are very excited and excited, and they are unusually positive in training, but under this excitement, there is a kind of uneasiness, a fear of failure.

In the final analysis, these are just a group of children in their early twenties, in Huaxia, this age may still be in school, a small number of them have graduated and entered the society, but they are still in the stage of learning and growth.

Faced with such a situation, Wang Xiao couldn't do anything.

He's a coach, not a psychiatrist.

Although a good coach should not only be responsible for the game and training, but also take care of other aspects of the players, the lightness of what is said on paper is not so simple to do.

It's not difficult to talk to the players and tell them to take it easy and that the finals are nothing, but the problem is that it doesn't work.

Changing a person's mind is not as simple as saying two words.

This is Wang Xiao's shortcoming.

Although he has become an excellent head coach in terms of coaching and arranging the tactical system by relying on the foresight of the system and the traverser, in the final analysis, he is only a young man, and he is naturally not as wise as Popovich's old men in their sixties.

On this issue, Wang Xiao also convened a special meeting of the coaching team to discuss, but there is really no particularly good way.

Although the 11-year NBA has been very mature and rigorous, there is still a slight gap compared with a few years later, and the most intuitive manifestation is that there is no such position as a psychological counselor in the current Wizards team, and the team generally does not pay special attention to the psychological problems of players.

To be reasonable, the problem of pre-game anxiety faced by the Wizards is actually not a big problem, but the pressure of winning or losing the finals is too huge, which makes the players' mentality a little unbalanced, and even as the finals progress, regardless of victory or defeat, such a mentality will dissipate.

But this kind of mentality will inevitably affect the state of the game to a greater or lesser extent.

This is also what Wang Xiao is most worried about, the Wizards' tactical play relies too much on the feel, almost every game, the Wizards' three-point shots account for almost 50% of the game's shots, if the poor feel affects the shooting rate, then the lethality of the team's tactics will be greatly reduced.

Facts have proved that Wang Xiao's worries are not unreasonable.

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The bull and horse battle ended with the Mavericks' victory, and the two teams fought fiercely until the tiebreaker, but in the end, it was the Mavericks who got Kidd, Chandler, and Haywood who got excellent players this year had the last laugh.

In this way, the matchup in the Finals is Washington Wizards vs. Dallas Mavericks.

The first game between the two sides began on June 2, 2011, and two days before the game, the final voting results for the NBA regular season MVP award were finally released.

Curry eventually defeated Rose with 33% of the vote and became the youngest MVP in history with 33% of the vote.

Curry's victory is expected by most people, whether it is personal data, the team's regular season and playoff records, Curry is better than Rose, in this case, if Curry's votes are lower than Rose, it will inevitably make people wonder if there is some kind of dark operation.

Although Curry entered the league a year later than Rose, Curry is a few months older than Rose in terms of age.

Originally, if Rose could win the regular season MVP trophy, he would be able to lower the record of youngest regular season MVP a few months earlier, but Curry was elected regular season MVP, and Rose wanted to win MVP again at least next year, by which time he would be 23 years old.

At the same time, Wang Xiao, as the head coach, was elected the best coach of the 10-11 season without suspense because of the amazing record of 68 wins in the regular season with the team.

The double happiness has made the momentum of the Wizards even stronger, and many Wizards fans have begun to imagine how the team will celebrate when the team wins the O'Brien Cup with a 4-0 victory over the Mavericks.

However, in the first game of the Finals, the Wizards were smacked up.

What Wang Xiao feared still happened.

At the beginning of the Finals game, as the core of the team, Curry was very active in helping the team open up the situation.

But the defender he faced was named Jason. Kidd's man, Jeremy Lin's genuine, legendary point guard!

Kidd, who was born in '73, is 38 years old, but as a floor point guard, Kidd still maintains a decent form.

Wang Xiao had a particularly deep impression of Kidd in the 11 Finals, because in the Finals at that time, the main defense of James was Mavericks forward Sean. Marion, but there were many occasions in the game where Kidd misplaced to defend James.

Although James had not yet developed the back-to-back technique at that time, the breakthrough of relying on the body tank version was definitely not something that ordinary people could prevent!

But Kidd was able to bear it, and his defensive efficiency was no worse than Marion's!

To put it bluntly, Kidd's defensive ability, even at the age of 38, can definitely be in the top five among point guards in the league.

When Curry, who was a little impatient on the Finals stage, faced Kidd, it was naturally tragic.