The Wizards' bench is unexpectedly powerful, especially Harden, who deserves to be the rookie selected with the second pick.

Harden's performance has left many people sighing.

He has a strong ability to break through with the ball, is good at causing opponents to foul, and also has good vision and can assist teammates to score.

It's like a black version of Ginobili!

It is completely incomprehensible why Wang Xiao would put such a capable newcomer on the bench.

In contrast, Curry, who debuted, performed much worse.

In the first quarter, he missed four of his five shots, scored only one layup, scored four points with two free throws, and had two turnovers under Kidd's pressing pressing.

However, when the second quarter began, Curry was still on the court and was the team's main point of attack.

In the second quarter, Curry took more shots than in the first quarter, and most of them were three-point shots from the outside.

It's just that he didn't find his touch, and his shooting accuracy was quite poor.

And due to Curry's frequent shooting, the Wizards, who lost their offensive rhythm, were once again opened up by the Mavericks.

The Mavericks' home fans cheered loudly, while the few fans who came to cheer on the Wizards were furious.

"Hey! What are you doing? Let Harden play! Don't let that kid shoot blindly! He simply can't! ”

Wang Xiao was indifferent from beginning to end.

When the half was over, the difference between the two sides had widened from the deuce at the beginning of the second quarter to nearly 15 points, which was due to the fact that after Harden played in the middle, he partnered with Jamison to block and chase some points, otherwise the difference would have reached more than 20 points.

Back in the locker room, Wang Xiao explained to the players the tactics of the second half and the arrangements that needed to be adjusted.

Curry looked a little frustrated, as the team's lag was almost always his fault.

What makes Wang Xiao feel relieved is that as the team's big brother, Butler and Jamison both comfort Curry.

"It's okay, rookie, this is the NBA, you need to learn to adapt, everybody goes through that process. What you need to do is remember why you failed every time you fail and then avoid making the same mistakes. ”

Butler said this as he patted Curry on the shoulder.

Whether it is Butler or Jamison, they are the kind of people with a relatively mild personality, Butler's life experience may not be compatible with the word mildness, this guy was still gangsters and drug trafficking when he was 15 years old, but at the age of 15 he was released from prison for the 15th time, Butler suddenly came to his senses, and then he changed his ways, began to play hard, and successfully entered the NBA league.

Perhaps it was because of that experience that Butler cherished the time he was playing now, and he was a very positive and upright person on and off the court.

At gunpoint, Butler tried to be a peacemaker on several occasions, helping Arenas reconcile with Critanton.

Originally, Wang Xiao was still a little worried that he would directly support Curry to the top position, and whether Butler and Jamison, the two original Wizards Big Three, would be dissatisfied with the All-Star level players, so as to resist and bully Curry.

If that happens, he won't hesitate to trade the two, even though the style of these two fits well with the Wizards' small-ball tactics right now.

Now it seems that such worries are completely unnecessary.

Wang Xiao didn't pay attention to this scene anymore, but carefully continued to explain the tactical arrangement of the second half.

It's not so much a tactical set-up as it is about telling the players how to run on the court, using the deterrent power of three-point range to pull opponents who can help defend into safe positions and facilitate Curry's offensive scoring.

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After the start of the second half, Curry was significantly better than the long half.

He began to noticeably increase the number of times he hit the basket.

The frequent hitting of iron in the first half made him understand that Kidd's defense is very strong, and his own hand is not very good, and it makes no sense to continue to float on the outside to shoot three-pointers, but it is better to strengthen the threat of impacting the basket first, and when the opponent begins to estimate his breakthrough, there will be more room for shooting.

The effect of this change is really good, with the center's pick-and-roll, Curry can easily rush into the interior, and most of the time there is only one center waiting for him on the interior - the rest of the players are pulled to the outside by the Wizards players who have three-point range.

Small and big is the most common and efficient style of play in the league, although the center has a great advantage in height and length, but the strong and tall body is also easy to be used by small players when jumping and fighting.

In just one minute, Curry caused two defensive fouls in a row from Mavericks starting center Damppier.

Curry's performance is getting better and better, but on the other side, the Mavericks' offense has not stopped, on the contrary, with Nowitzki's outburst, the Mavericks' offensive efficiency is even higher than that of the Wizards!

Although Jamison defended hard, he couldn't defend Nowitzki, and the opponent scored 16 points in the third quarter, and the difference between the two teams also widened to more than 20 points.

At the beginning of the fourth quarter, Harden led the bench to try to chase down points, but the difference between the two teams was always in double digits, and when the whistle blew at the end of the game, the score was fixed at 119-108.

The Wizards lost to the Mavericks by 11 points on the road.

Dek Nowitzki finished the game with 36 points and 12 rebounds, beating Jamison, who had 17 points and eight rebounds on the matchup.

In addition to Jamison, who scored 17 points, Butler scored 14 points and Green scored 11 points.

Harden who came off the bench made many people shine, and Harden played 31 minutes as a substitute in the whole game, scoring 16 points and 7 assists, and was extremely efficient and able to drive his teammates to score.

As for Curry, the starting point guard, he played 36 minutes in the game and had 22 points and 4 assists.

Judging from the data, it seems to be pretty good, but these 22 points were scored with 21 shots.

He shot 3-of-11 from three-point range and 3-of-10 from two-point range, and frequently attacked the basket to make fouls and hit 7 of 8 free throws.

6-of-21 shooting, and the shooting percentage was so low that it couldn't even reach 30%.

Curry's poor play was largely to blame for the Wizards' loss.

At the post-game press conference, Wang Xiao did not let Curry attend.

What he needs now is to adjust his mentality and state, not to fight wits and courage with media reporters.

At the press conference, the most asked questions by reporters were Curry's poor performance on the court.

"Coach Wang Xiao, this game started in the first half, Curry's play was terrible, what do you think about this? Why did he continue to attack with the ball on the pitch in the second half? ”

"Everybody has bad times, and this was Stephen's first NBA professional game, and he played on the road against legendary point guard Jason. Kidd, it's normal to be out of the game, I'm not going to rush to take him off because he's playing badly, because he needs time to adapt to it and a chance to prove that he can get over it, and winning a game doesn't make a difference, but if you lose confidence in a player with potential because of a game, it's not worth it. ”