Chapter 132: The Upcoming Critical Showdown

The Wizards are on a five-game winning streak, while the Heat's Big Three, which NBA fans are most concerned about, didn't start the season well.

Like many fears, James and Wade really clashed over ball possession.

The so-called conflict is not that the two have a conflict, but that the two players play in a similar way, and when they are on the field at the same time, it often causes one person to hold the ball, and the other is a little helpless and doesn't know what to do.

The Heat's first opponent of the new season is the Celtics, and Stern has also worked the schedule, and it will be a matchup between the old and new Big Three.

It's a pity that before Wang Xiao released the remark that he didn't know the Big Three of the Heat, they were not opponents of the Wizards, the NBA schedule had been arranged and announced, otherwise the Wizards might have met the Heat earlier in the regular season.

In the face of the Celtics' old triumvirate, the Heat triumvirate seemed to be struggling.

James, Wade, Bosh.

The Heat's Big Three roster looks fantastic, but their regular-season debut wasn't ideal.

James played well, scoring 31 points, 4 rebounds and 3 assists in 43 minutes of play, but Wade shot 4 of 16, shooting 25% from the field, and only scored 13 points, although he had 6 assists, but also had 6 turnovers, as for the other giant, Bosh, only 8 points and 8 rebounds under Garnett's siege and interception.

Compared with the Celtics triumvirate that complements each other, the Heat triumvirate is chaotic with each other, and there is no discipline at all.

After losing to the Celtics in the first game, the Heat defeated the Philadelphia 76ers in the second game to achieve the first regular season win of the Big Three.

But the game was not won particularly pretty.

Wade broke out in this game, cutting 30 points, 7 rebounds and 4 assists, but James only scored 16 points and Bosh 15 points.

This situation does not give the impression that as long as one of the Heat Big Three plays well, the other two will not have a good chance to perform.

The same was true in Game 3, where Wade scored 26 points to James and Bosh with 15 and 11, respectively.

In the fourth game, James scored 32 points, Wade scored 17 points, and Bosh scored 12 points......

Although the Heat team has won all these games, this is obviously not what Heat fans expect to see, what they want to see is that the Big Three all show their due strength and crush all opponents.

Wang Xiao knows very well that the run-in of the Big Three takes a long time, in the 10-11 season, the Heat Big Three have just been formed in the first year, and they do not cooperate with each other tacitly, but with the excellent individual ability of the Big Three, they have brought the team's regular season record to the level of 58 wins.

In the playoffs, the problem of the coordination of the Big Three still exists, and it is only because the two of them are too capable that they went all the way to the Finals before the problem broke out when facing the Dallas Mavericks.

James was out of form for unknown reasons, averaging just 17.8 points per game in six games against the Mavericks, and even scored the lowest playoff points of his career in one game.

James' slump cost the Heat a low-hanging fruit championship and made a change for the Big Three.

In the second season of the Big Three, Wade obviously gave up the ball and made sacrifices for the Big Three, and with Wade's concession, James returned to his previous state, not only won the regular season MVP, but also averaged 28.6 points, 10.2 rebounds and 7.4 assists per game in the finals, playing extremely efficient.

Of course, that was a year after the Heat's Big Three were hit.

The current Heat team still has the problem of ball distribution.

Wang Xiao said that the Wizards' confidence that they can beat the Heat's Big Three also comes from this.

After five games, the Heat tied with the Bulls for second place in the East with a 4-1 record, second only to the Wizards, who won all five games, and almost everyone believes that the Heat catching up with the Wizards is a matter of minutes.

But this is not the case.

Fast forward to November 2010, and the Wizards' opponents were the Rockets, Bobcats, Raptors, Bulls and Celtics.

In these five games, the Wizards only lost to the Bulls on the road, and the remaining four games were all won, and the Wizards' record also came to 9-1.

Correspondingly, the Heat lost two games at the beginning of the month, and their record fell to 7-3, not only did they catch up with the Wizards, but they were even opened up by the 8-2 Bulls and fell to third place in the East.

As the game progressed, George's playing time began to increase gradually, gradually increasing to around 28 minutes.

This playing time is second only to Harden's average of 31 minutes per game on the bench.

In the starting lineup, only Curry played more minutes than him, and Butler and Jamison only played the same time as George.

The amount of playing time has also pushed George's scoring into double digits, increasing his scoring average to around 11 points per game.

And at this time, it was also discovered that the Wizards put George on the court, not to let him score, but to strengthen the defense.

A lot of times, with George on the floor, whether he's replacing Butler or Jamison, it can take the Wizards' defensive capabilities up a notch in an instant.

Of course, George can't do the level that Howard Garnett can make a qualitative change in the defense of the whole team, but for the offensive Wizards, this defensive intensity is enough.

Wang Xiao has obviously begun to realize that a team that can only attack cannot win the final victory, and the Wizards have begun to gradually strengthen the team's defense! In this way, Paul was selected with the No. 4 pick. George was a wise choice. ”

Although George didn't average more than 20 points per game like Curry, nor did he get seven or eight assists like Harden, the defensive improvement he brought was also a real boost to make the team stronger.

It's entirely conceivable that after two or three seasons, George will grow up and will have no problem replacing either Butler or Jamison's place.

At this time, even Grenfield, the general manager of the Wizards team, who has never had a good impression of Wang Xiao, did not begin to think about it.

In this case...... Maybe in five years, the Wizards really have a chance to challenge for the championship......

When Wang Xiao made this promise to the team owner, Grenfield's first reaction was that the other party was bragging.

Even though the Wizards finished the season second in the East last season and reached the Eastern Conference finals, he still thinks that Wang Xiao is just lucky.

But now, looking at the team's vote of players, Curry, Harden, George, Green, Jordan Jr., Beverley...... None of these players are over the age of 24, and how far will these players grow in five years?