It was only at this time that no one noticed that without Jordan Jr. and putting Jamison off the bench, the Wizards' interior line could already be regarded as the weakest in the league.

It stands to reason that such a huge defensive hole should be an easy target for other teams to attack.

But after six games, it didn't actually happen as people imagined.

What the hell is going on? It's completely different from what you imagined, huh?

In fact, the reason is very simple, under the current rules of the NBA, there are fewer and fewer traditional centers.

O'Neal, Da Yao retired, Howard, and Bynum were slow to develop strong interior offensive methods, and the rest of the league's interior players simply did not have that kind of dominance.

In fact, 10 years later, the interior players in the league who can get an average of 20+ points per game, except for Howard, are basically all players with a style biased towards the outside.

Dirk. Nowitzki, DeMarcus. Aldridge, Kevin. Lok Fou...... They are not good at and are not used to receiving the ball in the interior position, and the style of play is actually more like that of the outside players.

Players like Stoudemire and Griffin also play with a bias towards cutting from the outside to the inside, which is the end point of the attack rather than the starting point.

The lack of a strong center will put too much pressure on the Wizards' interior line.

As for the biggest shortcoming of the Wizards, rebounding, it is actually not as bad as imagined.

After all, McGee and Whiteside are both big men with 7 feet tall, tall and long arms, and their rebounding ability is quite good, coupled with the Wizards' current small-ball tactics, each team has to be careful when attacking, for fear that the Wizards will be beaten into a quick counterattack by the Wizards if they are not careful, so they don't dare to invest too much manpower to compete for offensive rebounds.

In addition, George, Leonard and Thompson, as outside players, have no low judgment on rebounding, and can often rely on speed and bounce to grab rebounds first, so although the Wizards are at a disadvantage in offensive rebounding every game, from the perspective of the whole game, in addition to the overall offensive rebounding with the Lakers, the offensive rebounding in games with other teams is at most about 2 to 5 behind.

In comparison, the defensive quality of the Wizards' outside can be said to have made a qualitative leap compared to last season!

Bringing such a leap forward in growth are the two lottery players who were selected by Wang Xiao in the draft, Klay. Thompson & Cowy. Leonard.

Although the difference in experience as rookies has made the performance of the two on the court not stable, their excellent defensive ability cannot be concealed.

When facing Kobe Bryant and James, they will be blown up without resistance, but when facing the starters of other teams, whether it is Thompson or Leonard, they can perfectly complete the tactical tasks assigned by the team.

Not only that, but the two rookies who were also selected in the first round, but ranked lower, Jimmy. Butler & Chandler. Although Parsons did not play much time, he also showed an extremely positive defensive attitude in his short playing time.

When Beverley, Butler and Parsons are on the bench at the same time, the defensive ability of the Wizards' bench can even briefly compete against the starting lineup of teams in the league with a relatively low offensive tempo and efficiency!

Although this is only the result of 6 games, such a terrifying efficiency on both ends of the offensive and defensive ends has sent chills down the spine of the entire league.

Are you kidding? There's always been a saying in the league, "Offense can win spectators, defense can win championships." ”

This sentence covers the general trend of the alliance for decades, and also indicates another position - you can't have both fish and bear's paws.

If you want to attack, you have to sacrifice defense, and if you want to defend well, you can't take offense into account.

No team can do both.

But now the Wizards seem to have a little bit of a sense of domination on both ends of the offensive and defensive ends.

Of course, this is just the first six games of the regular season, and as the number of games increases, and as other teams study and understand the Wizards' new roster and tactical system, the situation is bound to change again.

In another time and space, the Warriors' defensive ability is at the top of the league, Thompson, Durant and Drummond. Green's perimeter defense is impregnable, but there are plenty of teams that have found a way to break it.

For example, in the 17-18 season, the Rockets fought seven games against the Warriors in the Western Conference finals, and even took the lead in winning the key battle of Tianwang Mountain.

The reason why the Rockets can fight with the Warriors to this point is inseparable from a key tactic.

Infinite dismantling and dislocation to grab food.

Harden, the Rockets' main point of attack, kept using pick-and-rolls to form a misplaced single with Curry.

Curry's defensive ability is recognized as the weakest in the Warriors, and Curry, who is 1.91 meters tall and weighs 84 kilograms, is at a disadvantage in height and weight against Harden, who is 1.96 meters tall and weighs nearly 100 kilograms, and there is no way to be misplaced and eaten.

And that Warriors, like the current Wizards, have poor individual ability of interior players.

After a player like Harden passes Curry and enters the interior, McGee's defense alone can't stop it.

Of course, the reason why the Rockets can play such unscrupulously misplaced singles also plays a crucial role in their own tactical system, and the Rockets that year under the leadership of D'Antoni played a magic ball that was even crazier than the Warriors, and the three-point shooting regardless of the cost made any team in the league dare not help defend casually.

Among the current teams in the league, Wang Xiao can't think of any team that can play like the Rockets in the 17-18 season.

As a simple example, if James frequently uses blocking tactics to misplace Curry, then Wang Xiao will definitely not hesitate to let Leonard cooperate with Curry to wrap James.

With James's skills, there is certainly no problem in distributing the ball when facing the bag, but the one who can receive his pass is the point guard who plays with him to block and dismantle, that is, Chalmers or Norris. Kerr, Wang Xiao doesn't think the Heat's point guards can do much damage to the team.

However, Wang Xiao is convinced that there is no absolutely insoluble tactic in this world.

In order to deal with Jordan, the Pistons developed the Jordan Rule.

O'Neal's invincible application gave birth to the shark slashing tactic.

So over time, there will definitely be teams that will come up with a tactical play against the Wizards.

But at that time, I'm afraid Thompson and Leonard also began to show their edges under the training system......