Chapter 250: Sweep and Sweep
"Damn fellow!"
Looking at the interview remarks about Wang Xiao in the newspaper, Anthony's face turned blue and scolded fiercely.
"We've been completely flattened! Are you kidding? When I became famous, you weren't even an assistant coach! Relying on luck to take the Wizards team to two years of good results, it is so rampant! I'm going to have to give him some color! ”
Also thinking about it are Delon and Stoudemire.
Especially Delong, he has always looked down on Curry, especially when Curry won the regular season MVP last year, and there is a high probability that he will win this year, a wave of jealousy rises in his heart.
In his opinion, a point guard like Curry who floats on the outside and shoots three-pointers is not qualified, and even a bit opportunistic.
After all, before Curry, what point guard was floating on the outside to shoot threes?
Even though Curry's style of play has been successful and has won more accolades than him, Delon is still a little unimpressed.
As a point guard, you should use your speed advantage to attack the basket, create damage and create opportunities for teammates at the same time, and Delon has four seasons of assists in his career.
And in Delon's heart, Curry is not his opponent at all, that fragile small body can't withstand his breakthrough at all, every time he plays against Curry, Delon can use his physical advantage to easily rush into the interior, so that when the Wizards play against the Knicks, Thompson is basically defending Delon at the point guard position.
"In this playoffs, I'm going to completely blow up Curry and let people see who is the strongest point guard!"
Delon was simply thinking too much.
From the beginning, Wang Xiao did not plan to arrange a fair matchup.
It's no secret that Curry can't guard against Delon, De Xiaopang's tonnage is not something Curry can resist, and even Paul often suffers when he is against Delon, let alone Curry?
Clay. Thompson must have been keeping an eye on Delon throughout this series, and Curry's main focus is still on scoring, and on the defensive end, he only needs to be able to keep up with the Knicks' shooting guard.
The Knicks' current starting point guard is Iman. Shampert, a role player who averaged 7 points, 3 rebounds and 2 assists per game in his career, mainly focuses on shooting, but the shooting rate is very touching, the shooting rate is less than 40% throughout his career, although Curry's defense is weak, but it is in the middle and lower reaches of the league, and he can still do it by marking Shampert.
Delong. Williams bullied Curry's skinny guards, and it was okay to meet Klay, who was stronger than him and taller than him. Thompson, the level of performance is very limited.
But compared to Cameron. Anthony, DeLong's treatment is already very good.
Anthony was facing, but Kowy. Leonard plus Paul. George's forward combination.
While one of the two will need to go inside to keep an eye on Stoudemire, Stoudemire has suffered an injury this season and didn't return until April 21, and has yet to regain his peak form and can't provide much firepower to Anthony.
In fact, this season is also a turning point for Stoudemire, last season he was still a super scorer who averaged 25 points and 8 rebounds per game, the league's top superstar, but this season's average data per game shrank to 17.5 points and 7.8 rebounds because of the Knicks' Big Three.
The first match between the two teams was a carnage without suspense.
At 115:93, the Wizards won by 22 points at home.
Delon was heavily defended by Thompson throughout the game, scoring in just double figures, and although he had nine assists, he had five turnovers.
Anthony, under the rotation of Leonard and George, handed in an answer sheet of 9 of 21 shots, and only scored 21 points, 6 rebounds and 2 assists as the team's first scoring point.
As for Stoudemire, he scored just 9 points on 7-of-2 shooting from the field, and he didn't look like a giant on a team at all.
In contrast, the Wizards' side can be described as more blossoming, Curry 24 points and 6 assists, George 21 points, Thompson 18 points, Leonard 14 points, Jamison 11 points, Caron. Butler scored 10 points, and all six players scored in double figures, while Beverley, Parsons and Jimmy Brown. Butler and others also had good performances.
It is also thanks to the fact that there is a nerve knife on the Knicks bench, JR Smith, who scored 17 points on 7-of-17 shooting, which can be regarded as saving a little face for the Knicks, but this is also of no practical significance.
On April 30, the second battle between the two sides began.
In this game, Anthony broke out, in the confrontation with Leonard, Anthony made 26 crazy shots, hit 12 shots, 6 of 9 free throws, and cut 30 points and 9 rebounds, but the Knicks lost the game more completely, and lost suspense in the third quarter, because the Wizards had two people on their side.
Stephen, who scored 29 points in the game. Curry with 34 points of Klay. Thompson.
Curry's high score was expected by everyone, after all, he was the MVP of the regular season and the league's leading scorer, and the offensive pressure was not too great in the face of the Knicks, who lacked a strong defender in the backcourt.
But Thompson's sideways attack made many people unexpected.
In the eyes of most people, the series between the Wizards and the Knicks is basically a drama of Curry + George vs Deron + Anthony.
The rest of the Wizards' stats aren't impressive, and the Knicks' Stoudemire hasn't been added due to injuries.
But in the second game, George only contributed 17 points to the team, but Thompson, who was not taken seriously, jumped out.
He shot 13-of-18 from the field and shot a terrifying 72 percent, including 4-of-6 three-pointers and 4-of-4 free throws.
Only Curry and Thompson, two backcourt players, scored a terrifying 63 points, what suspense can there be in the game?
After the game, Knicks head coach D'Antoni said at a press conference that the players did not play 100% in the first two games, and when they return to their home court, they will play more hard and are bound to play to their full strength.
However, the two sides returned to the third game of the New York Knicks, and Anthony, as the leader of the team, was completely depressed, handing over a failing statistic of 5-of-21 shooting under Leonard's defense, and only scored 14 points in the game, but it was Stoudemire who found a little feeling and scored 20+ points for the first time in the series.
In the third game, the Wizards won again bloodlessly, and the total score of the two teams has come to 3:0, and now the only suspense is whether the Knicks will be swept away by the Wizards for the second year in a row.
That suspense was ended on May 6 when the Wizards defeated the Knicks 108-89 to sweep the Knicks for the second year in a row to advance to the second round.