The Trail Blazers are lucky, Wang Xiao's decision made them get Durant, and with Durant as the core of the team, they became one of the giants in the West, and they stood out from the West for two consecutive years and reached the Finals.

But the pioneers were unlucky.

Because Wang Xiao chose Durant, they fired Wang Xiao, so they lost an excellent coach full of magic, and the other party went to the Wizards and built the Wizards into a super team at the historical level.

In last year's Finals, the Trail Blazers and the Wizards met and were swept 4:0 without resistance, and now that the two teams will meet for the second time in the Finals, there are few media outlets that are optimistic that the Trail Blazers can beat the Wizards to win the cup, and only a few local sports newspapers in Portland still support their home team.

Many Trailblazers fans have thought that if the team owner and general manager did not fire Wang Xiao back then, but chose to believe him, what kind of team would the Trail Blazers be now? Is it possible to match the Wizards?

Of course, this is just a fantasy, the fact has happened irreversibly, and they can only hope for a miracle to happen, and Durant can lead the Trail Blazers to fight back in a desperate situation.

This is obviously just an extravagant hope.

and the Wizards' three major forwards George, Leonard, and Green, even James has failed to get benefits, although Durant is currently not losing or even stronger than James in terms of offensive ability, but in other aspects it is still inferior to James.

Moreover, even if Durant's scoring ability is explosive, the Wizards also have Curry Thompson, the two splash brothers, and the combined lethality of these two is much more terrifying than Durant.

Whether it's defensive or offensive, the Wizards are completely worthy of the Trail Blazers.

After the victory over the Heat, there is no team in the entire league that is qualified to stand in the way of the Wizards' championship.

The first game between the two sides begins on June 6 at the Wizards' home court.

The Wizards, on their side, have an unchanged regular lineup, Curry, Thompson, Leonard, George and Whiteside.

On the other side, the Trail Blazers' starting lineup has made some changes.

Luis, who has been playing sixth man before. Williams was mentioned to the starting position.

Due to the impact of injuries in the regular season, Luis. Williams played just over 40 regular-season games, almost all of them off the bench, averaging 14.1 points and 3.6 assists per game.

Although this statistic is not particularly good, it has surpassed the current starting point guard of the Trail Blazers. Miller.

Andrey, who is already 37 years old. Miller's athletic standards have dropped a lot from last season, averaging 5.9 points per game and 5.5 assists per game, and he is now using his experience to help the Trail Blazers control the tempo more often than not.

In the playoffs, in the face of high-intensity competition, Andre. Miller has been terrible, shooting just over 30 percent from the field and is at a disadvantage against most teams' point guards.

The Trailblazers naturally will not let this state of Andrey. Miller went to play Curry, who is probably the most scoring ability in the league. Although Williams' defensive ability is also very average, he is better than Andre. Miller is stronger.

At the shooting guard position is defensive titan Wesley. Matthews.

Small forward Durant, big forward Aldridge, and center Jordan Jr. have not changed much.

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The head coach of the Trail Blazers wanted to get Luis Brown. Williams has more or less contained Curry on the defensive end, but this is obviously a dream.

Curry is by no means Luis. Williams can guard against it.

As soon as the game started, Curry scored one after another, not only hitting three points from the outside, but also breaking into the interior with the ball to make damage.

The efficient scoring rhythm made the Trail Blazers extremely passive, and on the other side, Durant was unable to open up the situation under Leonard's defense.

Compared to a power small forward like James, Leonard still prefers to defend players like Durant who are more technical streamers.

Of course, this does not mean that Leonard can prevent Durant, counting the duel between the two in another time and space, Durant has an absolute advantage in scoring, rebounding, assists and shooting percentage, and steadily suppresses Leonard.

After all, Durant's height of nearly 2.11 meters is much higher than Leonard, and Durant's incomparably accurate mid-range shooting can make the most of his height advantage.

Although Leonard can't prevent Durant, he is far more restrictive to Durant than Luis. Williams is a lot more restrictive to Curry.

The Wizards' offensive points are outrageous, with Curry, Thompson, George and even Leonard all available to attack.

And the Trail Blazers, on the Louis. Before Williams grows up, the only person who can give Durant a certain degree of support on the offensive end is power forward Aldridge. Jordan...... Hehe!

Jordan Jr.'s rim-protecting ability really made the Trail Blazers snort when they got him in the first place, and with his presence, Durant and Aldridge, two players who don't like to play on the inside, can play their favorite style on the outside without any psychological pressure.

But with the increase in partner time, Jordan Jr.'s shortcomings began to be revealed.

The first point is that the offensive ability is extremely lacking, and basically can only rely on the second offense after eating cake under the basket and grabbing the offensive rebound.

The second point is that although Jordan Jr. is very good at protecting the frame, he is only very strong, as a blue-collar defensive player, his defensive ability is much inferior to the Thunder's center Dunn, and the defense relies more on amazing bounce and arm span, rather than personal defensive awareness and ability.

Jordan Jr.'s defense is somewhat similar to Howard's, but it is nowhere near the terrifying dominance that Howard had on the defensive end in his prime.

In another time and space, Jordan Jr. has only won two honors for the best defensive team and two rebounding titles, and is not even as good as the Bulls' center Joaquin. Noah has many accolades on the defensive end.

The third, and most fatal, weakness, is his free throws.

Without O'Neal and Howard's lives, he got O'Neill and Howard's illness.

Jordan Jr.'s free throws and O'Neal and Howard are not too much, or even worse, which makes Jordan Jr. deliberately targeted many times and becomes the target of shark slashing tactics.

In the past two years, the Trailblazers have encountered the opponent's shark cutting tactics, and even the reason why they were swept in the finals last season has a lot to do with Wang Xiao's extremely simple implementation of shark cutting tactics.

As long as Jordan Jr.'s free throws don't improve, then he'll be the Trail Blazers' biggest hole on the court.

In fact, if it weren't for the Wizards team occupying a certain initiative at the beginning, Wang Xiao wouldn't want to have more BB with them, and just cut the shark according to the program and it would be over.

(There's something going on today, only one shift, I'm sorry.) ）