Less than two minutes into the first game of the Eastern Conference Finals, Wizards head coach Kerr frowned on the sidelines.

Originally, he thought that this would be a soldier-to-soldier and general-to-general duel.

To this end, he specially arranged for George, and Leonard did special training to defend Durant and Brother Alphabet, preparing to let George defend Durant and Leonard defend Brother Alphabet.

However, when the game started, things didn't go the way he had imagined.

Durant has no intention of playing against Leonard at all, whenever the two are facing each other on the court, Durant will always immediately rely on his teammates to block and distance himself from Leonard, and after blocking and covering, he often faces either Curry or Anderson.

Neither Curry nor Anderson can contain Durant even the slightest, and Durant has countless ways to score easily on their heads.

Faced with such a situation, the Wizards were helpless.

Curry is on the court with Thompson on the court, and Anderson is on the court with Korver, who is a small forward, both of whom are extremely lethal players with three-point shooting ability, and they will never give them even a second of free time after blocking and pick-and-roll.

So whenever Curry and Korver assist Durant in completing a single pick-and-roll, Leonard, who is blocked, has to go to help defend first.

And this kind of tactic can be used by the Bucks, but the Wizards can't follow suit.

The reason is very simple, the lowest player on the Bucks court is also 2.01 meters, there is no big fight against the small, and at the same time want to play small and big, using the advantage of speed and agility to score is not valid, the only slower foot speed in the Bucks is the center Jokic, but Gobert, who is opposite him, does not have the ability to shoot from a distance, which makes Gobert fall into an embarrassing situation where no one pays attention to him at all after completing the blocking and dismantling cooperation with Curry.

This situation led to the fact that as soon as the game started, the Bucks quickly gained the upper hand, Durant easily continued to score in the face of Curry, Anderson's defense, while Curry Leonard and others had to make difficult shots under the strict defense of Durant, Antetokounmpo, Thompson and others.

"Is there a difference in the lineup?"

Kerr also thought of such a possibility, but even if he did, he couldn't help it, after all, no matter how good a coach is, Anderson can't turn Anderson into a tough defensive Green.

Last summer, Kerr had a very serious discussion with the management team about Green, in his opinion, even if Thompson and Butler let Go, they can't let Green go, because Thompson and Butler are all people who can replace them, but Green can't.

Leonard may be able to play Green's place, but he needs to put more experience into the offense, so the Wizards will have to do all the dirty work for Gobert alone.

The Wizards have also tried to find a blue-collar interior to assist Gobert, but most of the league's blue-collar interior players are not good at offense, especially in mid-to-long-range shooting.

Don't look at Green's three-point shot that has been criticized, but among interior players, his three-point shot is already very accurate.

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In the first quarter of the game, relying on continuous blocking and dislocation, Durant scored 16 points in a single quarter and led the Bucks to 33 points, while the Wizards only scored 26 points, and the two sides had a 6-point difference.

In the second quarter of the game, the Wizards still couldn't find a good tactic to deal with the Bucks' blocking, and the point difference was further widened to double digits.

In the Wizards, the most uncomfortable is undoubtedly Curry, because he is opposite Antetokounmpo.

The height gap between the two is too big, which makes Curry basically unable to shoot in front of him, and as a big man, Brother Alphabet's speed and explosion are not slow at all, even if Curry's speed is a little faster, relying on skills to shake off a slight gap, he can still rely on his amazing arm span and pace to catch up easily.

The Wizards have also tried to help Curry block and split to form a misplaced single, but it is still that problem, and the other players on the Bucks are not weak defensively, even Korver, who seems to be the weakest defender, is also very experienced in the defense of outside three-point shooting because of his identity as a three-point shooter.

At halftime, Curry only hit 2 of 4 shots, and although the shooting rate of 50% looked good, he only scored 7 points with free throws.

Unable to limit Durant's scoring, and at the same time, the team's star Curry's offense was also contained, and the result was the first game of the Eastern Conference finals, and the Wizards simply lost the game.

107:94, 13 points.

Durant finished with 35 points, 6 rebounds and 3 assists, the highest scoring score among the two Bucks Wizards.

Durant was followed by George, who scored 27 points, and he was the Wizards' top scorer.

Antetokounmpo scored 23 points, Thompson 17, Leonard 21 and Curry just 14.

The total score ratio of the Big Three of the two teams is 75:62, and the judgment is high!

Of course, the real strength of players cannot be measured entirely by data, just like in this game, Durant and Brother Alphabet have faced Curry and Anderson's defense many times, and the scoring process is very easy, while George Leonard and others often face Durant, Brother Alphabet, Thompson, these players who have no obvious shortcomings in defensive ability, and it is naturally more difficult to score.

After the game, Wizards head coach Kerr made it clear in an interview that the main reason why the Wizards lost this game was because they couldn't deal with the Bucks' frequent blocking and dislocation single tactics, allowing the opponent to score too easily, and he would consider adjusting the starting lineup as appropriate in the next game to ensure that there were no obvious holes in the starting lineup and defense.

Clearly, Kerr is a little fed up with Anderson's poor defense.

The Wizards also have several blue-collar interior players on the bench, although they can't prevent players of Durant's and Antetokounmpo levels, but at least they are more efficient than Anderson's defense, and the long-range firepower support that Anderson can provide to the team is completely out of Kerr's consideration.

Round of offensive firepower, the Bucks are no worse than the Wizards, and even the explosiveness of scoring is stronger, Thompson's 30-point performance in a single quarter of the playoffs is still deeply affected, and the Bucks are compared to the offense, at least from the current Wizards' point of view, it is difficult to do.

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Originally, many people still believed that the Wizards and the Cavaliers were the strongest teams in the East, although the Bucks won the first record in the league, but the team was indeed too young, even if there were Durant and Thompson, two veterans with rich playoff experience, it would be difficult to compete with the Wizards, but the results of the first game made them realize that Wang Xiao's team must not be treated with common sense.