After gnawing the hard bone of the Trail Blazers, the opponents the Wizards encountered in the next few games were not very strong opponents, and the more difficult ones were the Clippers, Grizzlies, and Bulls.

With the Wizards playing at full strength and without any carelessness, they all won the game steadily.

And when the time entered mid-January, the Wizards ran into the Cleveland Cavaliers again.

This time the Wizards are playing on the road, and the Cavaliers have a feeling of getting better after more than two months of running-in, and the current record is second only to the Wizards, ranking second in the East and second in the league.

The Big Four combination of James + Howard + Irving + Love is not given for nothing after all, even if only one person stands up in each game, it is enough for the Cavaliers to win most games.

However, the Wizards are clearly not included in that large part.

In this game, Cavaliers fans were still expecting the Cavaliers to beat the Wizards, but the final result was a big disappointment for Cavaliers fans.

In the first three quarters of this game, the two teams were still inseparable, even the Wizards' sharpest and most terrifying third-quarter bench lineup was carried by the Cavaliers, but when the fourth quarter reached the middle and end of the quarter, the Cavaliers still couldn't hold it first.

In the face of Leonard, Green and other defensive giants at the same time, James was too physically exhausted, his scoring efficiency plummeted, and he missed several shots and layups.

Love and Howard don't have the ability to score for the team at such critical moments.

Irving, the only one who still has offensive ability, has been in a state of being heavily defended by Thompson, and can only try his best to rely on his breakthrough ability to score for the team.

Irving in the 13-14 season is not the Irving who will face Curry in the next 15-16 season to shoot a murderous shot, and his personal ability and stability are slightly lacking.

Seizing this opportunity, the Wizards quickly played a wave of 6:0 to widen the gap a little, and then locked the difference steadily until the end of the game.

In the end, the score of the two teams was 114-110, and the difference was only 4 points, which is one of the few games that the Wizards have had with extremely close scores this season.

But in any case, a loss is a loss, and no matter what the process is, it is an indisputable fact that the Cavaliers, who have the Big Four, have lost to the Wizards twice this season, and such a result is completely inconsistent with the original intention of the Cavaliers to form the Big Four.

After the game, several members of the Cavaliers were put on the stage, and the first one to bear the brunt was the league's No. 1 center, Dwight. Howard.

Howard, who could have been single-handedly traded for James back then, was expected to be expected to show the terror of a traditional center.

But since leaving the Devil, Howard has lost the terrifying dominance of the offensive and defensive ends of the day.

So far this season, Howard has averaged 18 points and 12.2 rebounds per game, and although the data is not bad, it is only not bad, and his average blocks per game have dropped to 1.8, which is not as deterrent as before.

Is a center with 18 points, 12 rebounds and 1.8 blocks really qualified to be called the league's No. 1 center?

And in the two games against the Wizards, Howard faced first-year rookie Rudy. Gobert seemed to struggle a little, averaging only 16 points, 9.7 rebounds and 1.4 blocks in the two games.

I can't even cope with a first-grade rookie, and it's a little unreasonable.

However, Gobert has shown great strength and level in the two months since he started the Wizards, this big man from Europe has a strong defensive and co-defense ability, although purely from a statistical point of view, the average of 7.5 points, 9.4 rebounds and 1.9 blocks per game is not gorgeous, but when he is on the court, the Wizards' defense is even much stronger than last season when Whiteside was there.

Wang Xiao once again proved how vicious his vision really is, such a European interior player who is not favored by most team scouts, but in his hands he has become a pretty good defensive player.

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Howard was carried out by the Cavaliers, but he wasn't the only one who took the blame.

In another time and space, there is a affectionate nickname - Kevin of the pot blessing. Lefu didn't escape either.

Howard didn't play well on the inside, and Love didn't get much better, with 14 points and 7 rebounds being his answer in this game.

As a player with 26 points and 12.5 rebounds last season, Love's average per game this season has slipped to 16 points and 8 rebounds per game, and he has naturally become the one to be blamed for every time the Wizards lose.

Anyone who knows a little bit about penalty shooting knows that Lefu is really innocent, as an All-Star, after coming to the Cavaliers, he directly became a four-in-command, and he could only touch basketball after James, Irving, and Howard had touched the ball, and the most he usually did on the court was to stand outside the three-point line and wait to catch the ball and shoot.

After all, James and Irving are both breakthrough players who need enough space on the inside to break through with the ball, and Howard, as a traditional center, will only play on the inside, what can Love do? He's desperate too!

Therefore, induced by Lefou, it led to the third backstabber, Cavaliers head coach David. Blatter.

The Cavaliers' relatively monolithic tactical system and the fact that the players have not been fully utilized have made the European coach questionable in just two months, and if it weren't for the Cavaliers' current good record, I am afraid his position would be in jeopardy.

In fact, the Wizards don't have many tactics, only some blocking and pick-and-roll cooperation and off-ball cover tactics.

The world's martial arts are invincible, only fast and unbreakable, and the speed advantage of small-ball tactics will make most of the tactics have no chance or too late to use, and more often rely on the player's own judgment on the field.

On both ends of the floor, the Wizards' players are better than the Cavaliers, so they can win, it's as simple as that.

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After the victory over the Cavaliers, the Wizards unknowingly won another 10-game winning streak.

However, this time the Wizards' winning streak did not last long, and it was immediately ended.

But even so, when the entire month of January ended, the Wizards' record came to a terrifying 41-4!

Many people were shocked to find that the regular season has passed the halfway point, and the Wizards have only lost 4 games, and according to this trend, the Wizards are likely to break the Bulls' record of 72 wins by the end of the season!

Of course, they didn't know that before the season officially started, the Wizards had already made breaking the Bulls' 72-win record one of the goals of this season!