Chapter 634 [The Raptors Cross the River, and It Is Difficult to Protect Themselves]

The Raptors started the game with 1 win and 9 losses, and went straight to the top pick.

Ever since Sam Mitchell became the team's head coach, the Raptors have become a weird offensive team. The team is almost entirely an offensive player, and the defense is a mess, averaging 105 points per game, while the opposing team scores more. They don't go into garbage time for three quarters, but they can always lose games by one move.

The only game the Raptors won was against the Heat, winning 107-94. It's not that the Raptors played well in this game, but that O'Neal was absent and Wade was alone.

The Heat started with 5 wins and 5 losses, and they were the fastest regressing team, and after the introduction of "Fat Head" Antoine Walker, the offense at the No. 4 position was indeed a little better, but the overall defense became very poor. It was a nightmare for the two starting interior players not to love pick-and-roll.

After O'Neal's absence, the Heat could only use Alonzo Mourning to play the starting center, and the "kidney fighter" was invincible, but he was a blue-collar on the court.

In Guo Xu's previous life, the Raptors were a team that did not resist on the defensive end, and it was the norm for the opponent to score more than 110 points, and finally successfully won the only champion in team history, but unfortunately selected the Italian soft egg inside Bagnani and lost a good opportunity to rise. With Bosh already on the team, God knows what the management thinks, pick a guy with overlapping positions.

This season, the Raptors also allowed Kobe Bryant to score an incredible 81 points in a single game, and Kobe Bryant scored 55 points in the second half, under the premise of focusing on two-point shooting.

This is a miracle, when the opponent star plays well, most opponents will choose to tightly pack, the second half of the star scoring is generally more difficult than the first half, and it is much easier to cover a player like Kobe Bryant who plays low post than to go to the three-point line.

Many years later, ESPN talked about it on a talk show.

ESPN expert Skip Bayless said on "First Take" that Bryant's 81 points may be overrated.

ESPN expert Stephen Smith, who was with him, retorted: "You know what? Skipp, I thought you were crazy a lot of times, and it's the same now. Anyway, it's the NBA of the new millennium, it's a professional game, I know Sam Mitchell well, and he went on to win the Coach of the Year award, but who could he use to defend Kobe Bryant? He's told me many times, he's used all the tricks, double bag, three-person bag, and he can't prevent it even if he tries his best! ”

Guo Xu firmly believes that Mitchell can't prevent himself even if he tries his best.

There is no doubt that it is definitely better to play a weak team than a strong team. As for the historical status of the players, it is not measured by the average data of the players against strong teams, 99.9% of fans have no time to check these high-end statistics.

For example, how many of the high scores in Jordan's career were obtained against strong teams? How much was obtained by abusing vegetables? Even the people who hate Jordan the most are not so bored to look up this information to prove that Jordan is overrated. Qiao Mi can slap his bear face with a casual sentence. "Jordan's 10 scoring titles", "Jordan's six championship rings", "Jordan's five regular season MVPs, six FMVPs." ”

It's the same with Kobe. "My department has two scoring champions", "I have five championship rings", "I have a regular season MVP, two FMVPs, and more is brushing", "My department has 81 points and a fight against Jordan. ”

It's so direct, who dares to disagree? Stats, the number of champions is everything.

With the mentality of scoring points, on the evening of November 22, Guo Xu ushered in the challenge of the Raptors at home.

TNT Radio broadcast live in the United States, CCTV5 did not broadcast this live broadcast, and chose Rocket VS Mavericks.

As the players warmed up, Barkley smiled: "I have a hunch that today is going to be a good matchup, Jason Guo can score high again, and the Raptors defense is terrible." ”

"With three players injured and Joe Johnson going to the Warriors, the Suns' games got better, with high ratings every game, and the fans were there to see Jason score and he didn't disappoint," Smith said. ”

Guo Xu practiced three points in the morning to find a feeling, and he felt good during the warm-up.

After three years of hard training in the time loop, Guo Xu's shooting has improved a lot, and he rarely has inaccurate times now, and only one game in 5 or 6 games is accurate, which is different from the previous convulsions.

Suns starting five: Payton, Guo Xu, Howard, David Lee, Vallejo.

Raptors five: Mike James, Morris Peterson, Jalen Rose, Chris Bosh, Rafael Aruyu.

Vallejo jumped the ball to win and the game began.

Payton passed the ball to Guo Xu across the halfcourt, and the players pulled away and let Guo Xu hold the ball alone.

The Raptors coaching staff really doesn't pay attention to defense, Guo Xu has already scored 101 points, and Mitchell didn't mean to arrange a bag at the beginning, so he let the point guard defend alone.

Guo Xu easily singled on the right side, dribbled the ball under his crotch to his left hand, and then stepped back with his left foot to shoot a three-point jumper. James was afraid that he would break through, so he took a small step back, and then jumped forward to block slowly, and the ball hollowed into the net. 3 to 0.

The Raptors played a block and dismantle, James attracted David Lee to switch defenses and split the ball to the middle, and Bosh faced Guo Xu and made a jump shot. 3 to 2.

The Suns attacked, Payton passed Guo Xu across the half, and the Raptors still didn't cover it.

Guo Xu dribbled the ball under his crotch to the right, took a step past James, who was closer, and threw the ball in the emergency stop. 5 to 2.

James attacked, Guo Xu deliberately let him go two steps away, and then he began to "release water", not taking the Raptors in his eyes.

James made an easy three-pointer from the middle and returned one. 5 to 5.

The Suns attacked, Guo Xu received the ball in the midcourt, and found that James retreated to wait for him near the three-point line, and there was no intention of coming up to force him. Guo Xu grabbed the shot two meters outside the three-point line in the middle, did not interfere at all, and went in again. 8 to 5.

Guo Xu has figured out the defensive ability of this goods, no wonder Jeff Van Gundy didn't look down on him at the beginning.

HEIGHT 188CM, WEIGHING 85 KILOGRAMS, MIKE JAMES, IS A STRONG POINT GUARD WHO IS WEAK IN OFFENSE AND DEFENSE, HE GRADUATED FROM COLLEGE IN 1998 AND FAILED TO ENTER THE NBA. After that, he played in foreign leagues for several years until early 2002, when he joined the Heat on a short-term contract and stood on the NBA stage.

At present, James has changed 5 teams, and he is very good at shooting and breaking through on the offensive end, and he frequently changes teams because the defense is too bad. And his style of play is very unique, and he always sees himself as a star.

Guo Xu didn't care when he was defending, seeing James's ruthless appearance of trying to return the favor, he remembered a joke in his previous life.

Many years after retiring, James was interviewed by reporters and commented on Kobe's 81-point game.

"In that game, I thought we could have done something different, and some people were fascinated by Bryant's rhythm and my focus was trying to win that game. I remember saying to Sam Mitchell in the third quarter, 'Let me defend Kobe.'" He looked at me and said, 'I don't want you to get into foul trouble.' ’”

James paused and sighed, "I was like, 'This guy has scored 50 points in the third quarter, and you're worried I'm in foul trouble?'" ’”

This sounds as if as long as James goes to the main defense, he will definitely make Kobe Bryant score a few points, but unfortunately the coach is afraid that he will not control the foul well and wants to win, so he didn't let him defend, the coach is a fool.

In fact, not to mention the misalignment to limit Kobe, he can't defend most point guards.

He is just a brush, in his previous life in the 2005-06 season in the Raptors brushed up 20.3 points and 5.8 assists luxury data, the Raptors were unwilling to renew his contract, and then he joined the Timberwolves for 4 years and 23 million.

Guo Xu thought it was funny, with James' defensive intensity, if the Raptors had no one to come up and wrap up, he felt that he could challenge 100 points again today......