Chapter 126 is a plausible result
The Raptors didn't make any big moves this summer, as if last season because they didn't make the playoffs, which hit the team's overall competitiveness, and because the Canadian fans never performed so crazy again...... As a result, the Raptors' management became a little restricted, and the only action was to sign a ranger, Gelani, in the summer? McCoy, and gave up Keown, who excelled last season? Clarke.
Overall, the Raptors are still Carter's one-man team.
Although the Wizards just came to Canada and are not used to the unusually cold weather here, but in terms of overall strength, the Wizards have an absolute advantage.
Of course, the Wizards still exposed a lot of problems in the game, especially in the arrangement of starters, and Collins did not make a final decision.
The current Wizards' 15-man roster is full, even more than two, and this is because Navarro, who was selected by the Wizards in the second round, did not enter the NBA.
PG, Bow Peak, Tyrone? Lou, Jerry
SG, Jordan, Larry? Hughes, Simmons, Juan? Dixon
SF, Jeffries, Rodney? Rogers, Russell, Etang Thomas
PF, Lightner, Gerrard? Wallace, Keown? clarke
C, Kwame Brown, Haywood, Oakley
After Collins returned, this Wizards team went through a lot of training games and games, and Collins himself couldn't believe it...... The Wizards are now the best team in the league in terms of defensive level alone, compared to last season when the entire team was able to attack...... This made Collins a little uncomfortable.
Fortunately, Gong Feng and Kwamei have grown a little, and Gong Feng's organization can still allow the Wizards to continue to win.
In this situation, Collins can only put a few players on the watch list, and because of this situation, Collins let the four veterans rest well in the summer league and preseason, constantly rotate the lineup, see the state of all the players, and even start a large-scale rotation after the start of the season.
After easily defeating the Raptors, the Wizards quickly got on the plane and returned to Washington, D.C., ready to meet the Celtics the next day.
At the beginning of the season, the Celtics have changed a lot, but the change has not been for the better.
The twin stars of the Celtics seem to have a big 'contradiction' with each other, one is still actively training, actively seeking self-breakthrough, and the other seems to have been satisfied with the status quo and has become more casual in the game...... No change means more weakness......
The Celtics seem to have forgotten about their team, and the experience of being overturned by the Magic in the first round has become more and more sought for 'personal development'.
Even if the Celtics were back-to-back games before, even if they were just overturned by the weak Bulls at the last moment and won the first loss of the season, but just playing the second game of the regular season, the two stars of their team were completely blocked by the Wizards' front, and the whole team only scored 69 points in this game, and the Wizards scored 120 points......
Such a Celtic team made Gong Feng feel extremely unfamiliar.
Although they won two straight games at the beginning of the season, the Wizards next met the Eastern Conference powerhouses, and the Nets, who lost their representation in the Eastern Conference Finals due to an accident last season, now see the Nets who want to prove themselves because of an accident.
Two teams on two consecutive wins since the start of the season have started their first meeting of the season.
In this game, not only the Nets want to prove themselves, but Gong Feng also wants to collide with Kidd again, see where his strength will be now, and see if he has improved compared to before.
The Wizards' starting point in this game is Bow Peak, Jerry, Larry? Hughes, Kwame Brown, Haywood.
The Nets' starting lineup is Kidd, Kidles, Jefferson, Kenyon? Martin, Mutombo.
The Nets have changed a lot this summer, with Mutombo coming in the trade operation, strengthening the defense from the interior to stop the Wizards' Kwame Brown, the Magic's interior, or facing O'Neal or Duncan's thickness after entering the Finals, and Jefferson's rise has also made the Nets' defense on the athletic end stronger.
The Nets' offense doesn't have to worry at all, as long as Kidd is around, the Nets will never run out of space to score, and as long as the Nets players can keep themselves healthy, Kidd will help you score.
This is a little similar to the situation of the Wizards right now, except that Bow is slightly luckier than Kidd, Jerry, Hughes, Jordan, Leitner and Kwame are all players who can rely on their ability to score.
At the beginning of the game, the Wizards were confronted by the Nets' tough, pressing-like defense.
The Wizards' offense at the beginning of the game is a little simpler, and there are only two ways to attack, the first is Gong Feng's ball-holding offense, first starting with the interior player, that is, with Kwame's blocking, one person gets the advantage from the position, and then the bow peak or Kwame's pass, guiding the Wizards' simple offense.
The second is that Jerry or Hughes goes to attack with the ball, break through their own defenders, and if they encounter the help defense at this time, they start to pass the ball, and they rely on their own ability to score without meeting the help defense, and at this time, Gong Feng and Kwame exist as two endpoints.
However, in today's game, both attacks encountered a lot of difficult situations. Gong Feng's organization doesn't look as smooth as last season, which everyone who knows the ball can see, it's not that Gong Feng's organizational skills have declined, but that the Wizards have fewer players who can open up offensive space for Gong Feng.
In the past, Hamilton and Jordan were the focus of other teams when they started and had to pay attention to them, but now although Jerry and Hughes are both players who can score, they are definitely not good at cutting and shooting.
In the first two games, Gong Feng frowned and constantly gestured with his teammates, playing quick counterattacks and offenses, and getting offensive space in the run, which accelerated the Wizards' offensive style and reduced the positional battle offense of last season.
But in this game, Gong Feng met Kidd, a master who also guides the offense with passing, Kidd is very good at Gong Feng's current organization, but the current Nets are playing more positional offense, is a defensive counterattack team, such a tactical comparison, Kidd smiled very happily three minutes after the game started. Although Bow Peak does not have an advantage in the confrontation with Kidd, it is definitely not like last season, where Kidd can use experience, skill and physical perfection.
However, if Gong Feng is defended one-on-one by Kidd, and the two of them are fully confrontational, then the current Gong Feng will still be slightly weaker...... You can score, but you can't rely on scoring to achieve the final victory, you can shoot, and even shoot like an offensive and defensive transition, but if you want to break through Kidd and win with the Nets' active defense, Gong Feng can't do it.
Jerry also had a problem, because it was the physical Jefferson who defended Jerry, Jerry couldn't do the requirement to score with his back to Jefferson, and as for Hughes, it seemed that he had disappeared in this game.
The Nets, on the other hand, were different, with Kidders scoring 10 points in the first quarter under Jerry's defense.
After the end of the first quarter, the Nets led the Wizards by 7 points, but fortunately, the Wizards' bench had an absolute advantage, Jordan, Leitner, Oakley, Tyrone Lue, and Gerrard The bench lineup was still slowly recovering the score.
Seeing the situation on the court become like this, the head coach of the Nets Scott immediately sent his main team back on the court, since the main force has an absolute advantage, then keep this advantage to the end, although tired, but Scott believes that the players of the Nets definitely do not want to lose to the kind of team that combines the two teams again.
The final result of this game was indeed as Scott expected, Kidd played 43 minutes and had a triple-double of 22 points, 12 rebounds and 10 assists, ensuring the final victory of the Nets.
On the Wizards' side, Gong Feng's 14 points and 8 assists seem to be second to Kidd, and Kwame also got a double-double of 18+14, although the shooting percentage seems to be a little low, but the two have also completed their respective tasks.
Kidd looked at the two men who turned around and bowed their heads to leave the field, and became a little silent during the post-match press conference, as if his side had not won the game at all.