The Strongest Bishop in the NBA

In the past two years, there has not been much controversy about who is the strongest point guard in the league. Three regular season MVPs and three finals MVPs have made Curry as stable as the first point guard.

However, anyone with a discerning eye knows that Curry is actually a combo guard. Compared with the point guard who organizes the team, Curry is more like a shooting guard.

Similar to his style, there are Rose, Westbrook and others.

In the real sense, the benchmarks of traditional point guards are Paul, Jeremy Lin and Rondo.

Before Jeremy Lin entered the league, Paul was the well-deserved No. 1 traditional point guard, but when Jeremy Lin entered the league, Paul's status was in jeopardy.

In the past few seasons, Jeremy Lin defeated Paul and won the league's assists leader and the honor of the best defensive team. It was not until last season that Paul played peak data, averaging 22.5 points and 10.2 assists per game, leading the Clippers to the finals. Returned the assist king who was monopolized by Jeremy Lin in the previous seasons.

Regarding who has the better organizational ability between Paul and Jeremy Lin, the fans on both sides are arguing and there is no answer, but Paul's fans have to be silent on who has the better defensive ability.

Paul's defense can be regarded as the benchmark for short point guards in recent years, and he has always been in the best defensive team before Jeremy Lin entered the league.

But Jeremy Lin is different from Paul. The 1.93-meter-tall Jeremy Lin (credit to Kidd's template card) will not be singled out due to the height gap even when facing shooting guards or even some shorter small forwards on the defensive end.

In terms of physical fitness, Jeremy Lin is even strong enough to grab rebounds in the interior, and at the same time, he can keep up with most guards in the league.

Physical advantages coupled with his own very good defensive awareness, Jeremy Lin even has the capital to compete for the best defensive player.

Compared with Jeremy Lin, Paul's defense is much inferior, and he is basically at a disadvantage except for his crisp steals.

But even so, Paul's defensive ability is still the top of the league's defenders, and when he faces Oladipo, who focuses on breakthroughs, his defensive strength is fully revealed!

Oladipo is 1.93 meters tall and has no obvious advantage when facing Paul who is 1.85 meters. Paul, who is experienced and extremely fast, can see through Oladipo's moves in an instant and complete the defense ahead of time. Oladipo's offense was stumbling, making mistakes constantly, and the rhythm of shooting was completely disrupted, and he frequently hit the iron.

In the first half alone, Oladipo made 6 turnovers and made 3 of 12 shots, which directly caused the Bucks to trail the Clippers by nearly 15 points at halftime.

In the second half, Wang Xiao decisively changed his tactics, shifting the main attack point from Oladipo to Jokic inside.

With the outbreak of Antetokounmpo and the arrival of Thompson in the new season, Jokic's chances of getting the ball have not increased but decreased compared to last season, but this does not mean that Jokic is not good enough.

In fact, in daily training, Wang Xiao still arranged a lot of tactics for Jokic to support the offense inside.

The assistant coaches are still very puzzled about this. After all, the Bucks have more efficient and more lethal tactics, so why should they be obsessed with Jokic's not particularly efficient inside offense.

Of course they don't know that Wang Yue's matchup between the Raptors and the Bucks in the Eastern Conference Finals of the 2019 playoffs is still fresh in their memories.

Under the targeted defensive tactics of the Raptors, Antetokounmpo's performance was greatly reduced. At the same time, other players of the Bucks played even worse and the team was eliminated.

Antetokounmpo's talent is indeed rare in history, but his poor outside shooting ability is also an indisputable fact. When facing some teams with relatively strong inside ability and setting up targeted zone defenses, his offensive efficiency is inevitable. will be greatly discounted.

At this time, we must start from other aspects.

One is to strengthen Antetokounmpo's outside shooting ability, so that the inside defense can be self-defeating.

The second is to arrange more outside shooters to help Antetokounmpo stretch space.

As for the third, it is the card of Jokic. A tall center's coping ability in the interior is quite good. The future Nuggets will almost rely on the support provided by Jokic in the interior, which shows his strong ability. !

Of course, the current Jokic can't compare with the future ace of the Nuggets, but fortunately, the Clippers' internal strength is not strong.

Jordan was abducted by Wang Yue a long time ago, and moved to the Knicks. At this time, the Clippers inside center was just an ordinary blue-collar.

When Jokic starts to hold the ball and attack a lot, it is difficult for the blue-collar center to limit Jokic's scoring.

The situation on the field changed, and the Bucks began to slowly catch up to the point difference. With Thompson hitting two consecutive three-pointers, the Bucks successfully caught up and overtook the score in the middle of the fourth quarter!

No one expected that without Antetokounmpo and still playing away games, the Bucks could still fight the Clippers inextricably.

In the last few minutes, the two teams had an extremely difficult offensive and defensive battle.

The Clippers rely on Paul's mid-range shots to score steadily, while the Bucks rely on Thompson.

At the last moment, Thompson missed an open three-pointer and missed the lore opportunity, causing the Bucks to lose the game with a narrow gap of 1 point.

After the game, Wang Xiao shook his head and lamented in an interview that the team still lacks a player who can make the final decision at a critical moment.

And Wang Xiao's words made the reporters feel powerless to complain.

The Bucks played away and almost defeated the Clippers without the first core Antetokounmpo, so Wang Xiao is still not satisfied?

Lack of a player who can hit the nail on the head at critical moments?

Thompson scored 8 points in the last 3 minutes, shooting 3 of 4 from the field! It's just that he was unlucky and missed the final lore shot. Such efficiency is still considered insufficient for key shots?

The opponent of the Bucks is the Clippers! Last season's NBA runner-up! One of the best teams in the West! The top team in the Western Conference so far this season?

Although the Bucks, which currently ranks first in the league, have a better record than the Clippers, this is not the reason why you are not satisfied with losing the Clippers by 1 point after losing the main core, right?

Unknowingly, people were stunned to discover that since when did the Bucks vaguely have the invincible shadow of the Wizards.

Although the Bucks have lost a lot of games this season, and the games they won are not like the Wizards who often clock out in the fourth quarter of three quarters, but the feeling is surprisingly similar.

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