Chapter 418:

Over the past two years, there hasn't been much controversy about who is the strongest point guard in the league. Three regular season mvp and three finals mvp made Curry stable as the first point guard.
However, people with good eyes know that Curry is actually a combo guard. Compared to the point guard who organized the team, Curry is more like a shooting guard.
Similar to his style, there are Rose, Westbrook and others.
The real benchmarks for traditional point guards are Paul, Jeremy Lin and Rondo.
Before Jeremy Lin entered the league, Paul was a well-deserved traditional point guard, but when Jeremy Lin entered the league, Paul's status was in jeopardy.
In the past few seasons, Jeremy Lin has defeated Paul, won the league assists and the best defense honors, until last season, Paul played peak data, averaging 22.5 points and 10.2 assists, led the Clippers to the finals, this is The assist king who was monopolized by Jeremy Lin in the previous seasons was recaptured.
With regard to Paul and Jeremy Lin who has better organization ability, there is no answer to the debate between the two fans, but on the two sides who have better defensive ability, Paul's fans have to be silent.
Paul's defense can already be regarded as a benchmark for short point guards in recent years. Before Jeremy Lin entered the league, he has always been the best defensive lineup for a while.
However, Jeremy Lin is not the same as Paul. Jeremy Lin, who is 1.93 meters tall (a credit to Kidd's template card), won't be singled out for height differences even on the defensive end, even against shooting guards or even small small forwards.
In terms of physical fitness, Jeremy Lin is even strong enough to grab rebounds on the inside card, and at the same time can keep up with most of the league's guards.
The physical advantage coupled with its very good defensive consciousness makes Jeremy Lin even have the capital to compete for the best defensive player.
Compared with Jeremy Lin, Paul's defense will be much worse, except for a neat steal in one hand.
But even so, Paul's defensive ability is still the top of the league's guards, and when he faces Oladipo with a breakthrough, his defensive strengths are revealed.
Oladipo is 1.93 meters tall and has no obvious advantage when facing Paul at 1.85 meters. Experienced and extremely fast Paul can instantly see through Oladipo's moves and complete defense in advance. So that Oladipo's offensive stumbling, continuous mistakes, the rhythm of shooting is completely "chaotic", frequently hitting iron.
In the first half alone, Oladipo had six turnovers and made 3 of 12 shots, which directly led the Bucks to nearly 15 points behind the Clippers at halftime.
In the second half, Wang Xiao decisively changed his tactics, shifting the main point of attack from Oladipo to the inside of Jokic.
With the outbreak of the letter brother and the arrival of Thompson in the new season, Jokic's chances of getting the right to the ball are not increased but decreased compared to the previous season, but this does not mean that Jokic is not good enough.
In fact, in daily training, Wang Xiao still arranged a large number of Jokic tactics to respond to the attack on the inside.
Assistant coaches are still very puzzled about this. After all, the Bucks have a more efficient and lethal tactics. Why should they stick to Jokic's efficiency is not a particularly high inside attack.
They certainly don't know that the memory of the match between the Raptors and the Bucks in the Eastern Conference Finals of the Wang Yue team in the 2019 playoffs is still fresh.
Under the Raptors' defensive tactics against "sex", the performance of the letter brother was greatly reduced, and the other players of the Bucks played worse, resulting in the team being eliminated.
Atetokounmpo's talent is indeed rare in history, but his poor outside shooting ability is also an indisputable fact. When facing some teams with strong inside ability, he arranged a defense against "sex". The offensive efficiency will inevitably be greatly reduced.
auzw.com And this time, we must start from other aspects.
One is to strengthen the brother's outside shooting ability, so that the inside defense does not attack and break through.
The second is to arrange more outside shooters to help the letter brother pull the space.
As for the third, this is Jokic's card. A tall center has a very good response ability on the inside. The future Nuggets are almost entirely dependent on the support provided by Jokic on the inside. !
The current Jokic is certainly not comparable to the future Nuggets ace, but fortunately the Clippers are not strong inside.
Little Jordan was abducted by Wang Yue, and then transferred to the Knicks. At this time, the Clippers inside center is just an ordinary blue collar.
When Jokic began to hold a lot of ball rights and attacked, it was difficult for blue collar centers to limit Jokic's scoring.
The situation on the court changed and the Bucks began to slowly catch up with the points difference. With Thompson hitting two consecutive three-pointers, the Bucks successfully caught up and overtake the score in the middle of the fourth quarter!
No one expected that the Bucks could still play an indissoluble point with the Clippers without Brother Alphabet and playing away.
In the last few minutes, the two teams had an extremely difficult offensive and defensive battle.
The Clippers rely on Paul's midrange shot to score steadily, while the Bucks rely on Thompson.
At the last moment, Thompson missed the open 3-pointer and missed the chance of a lore, causing the Bucks to lose the game with a slight gap of 1 point.
After the game, Wang Xiao shook his head in an interview and sighed that the team still lacks a player who can be finalized at a critical moment.
And Wang Xiao's words made the reporters unable to talk.
The Bucks played away and nearly defeated the Clippers in the absence of the first core Adetokumbo, so Wang Xiao was not satisfied yet?
Missing a player who has made a final decision at a critical moment?
Thompson scored 8 points in the last 3 minutes and made 3 of 4 shots! It's just that I was out of luck and missed the final lore shot. Such efficiency is actually not enough for the key ball?
The Bucks' opponent is the Clippers! Last year's NBA runner-up! One of the strongest teams in the West! The top team in the Western Conference so far this season?
Although the Bucks with the best record in the league are better than the Clippers, this is not the reason why you are not satisfied with losing the Clippers 1 point after losing the main core?
Unconsciously, people stunned to find out, when did not start, the Bucks vaguely vaguely had the invincible shadow of the Wizards.
Although the Bucks have lost a lot of games this season, and the games won are not as frequent as the Wizards in the fourth quarter of three games, but it feels surprisingly similar.
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