Chapter 76: Three-game losing streak

Losing away to the Mavericks is not unacceptable for the Wizards. This is a strong team that has maintained more than 50 regular season wins since 2001, and it is still in the more competitive West.
However, in this game, Wang Xiao's stubbornness made Curry stay on the court and was still dissatisfied by many people.
"As a team's head coach, this guy has no flexibility to understand at all. It is clear that Curry is extremely inefficient under Kidd's defense, but still stubbornly let Curry lead the court."
"He is such a coach. At Harvard, the team's main force was only Lin Shuhao Plaine, a few rotations."
"I hope he can summarize the reasons for the defeat after the game and make some new changes in the next game."
Obviously, these people's expectations are falling short.
The Wizards' second game is still an away game. They flew to Atlanta to challenge the Eagles away.
Compared to the Mavericks, the Hawks are obviously better. Although the Hawks also have all-star players like Joe Johnson and Josh Smith and Al Horford, the team is still relatively young.
Logically speaking, in this game, the Wizards fighting away should have the power to fight.
But the result is completely one-sided.
From the beginning of the game, the Wizards were in a backward position. The whole game has been chasing points constantly, and eventually lost the game by 106:109.
In this game, Curry is still starting, 35 minutes into the game, 7 of 22 shots, 2 of 11 three-pointers, although scored 20+ points, but the efficiency is still too low.
People couldn't understand why Wang Xiao insisted on putting him on the field when Curry's scoring efficiency was so low.
At the same time, some professional basketball analysts found that the problem wasn't just for Curry alone, the Wizards team had problems.
In these two games, the first Wizards team made 37 three-pointers, only 11 goals were hit, and the shooting rate was 29.7%.
In the second game against the Hawks, the Wizards actually intensified, throwing a total of 40 three-pointers, hitting 13 goals, although the shooting rate increased from 29.7% to 32.5%, but this level is still not enough for the team to win.
What is going on with the Wizards? Is Wang Xiao crazy?
This is already Wang Xiao being questioned whether he is crazy more than once, because every time his behavior seems inexplicable to people nowadays.
It's like giving up Oden for Durant and trading Arenas at this year's draft.
No one understands, what exactly do crazy three-pointers want to do?
"What exactly does Wang Xiao want the Wizards to do? Do you want to use a three-pointer to win? I have to say that Wang Xiao's idea is really empty. If I want the team to win, I can give him some advice. Do a good job of the team's defense. The Wizards' defense is a mess. It's extremely bad."
This is what a basketball commentator said in an interview.
In today's league, it is generally recognized that defense can win the game.
Even if Nash and the Suns were born, the running tactics appeared in the eyes of the people, but this concept has not been reversed.
In the two years when the Suns were the strongest, the regular season was almost invincible, but what about the playoffs?
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The best result is only the Western Finals, and has not scored in a final.
This is still the case for the Suns, not to mention a lineup of inexplicable wizards?
And even in the Suns' running tactics, three-pointers accounted for just over 20% of the shots. Wherever the Wizards are now, almost half of a game's shots come from three-pointers.
Can't keep up with the defensive strength, always floating three-pointers on the perimeter, it is strange not to lose
After the two regular season games, whenever Wang Xiao and the Wizards were mentioned, people shook their heads.
"If Wang Xiao does not adjust the team's tactics and strengthen the defense as soon as possible, it is estimated that his time in the position of the Wizards' head coach should also enter the countdown."
The only thing that determines the career of a coach is performance.
Last season, the Wizards changed two consecutive coaches.
Opening 11 games and 10 losses allowed Eddie Jordan to be swept out, and Ed Tapscott, who succeeded him, did not improve the Wizards' record, so he was fired after the season.
Now Wang Xiao is shouldering the important task of reinvigorating the Wizards to sit on the team's head coach position. In a summer time, Wang Xiao did a lot of things, traded the top pick, and traded the team's core ace Ali Nas.
If it is not possible to achieve satisfactory results in the new season, Wang Xiao will have to follow in the footsteps of the previous two terms. The question is how long to leave.
In this case, the Wizards lost their third regular season game against the Nets.
The first two games are against the strong teams in the league, or the away game, the loss can be tolerated, but this time the opponent is the Nets! Kidd left the team last season, only Carter led the Nets in the bottom of the Eastern Conference record fifth, and this season even Carter also left, the Nets completely turned into a bottom team. Since the start of the new season, the basket The Nets and the Wizards are two consecutive losses, but after the Wizards, the Nets actually won!
This time, almost all the Wizard Ball "fans" have exploded!
Many football fans began to gather in front of the Wizards’ stadium as they did during the draft conference, and asked Wang Xiao to leave get out of class.
"We don't need a Chinese coach, he doesn't understand anything at all!"
"Let Wang Xiao get out! We want to win! Don't lose!"
The three-game losing streak at the start was lost to a team that was not optimistic about all media. It is expected that this season's record will be the bottom of the league. Wang Xiao has been pushed to the forefront.
Just open a sports TV station, you can see the topic discussion about the Wizards coach Wang Xiao, and basically all kinds of derogations, to discuss what the Wizards boss eats the wrong "medicine" Choose to make Wang Xiao the head coach of the team.
Arenas, who was personally traded to the Timberwolves by Wang Xiao, also made public remarks.
"I think there is a huge gap between Asian coaches such as Wang Xiao and the coaches in the United States. Although he has made great achievements in ncaa, those achievements are inseparable from Jeremy Lin, Plain and Dunn. The young man with the potential, he does not have the magical coaching ability that people imagine, but just an ordinary person with a disreputable name."
After the start of the new season, Arenas made his perfect debut in the Timberwolves.
The first game scored 29 points and 9 assists, the second game 23 points and 4 assists, the third game 25 points and 3 assists.
At the end of the three regular seasons, Arenas averaged 25.7 points and 5 assists per game. The state of the game has not declined due to two seasons of injury. The Timberwolves’ general manager Le’s mouth closed, while the Wizards’ The ball "fans" became more and more angry when they saw Arenas' wonderful performance.
"Arenas was on our side! They all blamed the bastard! The Wizards were messed up by him!"