Chapter 337: Leonard VS Durant

The trade of Jordan for Tyson Chandler is a loss for many people.
One is a young man who is only 25 years old, has excellent defensive ability, abnormal physical fitness, and has great potential to be tapped in the future. The other is a 32-year-old veteran whose career has begun to decline, even if there is a first-round draft. The right as compensation is not cost-effective.
With the strength of the Knicks on the books, Anthony + Deron + Stoudemire + Little Jordan can barely be counted as a small big four combination, even if there is no good chemical reaction, only relying on the singles of the star, The Knicks' record is not too bad in the East.
At present, the Knicks are ranked fifth in the East, although not high, but the draft picks can not meet the requirements of the lottery.
This year's excellent centers have been extremely scarce. Jordan, McKee, Whiteside, and others all received tens of millions of annual salary. It is completely a situation where there is no market. How many teams will send potential centers?
It can be seen that the Blazers are really intolerable to Little Jordan.
In fact, although the shark-cutting tactics worked well for Little Jordan, they did not reach the point where the Blazers did so.
After all, Jordan’s free throws are not allowed, but his defensive ability cannot be ignored. When he is on the court, he often limits the opponent’s scoring efficiency to lower than his own free throws.
This is why in another time and space he will become a piece of fragrant steamed buns, and was also madly snatched by the Clippers and Mavericks.
However, when facing the Wizards, Jordan's defense was greatly weakened.
The Wizards have too many "shooters". Most of the offenses are launched from the outside. This makes Jordan's defensive ability limited to a great extent. After all, his physical fitness is good, and it is impossible to change The defensive range covers the outside.
Every time when facing the Wizards, Jordan became a breakthrough for the Wizards, leaving the Blazers without any counterattack.
The tragic sweep of the finals of the previous two seasons has fully explained the problem.
The Trail Blazers with Little Jordan may be able to dominate the West, and even the Spurs can suppress, but it is definitely not the Wizards' opponent.
It can be said that the management of the Trail Blazers has already invested the blood for the championship, at the expense of the future in exchange for the present.
This is somewhat ironic, because their biggest opponent, Wizards coach Wang Xiao, was swept out by them.
Who can think of it? A few years later, relying on Wang Xiao's draft, the Blazers reached the finals for two consecutive years.
Who can think of it? It was also because of Wang Xiao that the Blazers' two finals experiences were nightmares.
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When Jordan replaced Chandler, he did have the feeling of spending the future for the present, but this behavior really took effect.
Chandler is not Jordan, and he prefers to get stuck in the right position instead of jumping up and blocking his opponent. Properly reaching out to interfere with his vision makes the opponent lose his shooting feeling.
Such a defense looks naturally soft, far less than the blood from the opponents of the little Jordan fan, but the efficiency of the defense is better.
Of course, this slight improvement in defensive efficiency is not the point. The point is that when Durant, who is the top scorer in history, started to sprint, the Wizards could no longer use the shark-cutting tactic to fight his offense. Rhythm!
Durant seems to be a scoring machine, constantly attacking, scoring constantly. Although Leonard is very defensive, he still can't stop the opponent's scoring.
This is quite normal. Even the most outstanding defensive player in the history of the league, it is absolutely impossible to successfully limit a super scorer every time. After all, defense is offensive, it is originally on the passive side. Wait until the opponent takes action before making a judgment.
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The worse situation for the Wizards is that in this game, in the face of Matthews, who is known for his defense, Thompson has never been able to find a state, and the offensive efficiency is extremely low. The entire Wizards team is only supported by Curry’s score, but Ku The three-pointers here haven't opened up yet, and the three-point shooting percentage has been barely maintained at around 35%.
Relying on the replacement lineup with more "color", the Wizards are only slightly inferior, the points difference has not opened the gap.
But Wang Xiao didn't dare to let Curry stay on the court for a long time.
George has been injured. If he is folding a Curry, the Wizards will not have to play. What breaks the 72-win record, and what three consecutive defending titles will become a bubble.
Even after George was injured, Wang Xiao still strictly controlled Curry's playing time.
"Kaihuai, whether the team can continue to win or not depends on you!"
This is the best time for Leonard to take over the attack!
Although Durant is a historical scorer, but in terms of defense, it is not particularly outstanding.
After playing in the league for many years, Durant has won countless honors, scoring champion, best lineup, and even the regular season mvp finals mvp is also not bad, but throughout his career, he has never been selected as the best defensive lineup. Not even once.
Despite having a height of more than 2 meters and 10 meters, a wingspan is also few in the league. The defensive area is too large, but he is so thin that when facing most small forwards in the same position, his The power is out of the wind.
As a "shooter", when attacking, the gap in strength is not a problem, but when defending, lack of strength is a very troublesome thing.
In another time and space, Durant competed with James for many years, but he rarely went to defend James directly. In the Thunder, the main defender was Ibaka, and in the Warriors, Green and Iguodala. Taking turns, because with the power of James, Durant can easily knock Durant upside down.
Leonard's presence as a monoclonal antibody is naturally very hard, and it is the best opportunity to build confidence in Durant!
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After a brief timeout, players from both sides came on stage. The Wizards have replaced Curry on the side, while the Blazers Durant is still on the field.
Unlike Wang Xiao's careful use of Curry, the Blazers' Durant has averaged more than 36 minutes per game.
In fact, this is the treatment that superstar players should have.
Stars like James, Kobe, Anthony, Durant and others have averaged more than 36 minutes per game. When they are young and powerful, they have averaged more than 38 minutes per game in a season.
A star like Curry who only averages 30 minutes per game is a different kind of player.
But after this debut, Durant unexpectedly found that Leonard standing in front of him actually held the ball to attack.
This made Durant a little surprised.
Leonard's defense gave him fresh memories. After all, there are few players like Leonard who make him feel awkward and uncomfortable.
But in the past two years, the two have faced dozens of times, but Durant has almost no Leonard to defend the ball like this.
This guy seems to only be able to play fast breaks and catch shots from outside vacancies.
Now, he has to play the ball alone!