Is Cole's defense strong?

Actually, it is not. Compared with defensive masters such as Thibodeau, Popovich, and Van Gundy, Cole's defensive coaching ability is much worse.

However, Cole can perfectly fit the defense in the running and bomb style small ball tactics.

This is not simple.

The so-called defensive ability is only relative to the current Wizards.

The season when the Warriors scored 73 wins and 9 losses, the team averaged 114.9 points per game, ranking first in the league, and lost 104.1 points per game, which was at the mid-to-lower level in the league.

If you want to talk about strong defense, the Warriors have not been able to do it. There are still many problems with this team's defense, such as point guard Curry's relatively insufficient defensive ability, serious lack of height in the interior, and poor rebounding protection ability...

However, the huge difference in net difference of 10.8 points per game is by no means a negligible credit.

With an extremely fast offensive rhythm, it is already a rare thing for the Warriors to be able to achieve this level of defense. It is not that simple to break the record of 72 wins and 10 losses set by the Invincible Bulls of the Joe Gang.

Wang Xiao doesn't know if Cole in 2011 can find a balance point to improve defensive efficiency in the team's fast-paced game like in 2014, but it is absolutely necessary to give it a try.

Moreover, in this process, Wang Xiao will also provide some opinions and suggestions from the future Warriors team.

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The preseason ended, and the NBA 2010-2011 regular season was about to begin.

Like in previous years, this year there are 82 games per team, and the schedule is still dense and compact.

The Wizards' first regular season game started on October 28, and the opponent was the Orlando Magic, who was eliminated by the Wizards in the playoffs last season.

This game is the home court of the Magic, and the game has attracted a lot of attention.

After all, in the summer, the Wizards and Magic had six life-and-death battles. Although they did not reach the tiebreak, the process was quite intense.

Many Magic fans hope that the team can avenge their past shame in the new season and report the worries of being eliminated last season's playoffs. The Wizards fans also rushed to Orlando to cheer for the Wizards.

The opening match of these two teams has received a lot of attention, second only to the opening match of the new and old giants of the Heat vs. the Celtics, and the two opening matches of the Lakers vs. the Rockets.

In the eyes of many people, this game will definitely be a battle. Although the Wizards still turned around and eliminated the Magic after Curry was injured last season, it has a lot to do with luck. If the Magic team Carter and Lewis and other outside shooters feel less bad, if Howard was not troubled by fouls in the third game, it might be another story.

Furthermore, the Wizards' strength has not made a breakthrough but declined this season. Although rookies such as Curry and Harden will inevitably grow, it is an indisputable fact that Butler and Jamison's main players are one year older. More importantly, Haywood, the team's inside pillar, has also left the team. Now only Jordan and McGee are supportive. Can they really fight against Howard?

With such suspense, people entered the Magic's home stadium, waiting for the war to begin.

However……

"123:102, the Wizards easily defeated the Magic on the road. I have to say that this is a game without any suspense. Compared with the Wizards' energetic performance, the Magic is like a carriage about to be scrapped, and its speed is simply not comparable to the opponent's Lamborghini..."

From the beginning of this game, it was a completely one-sided situation.

After constantly changing the starting lineup in the preseason, the Wizards' starting lineup has not changed much compared to last season. They are still point guards Curry, point guard Green, small forward Butler, and power forward Jamison. Only the starting center position has changed from Heywood to Jordan Jr.

But this lineup hit the Magic at the beginning.

It is still an extremely fast offensive and defensive transition, and it is still frequent pick-and-roll and three-point shooting tactics from the outside after running. The Wizards' scoring efficiency is amazing.

Four attacks at the beginning, he actually made three three-pointers!

And all three three-pointers were scored by Curry alone!

Score 9 points in 3 minutes!

Curry felt quite frustrated due to a sprained absence last season. He seemed to want to spread all his anger in this game.

The score difference between the game quickly widened to more than 10 points, and as time went by, this situation became even worse!

The audience was a little surprised. Curry's offensive ability seemed to have been further improved compared to last season, but it did not make the Magic team unable to fight back!

However, people who know more about the ball, including the coaches on the court, understand what's going on.

Van Gundy sighed helplessly.

The beginning of the new season means that Carter, Lewis and others are one year older...

Carter is about to reach 34 years old, and Lewis is about to be 32 years old.

There are many people who can still play peak data at this age. For example, Jordan can still score a very high score of 28.7 points per game at the age of 36.

But Carter and Lewis are obviously not Jordan. After they were over 30 years old, their physical fitness declined considerably due to injuries when they were young.

When facing the Wizards' fast-paced offensive and defensive transformation, they were able to keep up with the pace at the beginning, but as the game went on, it gradually became difficult to keep up with the Wizards players who were running crazy.

In fact, there are also situations in the Wizards, Jamison is one year older than Carter.

However, when Jamison was ineffective, the Wizards could always replace him as soon as possible, bring Butler to the power forward position or directly top the first-year rookie rookie Paul George.

In this way, the Magic fell into a passive state.

In this process, the most aggrieved person was undoubtedly Howard.

In the small ball storm where attack and defense are frequent conversions, the one who feels most helpless is a traditional center like him.

He kept running back and forth, and often he didn't even have the chance to touch the ball, just like a blue-collar worker who grabbed rebounds and defended the ball.

In fact, the Wizards center Jordan Jr.'s job is the same, but how could Howard, who has already taken on the title of the league's number one center, be compared with a rookie center who has just started the team?

Howard originally wanted to relied on his excellent rebounding ability to grab rebounds in the Wizards' interior for a second offense.

However, Jordan's ability to get a spot and rebound was unexpectedly good, and he was not inferior to Heywood in the playoffs last season, and even better.
Chapter completed!