George gave him a headache at the beginning. His candy defense, his offensive ability to ignore, and his fighting spirit that never admits defeat made James feel very uncomfortable.

Although James is often the one who has the upper hand in the matchup between the two, and he can stabilize George in both the process and the final data, the final victory of the game is often won by the Wizards.

Because he is already the most capable one among the Heat, but George is not the Wizards' ace...

Now, George is no longer in the match against him, and he is replaced by Leonard.

This second-year rookie has a worse offensive ability than George, but his defensive ability is nothing.

Better physical fitness, longer wingspan and faster growth rate than George made Leonard ruthlessly beaten by James in the playoffs last season, but by the end of this season, his defensive ability has risen by more than one level!

This is just a second-grade rookie!!!

...

On the sidelines, Wang Xiao smiled slightly satisfied with his smile at James, who was frustrated by Leonard.

Leonard's progress made him feel very pleased. Although he was not very good at personal data, with his full training bonus at all costs, Leonard's strength has improved amazingly. Now it is probably no less than the level of another 13-14 season in the 13-14 season.

You should know that during that period, Leonard won the MVP in the finals with the contribution of defending James in the finals, thus starting his journey to becoming a superstar!

With such a Leonard guarding the whole process, James can stand it!

Leonard's mission is to keep a guard against James throughout the whole process. He doesn't need to worry about the offense. The Wizards have never lacked offensive firepower points.

...

After George opened fire at the beginning, the second one to take over the fire was Klay Thompson.

In order to limit Curry's performance, the Heat have asked Wade to mark Curry as always, and Chalmos to mark Thompson.

This kind of scene has happened not once or twice, and Thompson has already become familiar with it, and Chalmos' defense seems to be useless in front of him.

He left the baseline and ran to the basket, and easily opened up some open spaces through the pick-and-roll in the inside. Thompson took the ball and turned over and made a jump shot. The basketball easily entered the net without any obstacles at all.

On the court, the Wizards once again took the initiative. Compared with the Wizards who have many offensive points and can attack from any position, the Heat's offense is extremely blocked.

Under the control of three defensive vanguards, Leonard, Thompson and George, the Heat's tactics are extremely difficult to implement. They basically cannot get rid of their respective defenders. Even if they rely on pick-and-roll to separate the defenders, the Wizards' speed of switching defenses is so fast that the Heat have no time to execute the tactics.

In addition to stealing or fast breaks that are so strong that they are defensive rebounding, the only way for the Heat to maintain offensive efficiency is to keep players playing singles continuously.

James, Wade, Bosh and others took turns to attack, relying on their personal abilities to attack. However, such offensive efficiency is not high. After all, the three of them faced the Wizards' players with the strongest defensive ability.

At the end of the first quarter, the Wizards led by 9 points with 33:24.

This result made the Wizards fans happy.

"So what if you win 27? It's different, isn't our opponent?"

"What a bullshit 27 wins, it's just that I didn't meet the Wizards. If I had met us earlier, they wouldn't have won even ten consecutive victories!"

The Heat's winning streak after the All-Star Weekend made it catch up with the Wizards on the record list. Although the Wizards maintained a high winning rate as always, they lost many games that shouldn't have lost due to frequent resting in the rotation of Curry and other players, which gradually narrowed the gap in the record between the two teams.

Before this game started, the Wizards' record was 65 wins and 13 losses, while the Heat had 63 wins and 15 losses, with only 2 games in the victory. If the Wizards lose to the Heat in this game, the gap between the two sides will be further shortened, and the Heat even threatens the Wizards' first place in the East.

Now judging from the situation in the first quarter, your uncle is still your uncle. Even if he wins the second-ranked 27th consecutive victory in the league history, the Heat are still at a disadvantage when they face the Wizards.

...

In the second quarter, the Heat's lineup made another adjustment. They replaced Chalmos and let Ray Allen play in advance.

On the one hand, this arrangement is to strengthen the outside firepower and help James and others to better pull space. On the other hand, although Ray Allen is older and has declined in defensive ability, he is much stronger than Chalmos. If he defends Thompson, he can more or less curb Thompson's offensive rhythm.

This adjustment effect is indeed very good, but in Wang Xiao's opinion, it is just a drinking poison to quench his thirst.

Ray Allen's appearance early means that when the substitute lineup comes on, the Heat lacks the main scoring points.

Originally, the Heat's substitute lineup was far inferior to the Wizards, but now there is no Thunder. Allen's firepower support, and his offensive ability has been reduced by a level.

And even if Ray Allen appeared early, the Heat could only maintain a 50-5 tie with the Wizards on the scene.

...

It was similar to what Wang Xiao expected. As the main players came off the court one after another, the substitute players came on the court, and the situation of the 55-5 opening was immediately broken.

The condition of players such as Jamison, Chandler Parsons and Jimmy Butler is really good. The Heat's aging substitute lineup is not an opponent at all.

The overly one-sided situation forced the Heat to let James appear in advance to maintain the situation.

However, as soon as James came on the court, the opponent he faced changed from Leonard to Drummond Green.

Green's current defensive ability is naturally not comparable to Leonard, George and others, but he will also be a player who has won the best defensive player in the future. He has become a tough defensive player who has never missed the best defensive lineup since the 14-15 season.

Even though Green's defensive style makes many people hate it, he does everything he wants to limit his opponents, but as a player, there is no doubt that Green is the kind of player that coaches like very much.

At this moment, Wang Xiao felt that James must have collapsed.

In fact, it was the same, James was almost crazy.

After two simple collisions, James found that although Green's defensive ability is much worse than Leonard, he is also a very difficult opponent! And compared to Leonard, this guy's defensive style is much dirty.

During just a breakthrough with the ball, Green secretly elbowed him!

Can you stop playing like this? I just want to play well!
Chapter completed!