Chapter 337: Lessons from the past
Wang Xiao's characteristic of accurate vision is fully reflected in the three Chinese teenagers.
Jack knew this better than anyone else. He had been an assistant coach or even a scout before becoming a Harvard school team. Because of this, when Cheng Jie and Wang Meng came to Harvard, it took him only two days to see that the talents of these two teenagers should be very bad, and they even did not meet the minimum standards of NBA professional players.
However, a month later, Jack was shocked and the two boys who seemed to have no potential showed an almost terrifying speed of progress, and it seemed that there was no upper limit at all.
Now, these two people are basically at the NBA starting level and are still improving.
And this may be the reason why Wang Xiao selected these people from so many people in China.
Jack still can't figure out how Wang Xiao's magical vision was refined.
Now, although the three of them are still unable to participate in the draft due to their age, Cheng Jie and Wang Meng are already candidates for lottery picks. Hao Peng, no matter in the next few years, will be the No. 1 pick without any suspense.
In more than two years, Wang Xiao has trained three strong players for China, and his efficiency is simply terrifying...
Of course, Jack didn't know that Wang Xiao was a time traveler and had a plug-in, and had growth template cards that turned decay into magical things. Even if Wang Xiao told the truth, these things would be regarded as crazy.
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As time entered April, the final sprint of the NBA regular season had quietly begun.
At this time of year, teams with record rankings of nine to ten in the east and west will try their best to enter the top eight to advance into the playoffs, and teams with number eight will do their best to maintain their playoff position.
This year is no exception.
The eighth-ranked Charlotte Bobcats, who ranked eighth in the East, have very close records with the ninth-ranked Atlanta Hawks and tenth-ranked Philadelphia 76ers, with only one win-win situation. As long as the Bobcats lose two more games and the Hawks or 76ers win the game, the Bobcats will fall out of the top eight.
The same is true in the West, with the eighth-ranked Grizzlies fighting to the ninth-ranked Mavericks and the tenth-ranked Suns.
This kind of game that determines life and death is naturally very intense and exciting, but it has nothing particularly to do with the top teams.
This season, the teams ranked high in the east and west have a big gap in record performance, and the intensity of the competition for the playoffs is much less intense. The only one who tightens the strings and dares not relax at all is the Washington Wizards.
They only have 7 games left to break the Bulls' record of 72 wins!
No team is willing to watch the Wizards reach the altar of breaking records, because while the Wizards break the record, it also means that the other 29 teams are nailed to the pillar of shame in history. Just like the Bulls who won 72 years ago, the Wizards' victory was bloody footprints every step, stepping on countless corpses before walking up.
And the remaining 29 teams in the league are these corpses that act as stepping stones!
Therefore, even if the team that has already reached the bottom of the league's record and goes straight to the lottery zone, it is extremely hard to refuse to give in when facing the Wizards.
This made the Wizards extremely difficult in the subsequent games.
On April 2, Qi played away against the Celtics.
This season, the Celtics general manager Angie risked being pirated by countless fans to package Pierce and Garnett for trading. Rondo, the only remaining All-Star player on the team, was reimbursed for injury season. The Celtics officially entered the reconstruction stage, with only 23 wins in the regular season as of April, ranking third from the bottom in the East.
It should be difficult for such a team to pose a threat to the Wizards, but in fact, the Wizards play very hard.
Led by the new Celtics head coach and young coach Stevens, the Celtics, which is at the bottom of the league, has caused great trouble to the Wizards.
Although it was just his first season in coaching the Celtics, Stevens has already vaguely incorporated the team defense that the Celtics relied on to survive in the next few years into the game.
Of course, this is just secondary. The Celtics are far from the iron-blooded defense of the Celtics in the next few years.
The Wizards' defense is partly due to the difficulty of the Celtics' defense, and partly partly because of the Wizards.
Breaking the Bulls' 72 win record is the goal set by the team at the beginning of the season, and for a whole season, the entire Wizards team was also striving for this goal.
A lot of things have happened in the past few months, and the biggest impact is George's season reimbursement.
It was precisely because of the lack of George that the Wizards had a difficult time in the second half of the game, so that by early April, the team had lost 8 games.
You can only lose one game in the whole April. Even if you lose one more game, the NBA's best record in regular season will have to be shared with other teams, and you may even lose the shared qualifications.
The huge pressure made the Wizards players look a little nervous during the game.
Experience has always been a problem with the Wizards.
As a team, the average age of the Wizards is 25 years old, and they are still too young.
This is not the Warriors who can almost be considered late for the 2015-16 season, but the Wizards who are still undergoing renewal and blood changes after being formed in the summer of 2009.
In terms of stress resistance, this team does have hidden dangers.
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In the game against the Celtics, the Wizards finally won the game without any danger, but the score difference between the two teams was extremely close, which made the Wizards sweat.
This is only the first game in April. If you lose this game directly, the Wizards, who have accumulated 9 losses, will have no way out.
Although Wang Xiao was vaguely worried about the pressure on the Wizards players, he was not very worried.
After all, this situation has not happened for the first time. At Wang Xiao’s suggestion, the Wizards have specially hired a psychiatrist who regularly provides psychological stress relief for players.
After this game, Wang Xiao thought about asking the players to go there again, at least to solve the mentality problem before the regular season.
In addition, Wang Xiao had to pay special attention to another aspect of the problem.
The Warriors broke the record of 73 wins and 9 losses in the 15-16 season, and were in the limelight for a while, but in the playoffs they made James. With a 3-1 lead, they were the Cavaliers and won three consecutive games and became the runner-up in the 73-win total.
The Warriors played in the entire playoffs and were almost overturned by the Thunder in the Western Conference Finals.
Chapter completed!