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Chapter 379 Ending the losing streak

The Bucks' current lineup has quite a few problems, which is inevitable. If each team can strengthen their team just right and achieve perfection, then each team will become a favorite to win the championship.

The Kings are obviously not a favorite to win the championship, so this team also has obvious flaws.

The Kings' starting lineups are point guards: Darren Collison, shooting guards: James Harden, small forwards: Derek Williams, power forwards: Jason Thompson, center: DeMarcus Cousins.

Except for Harden and Cousins, everyone else is just ordinary role players. While their offensive abilities are poor, their defense is not strong.

The Kings were ranked fifth in the West last season, almost entirely because of Harden who grew up early.

The Kings' tactics are also very simple. After everyone pulled away, Harden's singles with the ball and the pick-and-roll passes and cuts between Harden and Cousins.

How to say it, there is a little bit of the Rockets' magic ball style to play in the future, but it does not have the Rockets' magic three-pointer firepower and bench depth.

This situation became more and more obvious after the start of the second quarter.

When Harden left the court, the Kings obviously seemed to be a little unaware of playing. On the contrary, Antetokounmpo, who had been playing soybean in the first quarter, finally started to touch the ball.

If we only talk about the lethality of breakthroughs, Antetokounmpo is much stronger than Oladipo.

Compared with the two, Oladipo may be a Maserati supercar, while Antetokounmpo is a professional F1 racing car.

Almost easy, Antetokounmpo tear the defense line organized by the Kings to pieces.

The score, which was originally evenly matched, instantly opened the gap. In just two minutes, Antetokounmpo forced himself into the inside three consecutive times, and established a score advantage of more than ten.

The head coach of the Kings was startled and quickly called out a timeout, looking at Antetokounmpo in surprise.

He had watched the video of Antetokounmpo's game before. The young man's height and wingspan were very exaggerated, just like a Greek version of Durant, but in fact he was not good at mid- and long-distance shooting that Durant was proficient in, and his skills were very rough.

You can see the child's talent, but it is still hard to say when he will realize his talent into strength.

But what Antetokounmpo shows on the field is already quite dangerous!

"Giannis, it's a good job."

The corners of his mouth curled up slightly, and Wang Xiao said to Antetokounmpo who came off the court because of the pause.

In terms of the hard work of training, Antetokounmpo may not be as good as Oladipo, but he is definitely not a type of inadequate training or lazy training. The training tasks assigned by Wang Xiao can be completed perfectly every time.

In terms of talent, the entire Bucks may only be able to play Embiid, who cannot play, can barely stand shoulder to shoulder with Antetokounmpo.

With the bonus of the training module, Antetokounmpo's daily progress is quite terrifying!

Wang Xiao estimated that by the middle of the season, other teams in the league could also experience how terrifying it would be for a Greek monster 2.11 meters tall to hit the basket like James.

With the wave of offensive brought by Antetokounmpo, the Bucks maintained their lead until the break, and even Harden failed to equalize or overtake the score after appearing.

In the third quarter, both sides seemed to have returned to the mode of two defenders' explosions. This time, Harden first hit the basket and scored 2+1, and then he used his teammate's pick-and-roll three-pointer to shoot from the outside, scoring 6 points in a row to quickly narrow the gap.

But Oladipo is also not to be outdone. Oladipo, who broke through the inside in turn, did not successfully score the ball, but created two consecutive fouls in the Kings' inside line, made 4 of 4 free throws and scored 4 points.

Although he was slightly inferior to Harden in terms of scoring, Oladipo's two fouls were all given to Cousins. Cousins, who had four fouls, had to leave the field and avoid the front line for the time being.

But in this way, the Kings only had Harden a stable scoring point, and without Cousins's effect as a stabilizing needle in the interior, the Kings' already poor defense became more loopholes.

In another world, Cousins ​​has never been selected into the best defensive team until he has no ball to play. Because of his impulsive and irritable temper, he has never been considered an inside player who is good at defending.

However, at this stage, the Kings, the center forward with strong offense and weak defense is also the pillar of the Kings' fragile defense line in the interior.

Now that the pillar collapses, it means that the Kings collapses across the board.

In the third quarter, Harden scored 16 points in a single quarter, but the Kings lost 8 points in a single quarter.

There was a 10-point difference during the intermission, but now the difference has not only not narrowed, but is about to expand to more than 20 points!

In the last quarter, the Kings tried to catch up with points under Harden but failed.

When Harden missed three consecutive outside shots, the Kings began to replace the main lineup one after another and gave up in advance.

...

In the end, the Bucks won the game 102:85, ending their three-game losing streak.

The highest score in the whole game was the Kings' core James Harden. He made 14 goals in 26 shots in the game, with a shooting percentage of 53.8%, 4 of 12 three-pointers and 14 of 17 free throws, scoring 46 points, 11 assists and 8 rebounds in a quasi-triple double-digit data.

Although he lost the game, Harden did not lose. Such luxurious data made the media amazed again. Harden is worthy of being a rising star among the shooting guards and is charging and challenging his predecessors one step closer.

On the other hand, Oladipo of the Bucks is the biggest winner of this game.

After 36 minutes of the game, Oladipo, who faced Harden almost all the way, made 11 goals in the whole game, made 1 of 4 three-pointers, and 6 of 7 free throws, scoring the second highest 31 points in the game!

Such wonderful and efficient performance surprised the entire league.

Does Oladipo actually have such skills?

And the next moment, a large amount of eyes could not help but focus on Wang Xiao.

This kind of thing may be a bit incredible to others, but it seems that there is no big deal for this guy Wang Xiao.

What is Wang Xiao best at? Turning stones into gold!

Almost all players he values ​​have outstanding features.

This can also be seen from Harden's current performance against Oladipo.

When he was in the Wizards, Wang Xiao held a No. 1 pick, but Wang Xiao was not interested in the No. 1 pick at all, and directly used the No. 1 pick as a bargaining chip to trade the No. 1 pick and Jordan Jr. from the Clippers.

As a result, Wang Xiao's choice was the best option. Jordan Jr. has now become one of the best inside defense players in the league, and Harden has a tendency to become the league's number one point guard.
Chapter completed!
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