In the past two years, there has not been much controversy as to who is the strongest point guard in the league. Three regular season MVPs and three finals MVPs have made Curry as stable as the number one point guard.

However, everyone with a discerning eye knows that Curry is actually a combo guard. Compared with the point guard who organizes the team, Curry is more like a shooting guard.

Similar to his style, there are Rose, Westbrook and others.

In the true sense, the benchmarks for traditional point guards are Paul, Jeremy Lin, Rondo and others.

Before Jeremy Lin entered the league, Paul was the well-deserved number one traditional point guard. However, when Jeremy Lin entered the league, Paul's status became precarious.

In previous seasons, Jeremy Lin defeated Paul and won the league's assist king and the honor of the best defensive team. It was not until last season that Paul hit his peak data, averaging 22.5 points and 10.2 assists per game, leading the Clippers to the Finals.

Returning the assist king who was monopolized by Jeremy Lin in previous seasons.

As for who has better organizational skills between Paul and Jeremy Lin, fans from both sides have been arguing without an answer. However, as to who has better defensive skills, Paul's fans have to remain silent.

Paul's defense can be regarded as the benchmark for short point guards in recent years. Before Jeremy Lin entered the league, he was always on the All-Defensive Team.

But Jeremy Lin is different from Paul. Jeremy Lin, who is 1.93 meters tall (credited to Kidd's template card), will not be singled out because of the height difference even when facing shooting guards or even some relatively short small forwards on the defensive end.

In terms of physical fitness, Jeremy Lin is even strong enough to stay in the paint and grab rebounds, and at the same time, he can keep up with most guards in the league.

The physical advantages coupled with his excellent defensive awareness allow Jeremy Lin to even compete for the best defensive player.

Compared with Jeremy Lin, Paul's defense is much inferior. Except for a crisp steal, he is basically at a disadvantage in all aspects.

But even so, Paul's defensive ability is still the best among defenders in the league, and when he faced Oladipo, who mainly focused on breakthroughs, his defensive strength was fully revealed!

Oladipo is 1.93 meters tall and has no obvious advantage when facing Paul who is 1.85 meters tall. The experienced and extremely fast Paul can see through Oladipo's moves in an instant and complete the defense in advance. This is

This caused Oladipo's offense to stumble, making constant mistakes, and his rhythm when shooting was completely disrupted, causing him to hit the ball frequently.

In the first half alone, Oladipo made 6 turnovers and made 3 of 12 shots, which directly caused the Bucks to trail the Clippers by nearly 15 points at halftime.

In the second half, Wang Xiao decisively changed his tactics and shifted the main point of attack from Oladipo to Jokic inside.

In the new season, with the outbreak of Antetokounmpo and the arrival of Thompson, Jokic's chances of getting the ball have decreased instead of increasing compared to last season, but this does not mean that Jokic is not good enough.

In fact, in daily training, Wang Xiao still arranged a lot of tactics for Jokic to coordinate the offense inside.

The assistant coaches are still confused about this. After all, the Bucks have more efficient and more lethal tactics, so why should they insist on Jokic's inside attack which is not particularly efficient.

Of course they don't know that Wang Yue's team's matchup between the Raptors and Bucks in the Eastern Conference Finals of the 2019 playoffs is still fresh in their minds.

Under the Raptors' targeted defensive tactics, Antetokounmpo's performance was greatly reduced. At the same time, other Bucks players performed even worse, causing the team to be eliminated.

Antetokounmpo's talent is indeed rare in history, but his poor outside shooting ability is also an indisputable fact. When facing some teams with stronger inside capabilities and deploying targeted zone defenses, his offensive efficiency is inevitable

will be greatly discounted.

At this time, you must start from other aspects.

The first is to strengthen Antetokounmpo's outside shooting ability and allow the inside zone defense to break without attacking.

The second is to arrange more outside shooters to help Antetokounmpo occupy space.

As for the third one, Jokic is the card. A tall center’s ability to support the inside is quite good. The future Nuggets will almost entirely rely on the support provided by Jokic in the inside. This shows his strong ability.

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Of course, the current Jokic cannot compare with the future ace of the Nuggets, but fortunately, the Clippers' internal strength is not strong.

Jordan was abducted by Wang Yue long ago and transferred to the Knicks. At this time, the Clippers inside center was just an ordinary blue-collar player.

When Jokic starts to hold the ball a lot and attack, it is difficult for the blue-collar center to limit Jokic's scoring.

The situation on the court changed, and the Bucks began to slowly catch up with the point difference. With Thompson hitting two consecutive three-pointers, the Bucks successfully caught up and took the lead in the middle of the fourth quarter!

No one expected that without Giannis Antetokounmpo and playing on the road, the Bucks could still have a tough game with the Clippers.

In the last few minutes, the two teams engaged in an extremely difficult offensive and defensive battle.

The Clippers rely on Paul's mid-range shooting to score steadily, while the Bucks rely on Thompson.

At the last moment, Thompson missed an open three-pointer and missed the winning chance, causing the Bucks to lose the game by a narrow margin of 1 point.

After the game, Wang Xiao shook his head in an interview and lamented that the team still lacks a player who can make the final decision at critical moments.

When Wang Xiao said this, the reporters were speechless.

The Bucks played away from home and almost defeated the Clippers without their first core player Antetokounmpo. Why is Wang Xiao still not satisfied?

Missing a player who can make the difference at crucial moments?

Thompson scored 8 points in the last 3 minutes, shooting 3 of 4 from the field! It was just bad luck that he missed the final winning shot. Such efficiency can be considered insufficient for key shots?

The Bucks' opponent is the Clippers! Last season's NBA runner-up! One of the strongest teams in the Western Conference! The team with the best record in the Western Conference so far this season?

Although the Bucks, who currently have the best record in the league, have a better record than the Clippers, this is not the reason why you are not satisfied with losing to the Clippers by 1 point after missing the main core, right?

Unknowingly, people were surprised to find that the Bucks had vaguely resembled the invincible Wizards back then.

Although the Bucks have lost a lot of games this season, and the games they won are not like the Wizards who often clock out in the fourth quarter of three-quarter games, the feeling is surprisingly similar.

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Chapter completed!