Legend of Tomorrow

The Raptors started with 1 win and 9 losses and headed straight for the No. 1 pick.

Since Sam Mitchell became the team's head coach, the Raptors have become a weird offensive team. The team is almost full of offensive players, and the defense is a mess. They average 105 points per game, but the opponent scores more. They won't be beaten for three quarters and enter garbage time, but they can always lose the game by just one move.

The only game the Raptors won was against the Heat, winning 107-94. It's not that the Raptors played well in this game, but that O'Neal was absent and Wade was unable to sing alone.

The Heat started with 5 wins and 5 losses, and were the team that regressed the fastest. After the introduction of Fat Head Antoine Walker, the offense at the 4th position was indeed better, but the overall defense became very poor. It would be a nightmare for both insiders if they don't like to defend pick-and-rolls.

After O'Neal was absent, the Heat could only use Alonzo Mourning as center. The Kidney Warrior was mentally invincible, but he was a blue-collar guy on the court.

In Guo Xu's previous life, the Raptors were a team that didn't resist on the defensive end. It was normal for their opponents to score more than 110 points. In the end, they successfully won the only No. 1 pick in team history, but unfortunately they selected Italian softball insider Bagh. Nani lost a good opportunity to rise. With Bosh already on the team, God knows what the management was thinking, choosing a guy with overlapping positions.

This season, the Raptors also allowed Kobe Bryant to score an incredible 81 points in a single game, and 55 of Kobe's points came in the second half, while mainly playing two-pointers.

This is a miracle. When an opponent's star performs well, most opponents will choose to double-team tightly. It is generally more difficult for stars to score in the second half than in the first half. Double-teaming a low-post player like Kobe is better than outsourcing to the three-point line. Clamping is much easier.

Many years later, ESPN talked about it on a talk show.

ESPN expert Skip Bayless said on the Fit Take program that Kobe's 81 points may be overrated.

ESPN pundit Stephen Smith, who was co-starring with him, retorted: You know what? Skip, I thought you were crazy a lot of the time, and I still think you are crazy now. Anyway, this is the NBA in the new millennium, this is a career Game, I know Sam Mitchell very well, he later won the best coach award, but who could he use to guard Kobe? He has told me many times, he has used every trick, double package Double-teamed by three people, I tried my best to prevent him!

Guo Xu firmly believed that Mitchell could not prevent him even if he tried his best.

It is definitely easier to gain data by playing against a weak team than against a strong team. There is no doubt about this. As for a player's historical status, it is not measured by his average data against strong teams. 99.9% of fans don't have time to check these high-end data.

For example, those high scores in Jordan’s career,

How many games were won against strong teams? How many were obtained by abusing vegetables? Even those who hate Jordan the most would not be so bored as to look up this information to prove that Jordan is overrated. Qiao Mi could slap him in the face with just a few words. Jordan's 10 scoring titles, Jordan's six championship rings, Jordan's five regular season MVPs and six FMVPs.

The same goes for Kobe. My department has two scoring champions, My department has five championship rings, My department has one regular season MVP and two FMVPs. If there are more, it's just a win, My department's 81 points in one game surpassed Jordan's.

It’s so straightforward, who dares to dissent? Statistics and championships are everything.

With the mentality of scoring points, Guo Xu ushered in the challenge of the Raptors at home on the evening of November 22.

TNT radio broadcasted the game live across the United States, but CCTV5 did not broadcast this game live and chose Rockets vs. Mavericks.

When the players were warming up, Barkley smiled and said: I have a feeling that today will be a wonderful offensive battle. Jason Guo can score high points again. The Raptors' defense is very bad.

Smith said: Three players were injured. After Joe Johnson went to the Warriors, the Suns' games became more exciting. Every game had high ratings. The fans came to watch Jason score soaring, and he didn't let it go. People are disappointed.”

Guo Xu practiced for three points in the morning to get a feel for it, and he felt very good during the warm-up.

After three years of hard training in the time loop, Guo Xu's shooting has improved a lot. Now he rarely has inaccurate shots. He is only accurate in 5 or 6 games, which is different from the previous jerky shooters.

Suns Five: Payton, Guo Xu, Howard, David Lee, Varejao.

Raptors five: Mike James, Maurice Peterson, Jaylen Rose, Chris Bosh, Rafael Aruyu.

Varejao won the jump ball and the game was on.

Payton passed the ball to Guo Xu across half court, and the players pulled away, allowing Guo Xu to hold the ball in singles.

The Raptors coaching staff does not pay attention to defense. Guo Xu has already scored 101 points. Mitchell had no intention of arranging a double-team at the beginning and let the point guard defend alone.

Guo Xu played an easy single on the right side, dribbling the ball from his crotch to his left hand, taking a step-back jumper with his left foot and shooting a three-pointer. James was afraid that he would break through, so he took a small step back, then jumped forward too slowly to block the shot, and the ball went hollow into the net. 3 to 0.

The Raptors played a pick-and-roll, and James attracted David Lee to change defense and then distributed the ball to the center. Bosh faced Guo Xu and made a jump shot. 3 to 2.

The Suns attacked, Payton passed halftime and passed to Guo Xu, but the Raptors still did not double-team.

Guo Xu dribbled the ball to the right, passed James who was closer, and made an emergency stop to score. 5 to 2.

When James attacked, Guo Xu deliberately let him go two steps away, and then he started to let go and didn't take the Raptors seriously.

James easily made a three-point jumper from the middle and returned one. 5 to 5.

When the Suns attacked, Guo Xu caught the ball in the midfield and found that James had retreated to the three-point line and was waiting for him, with no intention of coming up to press him. Guo Xu made a shot from two meters outside the three-point line in the middle. There was no interference at all and he scored again. 8 to 5.

Guo Xu has already figured out this guy's defensive ability. No wonder Jeff Van Gundy looked down on him.

Mike James, who is 188cm tall and weighs 85kg, is a point guard with strong offense and weak defense. He graduated from college in 1998 and failed to enter the NBA. After that, he played in foreign leagues for several years until he joined the Heat on a short contract in early 2002 and entered the NBA stage.

James has changed teams so far. On the offensive end, he is excellent in shooting and breakthrough. He frequently changes teams because his defense is too bad. Moreover, his playing style is very unique and he always regards himself as a star.

Guo Xu didn't pay attention when he defended. Seeing James trying his best to fight back, he remembered a joke from his previous life.

Many years after retiring, James was interviewed by reporters and commented on Kobe's 81-point game.

In that game, I thought we could have done some things differently, and some people were blown away by the pace that Kobe was playing, and my focus was trying to win that game. I remember in the third quarter I said to Sam Mitchell, 'Let me guard Kobe.' He looked at me and said, 'I don't want you to get in foul trouble.'

James paused and sighed: My thought at the time was, 'This guy has already scored 50 points in three quarters, and you are worried that I am in foul trouble?'

This sounds like as long as James is on defense, Kobe will be able to score fewer points. Unfortunately, the coach is afraid that he can't control the fouls and wants to win, so he doesn't let him defend. The coach is a fool.

In fact, this guy can't guard most point guards, let alone mismatching and limiting Kobe.

He is just a scumbag. In his previous life, he had 20.3 points and 5.8 assists with the Raptors in the 2005-06 season. The Raptors were unwilling to renew his contract, and then he joined the Timberwolves for 23 million in four years.

Guo Xu found it funny. With James' defensive strength, if no one from the Raptors came up to double-team, he felt that he could challenge for 100 points today...