The Raptors started with 1 win and 9 losses and went straight to 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 always attacking players, with a mess of defense, and can average 105 points per game, but the opponent scores more. They will not be beaten to three quarters and enter garbage time, but they can always lose the game with one move.

The only game the Raptors won was against the Heat, 107 to 94. This game was not because the Raptors played well, but because O'Neal was absent and Wade was unable to beat his hand alone.

The Heat started with 5 wins and 5 losses, making it the team that has retreated the fastest. After introducing the "Fat Head" Antoine Walker, the attack at the No. 4 position was indeed better, but the overall defense became very poor. It was a nightmare that neither of the inside players liked to defend against pick-and-roll.

After O'Neal was absent, the Heat could only use Alonzo Mooning to play center. The "Kidney Fighter" was invincible, but he was a blue-collar worker on the court.

In Guo Xu's previous life, the Raptors were a team that did not resist on the defensive end. It was normal for the opponent to score more than 110 points. In the end, they successfully won the only No. 1 pick in the team history. Unfortunately, they chose the Italian softball inside Bagnani and lost the good opportunity to rise. With Bosh already in the team, God knows what the management thinks, and chooses a guy with overlapping positions.

This season, the Raptors also gave Kobe an incredible 81 points in a single game, and Kobe scored 55 points in the second half, under the premise of playing two-pointers.

This is a miracle. When encountering opponents' stars perform well, most opponents will choose to double-team tightly. Stars' scoring in the second half are generally more difficult than in the first half. Double-teaming players like Kobe who play low positions is much easier than going to the three-point line to double-team.

Many years later, ESPN even talked about this in a talk show.

Espn expert Skip Bayless said on the "fit take" show that Kobe's 81 points may be overrated.

Stephen Smith, an espn expert who partnered with him, retorted: "Do you know? Skip, I think you're crazy a lot of times, and now it's the same. Anyway, this is the NBA in the new millennium, this is a professional competition, I know Sam Mitchell very well, and he won the Best Coach Award later, but who could he use to defend Kobe back then? He has told me many times, and he has used all the tricks, double-teams, three-teams, and even if he uses all his methods, he can't defend himself even if he tries his way!"

Guo Xu firmly believed that Mitchell could not defend himself even if he tried his best.

Playing with weak teams is definitely better than playing with strong teams, and there is no doubt about this. As for the historical status of players, it is not measured by the average data of players when facing strong teams. 99.9% of fans have no time to check these high-end data.

For example, how many games did Jordan get in front of a strong team? How many did he get in the abuse of food? Even those who hate Jordan the most would not be so bored to check these information to prove that Jordan was overrated. Jomi and others could swollen his bear face by just collecting words. "Jordan has 10 scoring kings", "Jordan has six championship rings", "Jordan has five regular season mvp, six fmvp."

Kobe is the same. "I have two scoring kings in my subject", "I have five championship rings in my subject", "I have one regular season MVP, two FMVPs, if there are more, I will be a brush", "I have 81 points in my subject and surpass Jordan in one match."

It's so direct, who dares not accept it? Data, champion number is everything.

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

TNT Radio broadcasts all over the United States, but CCTV5 did not broadcast this game, so they chose Rockets vs. Mavericks.

When the player warmed up, Barkley smiled and said, "I have a feeling that today will be a wonderful offensive battle. Jason Guo can score high scores again, and the Raptors' defense is very bad."

Smith said: "Three players were injured, and after Joe Johnson went to the Warriors, the Suns' game became better. Each game had high ratings. The fans were just trying to see Jason score, and he didn't disappoint."

Guo Xu practiced three points in the morning to find the feeling, and the touch felt very good when warming up.

After practicing hard in the time loop for three years, Guo Xu's shooting has made great progress. Now he rarely has time to be inaccurate. He only has 5 or 6 games in a perfect match, which is different from the previous drawer.

The Five Suns: Payton, Guo Xu, Howard, David Lee, Valaijo.

The Raptors Five: Mike James, Morris Peterson, Jaylen Ross, Chris Bosh, Raphael Aruyou.

Valecho won the jump ball and the game began.

Payton led the ball to Guo Xu over the halftime, and the players pulled it apart and let Guo Xu play singles with the ball.

The Raptors coaching staff did not pay attention to defense. Guo Xu had already scored 101 points. Mitchell did not intend to arrange double-teams at the beginning, so he let the point guard defend alone.

Guo Xu easily played a single from the right side, dribbled the ball from his crotch to his left hand, and took the left foot and took a step back and jumped back to the three-pointer. James was afraid that he would break through, so he took a small step one after another, then jumped forward and blocked it slowly, and the ball was hollowed into the net. 3 to 0.

The Raptors played pick-and-roll, James attracted David Lee to pass the ball to the middle, and Bosh scored a jump shot against Guo Xu. 3-2.

When the Suns attacked, Payton led the game to Guo Xu again after halftime, the Raptors still did not double-team.

Guo Xu dribbled the ball under his crotch and changed direction to the right, passing through James who was close to him in one step, and pitched the ball in the emergency stop. 5 to 2.

When James attacked, Guo Xu deliberately let him go two steps away, so he started to "release the water" and did not take the Raptors seriously.

James easily jumped into a three-pointer in the middle and returned a .5-5.

When the Suns attacked, Guo Xu received the ball in the midfield and found that James retreated near the three-point line and was waiting for him, without any intention of coming up to press. Guo Xu scored two meters outside the three-point line in the middle, and there was no interference at all. He advanced again. 8 to 5.

Guo Xu has already figured out this guy's defensive ability. No wonder Jeff Van Gundy didn't like him at the time.

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 the foreign league for several years, and did not join the Heat on the short contract in early 2002 and stood on the NBA stage.

James has changed to 5 teams. He shoots and breaks through the offensive end. He frequently switches teams because his defense is too bad. He has a unique style of play and always regards himself as a star.

Guo Xu was not careful when defending. Seeing James trying his best to be ruthless, he remembered a joke in 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 something different, some people were so overwhelmed by the rhythm of Kobe, and my focus was to try to win that game. I still remember that in the third quarter I said to Sam Mitchell, ‘Let me defend Kobe’. He looked at me and said, ‘I don’t want you to get into foul trouble.’”

James paused and sighed, "My thought at the time was, 'This guy has already scored 50 points in the third quarter, but are you worried that I will have trouble with fouls?"

This sounds like if James is going to defend first, Kobe will definitely get a few points. Unfortunately, the coach is afraid that he can't control the foul and wants to win, so he doesn't let him defend. The coach is a fool.

In fact, this guy doesn't have to say that he is misaligned to limit Kobe, most point guards are not good at defending.

He is just a fucking man. In the 2005-06 season in his previous life, he scored 20.3 points and 5.8 assists in the Raptors. The Raptors were unwilling to renew his contract. Then he joined the Timberwolves for 23 million in four years.
Chapter completed!