Chapter 822: The Exciting West and 15 Steals!
The Seattle SuperSonics lost two away games to their two biggest nemesis teams this season, the Mavericks and the SuperSonics.
This made many Coconut fans who thought that the Seattle SuperSonics had already secured a place in the playoffs this season suddenly become quite nervous.
The regular season of the Western Conference this year has reached this stage.
Many Coconut fans have already accepted their fate.
The top five positions in the Western Conference, that is really impossible to enter.
Now the biggest expectation of many Coconut fans is to keep the top eight positions in the Western Conference in this year's regular season.
Whether it is sixth, seventh or eighth, as long as you enter the top eight in the Western Conference, you have a chance!
It is no secret that Durant has begun to resume personal training.
According to the news obtained by many media from various channels, Durant's best comeback is expected to catch up with the second round of the Seattle SuperSonics series this season.
In other words, as long as the Seattle SuperSonics can enter the second round of the playoffs, they will be able to welcome Durant back, which means that the Seattle SuperSonics will have another chance to win the championship!
No matter how much strength Durant has left after the serious injury, and no matter how much form Durant has left after not playing for a season, as long as there is Durant, at least Ibaka does not need to appear on the court.
Even if Durant is just a piece of wood, neither losing nor gaining, he is better than Ibaka who loses as long as he stands on the court, right?
Of course, if you want to welcome Durant back this season, you need to enter the second round, and if you want to enter the second round, you need to enter the playoffs!
As long as the Seattle Supersonics can enter the playoffs, the results of the Seattle Supersonics this season, Yes's results this season, can still be saved!
Playoffs!
Many coconut powders just want a playoff!
However, judging from these two consecutive losses, the Seattle Supersonics' playoff position this season does not seem so stable!
Especially after playing away against the Mavericks and the Grizzlies, the two nemesis, on March 2, 2009, the Seattle Supersonics returned to their home court.
The opponent that the Seattle Supersonics will play against when they return to their home court is not other teams, but the Mavericks, one of the two nemesis of the Seattle Supersonics this season!
That's right. Three days ago, the Mavericks beat them in three quarters away from home. Now they have to play against the Mavericks again at home!
This schedule is really a bit despairing!
This schedule looks like it will not only make the Seattle Supersonics lose two games in a row, but also make the Seattle Supersonics lose three games in a row!
Although the Supersonics have accumulated some advantages over the Rockets and the Suns before, if they lose again in this game against the Mavericks, it will be really dangerous.
Fortunately, in this home game against the Mavericks, there is not no good news for the Seattle Supersonics.
Before the game between the Supersonics and the Mavericks, Milicic, who had been absent for more than a week because of a trick played by Bynum in the game against the Lakers, finally returned from injury.
Milicic's return from injury is indeed very good news.
At least no matter how much role Milicic played in the game between the Supersonics and the Mavericks, at least, Milicic's return is a huge expectation for the Supersonics fans and coconut powder.
Maybe with Milicic, Milicic can beat Kwame Brown in this game?
Marc Gasol is very good, but it is unrealistic to expect him to beat Kwame Brown.
Kwame Brown, who got a big contract in the Mavericks this season and played with great confidence, is indeed quite strong and one of the best centers on the defensive end this season.
With the recent rise of the Mavericks,
Kwame Brown has become one of the runners-up to compete with Bowen for the best defensive player.
Of course, Bowen, the best defensive player in the league this season, has already won the title, and the others are basically just to increase the number of denominators and make up the numbers.
However, being able to be a make-up player to set off Bowen is also a very good honor.
Compete with Yes, the strongest offensive player in history, for the scoring title.
Compete with Bowen, the strongest defensive player in history, for the best defensive player.
What a nice reputation.
Kwame Brown is a very emotional player. The more praise and praise he gets around him, the better he performs. With the praise and reputation surrounding him now, there are really not many players in the league who can easily beat Kwame Brown.
He has talent, strength, and skills. He can be said to be one of the most difficult centers in the league.
In addition to Yao Ming and O'Neal, even Oden, who is already recognized as the third center in the entire league, has a hard time against him.
With Kwame Brown, the inside line will not be broken, the defense will not be broken, and the outside line can break the opponent. This is why the Mavericks are so strong and have such good results this season.
Many people say that the Mavericks this season are very similar to the Mavericks in 2007.
But many discerning people can see that the Mavericks this season are more than one level stronger than the Mavericks in 2007!
The inside line has been fully upgraded.
The core has been fully upgraded.
The stability has also been fully upgraded.
Of course, this is a discerning person, and discerning people are a minority in the entire NBA.
As long as the Mavericks have Nowitzki, the biggest "softie" in history, they will be viewed with tinted glasses.
Although the Mavericks are now ranked first in the West and second in the league, no media newspaper or expert believes that they are the favorites to win the NBA this season.
The most recognized team to win the NBA championship is still the Heat, which was in chaos after the All-Star Game some time ago, followed by the Lakers, Spurs, Grizzlies and Cavaliers.
Even the Celtics and Nuggets have higher odds than the Mavericks.
As the first in the West, the Mavericks' odds are the same as the seventh, eighth and ninth in the West, the Supersonics, the Suns and the Rockets.
Even expert media reporters will look at the Dallas Mavericks with tinted eyes.
Not to mention the not-so-professional Supersonics fans and coconut powder.
In this game against the Mavericks, Milicic's efforts really gave the Supersonics fans and coconut powder some extraordinary expectations.
Then, the Seattle Supersonics fans and coconut powder who had extraordinary expectations for this game were disappointed.
This game between the Supersonics and the Mavericks at home finally proved it again.
The Mavericks' restraint over the Seattle Supersonics really has nothing to do with whether the center position is Milicic or Marc Gasol.
The Mavericks restrained the Seattle Supersonics because the Mavericks' outside line is the strongest in the entire league!
Except for Kwame Brown, everyone can really beat Ibaka!
Even Kwame Brown can beat Ibaka!
"It's really impossible to play against the Mavericks!"
Looking at the score of 110 to 128 at the end of the game.
This game was much better than the last time the two teams met.
But they were still beaten!
This made Malik Ross, the assistant coach of the Seattle Supersonics, sigh for a while.
"The Mavericks may really make trouble this season!"
Malik Ross felt that if you don't pay attention to the media experts' belittlement of the Mavericks and Nowitzki.
This team is really strong!
It may even be stronger than the Heat, which he has always thought to be the strongest!
The Heat is also very strong.
But it will give you a feeling that you can stop it.
The strength of the Mavericks is the kind that you may not be able to stop at all!
"Maybe, the Mavericks are the strongest team this season?"
Malik Rose is not sure.
But he feels that if he says such a thing, most people in the world may think he is crazy.
How can a team with Nowitzki be the strongest team?
The Sonics, who were looking forward to a rebound, finally suffered another defeat at home. After losing to the Mavericks again, the Seattle Supersonics lost three games in a row.
The three consecutive losses are bitter, but in this bitter game, there are other colors.
The return of Kwame Brown, the center of the Mavericks, still made this game a very warm scene.
Although Kwame Brown has received a championship ring.
But this time when he came back, Kwame Brown was still warmly welcomed by the Sonics.
The official made an MV for him, and Sonics fans and coconut powder loved Kwame Brown even more.
Although Kwame Brown only played as a substitute for the Sonics for half a season.
But after Kwame Brown left, the Sonics fans and Coconut fans liked the team's half-season substitute even more.
It's not because of dissatisfaction with the current situation.
The Sonics and Coconut fans also like Marc Gasol and Milicic.
It's mainly because after Kwame Brown won the championship and left, his confidence came up, and he dared to say anything during the interview!
Kwame Brown has now become the same as the spokesperson of Coconut fans as Not Fifteen Is Second.
Not Fifteen Is Second is the online spokesperson of Coconut fans, and Kwame Brown is the offline one.
Not Fifteen Is Second has many famous quotes and books, and Kwame Brown has many too.
For example, when asked who is stronger between Yes and Jordan, the sentence "It seems like he can kill Jordan in seconds?"
For example, when asked why Yes can kill Jordan in seconds, the sentence "Don't you know YouTube?" and so on.
If Not Fifteen Is Second is a chaotic good representative of Coconut fans, then Kwame Brown is chaotic evil, and he is only evil to Jordan.
But no matter what, this former Sonics center who is going further and further on the road of offline PK with Jordan is now more and more loved by coconut fans and Sonics fans.
Seattle Sonics fans like Kwame Brown very much, and the Seattle Sonics officials are also very grateful to the team's backup center, and Kwame Brown also has feelings for the people and things in Seattle.
The people, things, and everything here are the beginning of his change of destiny, and they are also the key to his change of destiny.
"No matter what happens in the future, Seattle will always be my favorite city, the Sonics will always be my favorite team, and Yes will always be my most respected big brother!"
Kwame Brown's tearful and emotional words after the game moved many hard-hearted media at the scene.
"Seattle is really a magical place, and the Sonics are really a magical team. How many people have completed redemption in this place and in this team..."
"Yes's magic is not just Yes's magic..."
"Yes has turned this place into a real place where miracles are born!"
"However, now the Sonics need Yes's miracle to save them again."
A lot of things happened in the game against the Mavericks. No matter how many things happened, they couldn't change the result of the current three-game losing streak of the Supersonics.
The three-game losing streak also made the Seattle Supersonics' current record become 41 wins and 18 losses.
This record also made the Seattle Supersonics fall to the eighth place in the West again.
As of March 3, the Timberwolves' record is 44 wins and 16 losses, the Suns' record is 42 wins and 18 losses, plus the Seattle Supersonics' 41 wins and 18 losses, this is now the sixth, seventh and eighth ranking in the West, and the Rockets, who are ninth in the West, now have a record of 42 wins and 19 losses.
The competition is very, very fierce!
Similarly, this ranking is also very exciting!
Except that the Timberwolves look a little better, the Suns, Supersonics and Rockets can really change the ranking completely in one game.
The reason for this situation is entirely because the Rockets completed revenge on the Timberwolves in the game three days ago.
If the Timberwolves won that game, the Rockets would definitely fall behind, not to mention falling out of the top eight competition.
However, in the game between the Timberwolves and the Rockets that determined the Western Conference playoffs, the Rockets won in the end.
In the end, it also directly led to the current exciting situation in the Western Conference.
In such an exciting situation, any team must have a very strong ability to withstand.
On March 4, 2009, the Seattle Supersonics played back-to-back home games against the Wizards, who now have no desire in the Eastern Conference.
108 to 103, the Seattle Supersonics defeated the Washington Wizards at home with no difficulty.
On the same day, the Suns lost 129 to 134 to the Heat, who had recently recovered strongly, and the Rockets defeated the Jazz 104 to 93 away.
After today's game, the Suns finally fell from the eighth place in the Western Conference.
The Rockets, who had been pressed in the ninth place in the Western Conference for two months, and could only rank ninth in the Western Conference even with 15 consecutive wins, finally climbed to the eighth place in the Western Conference!
However, since it was an exciting Western Conference playoff sprint.
How could it end like this?
On March 6, 2009, the most watched game in the NBA was the focus battle between the Rockets, who ranked eighth in the West, and the Suns, who ranked ninth in the West.
The Rockets, who had just won the eighth place in the West, needed to beat the Suns in this home game if they wanted to maintain their eighth place in the West.
Now that the Rockets finally moved up from the ninth place in the West, they certainly wanted to win this game.
It was incredible that the two strongest teams in the regular season of the West last season had to fight for a place in the playoffs.
This game between the Suns and the Rockets was a focus battle.
Even Yes and the players of the Supersonics were paying attention.
The importance of the two teams to this game was unimaginable.
From the first second of the game, the game was extremely fierce.
The Suns' strength declined this season because of the general speed-up of the league and the lack of a dominant offensive speed, but the Rockets did not benefit from the decline of the Suns' strength due to environmental reasons. In the final analysis, the Rockets have now returned to a big center team.
The Suns are not fast in front of the Timberwolves and other teams, but they are still fast in front of the Rockets.
This creates a very interesting imagination. The mutual growth and restraint between NBA teams is sometimes so wonderful.
The Grizzlies and Mavericks restrain the Supersonics, the Supersonics restrain the Suns and Nuggets, but who can think that the Suns will restrain the Grizzlies and the Nuggets will restrain the Mavericks?
In this game between the Suns and the Rockets, both teams went all out.
Yess could even feel that the Rockets played even more fiercely than the Suns.
In this game, Yao Ming and Roy even played for more than 42 minutes.
But the final result of the game was 112 to 116, and the Rockets lost four points at home.
Less than two days after sitting in the eighth place in the West, after losing this game, the Rockets gave up the eighth place in the West.
Now the sprint of the Western Conference playoffs is so exciting, not only the ownership of the eighth place in the West is exciting, but also the exciting competition for the eighth place in the West is also linked.
On March 7, 2009, the Seattle SuperSonics defeated the 76ers at home with a score of 99 to 84, continuing to take the seventh place in the Western Conference.
On the same day, the Houston Rockets, who lost the tragic battle with the Suns yesterday, played back-to-back at home against the Grizzlies, who are now taking advantage of the Mavericks' loss to the Nuggets and striving for the first place in the Western Conference.
Logically speaking, after losing such a tragic game yesterday, they will play the Grizzlies again tonight.
The Rockets are in a bad situation.
But the magical thing is that the Houston Rockets defeated the Grizzlies at home with a score of 93 to 83.
And this is why the Western Conference is so exciting this year!
The top five teams in the Western Conference really have no absolute advantage when facing the teams behind the Western Conference playoffs!
After all, don't forget that the Rockets and the Suns were the top two teams in the Western Conference last season!
Even the teams behind the Western Conference have the top teams in the Western Conference that can be restrained!
For example, the Grizzlies, when facing the top teams in the Western Conference, they are really invincible, but the Grizzlies are more afraid of the Cavaliers, Rockets and Suns this season.
So, as an interviewer for the NBA this year, watching the ever-changing ranking changes in the Western Conference, many people really feel that the world may change drastically at any time.
"Sister Han, I feel that big things may happen in the Western Conference this year, and maybe there may be another black eight!"
After watching the game between the Rockets and the Grizzlies, Lin Rui was very excited.
In fact, many reporters were very excited.
Whether the Rockets or the Suns are eighth, if the Grizzlies can be ranked first in the West, it is not impossible to be black eight!
No, the top teams in the West, except the Spurs, cannot be black eight!
The Mavericks, Lakers, and Grizzlies, the three teams that can be the first in the West, can all be black eight!
After the Rockets defeated the Grizzlies, the reporters in the league who were somewhat exhausted by the exciting plot in the West found a new hype point.
This year, the mutual promotion and restraint of the top nine teams in the Western Conference and their similar strengths allow them to have many topics for hype.
For example, what will happen if the Mavericks are first, what if the Grizzlies are first, and what if the Lakers are first.
However, on March 9, the Spurs defeated the Hornets and became the first in the Western Conference. After this team that no one could restrain became the first, the topic of the black eight that the league reporters suddenly brought up came to an abrupt end.
"Hehe."
Popovich looked at the speechless reporters in the audience and was very satisfied.
What is a strong person? This is a strong person!
However, at this moment, the reporters in the audience suddenly started a commotion.
"Yes got 15 steals in the game against the Thunder!"