Chapter 825: A Supreme and Decisive Attack on the Verge of Collapse!
On March 10, 2009, at 9:30 p.m., the Denver Nuggets, who had been sharpening their knives, finally welcomed the game against the Seattle SuperSonics at their home court.
After the team's preparations for today, the players of the Denver Nuggets put aside their previous ideas and strategies for the game against the Seattle SuperSonics.
"We don't want justice, we just want victory!"
After George Karl shouted the slogan, every player of the Denver Nuggets seemed to be suddenly enlightened.
Before the start of this game, because Yes's reputation in the NBA was too great.
Every team will subconsciously put itself on the passive side and the weak side when playing against Yes.
Such a passive confrontation will greatly enhance the role of Yes, allowing Yes to maximize all his physical strength on the offensive end that can bring victory to the game.
This is very, very disadvantageous for the team fighting against Yes.
Those weak teams will forget it, even if they are asked to suppress Yes on the defensive end, they can't do it!
But the Nuggets are different!
The Nuggets are a strong team!
The third strongest team in the West!
How can the Nuggets put themselves in the same position as a weak team!
George Karl has realized it!
After studying the two games between the Supersonics and the Nuggets this season for almost a month, George Karl has realized it!
In the past, in his mind, Yes was invincible, so Yes would be invincible!
And now, he needs to completely transform this concept!
So, now, not only George Karl has realized it, but the players of the Nuggets have also realized it!
"Yes, starting from this game, you will see a brand new us, a brand new Nuggets!"
"..."
Amid the boos of the Nuggets players, Yes and the Supersonics players finished warming up and stood on the court with the Nuggets players.
Looking at the confident and heroic Hamilton in front of him, Yes was slightly stunned.
After the last game between the two teams, Billups and Hamilton both felt that they were broken by him.
Unexpectedly, after not seeing each other for only a month, the two not only recovered as before, but also became more motivated.
Seeing Hamilton and Billups so motivated, Yes was relieved and relieved in his heart.
Anthony was very happy to see the high morale of his two teammates.
Not only Billups and Hamilton on the court were in high morale, but even JR Smith sitting on the sidelines was in high morale.
With the help of these three partners, wouldn't Yes die miserably in this game?
Even if Yes is his best friend, he must avenge his brothers and hometown in this game!
Milicic, Millsap, Ibaka, Yes, Rondo.
Camby, Nene, Anthony, Hamilton, Billups.
The starting players of the two teams stood in their respective positions, and the battle was about to start!
"The whole Nuggets team gave people a different feeling tonight!"
Barkley was a little surprised to feel the atmosphere of the Pepsi Arena.
"The Nuggets look like they are going to swallow the Supersonics in one gulp."
"This game is a back-to-back game for the Supersonics, and with the momentum shown by the Nuggets players, the Supersonics will probably have a very difficult time in this game."
Kenny Smith nodded secretly.
He has been in a very good mood recently.
After James and the Heat, whom he supports, resurrected in the East again, they began to kill all sides and showed the strength of the biggest favorite for this year's championship.
On the other hand, the West is fighting for the ranking and qualification of the playoffs.
Although no matter who advances in the West this year, it cannot stop the Heat from winning the final championship.
But the more fierce the fight in the West, the greater the advantage of the Heat.
For Kenny Smith, he really wants to see every strong match in the West like the Nuggets, as if they can swallow the opponent.
Camby and Milicic jump ball, as two of the four kings in the jump ball world, they can also be regarded as old rivals.
The result of the jump ball between the two players is generally a 50-50 win or loss, but it is obvious that Camby's morale and fighting spirit are the stronger in this game.
When the referee Bavetta threw the basketball in his hand high, Camby jumped up with a roar and tapped the basketball back to Billups' hand.
The Nuggets got the first attack of the game.
"The game starts, the Denver Nuggets get the first attack opportunity of this game!"
After a huge cheer from the Nuggets fans, this highly anticipated strong competition officially began!
"LeBron, do you think Melo can really win this game?"
Wade asked worriedly, but James did not answer.
Before the game started, Anthony called them and Chris Paul.
Asking them to be sure to stay in front of the TV, Anthony told them that in this game, the Nuggets will let them see a night that they will never forget!
"Brothers, tonight, you will definitely see a completely different Nuggets and a completely different game!"
A completely different Nuggets...
A completely different game...
James secretly chewed on what Anthony said in his heart.
Um?
Just as James finished chewing on this sentence, he looked at the picture on the TV, and the expression on James' face showed a look of surprise.
Not only James, but even Wade on the side showed a look of surprise on his face.
"Billups and Hamilton pick and roll?!"
"Billups didn't look for Rondo's defense, but directly looked for Yes to attack?!"
Not to mention James and Wade in front of the TV, even many commentators and reporters on the scene were surprised and shocked by Billups' offensive choice!
This old guy didn't hit Erye, is he afraid of Erye's defense?
But since he was afraid of Erye's defense, why didn't he look for Ibaka, but actually went to fight Yes? !
Hua Q, Erye was actually covered by this skinny monkey? !
After Rondo was blocked by Hamilton, the expression on his face was quite surprised and very unhappy.
In the previous duels, although he didn't like Yes very much, Billups always felt that Yes was an extremely powerful person.
A person so strong that he can't beat him!
In fact, this giant is indeed not something he can beat alone.
But!
George is right!
He doesn't need to beat Yes!
If his team beats Yes and his team wins the championship, he can complete the final redemption of his career and finally be perfect!
Singles Yes, this was impossible for him to make such an offensive choice before.
In the NBA, challenging Yes is to seek death, especially point guards, Nash, Chris Paul, Deron Williams, countless people have confirmed such things.
But this time, it's different!
After Billups got rid of Rondo under Hamilton's cover, he switched positions with Hamilton and half-turned his body against Yes.
Seeing Billups leaning on him.
Yes was stunned for a moment.
He was really stunned this time.
Billups's action is really skillful.
But it's also really familiar!
Yes is now in a state of weightlessness. His own strength is only 72 after the weightlessness is reduced. In addition, he now weighs only 88. His own strength and weight are naturally unable to stop Billups from backing up.
But after changing to Westbrook's five-star card, his strength directly increased to 90, which is completely different.
In those more than 1,000 finals, he was tortured to death by Billups's style of play countless times!
He was even traumatized by Billups's style of play.
If Hamilton's running style of play, as his running ability continues to improve, he can kill Hamilton.
But facing Billups's hard eating, he really had no way from the first game to the last game.
How big is the psychological shadow of Yes on Billups's style of play?
So big that Yes may know more about the steps and details of Billups' offensive action than Billups himself.
After every game with the Pistons, Yes would dream that Billups kept forcing him and killing him in the game, so that he looked so embarrassed in front of Billups.
This was in a dream, in the more than 1,000 finals with the Pistons.
But in reality, because he was very good at creating himself.
So Billups rarely used this method to force him, or rather, never!
Yes's confrontation is very strong, and this is something the whole world knows.
Kobe and Carter couldn't force Yes to use their strength, and Yes even crushed Pierce with his strength in the finals!
It is not the choice of a smart player with high basketball IQ to confront Yes for no reason.
Billups is a smart player.
A smart player making such an unwise choice will really shock many people.
For example, the commentators and media reporters at the scene.
Originally, these people wanted to ridicule Billups for being crazy after being stunned.
But when these people looked closely,
They actually found that, facing Billups's behavior, Yes's face on the court was solemn and ugly!
"Yes's face is ugly?!"
"Yes's face is painful!"
"I can be 100% sure that Yes's face just showed a painful look for a moment!"
"Although the pain has been covered by Yes, Yes's face still remains ugly!"
"I can swear that the pain and ugly look on Yes's face are definitely not fake, they come from the depths of his soul!"
"And, we all know that Yes is not a liar!"
"Does Billups' style of play really make Yes so uncomfortable?!"
In fact, not only many people at the scene saw the expression from the depths of his soul on Yes's face just now, but the audience in front of the TV actually saw it more clearly.
"Yes is afraid of Billups' back-to-back?"
This is impossible!
James said that he would never believe that Yes would be afraid of Billups' back-to-back!
"Yes is not afraid of Billups' post-up attack, but the unnecessary energy consumption caused by Billups' post-up attack on him!"
James' eyes flickered.
The Seattle SuperSonics struggled to move forward with Ibaka this season.
Although the SuperSonics this season have Milicic, Millsap and Rondo who can share the difficulties of carrying Ibaka with Yes.
But Yes is undoubtedly still the only core and pillar of the Seattle SuperSonics!
Especially on the offensive end, Yes needs to average more than 45 points per game this season to keep the SuperSonics barely in the Western Conference playoffs!
In other words, Yes needs to focus a lot of his energy on the offensive end this season.
On the defensive end, the SuperSonics this season is handed over to Milicic, Millsap and Marc Gasol!
As long as the inside line of these three people does not collapse, the SuperSonics' defense will not jump!
And Yes can focus all his energy on the offensive end, which is why Yes has played such a terrifying offensive performance this season!
Similarly, because of Yes's horrible offensive performance this season and the threat of 100 points to the entire league, other teams in the league are subconsciously afraid that their teams will be beaten by Yes by 100 points when they meet Yes. They are subconsciously passively defending and passively being beaten, which further boosts Yes's offensive power!
Now!
"Billups burst Yes's bubble!"
James is very excited and excited!
Wade can even clearly see that the muscles on LeBron's face are trembling with excitement.
Billups burst Yes's bubble?
What bubble of Yes was burst by Billups?
Wade didn't quite understand.
Although he didn't quite understand, he could hear from the commentary that Kenny Smith was excited and Barkley's voice was trembling.
Logically speaking, these two people shouldn't be like this.
After all, what happened on the court at this time shouldn't make the two of them like this.
On TV, Billups backed Yes, and after forcing Yes to eat him several times, he forced a turnaround jump shot, but was slapped away by Yes.
The basketball that was blown away by Yes, I don't know if it was Nuggets' good luck, but it fell directly into Hamilton's hands.
Hamilton faked a shot and shook off Rondo, and then rushed in again.
And Hamilton's breakthrough route was clearly a route to induce Yes to help defend, but in the end Yes really had no choice. Yes was not the kind of player who would ignore the offensive players passing by him, and handed the ball to his teammates with his hands on his waist. He directly helped Hamilton in advance. After Hamilton saw Yes rushing over, he threw the basketball in his hand.
Snap!
"Yes has blocked the shot again!"
Kenny Smith was still very excited.
And Wade, hearing Barkley's voice next to him, was no longer trembling, but completely silent!
Faintly, Wade seemed to know why LeBron was so excited just now!
On the court, Hamilton looked at the Sonics No. 9 who was standing in front of him and panting a little, in disbelief.
His throws like that could be blocked?
With his throws just now, if he wasn't confident, even if Chamberlain was resurrected, he couldn't block it!
Because the timing and trajectory of his lob was very, very strange.
As long as his lob trajectory was not known at the moment of his shot, it would be impossible to be blocked after the basketball he threw out drew an arc!
But in the end, his lob was still blocked, not by an outside player, but by an inside player!
This guy!
Looking at Yes who was panting there, Hamilton felt a strange feeling in his heart.
Although this guy is an enemy, but!
This enemy is really powerful!
He is worthy of being the one who needs them to abandon justice and work together to deal with him!
"Only such a person is worthy of us abandoning justice!"
The Nuggets' first wave of offense was blocked twice, but none of the Nuggets fans on the sidelines of the court had a frustrated expression.
On the contrary, at this time, all the Nuggets fans on the sidelines were singing excitedly.
And the Nuggets head coach George Karl on the sidelines was also clapping his hands on the sidelines, encouraging his players to continue playing like this.
Nuggets out-of-bounds ball.
After Billups passed the ball to Anthony, Anthony picked up Ibaka and then broke through to make a mid-range jump shot, scoring the first two points for the Nuggets in this game.
Anthony used to play very fiercely and liked to go inside to force it, but when he met the Supersonics, Milicic and Millsap, he would try his best to avoid it.
After Anthony hit the mid-range shot, he smiled sweetly at the camera.
His smile was telling the brothers in front of the TV that the world would be completely different after this game!
So, brothers, stand up, throw away your frustration, and continue to have fun!
Unlike the crazy Nuggets fans and the high-spirited Nuggets players at the scene.
The expressions on the faces of the Supersonics players at the scene are very solemn.
The face of the Supersonics head coach Nelson on the sidelines is also solemn.
The coconut powder and Supersonics fans who support Yes in front of the TV are in the same mood as Barkley.
That is shock and incredible!
"Yes's defense just now consumed so much energy, but this round, Anthony still scored!"
Charlotte, Hornets' visiting locker room, Popovich, who had just defeated his old coach Larry Brown, was watching the game between the Supersonics and the Nuggets with the Spurs players.
After watching the Nuggets' first attack in this game, everyone in the locker room looked surprised.
Of course, except for Bowen, who was always calm, confident, and always looked like he had everything under control.
"The Nuggets told the world in this game that they are not afraid of Yes's 100-point threat."
"Or rather, the Nuggets told the world that the best way to avoid being threatened by Yes's 100-point threat is to attack Yes madly on the offensive end and consume Yes's energy on the defensive end!"
"From the Nuggets' first round, the Nuggets' strategy in this game was extremely correct!"
"It is correct, but few teams can copy it. After all, not every team has a player like Anthony who can cover the bottom line no matter what. If it is an ordinary team, this offense will definitely not score points. The final offensive time is less than five seconds, but with Anthony, it can score."
"But no matter what, the Nuggets' style of play provides the best way for other teams in the entire league to crack Yes's 100-point threat. I have heard that many NBA teams don't want to be passively beaten in front of Yes, but there is no way. Now, the solution has finally appeared!"
As the game progressed, the discussion in the Spurs locker room became more and more intense.
Listening to the players' heated discussion, Popovich smiled slightly after being surprised.
Yes threatened the stars of the entire league to help him train Ibaka this season. Many stars have been unhappy for a long time.
He knows how unruly NBA stars are.
But there is no way.
Yes is too powerful!
Except for a few teams, most teams really have to listen to Yes.
Now, the Nuggets have burst the rainbow bubble created by Yes.
This bubble that covers the entire NBA has finally broken.
This feeling is really very strange.
Of course, for him and the Spurs, they are not worried about the rainbow bubble created by Yes that threatens the entire league.
After all, they have Bruce Bowen!
When Yes faces Bruce Bowen and the Spurs, it is not easy to get 100 points, even a 50% hit rate!
The Spurs and Supersonics have a bad record against each other, and it is not because of other reasons.
It is because the Spurs' offense is so poor that Bowen's defensive miracles were wasted.
After the Spurs improved their offense this season, their record instantly rose to the first level in the West.
It has even become the only team in the West that has no weaknesses, no nemesis, and is most likely to break out of the West!
The new method invented by the Nuggets to deal with Yes in this game is very useful. It is very useful for the Nuggets and other teams in the league that are threatened by Yes, the evil force.
But it is useless to the Spurs!
Because the Spurs have Bowen!
With Bowen, the Spurs will always be the only team in NBA history that is not afraid of Yes!
"The game is really tense now. Yes is using his physical strength to desperately maintain the score of this game. Bruce, who do you think will win this game?"
"Yes, Supersonics."
"..."
Bowen's firm and confident voice and eyes made the entire locker room silent.
In this game, Yes and Supersonics can still win?
Impossible?
Yes's huge consumption on the defensive end in this game can make him support half the game, but can he support the whole game?
The Spurs players don't believe it, they really don't believe it!
But!
"Incredible buzzer-beater!"
"Yes faced Billups and Hamilton's blocks and made a buzzer-beater!"
"This is a buzzer-beater on the verge of collapse!"
"This is the last flash of the god of buzzer-beater!"
Watching the Sonics No. 9 who made a buzzer-beater on the TV and collapsed on the floor and couldn't get up again, at this time, the whole world might be as crazy and trembling as Barkley's trembling voice.
But the entire Spurs locker room was really silent!
Everyone was looking at Bowen in silence and disbelief.
Bruce, is he really not a god?
Duncan's dull eyes were blinking blankly.
On the court, Anthony was full of regret, and the Nuggets players, Nuggets coaches, and Nuggets fans were all regretting it!
It was really just a little bit to win!
"Yes, Yes is here, and he got 21 blocks in this game, breaking the NBA block record..."
The DJ on the scene said this in a trembling voice, and the Pepsi Center, which was originally full of regretful voices, suddenly became as quiet as if it had been extinguished!
NBA single-game block record? !
21 blocks? !
Anthony looked at the guy lying on the ground and slowly raised his right hand, and his regretful eyes had all turned into shock...