Chapter 970: The Underestimated Supersonics and the Cheerful Warriors!

"Mark, why do you think that those media always think that players with strong shooting and players with less talent are not very strong players?"

In the training hall of the Seattle Supersonics, James Harden asked his friend Marc Gasol seriously.

James Harden's question directly stumped Marc Gasol.

He really didn't know how to answer.

The Seattle Supersonics, Grizzlies, and Heat once again achieved 18 consecutive wins at the same time.

The competition among the three teams to break the NBA regular season record has become more intense.

After shifting their attention from the big melon of the Celtics and returning to the competition between the Seattle Supersonics, Heat and Grizzlies.

Many media are analyzing who will be the final winner among the Grizzlies, Heat and Supersonics.

Most media experts think it is the Heat, and the second most media experts think it is the Grizzlies, and the Seattle Supersonics are ranked third.

This really makes the Supersonics very angry.

It would be fine if you said that the Grizzlies ranked above the Supersonics.

Why can the Heat, who were swept by us in the finals, be ranked ahead of us?

Just because we were eighth in the regular season last season, do you think that we won the championship last season by luck, all because of our good three-point shooting and the luck of winning by gambling with our lives?

Because we don’t have the visible reckless talent of James and Wade, do you think our strength is not as good as the Heat?

Do you think that the playoffs have a lot of luck, and the regular season is a competition of long-term stable strength, so we can’t beat the Heat?

The strength of Nash and Nowitzki has always been discriminated against in the NBA, and now the strength of the Supersonics has also been discriminated against. No matter how Yes speaks in the media that the Supersonics is the strongest team in the NBA now, not many people believe it.

After all, Yes also said that Rondo is one of the strongest scorers in the NBA.

Regarding the evaluation of his own team and his own players, even Yes, who never lies, is considered by those people to be not objective.

In today's NBA,

Times have changed, but the minds of these media experts in the league have not changed.

They still rely on the Grizzlies having a big center and the Heat having explosive players like James and Wade.

Deep down, they still think that three-pointers are a gamble of luck. Everyone can gamble. If you win, in a certain game, even Novak can be better than James, just like last year's finals. Durant's efficiency, do you dare to say that he can still enter the finals this year?

No one can gamble for a long time, even if the entire league is gambling now. The more so, the more valuable and more favored teams like the Heat and the Grizzlies that do not rely on gambling are.

Marc Gasol actually understands the reason.

Marc Gasol thinks James Harden also understands it.

But the reason is the reason, and the Seattle Supersonics feel a little bit aggrieved.

Damn, don't these people see how stable the Seattle Supersonics are this season?

This season, the Seattle Supersonics can throw in 25 three-pointers in every game. Shouldn't this be admired?

These guys actually think that if the Supersonics don't have such a strong three-pointer blessing, they won't be as strong as they look.

Marc Gasol is also convinced by these people.

Now the topic of the world is once again about the Seattle SuperSonics, the Heat and the Grizzlies being the first in the league and breaking the NBA regular season record.

After the three teams have achieved 18 consecutive wins, basically everyone in the league feels that the Rockets' 73-9 regular season record is bound to be broken.

It just depends on who will do it.

For this record of the first regular season in history, the players of the Seattle SuperSonics are of course interested.

Why not?

Although because the proportion of three-pointers is too high, they have not been recognized by many experts and they think they are not stable enough.

But the SuperSonics know that they are very stable.

This season, the SuperSonics basically clocked out in three quarters in most games.

So far, the team has basically not encountered an opponent that needs to be fully fought. The Lakers are strong, but Kobe's two undercover games allowed the SuperSonics to defeat the Lakers without bloodshed.

Now when they meet the Lakers, the SuperSonics may need to vomit blood.

But generally speaking, there are not many teams in the league with the strength of the Lakers.

What's more, the SuperSonics really haven't tried their best.

In what situation does a team pursue regular season results and put the cart before the horse?

Of course, they go all out. Every game is very difficult. The players' physical strength is not enough to support the high-intensity games in every game, but they are still unwilling to give up every victory. This is putting the cart before the horse and forcing to brush the results, just like the Rockets and the Suns two seasons ago.

The current Seattle Supersonics are not in such a situation at all.

Whether it is Yes, Durant, Rondo, Milicic, Millsap and other starters, or James Harden, Gasol, Ibaka and other substitutes, there is no sign of fatigue.

This season, because there are too many people clocking out in the third quarter, the playing time of the Seattle Supersonics' starting players has reached a new low, while the playing time of the Supersonics' substitutes has reached a new high.

This resulted in the Sonics' starting players getting a very good rest, while the Seattle Sonics' substitutes also got a lot of opportunities to exercise and maintain their game form.

This season, the Seattle Sonics' scoring is terrifying, and this is mainly due to this. After the Sonics players come on the court, they can play their strengths without worrying about their physical strength.

Many people have magically discovered that even in the fourth quarter when all the substitutes are on the bench, the Seattle Sonics' substitute lineup of Gasol, James Harden, Ibaka, Tucker, and Sessions is very dominant, and can achieve the kind of dominance that wants to beat the opponent into a dog, but the opponent will definitely not be a cat.

The Sonics' rotation substitute lineup against the rotation substitute lineup of many other teams in the league in garbage time is like a dimensionality reduction attack.

James Harden, Gasol, and Ibaka have shown extremely strong strength and status this season. Not to mention that these three were trained by Yes last season, it is not surprising that they have achieved results this season.

The key is Tucker and Sessions.

This is Tucker's fourth season in the NBA. This player who could only defend at the beginning can now shoot three-pointers, and his hit rate has reached a very good 35% or more. This has finally made him a regular in the rotation of the Supersonics this season. In the competition with Danny Green, his three-pointer has made him surpass Danny Green.

Tucker's rise this season is a big surprise for the Supersonics.

But the bigger surprise for the Supersonics is Sessions.

After Barea, the Supersonics chose rookie Ty Lawson as Barea's replacement this season.

But Ty Lawson and James Harden's cooperation is a bit unsuitable.

But think about it, this is very normal. Barea is an enhanced version of Ty Lawson, and both were pitted to death by James Harden's style of play.

Fortunately, Barea's key ball is strong, and he can shoot a good hit rate even if he takes the blame.

But Ty Lawson is miserable. James Harden kept dribbling and dribbling, and finally dumped the blame on Ty Lawson. Ty Lawson was completely confused.

He has never seen such a vicious style of play against teammates.

In the entire league, except for Westbrook of the Clippers, no one plays like James Harden.

This style of play requires teammates with strong ability to take the blame, such as Westbrook has Nick Young, one can pass the blame, and the other can take the blame, which is very strong.

But Ty Lawson really doesn't have such strong ability.

In the end, Ty Lawson's mentality collapsed in a short time because of James Harden.

I thought he would become famous in one fell swoop when he came to the Supersonics.

Unexpectedly, he encountered a mudslide like James Harden.

If he didn't know that this was James Harden's own style, he would think that James Harden saw that he was Durant's childhood sweetheart, so he deliberately messed with him.

Ty Lawson's start in the Supersonics was a bit unsuccessful, causing the frustrated guard to now follow Yes all day long like Ingles and Danny Green to learn, looking forward to one day shining in the NBA.

Ty Lawson's failure to replace Barea gave Sessions an opportunity.

Sessions doesn't have such a strong ability to receive the ball, but he doesn't need so much ball possession. His shooting ability is not so strong, but he can shoot.

At the same time, his ability to brush assists is really quite strong.

He even brushed 20 assists in a single game in the Supersonics.

His organizational ability is average, but he has a strong sense of brushing assists and is also very good at passing. After receiving the dunk from James Harden, he can throw the dunk again in a short time, throwing it to Ibaka and Marc Gasol and others.

This makes Sessions feel a little more comfortable when working with James.

Sessions averaged 6 assists per game this season, which is incredible for a substitute rotation player.

So much so that many teams have noticed this player who might not even have entered the NBA if it weren't for the Supersonics and Yes.

In the current Supersonics bench lineup, Sessions can indeed greatly play his advantages.

He has offense, but it's not that good, but the current rotation lineup of the Supersonics doesn't need him to have such a strong offense.

He doesn't have any defense, but the Sonics' current substitutes are Gasol, Ibaka and Tucker Harden, all of whom are famous defensive players in the league.

It doesn't matter if he really doesn't have any defense.

But his passing ability and sense of assists can turn the pots thrown by James Harden into treasure.

Sessions, Harden, Tucker, Ibaka, Gasol, the rotation lineup of the Seattle Sonics this year really made too many big news.

Those piles of 58s were almost all made by these guys.

At the end of the third quarter, they were behind by more than 30 points. I thought that both sides would surrender and not be 58 after replacing the rotation substitutes.

Who knew that the Sonics' substitutes had a greater advantage over their substitutes than the Sonics' main players had over their main players. How can people deal with this? !

The Sonics are very strong this season, really strong.

After the growth of James Harden, Ibaka, Tucker, and Sessions, the Sonics now have almost no weaknesses.

They can suppress their opponents in every quarter.

Yes really didn't lie, his team is really invincible now.

But because Durant, Millsap, Milicic, Rondo, James Harden, Ibaka, Gasol, Tucker and others' offense is mainly based on shooting, the experts in the league believe that the Supersonics' hard power is not enough, and they are still a team that relies on three-pointers to maintain such momentum.

This really makes Yess laugh and cry.

When he said that the Supersonics are very strong, he was really very honest, unprecedentedly honest, but no one believed it at this time...

On December 7, 2009, the Seattle Supersonics welcomed the challenge of the Golden State Warriors, who are now the eighth in the West, at home.

The Warriors led by Beasley, Curry, Klay Thompson and others even ranked first in the Pacific and fourth in the league at the beginning of this season.

However, the good times did not last long. With the awakening of the Lakers, the Warriors soon gave up the first place in the Pacific.

It is said that the Grizzlies, Heat and Supersonics are now on a crazy winning streak.

In fact, the Lakers are now on a ten-game winning streak.

This season is really tough for all the NBA teams this year.

The Heat, Grizzlies, Supersonics, and Lakers are really four teams that make people despair.

Although the situation of the entire league is very dark, with three evil dragons and a brave man fighting each other, they, the fish in the pond, are suffering miserably.

But the Warriors are really a very optimistic young team.

Beasley, Curry, and Klay Thompson are not scared by the miserable reality at all. The three of them are really quite happy.

Such happiness even makes the team's head coach Mark Jackson very dissatisfied.

Marc Gasol is a believer of Yes.

But he is not a believer of the University of Washington system. He has his own basketball philosophy and ideas.

He really wants to get Curry, and he also values ​​Curry, but after getting Curry, after comparing Curry with the coveted Yes, he is very worried and disappointed.

Curry can shoot and make three-pointers, but his defense is very bad, and his turnovers are more explosive than Yes, and he is not as stable as Yes.

He is very uncomfortable as an old-school head coach because he is always smiling.

Even if you can't be as expressionless as Yes, you can learn to beat your chest and stamp your feet, which is the favorite of old-school coaches!

What kind of bad habit is it to squat on the toilet on the court every time you are arrogant?

Not only do opponents want to beat him, he also wants to beat him!

Now Mark Jackson is full of grievances, thinking that Jerry West paid such a big price for the Washington Big Three.

The Big Three of the University of Washington don't know that the team coach now dislikes them.

When they came to Seattle, they encountered a very grand welcome.

"Draymond, didn't you say you were going to Golden State to be a leader? How come you are now a servant like Rajon?"

"What do you mean by being a servant like Rajon? How can you be so bad at talking? It should be said that before you became a servant, Rajon was already a servant!"

After Tucker finished speaking, the surrounding Supersonics and Warriors players laughed happily.

Even Durant, who has always maintained a high and cold personality, laughed.

Beasley's sentence: Before you were arrogant, I was already tired of arrogant words. It was quite popular.

It was called the Green formula.

Amid the happy laughter of the Supersonics and Warriors fans.

Green and Rondo really wanted to hit someone.

But their arms couldn't twist so many thighs, what should they do?

I felt so depressed.