Chapter 976 The True Strength of Supersonic Speed!!!

After the first quarter between the Supersonics and the Grizzlies, the two teams tied at 34, which really surprised many people.

The Grizzlies played very well in the first quarter.

In terms of performance, the Supersonics were steadily suppressed by the Grizzlies on both offense and defense in the first quarter. Under the situation of being suppressed and unable to play their own things, the Supersonics were able to tie with the Grizzlies.

After watching the first game, the Grizzlies fans at the scene really wanted to curse, it was unreasonable!

The Grizzlies had gone all out, and the Supersonics had been suppressed, but Yes still did not attack. He used his organization and passing to organize Rondo and Durant to be a bunch of **** McGrady and Battier.

In this game against the Supersonics, the goal of the Grizzlies was to prevent Yes from continuing to score 20 points. The premise of this goal is that the Grizzlies can win.

If the Grizzlies cannot win, this goal has no value.

In the first quarter, the Grizzlies could only tie with the Supersonics even though they went all out. This really gave the Grizzlies a great sense of crisis.

No matter how big your advantage is in the game, a tie is a tie.

Since the first quarter was a tie, the Grizzlies will have to get back on their feet in the second quarter.

This season's Grizzlies, Lakers and Heat are called super teams.

The Grizzlies, Lakers and Heat are super, not only in the starting lineup, but also in the substitute rotation lineups of these three teams.

The players who stayed on the court at the beginning of the second quarter of the Grizzlies were Gasol, Hakim Warrick, Mike Miller, Lowry and Andre Miller.

The Grizzlies' rotation lineup this season is generally one main player with four substitutes.

In tonight's game, because Gasol played Millsap very easily, he took the substitutes in the second quarter.

Although the Grizzlies' nine-man rotation is not as crazy as the Sonics' ten-man rotation, it is still considered a very large rotation in a strong team of this level.

And the remaining four rotation players of the Grizzlies, Warrick, Mike Miller, Lowry, and Andre Miller, are all extremely high-quality role players who are now capable of averaging 10 points per game in the NBA.

Warrick has been in the Grizzlies for five seasons.

In the past three seasons, his average score was all above 11 points. This season, because of the arrival of McGrady, his scoring data must have dropped, but as a 27-year-old player, his strength is naturally impossible to decline. He is still the super substitute who can get 12+5 in 24 minutes per game last season. He can shoot and jump. All-around forward. This Anthony Pippen at Syracuse University is one of the best all-around forwards on the bench in the league, a typical player whose strength is greater than his fame.

Mike Miller, in the previous few seasons before McGrady came, he had always been a starter, averaging more than 15 points per game. After McGrady came, he played as a substitute, averaging only about 10 points per game, but Mike Miller's shooting percentage has risen sharply this season, especially the three-point shooting percentage. This season, Mike Miller's three-point shooting percentage is as high as 50% so far, which is terrifying. Of course, for him, a 50% three-point shooting percentage is not too surprising. After all, he is already one of the league's top shooters. His three-point shooting percentage in his rookie season was 40%. In the past four seasons, his three-point shooting percentage in the Grizzlies has been above 40%. Now that he has come to the bench, it is not surprising that his shooting is stronger after facing less defensive pressure.

Andre Miller, this is the meat that the Grizzlies snatched from the Lakers and Heat this summer. The former Nuggets and 76ers star point guard chose to leave the 76ers to pursue his dream. He was moved by the Grizzlies' sincerity and came to Memphis. Last season in the 76ers, Miller could get 16+7. This season, Miller's playing time has decreased, but his data can still reach 8+6. It can be seen that his strength and state are quite good.

Lowry, this young guard is definitely the biggest surprise for the Grizzlies this season. The Grizzlies' starting lineup has many unreasonable players, but the Grizzlies' substitute rotation players have always lacked a stable explosive player. The Grizzlies can't always let McGrady or Carter lead the bench. These two are actually the players with the least substitutes for the Grizzlies.

In this case, the Grizzlies need a real super sixth man who can be an all-in-one offensive machine, like Barea, who was once the Supersonics.

But such a player is not so easy to get. This summer, the Grizzlies were quite uncomfortable because they didn't win Barea over the Mavericks and Bibby over the Lakers.

However, I really didn't expect that Lowry this season seemed to have come to his senses.

The Grizzlies were able to use a nine-man rotation so calmly this season, which had a lot to do with Lowry's big explosion this season.

Lowry has grown into a super sixth man who can stand on his own, so the Grizzlies can easily let any of their starting players lead the bench in the bench lineup. The starting core player who leads the bench will not be under too much pressure, and sometimes he just needs to stand there in the bench lineup as a wingman for Lowry.

In fact, the Grizzlies' rotation lineup this season is a style of play in which the other four players act as wingmen to maximize the power of Lowry, the little steel cannon.

Andre Miller passed the ball to Lowry, Mike Miller opened up space for Lowry, and Warrick used his comprehensive skills and explosive body to cover Lowry, while the core player under him served as a strategic containment point for Lowry. If the opponent puts heavy troops on Lowry, this containment point can also exchange identities with Lowry.

This set of play of the Grizzlies' rotation lineup has been invincible this season.

The Grizzlies' rhythm is not that fast, the offense is not that explosive, and the scoring efficiency is not too high.

But the Grizzlies can explode their opponents so many points in each game, which is inseparable from the Grizzlies' quite distinctive substitute rotation lineup.

Even among the rotation lineups of the three super teams of the Heat, the Lakers and the Grizzlies, the Grizzlies' rotation lineup has the highest evaluation from experts.

"The Grizzlies' rotation lineup is the most disciplined of the three super teams."

Not only those experts in newspapers and on TV, but also Kenny Smith praised the Grizzlies' rotation lineup.

The rotation lineups of the Lakers and the Heat are indeed stronger.

The Heat's sixth man is All-Star Ben Gordon.

The Lakers' sixth man is players of the level of Odom, Mike Bibby, and O'Neal.

The Grizzlies' sixth man is Lowry, who is just starting out and is only in his fourth NBA season.

But if we really compare the combat effectiveness, the rotation lineups of the Heat and the Lakers may not be able to exert the combat effectiveness of the Grizzlies.

Of course, whether it is the Supersonics, the Heat or the Grizzlies, the combat effectiveness of the rotation lineup is of course stronger than that of the Supersonics.

"The rotation lineup of the Supersonics in this game is still full rotation, Gasol, Ibaka, Tucker, James Harden and Sessions. The Supersonics did not change their rotation method because of the special opponent tonight."

Kenny Smith's evaluation of the Supersonics' rotation lineup is actually good. After Barea left, it is difficult to estimate how the Supersonics' rotation lineup will perform when facing strong teams and critical moments.

But after James Harden replaced Barea as the sixth man, he was really strong when he was bullying the weak, even stronger than when Barea was there.

In fact, James Harden showed his good ability to bully the weak in the second half of last season, but in the critical moment of the finals, James Harden was really lame...

Although this season the league is focusing on cracking down on various types of free throw frauds like James Harden, Kevin Martin and Durant.

But to be honest, it is difficult for referees to be so strict in regular season games.

Especially in some ordinary regular season games, referees actually have a lot of their own standards.

This gives players like James Harden and Kevin Martin a lot of creative space.

Just like Kevin Martin could average 25 points per game last season, no one would admit that Kevin Martin has the strength of an All-Star.

Even if James Harden averages 15 points per game this season, no one would think that his real strength can compare with Barea or other leagues' super sixth men.

You can't say this is prejudice, because this is the fact.

This season, the super-high tempo and super-high average points of the Supersonics have covered up many, many real things, but some real things cannot be covered up by high data.

Just like Kevin Martin, no matter how many consecutive years he averaged 20+, no one would regard him as an All-Star player.

So, when the substitute rotation lineups of the Grizzlies and Supersonics were put out, it was not only Kenny Smith who thought that the Grizzlies could beat the Supersonics.

Many people in front of the TV thought that the Grizzlies would beat the Supersonics. Facing a strong team like the Grizzlies, it was a risk or even a mistake for the Supersonics not to have a starting core player in the rotation lineup.

Even Barkley thought so.

Yes felt that he and his Supersonics were underestimated by the experts in the league this season.

Those expert media were biased against him and his team.

In fact, it was not just the media experts who were biased against the Supersonics, even Barkley, a die-hard coconut powder fan, was biased against the Supersonics and other players.

So Barkley deeply sympathized with Kenny Smith's concerns.

Because in his mind, James Harden is the defensive player who defeated Barea by selling PP to get the sixth man of the Supersonics, but in fact he can only defend.

Barea was taken away by James Harden, and now there are still many Supersonics fans and coconut powder who are very unhappy.

Can't you, James Harden, be a defensive stalwart in the Supersonics? You have to be so ambitious to be the sixth man, and you are not afraid of being full!

With your strength, how can you be the sixth man?

Even if you have too many bonuses from garbage time this season, your average points per game will explode, but it can't change the nature that you can only defend!

There are many garbage times, the game intensity is not high, and James Harden is the kind of player who is "shameless" when brushing, so his average of 15 points per game this season did not bring him an improvement in reputation, and even his reputation has declined. He was ranked the second worst player by ESPN judges, second only to Kevin Martin, the first player.

James Harden is evaluated in this way, and Ibaka and Sessions' evaluations are naturally impossible to be good.

On the contrary, Marc Gasol and Tucker received good reviews. After all, James Harden and Ibaka Sessions have been putting up a lot of stats in garbage time this season, but Tucker and Gasol have not.

Especially Tucker. For Tucker, being able to make a three-pointer in the NBA is not about brushing data. For Tucker, brushing data should be an open basket under the basket.

Under such tinted glasses, the Supersonics only have two players who are worth watching, Gasol and Tucker.

James Harden, Ibaka and Sessions are all data brushes who are not worthy of their positions and are not worthy of their reputations.

The opponents are players like Gasol, Mike Miller, Andre Miller, Warrick, and Lowry.

It is reasonable for the Supersonics to be crushed by the Grizzlies in the rotation lineup, right?

Whether in terms of talent or reputation, both sides are not at the same level.

No matter how amazing Yes's ability to train players is, it is impossible to raise them to the same level as these Grizzlies players in such a short period of time.

These Supersonics players can be data brushes in the NBA, which is already Yes's strong training ability. Most of these people don't even have the potential to be brushes in the NBA!

The second quarter of the game began.

The Grizzlies fans who were suppressed by Yes for a whole quarter in the first quarter finally revived.

The pent-up anger in the first quarter was finally released in the second quarter.

In the second quarter, the Sonics attacked first, and James Harden took the baseline pass from Gasol and advanced across the half court.

Facing James Harden, Lowry was somewhat disdainful.

Any player with a straight playing style and personality does not like players like James Harden and Kevin Martin.

"Kyle, beat this bearded man!"

"Kyle, let this bearded man beep for you!"

"Kyle, you are the best sixth man in the NBA this season!"

Ignoring the frenzy of the Grizzlies fans next to him, Lowry's eyes were always on this man with dull eyes, who looked very honest, but actually had a very wretched playing style.

He was not as tall as this wretched bearded man. To defend him, you couldn't give him shooting space, and you needed to stick to him.

As long as you stick this guy to him, and then pay attention to his little tricks that tend to foul, this bearded man is a four-bearded man.

Lowry is very confident!

But...

When Lowry came up and was about to stick to James Harden, the bearded man in front of him actually...

disappeared? !

The originally frenzied Grizzlies fans at the scene suddenly became extremely quiet when they saw James Harden disappear from Lowry's front!

This wretched bearded man didn't use his beard to shake Lowry off when Lowry came up to him and foul?

Instead, he chose to break through!

And it was such a difficult European step to break through!

At such a close distance, he passed Lowry completely like this. James Harden's European step this time was really unprecedentedly crisp and beautiful!

"James is good, is this what James said, the three-turn European step?"

"What three-turn European step, don't listen to that bearded man's nonsense, he doesn't say a word of truth."

James Harden's European step just now was very beautiful, very beautiful.

However, when he heard his teammates' words, Yes's face also showed a smile.

James Harden's words are really unreliable sometimes.

This kid divided the European step into four levels, one turn, two turns, three turns, and the kaleidoscope European step above the three turns.

Kaleidoscope is a toy, a toy about optics and symmetry. The perfect Eurostep is like a kaleidoscope, with the defensive player as a mirror. In an instant, it disappears perfectly from the front of the defensive player to the back of the defensive player.

Of course, it sounds beautiful, but what James Harden really wants to express is that the strongest Eurostep is the one that makes the defensive player like a mirror without any reaction.

Although Lowry was crossed this time, he still reacted.

But Lowry's reaction was still too late.

James Harden had already hit Warrick's help defense and completed a two-point layup.

James Harden's confrontation is very good, especially the confrontation under the basket. He habitually likes to get close to the help defense player when he makes a layup.

Although his body is a little crooked, he will not lose his rhythm. After getting close, James Harden's layup hit rate is even higher.

For James Harden's performance on the court, Yes and the players of the Supersonics think it is normal.

But for the Grizzlies players, fans, commentators, reporters and TV experts, this James Harden is definitely not the James Harden they thought he was!

"One man penetrated the Grizzlies' defense..."

Looking at the Sonics player who was celebrating by "sprinkling salt" on the court, Kenny Smith's eyes were dull.

As the Sonics' exclusive commentator, he is definitely the commentator who knows James Harden best.

I don't know if it was because he wore too many tinted glasses when he watched other Sonics players and Yes's teammates before. When he saw James Harden so calmly penetrate the Grizzlies' defense just now, he really couldn't believe it.

The five players on the Grizzlies court are not that strong in defense, but they are definitely not something that a player like James Harden can penetrate!

If it was Barea who did this, he would definitely not be surprised.

But this person is James Harden!

He used to have some European steps on the court to bully the weak, but this time his opponent is the Grizzlies, one of the strongest teams in the NBA!

Kenny Smith admitted that he was indeed biased against the players of the Supersonics, but as the commentator who knew the Supersonics best, he dared to say that his bias was absolutely the least.

For example, the most controversial players of the Supersonics.

For example, many people now think that Durant is just an ordinary player, who is just lucky and got the favor of Yes. His real strength is only at the quasi-All-Star level, but in his eyes, Durant is a quasi-superstar with All-Star strength, not as good as a superstar like Gay, and even more incomparable to superstars like McGrady and Kobe. Maybe Durant is still underestimated by him, but the underestimation is limited. After all, he is definitely not stronger than Gay. Since he is not as strong as Gay, he is naturally not a superstar. At best, he is a quasi-superstar.

There is also Rondo. Many people think that Rondo is just a role player with special functions. His comprehensive strength is not even that of a quasi-All-Star. However, in Kenny Smith's eyes, Rondo still has the strength of a quasi-All-Star. His passing, defense and organization can make up for those offensive shortcomings. All-Star players do need offense, and Rondo's offense is several levels lower than Kidd. Of course, it is impossible for him to become an All-Star. So even if Rondo is underestimated in his eyes, he will never underestimate him too much. Anyway, he is a quasi-All-Star.

There is also James Harden, a player who averages 15 points per game. In the public opinion of fans and experts, he is like a garbage. Of course, he does not think that James Harden is garbage. In his eyes, James Harden is a very good defensive player, but he is just a defensive player. If he only does defensive things, he will be very good, but this guy is a defensive player with the heart of a scoring champion. This makes people don't know what to say. James Harden is even less likely to be a scoring champion than Rondo.

Rondo is a hero made by the times. Yes wants to keep him because of his passing, organization and defense. Although James Harden's defense is very good, it is not as valuable as Rondo. Yes is impossible to keep him and let him win the scoring title.

It can be said that in Kenny Smith's eyes, James Harden should learn from Bowen throughout his career. He can be a defensive stalwart with a good three-pointer. Scoring and offense are really out of his reach. What's more, he doesn't have such strong efforts and ambition.

But now...

Watching the game between the Grizzlies and the Supersonics on the court.

Kenny Smith feels that his extremely correct evaluation of the Supersonics players is experiencing a cliff-like collapse!

Even Kenny Smith, who claims to be objective and rational in evaluating the Supersonics players, has his three views collapsed when he sees the game between the Supersonics and the Grizzlies, not to mention other viewers who have more tinted glasses for the Supersonics players!

"Lowry, who performed very well this season and was the most popular sixth man, was beaten by James Harden on both offense and defense?!"

"Varrick, who has been very versatile in the five seasons with the Grizzlies, was actually helpless against Ibaka's shooting beauty?!"

"Mike Miller, who has a 50% three-point shooting rate this season, missed all three shots after being entangled by Tucker?!"

"As an All-Star player, Pau Gasol was only tied with his brother Pau Gasol at the center position, and couldn't even beat Pau Gasol like he beat Millsap?!"

"Such a powerful Grizzlies, in the end, could only rely on Andre Miller to back-up Sessions to maintain the score difference?!"

"The Grizzlies' rotation lineup should have crushed the Seattle Supersonics' rotation lineup, but was defeated so easily by the Supersonics' rotation lineup?!"

The Grizzlies' home FedExCenter was silent after the boiling!

The audience in front of the TV was stunned by the close-up of the Sonics No. 9 on the TV.

Even Kobe was stunned with his eyes wide open.

This season, the Lakers lost to the Grizzlies, and he knew that the Grizzlies' rotation lineup was strong.

"Not at the same level, the Grizzlies' rotation lineup is not at the same level as the Sonics' rotation lineup!"

The players in the Sonics' rotation lineup are not the second picks like Durant and Milicic.

The Sonics' rotation players are really some real garbage with low rankings!

And these garbage can now beat one of the strongest rotation lineups in the league!

Yes, this kid's ability to force growth is too strong, right? !

68 to 60!

When the first half of the Sonics and Grizzlies ended, the Sonics actually led by 8 points into the second half, and many people in front of the TV were not calm.

"We need to really understand the strength of the Sonics this time!"

The amount of information in the first half of the Sonics and Grizzlies was really too much!

"Maybe the Sonics' hard power is not the eighth in the league, but the top three in the league!"

The world outside the court is very, very lively now.

In sharp contrast to the world outside the court is the world inside the court.

The entire FedEx Arena was really quiet at the end of the half.

Before the start of this game, no Grizzlies fan would have thought of such a result.

The starters pressed the opponent, but the score could not be ahead.

The rotation lineup, which is known as one of the strongest in the league, was blown up by the opponent's rotation lineup!

In the end, the Grizzlies, who are known as the strongest in history, were led by the Sonics by 8 points in the half despite the advantage on the field!

At the end of the first half, Grizzlies head coach Hollins, Grizzlies players and Grizzlies fans seemed to feel like they were dreaming.

"Is this the Supersonics?"

"Is this really not a dream?"

Kenny Smith was stunned as he looked at the score on the scoreboard.

Barkley next to him was screaming.

Not far away, David Stern and his assistants were clapping crazily in silence...