Chapter 509: ‘Scientific Raising of Du Du’ and Jerry Sloan’s Confidence!
The first quarter of the game between the Seattle SuperSonics and the Utah Jazz was very bloody.
The two teams scored a total of 29 points in the first quarter!
You know, the Seattle SuperSonics averaged more than 115 points per game this season, and the Seattle SuperSonics averaged more than 29 points per quarter this season.
In the first quarter of this game, both teams were extremely uncomfortable!
The Utah Jazz's pick-and-roll tactics couldn't work when facing the SuperSonics, and it turned into isolations between Deron, Boozer and other players.
But whether it's Deron playing Yes, Boozer playing Millsap, Okur playing Milicic, Fisher playing Rondo, Kirilenko playing Durant, it's not that easy to play.
What about the Seattle SuperSonics?
Because Durant was unexpectedly in a disadvantageous position in the physical battle with Fisher, it directly led to a lot of mistakes in the Seattle SuperSonics' offense.
Durant's jaw-dropping mistakes in the first quarter made the Seattle Supersonics fans on the sidelines really think, "What are these things?"
Even if they come on the court, can they catch these magical passes from Yes?
Durant is a big man over 2.06 meters tall, but it’s so uncomfortable being pinned down by Fisher?
Do you want it to be so soft?
Why didn't you realize that Durant had such a big shortcoming before?
If Yes hadn't always said that he didn't want to hear boos to his teammates at home, the SuperSonics fans at the scene would have booed Durant.
This game is so uncomfortable to watch, okay?
And Yes, it’s true, why is Durant in such poor condition, with such poor physical fighting ability, and still has to pass the ball to Durant? Yes’s indulgence and love for Durant are beyond imagination, right?
You know, Yes made a total of 5 mistakes in the first quarter, all because of Durant!
Yes's career highest number of turnovers in a single game is five!
In this game, Yes tied his career turnover record in just one game.
The Seattle SuperSonics have so many players who can pass the ball.
Why must it be passed to Durant?
There are so many players the Sonics could be developing.
Why must we train Durant?
Even if you don't pass the ball and let Yes throw it by himself, the effect will be better than this!
The Seattle SuperSonics fans at the scene are very incomprehensible.
Not to mention the SuperSonics fans at the scene, even the media reporters from all over the United States and the world on the sidelines couldn't understand it.
The importance of this game does not need to be elaborated too much. This game is a game that determines the status of the Seattle SuperSonics in the post-All-Star sprint.
If they win, their third place in the Western Conference will be as secure as a dog.
If you lose, you will have to accept the challenge like the Spurs last season.
In the regular season, they tried their best to maintain the third position in the Western Conference.
With the thickness of the Seattle SuperSonics' lineup and their best efforts in the regular season, it's really hard to say how much gas they have left in the playoffs.
This season is different from last season.
This season the strength of the Western Conference teams has risen to a new level.
Even teams like the Suns and Rockets have to pay far more than they did last season if they want to win a game against the Western Conference teams.
Not to mention supersonic speed.
Even the Suns and Rockets, if given a chance to make a choice, they would not be willing to be so crazy in the regular season.
Even if the Suns have a historical position to fight for, they still hope to win simply without being under so much pressure.
Both the Rockets and Suns put too much pressure on each other.
The strings are now tight for both teams.
The fact that the Rockets and Suns can continue to be tight doesn't mean that the Seattle SuperSonics can do this.
In the eyes of these media reporters from all over the United States and the world, winning this game and establishing the third position in the Western Conference in advance is their only chance to break through the first round of the playoffs this season.
The Lakers, Spurs and Nuggets, who are fourth to sixth in the Western Conference, are all stronger than the SuperSonics. All the Seattle SuperSonics can rely on is recharged and waiting.
Isn't it just giving up on Durant?
Isn't it just garbage that ranks No. 1 on ESPN's garbage list?
Do you really think that his scoring champion is the real scoring champion?
It's just an average of 32 shots per game!
There are as many such players as you want in this world.
Yes, there is no need to risk his reputation for such a player.
If he fails in the first round of the playoffs once in his career, it will be a stain on Yes's entire career.
But Yes's choice really made the reporters at the scene unbelievable.
Yes, for Durant, he could make 5 turnovers in a single quarter!
Yes made five turnovers in the first quarter, in exchange for Durant taking 4 shots and hitting 1 of them!
This efficiency is too low!
With five turnovers and four shots, Yes found Durant nine times in the first quarter. As usual, Durant should have nine shots. According to Durant's recent shooting rate, he should be able to hit. 4 of them.
In the first quarter of this game, Yes's nine opportunities to find Durant only turned into one shot!
"Durant's true strength is too bad!"
"No one has ever paid attention to him before. They all think that he is a hindrance to Yes. They all want him to stay with Yes for a longer time and hinder Yes's growth for a longer time. They are also happy to see him by Yes' side. Get a lot of shots.”
"Before the start of this game, other teams in the league were actually 'scientifically raising students'!"
"Jerry Sloan's approach initially appeared to many people as killing the 'Du' that everyone had worked so hard to raise for victory. I didn't expect... I really didn't expect it!"
The dumbfounded Popovich recovered from his dumbfounded state, with shock still on his face.
Yes actually didn’t give up on Durant!
Durant's goose was not slaughtered!
How did Jerry Sloan know Yes wouldn't give up on Durant? !
How did Jerry Sloan determine that Yes would support Durant until the end and train Durant until the end? !
Popovich really can’t understand it now.
Yes, no matter how much he likes players like Durant and Rondo, if he discovers that players like Durant and Rondo are unlikely to succeed in the NBA, he will not be able to pay such a price to train them.
Therefore, many players in many teams in the NBA are not only cultivating talents scientifically, but some are actually cultivating talents scientifically.
In short, the longer these players can hold Yes back, the better.
Yes is destined to dominate the NBA in the future.
They don't want to prevent this from happening, but they can hope that it happens as late as possible.
"This is a Pandora's box!"
Popovich looked at the Sonics No. 35 on TV. This was really a Pandora's box opened by Jerry Sloan!
When Jerry Sloan lets the world discover that even if they don't raise Durant, Yes will not kill Durant or give up on Durant, then the SuperSonics' season will be difficult!
The disadvantage of this game is that the Sonics played the Jazz. If they had played other strong teams in the Western Conference...
The one leading the game right now will definitely not be the Seattle SuperSonics!
The Seattle SuperSonics were too restrained against the Utah Jazz.
"But...the Seattle SuperSonics are really strong right now!"
Jerry Sloan not only told the world in the first quarter of this game that everyone can deal with Durant casually, but Yes will definitely not give up on Durant.
At the same time, it also told the world how terrible the Seattle SuperSonics were under the training of Yes.
Facing the Jazz, who played seven games with the Spurs in the playoffs last season, the Seattle SuperSonics' five starting players faced off directly. Except for Durant, no one of the other four suffered a disadvantage.
It's incredible.
You know, the Seattle SuperSonics were still in devastation last season.
"It seems we need to really face up to the current strength of the Seattle SuperSonics!"
The Seattle SuperSonics, once the weakest team in NBA history, are definitely a very capable team even without the leadership of Yes!
"This may also be the reason why Yes does not give up on Durant!"
Without Yes's ultimate selflessness, which always puts his teammates and the team in the same position as himself, how could those Seattle SuperSonics players who are considered to be all trash improve so quickly!
"It turns out that this is what Jerry Sloan relies on. He understands Yes better than anyone else. He can grasp Yes's weaknesses better than anyone else. Yes's perfection is his biggest weakness!"
Popovich's eyes were getting brighter as he watched the TV.
At this time, Jerry Sloan, who was sitting in front of the Jazz bench, also had his eyes shining.
His guess was correct, Yes could not give up Durant!
Durant is not the best trash in history!
Yes knows Durant has qualities similar to Karl Malone!
Yes knows Durant can be his best teammate in the NBA!
Yes, even if he sacrifices himself, he will not sacrifice Durant!
The Seattle SuperSonics are still one point ahead of the Jazz, but Jerry Sloan, who detected the bottom line of Yes, discovered that this mere one-point advantage is nothing.
Durant's characteristics similar to Karl Malone, coupled with Durant meeting the right person, can make Durant's achievements very high in the future.
Maybe Durant can become as powerful a player as Karl Malone in the future.
But now, Durant is still the garbage that ranks first and second in history!
In the first quarter of the game, Yes created 9 opportunities for him, only allowing him to score 3 points on 1-for-4.
No one may believe it, but the Jazz's 14 points in the first quarter was definitely not a normal performance by the Jazz.
The Jazz will definitely feel better in the next three quarters and their scoring will definitely go up.
As for the SuperSonics, as long as Yes doesn't give up on Durant, as long as Yes still gives Durant more than 30 opportunities per game.
Then the first quarter only passed 9 times.
There are still 21 more chances!
How many shots will Durant convert these 21 opportunities into?
Up to 11 times!
In 11 shots, based on Durant's 1-for-4 shooting percentage in the first quarter, what will be the final shooting percentage?
Up to 3 out of 11!
In other words, Durant will use 21 opportunities to create 3 hits in the future!
In other words, in the future, Durant will strike 8 times by himself and contribute 10 turnovers to Yes!
In this case, if the Jazz can't beat the Seattle SuperSonics yet.
Then he can really take his team to jump in the salt lake!
The probability of the Utah Jazz losing in this game is higher than his favorite disciple Deron Williams betraying him!
Coming off the court and sitting next to Yes, Durant felt uncomfortable.
He could feel the extremely dissatisfied looks from his teammates around him.
This is the first time in his career that he has wasted so many opportunities.
He clearly knew that Yes hated mistakes, but he made Yes make five mistakes in the first quarter!
He felt very uncomfortable now, and it wasn't because of his own performance.
More is for Yes!
Yes obviously hates mistakes, but in order to create opportunities for him and not give up on him, he still keeps using his own mistakes in exchange for his right to take action.
In previous games, as long as Yes passed the ball to him, he would take 32 shots in 34 passes. The conversion rate of the passes was extremely high.
Now that he was targeted by Fisher, Yes' 9 passes to him could only be converted into 4 shot opportunities.
He used to be almost 100% able to catch Yes' epic passes.
And now, he couldn't even catch half of it.
If the errors caused by the other half that he couldn't catch were counted on him, he would feel better.
Anyway, it doesn't matter to him now.
If you are scolded, you will be scolded.
But it was obviously his problem, but now he was going to punish Yes.
This is hard to accept.
Durant was touched by Yes's support.
At the same time, Yes's support made Durant very uneasy.
Because he doesn't know when Yes will be disappointed in him.
If he is Yes and his teammates have a turnover-making and iron-making machine like Durant, how long can he last?
He didn't know how long he would hold on, the only thing he knew was that he would definitely escape!
Either drive that teammate away, or leave alone if the teammate can't drive him away!
Durant looked at Yes beside him with his peripheral vision anxiously.
Yes was watching the game intently.
The Seattle SuperSonics rotation players performed very well.
The Seattle SuperSonics' rotation players, who were beaten by the world last season, can now beat the Jazz's bench players.
Seeing these teammates, Durant felt even more uncomfortable. When everyone was contributing to Yes, he was the only one holding back.
Not to mention the future, even if Yes gave up on him in this game, he would not have any complaints.
Now the expression on Ye Si's face is very calm, and not far away, the expression on Jerry Sloan's face is also very calm.
The calm expression on Jerry Sloan's face seems to make people wonder whether the Jazz players who are being beaten on the court really have nothing to do with him.
At the end of the second quarter rotation time, when the starting lineups of the two teams came on the stage again, the score was now 30 to 24, and the Seattle SuperSonics were already 6 points ahead!
But the expression on Jerry Sloan's face is still full of the confidence of a winner!
He is now waiting for Durant's blacksmithing frenzy and Yes's turnover frenzy to help the Jazz win!