Chapter 585 The Person Who Is More Important than Victory!

Now Durant's defense is not as bad as before. After more than a month of targeted efforts, Durant's defensive habits are much better.

However, defense is not something that can be improved quickly in more than a month of assault. It requires a lot of time and experience to hone.

As far as Durant is concerned now, facing Anthony who started with such a strong start, it is already very good that Durant is not as embarrassed as before.

If it were in the past, according to Durant's bad habit of reaching out randomly and crisply, Anthony's opening attack would not be just a two-pointer. In addition to the two centimeters, I am afraid there will also be a +1 free throw.

Anthony's first attack was so powerful that the SuperSonics fans at the scene felt incredible.

However, for the SuperSonics players, this was something that was expected before the game. The SuperSonics players were even a little satisfied that Durant was not knocked down by Anthony and did not complete an open dunk by Anthony.

It's just obvious that Durant, who doesn't want to be a burden in this game, will certainly not be satisfied with his defense this time.

However, what makes Durant even more uncomfortable is that no matter how dissatisfied he is with his defensive performance this time, he is not qualified to glare back at Anthony like Anthony just 'glared' yes.

In Anthony's eyes, he didn't exist at all.

When Anthony came down from the basket after dunking on him just now, he didn't have any position in his eyes at all.

This feeling of being ignored even made Durant even more uncomfortable.

He is a sensitive person.

He admitted he was trash.

But he doesn't allow anyone except Yes to think that he is trash!

Except for yes, no one can hurt his self-esteem like this.

However, his strength was no way to protect his low self-esteem.

What did he do in response to Anthony's contempt and disregard?

Should he be the scoring champion or the All-Star starter?

His two identities are a joke in the playoffs.

Those statistics and honors that rely on the large number of opportunities obtained from yes are the least valuable in the playoffs.

Now, perhaps what he needs to consider is not to get back the court from Anthony. What he needs now is to try to stay as much time on the court as possible.

As for the others, the regular season scoring leader and the All-Star starter, these identities have nothing to do with him here.

Now he needs to play a good role, try his best to help yes defeat the Nuggets, and try his best to contribute more in this victory.

"Anthony's provocation to yes just now is very obvious. Will this game become a showdown between yes and Anthony from the beginning?!"

After Anthony scored the first attack, commentators and media from all over the world on the sidelines of Key Arena are now looking forward to the next development of this game.

After the All-Star Game, yes hasn't competed against other superstars in the league for a while!

After the All-Star Game, the whole world knew what Yes had been doing on the court.

yes is doing its best to cultivate Durant. Whether it is ball rights, shooting rights, or other rights, yes is fully cooperating with Durant's growth.

The direct result of this is that yes's data has dropped significantly, both in points and assists. Shot rights have declined, ball rights have declined, and scores and assists will naturally decline.

If yes's scoring efficiency were not too high, yes's scoring average this season would probably drop to 30 points per game.

This season, yes's scoring average barely reached 30+, averaging 30.1 points, 7.5 rebounds and 9.5 assists per game.

This statistic is a pretty outstanding statistic, but combined with a % shooting rate and an average of less than 18 shots per game, the whole world knows that yes can score more points with a slightly worse shooting rate and can use more The possession of the ball leads to more assists.

If yes takes back the shot and ball rights given to Durant, then yes will average 35+7+10 per game this season, which will be easy.

It can be said that precisely because of these data, the media and fans across the United States are quite dissatisfied with Yes' focus on cultivating Durant in the game.

If it weren't for the SuperSonics' record, they would have always maintained an excellent record.

I'm afraid they can't stand it for a long time.

Yes' training after the All-Star Game was completely meaningless.

In the game between the SuperSonics and the Suns, the whole world clearly saw Durant's potential.

This is a player with only a quasi-All-Star level.

yes used his large amount of ball rights to quickly elevate Durant to a quasi-All-Star level in the first half of the season, which is already very worthy of Durant.

Even Durant himself can't ask for more, right?

In this case, Yes should decisively give up training Durant. Even if it wants to continue to train its own teammates, it should choose others, such as Sonics backup point guard Sessions and others.

But yes's final choice is really incredible.

yes still never abandons Durant. Even if he knows that Durant's potential is just that, he is still trying his best to cultivate Durant.

yes doesn't care about his regular season data at all, as if he would not hesitate to break his record of 20+ points per game or break his record of averaging more than 30 points per game in all seasons of his career.

yes's lack of emphasis on regular season statistics has shocked the world and those fans who want yes to give up Durant.

However, in the end, these people accepted it. After all, yes is not a person who likes to chase data.

yes If he is the kind of person who chases data and devours data, it will be impossible for his teammates to play well.

Since data has no appeal to yes, then victory should always be attractive, right?

Victory is indeed very attractive to yes.

Because the basis for yes' training of Durant is that the Sonics have always been winning.

As long as the SuperSonics can maintain victory, Yes will not give up cultivating Durant.

In yes's mind, Durant's status is very high. Perhaps the only thing that can have a higher status than Durant is winning the game.

Unless yes knows that if he continues to train Durant recklessly, he will have to pay the price of winning the game, he will completely give up on Durant.

And now, this is such a situation!

Facing such a powerful Nuggets, if yes dares to continue to train Durant, then it will naturally pay the price of winning the game.

No one in the world thinks that the Sonics and Yes can beat the Sonics if they train Durant.

Not even one game is possible!

When media experts across the United States were predicting this game, the reason why the SuperSonics could win three games was not because of anything else, but because they believed that Yes would be full of power in this series.

Yes, who was on full fire, scored in the first half of the playoffs. He was the only two players in history to score 60+ points in a single game in the playoffs. He was also the only player in NBA history to score more points in all playoff games. 30 point player!

With such a player at full firepower, he can naturally defeat any opponent.

The Sonics are no match for the Nuggets in this series.

But in order for the Sonics to lose decently and to win these three games, yes will no longer bother with a lagging player like Durant in the playoffs.

By then, whether Durant will become the scoring leader with the widest disparity between regular season and playoff scoring in NBA history, and eventually be recorded on the NBA's historical pillar of shame, then it has nothing to do with yes.

Even Durant himself didn't have the shame to tell Yes and ask Yes to keep him and protect him.

Of course, yes will give up Durant in the playoffs in order to win. In the end, Durant will change from the scoring leader averaging 35 points per game to a role player averaging about 10 points per game. These are the speculations of the national media and experts.

Yes, of course it is possible to continue to train Durant.

As long as yes does this, it proves that Durant's status in yes's heart is higher than victory!

The whole world knows how great the meaning of victory is in yes's mind.

Victory has an almost supreme status in yes's mind.

Is there anything or people more important than victory in yes's mind?

Indeed there is.

In Yes's basketball career, the only person or group of people who made him give up victory was the other four Garfield Five.

How can Durant and Howard compare to the Garfield Five?

Even if you ask Durant himself, ask him if he thinks he can be comparable to the Garfield Five in Yes's mind.

No matter how high Durant's status is in yes's heart, it is impossible to reach the level of the Garfield Five.

"Now, welcome us to the performance time of yes!"

In the commentary box of Key Arena, TNT commentator Barkley even shouted excitedly now.

It's been too long, fans across the United States haven't seen those amazing performances of yes on the playoff stage!

It has been nearly a year since yes' last playoff performance.

Although yes also had many unparalleled performances in the regular season.

But who doesn't know that yes in the playoffs is much better than yes in the regular season.

The yes in the regular season was never scoring less.

The yes in the playoffs is that the score is never lower!

After Rondo slowly pushed the ball across half court, he handed the basketball to yes's hands in anticipation.

"Since everyone wants to see your performance, I will allow you to perform in this game!"

After Rondo transferred the basketball from his hand to Ye Si's hand in anticipation, he glanced at Durant, who was standing to the side like a gangster, out of the corner of his eye.

The more than a month after the All-Star Game ended was the most difficult month for Er Ye.

Why would the second master pass the ball to someone like Du Shiwu?

Why would Erye want to assist someone like Du Shiwu?

Why can someone like Du Shiwu look like the protagonist in the game, while the second master can only look like a subordinate and a supporting role?

Are you willing?

Of course not willingly!

This guy Du Shishi should be like now, just like everyone else, a supporting role next to yes!

How could someone as sensitive as Durant fail to notice Rondo's gloating and contempt.

Normally, Durant would have glared back at Rondo.

But now, Durant has no intention of doing such a thing.

Moreover, the contempt in Rondo's eyes was not wrong.

That's exactly the kind of player he is.

He himself has never been arrogant and arrogant, thinking that after Yes gave him a supporting role for more than a month or two, he became the protagonist of the Sonics.

In Sonics, there is always only one protagonist who is yes!

He would not think that yes had trained him in that way for more than a month, and he would ask yes to treat him in that way all the time.

Rondo doesn't need to remind him, he knows himself!

He is now ready to respond to yes's attack.

Yes attacks first, but when the attack is blocked, he, like Rondo or other Sonics players, is just a connecting point next to Yes.

This is the playoffs!

He will adapt to his new role in the playoffs, a new role with no shooting rights, no ball rights, only defense and responsibility!

Durant felt the craziness of the SuperSonics fans at the scene, and also felt how eager these crazies were to respond to Anthony's provocation in this attack.

Anthony clearly ravaged him, but he was not qualified to respond, but he responded with yes. This is the reality. Although he is unwilling to do so, he must accept the reality.

Durant feels he is ready to adapt to the different roles in the regular season and playoffs.

But he couldn't calm down right away.

You say you have adapted, but how could you adapt so quickly!

After all, in the last game, he was the most special one next to yes!

It’s natural to worry about gains and losses!

Um? !

Just when Durant was worrying about gains and losses, Durant seemed to feel that the originally crazy Key Arena suddenly became quiet.

When he came back to his senses, he felt a flow of air, and Durant subconsciously held the flow in his hand.

Durant looked down at the flying basketball. His confused eyes widened and narrowed sharply.

Blue, basketball? !

"Yes, he just passed his hand and handed the basketball in Durant's hand?!"

Seeing the scene on TV, Kobe and the Lakers players around him were stunned.

They were just like the fans at the scene, but they were also looking forward to the showdown and response between yes and Anthony!

"Yes, I want Durant to respond to Anthony!"

"yes knew clearly that Durant couldn't respond to Anthony, but he still gave Durant a chance!"

"Is it possible that Durant is preparing to train Durant who has no potential and is only at the All-Star level in the playoffs with the Nuggets?!"

The Lakers players, who had just defeated the Spurs, were still looking at each other in disbelief.

"Durant's status in yes's heart is higher than victory!"

When yes handed the basketball in his hand directly to Durant's hand without stopping, the TV instantly became an uproar after a brief silence.

Soon, the Lakers got the answer they wanted.

It should be said that the whole world got the answer they wanted!

"Yes is really continuing to cultivate Durant, who has no potential, in the playoffs with the Nuggets!"

And Durant didn't disappoint.

The first quarter of the game between the Seattle SuperSonics and Denver Nuggets ends.

Durant handed over the SuperSonics' single-quarter score!

"This is an unbearable burden, but yes, I am willing to bear it for Durant..."

Looking at the Sonics No. 9 on TV who still had an extremely determined face, Kobe seemed to feel that his three views had been refreshed.

Is it really necessary to do this...

"I am more important than victory..."

On the SuperSonics bench, Durant's hand was tightly covered with a towel on his head.

The look on Durant's face under the towel was one of surprise, shock, sluggishness, and deep pain...

He doesn't deserve this love...