Chapter 586: The Powerful Nuggets and the Deceptive Durant

From the beginning of the game between the SuperSonics and the Nuggets, everyone saw the dedication and determination of the Nuggets players in this game.

Anthony's more determined hard play, Billups' more steady rhythm control, Hamilton's better off-ball movement, Camby's excellent assist defense when he no longer pursues block data, and Nene's more tenacious struggle at the basket...

With the whole world optimistic, the Nuggets used their performance to tell the world, what kind of method they were using to tell everyone, and how they wanted to turn this optimism into victory.

"The Nuggets are too strong!"

"The most difficult team to beat in the first round of the Western Conference playoffs is well-deserved. This team's current state cannot be achieved by any team, not even the top seven in the Western Conference!"

In the final sprint of the Western Conference playoffs, the Nuggets' record was quite brutal. The Rockets, Suns, Lakers, Spurs, and Grizzlies almost destroyed each one.

This team has made an incredible improvement in strength and condition after the All-Star Game.

In the regular season, this team was the most difficult team to beat in the final Western Conference sprint.

And in the playoffs, this team still maintained such an incredible state.

"If we meet the Nuggets in this game, we will lose, and we will lose miserably!"

After Turkoglu finished speaking, almost all the surrounding Lakers players nodded subconsciously.

Everyone is an NBA professional player, and a top professional player. As long as everyone is not blind, you can see how focused the Nuggets players on TV are on this game.

With such concentration, such state, and such strength, this team is really a buggy team now!

Compared with other Lakers players, Kobe agrees more with Turkoglu's words.

There are two figures on TV that he is very familiar with!

Billups and Hamilton, these are two names that he will never forget in his life.

In this game, he saw strong traces of the tragic 2004 finals in these two people.

The first game of the playoffs,

With such a state, the Nuggets are really prepared not to give the SuperSonics any chance!

The Nuggets' current meaning is obviously that if they can beat the Sonics 4-1, it will definitely not be 4-2, and if they can sweep the Sonics 4-0, it will definitely not be 4-1!

As soon as this game started, the Nuggets were really ready to swallow Yes and the SuperSonics in one go.

"Yes is really unlucky. The fourth record in NBA history. In the first round of the playoffs, we met perhaps the strongest team in the first round in NBA history..."

Kidd has always disliked Yes and has always hated the Sonics.

But now, when he looked at the figure of Sonics Nine on TV, his face was full of sympathy.

This is really too tragic!

Before this series started, the whole world knew that yes was the unluckiest player in history.

If there is an element of luck in the careers of historical superstars such as Jordan and Magic, then there is some element of luck in their success or reaching the top.

But yes, he really has no luck in this regard.

His talent is the chosen one, and his luck is the real bad luck!

Kidd has been in the NBA for so many years, and he has never seen such an unlucky player.

At the beginning of his career, he had to lead the weakest team in history, which was robbed by the Raptors.

Entering the playoffs for the first time in his career, he has to play against the league's number one Dallas Mavericks.

Entering the playoffs for the second time in his career, he finally got the fourth best record in history. However, he was ranked first in history and third in history. In the first round, he had to face perhaps the strongest No. 1 team in history. One round team.

If ordinary people really had such an experience, they would really go crazy.

Kidd has always believed that he was a player who was cheated by the injustice of fate.

He was doing a good job as a master with the Nets, but he was tricked by Rondo inexplicably.

Inexplicably, it became a basic disease and a cancer.

Now, he feels that it would be hypocritical to talk about the injustice of fate in his life experience.

Compared with yes, no one can say that he is an unfair fate!

Look at Yes and the SuperSonics on TV now, and look at Durant who is constantly making mistakes, constantly making mistakes, and constantly embarrassing himself in the first playoffs of his career.

Kidd felt that if he were replaced by yes, his mentality would definitely collapse.

Just like Barkley said on TV, yes wants to make his teammates improve. This is understandable and everyone can understand it.

Because yes knows that if he wants to go further in this year's finals and if he wants to go further in his career, he can't be alone.

He needs the growth of his teammates, and he is willing to give his teammates the opportunity to grow, although we do not want to see yes suppress his own strength and performance and give the opportunity to Durant.

But there is nothing wrong with choosing yes.

It is the highest expression of selflessness, teamwork and dedication.

Maybe the only mistake is that yes chose the wrong person. What he trained was not Pippen, Kobe, McGrady, or other potential people. What he trained was Durant. Such a person only has quasi-All-Star level potential, just A system Novak.

However, can you blame yes for choosing the wrong person?

Looking at the SuperSonics players, Milicic has already reached a period of slow growth in strength. Among the remaining players, Durant is actually the best!

A player with only quasi-All-Star potential is actually the best potential player among the remaining Sonics players.

Yes, if you don’t train Durant, who will you train?

Kidd quite agrees with Barkley's statement.

"Even if it's a pig, with the training method like yes, as long as the pig has All-Star potential, it may reach the All-Star level this season, and Durant is still wandering around in confusion."

His shooting, hesitation in passing, mistakes in breakthroughs, and layups were always blocked by Anthony and then blocked by Camby and Nene behind him.

Under the defense of the Nuggets, the strongest first-round team in history, Durant showed the world what it means to return to reality and what is the truth behind luck.

Seeing how badly Durant was destroyed by the Nuggets on the court, when Kidd sympathized with Yes, he actually found that he also sympathized with Durant a little bit.

Such selflessness and teamwork have never been seen in the history of the NBA.

And Durant, despite being so badly abused, still continued to face failure without flinching. Such players are rare in the history of the NBA.

"In this series, maybe the Denver Nuggets will create a series of 'miracles' on Yes that will never happen!"

"This series may become an unforgettable series that Yes' entire career will never forget!"

Looking at the SuperSonics No. 9 on TV who was being cheated by his teammates, Kobe clearly knew what the words of his teammates around him meant.

Although the teammates around him spoke in a reserved way, the meaning was already very clear.

As an ambitious player, Kobe clearly knows what the highest pursuit of ambitious players in the league is in the NBA.

Although he doesn't want to admit it, catching up with Jordan and surpassing Jordan is what players like them pursue.

He is an ambitious player, and he believes yes is also an ambitious player.

Therefore, for yes, it is not impossible for yes to lose this series with the Nuggets.

The whole world knows what the SuperSonics' strength is. It is almost impossible for the SuperSonics to defeat the Nuggets in this year's playoffs.

In this case, it is certainly acceptable for Yes to eventually lose to the Nuggets.

Losing is acceptable, but losing in this game is unacceptable.

If the next game is still a loss like this game, it will be even more unacceptable.

If this series ends with this game leaving the playoffs, then he will forever lose the chance to surpass Jordan.

As a player who is now recognized as being on an equal footing with Jordan in the future, yes can win many, many championships in the future, and yes can win many, many championships in the future.

But it only takes one series to lose like this.

No matter how many achievements yes has in the future, Jordan will not admit the fact that yes may surpass him, even if yes has really surpassed Jordan at that time.

Jordan: I won't lose more than 20 points in every game in a series.

Jordan: I won't go into a series without leading my opponent even once.

etc……

Kobe could even imagine the joyful smile on Jordan's face after watching this game.

"Before the start of this game, many people were curious about what kind of strength the SuperSonics would be without Yes. The SuperSonics in this game answered your questions very well."

"Accurately speaking, the Sonics in this game are still not the Sonics without Yes. Although Yes in this game doesn't have as many offenses and doesn't play as hard, he still has very strong offensive containment. He can still create a lot of opportunities for his teammates. The Sonics without Yes will only be weaker than the Sonics in this game."

"In this case, even with such a yes SuperSonics, they have never been ahead of the Nuggets in this game. In this game, the SuperSonics are playing at home, and the score is constantly being opened up by the SuperSonics!"

"Without the magical yes in this game, the SuperSonics proved that it is absolutely impossible for them to create a negative team in the regular season!"

"This team is not so weak now, but this team is still frighteningly weak in the face of this record!"

Kenny Smith’s words on television were filled with regret and sympathy.

Everyone in front of the TV could feel his sigh.

It is indeed an incredible achievement to lead such a team to a loss in such a terrible regular season.

I am afraid that many reporters sitting on the bench at this time who did not give their first vote will regret it.

Even if they had overestimated the strength of their yes teammates, they finally discovered that they were still too young.

For the media reporters on site and the audience in front of the TV.

The game between the SuperSonics and the Nuggets made them realize a lot.

The game between the SuperSonics and the Nuggets is the third Western Conference matchup today.

The first two Western Conference matchups, the Lakers and Spurs, and the Suns and Grizzlies, showed the world how powerful these four teams are.

Although in these two games, there were more or less accidents, such as Duncan being accidentally suppressed by Randolph, Stoudemire accidentally not allowing Oden to kill, etc.

However, there is no doubt that these four teams showed that they are strong enough in these two games.

But what about the game between the Nuggets and SuperSonics?

The Nuggets' game showed that they may be stronger and in better shape than the Lakers and Suns.

And their opponent, the SuperSonics, definitely did not show the strength of a team with a negative record in the game.

The difference is too far!

Especially the nominal second-in-command of this team, scoring champion Durant, his poor performance in this first playoff game of his career is even more incredible.

Led by Durant, the Sonics didn't get anywhere near the Nuggets' playoff run all game long.

When the game ended, looking at the score on the courtside scoreboard, even the Sonics fans who had been cheering for the Sonics crazily throughout the game no matter how far behind they were, felt a little silent for a while.

, the Seattle SuperSonics lost the first game of the playoffs at their home court by a full 25 points!

Even last season, when the Seattle SuperSonics faced the toughest teams such as the Mavericks, Spurs, and Suns in the playoffs, they never lost by such a big score.

Moreover, although this game was lost by 25 points, viewers and fans who watched this game would not feel that this score was a much greater loss.

In fact, this score is less than losing!

If it weren't for Yes's efficient performance in this game, the Sonics might have lost even more in this game, and they might have scored the most shameful 58-point tragedy in this game!

Looking at the technical statistics that had just come out in his hand, Barkley now felt like his whole body was shaking with anger.

Anyone who sees this technical statistics will be attracted by Durant's data immediately.

The entire game lasted 44 minutes, and he made 4 of 6 free throws, 40 points, 3 rebounds, 1 assist, and 9 turnovers.

He scored 40 points in the first playoff game of his career, the second time in NBA history.

In addition to Yes's 54 points in his playoff debut, Durant's 40 points were the highest score in a playoff debut.

But as long as you watch this game, it seems that no one will think that Durant's performance is outstanding due to Durant's mistakes and mistakes in the game.

Buckley looked at another name.

Points, 4 rebounds and 8 assists.

If it weren't for Yes's super efficient performance in the only opportunity in this game, the result of this game would be unimaginable!

Buckley was filled with worry now.

The Nuggets are too strong!

Durant is so stupid!