Chapter 1238: The Liberated Universe Team, the Miracle of the Times!
On April 20, 2014, the second day of the NBA playoffs, the most watched teams in the NBA playoffs, No. 1 in the league and No. 1 in the West, finally appeared on the stage of the playoffs and began the team's playoff journey.
After the Seattle SuperSonics scored a strong 82 wins in the regular season, almost everyone is expecting this year's Seattle SuperSonics to achieve the team's playoff win in the 0910 season.
In fact, after the Seattle SuperSonics defeated the Cavaliers so easily in the final game of the regular season, and Yees showed that he can be a 'top center' in a five-man lineup, no team has the ability to threaten the Seattle SuperSonics.
There is no way, a five-small team can beat the opponent's center in the positional battle, and defeat a 76-win team with positional battles and one-star shooting, then it means that this team basically has no weaknesses, or even basically.
This Seattle supersonic just doesn't have any weaknesses.
Such a team, let alone a series, is not easy to beat even in any game.
It's hard for a team like that to beat a game, let alone win a series.
So, as long as Yes stays healthy, as long as the Seattle SuperSonics stay healthy, and no one believes that the Cavaliers, Warriors and Lakers can beat the Seattle SuperSonics in the series, it's even more unlikely that the other teams will be able to beat the Seattle SuperSonics.
Of course, basketball is round, and the NBA playoffs are again a place where anything can happen.
Everyone understands these truths, but the NBA championship is not obtained by prediction, but by the player's fight one by one.
Any team that wants to win the NBA championship has to win sixteen games.
No matter how strong the Seattle SuperSonics are, no matter how perfect they are, no matter how desperate they are, this team has yet to win a single game in the playoffs.
And now, the Seattle SuperSonics are finally starting to embark on the road to the devil king of the playoffs that will also make the world tremble.
On April 20, the Yes Memorial Arena, although the opponent of the first game of the Seattle SuperSonics playoffs was not strong, the Yes Memorial Arena, which can accommodate 25,000 spectators, was still 50% full.
The Seattle SuperSonics now has no attendance at all depending on the opponent, whether the opponent is strong or weak, it can definitely be full.
The only difference is the level of the tickets, the enthusiasm of the fans.
In this game with the Nuggets, the tickets are very high, and the fans are very enthusiastic.
Although the Nuggets are weak relative to the supersonics, Avery Bradley, the leading player of the Nuggets, is special to the supersonics.
The player who graduated from high school and graduated from the University of Washington can be said to be the second generation of Seattle.
In Seattle, Bradley is second only to Yees in popularity.
If the Seattle SuperSonics and the Denver Nuggets are close in strength, the SuperSonics fans in the stadium can't be too enthusiastic about Bradley.
However, the difference in strength between the two teams is too great, even if they encourage and cheer for Bradley all over the court, they don't have any psychological burden.
Listening to the cheers and applause of the entire Yes Memorial Arena, Bradley knew that this was the love and encouragement of the Seattle fans, and the welcome and joy of the Seattle fans.
But listening to this cheer, the more enthusiastic this cheer, the more uncomfortable Bradley became.
It was his first playoff return to Seattle, and while it was full of flowers and applause, it was definitely not what he was looking forward to.
What he's really looking forward to the most is being able to win here!
But the applause and cheers told him that it was impossible for him and his team to win here.
This season has been a very difficult season for Bradley and the Nuggets, the team's veteran Billups has returned to the Pistons to retire, the team's second-in-command Iguodala has gone to the Cavaliers to get a big contract and win the championship, and the team's key backup player J.R. Smith has gone to the New York Knicks.
Combined with a number of other player changes, it's fair to say that the Nuggets' season has been the weakest for the team in the last decade.
But in the end, Bradley still relied on his own strength to defeat the Trail Blazers and Westbrook led the Thunder to lead the team to the playoffs.
And that's the limit of what he can do.
After finishing in the playoffs as eighth, Bradley was also looking forward to completing the black eight like his captain Yes.
His captain Yes has also made the playoffs with an eighth-place record, and twice, both times in the end, and the wins are more exciting than the other.
The eighth pair of calves, sweeping the black eight!
The eighth pair of Spurs, 0-3 behind, won four games in a row, 4-3 reversal of the black eight!
These two series can be said to be a dream series that many NBA fans dream of not knowing how many times.
Many people fantasize that the protagonist of these two series is himself.
I look forward to having such an opportunity.
As the younger brother of Yes, the protagonist of these two series, Bradley certainly fantasized about such a thing.
It's just that when he is really in this position, he knows how difficult this is.
Eighth in the West, facing the first in the West.
And the strength of the first in the west seems to be like a mountain rushing towards the face.
It's that kind of pressure that people can't even breathe.
When he stood in front of the supersonics, who were the first in the west, as the eighth in the West, he realized how great his captain Yes had been with the supersonic twice.
Not to mention the Black Eight, in such a hellish environment in the West, even if you enter the playoffs, even if you break through the first round of the playoffs, it will be a difficult thing to do.
After being in the league for so long, he hasn't been able to break through from the first round of the playoffs.
Even earlier than him, and his captain Yes is a player of the same era, Guy, who has been playing in the playoffs every year since 2009, has been out of the first round every year.
Listening to the loud cheers and applause at Yes Memorial Arena, Bradley had a lot of things on his mind.
He should be thinking about things at the end of the game, when the series is about to end, when he and the team are watching in front of the TV.
But now, before the game started, he and his team had already begun to think about the appearance of all beings.
If he can finish seventh in the West in the final minute of the regular season, maybe he and his Nuggets still have the confidence to turn the tide.
But in the face of the Seattle supersonics.
Look at the Seattle SuperSonics on the court at this time, the starters lined up in turn.
Yess, Antetokounmpo, Durant, Leonard, James Harden!
What a lineup!
What a miracle of a group of players!
Miracle Generation!
When the captain showed that he was at the top of his game in the centre-forward position, it was a strong and impeccable squad.
This series with the SuperSonics has not yet begun, and Bradley and the Nuggets already know that it is over.
And so it is.
In the first game between the Seattle SuperSonics and the Nuggets, fans will not think that the Nuggets are hopeful, and media reporters will not think that the Nuggets are hopeful, and even the Nuggets players themselves will think the same.
Maybe the entire Nuggets team, only Bradley came with a win-seeking mentality.
In fact, it is true, in this game with the superSonics, except for Bradley, the fighting spirit of the other players is not very strong.
After all, the current Yees and Seattle SuperSonics are putting too much pressure on any team in the league.
There's no way to raise the fighting spirit at all.
In fact, people are not machines, and Bradley is so fierce that it is impossible not to infect Nuggets players.
But the Nuggets players have just raised their fighting spirit and want to follow Bradley to do a big game, and directly hit the supersonic players, whether it is Yes, Durant or Leonard, Harden or Antetokounmpo, it is once again broken confidence.
"Playing against the current Seattle SuperSonics will make people wonder if they are NBA players after all!"
"The Seattle SuperSonics will also put a lot of pressure on the rest of the league before the final game against the Cavaliers, but after the final game against the Cavaliers, the pressure that the SuperSonics put on the rest of the league is completely incomparable."
"When Yes showed that he can defend the supersonic basket in the game with the Cavaliers, the supersonic outside players can press other opponent players unscrupulously, they no longer have to be as before, always leave a force to distract and protect and pack the basket, before the game with the Cavaliers, the supersonic defensive strategy is all one-on-one on the outside, and fast on the inside, this is for the defensive balance of the supersonic five small formations, This is to destroy the team's outside defensive power to make up for the lack of defense on the inside, which is a very low pressure on the opponent's outside with the five-small tactics. ”
"But now!"
"The Seattle SuperSonics outside players can finally put all their defensive strength into the outside, and they don't have to worry about the inside anymore!"
"Even, the four other outside players of the Seattle SuperSonics, they can even press the opponent's ball-handler at any time according to their preference, anyway, there is a player on the inside who runs faster than the guard, has better strength than the center, and has a perfect defense such as steals and blocks, no matter how they are out of position for intensity on the outside."
"That's why the Seattle SuperSonics and the Cavaliers' final game, Yes's performance made the entire league desperate!"
"The Seattle SuperSonics' outside defense, even if they are distracted to protect the interior, is already the strongest in the league and even the strongest in history, and now, when they don't need to think about the interior at all, how strong will their defensive pressing be?!"
"Now, you've seen it!"
"This is the first game after the Seattle SuperSonics and the Cavaliers, this game Seattle SuperSonics and Nelson Sr. did not disappoint, they really increased the pressure on the outside defense of the Nuggets players in the game, and the entire Nuggets, except for Bradley, did not even have the ability to dribble the ball smoothly across the half court!"
"It's an NBA playoff game!"
"But now the picture of this game looks like a match between the Dream Team and Australia, and the Dream Team can adjust its game intensity at any time to suppress Australia to the death!"
In the first game between the Seattle SuperSonics and the Nuggets, Barkley's voice was emotional.
And Kenny Smith next to him was silent from time to time.
"Sure enough, Yes freed up all the supersonic outside players......"
This liberation is not only the liberation on the defensive end, but also the liberation on the offensive end.
Because the four outside players of the Supersonic not only have strong one-on-one singles attributes, in addition to Antetokounmpo, others also have very strong shooter attributes, and Yes's passing and interior pressing can perfectly use the individual abilities of the supersonic outside players to shoot and singles.
It's just that the Nuggets are too weak in this game, and the Seattle SuperSonics can't use Yes's strong offensive end on the inside to liberate their teammates, and use the liberation on the defensive end to beat the Nuggets not like an NBA team.
At the beginning of the game, the Nuggets were enveloped in an atmosphere of despair.
And after the game started, the Nuggets were indeed shrouded in an atmosphere of despair.
But Bradley is not a player who will give up.
If he really is such a player, he has been following Yees for so many years, and he will not be able to make the playoffs in the West with such a Nuggets who have nothing.
Bradley is working very hard to play with dignity for the Nuggets.
The Seattle SuperSonics also cooperated with him and played the strongest defense against him.
In particular, Bradley's good friend Leonard did not spare his hand at all.
In the end, Bradley, who the whole team could only rely on, played halfway through the fourth quarter and was finally replaced because of leg cramps, and the Nuggets in this game really made people see a strong tragic atmosphere.
"Is this the new Seattle SuperSonics that the Cleveland Cavaliers opened?"
"Is this the stronger demon king who was released by James and the Cavaliers?"
Although the Nuggets are not very strong, Bradley of the Nuggets is not weak.
Although there is nothing to see from the Nuggets as a whole, it can be seen from Bradley's tragedy that there are not many players in the entire league who are calm in front of the current superSonic!
After all, Bradley is definitely one of the best guards in the NBA!
"It's a desperate team."
In front of the TV, Kobe, Duncan, Yao Ming, Beasley, Curry and others looked very helpless.
This is a situation that they had long anticipated.
It's just that the real situation is worse than they expected.
"This is the only truly universe team in NBA history that is beyond the confines of Earth!"
"That's right, the Seattle SuperSonics are the first Universe team in NBA history!"
Challenging a universe team, a real universe team, Kobe's expression at the moment is not only dignified, but also excited!
At this time, the game was over, and the five supersonic players who appeared at the same time in the TV screen, their cold faces made many people outside the TV both scared and excited!
"They are the miracle generation, the miracle of this era!"