The Phoenix Suns' nineteen-game winning streak ended with the Wizards, which was a surprise, but it seemed plausible.

A long streak is not just a physical drain, it's an exhausting thing.

The Suns don't rotate as often as the Rockets, and D'Antoni isn't a head coach who likes to use big rotations.

Most of the Suns' intense games this year have been a rotation, even a seven-man rotation.

The Sun's seven stars are powerful, but D'Antonio's use does have some problems.

The pressure on these veterans of the Suns is too great.

Although these pressures will not allow the Suns, who are now considered the all-time number one, to lose their offense.

But it's okay to let the Suns lose their defense due to lack of concentration.

The Suns scored 122 points in this game against the Wizards, and there was no problem with the offense, but his defense allowed the Wizards to score 127 points and Arenas to score 55 points!

The Wizards are a team that can't stop when they're attacking like crazy.

The Suns were on the hands of the Wizards last season, losing 139-144 on the road.

Arenas also scored 54 points in that game.

Even last season, the Suns were still planted on the Wizards, and Arenas scored 41 points to lead the Wizards to a 112-111 victory over the Suns.

It can be said that Arenas and the Wizards have been the Suns' bitter opponents in recent seasons.

A slight lack of concentration will be hit by Arenas and the Wizards finding an opportunity to bang that wave.

However, once or twice, the sun will be planted on it, which already shows that it is not just a matter of inattention.

Now the Suns are the strongest team in the league, but Yees has always felt that in the regular season, the Suns' final record may not be as good as the Rockets.

Rockets' head coach Adelman is using new players, very bold!

This season, the Rockets are not only Yao Ming, Maddie, Roy and Artest, Gerard Wallace, Ariza The six main pressing players have performed very well.

Several rookies on the Rockets, such as Luis Scola, Aaron Brooks, and Carl Landry, have also performed quite well.

These three are Team Rocket's super microwave ovens.

The three rookies were actually used as super microwave ovens by Adelman.

As soon as these three came up from the bench, they were able to score immediately.

Especially Carl Landry.

Yes has seen a lot of Rockets games this season, and Carl Landri is no worse than Millsap in terms of offensive rebounding and secondary offense.

Landry shoots more from the field than Millsap's 70 percent, and compared to Millsap's current instability on the perimeter, Landry's perimeter offense seems to be slightly more consistent than Millsap's.

In addition to not being as good as Millsap on the defensive end, Landry is now a little bit better than Millsap on the offensive end.

This season in the Rockets, Landry can score more than 8 points on 5 shots in almost 15 minutes per game, and the score converted into each shot is 1.6 points, and the true shooting rate is as high as 65%!

Originally, this season the Rockets brought in McJames, from the Timberwolves, so that McJames could play the sixth man.

Now Mike James has been pinned to the bench by Scola, Landry and Aaron Brooks.

With Yao Ming, Roy and Maddy, and Artest, Gerrard Wallace, the number of role players taking shots will be greatly reduced.

In this case, it is important to score more points with fewer shots, which is important in the Rockets.

Mac James's individual abilities may be strong, but too inefficient.

He didn't play as efficiently as Scola and Landry at the best of his career.

It is precisely because of Adelman's use of the Rockets' rookies that the Rockets' starting main force shares a huge pressure.

With a short rotation in the playoffs, it's hard to say who is stronger or weaker between the Suns and Rockets.

But in the long regular season, what will happen to the Suns and Rockets in the end, it's hard to say.

On December 8, 2007, the Phoenix Suns ended their road trip in the East, flying nearly 2,000 kilometers from Washington to Minnesota for back-to-back games against the Timberwolves.

In this game, the Suns lost again.

Still in the eight-man rotation, the 33-year-old Nash played 40 minutes in this game.

Facing the young Timberwolves, the Suns in this game obviously couldn't keep up with the rhythm.

113 to 120, the Suns not only defended in this game, but also went wrong with the offensive state.

In this game, the Suns also let the Timberwolves' second-in-command Al Jefferson play 30+20, 32 points, 20 rebounds and 4 steals, and also grabbed 6 rebounds in the frontcourt, which blew Stoudemire out.

The Suns and Rockets, the top two teams in the West, have both suffered back-to-back losses this season.

In this year's West, a losing streak is really nothing.

But there is a big difference in the way the two teams are on a losing streak.

After the Rockets lost to the Suns, they faced the Warriors back-to-back, rotated the Big Three, and finally lost in a row.

After losing to the Wizards, the Suns still insisted on the eight-man rotation, and lost to the Timberwolves at the end of the gas, suffering a losing streak.

It's a completely different way of thinking from the managers of the two teams.

But in any case, the Suns' unexpected loss turned the already white-hot battle for second place in the West into a battle for first place in the West!

After losing to the Timberwolves, the Suns now have a 19-2 record and are still the first in the West.

The next Rockets are 18-2.

SuperSonics are also 18-2.

The Suns are now only half a win ahead of the Rockets and the SuperSonics!

In the NBA, half a game away is just one game less!

Such a gap is simply negligible.

The Suns' sudden two-game losing streak had a very big impact.

Originally, the media in the United States was still hyping the competition between the supersonic and rocket for second place in the West.

What a great achievement it is for the SuperSonics to be able to temporarily finish third in the West this season and maintain a threat to the second place in the West.

But now, they haven't finished rendering the greatness of the supersonic future to the second place in the West, and now the opportunity to be the first in the West has suddenly run in front of the superSonics.

Not to mention the media in the United States.

Even SuperSonics himself did not expect happiness to come so suddenly.

On December 9, 2007, the Seattle SuperSonics came to Salt Lake City after a nearly half-month home casual schedule.

This game between the SuperSonics and the Jazz has received a lot of attention.

As long as the SuperSonics can win this game, then the SuperSonics will catch up with the Sun!

Even if because of the disadvantage of playing against each other, even if the supersonic record catches up with the Suns, it is impossible to rank first in the West.

Not even second in the West.

At about the same time, there was also a game between the Rockets and the Raptors on the road.

But even the real ranking is third in the West.

But the superSonics' record is the same as that of the Suns, who are first in the West, and judging from the record, this kind of tie for first place with the same record is still quite impactful.

December 9, 2007, Energy Solutions Arena.

Looking at the SuperSonics and Jazz players playing on the court, Jerry Sloan's brow was furrowed all the time.

This is the second meeting between the Jazz and SuperSonics this season.

In the last meeting, the Jazz were beaten away from home by the SuperSonics.

That loss hurt the Jazz very much, and the loss of that game not only ended the Jazz's winning streak against the SuperSonics.

It also made the Jazz almost fall to the bottom of the West.

It was only now that Jazz had worked so hard to climb up.

Even if it climbs, it doesn't climb to the top eight of the playoffs.

Now the Jazz have a record of 9 wins and 11 losses, barely ranking 10th in the West, and it is impossible to surpass the Mavericks in ninth place in the West and the Thunder in eighth place in the West in a short time.

Now both the Mavericks and Thunder have a 12-8 record.

In the West, the difference between such three wins is almost a trench.

If the Jazz win, the Mavericks and Thunder will win too.

What's more, the Jazz have been in terrible form in recent times.

Their last two matches have been away from home in the South West Division.

Although did not hit the strongest rocket in the Southwest.

But like other teams that went to the Southwest to play on the road, they ended their away trip in the Southwest with scars and two straight defeats.

Lost to the Spurs and Mavericks on the road, and the game against the Mavericks was still a direct battle for the Jazz for eighth place in the West.

Losing is quite frustrating.

After a dismal defeat in Dallas.

The Jazz didn't even have time to grieve, and returned to their home court to meet the challenge of the SuperSonics, who are now tied for first place in the West.

If this game is lost again, if the Jazz, who have lost three in a row, want to continue to climb up, it will be really too difficult.

Not only did the win against the eighth place in the West become four.

And the blow to morale is very fatal.

Even under his rule, the Jazz have always been considered an iron army, and even the iron army can hardly withstand such a losing streak.

It's the West!

If you get stuck in it, you probably won't be able to climb up again!

It can be said that this game is a game related to the fate of the Jazz this season.

Facing the SuperSonics, this team was killed five by the Jazz last season.

At the start of the season, Jerry Sloan had no idea that the SuperSonics would be the team that would decide their season's fate.

Last season, when the Jazz faced the SuperSonics, it was really a pregame game without thinking about anything, planning for nothing, it was as simple as walking on the court to recover the victory they had lost.

Not even a simple bend is needed.

But now, it's just an offseason.

Supersonic is no longer the supersonic of that Jazz ATM.

The current superSonics are actually the team that can compete with the Rockets and Suns for the first place in the West.

And they, the Jazz, have now fallen to the point where they can't even make the playoffs.

You must know that before the start of the season, the SuperSonics were still considered to be at the bottom of the Western 15 on the three major TV stations.

The Jazz are considered the top five favorites in the West.

How long has it been?

It's not been two months yet.

The whole situation seems to have changed dramatically!

Compared with the aggressive expansion of other teams in the West this year, the Jazz have retained all of last season's main players and have not added any reinforcements.

This has to do with both the Jazz's limited attraction to those big signings and the fact that he doesn't feel the need to break the team's structure right now.

He was very satisfied with the combination of Deron Williams and Boozer.

In his opinion, as long as these two grow up normally, sooner or later, they will be a pair of trustworthy pick-and-roll combinations like Stockton and Malone.

He just had to calm down and wait for the two of them to grow.

Although the growth of these two people is not as earth-shattering as that of Stockton and Karl Malone, they are also moving forward steadily.

In his opinion, what he and his Sir need is not to find another core, but time!

Can ...... now

This season's West is really incomprehensible.

The degree of strength really exceeded his expectations.

He's been in the league for so many years, and he's seen a lot of years that are considered the strongest in history.

He can be sure that there is no other year in the history of the NBA that has been as horrified as this year in the West!

As far as he and his Jazz are concerned, in the 90s of the last century, the NBA, which is known as the most terrifying era, whether in the East or the West, can easily enter the playoffs.

But in the west of the year......

The price to win a game is just too big!

In his opinion, Boozer and Delon's progress is already good.

But the Jazz are still lagging behind, unable to keep up with the footsteps of other Western powerhouses.

If the Jazz can't keep up with the Rockets, Suns, Lakers, Nuggets and Grizzlies, Jerry Sloan thinks it's understandable.

The changes in these teams are really too big.

Can be supersonic!

Jerry Sloan now doesn't understand why the supersonic speed, which was the Jazz ATM last season, has improved so dramatically this season.

This team is the same as the Jazz, and there are no reinforcements, and the SuperSonics have more Durant and Sessions this season than last season.

Durant was considered a side effect by all the pundits and media in the league.

And Sessions, who is just the third point guard of the SuperSonics this season, how can he improve the team?

If this is the case, why are SuperSonics so strong this season?

Not only is the record strong, but the strength on the court is also quite strong!

This match against the SuperSonics was not the last time he had a confrontation with the SuperSonics, and he was not prepared at all.

No matter how rushed the time is in this game, he has carefully arranged the targeted arrangements.

Kirilenko, who defended well against Yes last season, was assigned by him as a wholehearted assistant to Yes in this game.

Just choke Yes, and supersonic will collapse!

But what Jerry Sloan really didn't expect was that.

Yes really doesn't score that much.

But the Jazz's situation on the court in this game looks worse than the last one.

If it weren't for Durant's inefficient shooting, Jerry Sloan even felt that the Jazz might have collapsed before the fourth quarter began.

DeLong still couldn't break through Yes's defenses.

The Jazz still have no way to pass the ball behind Yes's all-time No. 1 behind.

115-103, when the game was over, Jerry Sloan felt like his heart was sinking to the bottom.

Three wins in a row!

There are no struggles that can be heart-wrenching three consecutive defeats!

Jerry Sloan looked at the supersonic nine on the pitch and finally sighed.

Beating the Jazz for the second time this season, Yes was happy.

With 19 wins and 2 losses, the Seattle SuperSonics' record is tied to the Suns, who are first in the West!

What makes Ye Si even happier is that in this strong conversation, Durant's scoring data!

13 out of 30 shots!

43% hit!

Durant, who gained two kilograms, really got stronger after a few games of adaptation!