Chapter 586: Durant of the Mighty Nuggets and Pit Man
At the beginning of this game between the SuperSonics and the Nuggets, everyone saw the dedication and determination of the Nuggets players in this game.
Anthony's more resolute play, more steady rhythm control than Lups, Hamilton's better off-ball movement, Camby's excellent help defense without pursuing block statistics, and Nene's more tenacious basket entanglement......
With the world looking favored, the Nuggets are telling the world with their performance what kind of way they are telling everyone how they want to turn such optimism into victory.
"The strength of the Nuggets is too strong!"
"The most difficult team to play in the first round of the Western Conference playoffs really deserves its name, and the current state of this team, even if it is the top seven in the West, no team can reach it!"
In the final sprint of the Western Conference playoffs, the Nuggets' record is quite ferocious, the Rockets, Suns, Lakers, Spurs, Grizzlies, almost see who destroys whom.
After the All-Star break, this team has an incredible improvement in strength and condition.
In the regular season, this team was the hardest team to play in the final Western Conference sprint.
And in the playoffs, the team has maintained this incredible form.
"If we run into the Nuggets in this game, we're going to lose, and we're going to lose badly!"
After Tekegrew's words were finished, almost all the Lakers players around him nodded subconsciously.
Everyone is a professional player in the NBA, and they are also top professional players, as long as everyone is not blind, you can see how focused the Nuggets players on TV are in this game.
With such focus, such a state, and such strength, this team is really a bug-like team now!
Compared with other Lakers players, Kobe Bryant agrees more with Turkglou's words.
There are two figures he is very familiar with on TV!
Billups and Hamilton, two names he will never forget.
In this game, he saw in these two people the figure of the 2004 disastrous finals.
In the first game of the playoffs, they showed such a state, and the Nuggets are really ready not to give the SuperSonics a chance at all!
The Nuggets' current meaning is obvious, if they can beat the supersonic 4-1, they will definitely not be 4-2, and if they can sweep the supersonic 4-0, they will definitely not be 4-1!
As soon as this game came up, the Nuggets were really ready to swallow yes and supersonic in one go.
"Yes is so unlucky, the fourth-best record in NBA history, and the first round of the playoffs against perhaps the best team in NBA history......
Kidd has always disliked yes and has always hated hypersound.
But now, when he looks at the figure of the supersonic nine on the TV, his face is full of sympathy.
It's really miserable!
Before the series began, the world knew yes was the unluckiest player of all time.
If there is an element of luck in the careers of historical superstars like Jordan and Magic, there is an element of luck in their success or reaching the top.
But yes, he really didn't have any luck in that regard.
His talent is the Chosen One, and his luck is the true Son of 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 was about to lead the weakest team in history that was robbed by the Raptors.
For the first time in his career, he entered the playoffs and played the Dallas Mavericks, who were the No. 1 in the league.
Entering the playoffs for the second time in his career, he finally got the fourth record in history, but in front of him was the first and third all-time records, and in the first round, he had to face perhaps the strongest first-round team in history.
Ordinary people really want to have such an experience, it is really crazy.
Kidd had previously considered himself a player who had been victimized by the injustice of fate.
He was a master at the Nets, but he was inexplicably pitted by Rondo.
Inexplicably, it has become a base and a tumor.
Now, he feels that his life experience is hypocritical to talk about the injustice of fate.
Compared to yes, there is no way for anyone to say that they are the wrongdoers of fate!
Look at yes and supersonic on TV now, and look at Durant who is constantly making mistakes on TV, constantly striking iron, and constantly embarrassing to play the first playoff game of his career.
Kidd felt that if he was replaced with yes, his mentality would definitely collapse.
Like Barkley said on TV, yes wants to improve his teammates, and that's understandable, everybody's going to understand it.
Because yes knows that he wants to go further in this year's finals, he wants to go further in his career, and he can't be just himself.
He needs the growth of his teammates, and he is willing to give his teammates the opportunity to grow, although we don't want to see yes suppress his strength and performance and give up the opportunity to Durant.
But there's nothing wrong with yes.
This is the highest manifestation of selflessness, teamwork, and dedication.
Maybe the only mistake is that yes chose the wrong person, he didn't train Pippen, not Kobe, not Maddy, not other people with potential, he trained 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 those players of the SuperSonics, Milicic has already reached the slow period of strength growth, and among the remaining players, Durant is actually the best!
A player with only quasi-All-Star level potential is actually the best potential among the remaining supersonic players.
yes doesn't train Durant, who does it cultivate?
Kidd agrees with Barkley's assertions.
"Even if it's a pig, with yes training methods, as long as this pig has the potential to be an All-Star, he may reach the All-Star level this season, and Durant is still at a loss and is still spinning around."
Shooting iron, passing hesitation, breakthrough mistakes, and layups are always topped by Anthony and then blocked by Camby and Nene behind him.
Defended by the Nuggets, the strongest first-round team in history, Durant showed the world what is back to reality and what is the truth behind luck.
Seeing Durant being devastated by the Nuggets on the court so badly, when Kidd sympathized with yes, he actually found that he also sympathized with Durant a little bit.
There has never been such a selflessness and team like Yes in the history of the NBA.
And Durant, who was abused so badly, still did not flinch and continued to meet the defeat, such a player is 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 be an unforgettable series that yes' entire career will never forget!"
Looking at the dead and alive Supersonic Nine on TV who was pitted by his teammates, Kobe Bryant knew exactly what his teammates were saying meant.
Although the way his teammates spoke was very subtle, the meaning was very clear.
As an ambitious player, Kobe Bryant knows very well what the highest aspirations of those ambitious players in the league are in the NBA.
Although he doesn't want to admit it, catching up with Jordan and surpassing Jordan is what these players are pursuing.
He's an ambitious player, and he believes yes is also an ambitious player.
So, for yes, this series with the Nuggets, yes is not impossible to lose.
What is the strength of the supersonics, the whole world knows very well, and it is almost impossible for the superSonics to beat the Nuggets in this year's playoffs.
In this case, yes is certainly acceptable to end up losing to the Nuggets.
It's acceptable to lose, but a loss like this one, like this, it's not acceptable.
If the next game is still a loss like this one, it will be even more unacceptable.
If yes ends up in this series and leaves the playoffs in the same way as this game, then he will lose the opportunity to overtake Jordan forever.
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 there is only one series that is such a loss.
No matter how much yes accomplishes in the future, Jordan will not admit the fact that yes may surpass him, even if yes has really surpassed Jordan by that time.
Jordan: I'm not going to lose by more than 20 points in every game in a series.
Jordan: I'm not going to go in a series without leading my opponent once.
Wait a minute......
Kobe Bryant could even imagine what a hearty smile Jordan had on his face after seeing the game.
"Before the start of this game, many people were curious about what kind of strength the supersonic would be without yes, and the supersonic speed of this game answered your doubts very well."
"The supersonic speed of this game is precisely speaking, it is still not a supersonic without yes, although the yes in this game does not have so many offenses, not so strong to play, but he still has a very strong offensive containment, he can still create a lot of opportunities for his teammates, the supersonic speed without yes will only be weaker than the supersonic speed of this game."
"In this case, even with such a yes supersonic, this game has never been ahead of the Nuggets, and the supersonic of this game is constantly being pulled away by the supersonic!"
"After the supersonic in this game did not have the magical yes, it proved that they are absolutely impossible to create a negative team in the regular season!"
"This team is not so weak now, but this team is still terrible weak in the face of winning this record!"
Kenny Smith's words on television are full of regret and sympathy.
Everyone in front of the TV could feel his sigh.
To have such a horrible regular season loss with such a team is truly an incredible achievement.
I'm afraid that many reporters sitting on the bench at this time who did not cast the first vote will regret it.
Even though they had overestimated the strength of their yes teammates, they found out that they were still too young.
For the media reporters at the scene and the audience in front of the TV.
This game between the SuperSonics and the Nuggets taught them very, very many things.
This game between the SuperSonics and the Nuggets is the third Western Conference matchup played today.
The first two Western matchups, the Lakers and Spurs, the Suns and the Grizzlies, these two games, showed the world the strength of these four teams.
Although in these two games, there were more or less accidents, such as Duncan was unexpectedly suppressed by Randolph, Xiao Si unexpectedly did not let Auden kill and so on.
However, there is no doubt that all four teams have shown that they are strong enough in both games.
But what about this game between the Nuggets and the Hypersonics?
The Nuggets showed that they may be more capable of being stronger than the Lakers and Suns.
And their opponents, the SuperSonics, definitely did not show the quality of a team with a negative record in the game.
It's too far, too far!
In particular, Durant, the team's nominal second-leading leader, scored the best of the game, and his poor performance in the playoffs for his career debut was even more unbelievable.
Under Durant's leadership, the SuperSonics didn't come close to the Nuggets in the playoffs throughout the game.
When the game ended, looking at the score on the scoreboard on the sidelines, even the supersonic fans who were frantically cheering for the supersonic no matter how far behind they were throughout the game were a little silent for a while.
The Seattle SuperSonics lost by a full 25 points on their home turf, in the first game of the playoffs!
Even last season, the Seattle SuperSonics faced the Mavericks, the Spurs, and the Suns in the playoffs, and they never lost by such a big score.
Moreover, although this game lost by 25 points, as long as the audience and fans who watched this game, they would not feel that this score was too much of a loss.
In fact, this score is less than losing!
If it weren't for the efficient performance of yes in this game, the superSonics might have lost even more in this game, and maybe they would have played the most humiliating 58-point tragedy in this game!
Looking at the technical statistics that had just come out in his hands, Barkley now felt like he was shaking with anger.
Anyone who sees this technical statistic will be immediately attracted by Durant's data.
played 44 minutes in the whole game, made 4 shots in the whole game, made 4 of 6 free throws, and scored 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' playoff debut's 54 points, Durant's 40 points were the highest points scored in a playoff debut.
But as long as you watch this game, it seems that Durant's iron and mistakes in the game, no one will think that Durant's performance is outstanding.
Barkley looked at another name.
Points, 4 rebounds and 8 assists.
If it weren't for yes's super efficient play in this game in the only chances, the result of this game would be unimaginable!
Barkley now has a deep worry written in his heart.
The Nuggets are too strong!
Durant is too pitiful!