May 21, 2008, Toyota Center, Houston.

In the first game of the Western Conference Finals, the Houston Rockets and Seattle SuperSonics are playing out.

And the Rockets, who shouted at the beginning of this game, that there is only one MVP in the world, have no heart to shout this slogan at this time.

When they are shouting this slogan, it means that they feel that they can win.

And when they stop this slogan, it also means that they feel that they are likely to lose!

Before this game started, they really didn't expect this game to unfold like this!

They never imagined that the Rockets would have such a rough start.

The game has developed completely beyond their imagination.

In the first quarter of the game, he faced Artest's invincible small action harassment.

Yes unexpectedly defeated all of Artest's small moves.

In the second quarter of the rotation time between the two sides, in the face of the Rockets, who have the strongest rotation lineup in the NBA, the Seattle SuperSonics only lost to the Houston Rockets by four points when they adopted the same full-rotation lineup as the Houston Rockets!

You must know that the Lakers in the last round and the Thunder in the last round, if they don't have their main core players in the rotation lineup, they will collapse!

Last season's Seattle SuperSonics was still the weakest rotation team in NBA history, and in just two seasons, they can withstand the Houston Rockets' rotation lineup!

And what about the rest of the game?

Durant's singles performance in the game made the Houston Rockets fans stunned.

Singles Maddie, Block-and-Shift Singles Gerard Wallace, Block-and-Roll Singles Artest, Block-and-Roll Singles Roy, and even Block-and-Roll Singles Yao Ming!

If you count Ariza, who came off the bench.

Durant singled out all six core players in the Houston Rockets' wolf pack for the rest of the second quarter!

"Durant is not Randolph, Durant is Kobe!"

"This game, this series, the role played by Durant is the role of Kobe!"

"Durant is the 'infinite singles' character in this series of the Seattle SuperSonics!"

Unlimited Singles!

And unlike Kobe's passive unlimited singles, Durant showed an active unlimited singles in the second quarter!

Take the initiative to single Maddie, take the initiative to single Artest, take the initiative to single Roy, take the initiative to single Ariza, and even take the initiative to single Yao Ming and Gerard Wallace!

In such a crazy active unlimited singles, Durant's singles skills are really jaw-dropping!

Everyone can see that Durant is not a particularly tall, fast, and jumping player, but he is not as fast as him, not as fast as him, and he may not be able to jump faster than him, and he may not even be able to keep up with a large change of direction from him!

Coupled with his all-round skills, the Houston Rockets were ready to press Yes and bring them down after showing their fangs throughout the second quarter.

But in the end, the game turned into Durant using his singles alone to try to destroy the Rockets' chain defense system like Kobe Bryant did before!

Old Nelson used Durant as Kobe, as if he was using a mantis arm as a car, but what is incredible is that after Durant played the role of Kobe, his efficiency was no worse than Kobe, and even a little stronger than Kobe!

Throughout the second quarter, Durant's stats were 6-of-12 and his shooting percentage was an astonishing 50%!

Even if you remove the 2 shots and 2 shots caused by surprise in the front, the remaining 10 shots hit 4 times, it is definitely qualified!

Durant's very qualified singles shooting percentage is most directly reflected in the score of the two teams now.

At halftime, the score of the two teams on the court was 64-60, you know, the rotation lineup of the two teams is finished, and the score of the two teams is 46 draw!

In other words, when the two teams did not test their opponents again, the Seattle SuperSonics still led the Rockets by 4 points!

When the first half of this game ended, looking at the score of 64-60 on the sideline scoreboard of this game, many media reporters at the scene felt a little like science fiction.

"Is this really a Seattle SuperSonics vs. Houston Rockets game?!"

It's really incredible!

Fortunately, the Rocket's singles strength is known to the whole world, and the Rocket's average points per game this season may not be as high as the Suns, Nuggets and SuperSonics, but this has to be combined with the rhythm of the Rockets.

The Rockets are definitely not as fast-paced as that, but their scoring is definitely not much worse than that of the supersonics.

Compared with the fast-paced scores of the Suns Nuggets and the Supersonics, most of the Rockets' scores are hard scores!

What is a hard score?

It's the points you can get no matter who the opponent is or what kind of defense the opponent is.

The Rocket's score is without any traces of brushing.

So it's not surprising that the Rockets scored 60 points in the single half in the face of the superSonics.

They averaged more than 110 points per game in the regular season with this offensive style.

The key is the Seattle SuperSonics!

Facing the team that has been touted as the best defense in history, the Seattle SuperSonics beat Artest with Yes in the first quarter, and Durant singled the whole Rockets team in the second quarter, and actually scored 64 points in the half!

"Conceding 64 points in a half is the most in a half of a Houston Rockets playoff game!"

"Not only did they concede the most points in the half, but the SuperSonics scored 32 points in the first and second quarters of this half, which is also the first time this season that the Rockets have conceded more than 30 points in a single quarter, and twice!"

Barkley is excited now, and Kenny Smith next to him is admiring.

Kenny Smith is now really amazed, admired by the audacity of old Nelson, how daring!

It's not Durant used as Randolph, but Durant used as Kobe!

Similarly, Kenny Smith is now admiring Durant's offensive prowess.

What an offensive All-Star, Durant now has the level of an offensive superstar!

And it's not the kind of offensive superstar with a single means, but the kind of kaleidoscopic offensive superstar!

Is this really the same Durant who was frantically spit out and ridiculed at the beginning of this season?

"I've always said that KD is a player with a lot of potential, and I just got him to his third-year level ahead of schedule, and even without me, KD would be at the same level as he is now after three years in the NBA."

"Yes is not right, everything I have now is given by Yes, and without him there would be no me."

Thinking back to the words of Yes and Durant in their postgame press conference after the Seattle SuperSonics swept the Suns, Kenny Smith didn't know what to say.

Durant now has the level he did when he played three years in the NBA.

This Kenny Smith is believed.

The development Durant has had around Yes has been incredible.

In the regular season, Durant made a total of nearly 2,700 shots this season, and 99% of NBA players did not make 2,700 shots in two seasons!

In the playoffs, Durant has played 11 games after playing the Nuggets and the Suns, and most players in the league will not have as many playoff appearances as Durant after two years, and more importantly, Durant's 11 appearances in the playoffs this time are not just going through the motions, but still making more than 30 shots per game per game!

With a resource like Yes, any ordinary person can be a year or two!

Durant is playing for two years, and of course he will be in his third year, so Yes has no problem saying that Durant is now in his third season.

The problem is, Yes said that Durant didn't meet him, and he also had the level of an offensive superstar in the third year, this is nonsense, and he doesn't even believe it when he sits on the side!

What is not Yes Durant can grow into an offensive superstar in three years. Is it true that we haven't seen Durant play his first game in the NBA?

And that's where Kenny Smith's third admiration comes in.

Yes is really selfless!

If it weren't for Yes's prescient crazy development of Durant this season, the Seattle SuperSonics would have died long ago!

"I didn't expect Yes to cultivate not an All-Star offensive small forward who helped him play the Suns, but a superstar offensive small forward who helped him play the Rockets!"

That's pretty magical!

Kenny Smith knew very well that he was definitely not the only one who felt magical and incredible at this time.

Reporters from all over the United States and the world, Rockets fans at the scene, and even the Houston Rockets who had just left the court were probably in an incredible state of blindfolding.

Including Rockets head coach Adelman and assistant coach Thibodeau.

When Durant can take on the role of Kobe Bryant, the impact on this game and Yes will be too great!

To put it simply, Durant can play all the other Rockets players on the offensive end infinitely, so all the other Rockets players on the defensive end have no way to concentrate the momentum of the black cloud crushing the city on Yes!

The goal of the Rockets' chain defense wolf pack tactics is against 'Kobe', and now, Kobe Bryant on the court is Durant!

Similarly, when Yes has less pressure on the offensive end and Durant successfully shares the pressure on the offensive end, Yes can focus more on the defensive end.

The Rockets' offense is still pressing Yes, and all the energy saved by Yes on the offensive end is invested on the defensive end, so the success rate of other Rockets players in pressing Yes is not so high!

"As long as the Houston Rockets play a chain defense wolf pack tactic, it will always be the Rockets with the stronger overall strength who control the game, but because the Seattle SuperSonics have two 'Kobes', the Seattle SuperSonics have the ability to change the situation!"

Although the situation is not dominant, it has the ability to control its own destiny!

"This game is incredible!"

It's only half a game, and Kenny Smith feels that the content of this half of the game is more content than the 12 games played by the Rockets and the Thunder, and the Rockets and the Lakers!

Even now Kenneth Miss can't wait to see the start of the third quarter.

"Coach Nelson has taken the initiative, and now it's Adelman's turn to pick up!"

Adelman is of course much more resilient than D'Antoni compared to D'Antoni, but Adelman is still a team-building manager.

There are too few managers like Nelson Sr. who can build teams and be on the field, and they are all top-notch.

"The choice facing Adelman now is whether he believes that Durant's first half is a flash in the pan and continues to target Yes, or gives up targeting Yes and chooses to target Durant!"

Kenny Smith is looking forward to what Adelman will make when faced with such a crucial decision.

There is no right answer to either of these two choices in Kenny Smith's opinion.

In other words, the correct answer will only be known after the game.

Win, either choice is the correct answer.

Lose, either choice is the wrong answer!

The halftime passed quickly.

Kenny Smith also quickly saw the way Adelman dealt with Nelson Sr.'s moves!

"Adelman hasn't given up on Yes!"

After the start of the second half, seeing that Yes was still being targeted frantically, Kobe, who was clenched with his fists, nodded slightly.

"Of course!"

Destroy Yes, it's a long-term plan!

If Durant only broke out for half a quarter and abandoned this plan, it would be impossible for such a rocket to destroy him!

In order to destroy him, the Rockets suffered two defeats and held out for a full five!

After the start of the third quarter, Durant was still playing crazy unlimited singles.

Looking at Durant, who was constantly looking for various targets of the Rockets in the third quarter, many reporters who had humiliated Durant on the scene were ashamed.

And many rookies in front of the TV who participated in the 2008 draft have flushed with excitement on their faces at this time!

Yes can push the boundaries not just for All-Stars, but for Superstars!

An ordinary player like Durant can also be groomed by Yes to become an offensive superstar!

"Durant in this game seems to be like an all-powerful tarantula on the offensive end, and everyone on the Rockets is the prey he is going to sting!"

After the start of the third quarter, Durant's infinite one-on-one lethality continued, and after Yes focused more on the defensive end, the Rockets' efficiency in single-handing him also decreased.

Of course, Durant's singles efficiency has not been maintained at 50% anymore.

However, the scores of the two teams are still stalemate and tend to pull apart.

By the end of the third quarter, the score had become 92-84 and the Seattle SuperSonics' lead had become 8 points!

In the fourth quarter of the game, the Rockets continued to attack the bench all, and it could be seen that Adelman and the Rockets intended to use the bench to try their best to pull back the score.

But with seven minutes left in the game, when the main players of both teams came back again, the Rockets' bench only pulled back two points.

In the end, when the final whistle blew, the scoreboard on the sidelines was 120-114!

"The Houston Rockets lost their first game in a three-round series in a row!"

Looking at the game played on TV, Durant shot 16 of 36, 48 points, 5 rebounds and 1 assist, James Harden and many people in front of the TV, and even many people in the Toyota Center had only one thought in their hearts at this time.

"Yes, that's amazing!"

James Harden, who was clasping his hands tightly, looked at the supersonic nine surrounded by Durant on the TV and finally made up his mind.