Chapter 1226: The Darkest Hour!
As it turns out, the outcome and process of this year's All-Star Game have a very, very huge impact on many teams.
After the All-Star Game and the start of the NBA's regular season, the Seattle SuperSonics' victory was as easy as the tide.
The previous victory for the supersonic was very, very easy.
But it definitely doesn't feel as easy as the tide.
On February 18, 2014, the Seattle SuperSonics visited the Trail Blazers and defeated the Portland Trail Blazers by 58 points to make it their 56th straight win of the season.
On February 20, 2014, they returned to Seattle at home and beat the Miami Heat by 58 points to make their 57th consecutive win of the season.
On February 23, 2014, the Seattle SuperSonics defeated the Chris Paul-led Clippers by 58 points at home to win their 58th streak. (The game between the Clippers and the SuperSonics is the fifty-eighth, and it was not forced into it by the fishermen, the historical schedule is to beat the Clippers on February 23...... )
The Golden State Warriors' 58-game winning streak last season, the second-longest winning streak in NBA history, was easily equaled.
And the two opponents who won 58 in a row are both Clippers.
It's just that the Warriors went to play the Lakers away after playing the Clippers away, and were finally ended by Kobe Bryant.
The SuperSonics will continue to host the Grizzlies on February 28 after beating the Clippers to tie the Warriors' 58-game winning streak.
165 to 107!
Another 58-game winning streak, the Seattle SuperSonics successfully surpassed the Golden State Warriors' second game of 58 consecutive wins, and enjoyed the second winning streak in NBA history.
After All-Star Weekend, we won four of our four games, and all of them were five-eights, and it was a very, very easy five-eight.
The strength of the four opponents actually looks good.
It stands to reason that before All-Star Weekend, the SuperSonics also won in this way, so why would a win like this for the SuperSonics now give people a feeling of devastation?
"Because the resistance that the Seattle SuperSonics suffered during the race has decreased!"
"After the All-Star Game, many teams in the league did not give up resistance for the sake of face, in order not to be scolded for cowardice, and they did not give up resistance, but the strength of resistance is declining, and even this decline is not a decline that they actively perceive, but they subconsciously reduce their resistance, because in their subconscious, they feel that any strength of resistance is useless!"
"Deep down in their hearts, when the supersound struck, they had already laid their bodies down there and let the Seattle supersonic feel free!"
After the All-Star break, it's not just these experts who feel that way.
In fact, Yes and the supersonic players also feel the same way.
If you want to beat the opponent in the game, you need to control the score, in fact, it is not so easy to control the score in any game.
This requires not only their own strength, but also their own good condition, if the opponent is strong, resistance is also tenacious, your side of the score tolerance rate will be very low, if you are not careful, you will fail to control the score.
In fact, before the All-Star Game, the SuperSonics team was on the verge of defeat many times.
But after the All-Star, the Trail Blazers, Heat, Clippers and Grizzlies are not weak teams, and the superSonics players have all played the All-Star Game, and they are very lucky, and the state is actually average or even bad.
In this case, as long as these teams continue to resist strongly, they are very likely to lose points.
But in the end, these teams did not resist, but deep down they gave up resistance.
In the All-Star Game, the Seattle SuperSonics defeated the league-wide team against the trend, and the effect has already been felt.
And seeing that at this time, media experts all over the world hyped 'the end of the world ruled by the demon king', the look on LeBron James's face became very, very uncomfortable.
It's the same thing!
At the beginning, he was in the Heat, and he was also the capital of the demon king who came to the world, but he played like a dog head than the league team, and finally carefully hid.
And what about Yes and the Seattle SuperSonics?
It was crushed strongly from the beginning, and it was basically a head-to-head confrontation with the entire league, and in the end, it was not the Seattle SuperSonics who took the lead in retreating, but the entire Union of Justice.
In the face of such a powerful and monstrous Seattle SuperSonic, in the end, the entire league chose to tremble, and most of the teams in the entire league have begun to be cowardly and retreat in their hearts.
James didn't mock teams like the Trail Blazers, Clippers, etc.
Because he knows that after that All-Star Game, almost all teams will have such emotions.
Even in the hearts of the Cavaliers players, except for him and Anthony, there will not be such emotions?
The power of supersound, the strength of supersonic speed, is indeed incomparably eye-catching.
It's the kind of existence that can cause fear and shock from the depths of people's souls.
On March 1, 2014, the league announced the NBA's Player of the Month for March, after beating the Grizzlies, completing all of their February games and extending the team's winning streak to 59 games.
Now the league still announces the player of the month in the east and west, but right now, no one cares about the best player of the month in the East.
After the league announced the Player of the Month, the world's attention was on the Western Conference's Player of the Month.
There's no doubt that after February's Monthly Awards, all six of the Seattle SuperSonics' Wonder Generation players were on the line, led by Yes.
And after the league announced the February best of the month, many bookmakers' odds for the regular season MVP for the season have been closed.
With the current status of the NBA's regular season, the odds of the NBA regular season this season can be considered closed.
There is no suspense at all.
On March 2, 2014, Seattle SuperSonics' Yees, Durant, Leonard, James Harden, Antetokounmpo and Rondo won another trophy of the month at home, and then came out to beat the Hornets by 68 points at home to the Charlotte Hornets.
The game between the SuperSonics and the Hornets was also the first game after the All-Star Game in which the SuperSonics refused to give away the 58 medal.
If it were before the All-Star Game, such a game would surely make the Hornets the laughing stock of the world like the Rockets and Magic.
But after the All-Star break, the Hornets, who didn't get the 58 medal, obviously felt much less pressure, because many people know that the Hornets are just the beginning.
Now that the will to resist in the entire league has been shattered, there will be more and more games, more and more teams, will give up resistance to the supersound.
"Congratulations to the Charlotte Hornets and to their head coach Michael Jordan for kick-starting the NBA's darkest moment!"
Kick off the NBA's darkest moment!
This Nima's, you can imagine how huge the blow this game was for Jordan.
After becoming the head coach of the Hornets, Jordan actually did a good job with the Hornets.
His prestige is indeed the fighting spirit and combat effectiveness of a team.
The players of the NBA team are also NBA players, and after the bonus of fighting spirit, the combat effectiveness should not be underestimated.
Therefore, before the All-Star break, Jordan felt that the Hornets still had hope for a fight this season.
But who would have thought that after the All-Star Game, the Hornets players would be so quickly collapsed by his condensed fighting spirit?
No way, that's the way the environment is.
Now the whole league is shrouded in darkness, shrouded in the Seattle SuperSonics, shrouded in the big hand of Yes.
In such an environment, the stronger the team, the better the ability to resist the environment.
A super weak team like him and the Hornets, that morale, is really like an avalanche.
If he had the foresight to know that the Seattle SuperSonics could beat the entire league in the All-Star Game with the strength of one team, he would never have stepped up and chosen to be the head coach of the Hornets.
Nima's, isn't this a supporting role for the Seattle SuperSonics?
Doesn't that make the Seattle SuperSonics do whatever they want to do to him?
It's too TM pit man.
After Jordan led the Hornets to give the SuperSonics a 60-game winning streak and also started the so-called NBA's darkest hour, he left Seattle with a look of regret and sorrow written on his face.
At a time when such a force for good begins an avalanche, he Joe and his team really don't want to be an iconic presence.
However, it can't be helped, they are now the iconic team that will be remembered by history.
After the SuperSonics played the Hornets, the Seattle SuperSonics also did not give away their 58 medals in the next three games on March 4 at home and the 76ers, March 6 away from the Suns, and March 9 at home and the Rockets.
In four consecutive games, four opponents in a row, the NBA teams did not go all out, and they were not worthy of the 58 medals, and this wave seemed to be brought up by Jordan and the Hornets.
It felt like Jordan and his Hornets were tearing down the league.
This made Jordan, who returned to Charlotte, really uncomfortable after hearing such public opinion and arguments.
Nima's, why do you guys say it's me Qiao who brought you down?
Why do you guys cook your own food, and you still have to say that someone Qiao brought you vegetables?
Jordan now feels like he's tired.
Nima's, is being a manager so tiring and uncomfortable?
Jordan now feels like he's going to give up.
Of course, it's just the idea of giving up, and it's really impossible to give up.
Since you have come to this pit and don't climb out by yourself, isn't it going to be laughed to death?
Now that he has fallen into this pit, he Jordan is not a person who gives up halfway, and he will definitely fill this hole with his own efforts.
He is not a person who gives up so easily, if he really gives up so easily, he will not sit in the position of the boss of the Wasp for so long, and he will not encounter so many people to hack his vision is the same as Yes, he is still unwilling to change, unwilling to give way.
His stubbornness is not limited to being a player.
Jordan's current mental journey is very interesting, Jordan, who is regarded as the leader of the NBA into the darkest moment, and is regarded as the first snowflake of the avalanche, not only was not hit, but also aroused his deep stubbornness and tenacity.
Of course, it is naturally impossible for Yees and the supersonic players to know Jordan's current mental journey.
After playing these four rookie teams, the Seattle SuperSonics will finally face a real powerhouse team, the Los Angeles Lakers, on March 11.
The game against the Lakers on March 11 was the second meeting between Yees and Kobe Bryant after the All-Star Game.
After the All-Star Game, the Seattle SuperSonics generally played very easily.
These teams all have that kind of retreat towards them.
Such an opponent is very easy to beat.
But the Lakers ......
YES and the SuperSonics never thought that Kobe Bryant and the Lakers he was carrying would back down against them.
After all, the stronger the supersonic speed for Kobe, the more rewarding it will be to defeat the supersonic speed.
And in fact, it is.
Looking at the more and more arrogant Seattle SuperSonics after the All-Star Game.
Kobe Bryant really has a super move for this team.
"Yes, let's Lakers sweep away the darkness for the entire league and return to the light in this game!"
In fact, it's not just Kobe Bryant who is very confident at this time.
Even many experts and media in the league have very high expectations for Kobe Bryant and the Lakers.
"Whether the NBA was really brought into the darkest moment by Jordan still needs to see whether Kobe Bryant and the Lakers also collapsed in the end!"
The image of Kobe Bryant and the Lakers as a super-strong team in recent seasons is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and the destruction of the Warriors' 82-game winning streak last season is still vivid.
In fact, Yees and the SuperSonics didn't treat Kobe and the Lakers as ordinary teams either.
This game is the same as Kobe Bryant's big move, and Ye Si also used his big move in this game.
This is the first time this season that the big move has been used on Kobe?
I have to say that the current Kobe Bryant is really quite strong.
Of course, in the end, after a very tough game with the Lakers.
The Seattle SuperSonics eventually defeated the Los Angeles Lakers 160-144.
However, after a very tight game with the Lakers on March 12, on March 13, the Seattle SuperSonics and the Lakers played back-to-back games.
The Seattle SuperSonics returned home to the Lakers in this game, and the SuperSonics won quite easily.
In this game, compared with the killing temperament of the previous game, Kobe Bryant seems to have a bit of the artistic atmosphere of the No. 1 musician in Los Angeles.
Of course, except for Ye Si, everyone felt that Kobe Bryant was an artist in this game, mainly because he was tired.
After all, 36 years old.
Isn't it a bit inhumane to cut 70 points in the previous game, and you still ask others to continue to cut 70 back-to-back?
As the league's No. 1 Warrior team, the Los Angeles Lakers lost 104-162 to the SuperSonics away under the leadership of the No. 1 Warrior Kobe, which directly made those who still had some hope in the end completely collapsed.
"The NBA is really going to be at its darkest hour right now!"