588 What is Despair?
April 22, 2008, Key Arena, Seattle.
The Seattle SuperSonics are playing Game 2 against the Denver Nuggets at home and away.
The world watched the game after the Seattle SuperSonics lost at home on April 19.
After a three-day break, everyone knew that this game was a game that the SuperSonics could not lose.
In the playoffs, with two consecutive home losses, only three teams in the history of the NBA have been able to complete the comeback.
In 1969, the Lakers won four games in a row to complete the comeback after losing two games in a row to the Warriors at home.
In 1994, after two consecutive home defeats, the Rockets finally managed to defeat the Suns and complete the comeback.
In 2005, the Dallas Mavericks lost two games in a row at home, and finally completed the comeback against the Rockets in a somewhat controversial whistle.
In the more than 60-year history of the NBA, there have only been three times when a comeback has been achieved after losing two straight home games and falling behind 2-0 in the playoffs.
So after the first game between the SuperSonics and the Nuggets, the media across the United States and around the world were calculating the consequences of losing the next game for the SuperSonics.
It can be said that for the superSonics, the strength is not as good as the opponent, and if the home team is still 0-2 behind, then for the SuperSonics, it will be a real desperate situation and desperate moment.
"In the last game, yes was willing to continue to cultivate Durant in the playoffs, and was willing to pay for Durant's growth at the cost of victory, yes will definitely not dare to continue to let Durant mess up in this game, in yes's mind, Durant is more important than victory, but Durant is definitely not as important as qualifying!"
"One more loss is a cliff, yes knows what he's going to do!"
"If I were yes, I would decisively turn on the personal mode, 0-1 down is not the end of the world, 0-2 down is God's final judgment!"
After the first game between the Seattle SuperSonics and the Denver Nuggets, those famous experts across the United States talked about the second game between the SuperSonics and the Nuggets on TV and swore that yes could finally abandon Durant in this game!
"If yes really abandons Durant in this game, even Durant himself won't have anything to say, yes has given him too many opportunities, even Durant himself, I don't want yes to sacrifice his entire career for him!"
"According to what I got from the front, the Nuggets are ready to continue to target by beating the SuperSonics by 20 points in Game 2!"
"For the Nuggets, against a team with yes, the more games they win, the safer they are, and don't forget, this is a team with yes, and yes is a player who has played a miracle against the Spurs in a game, yes is a player who has shot more than 20 times in the NBA with a 100% shooting rate!"
This game between the SuperSonics and the Nuggets, whether it is for the SuperSonics or the Nuggets, is a game that must be won.
At least for fans on both sides.
While most supersonic fans are okay with any outcome of this series, they are willing to accept all the results before the game even begins.
But if you can really beat the Nuggets in the first round to advance, why not?
And for the Nuggets, as long as they beat the SuperSonics one more time at home, then the Nuggets could even enter the second round with the glory of sweeping the SuperSonics and yes.
At that time, the morale-boosting Nuggets will be in a very advantageous position to face either the Suns or the Grizzlies.
Defeating the SuperSonics, and beating the SuperSonics as an absolute powerhouse, is the key to whether the Nuggets can reach the top this season!
In such a crucial game, whether it is a supersonic fan or a Nuggets fan, whether it is a supersonic supporter or a nuggets supporter, there have been many, many expectations for this game.
But looking at the game that is going on now, almost most people don't think that in this game that can almost decide the fate of this series, yes is still continuing to dominate the game in Durant's hands like the last game!
"yes is still playing for Durant in a game like this?!"
Doesn't he know what this defeat means to him?
Cleveland, LeBron James's home, watching the ever-bigger scores on TV, James' face is constantly changing.
Although he has already made a choice about his life, although he has now chosen his future.
But he never wanted to completely break with his past, but he didn't dare to completely tie his future with his past.
He doesn't want to be cheated by the boss of that pit man in fifteen or twenty years, just Dominic Wilkins, he wants to be his own LeBron James, he wants to be as close to Jordan's position as possible.
It was his last choice, and it was his choice after countless victories over himself.
Now that he's made that choice, he's more sympathetic to yes being cheated by his teammates.
Yes is his opponent, the object he has always wanted to defeat, but he is also the only one who can understand what it is like to be in despair where the whole world around him is a pit.
He can understand yes!
In particular, I am able to understand the greatness and despair of yes.
He had experienced this desperation.
At the beginning, all his hopes were pinned on the Cavaliers boss, even if he knew that the Cavaliers boss had always treated him as an idiot, he still pinned his hopes on his reinforcement of the team.
Looking at it now, how naïve and innocent he was at that time, pinning all his hopes on someone who was destined to give him despair.
And what about yes now?
And how could it be otherwise.
James can understand why YES is crazy about developing Durant after the All-Star break, because YES knows that he needs an outside All-Star who can share the pressure for him in the face of a situation like the league around him.
Yes knew that if he wanted to succeed in the NBA, there was no way to get such an outside All-Star from somewhere else, so he had to develop himself.
As long as he can cultivate this outside All-Star, his career in the SuperSonics will have a future.
It can be said that yes also pinned all his hopes on Durant.
And Durant, too, is a man who is destined to make yes desperate.
As the expert media across the United States said after the loss of the last game between the SuperSonics and the Nuggets.
In terms of the resources that Durant has received from yes this season, as long as there is an All-Star potential, even a pig has grown into an All-Star, not just a quasi-All-Star like Durant.
Durant is still a quasi-All-Star under such resources and training, so the only explanation is that this is Durant's limit!
What a sad thing it is.
The road ahead is hopeless, but yes must move forward through thorns.
There is obviously a dog hole open next to it, as long as yes climbs over with his head down, it is a paradise of 'supersonic loses, yes doesn't lose', but yes finally chooses to move forward on the road of despair full of thorns.
Even if he knew it was a desperate path, he was moving forward for even one ten-thousandth hope.
What is even more desperate is that this one-in-10,000 hope is probably his own self-hypnosis, and for the whole world, the hope on this road is...... Zero. ”
Looking at the score on TV, James muttered to himself.
At this time, looking at the figure of the supersonic nine on TV, there was no envy, no jealousy and no anger in James's eyes.
There is only the same sympathy that we have.
"Someday, yes will be the same ...... as me"
In the second game between the Seattle SuperSonics and the Nuggets, the Seattle SuperSonics lost again on their home court!
Led by Durant, the Seattle SuperSonics have lost two games in a row on their home court.
At the moment of the game's final whistle, even the league's craziest Seattle SuperSonics fans are now stunned and unable to shout a word.
It's not that they can't accept the defeat of this game.
It's just that I didn't expect such a failure to come so early.
In their opinion, when they see the Seattle SuperSonics desperate, it will be five or even six games later.
They really didn't expect that in the second game of this series, they would see the desperation of the team.
In the playoffs, they lost two games in a row at home......
Even if you don't watch the NBA much, you only need to look at the Nuggets players and the Nuggets head coach who are celebrating wildly after the game to know what it means for the series that the Nuggets can win this game on the road.
In the NBA playoffs, a 2-0 lead on the road means that there is a 99% chance of qualifying!
In other words, the current yes is now supersonic, and 99% of it has been eliminated!
Now the Seattle supersonic has entered a substantial death.
"The difference in strength between the two teams is too big!"
"The supersonic led by Durant, even if this supersonic has yes, the gap between it and the Nuggets is an insurmountable chasm!"
"In what should have been a tough away game, the Denver Nuggets once again won the SuperSonics by 20 points on the road!"
"After beating YES by more than 20 points in the playoffs in two consecutive games, and in two games in a row, the Nuggets didn't let YES and the SuperSonics lead even a second, and now, the Denver Nuggets are on the path of an incredible miracle!"
After the second game between the SuperSonics and the Nuggets, Barkley, who has always been 'outgoing', stared wide and couldn't say anything.
Although in the course of this game, he already knew that this result was coming.
However, when this result really came, it was still so unacceptable.
It's 0-2 like that?
Lost like that?
Two consecutive games with more than 20 points lost!
Two games in a row without a single second of lead!
The first game proved that Durant was more important than winning in yes' mind.
And now the second game proves that Durant is more important in yes' mind than the entire series!
"Yes, I have told everyone with practical actions that Durant is the Pippen he chose to accompany him for the rest of his life......"
When Barkley muttered this sentence on TV, all the viewers in front of the TV, whether it was coconut flour or coconut black or anyone else, were almost shocked.
Even Kenny Smith, who was summarizing the game next to him, turned to look at Barkley in a daze.
This game yes used his actual actions to tell the world that Durant is the Pippen who can accompany him throughout his career?
Is that really the case?
Of course it is!
If it weren't, how could YES possibly put Durant's importance above the outcome of the series!
Originally, Kenny Smith felt that the SuperSonics lost this game, and the supersonic fans and coconut fans were desperate enough.
It turns out that there is really nothing in this world that is the most desperate, and there is only more despair!
If you lose in this year's playoffs, you just have to get it back later.
But if yes has already decided that Durant is his Pippen, this is ......
Kenny Smith can't even bear to say anything more now, look at the desperate look on the face of the partner next to him now, the last time I saw Barkley have such a desperate expression on his face, it was when Barkley led the Rockets 2-0 in the playoffs but was reversed!
“yes……”
Facing the extremely silent supersonic fans at the scene, Durant bit his lips tightly and clasped his hands tightly, he didn't know how to face the yes who trusted him so much.
Another twenty-point defeat!
Another big defeat without a second lead!
Looking at Durant, who is now blaming himself and entangled, the expression on Yes's face is extremely calm.
As a super sensitive person, Durant can feel that the calm on yes' face right now is not fake.
He doesn't have any emotions to blame himself, and even under his calmness, what is hidden is absolute trust in himself!
I have such a surging trust in myself, a player who is considered by the world to be only the highest quasi-All-Star level!
This made Durant, who was already a little desperate now, regain his confidence.
In this world, as long as yes's trust in him does not change, he has the courage to face all difficulties, pressure and despair.
"Are you scared?"
"Don't be afraid!"
Durant gritted his teeth without the slightest hesitation.
Ye Si smiled and nodded.
"yes actually laughed?!"
After this game, George Karl, who had been paying attention to yes, had a surprised expression on his face.
Before this match, he always felt like he was thinking too much.
Now seeing that yes can give any teammate a warm smile on his face, George Karl is confused again.
"Did I think too much or didn't I think too much?"
Looking at yes' current performance, he doesn't seem to be thinking too much.
In this game, yes's data was medium, and there were fewer shots, but he still scored 30 points!
But look at the big score of 2-0 lead away now, tell me, how to lose?
On April 25, 2008, after the third game between the Seattle SuperSonics and the Nuggets, George Karl finally didn't have to worry about it.
!
The Seattle SuperSonics lost again!
Denver Nuggets lead SuperSonics 3-0 in the playoffs!
"Guys, it's time to tell yes with your performance, tell the supersonics, what is despair!"
George Carr's face did not have the slightest tangled, there was only confidence!
Confidence that is so rich that it makes the air around you feel confident!