Chapter 751: Youth, Dreams and Depressed James
The Seattle SuperSonics defeated the Magic on the road on Dec. 5.
On the other side, the Timberwolves, on the same day, also defeated the Nets with a score of 114-103 on the road trip in the East.
After finishing the game on December 5, the two teams are back in the same position again, with 12 wins and 8 losses.
On December 6, 2008, it was a very interesting day, on this day, it was all back-to-back games between the SuperSonics and the Timberwolves, and the Timberwolves and Heat games before the SuperSonics and Hawks games.
In other words, as long as the Timberwolves beat the Cavaliers on the road, the Timberwolves will temporarily surpass the SuperSonics and sit in eighth place in the West.
However, for the Timberwolves, it is definitely not so easy for them to beat the Heat in this game.
In particular, the Heat are now in dire need of a game to win, and now the Heat's record is 18-2, although it ranks first in the East and first in the league, but the Heat's current record is not so obvious from the Celtics in second place in the East and the Cavaliers in third place in the East.
If the Heat lose to the Timberwolves in this game, then the Heat are likely to give up their first place in the East to the Celtics.
This result is also absolutely unacceptable for the current Heat.
Therefore, in this game with the Timberwolves, James is really uncomfortable!
It's been more than 20 games, and the Seattle SuperSonics and Yes still haven't dropped from the eighth place in the West!
More than a quarter of the season has been played, Yes still hasn't given up on his fairy tale, those halos on Yes haven't been eclipsed, and Yes is still moving forward with Ibaka's garbage.
In this game with the Timberwolves, he really wanted to push the Timberwolves, one of the unsuccessful wastes, to the eighth place in the West, but in the end, he could only very reluctantly protect Yes and the supersonic eighth place in the West.
After beating the Timberwolves 115-107 at home, James didn't have any joy on his face.
This made Wade on the side think that the young Timberwolves had caused so much trouble to the Heat in this game, making James unhappy.
"It was a tough game, the Timberwolves were strong, but in the end we still won, didn't we?"
Thinking that he got an unwanted victory in this game, how could James be happy, but after feeling that he seemed to be misunderstood by Wade, James quickly put away those thoughts in his heart.
"The Timberwolves are really good."
James finally nodded.
It's not that he's hypocritical.
Although he has been complaining about the Timberwolves and Trail Blazers in his heart, even the Seattle SuperSonics, a team that has been playing four or five, can't pull off the horse.
But after this game, his impression of the Timberwolves did change a lot.
It's a team that's almost perfect except for a few problems defensively.
This game was not only made difficult by the Timberwolves, but also by Guy.
Perhaps the least uncomfortable thing about the entire Heat in this game is Dwyan, and Dwyan's ruthless suppression of Mayo in this game is the key to the team's victory.
Thinking that the key to the team's victory in this game was Dwyan, James's face showed a trace of unhappiness on everyone's face, of course, such unhappiness came and went away quickly.
James could feel that Dwyan's style of play this season had been letting him, but ......
Dwyanne will not hold back when faced with a win or a defeat, especially in a tough game.
The relentless Dwyane is indeed more eye-catching than him when facing strong teams and difficult opponents.
Of course, his stats are the best in the team this season, but if you remove those stats against weak teams, just against strong teams, or in key moments, his performance and stats can't beat Dwyan's.
James is also very clear about Dwyan's strength, Dwyan's strength is strong, his physical talent is also excellent, coupled with his excellent condition, he has not encountered any major injuries since coming to the NBA, it can be said that Dwyanne is at his peak now!
At Dwyan's peak, the hard power of the entire league except Yes, James didn't think anyone else could overpower Dwyane.
What's more, Dwyan's willingness to let him go in normal times was already very touched and grateful.
It's impossible to ask Dwyane to continue to let him in the crucial game and in the difficult game, the reason why the two worked together in the Heat was to win!
Thinking of this, James also secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
It doesn't matter, as long as I play the playoffs and make the playoffs and finals a simple game, I'm still the protagonist!
The reason why this game is so difficult against the Timberwolves is that in addition to the fact that the strength of the Timberwolves is really strong, the main thing is that the Heat is still in the run-in period!
By the time the playoffs are over, the Heat's run-in period is over, and he doesn't think there is any team that can make things difficult for the Heat.
The Heat and Timberwolves game, the Timberwolves' loss, the Heat's win helped the Seattle SuperSonics take the pressure off.
In the recent period, the Seattle SuperSonics and the Timberwolves have competed for the record, the Timberwolves have always been the first to play, as the first team, no matter whether the opponent facing the competitor is strong or weak, there is pressure to win, otherwise it is to put their fate in the hands of the competitor.
The loss of the Timberwolves made the Seattle SuperSonics have a long-lost feeling that they are in control of their own destiny.
The Hawks, like the Magic, are the second opponent the Seattle SuperSonics have faced this season.
However, unlike the last time they met, Howard and the Magic wanted to prompt Leaves' to defeat Ibaka at the beginning, and the Hawks admitted it from the beginning and let Joe Johnson personally go down to educate Ibaka and coach Ibaka.
Joe Johnson and the Hawks were also the first teams to concede directly against Yes' 100-point threat.
This is the second meeting with the Eagles this season, and the Eagles have not changed the situation of the last meeting between the two teams.
Although Joe Johnson was not very willing to take on the role of a teacher on the court, in the face of the request of the team's head coach Mike Woodson, Joe Johnson could only continue to choose to accept.
It's not that you're capitulating to Joe Johnson, it's that the Eagles really need to win!
The end of Yes is the end of the Magic!
The Hawks don't have enough strength to provoke Yes and then beat the SuperSonics to win.
He didn't like this choice, but there was no doubt that it was the most realistic and sensible choice.
Even if such a choice is still ridiculed by many people.
Joe Johnson is not a man of a perverse personality and he doesn't really mind educating some promising players on the field, but a player like Ibaka, who is already twenty years old but doesn't know anything, obviously can't be said to have a future.
Although he and Mike Woodson kept praising Ibaka before the game, saying that they themselves seemed to believe that they really educated Ibaka because of his talent, not because of Yes's threat.
It's just that after the Hawks vs. Seattle SuperSonics, Joe Johnson's feeling in this game is completely different from the feeling after the previous meeting between the two teams.
"In the end, I still lost ......"
Hawks head coach Mike Woodson was quite sorry for the Hawks' 118-127 loss to the Seattle SuperSonics in this game.
The Eagles have a big chance of winning this game.
This shows that having Joe Johnson educate and coach Ibaka and cooperate with Yes to educate Ibaka is the right strategy.
No matter what others say, such a victory is definitely fragrant.
Although a little bit against the team's boss Joe Johnson, let him accompany such a garbage game for the whole game.
Joe Johnson educated Ibaka as if Beethoven had succumbed to pressure to teach him to play the piano, which was indeed a humiliation to Beethoven.
It's just that......
"Joe, are you alright?"
Looking at the supersonic No. 28 after the game, looking sweaty, Mike Woodson was a little surprised.
Joe can't be a breakdown being played by Ibaka's idiots and underdogs, right?
"Maybe he's really a genius......"
"What?!"
Mike Woodson looked at Joe Johnson with a look of shock on his face that didn't look like a fake.
Joe Johnson can't really be played bad, right?
We're just talking at the press conference, what are you really doing!
If this person is a genius, then the entire NBA is a genius!
For Mike Woodson's confusion and confusion, Joe Johnson has no intention of explaining anything.
In this match against the SuperSonics, Ibaka's performance surprised him very much, really surprised.
Compared to a month, Ibaka has improved very, very much!
Although there are still a lot of bad habits in the game, maybe from the point of view of the game, Ibaka is still completely destroyed by him, with his current strength, Ibaka is 60 attributes and 50 attributes are actually no different.
But as the person who played against Ibaka directly, he could clearly feel the changes in Ibaka in this game.
He's not one of the most technologically insensitive people in the NBA, he's one of the few people in the NBA who is very tech-sensitive!
He can really feel Ibaka's progress.
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Joe Johnson withdrew his gaze from the No. 28 figure and put it on the No. 9 figure.
This is truly an amazing guy!
A player who was an idiot until he was 20 years old actually got his senses......
After three consecutive road trips to the East, Yees and the SuperSonics went to the East with the anxiety and pressure that they could fall out of the top eight at any time.
And when Yes returned to the West with the SuperSonics, the Seattle SuperSonics brought back a wave of three consecutive wins.
After three consecutive wins on the road in the East, the Seattle SuperSonics' record has also become 21-8, although it is still eighth in the West, but the eighth position has been stabilized.
"I knew that the master must be fine!"
In the training hall at the University of Washington, Stephen Curry looked at Yees with admiration.
The same goes for the other University of Washington players next to him.
As the people most closely associated with the Seattle SuperSonics, they certainly knew that the Seattle SuperSonics were really stressed to the point of collapse a week ago.
The news they got from inside the SuperSonics was that Rondo and many of the Seattle SuperSonics fighters had already taken action on Ibaka and were ready to depose Ibaka and put him in a hospital bed.
If it weren't for the pressure to the extreme, no matter how extreme that guy Rondo was, no matter how unwilling Yes was to be hurt, he wouldn't jump over the wall to that extent.
At the time, not only Curry, but every University of Washington player was quite worried about whether the Seattle SuperSonics really collapsed before Yes could raise Ibaka.
Now it seems that they are really too worried.
They don't know if Ibaka can be cultivated in the end, but the strength of the teacher is really beyond their imagination!
It's no wonder that the master can still teach them Coach Romar's five-small tactical system at the University of Washington at the University of Washington when the Seattle SuperSonics are in such a difficult situation.
"Master, I really want to stand on the NBA stage and face you up sooner!"
"It's not just Stephen, I want to!"
"And me!"
"Me too!"
Looking at the excited University of Washington players around him, Ye Si was slightly stunned.
Are you a rival to me?
Yes looked at Curry, Thompson, Green......
The faces are extremely familiar, and it was really a time of collapse.
"It's coming."
Yass nodded.
"Of course it's coming soon, master, this year's NCAA championship, we have it!"
"Master, we can be in the NBA next season!"
Curry and his friends around him have anticipation on their faces, and Yes's faces are also anticipation.
"This is dreams and youth!"
Although he has been taught at the University of Washington, the atmosphere of the NCAA is completely different from that of the NBA.
I hope that after these children go to the NBA, they can also retain the dreams and youth that Yes has created for them.
On December 8, 2008, the Seattle SuperSonics returned home to their first opponent against the Warriors, who are still at the bottom of the West.
After the Seattle SuperSonics defused the team's crisis with a three-game winning streak on the road trip in the East, this game against the Warriors was a must-win game.
The Warriors are rebuilding this season, and the team's biggest goal this season seems to be to give Beasley unlimited firing rights and let Beasley grow rapidly.
Beasley's performance off the court and on the court this season deserves the Warriors' all-out gamble.
In this game against the Warriors, the Warriors still can't create any difficulties for the SuperSonics.
The final score was 111-127, but Mike Beasley played quite well in this game.
Against Ibaka Beasley, this game once again cut 40+ points.
This 40+ run also makes Beasley only the second player after Yaes to score all 20+ points in the first 21 games of his career.
It's just that this 20+ consecutive scoring record didn't make Beasley happy.
After the game, Beasley complained directly to Durant on the sidelines.
"Kevin, I really don't want to!"
"But that old man West is so bad that he forced me to make a move, and if he didn't score more than 20 points in a game, he would deduct my salary!"
"I'm going to protect my hits!"
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Without the strength of Yes, it is really miserable to do Yes.
But......
Want to protect your hit rate?
Do you have any money?
Seeing Beasley forced to change his appearance because of money, Durant's face was sympathetic, but his heart was smiling.
"Hua Q, I'll play with the money back in the future, and if I don't find it back on the old man West, he's my father!"
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Durant, who was smiling in his heart, slowly changed the smile in his heart......