Chapter 584: Give Me A Reason to Beat Me!
April 19, 2008, Key Arena, Seattle.
It was SuperSonics' first playoff game of the season, and an hour before the game began, the entire Key Arena was already packed.
After a season of hard work and struggle, the Seattle SuperSonics players have finally come here.
For Seattle fans, this season has definitely been one of great happiness for them.
The team was looked down upon by the whole world before the season began, one of the weakest teams in history, the bottom of the league was scheduled, and the season of fairy tale fell, and in these now incredible sounds, the Seattle SuperSonics started their new season.
Under the leadership of Yes, when the Seattle SuperSonics got off to a start, even the most die-hard coconut fans and supersonic fans would not think that the SuperSonics could have the results they have now after the end of this season.
Losing the regular season, which is the joint-fourth-best regular season record in NBA history.
And this kind of result is not obtained by bullying the weak, such a result is obtained in the strongest division in history, and it is obtained against seven teams with 60 wins in the same district!
It can be said that not counting the next playoffs, the results and performance of the SuperSonics this season are perfect!
Even if you count the playoffs, even if, as those guys say, the SuperSonics were swept away by the Nuggets in the first round of the playoffs, the Seattle SuperSonics have been successful this season.
Anyway, the team can't win the championship this season, and since that's the case, yes can achieve a record of 60 wins for the first time in his career and win the regular season MVP for the first time, so what's not to be satisfied with?
That's right, despite the controversial final regular-season game, the SuperSonics could manipulatively swap their first-round opponent from the Nuggets to the Lakers.
But, as yes said, the future of Seattle hypersonic is a sea of stars, and the future of supersonic is poetry and distance, not the present.
Most fans of other NBA teams are laughing at the yes and supersonic options, but they just love them!
Just like the Garfield Five Tigers back then!
Back then, they liked the Garfield Five Tigers, and it wasn't because of the success of the Garfield Five Tigers.
In fact, the Garfield Five Tigers failed in the end.
They like such brilliant failures more than just successes!
Anyway, everyone is a supporting role for the Rockets this season, and they are also a supporting role for the Rockets in the end, and they are also a supporting role for the Rockets when they are out in the first round, no matter how much you laugh at yes and the supersonic round, in Seattle, yes and his supersonic will always be heroes!
This game between the Seattle SuperSonics and the Nuggets is important for the Seattlemen, and regardless of the future outcome, this game and this series will be an opportunity for YES to take the team to fight.
Even as the world looks down, yes and his team are still on the pitch ready to fight.
As the leading player at the University of Washington, Stephen Curry is now one of those Seattle fans who are crazy about yes and superSonics.
After this year's NCAA failure, Curry quickly came out of the shadow of failure.
It's not the first time he's done.
For failure, the second and the thousandth are the same.
Since he chose to trust his master and stay and continue to pursue his dream of NCAA championship, he will not have any hesitation.
Even if he fails in the end, he has an explanation for himself, and it doesn't matter if he wastes two years, he wastes two years, and finally enters the NBA in the ridicule of the whole world.
Anyway, when the master entered the NBA, wasn't he also moving forward in the crazy underestimation of others?
Even now, isn't the master still good?
Although now the master doesn't seem to be so good.
The situation that the master encountered this year is the same as the situation he encountered this year.
The UCLA he met this year was also an opponent that he couldn't beat, and he needed to succeed to defeat this impossible opponent, and in the end he failed, and he didn't even have a chance to see this opponent.
And what about the master?
He doesn't have only one UCLA, even if the master defeats the Nuggets' UCLA, the next UCLA is the next UCLA, and even the next UCLA is the next UCLA!
What does it mean to move forward in adversity?
This is moving forward in the face of adversity!
Every time Curry wants to feel nostalgic for his failures in the NCAA in the past two years, Curry will think of his master's success in the NBA in those two years.
The master's situation in the NBA in the past two years is much worse than his, but the master's achievements are beyond his reach.
"Stephen, if yes can beat the Nuggets, what reason do we have to give up?!"
Spencer Hawes's words were firm, and Poundset, who was on the side, nodded in agreement.
Curry nodded in agreement after thinking about it.
After Brockman and the others opted to participate in the draft, the future of the entire team is now up to the three of them.
Whether the University of Washington can realize everyone's dreams in the future is now up to them.
As for Isaiah Thomas, Klay Thompson and Dream Green......
Let's forget it for now.
"If the master can really create a miracle in a game like this......"
Curry knew that he, like the whole of Seattle, would be moved by such a miracle that would shock the world!
For the Denver Nuggets, this game with the Hypersonics, this round of the series with the Sonics, does not have such a great sense of mission.
The Denver Nuggets are the favourites in this series.
The Nuggets beat the SuperSonics 4-3 with the most predictions for the score in this series, but the prediction that the Nuggets can win this series is as high as 90%.
What does this mean?
Let's talk about the first playoff game of today's playoffs for the Magic and the Raptors' playoff predictions, and the experts who predict the Magic to win have not reached 90%.
It can be said that in the eyes of ESPN experts, the gap between the strength of the Nuggets and the SuperSonics is actually the same as the gap between the Celtics and the Pacers.
Who in this world can believe that the Pacers can beat the Boston Celtics?
For the Nuggets, as long as they are in the playoffs, they can be cautious and not lose to the SuperSonics in the regular season, and in this series, the Nuggets don't even have a reason to lose!
"The Seattle SuperSonics are a yes team!"
"The Seattle SuperSonics are a yes-only team!"
"It's an honor to beat a team that will always say yes in the playoffs!"
"It's a shame to lose to a team that only has yes in the playoffs!"
That's what Nuggets head coach George Karl said to his team before this game began.
What others thought of George Carr's remark, Billups and Hamilton didn't know.
For the new players who have arrived at the Nuggets this season, Billups and Hamilton are very impressed!
As two of the former Detroit Five, they want to defeat yes and want to go crazy!
Not to mention the playoffs, even in the regular season, none of the five of them can beat yes even one game before!
After coming to the Nuggets, they barely won one game against yes because they had four meetings with yes in one season.
To be able to defeat yes, even if it is one, is an honor for the five of them or for both of them.
Although they won YES in the regular season, the result of the two teams was 3-1, so it can be said that they lost in the end.
They still didn't win yes in the end.
Defeating yes is already the obsession of the five of them.
As for the current situation of the five of them in the league, Big Ben in the Cavaliers is now disheartened and ready to retire because of the infighting between O'Neal and James.
Do Rashid and Prince, who stayed with the Pistons, have a chance to beat yes again in their careers?
In terms of the current situation of the strength comparison between the eastern team and the western team, it is basically difficult and difficult, you can't win this season, and it will be even more difficult next season, or later.
It can be said that now the two of them represent the glory of the Pistons Five Tigers.
In any case, when the five tigers were still together, their greatest wish was to snuff out Garfield's hurricane.
Now what to say about the hurricane that snuffed out Garfield, it is indeed a bit like a dream, but to win, it is a certainty!
In the current playoff series, defeating the SuperSonics, sweeping YES out of the playoffs, defeating YES in the first round of the playoffs, and making YES accept the 'taunts' and 'sanctions' of all those who don't like him, will be the greatest achievement and glory of their careers in the NBA!
The Pistons are destined to be enemies of the NBA's protagonists, and the Pistons' mission is also to prevent the NBA's chosen protagonists from ascending to the highest throne.
They are no longer in the Pistons, but they have never forgotten the mission of the Pistons.
"We're going to win this series, beating yes is our last wish, and before Big Ben retires, let Big Ben see us walk by in front of yes!"
After Billups and Hamilton confirmed their eyes, everyone's mood was extremely determined.
In the regular season, they pushed themselves to try and perform at their best, just like they did in the 2004 Finals.
But, obviously, the environment is important.
In a regular season environment, getting them to play playoff status is a non-realistic thing to do.
The state of the playoffs is not only the state of strength, the state of the game, but also the state of mentality.
The urgency of the playoffs is something that can't be simulated in the regular season.
Otherwise, there would be no key Mr. in this world.
For Billups, whether it's him or Hamilton, they're key gentlemen.
The more urgent and difficult the game, the stronger Mr. Key will become!
Billups and Hamilton's morale was very explosive, and since they decided to 'not pretend', they had to give everything they had in this series, and show the state of the 2004 Finals, and before the game started, Billups and Hamilton saw their fighting spirit in the pre-game contact.
Seeing the fighting spirit of Billups and Hamilton, George Carr was very satisfied.
Now the whole world is saying that this series between the Nuggets and the SuperSonics, the Nuggets have no reason to be beaten.
George Carr agrees with this.
The contrast between the strength of the Nuggets and the SuperSonics is indeed a bit big.
But to say that the supersonic have no chance of winning, not really.
It's still possible for the Nuggets to be beaten.
That is, the Nuggets are a team that gives him a bit of a headache, and the character of this team is too jumpy, whether it is Anthony, J.R. Smith or Camby, Nene Martin and others, these players are not so stable.
To put it simply, it's easy to float!
If it was in the past, in the face of such optimism from the world, George Carr was really worried that these Nuggets players would give the SuperSonics a chance after they floated.
He watched the Mavericks last season when they were swept by the SuperSonics in the playoffs, and in the past two days, he has taken it out again.
The SuperSonics are an amazing team, and yes is also an amazing player, he can take any opportunity to crush the opponent in one fell swoop!
Yes's nickname is not Black Mamba, but his style in the game is even more black Mamba than Black Mamba!
Against such an opponent, the Nuggets are dangerous.
However, the good thing is that the current Nuggets are completely different from the previous Nuggets.
With Billups and Hamilton, the Nuggets' consistent shortcomings are gone.
Moreover, after Anthony was willing to work hard for the game and was willing to use his talent more reasonably, the Nuggets' ceiling also increased.
This season may be the last peak for Hamilton and Billups for the Nuggets, and in this case, this season may be the best chance for the Nuggets to reach the top!
"It is the ideal situation to use yes as the litmus test for the Nuggets to reach the top, to fuel the team's momentum with the glory obtained by defeating yes, and to celebrate the flag waved high by the Nuggets with the head of yes!"
Thinking of this, George Carr was excited.
He knows that he and his team can do it, and his players are working hard for it!
Because in his eyes, Camby, who is now jumping high with Milicic, has never jumped to such heights!
"Incredible height!"
"Camby jumps and beats Milicic!"
Even the crazy supersonic fans at the scene were a little choked when they saw that Camby beat Milicic to jump the ball successfully.
Watching Milicic fail on the pitch with a jump ball is no easy feat.
In terms of the height of Milicic's jump ball, Milicic's jump this time was good enough, but Camby was even better.
Camby's jump ball success surprised the entire Key Arena.
Including supersonic players.
Perhaps the only thing that isn't surprising in the entire arena is the Nuggets players.
They know exactly how each other feels.
They know exactly how much they want each other to win this game and win this series.
"Marcus has shown us everything he has and now it's our turn!"
Anthony received a pass from Billups, without any adjustment, without any hesitation, crushing Durant who had not fully stood in the defensive position and hung one hand on the basket of the key arena!
"Yes, I said I would give you another unforgettable defeat."
"I'm not kidding!"
Anthony, who came down from the basket, didn't even look at Durant, and after glancing at Yes's body with an explosive look, he took the Nuggets players back to defense.
"Okay, so fast......"
The Nuggets' first offense of the opening game stunned the supersonic Scott Brooks on the sidelines.
This is the opening fast break that the SuperSonics are best at, and the Nuggets use it even better and more violent than the SuperSonics!
Is there really no reason for the Seattle SuperSonics to beat the Nuggets......