Chapter 340: Popovich who doubts his life
"Short Li, don't be too arrogant!"
"Isn't it just that my alma mater won a championship? What does it have to do with you! โ
"Even if yes, it's not like you!"
The NCAA finals are over, and Yees and the SuperSonics players are back in Seattle after a short one-day vacation.
Although the NCAA finals are over, the atmosphere in the United States is still shrouded in the story of the NCAA finals.
In the United States, the center of the universe is now the NCAA.
Whether it's Oden, Florida or Yes, their news all revolves around the NCAA.
Hypersound is no exception.
David Lee is a senior at the University of Florida, and Noah and they are all students brought out by David Lee.
After the NCAA finals, he was the proudest and proudest of the SuperSonics.
Every day, the short Li and the short Li are shouted, and the self-confidence is almost gone.
It's a pride now, and it's so refreshing to say it.
The apprentices are very powerful, and they have not failed to live up to the fact that he has been an undercover agent for Noah and them for most of the season in the supersonics.
It's just so cool that it's easy to be beaten.
"Everyone's mood is very good right now."
Old Nelson is happy with the vibe inside the supersonic pair right now.
The pressure on the supersonic players was still too great before.
"It's good to have a little distraction, and it's easy to be too focused on one thing and cause a lot of stress."
Ye Si, who was standing next to Old Nelson, nodded approvingly.
In the sprint, the supersonic's concentration was too concentrated, concentrated to the edge of a tight broken string.
It can make a strict head coach like Nelson Sr. have the idea that the supersonic players can be distracted, and you can imagine how focused the superSonics players were before.
Everyone understands the truth of one piece and one relaxation.
But there are some truths that are useless to understand, and they can only be done.
Now that the battle for the top five is so fierce, even a veteran team like the Spurs can't do it one by one, and these young players like the SuperSonics want to do it?
Dreaming.
Well, now the external forces of the NCAA finals have made supersonic achieve the effect of one by one.
Back in Seattle, the SuperSonics get a day off.
The rest of the day was precious, and Coach Nelson Sr. didn't have any special tactical arrangements.
It stands to reason that every minute and every second is important and cannot be wasted at the critical moment of the sprint.
But for the current supersonic speed, urgency is the enemy.
The urgency could see the SuperSonics crash all the way from the end of the regular season to the playoffs.
This is not alarmism.
Put all your energy and hope on the fight for five, and the fatigue generated after the defeat of the five will swallow up the young team of the SuperSonics!
Before the NCAA finals, the SuperSonics suffered two consecutive defeats and dropped from fifth in the West to eighth in the West.
Now hypersound is on the verge of collapse!
For this year's NCAA finals, the NCAA league also invited Nelson Sr.
The old Nelson has a very high status in both the NBA and the NCAA.
Faced with the NCAA's invitation, Nelson Sr. did not go to the NCAA finals.
As the Seattle SuperSonics went to the NCAA finals, the entire SuperSonics knew that Coach Nelson Sr. was studying the Western Trio.
Especially the calves.
Old Nelson now has no problem taking the time to study the calf.
The superSonics players are in the five, but it won't be that the old Nelson is studying the Mavericks and is looking down on their prospect of hitting the five.
For most of the players up and down the SuperSonics, the reason why they are so hard to race to the fifth is not because they believe they can definitely be fifth.
They're just doing their best to give Yes the best possible result.
Fourth in the West is the position that the superSonics players want!
Only in fourth place in the West will Yes be able to win the regular season MVP.
So, the other teams are fighting for the top five.
And the other supersonic players are actually fighting for the fourth in their hearts!
Of course, whether it is for four or five, the hope of hypersonic is very slim, and they know this.
Get the regular season MVP for Yes as much as you can!
Help Yes break through the first round of the playoffs as much as possible!
These are the two major wishes of other supersonic players right now.
One is the regular season and the other is the playoffs.
SuperSonics players are now fighting for the regular-season aspirations.
They don't have the ability to prepare for the playoffs right now.
The Spurs can't prepare and stay ready for the playoffs, can they?
Of course not!
Nelson Sr. is now working on the Mavericks, which will not only not make the supersonic players feel distrusted, but will even make the supersonic players feel more at ease when sprinting.
It's as if telling other supersonic players.
When it's time to sprint, don't worry about the playoffs.
There's Coach Nelson Sr. to prepare for your rainy day.
You just have to push forward as hard as you can!
It's better to be able to rush up.
It doesn't matter if you can't rush up, Coach Nelson Sr. is already preparing for the playoffs.
Why more prep Mavericks?
Because, of course, the most likely opponent in the SuperSonics playoffs right now is the Mavericks.
Nelson Sr. was telling the superSonics that he wasn't pretending.
He's serious!
In terms of the SuperSonics' current ranking and future schedule, the SuperSonics' opponent entering the playoffs will be the Mavericks.
Eighth in the West is even the expected ranking of the supersonic future!
At the end of the regular season, the SuperSonics are likely to be eighth in the West.
But the supersound has not given up on the effort!
The NBA sprint schedule continues!
The NCAA finals are not only a relief for the SuperSonics, but also a good relief for the now tense and exciting top eight in the West.
Ahead of the NCAA finals, the seven teams in the West looked like they were full bows.
Some of those seven teams look like they're going to collapse.
Of course, the team that collapses is not talking about other teams, but the Seattle SuperSonics.
Before the NCAA finals, the SuperSonics lost back-to-back to the bitter Jazz and rival Nuggets.
The SuperSonics, who suffered two straight defeats, relinquished fifth place in the West and dropped to seventh in the West.
Even the seventh place in the West looks precarious!
Now the ranking of the four murderers in the west.
The Spurs have a 53-22 record and are fifth in the West.
The Nuggets also have a 53-22 record and are sixth in the West.
The SuperSonics have a 52-23 record and are seventh in the West.
The Lakers also have a 52-23 record and are eighth in the West.
The SuperSonics now have the same record as the Lakers at 52-23.
As long as SuperSonics loses one more game and the Lakers win, then SuperSonics will fall from seventh to eighth!
A week ago, the SuperSonics were fifth in the West, but now they have fallen to eighth if they lose a game!
This shows how fierce the competition for fifth place in the west is now.
Not only the supersonics, but also the other three teams of the three fierce ones.
With just one loss, there will be drastic ups and downs in the rankings!
The only difference is that the Spurs, Nuggets and Lakers have relatively weaker opponents and are less likely to lose!
Definitely not like supersound now looks like it is already in danger of collapsing.
"If you lose one more game, I'm afraid the supersonic speed will collapse!"
When the effort is not proportional to the return, it is when the mentality of these young players collapses!
Old Nelson finished speaking a little quietly, and Ye Si's face was still calm.
Looking at Ye Si's now calm expression.
Old Nelson was also secretly admired in his heart.
The supersonics, who have lost two in a row, can no longer lose.
As long as you lose, you will collapse!
So who is the next supersonic game that cannot be lost?
Spur!
Not very good in the rankings this year, but the Spurs have been the top team in the league for the past decade!
This is a team that is hard to say that any team must win!
In the face of such a team, it is really rare to have such a calm and confident temperament as Yes is now!
April 4, 2007, San Antonio, AT& T Center.
The Seattle SuperSonics take on the San Antonio Spurs in fifth place in the West.
Spurs are in great form right now.
The Spurs are on the fast track to a winning streak after losing to the SuperSonics before.
And the supersonic, on the contrary, after beating the Spurs, are in very big trouble.
The Spurs and SuperSonics are now in a race for the top five, but it looks like the Spurs have a tendency to hold on to fifth again, while the SuperSonics look like they are falling behind!
As a lot of pundits and commentators said before this game, if it weren't for the constant salvation of the NCAA.
I'm afraid the supersound has fallen behind!
Is it finally time for Yes to be saved?
"If the supersonic continue to lose according to the previous trend, they will completely lose the possibility of fighting for the fifth!"
"If the SuperSonics can beat the Spurs in this game, they can still keep the suspense of the battle for the fifth, otherwise they will have to play the Mavericks, Rockets or Suns in the first round!"
Mavericks, Rockets, Suns......
When Barkley said these three names, he felt an incomparably toothache!
There are still a few games left in the regular season.
All three teams have reached 60 wins!
What kind of magical view is this?!
In the past history of the NBA, only the West in the 97-98 season achieved such a miracle!
That season, Malone's Jazz, Payton's SuperSonics, and O'Neal's Lakers all reached 60 wins in the regular season.
And unlike that season, the Jazz, the SuperSonics, and the Lakers barely reached 60 wins, the Mavericks, Rockets, and Suns won 60 early.
Mavericks, Rockets, and the Suns are now much more dominant!
That year, the Jazz, SuperSonics and Lakers all advanced in the first round.
Will the Mavericks, Rockets and Suns be hacked this year?
What do you think!
Now the whole world knows.
Yes and hypersonic if not ranked fifth in the West.
The fate that awaits them will be to be kicked out in the first round!
Played an epic regular season and ended up in the first round of the playoffs!
What an ironic thing to do.
Just like Kobe Bryant last season.
Was Kobe Bryant respected last season?
Unlike Kobe, Yes doesn't taunt him because of his first-round exit.
But there's no doubt that Yes' legendary regular season performance this season will be detracted by his first-round exit!
Fifth in the West!
This is the only chance for Yes and SuperSonics to break through the first round of the season!
Seriously, Barkley feels that this position in the fifth place in the West is actually not friendly to the supersonics!
This season, the SuperSonics have been killed by the Jazz Five, who are fourth in the West!
If they really want to meet the Jazz again in the first round of the playoffs, how likely is it that the SuperSonics will advance?
It won't be that big!
This is the current state of hypersound.
Compared with direct competitors such as the Lakers, Nuggets and Spurs, the SuperSonics' performance against strong teams this season is worth complaining about.
This season, the SuperSonics have faced the top four Rockets, Mavericks, Suns, and Jazz in the West, and have not won a single game!
Facing the Celtics, who are the first in the East, the SuperSonics have not won a game!
If it weren't for Yes's strong lore over the Pistons.
Beat Spurs three times in the season.
I'm afraid there will be many people who say Yes, just bullying the soft and afraid of the hard!
Barkley is well aware that there are already some voices saying this.
Now many Cavaliers fans on the Internet are saying that the game in which the SuperSonics beat the Pistons was luck.
Winning three games against Spurs was an accident.
In the NBA, there aren't a lot of black yes fans.
Most of them are Cavaliers fans.
Cavaliers fans are too die-hard.
In the face of their darling, Yes robbed them of the title of Chosen Son.
James is not in a hurry, and Cavaliers fans are in a hurry first.
However, some Cavaliers fans are actually right.
The game between the supersonic and the Pistons is indeed lucky, after all, it is a lore!
And yes in the face of Prince's dry pull kill.
Just that kind of lore, let Yes throw a hundred more times, can he get in once?
Maybe a hundred games, the Pistons can win 99 games, but they just hit the one they lost!
The game between the SuperSonics and the Spurs was said by Cavaliers fans on the Internet to be an accident, which is not what Cavaliers fans said.
This is what Popovich himself said about the Spurs.
Popovich was asked in an interview yesterday about the possibility of being killed by Yes four times this season, and Popovich's face was not so good-looking.
Have the Spurs been swept by the team these seasons?
Sweep over!
But was swept by a Western team?
No!
Even the Mavericks, who have suffered from the Spurs in the past two seasons, have not beaten the Spurs so badly!
The pre-game interview between the Spurs and the SuperSonics for this game, those reporters were also really provocative.
With Popovich's character, how could he be soft enough to say that kind of thing, I really can't beat the yes?
Even if it's true, you can't say it!
What's more, Popovich's reasons all sound quite good!
In the first game, he was studying Yes, and he forgot to eat and sleep in the study, and forgot to collect the game.
In the second game, Bowen was too underweight, and he was too underweight.
In the third game, the rhythm was interrupted by special factors.
What this particular factor is, Popovich can't say in order not to be fined.
But the whole world knows.
Because of Crawford!
"Bruce's playing time in that game really didn't decrease, but his actions and defense on the court will definitely be affected by too many fouls, then we only lost by four points in that game, if Bruce has even one less foul, we will win in the end!"
"Of course, I'm not denying Yes's performance in that game, Yes is a great player, but the SuperSonics don't qualify to be the team that kills us three times, and the SuperSonics don't deserve to be the team that sweeps us!"
With these statements in Popovich's pre-match interview, anyone can see how much Popovich has grudged about the past three games.
How much importance is attached to this home and supersonic match.
As far as Popovich said, he almost shouted that the Spurs would win this game!
"There will be no more surprises in this game!"
"Spurs won't lose again!"
"Bruce won't have that many fouls, he'll be on Yes' side for the whole game!"
In fact, it didn't take a day for Popovich to shout out his declaration of victory at the press conference that day.
Barkley didn't see how confident Popovich was when he said this.
But Popovich does have the capital of self-confidence.
The all-out Spurs haven't lost again since losing one game to the SuperSonics!
This is a team that is still in contention for the title!
Maybe the Spurs' season dominance is not as good as before, but in some games, the Spurs can still show championship strength!
Yes had a good touch in the last game, and Bowen could still score so many points against Bowen, who had defended to the extreme.
But in the end, the superSonics only won by 4 points!
As Popovich said, as long as Bowen doesn't have so many fouls in this game, as long as Yes doesn't feel so good in this game.
Spurs can win, and they can win easily!
In the last game of the season between the SuperSonics and the Spurs, it is possible to hammer the SuperSonics directly to hell with a hammer, give up the fight for fifth, and sit on the eighth place.
So the Dallas Mavericks are really looking forward to watching this game and see how their arch-rival Spurs will deliver the supersonic to them.
In the eleven games at the end of the supersonic season, the Mavericks felt that even if they didn't take action personally, the supersonic would not be able to hold on, and they would have already secured the eighth position.
But unexpectedly, supersonic just doesn't fall!
It should be that it fell and was picked up by Yes, and it was lifted up by Yes when it fell.
The first two games were lost to the Nuggets and Jazz, and this game met the desperate Popovich again.
Supersound is finally going to fall completely!
No matter how strong Yes is, there is no way to lift the supersonic speed up again!
"Popovich says there will be no surprises in this match!"
"Popovich says Bowen is ready to fight for 48 minutes!"
There will be no surprises!
There will be no surprises in this game!
As an old friend for so many years, the little general Johnson knows very well what Popovich is like.
Without absolute certainty, he wouldn't have said so much before the game!
Popovich said that there were no accidents in this game, then there could be no accidents!
Since Popovich said that Bowen would play with Yes for 48 minutes, it means that Popovich has long been prepared for the most difficult situation!
How terrible is the prepared Popovich, no one knows better than him!
However......
Looking at the score on TV, the Bulls' locker room, and the eyes of the little general Johnson are straight!
92 to 99!
Home team in front, away team in the back!
Spurs lost again?!
There are no surprises when you say yes?!
Said that the good ones won't be swept away?!
What about the complete preparation that was said?!
Don't say it's the calves up and down in front of the TV.
Even Popovich at the AT&T center is now looking sluggish!
In the face of Bowen's perfect defense, Yes scored 10 points in the last three minutes and took away the Spurs in one wave?!
Popovich suddenly found that he couldn't understand the game?!
He is a championship head coach who has won three championships in the NBA, and he is a little skeptical by this game!
"Supersonic still hasn't fallen!"
"As long as Yes hasn't fallen, supersound can't fall!"
"Spurs have been swept!"
"Bowen played 44 minutes in this game and couldn't stop the Spurs from being swept!"
"The Spurs were really swept!"
Barkley was roaring.
Kenny Smith on the other side was stunned as he watched the supersonic nine on the court.
It was so quiet!
When has the AT&T Center been so quiet?!
This game can also be won by the supersonics?!
Kenny Smith has been in the NBA for so many years, and it's the first time he's seen an AT&T center hear a pindrop like this!
Just as Kenny Smith was dumbfounded, the assistant's voice rang out in the headset.
"The Lakers beat the Nuggets at home!"
"In the other game at the same time, the Los Angeles Lakers beat the Nuggets 116-111 at home!"
Fifth in the West: Seattle SuperSonics, 53-23.
Sixth in the West: Los Angeles Lakers, 53-23.
Seventh in the West: San Antonio Spurs, 53-23.
Eighth in the West: Denver Nuggets, 53-23.
Looking at the subtitles typed out on TV, Nowitzki's mouth was wide open and speechless.
He's all ready to be sent to him by the Spurs and Popovich at the SuperSonics.
But in the end, the superSonics not only did not get to his mouth by the Spurs, but even climbed to the fifth place in the West!
"Supersonic has climbed to fifth place in the West again?!"
Even the roaring Barkley was speechless in shock after getting the news that the Lakers had defeated the Nuggets at home!
After the last time supersound fell from the fifth position, the whole world believed that it was impossible for supersound to return to fifth in the West!
But now, supersound is back in fifth place in the West!
"Incredible!"
Barkley can now only be described as unbelievable and incredible!
He doesn't know how long the SuperSonics can hold out in fifth place in the West on the devil's schedule.
But now, the supersonic are indeed in fifth place in the West again!
How long can the superSonics hold out in fifth place in the West?
On April 5, 2007, they lost at home to the SuperSonics Spurs to challenge the Dallas Mavericks, who are now second in the West.
92 to 105!
Spurs lost again after back-to-back away games!
On the same day, the Nuggets, who lost to the Lakers, challenged the Mavericks back-to-back, 75-81!
The Nuggets lost two in a row!
On April 6, 2007, the SuperSonics returned to their home court to face the Lakers, who are now fifth in the West, 88-80!
SuperSonics beat the untouched Lakers at home!
80 to 88!
Looking at the score next to the key arena, Kobe Bryant looked unhappy.
Lost again!
In a game where you can win and you can be fifth in the West, you lose again!
He's lost a lot of games like this this season!
It's the feeling again!
It's the same feeling I had in my first game with Yes!
The feeling that the whole body is being looked at by Yes, and there is not the slightest secret!
Kobe Bryant is incredible!
Why is Yes so familiar with him?!
Obviously, with the addition of this game, they have only played each other three times!
Kobe Bryant doesn't know why, but he really doesn't want to lose this crucial battle of stealing five again!
It's so uncomfortable!
SuperSonic, 54-23!
The other three murderers, 53 wins and 24 losses!
After the SuperSonics defeated the Lakers at home, the whole United States was in an uproar!
"Unexpectedly, supersonic speed took the lead in opening the gap with the other three murderers!"
"Supersonic can not only regain the fifth place, but also stabilize the fifth position?!"
Back to back losses to the Lakers on April 7.
On April 9, they lost to the Rockets at home.
It wasn't until April 11 that the SuperSonics fell from fifth place!
53-27!
At this point, the NBA regular season has passed 80 games!
"I didn't give up fifth in the West until Game 80!"
"In a devil's schedule like this, Yes didn't give up the fifth place in the West until Game 80!"
Look at the supersonic nine on TV that has given it all.
Nowitzki and the Mavericks players are all shocked on their faces right now!
The supersonic collapse they expected has finally arrived!
Eleven Devil's Schedule!
They didn't predict that the SuperSonics would lose 11 in a row, as the pundits did.
But it would never have been thought that the supersonic would collapse with only 2 games left in the regular season!
"Supersonic has finally fallen!"
"Yes has finally fallen!"
The SuperSonics, who have lost three in a row, have not just conceded fifth place in the West.
At the same time, it also fell to eighth in the West!
Little General Johnson really has a sense of relief!
The next two games for the SuperSonics are the Pistons and Mavericks!
Fall and get up, fall and get up!
This time, the supersound finally can't stand up anymore!
In the week that the supersonic occupy the fifth place in the West.
What a torment for him and the calf!
They don't know how they spent the week doing their best!
Now, the ordeal is finally over!
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Nielsen coaches?
"God still loves us!"
"Destiny is in our hands!"