Chapter 224 Seattle Supersonics
The Seattle SuperSonics is a team in the northwest of the United States, and it is still in a severe cold moment at this time, even colder than Detroit City, because the cold current on the West Coast has seriously exacerbated the cold in this place, and Detroit City has the Great Lakes as a temperature mixer, so Seattle is colder than Detroit, which also leads to the scarcity of people who come to the Seattle SuperSonics home arena, and those superstars are not willing to come here, so the SuperSonics team has been losing money all year round, and finally this team is unsustainable and was resold to other owners.
And the team moved to Oklahoma, where the climate was more temperate, and the team name was changed to Thunder.
However, the supersonic team in the 03~04 season is still quite powerful, with super double guns, Ray Allen and Rashad Lewis, both of them are super scorers, often co-cutting 40+, 50+ data, if it weren't for the other players too CBA, then the team would have become a regular in the Western playoffs.
So the supersonic team has nothing to fear except for being a little colder, and the player configuration of the Pistons team far exceeds that of the supersonic team, as long as the supersonic twin guns are restricted, the rest of the personnel is not a problem at all.
Osborne flew again from the warm Houston Rockets to Seattle.
As soon as Osborne and his entourage got off the plane, they immediately felt the deep malice of the cold snap in Seattle, and some players even caught a cold because of it.
There is nothing Larry Brown can do about this kind of unwarranted disaster, and he can't blame the players, let alone the weather.
After Larry Brown arranged for the players to stay, Osborne saw Larry Brown take four or five players to the doctor, which was really laughable.
When Larry Brown came back, there were only seven or eight people in the Pistons' training gym who were there to train their regular tactics, so when Larry Brown saw this situation, he couldn't laugh or cry, so he could only ask the players to pay attention to keeping warm, so he told them to move around at will, and it was best to take some anti-cold medicine in advance.
When night falls, Larry Brown leads his army of nine to the supersonic home arena, and when he arrives, Osborne finds that the arena is really a little deserted. There are many reasons for this, first of all, the latitude position of the supersonic is a little higher than others, the temperature is low, and secondly, the supersonic team really has no record to be proud of to attract fans and spectators.
At the start of the game, the Pistons' starters were replaced by center Memiteokwu, power forward Daco Milicic, small forward Osborne, scoring guard Richard Hamilton, and point guard Chancey Billups.
In contrast, the SuperSonics are starry with the exception of Ray Allen and Rashad Lewis.
At the beginning of the game, Osborne felt that he had to strike first today, or he might face the dilemma of nine men playing fifteen.
Osborne signaled Chauncey Billups to attack quickly, Chauncey Billups broke through the SuperSonics defenders, so Osborne ran out of the open space and received a pass from Chauncey Billups, and Osborne took the lead in hitting a direct three-pointer to give the Pistons their first three-pointer.
Then Lashad Lewis also did not show weakness and directly accelerated past Richard Hamilton, and then a high throw, Ray Allen got up and received a pass from Rashad Lewis and burst into the net.
Osborne saw that the two-gun cooperation between Rashad and Ray Allen was really sharp, and Ray Allen, a three-point sharpshooter, was really a dunk when he was young, and he wanted to dunk if he didn't agree with him.
However, their provocative behavior also made Chauncey Billups and Richard Hamilton very angry, so they planned a quick counterattack.
Chauncey Billups broke through quickly with the ball, Richard Hamilton had already stood near the three-point line, if someone was trapped, Richard Hamilton would pass the ball, if there was no one to wrap up, he would shoot directly, because Richard Hamilton hadn't played for a long time, and because of Osborne's outstanding performance, Richard Hamilton was easy to ignore, but this was not a good thing for him.
This gave him a lot of open shots, Chauncey Billups passed the ball to Osborne, Osborne was trapped, and then Osborne passed the ball to Richard Hamilton, he received the ball and shot directly, and even if he didn't score three points, there was an inside line that could suppress the SuperSonics' inside.
Richard Hamilton hit a solid three-pointer, and he also said that since the supersonic duo dunked without a word, the Pistons would shoot a three-pointer to fight back.
If you don't do it quickly, the Pistons don't have enough rotation players, and it's not good for the Pistons to drag time on, which is the consensus that all Pistons players know.
Then I saw the Pistons shooting three points frantically at the beginning, whether they scored or not, and the Pistons were crazy to grab offensive rebounds inside, not giving the SuperSonics a chance.
This makes the supersonic team that has always been like this meet a strong opponent, they are not good because of the team's background, and they usually bomb at the beginning, do a wave first and then talk about others, if the opponent can't hold on, the game will be won steadily, if the opponent can prevent it, this game will basically announce the supersonic team is out of class.
The supersonic duo against the Pistons trio was supposed to start the five, but this happened because center Ben Wallace and power forward Tysian Princes were recuperating.
Ray Allen constantly tore apart the Pistons' interior defense, and repeatedly caused fouls by the Pistons' interior players, Rashad Lewis is also a player who shoots after receiving some passes, and he is unstoppable when he explodes, for example, during his time with the Magic, he directly killed the Cavaliers who were in full swing, entered the Finals strongly, and then was beaten out of the prototype in the Finals, but even so, Rashad Lewis still won a big contract of 100 million yuan, which is also known as the most 100 million yuan contract in history, Because after that, Rashad Lewis's form quickly declined, allowing the Magic team to rush home.
When the first quarter was over, both sides scored highly, after all, the Pistons lacked an inside gate, so Ray Allen was like no one, and the SuperSonics were similar, often playing three people to cooperate to break through the weak defense of the SuperSonics.
In the end, the Pistons led the SuperSonics by two points at 29:27 in the first quarter, Osborne scored 10 points, while Rashad Lewis scored 12 points, and Ray Allen also scored 11 points. (To be continued.) )