Chapter 970: The Underrated Supersonic and the Cheerful Warrior!

"Mark, why do you think the media always think that players with strong shooting skills and players with less talent are not considered very strong players?"

At the Seattle SuperSonics training facility, James Harden asked his friend Gasol next to him seriously.

James Harden's question directly stumped Marc Gasol.

He really didn't know how to answer.

The Seattle SuperSonics, Grizzlies, and Heat once again achieved 18 consecutive victories at the same time.

The competition among the three teams to break the NBA regular season record has become more intense.

After diverting his attention from the Celtics, he returned his attention to the competition between the Seattle SuperSonics, Heat and Grizzlies.

Many media are analyzing who will be the final winner among the Grizzlies, Heat and SuperSonics.

Most media experts thought it was the Heat, the second most media experts thought it was the Grizzlies, and the Seattle SuperSonics was ranked third.

This really makes the SuperSonics very, very unhappy.

If you want to say that the Grizzlies are ranked above the Sonics, forget it.

Why can the Heat, who were swept by us in the finals, be ranked in front of us?

Just because we were ranked eighth in the regular season last season, do you think that our championship last season was a fluke? It was all based on our good three-point shooting and the luck of success?

Because we don’t have the visible rampage talents of James and Wade, do you think we are not as good as the Heat?

You feel that there is a lot of luck in the playoffs, and the regular season is about long-term stability, so we can't beat the Heat?

The strength of Nash and Nowitzki has been discriminated against in the NBA, and now the strength of the SuperSonics has also been discriminated against. No matter how Yes claims in the media that the SuperSonics are the strongest team in the NBA, not many people believe it. .

After all, Yes also said that Rondo is one of the strongest scorers in the NBA.

Regarding the evaluation of his own team's players, even Yes, who never lies, is considered unobjective by those people.

In today's NBA, times have changed, but the minds of these media experts in the league have not changed.

They still really need the Grizzlies to have a big center, and the Heat have explosive players like James and Wade.

In their bones, they still believe that three-pointers are a matter of luck. Everyone can bet. If you win, in a certain game, even Novak can be better than James, just like last year's finals. With Durant's efficiency, do you dare to say that he can make it to the Finals this year?

No one can bet on life for a long time, even if the entire league is betting on life now, the more this happens, the more valuable and favored teams like the Heat and Grizzlies that do not rely on gambling are.

Marc Gasol actually understands the truth.

Marc Gasol thinks James Harden understands it too.

But truth comes true, the Seattle SuperSonics feel a little aggrieved.

Damn it, haven't these people seen how stable the Seattle SuperSonics are this season?

The Seattle SuperSonics are able to throw 25 three-pointers in every game this season. Shouldn't this be admired?

These guys actually believe that the Sonics would not be as strong as they seem without the support of such a strong three-pointer.

Marc Gasol has also convinced these people.

Now the topic around the world is once again focused on the fact that the Seattle SuperSonics, Heat and Grizzlies are No. 1 in the league and have broken the NBA regular season record.

After all three teams reached 18 consecutive wins,

Basically everyone in the league feels that the Rockets' regular season record of 73 wins and 9 losses will definitely be broken.

It just depends on who it is.

Of course, Seattle SuperSonics players are also interested in this record, which ranks first in regular season history.

Why aren't you interested?

Although because the proportion of three-pointers scored is too high, many experts do not think they are stable enough.

But the SuperSonics know internally that they are very stable.

This season, the Sonics basically clock out in three quarters in most games.

Until now, the team has basically not encountered an opponent that requires full strength. The Lakers are strong, but Kobe's two undercover games allowed the Sonics to defeat the Lakers without bloodshed.

Now when meeting the Lakers, the Sonics may need to vomit blood.

But overall, there are few teams in the league with the strength of the Lakers.

What's more, the Sonics really haven't tried their best.

Under what circumstances would a team put the cart before the horse in pursuit of a regular season record?

Of course, they go all out. Each game is very difficult. The players' physical strength is no longer enough to support the high-intensity competition in every game, but they are still unwilling to give up the victory of every game. This is putting the cart before the horse and forcing a record improvement. , the same as the Rockets and Suns two seasons ago.

The current Seattle SuperSonics do not have such a situation at all.

Regardless of whether it is the starters such as Leafs, Durant, Rondo, Milicic, Millsap, or the substitutes such as James Harden, Gasol, Ibaka, etc., there is no fatigue at all.

This season, due to so many clocking out in three quarters, the Seattle SuperSonics' starting players' playing time has reached a new low, while the Seattle SuperSonics' bench players' playing time has reached a new high.

This resulted in the SuperSonics' starting players getting a very full rest, and at the same time, the Seattle SuperSonics' bench players also got a lot of opportunities to exercise and stay in game condition.

This season, the Seattle SuperSonics' scoring is terrible, and this is mainly due to this. After the SuperSonics players take the field, they can show their strength without worrying about physical strength.

Many people have magically discovered that even in the fourth quarter when the Seattle SuperSonics used all substitutes, the substitute lineup of Gasol, James Harden, Ibaka, Tucker, and Sessions was very dominant. It can achieve the kind of dominance that makes you want to beat your opponent into a dog, but the opponent will definitely not be a cat.

The SuperSonics' bench rotation is like a dimensionality-reducing blow against the garbage-time rotation benches of many other teams in the league.

Not to mention James Harden, Gasol, and Ibaka have shown extremely strong strength and condition this season. These three were trained by Yes last season. It is not surprising that they will produce results this season.

The key is Tucker and Sessions.

This is Tucker's fourth season in the NBA. This player who only knew how to defend at first can now actually throw three-pointers, and his shooting rate has reached a very good 35% or more. This makes him finally become a player this season. A regular in the SuperSonics rotation, his three-point shooting allowed him to overpower Danny Green in the competition.

Tucker's rise this season has been a big surprise for the Sonics.

But the bigger surprise for the Sonics was Sessions.

After Barea, the SuperSonics selected rookie Ty Lawson as Barea's replacement this season.

But Ty Lawson and James Harden's cooperation is somewhat acclimated.

But think about it, this is very normal. Barea is an enhanced version of Ty Lawson, and he was fooled by James Harden's playing style.

Fortunately, Barea's key ball is strong, and he can still shoot well even if he takes the blame.

But Ty Lawson was miserable. James Harden was so lucky that he passed the blame to Ty Lawson in the end. Ty Lawson was completely fooled.

He has never seen such a cruel approach to his teammates.

In the entire league, except for Westbrook of the Clippers, there is no one who plays like James Harden.

This style of play requires teammates with strong pot-taking abilities. For example, Westbrook has Nick Young. One can dump the pot and the other can take the pot. This is very strong.

But Ty Lawson really doesn't have such a strong ability.

In the end, Ty Lawson was broken down by James Harden in a short period of time.

I thought that when I came to the SuperSonics, I would become famous in one fell swoop.

I never thought that I would encounter a mudslide like James Harden.

If he didn't know that this was James Harden's own style, he would have thought that James Harden thought he was Durant's childhood sweetheart, so he deliberately messed with him.

Ty Lawson had a somewhat failed start with the SuperSonics, resulting in the frustrated guard now learning from Yees' side like Ingles and Danny Green all day long, looking forward to one day being able to shine in the NBA.

The failure of Ty Lawson's replacement Barea gave Sessions his chance.

Sessions doesn't have that strong ability to take the blame, but he doesn't need that high of a ball. His shooting ability isn't that strong, but he can still shoot.

At the same time, his ability to generate assists is really quite strong.

He even had 20 assists in a single game with the SuperSonics.

His organizational skills are average, but he has a strong sense of assists and a good passing ability. After receiving the blame from James Harden, he can throw the blame again in a short time, throwing it to Ibaka and Mark Garner. In the hands of Sol and others.

This makes Sessions feel a little more comfortable when paired with James.

Sessions averaged 6 assists per game this season, which is incredible for a substitute rotation player.

So far in the game, many teams have noticed this player who might not have even entered the NBA if it weren't for the SuperSonics and Yes.

In the current SuperSonics bench lineup, Sessions can indeed maximize his advantages.

His offense is there, but not that good, but the Sonics' current rotation doesn't require him to have such a strong offense.

His defense is not there, but the SuperSonics' current substitutes are Gasol, Ibaka and Tucker Harden. These four are all well-known defensive players in the league.

It doesn't matter if he really doesn't defend.

But his passing ability and sense of assists can turn the pots thrown by James Harden into treasures.

Sessions, Harden, Tucker, Ibaka, Gasol, the Seattle SuperSonics' rotation this year really made too many big news.

Those piles of fifty-eight were almost all made by these guys.

At the end of the third quarter, we were trailing by more than 30 points. I thought the two sides would switch to substitutes and surrender to avoid being defeated by 58.

Who knew that these substitutes of the SuperSonics had a greater advantage over their substitutes than the main players of the SuperSonics had against their main players. How can this be done? !

The SuperSonics are very strong this season, really very strong.

After the team like James Harden, Ibaka, Tucker, and Sessions have grown up, the Sonics now have almost no weaknesses.

He can dominate his opponents in every quarter.

Ye Si really didn't lie, his team is really invincible now.

But because the offenses of Durant, Millsap, Milicic, Rondo, James Harden, Ibaka, Gasol, Tucker and others are all based on shooting, the experts in the league have I think the Sonics don't have enough hard power, and they are still a team that relies on gambling on three-pointers to maintain such momentum.

This really made Ye Si dumbfounded.

When he said that the Sonics were very strong, he was really honest, unprecedentedly honest, but no one believed him at this time...

On December 7, 2009, the Seattle SuperSonics faced the challenge of the Golden State Warriors, now eighth in the Western Conference, at home.

The Warriors, led by Beasley, Curry, Klay Thompson and others, at the beginning of this season even ranked first in the Pacific and fourth in the league for a while.

However, the good times did not last long. With the awakening of the Lakers, the Warriors quickly gave up their first position in the Pacific.

It is said that the Grizzlies, Heat and SuperSonics are now on a crazy winning streak.

In fact, the Lakers have now won ten consecutive games.

For all NBA teams this year, this season is really difficult.

The Heat, Grizzlies, SuperSonics, and Lakers are really four desperate teams.

Although the situation in the entire alliance is very dark, the three evil dragons and a brave man are fighting in darkness, and they, the fish in the pond, have been severely affected.

But the Warriors are really a very optimistic young team.

Beasley, Curry and Klay Thompson were not frightened by the miserable reality at all. The three of them were really happy.

Such happiness even made the team's head coach Mark Jackson very dissatisfied.

Marc Gasol is a disciple of Yeas.

But he is not a believer in the University of Washington system. He has his own basketball philosophy and ideas.

He really wanted to get Curry, and he also valued Curry, but after getting Curry and comparing Curry with the coveted Yes, he was very concerned about gains and losses and disappointed.

Curry can shoot and make three-pointers, but his defense is terrible. His turnovers are more explosive than Yes's, but not as stable as Yes's.

Being playful and smiling all day makes him, an old-school head coach, very uncomfortable.

Even if you can't be paralyzed like Yes, you can still learn the chest-beating and foot-beating that the old-school coach loves most!

What kind of bad habit is it to squat on the toilet on the court every time you are arrogant?

Not only does his opponent want to hit him, he also wants to hit him!

Now Mark Jackson is full of grievances and feels that Jerry West is a bit short-changed for paying such a high price for Washington's three heroes.

The three outstanding players from the University of Washington don't know that the team's head coach now dislikes them.

Arriving in Seattle, they met with a very grand welcome.

"Chai Meng, didn't you say you were going to Jinzhou to be a leader? Why are you now a servant like Rajan?"

"What does it mean to be a servant like Rajan? Why can't you speak? It should be said that before you became a servant, Rajan was already a servant!"

After Tucker finished speaking, the surrounding Sonics and Warriors players burst into cheerful laughter.

Even Durant, who has always maintained a cold personality, laughed.

Beasley's words: Before you get arrogant, I'm tired of being arrogant. It's quite popular.

It is called Green's formula.

to the cheerful laughter of Sonics and Warriors fans.

Green and Rondo wanted to hit someone.

But TM’s arms can’t twist so many thighs, what should I do?

My heart is so congested.