Chapter 225 The Crazy Situation in the West

After defeating the Los Angeles Clippers, who are tenth in the Western Conference, at home, the Seattle SuperSonics finally ended their 20-day sweet home schedule.

Being able to stay at home and play games all the time is the dream of every NBA team.

However, of course, such a dream cannot last that long.

After a sweet home schedule, the Seattle SuperSonics' record has also risen to 28 wins and 15 losses.

A record of 28 wins and 15 losses is enough to move the Seattle SuperSonics to sixth place in the Western Conference.

Compared with the SuperSonics' heavenly schedule during this period, the Lakers and Nuggets' schedules are devilish.

The Lakers and Nuggets on the Devil's schedule were surpassed by the SuperSonics on the Paradise schedule, without any problems.

However, after this sweet schedule, the Sonics' next schedule is not so friendly.

On January 30, 2007, Yeas came to Texas again with the SuperSonics.

The Seattle SuperSonics' last trip to Texas faced the Rockets and Mavericks, and Texas suffered two consecutive losses.

This time, the Sonics' two opponents on their trip to Texas are the Rockets and the Mavericks.

The first game is the Houston Rockets.

Things haven't been going very well for the Houston Rockets lately.

Although the team's record is good, it is playing extremely hard and looks like it may collapse at any time.

In the past month, the Rockets lost two games against the Phoenix Suns, who are third in the Western Conference!

This is a huge blow to the Rockets, who are aiming for a championship.

At the beginning of the season, the Houston Rockets almost dominated the league with an overwhelming advantage. Their continuous victories allowed the Texas team to continue to improve its performance expectations for this season.

Until the end, the Houston Rockets set their goal for this season at the championship position, which allowed this team to be satisfied.

Based on the Rockets' crazy performance at the beginning of the season, the Rockets do have such confidence.

Several of the league's strongest teams encountered huge troubles at the beginning of the season.

The defending champion Miami Heat are constantly being slaughtered. They look like the weakest defending champion in history, making it difficult for the Heat to compete in the new season.

Last season's runner-up, the Dallas Mavericks, are still in the shadow of a huge reversal in the finals, and their results at the beginning of the season were a mess.

As for the Phoenix Suns and San Antonio Spurs, they each have their own problems.

In such an environment, the Rockets, which suddenly emerged, can indeed be placed with higher expectations.

The Rockets' stable performance can be regarded as responding to everyone's expectations.

However, good times are neither short nor long.

After several strong teams last season struggled for a period of time, the resurgent strong teams caught the Houston Rockets off guard.

The Phoenix Suns have only lost two of their last 28 games, and the Dallas Mavericks have only lost three of their last 30 games!

This directly leads to the fact that although the Rockets are still first in the Western Conference, their 37-7 record is not much different from the 37-8 Suns, second in the Western Conference, and the 36-8 Mavericks, third in the Western Conference.

According to the current situation of the Rockets, the Rockets may be overturned by the Suns, which is second in the Western Conference, and the Mavericks, which is third in the Western Conference, at any time.

The Rockets' madness at the beginning of this season relied more on the emergence of Roy as a variable.

Roy's comprehensiveness makes up for the organization and third-point offense that the Rockets have been lacking.

This makes the Rockets look like a perfect team.

But after half a season of regular season baptism, the Rockets, who seemed invincible at the beginning of the season, ran into big trouble.

As the favorite for the regular season MVP this season, Yao Ming has encountered more and more targeted tactics.

For example, go around and defend!

And a quick attack!

Yao Ming is no stranger to defending in front of him. This has been a major problem for the Rockets since 2005.

Even if Roy comes, there is no way to solve Yao Ming's weight problem.

As long as Yao Ming's weight does not drop, the Rockets will never be able to solve this problem.

Therefore, other teams in the league are becoming more and more crazy about Yao Ming's forward defense, but this is not the root cause of the Rockets' recent troubles.

The root cause of the Rockets' troubles is the opponent's rapid attack.

Facing the increasingly bulky Yao Ming, many teams are learning from the Suns' strategy against the Rockets.

Constantly increasing speed, constantly consuming Yao Ming, using speed to drag down the height and depth of the Rockets.

This strategy is very effective.

Even if they can't defeat the Rockets, they can still consume the Rockets and Yao Ming as much as possible.

The last time he left Houston, Ye Si remembered that Yao Ming was in high spirits.

As the biggest favorite for this season's regular season mvp, and as the number one star in the Western Conference, Yao Ming has replaced O'Neal as the league's number one center for the first time this season.

It can be said that it is the time when the spring breeze is triumphant.

This time he came to Houston again. Although Yao Ming still smiled when he greeted him, the expression on his face was full of melancholy.

"Ye Zi, the sun is too strong, incredibly powerful!"

Yao Ming looked at Ye Si with quite complicated eyes.

Steve Nash, who gives Rockets players nightmares every day, claims to be the physically bankrupt version of the strongest Yes.

As the No. 1 pick in 2002, Yao Ming is in his fifth season in the NBA.

Yao Ming is naturally no stranger to Nash and the Suns.

When the Rockets meet the Sun, they always win less and lose more.

But it's never been this hard.

The real culprit behind all this is Ye Zi.

"We've been under a lot of pressure lately, the Suns and the Mavericks are getting closer."

Roy was also depressed.

Ye Si can understand that according to the current trend, the Mavericks and Suns will surpass the Rockets sooner or later.

In the Western Conference this season, except for the Jazz and Spurs, who are watching the sea in advance and have no desires and desires, other teams are now in a state of madness.

This season's Western Conference playoff teams have a crazy possibility of having a record of more than 50 wins. The top three teams in the Western Conference are likely to have a record of more than 60 wins, or even more than 65 wins!

"This season is destined to be a legendary season!"

Even Nelson, who has experienced many storms in the NBA, expressed such emotion after seeing the records of the Rockets, Mavericks and Suns.

However, for the Sonics, this legend belongs to the Mavericks, Rockets and Suns.

As for supersonic speed.

If the Sonics want to leave a mark on this potentially legendary season, they may have to rely on the popularity of Yes.

As for strength? The SuperSonics' strength is still not enough.

Milicic has been crazy in four consecutive games, and the fifth game was against the Rockets.

Milicic was knocked from the clouds to the ground by Yao Ming.

Going around and fast breaks are the magic weapons for all teams now when they encounter the Rockets.

Of course the SuperSonics also used it, and the SuperSonics did create a lot of trouble for the Rockets, but in the end the SuperSonics still lost to the Rockets.

96 to 105!

This time the Sonics didn't lose that much.

Ye Si's 32 points, 8 rebounds and 6 assists in this game are also outstanding enough.

However, Milicic was very locked in this game.

Milicic, who has been in great form recently, finally stopped.

However, this is enough.

Because, the All-Star substitute lineup was announced, and Milicic was on the list!