Chapter 566: The Dead End Ahead and Every Team Has a Chance!

After defeating the Los Angeles Lakers in an away game, Yeez took the Sonics players on the plane to Salt Lake City without stopping.

After beating the Lakers, the Sonics will face back-to-back games for the first time this season.

The distance between Los Angeles and Salt Lake City is 1,200 kilometers. It’s almost the same distance from Shanghai to Beijing.

Using airplanes as a means of transportation actually doesn’t take much time.

The key is that the schedule is really too busy.

After the game with the Suns, I immediately rushed to the game with the Lakers. After this fierce hand-to-hand battle with the Lakers, I immediately had to catch up with the Jazz game.

This is really too tiring.

In the NBA, these back-to-back away games are simply anti-human games.

Every year, the NBA players union calls for the cancellation of such anti-human games.

But every year there are some lucky teams that have a schedule like this.

Most of the Seattle SuperSonics players are young and strong guys.

But now on the private plane flying to Salt Lake City, Ye Si looked at each other and saw that they were sleeping together and shouting together.

Usually these guys are quite active on the plane.

Not to mention his teammates, even CCTV reporter Wang Han next to him had fallen asleep.

In the entire space, maybe he was the only one with his eyes open.

Looking at the faint colors outside the window, Ye Si felt a little sad.

Throughout the NBA, current Seattle SuperSonics players have always been considered the luckiest players in NBA history.

They are always seen as being able to get what they want without spending much effort in the NBA.

Therefore, the profession of a Seattle SuperSonics player is the easiest profession and position in human history with high salary and low effort.

Are Sonics players really that relaxed?

of course not.

Ye Si clearly knows the efforts of his teammates, and they are not so relaxed.

But what these people do say is that his teammates do not contribute as much as the main players of other teams in the game.

The SuperSonics coach is Nelson. He likes large-scale rotations. In SuperSonics games, every game is basically a rotation of 12 people.

He is the core of the SuperSonics on the court. He has always maintained his perfect omnipotent image on the court. He attracted a lot of attention from opponents during the game. His defensive pressure is said to be comparable to that of Jordan. In this In this case, the teammates around him will indeed be relatively relaxed.

Therefore, his teammates are indeed easier than the main players of other teams.

However, it is not as easy as those people imagined.

In this case, his teammates are now a little overwhelmed in the sprint phase.

What about other strong teams?

Ye Si never thought there were so many iron men in the NBA.

He doesn't think the Rockets, Suns, Nuggets, Spurs, Lakers or Grizzlies players are all iron men.

This year is the strongest in the history of the Western Conference.

This year is also the most competitive thing in the Western Conference.

This year's Western Conference teams have gone completely crazy.

Even if I know that I have already reached the end of my life, I still can't stop.

Even if I can't stop, I don't dare to stop.

In the NBA, there are not many people who are really idiots. They watch others running out of money, but they don't leave, and they secretly keep their strength.

This might have been possible in the past, but now, who would dare?

Even if the Spurs are currently fourth in the Western Conference, do they dare to stay strong and fall to seventh in the Western Conference?

The Suns and Rockets may run out of gas at some point, but can you hope that they will run out of gas in the first round?

You are swept out of the first round, but in the end the cheaper teams are the teams that work hard to persevere.

Now all the strong teams in the Western Conference know that we are indeed on the road to exhaustion, but it is because everyone has reached the road of suicide in the end that everyone has a chance!

When everyone really meets in the final position where the oil is exhausted, the competition is no longer about strength, but about will!

Whoever has a strong will will win!

Now, no matter whether it is the Rockets, Suns, Lakers, Spurs, Nuggets or Grizzlies, they do not think that their will is weaker than other teams.

However, before that, except for the Suns and Rockets, all the other strong teams in the Western Conference must ensure that they are the surviving team that can compete with the Rockets or Suns!

In a competition of wills, will all the strong teams in the Western Conference have a chance?

Looking at the faint colors outside the window, Ye Si's eyes became dark.

After defeating the Lakers back-to-back on the road, the Sonics' next opponent is the Utah Jazz.

The Utah Jazz are the team with the most changes in the entire NBA since the All-Star Game.

After the team's head coach Jerry Sloan announced his resignation, his assistant coach and his disciple, former Jazz player Tyrone Corbin, who he coached in 1994, became the team's head coach.

Although the Jazz's head coaching position is not that attractive, it is not that cheap either.

In addition to the biggest reason why Tyrone Corbin can take office, he is a disciple of Sloan. Another reason is that the Jazz management knows very well what the Jazz's current focus is.

The focus is on reconstruction, and the focus is on seeing who can be selected with the picks Deron acquired from the Heat.

As long as the Heat's pick is not the first two picks, it belongs to the Jazz.

If the Heat pick the first two picks this year, the Jazz will get the Heat's first-round picks 09, 11, and 13.

For the Jazz, these are two completely different rebuilding ideas.

If you are lucky enough to get the Heat's No. 3 or No. 4 pick, you can select Mayo with the third pick, who is now plummeting in the draft, or Westbrook, who shined in the game with the University of Washington, with the fourth pick. , then the team's reconstruction will be completed instantly. When the time comes, it will be easy to let Corbin, who has little qualifications, leave the position of head coach and choose a famous coach.

If unfortunately, the Heat do not get the No. 3 or No. 4 pick, the Jazz will enter the road of rebuilding. It is impossible for a famous coach to come to the Jazz to make things worse, and Corbin is a good candidate for the coach.

This is where the Jazz are now.

The future of the Jazz has not yet been decided.

Similarly, this is also the current situation of the Jazz players. Their hearts are also still confused and have not yet settled.

Before the start of this season, absolutely no one would have thought that something like this would happen to the Jazz.

A team that could potentially compete for the championship collapsed in an instant.

A head coach who had carved the soul of the team with his 20-year career just left.

This is something that seems surprising to the whole world.

Of course, it was quite a surprise for Yes and the Sonics.

Although Sonics coaches and Sonics players like Old Nelson still lament what happened to the Jazz.

But there is no doubt that this is indeed beneficial to the Sonics.

The Jazz before Sloan resigned, no matter how big the problem was, the SuperSonics would most likely kneel in this game.

In back-to-back away games, the game will still be against the brutal Sloan and Jazz?

This is a fatal thing.

It can be said that it is something that is scheduled to fail in advance.

But in this game now, the SuperSonics are playing quite easily.

The scene of Sloan leaving sadly seems like yesterday to the current Jazz players.

The morale of the Jazz players is appallingly low.

The Jazz have now won four games since Jerry Sloan left, all four games against Eastern Conference teams.

The Eastern Conference teams have been shameless this season.

No way, as the NCAA tournament begins, a bunch of potential rookies have emerged this year.

Originally, everyone thought that after the diamond generation ended in 2007, the NBA draft would be dormant for a few years.

I didn't expect the silence to end so quickly.

It turns out that there are more than just Rose, Beasley, Mayo and Curry this year.

It turns out that this year we still have Afflalo, Westbrook, and Kevin Love, who beat Rondo in a one-on-one fight last year. This year, in the p-10 league, we are leading the weak team Arizona State University and the University of Washington to compete for supremacy. In the end, freshman James Harden and others led the team Arizona State University to the NCAA championship.

It turns out that the 2008 draft picks were not only those before the top four, but also the fifth, sixth, and even seventh and eighth picks.

This caused the teams in the Eastern Conference to completely lose their morale.

The Heat can't fight for the last place, but they can fight for the second last place!

Even if he is disliked by David Stern and arranged by David Stern, the second to last will still be guaranteed to be the fifth lottery pick, and the third to last will also be guaranteed to be the sixth lottery pick!

It can be said that compared with the fierce competition now in full swing in the West, the East now really has a feeling of "All Quiet in Washington."

In this game with the Jazz, SuperSonics head coach Nelson rotated all other starting players except Yeas.

In today's game, the players who appeared in the team's starting position are JJ Barea, Ye Si, Quentin Richardson, David Lee and Kwame Brown.

Although most of the Sonics players who started today were not their first starters in the Sonics, and Richardson and David Lee were even regular starters for the Sonics before, everyone was still quite excited to play in this game.

It's not because of the starting lineup.

This is because of playing next to yes!

The whole world knows what it means to play with Yes.

In this game, Durant, Milicic and Rondo were all sitting on the sidelines.

These three plus Millsap will not play in this game.

Under this circumstance, Ye Si's style of play in this game became last season's mainly running without the ball, supplemented by singles with the ball.

As for organizing the team and passing the ball...

Currently, his passing button is not set up for these teammates of his in this game.

And given the current morale of the Jazz players, his off-ball style of play supplemented by off-ball offense may be the most appropriate.

Regardless of whether he's off the ball or on offense with the ball, the Jazz can't find anyone to guard him.

He can do whatever he wants in this game.

"This game is SuperSonics point guard JJ Barea's first starting game this season. Yes has handed over all the ball rights and organizational rights to JJ Barea!"

"Great selflessness!"

Before the start of the season, the game between the SuperSonics and the Jazz was considered to be a strong conversation worthy of live broadcast across the United States. Unexpectedly, it has now turned into a battle between a strong team and a weak one.

However, even with a strong team and a weak team, Barkley and Kenny Smith are still quite interesting to watch.

They are looking forward to what level Yes's strongest leadership ability in history can bring these Sonics second-line players to.

Not only are they looking forward to it, but many viewers in front of the TV are probably also looking forward to it.

And the final result did not disappoint them.

In this game, yes once again transformed into the maniac without the ball he was last season, using his off-the-ball behavior to create a large number of opportunities and openings for his teammates.

The final result of this game was 131 to 105.

Backup point guard JJ Barea, who started for the first time this season, had the highest number of assists in his career in this game, 16 times. In this game, JJ Barea's data was 16 points, 16 assists and 5 steals. 2 Blocked 7 shots and had 7 rebounds. In addition to scoring, JJ Barea set all his career records in this game.

Without Deron and Fisher, he and the young point guard Will Conroy, who was traded from the Lakers, were inseparable.

Scores, steals, blocks and even rebounds are the same for both of them, but because of the help of yes, his data looks much better than Conroy's 16 points, 7 rebounds, 7 assists, 5 steals and 2 blocks.

In fact, anyone who has watched the game knows where Barea's assists came from. Aren't these the O'Neal-style assists that made Rondo the assist leader last season? !

In other words, as long as Yes is willing, Barea can also compete for the assists king.

Barkley and Kenny Smith on the sidelines were amazed. Except for Rondo, who was always shown by the TV cameras, everyone else was quite surprised.

Except Barea.

Even Kwame Brown, the league's famous iron tree, scored 31 points in this game, which is also the highest score in his career!

yes The one who gained the most from off-the-ball movement in this game was not Barea, but Kwame Brown.

Kwame Brown is the only player on the field who can take the blame.

Yes, without the ball, he reached the three-point line and was intercepted by an inside player or had a bad touch after jumping. The only one he could find was Kwame Brown.

The Jazz's inside attention is all on Yes, who cares about Kwame Brown, a tough guy.

"In this game, I seem to feel that I am O'Neal!"

"This is the power of yes!"

After the game, Kwame Brown, who followed Yeas to the post-game press conference, was so excited that he didn't notice whether his words would anger his former boss.

If you are with Yes, you are O'Neal. Then if you are with me, why not become O'Neal? Do you mean you are playing me or I am playing you?

However, after the game, Kwame Brown was really excited. He really hated offense before, but now...

"I never thought that offense could be so wonderful and so simple!"

Those were the last words Kwame Brown said in his post-game press conference.

The Jazz are already exhausted, but being able to defeat the Jazz on such a schedule still makes the SuperSonics excited.

At the same time, another game played at the same time, the Suns playing at home, was not so exciting.

113 to 110!

They were defeated by the Rockets for the first time this season.

And it’s still the home field...

"The nemesis cannot be defeated!"

"This season in the Western Conference, every team really has a chance!"

At the Suns' home court, Reggie Miller was roaring like crazy.