Chapter 329: It’s Great to Be Young!
Public opinion across the United States is reveling in the fact that the Sonics are ranked fifth in the Western Conference.
These media experts who were crazy about the Sonics at the beginning of the season looked down on the Sonics at the beginning, and now they are so crazy about Yees.
Anyway, these people will not admit that they were wrong.
The reason why the Sonics are so good now is not because they misjudged the junk players in the Sonics.
Milicic is now an All-Star, but he is still the second-place pick who can't do anything without Yes.
Rondo has now overtaken Nash to become the assist leader, but he is still the trashiest player in NBA history.
David Lee is now close to 10+10 in the season, but he is still the data brusher who benefited from Yes.
Totally because Yes!
Supersonics is so powerful now, all because of Yes!
Public opinion in the United States is now turbulent, but Ye Si's mood is very calm.
Defeating the Wizards at home, the SuperSonics' record reached 46 wins and 21 losses, still fifth in the Western Conference.
The Jazz are still two and a half games away from fourth place in the Western Conference.
The Jazz's current record is 48 wins and 18 losses.
This difference doesn't seem like much.
But this is the West!
In the Western Conference, the SuperSonics have lost one of their last fifteen games, and they haven't even stabilized their fifth position in the Western Conference!
If they were placed in the Eastern Conference, they would only lose one game in fifteen games, and their rankings would skyrocket like crazy.
Replace Jazz as fourth?
The Leafs and the Sonics never thought about it.
As far as this season is concerned, there is no difference between fourth in the Western Conference and fifth in the Western Conference.
The most important thing for the Sonics now is to stabilize their fifth position in the Western Conference.
Can we secure fourth place in the Western Conference at the end of the season?
Hard to say.
Because the SuperSonics have the most devilish final schedule of all teams in the league.
How devilish is it?
The SuperSonics have now played 67 games in the regular season, with 15 games left.
Most of these 15 games were played by strong teams at the playoff level, and they were all strong teams in the Western Conference playoffs!
In the next fifteen games, the Mavericks, Suns, Rockets, and Jazz will play each other.
The three direct competitors, the Spurs, Nuggets, and Lakers, will play two games.
In the remaining fifteen games, ten of the Sonics will face the top eight teams in the Western Conference!
This schedule is unprecedentedly terrifying!
Why is the media calling him so crazy now?
If you don't blow it, you really have no chance.
After playing the Trail Blazers in the Rose Garden and knowing that the team ranked fifth in the Western Conference, the first two days for the Sonics players were unreal.
After two unreal days, Nelson laid out the rest of the SuperSonics regular season schedule.
The unreal feeling of the Sonics players disappeared in an instant.
The Sonics' remaining schedule this season can be the cure.
Cure Sonics players' flutter disease!
On March 20, 2007, at Key Arena, the Seattle SuperSonics faced the challenge of the Minnesota Timberwolves at home.
When greeting Rudy Gay and Randy Foye before the game, these two didn't look very good.
Ye Si also heard recently that the Timberwolves have been having internal strife recently.
The youth of the team, led by Rudy Gay, and the veterans, led by Ricky Davis, are not dealt with.
This is actually quite normal.
Rudy Gay has grown a lot since returning to the Timberwolves after playing a full-star rookie game.
Now the Timberwolves have basically determined to rebuild with Rudy Gay and Al Jefferson as the core.
After the young team is rebuilt and the core of the team is set, the veterans will definitely be unhappy.
Before the core of the team was rebuilt, everyone could play however they wanted, be as bad as they wanted, and the old ones could play with the younger ones.
If the whole team really wants to play like this, not even the team's head coach and general manager can control it.
Unless everything is traded.
After setting the core, the core represents status and responsibility.
No matter how capable the young players are, they will restrain themselves and rise up slightly after taking on the responsibility of rebuilding the team.
Besides, Guy is not a young man who knows how to play.
As the core of the team's reconstruction, it is really strange that Rudy Gay can get used to veterans like Ricky Davis who are good at playing.
Contradictions naturally arise like this.
The Timberwolves have been in a lot of trouble recently. In the end, the Timberwolves' head coach, Coach Casey, was fired by them.
Now the Timberwolves' head coach has been replaced by Randy Whitman.
Coach Casey is a pursuing coach. He hopes that the team will be harmonious, that the new and old players will work hard together, and that the new and old players will not give up and will be useful in the future.
But obviously, such an attitude cannot solve the problem, and the get out of class can only be dismissed.
The current situation of the Timberwolves is not very good, but this does not prevent the Leafs from taking a scheduled victory from them.
The Timberwolves are one of the few underdogs among the Sonics' remaining opponents.
This game is also a game that the Sonics must win.
99 to 82!
The Seattle SuperSonics easily defeated the Timberwolves at home.
The score was easy, but the process was not that easy.
The Timberwolves are now second to last in the Western Conference and fourth to last in the league.
The Bucks, who are last in the league, and the Grizzlies, who are second in last, will definitely not be able to catch up with the Timberwolves.
Regarding the No. 1 pick and the No. 2 pick, the Timberwolves basically have no ideas.
What kind of attitude the Timberwolves should adopt during the sprint phase depends entirely on the mood of the team.
In this game against the SuperSonics, the Timberwolves' young players played very tenaciously under the leadership of Rudy Gay and Al Jefferson.
These young players of the Timberwolves are fighting against the SuperSonics!
Now Ye Si has a high level of hatred from public opinion across the United States.
Any tree that is beautiful in the forest will be destroyed by the wind!
What's more, Ye Si has been made far more famous by the national media than just "showing off in the woods"!
For young players like the Timberwolves and Rudy Gay.
Beating Yes is the fast track to fame!
"Still couldn't defeat you!"
After the game, Rudy Gay's face was ugly.
The young players of the Timberwolves worked hard in this game.
But the veterans of the Timberwolves are probably already thinking about where to go for vacation.
The Sonics can easily defeat the Timberwolves, and the Timberwolves' veterans should take the lead.
After working hard all game and finally losing because of undercover, Yes could see the unwillingness of young players like Gay and others.
"Yes, tomorrow is our last meeting this season."
Tomorrow's back-to-back away game with the Timberwolves is the fourth and final game between the SuperSonics and Timberwolves this season.
Guy took a deep look at Ye Si's face.
"Tomorrow, we will go all out!"
Go all out?
He scanned the young Timberwolves players around Gay.
Everyone's face was very unwilling.
"I am looking forward."
Ye Si nodded lightly.
"See you tomorrow in Minnesota!"
Looking at Rudy Gay's cool back, Rondo looked disdainful.
The little west is just the second to last.
Pretending to be crazy!
How dare you threaten the second master’s younger brother in front of the second master!
The second master is in a good mood now, and he is not the same as you!
After today’s game, Erye’s assists per game still haven’t exceeded 9.
Although the assist leader with less than 9 assists is a bit unsatisfactory, no matter how low it is, he is still the assist leader!
It's just that Yes has been too obsessed with the Erye style of play recently.
Otherwise, the second master's assist number will rise faster!
Yes, can you give the second master some face? Although the second master is already the assist king.
But Nash, Deron and Paul in the back are also very close!
He secretly looked at Supersonic Nine who was watching the backs of Guy and the others silently.
Rondo didn't dare to say what was in his heart.
Now the whole team is working hard to win.
How could the second master, who is the boss of the team, say such a thing?
The second master is not afraid of being beaten.
The second master doesn’t bother to brush up the statistics and become the assist king!
On March 21, 2007, the SuperSonics played back-to-back away games against the Timberwolves.
Yesterday, Rudy Gay said that they will give their all in this game.
At the beginning of this game, Ye Si could clearly feel what Gay meant by going all out.
The Timberwolves' tactical execution in this game was completely zero.
The offense relies on rushing.
The defense relies on the run.
Crazy rush! Run like crazy!
Everyone rushed without hesitation, and everyone ran without hesitation!
That's what they call Rudy Gay and give it your all!
"For us, no matter in terms of talent, strength, tactics, or team, we are not as good as you, but as long as we work hard, we don't want to lose!"
"You are the most shining rookie in the NBA this season. You are the benchmark for all young players in the NBA. Everyone is your background."
"We are happy to be your background, but we also want to leave something behind this season!"
"Even if no one cares about us in the ice and snow in Minnesota, even our own fans are here to see you today."
"But, we can make our own wolf howl for ourselves!"
"Yes, we will defeat you in this game!"
Even the Timberwolves fans at the scene were stunned by the game between the Timberwolves and the SuperSonics.
Minnesota's attendance this season has been very average.
Garnett is gone, and the team's performance is poor. It seems that not only does it have no present, but it also has no future.
What does a team like this do to convince fans to support them?
Including today's game, the Timberwolves' home court has been full for three games this season.
One game was against the Celtics, and two games were against the SuperSonics.
One is to see Garnett, and two is to see Yes.
In this game, they came here just to watch Yes and the Garfield Hurricane!
The last time the Sonics played against the Timberwolves, they supported the Sonics.
This time, they still support the Sonics and Yes!
When the game ended, when they supported Yes, they led the team to defeat the Timberwolves 114 to 106.
The Timberwolves fans at the scene did not cheer like last time.
The Timberwolves fans at the scene now have mixed emotions.
Rudy Gay looked at the score on the scoreboard and bit his lips tightly.
36 to 27 in the first quarter, the Timberwolves took the lead as soon as they came up!
35 to 25 in the second quarter, the Timberwolves' main force played the entire first half and overwhelmed the SuperSonics rotation. The Timberwolves led the SuperSonics by 19 points at halftime!
In the third quarter, 23 to 27, the Timberwolves' main force had played for 36 minutes and began to run out of energy.
In the fourth quarter, 12-35, he played 48 minutes with Randy Foye, Al Jefferson, Gerald Green, and Ilyasova!
Lost!
Finally lost!
Looking at Rudy Gay and those unwilling Timberwolves players standing in the middle of the court.
The expressions on the faces of the Timberwolves players sitting off the court were both embarrassed and annoyed.
Timberwolves head coach Randy Whitman had a surprised look on his face.
The Timberwolves are a bad team, but not all players on this bad team are bad!
Guy's demands for this game were very willful.
But their performance is worthy of his willfulness!
Um?
Yes? !
Yes took the initiative to take off the jersey? !
Randy Whitman couldn't care less about his appreciation for Guy and the others.
Eyes wide open!
This should be the first time Yes takes the initiative to exchange jerseys, right?
Yes is notoriously cold.
It would be difficult for others to exchange jerseys with him, let alone if he takes the initiative? !
Yes's jersey is not that good!
Some time ago, the Celtics' three giants competed for Yes jerseys, and the scene of being rejected by Yes was one of the hottest news in the NBA.
That jersey is the jersey that marks the 2,000-point milestone in Yes' career. It's normal for Yes to refuse.
Who can make Yes take the initiative to exchange jerseys? !
He looked at him walking towards him with the jersey in his hand.
The young Timberwolves players on the court couldn't care less about their unwillingness and sadness.
Gay, Foye, Jefferson, Gerald Green, Ilyasova, everyone's face was very excited.
That's Yes' jersey!
That represents the approval of Yes!
Even big guys like Garnett, Pierce, and Ray Allen are dreaming of it!
Yes is coming!
Who are you going to exchange with?
Yes, you give me a jersey!
Whoever you give it to will be the headline in the United States tomorrow!
But Yes seems to have no intention of giving away the jersey? !
Yes stood there, looking back and forth at the five of them.
Seeing Yes like this, Rudy Gay tried to take off his jersey and sent it to Yes, but Yes took it away.
Not to be outdone, Foye also took off his jersey and sent it to Ye Si, who also took it away.
Gerald Green, Ilyasova, Al Jefferson, and Ye Si were also collected.
Received them all? !
The Timberwolves fans at Target Center were stunned!
Yes, who didn't even want the jerseys of Garnett, Pierce and Ray Allen, actually took away five jerseys from their Timberwolves? !
"Sorry, I want all of your jerseys, but I only have one jersey."
Want them all? !
"This game was fun, and the memory of this game, like your jersey, will become my most precious collection. "
Our jerseys, the memories of our games, want to become Yes' collection? !
Before Rudy Gay and the others could react, applause rang in their ears.
From sparse to deafening applause.
Is this applause for Yes?
Looking at Yes standing in front of him, holding their jerseys and applauding them, Rudy Gay and the Timberwolves players around him had shocked expressions on their faces.
Is this applause for us? !
Timberwolves fans actually applauded us? !
Under the leadership of Yes, Timberwolves fans actually applauded us for the first time? !
With his eyes widened, Guy felt some uncontrollable changes happening in the corners of his eyes that he had never used before.
"a bunch of idiots!"
Isn't it the first time to get recognition from your own fans?
Are you so moved? !
The second master has never been recognized by his fans, so what? !
Timberwolves fans really didn’t pursue it, but they actually recognized it!
"It's great to be young!"
Old Nelson smiled and nodded.