Chapter 560: The Nemesis of the Seattle SuperSonics

The Boston Celtics are a pain in the ass for the Sonics.

And he is the one who suffers the most.

The Celtics' lineup configuration is very restrained against the SuperSonics. This team needs inside players and outside players, and its forward strength is also quite terrifying.

Let’s take the Seattle SuperSonics’ tactical basic blame-shifting system as an example.

The two most important transfer points in the blame-shifting system, Milicic and Durant, the Boston Celtics can find players who can deal with it, and they may be one of the players who can best deal with it.

Boston Celtics center Patrick Perkins is one of Milicic's biggest headaches in the league.

Tony Allen is one of Durant's biggest headaches in the league.

Judging from the first meeting between the two teams after the Christmas Day game this season, the Celtics were simply beating the Seattle SuperSonics at Key Arena.

In that game, Milicic shot 3 of 11, was blocked by Perkins and blocked by Garnett. It was terrible!

Rondo, on the other hand, was even worse than Milicic. He took eight shots in a normal game, all of which were hammered. Facing Pierce's defense, Rondo was beaten to a pulp.

And what about Durant?

Durant took 36 shots in this game and hit 12 goals. Compared with Milicic Rondo, he is certainly better, but this game is still one of the most difficult games he has played this season.

In addition to these three helpers around Ye Si, such as Sessions who shot 0 for 4, David Lee who shot 2 for 6, etc., it can be said that the entire Seattle SuperSonics, except for Ye Si, faced the Kais. When he was a Celtic, he could not perform normally.

The Celtics' player configuration is somewhat restrained, and the team's players are extremely experienced, which makes it difficult to handle.

At the very least, Ye's advantage over Ray Allen cannot change the overall disadvantages of the two teams.

It is precisely because of this that when experts in the league rank the SuperSonics' biggest nemesis, the Boston Celtics are ranked first above the Rockets!

Although Yes has never won a game against the Rockets in his career, in the eyes of these experts,

At least you can still find opportunities.

When the SuperSonics met the Celtics, it really looked like they had no chance at all.

Especially after the Celtics eliminated the team's cancer point guard Alan Ray from the team due to the 'Alan Ray' incident, the Celtics' tactics changed, and the Sonics faced the Celtics. The disadvantage becomes even more obvious.

When Alan Ray was still there, the Celtics' starting lineup was Alan Ray, Ray Allen, Pierce, Garnett, and Perkins.

This lineup could restrain the Sonics last season.

After the SuperSonics have Durant this season, if the Celtics still have this lineup, the SuperSonics will be able to fight.

Who would have thought that Alan Lei would risk his own life and be directly laid off by the Celtics.

After the Celtics waived Alan Ray, they were without a point guard.

The Celtics, who had no point guard, finally made a decision that shocked the entire league. Celtics head coach Doc Rivers directly gave up the point guard position.

Ray Allen, Pierce, Tony Allen, Garnett, Perkins.

This is the Celtics' starting lineup without the point guard.

The basis of the Celtics' tactics directly became the pick-and-roll cooperation of Ray Allen, Pierce and Garnett.

Ray Allen and Pierce controlled the ball, and these two and Garnett directly played pick-and-rolls.

The power of the offense has declined, but the stability of the offense is extremely strong, because no one in the entire league can guard against the pick-and-roll of Ray Allen, Pierce, and Garnett.

At the same time, the Celtics' defense has been greatly strengthened by the entry of Tony Allen into the starting lineup.

The last confrontation between the SuperSonics and the Celtics still makes the team's head coach Nelson find it incredible.

Facing the SuperSonics, the Boston Celtics played a perfect defensive game.

The Celtics' performance on the defensive end during the game was said to have no shortcomings.

In fact, the efficiency of the Sonics players against the Celtics can also be seen. Except for Durant, there is no one else who can score stably next to Ye Si.

Even Durant had to face Tony Allen on the defensive end and Pierce on the offensive end. Durant was quite uncomfortable during the game.

It should be said that the beating was quite uncomfortable.

Pierce is definitely one of the players Durant is least willing to encounter on the offensive end, besides Anthony.

Such a Celtics team is indeed a disaster for the Sonics.

During this time, media all over the world were exclaiming about the power of the West.

Among them, USA Today has a report, that is, the top eight teams in the Western Conference, starting from the first Rockets to the eighth Thunder, seven of these eight teams will be eliminated as long as they reach the finals. Have a chance to win the championship!

Only the SuperSonics, which is third in the Western Conference, is believed by USA Today that even if Leafs and the SuperSonics break out of the Western Conference, they will have zero chance of winning the championship.

This season, the Celtics faced the top eight teams in the Western Conference, and except for the SuperSonics, they all lost.

Only when facing the SuperSonics, the Celtics looked incredibly strong.

Of course, the whole world knows that this year's championship has nothing to do with the Sonics.

It is too far away to say that the SuperSonics' probability of winning the Finals against the Celtics is too far away.

The Sonics now have zero chance of winning not only against the Celtics.

The probability of the Sonics breaking out of the West now is also zero.

So during this time, when the media around the world were touting the Western Conference and ridiculing the Eastern Conference, they once said that if the Eastern Conference wants to win the championship this season, they can only hope that Yes and Yes will represent the Western Conference in the finals. Sonics, but such hope itself is zero despair.

In this game between the Seattle SuperSonics and the Celtics, it seems that the Sonics have no chance of winning.

But the game still attracted the attention of the world.

Although the SuperSonics were beaten badly by the Celtics in their last confrontation with the Celtics.

But after all, times have changed.

At that time, Rondo and Durant's nbalive2008 ratings were only over 60.

Now, both Rondo and Durant's 2k9 ratings are 87.

The whole world knows that by playing next to Yes, the growth of these young Sonics players has been tremendous.

The last time the two teams faced off, the Sonics' starting power forward was David Lee.

Now David Lee has given up his starting power forward position.

Therefore, many experts are still looking forward to this game.

Now the entire American public opinion circle has become a consensus on the Black East.

Now the entire American public opinion circle wants to create the public opinion that as long as the Western Conference team can break through the Western Conference, it will definitely be the championship.

However, because of the existence of the SuperSonics as a "shame on the West", some American public opinion circles are unable to play this way.

The public opinion circles in the United States really hope that the West can be praised to death now.

If the SuperSonics can defeat the Celtics in this game, then tomorrow's headline will be that the Celtics, who are number one in the Eastern Conference, will not even make the playoffs if they are placed in the Western Conference!

For this game, these national media came with a very enthusiastic mentality.

But for Yes, there are not so many thoughts in this game against the Celtics.

The West and the East have no meaning to the current SuperSonics.

The Celtics may now represent the East.

But the Sonics have never represented the West, and Leafs doesn't want the Sonics to become the kind of team that verbally represents the West.

Although Yeezy doesn't have so many messy thoughts, this game with the Celtics is indeed very important to the SuperSonics.

The last loss to the Celtics caused strong self-doubt among the Seattle SuperSonics players.

After that game, most of the SuperSonics players recognized that Durant was the team's second best player.

It can be said that the last game they lost to the Celtics had a great impact on the SuperSonics.

For Sonics players, the Celtics are a touchstone.

SuperSonics players are now eager to know what their true strength is now.

Of course, Yes is also looking forward to what the situation of his teammates is now in front of the Celtics.

For the Sonics, this game is very important and a landmark game.

The same goes for the Celtics.

After the All-Star Game, the Celtics were not in very good shape.

In the All-Star Game, the Celtics All-Stars fought hard. Ray Allen, Pierce and Garnett were the main output in the Eastern Conference.

As a result, their condition after the All-Star Game was not very good.

Although no team in the East can put pressure on them.

But the last three games against the top eight teams in the Western Conference have all been losses, which has indeed put tremendous pressure on the Celtics.

The Big Three were formed last year, and they wanted to do something big.

We failed last year, and we will never allow another failure this year.

This season, the Celtics' Big Three have put all their selfishness aside in order to compete for the championship.

Fighting for the championship is not just talk, it needs to be accumulated game by game.

For the current Celtics, the record of the regular season and the top teams in the Western Conference has no meaning for their ranking in the regular season.

But the accumulation of confidence in them is important.

Losing too many games against the Western Conference's powerful players will indeed affect morale.

To be honest, they would rather lose to a team like the Heat than the Nuggets, Suns, or Grizzlies.

Losing to the Heat, they know that they can definitely win as long as they are serious.

But losing to teams like the Nuggets, Suns, and Grizzlies creates the feeling that they might not be able to win even if they were serious about it.

This feels bad.

They've had this bad feeling three times since the All-Star Game.

Now they urgently need to get rid of this feeling.

And this game against the SuperSonics is their best opponent to get rid of this feeling.

Facing other strong teams in the Western Conference, their advantage is indeed small, and they are even at a disadvantage.

But facing the SuperSonics, they can definitely beat them!

The SuperSonics are not that strong and are still ranked third in the league.

This team is really great!

If they don't give the Sonics a good game at home, they will feel sorry for themselves.

A team wants to re-understand itself.

A team wants to prove itself again.

This resulted in the game between the Celtics and SuperSonics being as exciting as the media around the world had imagined.

This game was extremely fierce.

"In terms of morale and fighting spirit, both sides of this game have no intention of retreating from this game."

"yes has already lost three games to the Celtics, and was double-killed last season. This season yes is doing its best to avoid being double-played again."

"The Celtics have lost three consecutive games to the top teams in the Western Conference playoffs. They can't lose this game again, and they can't put themselves in a position of bullying."

"This kind of competition is the most exciting!"

For Reggie Miller, games like this one between the Celtics and Seattle are truly the highlight.

No matter how disparate the strength of the two teams is.

Every player on both teams was unreserved.

In a game like this, he can feel the passion he had when he was still on the court.

Although the final score of the game, when the Boston Celtics defeated the SuperSonics 100-90 at home, did not look so intense, at the moment the game ended, he still stood up and gave two goals. The team's players applauded.

100 to 90!

Seeing the score on the courtside scoreboard, Doc Reeves breathed a sigh of relief.

As the head coach of the Celtics, he is really under a lot of pressure now. The Celtics really cannot afford to fail again this season!

But the current horrific situation in the west makes it difficult for people to have confidence.

When the Celtics formed the Big Three, he once thought that the championship might be unexpected.

It may not be as 82-0 as Celtics fans imagined, but there is absolutely no problem in winning the championship.

However, he really didn't expect that the world would change so drastically.

Fortunately, no matter how the world changes, the fact that the SuperSonics are the Celtics' ATM has not changed much.

This game was very intense, but the Celtics won easily.

The ordinary players of the SuperSonics have improved very rapidly under the training of yes.

However, this rate of progress is already their limit.

He is still very confident in his own vision of people. Milicic's All-Star is the limit, and the current quasi-All-Stars Rondo and Durant Millsap are also the limit.

And with their limits, there is no way to surpass the Celtics!

Although it is bad to think this way, he really dreams and hopes that the team that represents the terrifying Western Conference is the Seattle SuperSonics...

Defeating the Seattle SuperSonics, who have now won 13 consecutive games at home, made everyone in Boston very excited.

Whether it is the fans on the sidelines or the players on the court, their faces are full of joy now.

Except maybe one person, and that's Ray Allen.

"That assistance in defense..."

Thinking back to the three-pointer at the buzzer before the end of the game, Ray Allen looked at the smiling SuperSonics No. 9 who was hugging and encouraging his teammates. Ray Allen's face was constantly changing.

He was still miserable by yes this time.

But...he now actually has a feeling that yes can actually make him worse!

"Ray, are you okay?"

After being patted on the shoulder by Garnett, Ray Allen shook his head gently.

"The progress of the Supersonics is indeed surprising, but don't pay too much attention to it. They are destined to be just passers-by on our way to the top."

Pierce hopes that the Sonics are not a passer-by, but their last boss.

but……

Look at the back of Sonics Nine.

After all, he is a human being, not a god.