Chapter 584 Give Me a Reason to Defeat Me!

April 19, 2008, Key Arena, Seattle.

This was the Sonics' first playoff game of the season. An hour before the game started, the entire Key Arena was already packed.

After a season of hard work and struggle, the players of the Seattle SuperSonics finally got here.

For Seattle fans, this season is definitely a season in which they feel extremely happy.

Before the season even started, the team was looked down upon by the entire world. It was one of the weakest teams in history, ranked at the bottom of the league, and a fairy tale season. Amidst these voices that now seem unbelievable, the Seattle SuperSonics started their own. New season.

Under the leadership of Yes, when the Seattle SuperSonics started, even the most die-hard coconut fans and SuperSonics fans would not think that the SuperSonics could achieve the results they have now after this season.

Losing in the regular season is tied for the fourth-best regular season result in NBA history.

And such results are not obtained by bullying the weak. Such results are obtained in the strongest division in history, and they are achieved against seven teams with 60 wins in the same division!

It can be said that excluding the following playoffs, the SuperSonics' results and performance this season are perfect!

Even if you include the playoffs, even if the Sonics were swept out by the Nuggets in the first round of the playoffs as those guys said, the Seattle SuperSonics' performance this season has been successful.

Anyway, the team cannot win the championship this season. If this is the case, yes can achieve 60 wins for the first time in his career and win the regular season MVP for the first time. So what is there to be dissatisfied about?

Yes, despite the controversial last regular season game, the Sonics can change their first-round opponent from the Nuggets to the Lakers through manipulation.

However, as yes said, the future of the Seattle SuperSonics is the stars and the sea, and the future of the SuperSonics is poetry and distance, not the present complacency.

Fans of most other teams in the NBA are laughing at the choice of Yes and the SuperSonics, but they just like this choice!

Just like the Garfield Fab Five!

They liked the Garfield Five back then, and it wasn't because of the success of the Garfield Five.

In fact,

The Garfield Fab Five ultimately failed.

They prefer such dazzling failures to mediocre successes!

Anyway, everyone is a supporting role for the Rockets this season. In the end, they are also a supporting role for the Rockets. They are also a supporting role for the Rockets when they are eliminated in the first round. No matter how much you laugh at Yes and the Sonics' first round trip, in Seattle, Yes and his SuperSonics Sonic will always be a hero!

This game between the Seattle SuperSonics and the Nuggets is very important to the people of Seattle. No matter what the future results are, this game and this series are opportunities that yes leads the team to fight for.

Even if the whole world is looking down on it, Yes and his team are still on the court ready to fight.

As the head player of the University of Washington, Stephen Curry is now one of the Seattle fans who are crazy about yes and the SuperSonics.

After failing in this year's NCAA, Curry quickly got out of the shadow of failure.

This isn't his first time.

When it comes to failure, it's the same for the second time as it is for the ten thousandth time.

Now that he has chosen to believe his master's words and stay and continue to pursue his NCAA championship dream, he will no longer have any hesitation.

Even if he failed in the end, he had an explanation for himself. It didn't matter if he wasted two years and finally entered the NBA in dejection amidst the ridicule of the world.

After all, when the master first entered the NBA, didn’t he move forward while being wildly looked down upon by others?

Even now, isn't the master still doing well?

Although the master doesn't seem to be that good now.

The situation the master encountered this year is the same as the situation he encountered this year.

What he encountered this year was also an opponent that he could not defeat. If he wanted to succeed, he had to defeat this opponent that was impossible to defeat. In the end, he failed. He didn't even have a chance to see this opponent.

And what about the master?

There is not only one of him, even if the master beats the Nuggets, the next one will be the next one, or even the next one!

What does it mean to move forward in adversity?

This is moving forward in adversity!

Every time Curry wants to reflect on his failure in the NCAA in the past two years, Curry will think of his master's success in the NBA in the past two years.

The master's situation in the NBA during the past two years was much worse than his, but the master's achievements were beyond his reach.

"Stephen, if yes can beat the Nuggets, why should we give up?!"

Spencer Hawes' words were firm, and Pondexit on the other side nodded in agreement.

Curry also nodded in agreement after thinking about it.

After Brockman and the others chose to participate in the draft, the future of the entire team is now handed over to the three of them.

Whether the University of Washington can realize everyone's dreams in the future now depends entirely on them.

As for Isiah Thomas, Klay Thompson and Dream Green...

Forget it for now.

"If the master can really create miracles in such a game..."

Curry knew that he, like the whole of Seattle, would be moved by such a miracle that could shock the whole world!

For the Denver Nuggets, this game and this series with the SuperSonics does not have such a great sense of mission.

The Denver Nuggets are the most favored team in this series.

The most predicted score in this series is that the Nuggets will win the SuperSonics 4-3, but the proportion of predictions that the Nuggets can win in this series is as high as 90%.

What does this mean?

Let’s just talk about the playoff predictions for the Magic and Raptors in the first game of today’s playoffs. None of the experts who predicted the Magic’s victory reached 90%.

It can be said that in the opinion of ESPN experts, the strength gap between the Nuggets and SuperSonics is actually the same as the gap between the Celtics and Pacers.

Who in the world can believe the Pacers can beat the Boston Celtics?

For the Nuggets, as long as they are in the playoffs, they can be cautious and avoid losing to the SuperSonics in the regular season. In this series, the Nuggets have no reason to fail at all!

"The Seattle SuperSonics are a yes team!"

"The Seattle SuperSonics are a yes team!"

"It's an honor to defeat a team that always says yes in the playoffs!"

"It's a shame to lose to a team with only yes in the playoffs!"

This is what Nuggets head coach George Karl said to the team before the start of this game.

What other people thought of George Karl's words, Billups and Hamilton didn't know.

Billups and Hamilton are deeply impressed by the new players coming to the Nuggets this season!

As two of the former Detroit Five, they want to beat yes and everything they want is crazy!

Not to mention the playoffs, even in the regular season, none of the five of them could beat yes even in one game!

After coming to the Nuggets, they barely beat yes once because they had the opportunity to play against yes four times a season.

Being able to defeat yes, even in one game, is an honor for the five or two of them to fulfill their wish.

Although yes won one game in the regular season, the result of the match between the two teams was 3-1. It can be said that they were the ones who lost in the end.

They still didn't win against yes in the end.

Defeating yes is already the obsession of the five of them.

As for the current situation of the five of them in the league, the head coach of the Cavaliers is now frustrated and ready to retire due to the internal strife between O'Neal and James.

Do Rasheed and Prince, who remain in the Pistons, have a chance to beat yes again in their careers?

The current strength comparison between the Eastern Conference teams and the Western Conference teams is basically very difficult. If you can't win this season, it will be even more difficult next season or in the future.

It can be said that the two of them now represent the glory of the Pistons' Five Tigers.

In any case, when the Fab Five were still together, their biggest wish was to extinguish Garfield's hurricane.

Talking about the hurricane that wiped out Garfield is indeed a bit like a dream, but if you want to win, it is certain!

In the current playoff series, defeat the SuperSonics, sweep Yes out of the playoffs, defeat Yes in the first round of the playoffs, and let Yes accept the 'taunt' and 'sanction' from all those who don't like him. , this will be the greatest achievement and glory of their careers in the NBA!

The Pistons are destined to be enemies of the NBA's protagonist, and the Pistons' mission is also to prevent the NBA's chosen protagonist from ascending to the highest throne.

They are no longer with the Pistons, but they have never forgotten the mission of the Pistons.

"We will definitely win this series. Defeating Yes is our last wish. Before Ben retires, let Ben see us walking with our heads held high in front of Yes!"

After Billups and Hamilton looked at each other, everyone felt extremely determined.

In the regular season, they push themselves to perform at their best, just like they did in the 2004 Finals.

But, obviously, environment is important.

In the regular season environment, it is not so realistic for them to show their playoff status.

The state of the playoffs is not only the state of strength and game state, but also the state of psychology.

The urgency of the playoffs cannot be simulated in the regular season.

Otherwise, there would be no such thing as Mr. Key in this world.

For Billups, whether it is him or Hamilton, they are the key men.

Mr. Key, who will become stronger in the more pressing and difficult the competition!

The morale of Billups and Hamilton was very high. Now that they have decided not to pretend, they have to give everything they have in this series and show the state of the 2004 finals. This game has not yet started. Billups and Hamilton's fighting spirit was evident in their pre-game contact.

George Karl was very satisfied to see the fighting spirit of Billups and Hamilton.

Now the whole world is talking about this series between the Nuggets and SuperSonics. The Nuggets have no reason to be defeated.

George Karl agrees with this.

The strength comparison between the Nuggets and SuperSonics is indeed quite big.

But it's not entirely true to say that the Sonics have no chance of winning.

The Nuggets can still be defeated.

That is, the Nuggets are a team that gives him some headaches. The character of this team is too out-of-the-box. Whether it is Anthony, Jr. Smith, Camby, Nene Martin and others, these players are not that good. of stability.

To put it simply, it is easy to float!

If it were in the past, faced with such optimism from around the world, George Karl was really worried that these Nuggets players would give the SuperSonics a chance if they rose up.

He watched last season when the Mavericks were swept by the SuperSonics in the playoffs, and in the past two days, he watched it again.

The SuperSonics are a very magical team, and Yes is also a very magical player. He can seize any opportunity to defeat his opponents in one fell swoop!

yes's nickname is not Black Mamba, but his style in the game is even more Black Mamba than Black Mamba!

Facing such an opponent, the Nuggets are very dangerous.

However, fortunately, the Nuggets now are completely different from the Nuggets before.

With Billups and Hamilton, the Nuggets' stability shortcomings are gone.

Moreover, after Anthony is willing to fight for the game and use his talents more rationally, the Nuggets' upper limit has also been increased.

For the Nuggets, this season may be the final peak for Hamilton and Billups. In this case, this season may be the Nuggets' best chance to reach the top!

"Use yes as the touchstone for the Nuggets to reach the top, use the glory gained from defeating yes to fuel the team's motivation, and use yes's head to honor the Nuggets' waving flag. This is the most ideal situation!"

Thinking of this, George Karl was very excited.

He knows that he and his team can do this, and his players are also working hard towards this goal!

Because in his eyes, Camby, who is now jumping high with Milicic, has never jumped to such a height!

"Incredible heights!"

"Camby beats Milicic with a jump ball!"

Even the crazy SuperSonics fans at the scene choked up their cheers when they saw Camby beat Milicic to successfully jump the ball.

It’s not easy to see Milicic fail on a jump ball on the court.

From the height of Milicic's jump ball, Milicic's take-off this time is already good enough, but Camby is even better.

Camby's successful jump ball surprised the entire Key Arena.

Including Sonics players.

Perhaps the only person in the entire arena who wasn't surprised was the Nuggets players.

They knew each other's current mood very clearly.

They clearly know how much each other wants to win this game and this series.

"Marcus has shown us what he's got, now it's our turn!"

Anthony received the pass from Billups without any adjustment or hesitation. He crushed Durant, who was not fully positioned on the defensive position, and draped himself on the Key Arena basket with one hand!

"Yes, I said, I will give you another unforgettable failure."

"I'm not kidding!"

Anthony came down from the basket without even looking at Durant. After glancing at Ye Si with explosive eyes, he led the Nuggets players back to defense.

"Okay, so fast..."

The Nuggets' first offense stunned SuperSonics Scott Brooks on the sidelines.

This is the opening fast break that the Sonics are best at, and the Nuggets use it even better and more violently than the Sonics!

Is there really no reason for the Seattle SuperSonics to beat the Nuggets…