Chapter 748: Storm Is Coming, Fengmanlou and Master Romar!
After five consecutive games against the Suns, Cavaliers, Grizzlies and Timberwolves, the Seattle SuperSonics finally got a short break.
The last game between the Seattle SuperSonics and the Timberwolves in November is on November 29, and the next game between the SuperSonics and the Bobcats in the East is on December 3.
It can be said that there are almost four days of rest in between.
These four days of rest are very important for the SuperSonics, who are under great pressure now.
The pressure on the Seattle SuperSonics is very, very great now, not only the physical pressure.
In fact, the physical pressure is not bad. The Seattle SuperSonics are all young players. The physical problems can be persisted by gritting their teeth. The key is the psychological pressure.
Now the record of the Seattle SuperSonics and the Trail Blazers and Timberwolves is too close!
The three teams are all 10 wins and 8 losses. In addition to the 10 wins and 10 losses of the Thunder and Clippers behind, it can be said that the Seattle SuperSonics may fall from the current eighth place in the West to the twelfth place in the West if they are not careful!
If they really fall to the twelfth place in the West, what kind of fireworks will there be? The players of the Supersonics dare not even think about it.
Not to mention that the players of the Seattle Supersonics dare not imagine that the team falls out of the top eight, even the head coach of the team, old Nelson, finds it hard to imagine.
As the head coach of the Seattle Supersonics, old Nelson is under great pressure now.
This season, he has always thought that after the team wins the championship, his most important job is to let the players overcome the arrogance after winning the championship.
Young people, who won the championship at such a young age, will inevitably be arrogant.
However, it must be said that the media in the United States and even the world have really helped the Supersonics a lot. These Supersonics players who grew up in the boos and scolding of these American and world media have all kinds of qualities, but they don’t have the quality of arrogance.
According to the purpose of the garbage club formed by the players of the team themselves, all members, regardless of age or family, are garbage.
Old Nelson learned some things about the garbage club from his new assistant Malik Ross. This secret organization of the team holds meetings almost every week.
Before the meeting, PJ Tucker, Barea and other leaders of the Garbage Club would shout: Eat Yes's food, wear Yes's clothes, be Yes's dog, and sell Yes's life.
When old Nelson heard Malik Rose say this for the first time, he was really shocked.
He has been in the NBA for so many years, and has basically seen all kinds of storms, but he has never seen such things as the Sonics players.
No wonder the Seattle Supersonics players have such strong cohesion.
No wonder in last year's playoffs, when facing the Rockets, Durant wanted to play even if he had a broken leg!
You know, Durant is not a member of the Garbage Club, but he can have such awareness, let alone members of the Garbage Club like Tucker and Barea!
In the playoffs last season, Durant was willing to give his life to Yes, which shocked old Nelson, and now he knows that there are definitely more people in the team who are willing to work for Yes than just Durant!
So, for such a team, the arrogance and arrogance after winning the championship will never become the biggest enemy of this team.
The players of this team are really crazy.
Such madness saves him, the head coach of the team, a lot of troubles, but also adds a lot of troubles.
The current problem of the Seattle Supersonics is that the relationship between Yes and the players of the team is too fairy-tale,
and too weird.
Most of the players in the team are willing to break their legs for Yes and are willing to work hard for Yes.
Old Nelson can now be sure that even if it is Ibaka, if he can stay in the NBA in the future, if Yes needs him to break his legs, he will not hesitate to give up his legs and his life.
You treat me as your confidant, and I treat you as a national scholar.
This is the relationship between Yes and other players of the Supersonics.
What Yes did in the team is really too extreme. This extreme is called a fairy tale in the United States and the world.
He has never seen a player like Ibaka who can tolerate playing on the court for such a long time.
He has never seen a boss of an NBA team who can tolerate a role player in the team to such an extent.
This is not the first time for Ibaka!
In the first season, old Nelson thought that Yes's tolerance for Rondo and others was the limit of NBA stars' tolerance for teammates.
Then in the second year, Yes's tolerance for Durant was even greater.
And this season, Yes's tolerance for Ibaka even made people wonder if Yes was crazy.
A team leader can do such a thing for his teammates, as long as the teammate is not an ungrateful person, even if he is an ungrateful person, he will be moved and influenced!
Such a fairy-tale atmosphere within the team is positive most of the time, but it can also create crises that make people very uncomfortable.
Ibaka has been trained hard by Yes for more than a month. If he is trained well now, he can put Ibaka down from the starting lineup.
If he is not trained well, he can't take Ibaka down from the starting lineup. This is moral kidnapping!
Now Yes and the entire Supersonics have been morally kidnapped by such a fairy tale!
So much so that many people around the world are now waiting to see the joke of Yes and the Supersonics.
Let's see if Yes really wants to protect Ibaka even if he doesn't make the playoffs, or finally abandons the fairy tale that the world has been shouting for three years and finally gives up Ibaka.
Anyway, most of the public opinion in the world now is not optimistic that Yes can lead the team to the playoffs in the West with Ibaka, a player who knows nothing, playing four against five on the court.
According to Pippen's statement in the TNT team.
"If Ibaka starts every game in the regular season this season and averages more than 35 minutes per game, the Seattle Supersonics can still make the playoffs in the end. I propose that this year's regular season MVP can be directly awarded to Yes. No matter which place the Supersonics enters the playoffs, the MVP will still be Yes. Do you agree or disagree?!"
Faced with Pippen's domineering eyes, no one in the TNT team spoke out in opposition.
Old Nelson knew very well that this was certainly not because Pippen had supreme authority to attack the TNT team.
In fact, none of the clowns in the TNT group can be called authoritative. It is completely true that others do not think that the Seattle SuperSonics can finally enter the playoffs if Ibaka plays at least 35 minutes in every game!
With Yes's invincible performance of averaging 45 points per game this season, the Seattle SuperSonics have now maintained a top eight position in the Western Conference for 18 consecutive games, which is already the limit.
The current Seattle SuperSonics may fall from the top eight at any time.
Yes used his own strength to force Ibaka to train for 18 games, which is very incredible.
In fact, at the beginning of the season, old Nelson was prepared to replace Ibaka after playing five or six games and then take advantage of the team's ranking falling out of the top eight.
In the end, Ibaka was kept by Yes until now.
For Ibaka, old Nelson has no bad feelings.
On the contrary, he admires this young man very much. He works hard, very hard. No matter what, hard-working people can always be loved by others.
It's just that for Ibaka, his mistake is that he should not appear in the NBA this season, but in the Seattle SuperSonics. He should grow in Europe for one to two years.
In the NBA, people can't bear to see a player who doesn't have NBA standards grow up.
Ibaka's initial ability is F, and the lowest ability in the NBA is C. Without C ability, others will not care whether you are always on the road from F to C.
As the best head coach in the league, old Nelson has certainly noticed Ibaka's progress now.
Ibaka is indeed not the kind of player with low basketball IQ as the legend outside.
Or, Ibaka's basketball IQ may be really low, but Yes has trained him so well, so Ibaka has been improving.
If Ibaka's initial ability when he entered the NBA was 40 F, then now, Ibaka's ability has reached 50 E, and some abilities have even reached 60 D level.
It's just...
This still hasn't reached the level of being able to start in the NBA and play 35 minutes in every game in the NBA, which still makes the Seattle Supersonics seem to be playing one less player on both offense and defense on the court.
Similarly, this still can't change the current shaky ranking of the Supersonics.
So he is worried now, and other Supersonics players are also worried.
I am afraid that even Ibaka himself is still in a state of anxiety.
In the entire team, perhaps only Yes is still calm and indifferent.
During the four days of rest, old Nelson could clearly feel the tense atmosphere in the team.
Old Nelson heard some rumors from Rose that Rondo and many Sonics players were planning to bully Ibaka. When Ibaka returned home from training, they would beat Ibaka on the way. It would be best if Ibaka was injured for a month or two.
In this way, Yes would not have to bear the burden of giving up Ibaka and losing his fairy tale reputation. At the same time, the Seattle Supersonics would not have to worry about falling out of the top eight in the West without Ibaka dragging them down.
Hearing that Rondo was working with the Trash Club to take action against Ibaka, old Nelson was already shocked.
"Mr. Nelson, in fact, Rajon has already taken action himself... but failed in the end."
Hearing what Rose said at the end, old Nelson was even more speechless.
Already started...
Looking at the scratches on Ibaka's face and the bandage on Rondo's left wrist, old Nelson was speechless.
Last season, Rondo and his team also wanted to take action against Durant, but they were not so direct.
This shows how explosive the Sonics are now.
The Sonics are already so explosive, but Yes is still unmoved!
Old Nelson knows that Yes must know this, but Yes is still unmoved.
Old Nelson has nothing to say about Yes's choice.
This is the best choice.
The current situation in the team is forced by the external situation.
If Yes expresses his position, he will inevitably have to stand on Ibaka's side or on Rondo's side.
Standing on either side is not a good thing for Yes.
Instead of choosing sides, it is better to do nothing and directly defeat the external pressure. Without the external pressure, the internal will naturally be calm.
Well, at least pretending to be calm is calm.
This is a very good choice, and old Nelson also admitted that this is the best choice to deal with such things.
However, the premise of this best choice is that Yes can really crush the external pressure!
Is Yes really confident that he can lead Ibaka's Supersonics to stay in the top eight in the West?
Old Nelson is really curious and really looking forward to it.
Now Yes gives him such a feeling.
In the few days before the game with the Bobcats, the atmosphere inside the Seattle Supersonics became extremely strange under the threat of the team falling out of the top eight.
The pressure inside the Seattle Supersonics is very great, and the public opinion outside is very strong. Even the opponent of the Supersonics in the next game, the Bobcats, no, now handed over to the Charlotte Hornets, the head coach Larry Brown and the Bobcats' small owner Jordan are now slowly increasing their presence and constantly putting pressure on the Supersonics.
Under such a situation, most of the players in the Supersonics found it difficult to calm down.
But Yes...
James Harden and Gasol Jr. really found it incredible.
The leader of this team actually had the mood to go to the University of Washington every day to teach the players of the University of Washington how to play.
"Maybe our crisis is not as big as those people say..."
"Yeah."
Gasol Jr. nodded in agreement after Harden finished speaking.
In the past four days, after completing daily training, Yes spent most of his time at the University of Washington with Curry and others.
Now the entire NCAA is blowing the "Lorenzo Romar Storm"!
Lorenzo Romar's five-small tactics reappear in the NCAA.
The University of Washington, led by Curry, Klay Thompson, Green, Isaiah Thomas Jr., Spencer Hawes, Quincy Pondexter and others, has now won more than a month in a row, and has won more than 30 points in each game.
Now the storm that has blown up again at the University of Washington has shocked the whole country.
And this University of Washington that has blown up the storm is taught by Yes.
Calling the University of Washington's five-small tactics is not stressful for Yes, he is too familiar with Curry, Green and Klay...
And Pondset and Spencer Hawes can also fully perform the duties of Barnes and Bogut in the NCAA.
"Teacher, I heard that Ibaka has been attacked three times in the past four days? Do you really not need to care?"
"No."
After cutting Curry's ball, Yes threw the ball to Curry again, and said to Spencer Hawes on the side: "The screen action can be bigger."
For Yes's guidance, Hawes nodded madly with eyes of admiration.
And Steve Kerr, the assistant coach of the University of Washington, was also looking at someone with admiration.
Of course it was not Yes, but Lorenzo Romar, who was smiling and folding his arms on the side.
Finally, I can learn Lorenzo Romar's five-small tactics!
If those basketball coaches in the NCAA knew that the University of Washington's five-small tactics could beat them to death without Master Romar's personal shot, they would definitely collapse, right? !
Lorenzo Romar was used to being looked at by Kerr in this way, or he was used to being looked at in this way wherever he went.
"Yes really didn't lie to me!"
"Yes said it can be done, then it must be done!"
Lorenzo Romar looked at the man who was coaching the University of Washington on the court with stars in his eyes.