Chapter 588 What Is Despair?

April 22, 2008, Key Arena, Seattle.

The Seattle SuperSonics are playing their second game at home against the visiting Denver Nuggets.

After the Seattle SuperSonics lost at home on April 19, the whole world was watching the game.

After three days of rest, everyone knew that this game was a game that the Sonics could not lose.

In the playoffs, after losing two consecutive games at home, in the history of the NBA, only three teams can finally complete the comeback.

In 1969, after losing two games in a row to the Warriors at home, the Lakers finally completed their comeback by winning four games in a row.

In 1994, after losing two consecutive games at home, the Rockets finally successfully defeated the Suns and completed their reversal.

In 2005, after losing two games in a row at home, the Dallas Mavericks finally completed a comeback against the Rockets at a somewhat controversial whistle.

In the more than sixty-year history of the NBA, there have only been three comebacks after two consecutive home playoff losses and a 0-2 deficit.

So after the first game between the Sonics and the Nuggets ended, media across the United States and around the world were calculating the consequences of losing the next game for the Sonics.

It can be said that for the Sonics, their strength is not as good as their opponents. If they are still behind 0-2 at home, then it will be a real desperate situation and moment of despair for the Sonics.

"In the last game, yes was willing to continue to cultivate Durant in the playoffs and was willing to use victory as the price to pay for Durant's growth. In this game, yes will definitely not dare to continue to let Durant mess around. In yes In my mind, Durant is more important than winning, but Durant is definitely not as important as qualifying!"

"Losing another game will be a cliffhanger. Yes knows how he will choose!"

"If I were yes, I would decisively turn on the personal mode. Being behind 0-1 is not the end of the world, but falling behind 0-2 is God's final judgment!"

After the first game between the Seattle SuperSonics and the Denver Nuggets, all the famous experts in the United States were talking about the second game between the Seattle SuperSonics and the Denver Nuggets on TV. They all swore that yes could finally be abandoned in this game. Durant is here!

"If yes really abandoned Durant in this game, even Durant himself wouldn't have anything to say.

Yes has given him too many opportunities. Even Durant himself doesn't want Yes to sacrifice his entire career for him! "

"According to the news I got from the front, the Nuggets are preparing to continue their goal of defeating the SuperSonics by 20 points in the second game!"

"For the Nuggets, facing a team with yes, the more they win in the game, the safer they will be. Don't forget, this is a team with yes, and yes played too much against the Spurs in the game. A miraculous player, yes, a player who has killed more than 20 times in the NBA with a 100% shooting rate!"

This game between the SuperSonics and the Nuggets is a must-win game for both the SuperSonics and the Nuggets.

At least for fans of both sides, that's the case.

Although most Sonics fans can accept any outcome in this series, they are willing to accept all outcomes before the game begins.

However, if you can really defeat the Nuggets in the first round and advance, why not?

For the Nuggets, as long as they defeat the SuperSonics at home, the Nuggets can even enter the second round with the glory of sweeping the SuperSonics and yes.

By then, the highly motivated Nuggets will be in a very advantageous position whether they face the Suns or the Grizzlies.

Defeating the Sonics, and defeating the Sonics as an absolute powerhouse, is the key to the Nuggets' ability to reach the top this season!

In such a crucial game, whether it is Sonics fans or Nuggets fans, whether it is people who support the Sonics or people who support the Nuggets, they all have a lot of expectations for this game.

But looking at the game that is going on now, almost most people have never thought that in this game that can almost determine the fate of this series, yes is still continuing like the last game. The dominance of the game was handed over to Durant!

"Yes is actually supporting Durant in a game like this?!"

Doesn't he know what the failure of this game means to him?

LeBron James's home in Cleveland, watching the score getting bigger and bigger on TV, James' face is constantly changing.

Although he has made a choice about his life, although he has now chosen his future.

But he never wanted to completely break away from his past, but he also didn't dare to completely tie his future to his past.

He doesn't want to be tricked by that deceptive boss fifteen or twenty years from now, just Dominic Wilkins. He wants to be his own LeBron James, and he wants to be as close to Jordan's position as possible.

This was his last choice, the choice he made after defeating himself countless times.

Now after he made such a choice, he became more sympathetic to the fact that yes was cheated by his teammates.

Yes is his opponent, the one he has always wanted to defeat, but only he can understand what it is like to feel hopeless when the whole world around him is a trap.

He can understand yes!

Especially able to understand the greatness and despair of yes.

He had experienced this kind of despair.

At the beginning, all his hopes were pinned on the Cavaliers boss. Even if he knew that the Cavaliers boss had always treated him as an idiot, he still pinned his hopes on him to strengthen the team.

Looking back now, we can see how naive and innocent he was at that time, placing all his hopes on the person who was destined to give him despair.

And what about yes now?

So why not?

James can understand why yes is crazy about cultivating Durant after the All-Star Game, because yes knows that facing a situation like this in the league, he needs an outside All-Star who can stably share the pressure for him.

Yes knows that if he wants to succeed in the NBA, if there is no way to get such an outside all-star from elsewhere, he must cultivate it himself.

As long as he can cultivate this outside all-star, his career in the SuperSonics will have a future.

It can be said that yes has also placed all its hopes on Durant.

And Durant is also a person destined to make yes despair.

Just like what the national expert media said after the Sonics and Nuggets lost the last game.

With the resources Durant has received from yes this season, as long as he is a player with All-Star potential, even a pig has grown into an All-Star, instead of just a quasi-All-Star like Durant.

Durant is still a quasi-All-Star with such resources and training, so the only explanation is that this is Durant's limit!

What a sad thing.

It is clear that the road ahead is hopeless, but yes, we must move forward among thorns.

There was obviously a dog hole open next to it. As long as yes crawled through it with his head down, it would be the paradise of "Supersonics lost, yes did not lose", but yes ultimately chose to move forward on the road of despair full of thorns.

Even though he knows that this is a road of despair, he is still moving forward for even one ten thousandth of hope.

"What's even more desperate is that this one-ten-thousandth chance is still his own self-hypnosis. For the whole world, the hope on this road is...zero."

Looking at the score on TV, James murmured to himself.

At this time, looking at the figure of Sonics Nine on TV, James's eyes no longer had envy, jealousy or anger.

Some of us have the same sympathy as expected.

"One day, yes will be like me..."

In the second game between the Seattle SuperSonics and the Nuggets, the Seattle SuperSonics lost again at their home court!

Under Durant's leadership, the Seattle SuperSonics have lost two consecutive games at their home court.

At the moment the final buzzer sounded, even the craziest Seattle SuperSonics fans in the league were dumbfounded and speechless.

For them, it's not that they can't accept the defeat in this game.

However, I didn't expect such a failure to come so early.

In their view, when they see the Seattle SuperSonics in despair, it will be five or even six games later.

They really didn't expect that in the second game of this series, they would see the team's despair.

In the playoffs, losing two games in a row at home...

Even if you are a fan who doesn’t watch the NBA very much, you only need to look at the Nuggets players and the Nuggets head coach to celebrate wildly after the game. You will know that the Nuggets can win this game away from home. For this series, What does it mean?

In the NBA playoffs, a 2-0 lead on the road means a 99% chance of advancement!

In other words, 99% of the current yes and current Supersonics have been eliminated!

Now the Seattle SuperSonics have entered virtual death.

"The strength gap between the two teams is really huge!"

"Even if the Sonics led by Durant have yes, the gap between them and the Nuggets is an insurmountable gap!"

"In this supposedly tough away game, the Denver Nuggets once again beat the SuperSonics on the road by 20 points!"

"Beat Yes by more than 20 points in two consecutive games in the playoffs. In two consecutive games, the Nuggets did not let Yes and the SuperSonics lead for even a second. Now, the Denver Nuggets are on the path to an incredible miracle. On the road!”

After the second game between the SuperSonics and the Nuggets, Barkley, who has always been outgoing, stared wide-eyed and was speechless.

Although during the game, he had already known that this result was coming.

However, when this result really came, it was still so unacceptable.

Is this 0 to 2?

Lost like this?

Big loss of 20 points or more in two consecutive games!

Lost for two consecutive games without leading for more than a second!

The first game proved that Durant is more important than victory in Yes's mind.

And now the second game proves that Durant is more important to Yes than the entire series!

"Yes, I have told everyone with practical actions that Durant is the Pippen he has chosen to accompany him throughout his life..."

When Barkley muttered these words to himself on TV, all the viewers in front of the TV, whether they were coconut flour, coconut black or others, were almost shocked.

Even Kenny Smith, who was summarizing the game next to him, turned around and looked at Barkley blankly.

In this game, he told the whole world with his actual actions. Is Durant the Pippen who can accompany him throughout his career?

Is it really?

Of course it is!

If not, how could Yes put Durant's importance above the outcome of the series!

Originally, Kenny Smith felt that the SuperSonics fans and coconut fans were desperate enough because of the Sonics' loss in this game.

It turns out that nothing in this world is the most desperate, only more desperate!

If you lose in this year's playoffs, you can just get it back later.

But if yes has already decided that Durant is his Pippen, then...

Kenny Smith doesn't even have the heart to say anything now. Look at the desperate look on the face of his partner next to him. The last time he saw such a desperate look on Barkley's face was when Barkley was in the second round of the playoffs. When the Rockets were leading by 0 but were reversed!

"yes..."

Facing the extremely silent SuperSonics fans, Durant bit his lips tightly and held his hands tightly. He didn't know how to face Yes who trusted him so much.

Another twenty-point defeat!

Another big defeat without leading for a second!

Looking at Durant, who was now blaming himself and struggling, the expression on Ye Si's face was extremely calm.

As a super sensitive person, Durant can feel that the calmness on yes's face is not fake.

He didn't have any feelings of blaming himself, and even underneath his calmness, there was absolute trust in himself!

He has such overwhelming trust in himself, a player that the whole world considers to be only the highest or quasi-All-Star level!

This allowed Durant, who was already a little desperate, to regain his confidence again.

In this world, as long as yes's trust in him does not change, he will have the courage to face all difficulties, pressure and despair.

"Are you scared?"

"not afraid!"

Durant gritted his teeth without any hesitation.

Ye Si smiled and nodded.

"yes actually laughed?!"

After the game, George Karl, who had been paying attention to Yes, had a surprised expression on his face.

Before this game started, he always felt that he was thinking too much.

Now seeing the warm smile on yes's face that can give any teammate, George Karl is confused again.

"Am I overthinking or not thinking too much?"

Judging from yes's current performance, he doesn't seem to think too much.

In this game, yes's statistics were average. He took fewer shots, but he still scored 30 points!

But look at the big score of 2-0 in the away game, tell me, how did you lose?

On April 25, 2008, after the third game between the Seattle SuperSonics and the Nuggets, George Karl finally no longer had to worry about it.

!

The Seattle SuperSonics lost again!

The Denver Nuggets lead the SuperSonics 3-0 in the playoffs!

"Guys, it's time to use your performance to tell yes and tell the Sonics what despair is!"

There was no trace of confusion on George Karl's face, only confidence!

It’s so rich that it makes the air around you feel confident!