Chapter 446 Tied for No. 1 in the Western Conference and Durant Who Has Become Stronger

The Phoenix Suns' 19-game winning streak ended on the Wizards, which is surprising, but it seems reasonable.

A long winning streak is not just a physical drain, it's an energy drain.

The rotation of the Suns is not as frequent as that of the Rockets, and D'Antoni is not a head coach who likes to use big rotations.

Most of the Suns' intense games this year have been rotations, even sevens.

The seven stars of the sun are very powerful, but D'Antonio does have some problems when used in such a way.

The pressure on veterans like the Suns is too much.

Although these pressures will not make the Suns, who are now considered the number one in history, lose their offense.

But it's okay to let the Suns lose their defense because of lack of focus.

The Sun scored 122 points in this game against the Wizards, and there was no problem with the offense, but his defense allowed the Wizards to score 127 points and Arenas scored 55 points!

The Wizards are a team that can't stop when the offense goes crazy.

The Suns carried the Wizards last season, and the Suns lost to the Wizards 139 to 144 away.

Arenas also scored 54 points in that game.

Even in the last season, the Suns still fell on the Wizards. Arenas led the Wizards to beat the Suns 112 to 111 with 41 points.

It can be said that Arenas and the Wizards have been the sun's painstaking efforts in recent seasons.

If you are a little distracted, you will be bombarded by Arenas and the Wizards if you find an opportunity.

However, once or twice, the sun will fall on it one after another, which can already show that this is not just a simple lack of concentration.

Now the Suns are the strongest team in the league, but Yeth has always felt that in the regular season, the final record of the Suns may not be as good as that of the Rockets.

Rockets head coach Rick Adelman is very bold in using new players!

This season the Rockets are not just Yao Ming, McGrady, Roy and Artest, Gerald Wallace,

Ariza's six tight end players were brilliant.

Several rookies of the Rockets, such as Luis Scola, Aaron Brooks, and Carl Landry also performed quite well.

These three are the Rockets' super microwave.

The three rookies were actually used by Adelman as a super microwave oven.

As soon as these three came up from the bench, they could score immediately.

Especially Carl Landry.

Yeth has watched a lot of Rockets games this season, and Carl Landry is no worse than Millsap in terms of offensive rebounds and second offense.

Landry's offensive shooting rate at the basket is higher than Millsap's 70%, and compared with Millsap's current peripheral instability, Landry's outside offense seems to be a little bit more stable than Millsap's.

In addition to not being as good as Millsap on the defensive end, Landry is now a little better than Millsap on the offensive end.

This season in the Rockets, Landry can score more than 8 points with 5 shots in an average of 15 minutes per game. The converted score of each shot is 1.6 points, and the true shooting percentage is as high as 65%!

Originally, the Rockets got Mike James from the Timberwolves this season to let Mike James play the sixth man.

Now Mike James has been Scola, Landry and Aaron Brooks firmly on the bench.

After the Rockets have Yao Ming, Roy, Tracy McGrady and Artest Gerald Wallace, the number of shots taken by role players will be greatly reduced.

In this case, it is very important for the Rockets to get more points with fewer shots.

Mike James' personal ability may be strong, but it is too inefficient.

At the best of his career, he didn't have the efficiency of Scola and Landry.

It is precisely because of Adelman's use of the Rockets' rookies that he shared tremendous pressure on the Rockets' starting players.

In the case of a short rotation in the playoffs, it is hard to say who is stronger and who is weaker between the Suns and the Rockets.

But in the long regular season, it is hard to say what will happen to the Suns and Rockets.

On December 8, 2007, the Phoenix Suns ended their road trip in the East and flew from Washington to Minnesota to play a back-to-back game with the Timberwolves after a journey of nearly 2,000 kilometers.

In this game, the Suns lost again.

Still an unshakable eight-man rotation, the 33-year-old Nash played 40 minutes in this game.

Facing the young Timberwolves, the Suns in this game obviously couldn't keep up with the rhythm.

113 to 120, the Suns are not only in the defensive state in this game, but also in the offensive state.

In this game, the Suns also let the Timberwolves' second-in-command, Al Jefferson, play 30+20, 32 points, 20 rebounds and 4 steals. He also grabbed 6 offensive rebounds and robbed Stoudemire. .

This season, the top two Suns and Rockets in the Western Conference have suffered consecutive losses.

In this year's West, a losing streak is really nothing.

But there is a big difference between the two teams' losing streaks.

After the Rockets lost to the Suns, they faced the Warriors back to back, rotated the Big Three, and ended up losing streak.

After the Suns lost to the Wizards, they still insisted on an eight-man rotation. They ran out of fuel and lost to the Timberwolves, suffering a losing streak.

This is a completely different way of thinking of the head coaches of the two teams.

But in any case, the sun's unexpected loss turned the already fierce competition for second place in the western part into a competition for the first place in the western part!

After the Suns lost to the Timberwolves, their current record is 19 wins and 2 losses, still ranking first in the Western Conference.

The next rocket is 18 wins and 2 losses.

The Sonics are also 18 wins and 2 losses.

The Suns are now only half a game ahead of the Rockets and Supersonics!

In the NBA, the difference of half a game is just one less game!

Such a difference can be ignored at all.

The Sun's sudden two-game losing streak had a huge impact.

Originally, the media in the United States was still hyping the competition between the Sonics and the Rockets for the second place in the Western Conference.

It is a great achievement that the Sonics can temporarily rank third in the West this season and maintain a threat to the second place in the West.

But now, they haven't finished exaggerating the greatness of the Sonics' future as the second place in the Western Conference, and now the opportunity to be the first in the Western Conference suddenly ran in front of the Supersonics.

Not to mention the national media.

Even Supersonic himself did not expect happiness to come so suddenly.

On December 9, 2007, the Seattle SuperSonics came to Salt Lake City after a half-month home leisure schedule.

This game between the Supersonics and the Jazz has received a lot of attention.

As long as the Sonics can win this game, the Sonics' record will catch up with the sun!

Even if the Supersonics' record catches up with the Suns due to the disadvantage of playing against each other, it is impossible to rank first in the Western Conference.

Not even second in the West.

At almost the same time, there was an away game between the Rockets and the Raptors.

But even the real ranking is still third in the West.

However, the record of the Supersonics is the same as that of the Suns who are number one in the Western Conference. Judging from the record, this tie for the first place with the same record is quite impactful.

December 9, 2007, Energy Solutions Arena.

Looking at the Supersonics and Jazz who are playing on the court, Jerry Sloan's brows have always been frowning.

This is the second meeting between the Jazz and the Sonics this season.

The last time they met, the Jazz were defeated by the Sonics away.

That loss hurt the Jazz very much. The loss in that game not only ended the Jazz's winning streak against the Sonics.

It also made the Jazz almost fall to the bottom of the West.

Until now, Jazz has worked so hard to climb up.

Even if it climbs up, it doesn't climb to the top eight positions in the playoffs.

Now the Jazz's record is 9 wins and 11 losses, barely ranked tenth in the West. It is impossible to surpass the Mavericks who are ninth in the West and the Thunder who are eighth in the West.

The Mavericks and Thunder are now 12-8.

In the West, the gap between such three wins is almost a natural barrier.

The Jazz win, and the Mavericks and Thunder will also win.

What's more, recently, the state of the Jazz is still very bad.

Their past two games have been on the road in the Southwest Division.

Although it didn't hit the strongest Rockets in the Southwest.

But like other teams that went to the Southwest to play away games, they ended their Southwest road trip with scars and a two-game losing streak.

The away game lost to the Spurs and the Mavericks, and the game against the Mavericks was still a direct contest between the Jazz for the eighth place in the Western Conference.

Losing is pretty frustrating.

After a frustrating defeat in Dallas.

The Jazz didn't even have time to be sad, so they returned to the home court back to back to meet the challenge of the Sonics, who are now tied for first in the West.

If this game is lost again, the Jazz, who has lost three consecutive games, wants to continue to climb up, then the difficulty will be too great.

Not only the win with the eighth in the West has become four games.

And the blow to morale is very fatal.

Even under his rule, the Jazz has always been regarded as an iron army, and even an iron army can hardly bear such a losing streak.

This is the West!

If you sink in, you may never be able to climb up again!

It can be said that this game is a game related to the fate of the Jazz this season.

Facing the Supersonics, the team that was five-killed by the Jazz last season.

At the beginning of the season, Jerry Sloan never thought that the Sonics would be the fate of their season.

Last season, when the Jazz faced the Supersonics, there was really no need to think about anything before the game, and there was no need to plan anything. It was as simple as walking on the court to reclaim the victory they left behind.

Not even a simple stoop is required.

But now, it's just an offseason.

The Supersonic is no longer that Jazz ATM Supersonic.

The current Supersonics are already the team that can compete with the Rockets and Suns for the No. 1 team in the Western Conference.

And their Jazz have now fallen to the point where they can't even make it to the playoffs.

You know, before the start of the season, the Supersonics were still considered the bottom of the top 15 in the Western Conference by the three major TV stations.

The Jazz are considered the top five favorites in the West.

How long has it been?

Not even two months.

The whole situation seems to have undergone earth-shaking changes!

Compared with the aggressive expansion and strengthening of other teams in the Western Conference this year, the Jazz retained all the main players from last season and did not add any strong support.

This is not only related to the Jazz's limited attraction to those strong players, but also because he feels that the current Jazz does not need to break the team's structure.

He is very satisfied with the combination of Deron Williams and Boozer.

In his view, as long as the two grow up normally, sooner or later, they will be a trustworthy pick-and-roll combination like Stockton and Malone.

He just needs to calm down and wait until these two grow up.

Although the growth of these two people is not as shocking as Stockton and Karl Malone, they are also advancing steadily.

In his opinion, what he and his Jazz need is not to find another core, what they want is time!

But now...

The West this season is really incomprehensible.

The degree of strength really exceeded his expectations.

He has been in the league for so many years and has seen many years that are considered to be the strongest in history.

He can be sure that there is no year in the history of the NBA that can be as terrifying as this year's Western Conference!

As far as he and his Jazz are concerned, in the 1990s, the NBA known as the most terrifying era, whether in the East or West, could easily enter the playoffs.

But in this year's West...

The price required to win a game is too great!

In his view, Boozer and Deron's progress has been considered good.

But the Jazz still lagged behind, unable to keep up with other Western Conference teams.

If the Jazz can't keep up with the Rockets, Suns, Lakers, Nuggets and Grizzlies, Jerry Sloan thinks it's justifiable.

The changes in these teams are really too great.

It can be supersonic!

Jerry Sloan still doesn't understand why the Sonics, who were the Jazz's ATM machine last season, have improved so drastically this season.

This team is the same as the Jazz, and there is no reinforcement. Compared with last season, the Sonics have more Durant and Sessions this season.

Durant is considered a side effect by all experts and media in the league.

And Sessions, who is only the third point guard of the Sonics this season, can he improve the team?

Since this is the case, why is the record of the Sonics so strong this season?

Not only is the record strong, but the strength on the court is also quite strong!

This game against the Sonics is not the last time he confronted the Sonics, and he was not prepared at all.

No matter how rushed the game was, he had carefully arranged targeted arrangements.

Kirilenko, who had a good defensive effect on Yes last season, was arranged by him to help defend Yes wholeheartedly.

Just pinch Yes and the supersonics will collapse!

But what Jerry Sloan really never expected was.

The score for Yes is indeed not that much.

But the Jazz's situation on the court in this game looks worse than the previous one.

If it weren't for Durant's inefficient shooting, Jerry Sloan even felt that the Jazz might collapse before the fourth quarter even started.

Deron still couldn't break through Yes' defense.

The Jazz still can't do anything about Yes's history-first behind-the-back pass.

115 to 103, when the game ended, Jerry Sloan felt like his heart sank to the bottom.

Three consecutive defeats!

A three-game losing streak without any struggles that could be heart-wrenching!

Jerry Sloan looked at the Sonics No. 9 on the court, and finally sighed.

With his second win over the Jazz this season, Yees was delighted.

With 19 wins and 2 losses, the record of the Seattle SuperSonics tied with the No. 1 Suns in the Western Conference!

What makes Ye Si even more happy is that in this strong dialogue, Durant's scoring data!

13 of 30 shots!

43% hit rate!

After a few games of adaptation, Durant, who gained two kilograms, really became stronger!

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