Chapter 435 The Second Wave of Winning Streak

In January, the SuperSonics ushered in a wave of new atmosphere in 2004.

Starting from the early morning of the arena on non-game days, there are always a few more guys who seem to be tireless in the auxiliary arena very early every day.

You need to start locking up your "laxity", and Lin Dong, who has increased his training volume, is always the first to arrive at the gym every day.

The second person who arrived at the arena early was probably a guy that no one expected - Tyson Chandler.

After more than half a year of training and recovery, this guy now looks no different from a healthy guy. Although he is still unable to play high-intensity fierce competitions for the time being, the resumption of training was already mentioned in the second half of last month. On the agenda.

The more than half a year of bedridden life almost broke Chandler's mind. As soon as he got the doctor's permission to train, he couldn't wait to return to the training ground. He went to the arena around 6 o'clock every morning. Lin Dong, the 'training fiend', came later, but compared to the lazy American people, this is already an inspirational legend.

The third one is Payton. He feels that he has really entered a decline in form. He has been very motivated recently. He can play 30 minutes on the court but never 25 minutes. He also arrives at the gym early at around 7 o'clock every day for training.

Sakuragi Hanamichi was the fourth one, arriving at about 7:30, and often Rukawa Kaede came with him.

Kaede Rukawa is really poor now. His salary from playing in the Bobcats was not high. What little savings he had was spent on treatment and buying that expensive ticket. The salary given by the Storm was even higher. It was so pitiful that he couldn't afford to rent a better apartment unless he asked his father for money. But with this guy's self-esteem, he has been working in the United States for almost two years, so how could he have the nerve to rent one again? Reaching home?

So Sakuragi dragged her to live in his house. Anyway, only Sakuragi and Aiko lived in the four-bedroom and two-living room. There were enough empty rooms. Even though Haruko came to Seattle more frequently this year, she basically booked a room at Sakuragi's house. room, but it does not affect leaving an extra room for Rukawa Kaede.

In addition, the Key Arena has not yet been completed, and now the SuperSonics home team and the lower-level Storm team share the same arena, so it is convenient for the two of them to come together every day.

Rukawa Kaede's performance with the Storm in the past few months has been quite amazing. His super-quick three-pointers have astonished everyone since the day he landed in the NBDL league.

Currently in the NBDL league, he averages 35 points per game, 5.5 three-pointers per game, and has a shooting percentage of 48.6%, firmly occupying the top position of the scoring king and the three-point king.

Every NBDL team started targeting Rukawa Kaede's three-pointers very early in the season, but the effect was not obvious.

This guy's shots are too fast, and the NBDL's defense is far from comparable to the NBA. Even if he is entangled with Rukawa Kaede, or even 2-1, it is almost useless.

Now the Seattle Storm also occupies the first position in the NBDL league's regular season winning rate list.

The outstanding performance made many teams offer Rukawa Kaede an olive branch.

Michael Jordan's Bobcats were the first to extend an olive branch to Rukawa Kaede. A four-year, 5.12 million mini-middle-class contract was considered very sincere.

In addition, the Spurs have also issued a trial invitation to Rukawa Kaede, and are likely to offer a small contract of about 2.2 million for two years.

The Japanese media have reported on this matter quite frequently recently, which has also raised unlimited expectations among many fans in Japan who like Rukawa Kaede. They are looking forward to seeing this guy who can stand up again after experiencing many blows return to the NBA. superior.

It's a pity that Rukawa Kaede didn't even look at all the contracts. Let alone agreed, he didn't even bargain, and looked like he didn't even consider it.

The outside world obviously doesn't understand this. A guy who plays in a lower league actually refuses to return to the NBA?

A guy with a monthly salary of several hundred dollars would actually refuse an invitation with an annual salary of millions?

It's just crazy...

Just like the SuperSonics' Lin Dong refused Nike's big contract worth 6 billion, but only wanted 300 million in two years.

MLGB...these Sonics guys have a grudge against money? Are they all freaks? !

Only the core members of the Sonics team know what Rukawa Kaede is thinking.

In fact, as early as November, when Rukawa Kaede fully demonstrated his 3-point ability on the court, Lin Dong and McMillan had already talked to him once and asked him if he wanted to be promoted to the home team, but Rukawa Kaede responded like this : Wait until I lead the team to win the NBDL championship!

Lin Dong understood that this was Rukawa Kaede's redemption for himself and his repayment for Mitsui Shou.

Then leave it to him...

After the core players of the Sonics have gone through introspection, their hard work will never let people down. Witnessing the early morning hours in Seattle every day, the Sonics have once again shown their absolute dominance on the court.

They started with a five-game winning streak in early January, followed by another match against the Cavaliers with overlapping schedules. This time, the SuperSonics did not leave any chance for the Cavaliers.

Sakuragi Hanamichi was still in a state of limited scoring under LeBron's defense, only scoring 10 points, but he showed his absolute advantage in interior rebounds. Even in the face of LeBron's hard pull, he still got the ball. He grabbed an astonishing 22 rebounds, and although LeBron is comprehensive enough in other aspects, his rebounding ability is really hard to describe... This allowed the SuperSonics to score 3 points from the outside that was not very online in the first two quarters. He got ample second offensive opportunities and became the absolute hero of the SuperSonics' first half.

Payton, on the other hand, is showing off his veteran prowess, and his full commitment on the defensive end makes people feel as if he has returned to the level he was in last season's finals. He defended Wade, who averaged 31 points per game, to 7 of 21 shots and only scored 18 points. points, almost dominating the defensive end of the entire game, limiting the Cavaliers' offensive rhythm to fragments.

Under Wade's defense, Lin Dong scored 68 points, scored 7 assists, 5 rebounds, 2 blocks and 3 steals. Fans and media who had previously thought that Wade could replace Lin Dong and become the new king Completely shut up.

128:86, SuperSonics beat Cavaliers by 42 points!

Although this is partly based on Payton's consumption of Wade on the defensive end, which is equivalent to Lin Dong + Payton beating Wade, but... who told you that the Cavaliers don't have a third ace?

It means that there are more people bullying the less people, it means that they will kill you on both offense and defense. What? If you don’t accept it, come and defeat me!

People suddenly realized that the SuperSonics, which had shown invincibility at the beginning of the season and won 34 consecutive victories, seemed to be back...

What knight could cause him trouble? What kind of Wade can replace Lin Dong? Everything is false.

And after taking down the knight.

The SuperSonics are facing a wave of tough battles, playing against the Spurs, Nuggets, Mavericks, Pistons, Mavericks, and Nets. Six teams in a row have not had a good match.

But... 48 wins and 3 losses, 50 wins and 3 losses, 52 wins and 3 losses!

Winning all 6 games, following the 6-game winning streak when they defeated the Cavaliers, the SuperSonics once again won the second longest 12-game winning streak this season!

The entire league seemed to shut down overnight, and even the trolls on the Internet who were unhappy with the Sonics shut up.

Everyone now fully understands that supersonic speed is supersonic speed.

With the invincible god combination of Dong Lin, Payton and Hanamichi Sakuragi, the SuperSonics will surely create a regular season legend again this season!