The 2007-2008 NBA season was a magical season.

The magic mentioned here is not just the battle between the Rockets, Suns and SuperSonics for the first place in the Western Conference.

The battle between the Rockets, Suns, and SuperSonics for the No. 1 spot in the Western Conference is a miraculous fight.

As far as the current situation of the Rockets, Suns and SuperSonics, most teams in the league have no reference value.

Even if many teams want to learn from the Rockets, Suns and SuperSonics, they can't.

But this season, there is a team in the league that can really learn from.

The Toronto Raptors were a humiliating team last season.

After getting Yes, he traded Yes, and finally, Yes set a single-quarter scoring record, a half-time scoring record, a three-quarter scoring record of 75 points in three quarters, and the highest scoring record for a rookie.

For the Raptors, no team in the history of the NBA has been worse than them.

Even without Jordan, the Trail Blazers are far from the level of the Raptors last season.

The Trail Blazers never got Jordan. Even if they did lose Jordan and be ridiculed, it would be many years later.

The Raptors really got Yes. In the first season after losing Yes, they were slapped in the face like crazy.

The swollen face was simply unbearable to look at.

The team's general manager took responsibility and resigned, and the team's head coach was eventually dismissed due to the team's collapse.

In the end, the entire team seemed to be disbanding.

And what’s even more ridiculous is that.

After Sam Mitchell was fired, the Raptors wanted to find a head coach, but were rejected one after another.

No head coach with any reputation is willing to wade into the muddy waters of the Raptors.

This is a place of disrepute.

The Raptors are a black hole right now.

In the NBA, even a team that is clearly going to fail has many candidates, but the Raptors can't find a suitable head coach in the end.

This became a joke during the offseason.

In the end, the Raptors had no choice but to recruit Dwayne Casey, who resigned from the Timberwolves due to internal strife between new and old players.

Dwayne Casey was dismissed by the Timberwolves' new and old players last season because he was unwilling to choose a side and wanted both old and new players.

This head coach with a good personality who always thinks he can save anyone has actually become the only head coach in the entire league who has not given up on the Raptors.

Everyone thought that as long as Yes didn't retire, the Raptors would definitely be in a doomed state and finally invited Dwayne Casey to be the team's new head coach.

The Raptors are having an extremely difficult time finding a head coach.

It was also extremely difficult for Dwayne Casey to find an assistant coach for the team after he became the head coach of the Raptors.

With the current situation of the Raptors, only those who have the ability and choice will go there if they are sick.

Just because Casey is sick, it doesn't mean that others are sick too.

However, it turns out that there are still many sick people in this world.

Nick Nurse, who has coached in Europe for eleven seasons and has great success in the British basketball world, finally accepted Dwayne Casey's invitation to become the Raptors' first assistant coach and chief offensive assistant coach.

When Dwayne Casey and Nick Nurse were building a team for the new season with the Raptors, the two men may not have faced as much ridicule as Durant, but in terms of viciousness, it was definitely not bad.

Both of these two people were ridiculed by the national media as clowns who gave up their ideals and ideas for the sake of jobs and money.

Most NBA head coaches are business-oriented, but business-oriented head coaches also have academic ideals.

Most people really can't bear to be laughed at and fooled by the whole world.

After all, being a coach and player in the Raptors does require a lot of mental endurance.

Logically speaking, when faced with the current situation of the Raptors, most people must have an unbalanced mentality and continue to sink along with the Raptors.

What people never expected is that under the leadership of the "clown brothers" Casey and Nurse, the Raptors not only did not sink this season, but also ranked fourth in the Eastern Conference with a record of 12 wins and 12 losses!

Do the Raptors have the strength to be fourth in the Eastern Conference?

Of course there is.

After Ye's big deal was completed, the Raptors were called the future, and now they have it all. The team's overall strength once ranked among the top three in the Eastern Conference.

The record was also ranked among the top three in the Eastern Conference.

The Raptors' hard power must be very strong.

But the key is whether it can be used.

With the way the American media treats the Raptors, their hard power cannot be fully demonstrated, let alone the top three, even if they are number one.

And Casey, it only took less than half a season for the Raptors to rank among the top four in the Eastern Conference.

This seems magical to many people.

Some time ago, the entire NBA even started to learn from Coach Casey's "love and never give up" coaching philosophy.

"As long as each of us believes in ourselves, as long as each of us loves our own basketball, I don't think we have an invincible enemy."

The Raptors' current overall record is 12 wins and 12 losses.

It doesn't seem that good either.

But what if the Raptors started the first ten games with 3 wins and 7 losses?

In the last 14 games, the Raptors have a record of 9 wins and 5 losses. This record is already great in the Eastern Conference this season.

The SuperSonics are the Raptors' third opponent on their Western Conference road trip.

The Raptors' first two opponents in the Western Conference are the Clippers and Trail Blazers.

The Clippers and Trail Blazers have been a nightmare for Eastern Conference teams this season.

When many Eastern Conference teams came to the Western Conference this season, they came with trepidation.

Most of the Eastern Conference teams came to the Western Conference this season with the intention of facing the strong Western Conference teams, giving up and fighting against the Clippers and Trail Blazers, the two seemingly weakest teams.

But what embarrasses many Eastern teams is that the two seemingly softest persimmons in the Western Conference are really not soft at all.

When I arrived in Los Angeles and faced the Clippers led by Nick Young, I really felt like facing the Lakers in the previous two seasons. I really didn't know whether the cloud above my head was going to rain or fall tonight.

When I arrived in Portland, facing the Trail Blazers led by young players such as Conley and Aldridge, I felt like facing a low-end version of the Spurs. This persimmon that looks very soft is very hard when you bite it off!

The Clippers and Trail Blazers are not that strong. The reason why they give Eastern teams such a nightmare is because of psychological expectations.

The Eastern Conference teams all felt that these two teams were easy to bully, and after the fight, they found that they were the ones being bullied.

Doesn't this contrast give people nightmares?

Can the psychological expectations be the same when losing to the Rockets, Suns, SuperSonics and losing to the Clippers and Trail Blazers?

Many teams in the league fell apart against the Trail Blazers and Clippers during their Western Conference trip.

But the Raptors didn't.

Before the game between the Raptors and SuperSonics started, the Raptors had won two consecutive games against the Clippers and Trail Blazers.

The Raptors have also become the second team this season to win consecutive road games in the Western Conference.

This description is really tragic.

But it's true.

This season, when Eastern teams face Western teams, it will be difficult to win one game, and even more difficult to win consecutively.

According to the record, the Raptors, who are fourth in the Eastern Conference, will be ranked tenth in the Western Conference.

According to the record, the Celtics, who are first in the Eastern Conference, are ranked fourth in the Western Conference.

But if we look at strength, the Raptors, who have the tenth best record in the Western Conference, may not even be twelve in strength.

The Celtics, who are fourth in the Western Conference, may be competing with the Lakers, Spurs, and Grizzlies for fourth place.

This season, the Western Conference can be said to have achieved the legendary state of "no underdogs in the Western Conference".

In this West, if the Eastern teams want to win consecutively, they really need some luck and, of course, enough strength.

December 17, 2007, Key Arena, Seattle.

When the Raptors players came out, they received deafening applause from the Sonics fans.

"Seattle fans are thanking the Raptors for sending yes back to them!"

Seattle fans really know how to play. Barkley in the commentary box felt that he also needed to learn from these Sonics fans.

As the most humiliating team in the NBA in the past two years.

Raptors fans booed and jeered wherever they went.

Even at their home court, the Raptors never received applause from their fans.

Just give away the yes that originally belonged to us.

We exchanged the yes that originally belonged to us for a bunch of garbage like this.
To be continued...