Chapter 480 The useful Durant and the basketball dream of ordinary people(1/2)
After two road trips in the Eastern Conference with the Wizards and Nets, the Leafs and Seattle SuperSonics returned to the Western Conference with two consecutive wins in the Eastern Conference and a record of 30 wins and 5 losses.
When the Sonics left the West for the East on January 6, the atmosphere within the Sonics team was quite bad.
The team's second-place battle, brought up by the national media, has troubled the SuperSonics quite a bit.
The relationship between Sonics players was on the verge of collapse.
Even the team's head coach, Nelson, has a troubled feeling about the atmosphere inside the team.
After Yesterday defied the consensus and appointed Nick Collison as vice-captain, as well as two consecutive wins in the Eastern Conference and the legendary battle with the Wizards, the tense atmosphere within the SuperSonics has been completely improved.
January 10, 2008, Texas, University of Texas at Austin, which is the alma mater of Seattle SuperSonics players Durant and P.J. Tucker.
Yeas took the team from the East to the West and did not return directly to Seattle.
Although the two away games in the Eastern Conference are over, the Seattle SuperSonics' road trip continues.
And he is also a very scary Southwest Sanlianke.
Fortunately, this time the Seattle SuperSonics' opponents in the three consecutive Southwest games did not have the Rockets.
The SuperSonics' opponents in this three-game trip to the Southwest are the Mavericks, Thunder and Grizzlies.
Moreover, Dallas, where the Mavericks are located, Oklahoma City, where the Thunder is located, and Memphis, where the Grizzlies are located, are quite close to each other.
This is very beneficial to the Leafs and SuperSonics' continuous away games.
Leafs and the SuperSonics will have one week to stay at the University of Texas at Austin starting from January 10th and ending with the game against the Grizzlies on January 16th.
Austin is right in the middle of these three cities, and because of Durant and Tucker, the Austin campus has a good relationship with the SuperSonics, making it the best location for the SuperSonics' three consecutive visits.
In the training facility of the University of Texas, the Seattle SuperSonics players are still clearly divided into two sides.
On one side is Durant, on the other side are other Seattle SuperSonics players.
This scene is quite familiar, it should be said that it is exactly the same as before.
But for people who are familiar with supersonics, there is still a big difference.
Although the 'powers' on both sides are clearly distinct, they no longer have the same smell of gunpowder as before.
Moreover, the 'powers' on both sides no longer have any communication as before.
Nick Collison, the team's vice-captain, always shuttles between the 'powers' on both sides.
The relationship within the Seattle SuperSonics team has improved greatly, which is for those who are familiar with the Seattle SuperSonics.
For people who are not that familiar with the Seattle SuperSonics, it is very curious that the SuperSonics are clearly in a split situation.
"KD is really so miserable in the Supersonics!"
"Of course, in the United States and around the world, which Rondo-like player do you think is not miserable? You won't forget the tragedy of the high school student in California named Kawhi Leonard right now, right?"
"I didn't expect that even pj would exclude kd. However, kd's recent performance is very good, and the score increase with Arenas is very exciting!"
"What is an outstanding performance recently? Wouldn't it be better to just say that the game against the Wizards was outstanding? In the game against the Nets, can Durant's performance be called outstanding? He made 10 of 34 shots and was dismissed by the Nets.
Chad Jefferson was blown away. If KD hadn't been undercover, would the SuperSonics still need a Yes buzzer-beater to defeat the Nets?!"
"Ahem, it doesn't have to sound so harsh. After all, kd was also our teammate before, and even if kd's performance against the Nets was not that good, overall, after combining the two games between the Wizards and the Nets, kd
The data is 28 out of 70 shots, which is just 40%. It is already very good, and it is really magical. In the past, kd’s shooting rate always seemed to be around 34%, and kd was competing with 34%.
After so long, are you now competing with 40%?"
"Whether it's 34% or 40%, it's all about blacksmithing anyway. If I had a chance as good as his, I could become the league's leading scorer!"
"Haha, it's just you? Okay, stop dreaming. Do you have long arms and legs? Are your bones hard? Is your pipi perky? You have nothing, and you dare to say that you are favored by yes? This time yes will be in
We'll stay here for a week. If you are chosen by yes and become the league's scoring leader, don't forget us."
"Dexter, are you kidding me?"
"I didn't mean that, Damien, KD is a teammate who entered the University of Texas with us."
"I hate him even more because we attended the University of Texas together. I am the twelfth-ranked player in the country, and I am a starter on every team! Why should I play for him for a year when I come here?
Substitute? Just because he is the second-highest recruiting player? I can do what he can do! It is because of this year's substitute that I missed the opportunity to express myself in front of Yes last year and missed becoming an NBA player.
A chance to win the scoring title!”
Dexter Pittman wondered if he had heard wrongly.
"Damien, are you kidding me? Do you really think you can become the league's scoring leader with the opportunities that KD has?"
"Why not?!"
Damien James's indignant look left Pittman quite speechless.
Finally Pittman looked over to Durant.
He doesn't know the rest, but one thing he is sure of is that KD can still perform so well in the NBA despite being looked down upon and targeted like this, something Damian James definitely cannot do.
This time, Yeas brought the Seattle SuperSonics to the University of Texas, which caused an undercurrent to these NCAA players at the University of Texas.
This is an opportunity to get up close and personal with yes.
The whole world knows what this opportunity means.
As long as you are favored by yes, you can become the scoring champion like their former teammate Durant and gain both fame and fortune!
Except for a few self-aware people at the University of Texas, most of the players at the University of Texas looked at Yes with straight eyes.
At the same time, they looked at Durant with eyes full of disdain and contempt.
There are many self-aware people in this world.
But it is undeniable that most people are not self-aware.
He was still treated like this when he returned to his alma mater, which made the expression on Durant's face quite ugly.
After all, these are his former teammates.
Although he didn't take them very far in the NCAA last season, they were teammates who fought side by side after all.
He is completely different from a so-called senior like Tucker.
But, what is the performance of these people?
Looking at these people's "ugly" and "clumsy" performances, Durant felt that his teammates in the Sonics were no longer so hateful.
At the very least, whether it is Rondo or anyone else, they are still very straight.
Durant was very disdainful of his former teammates from the University of Texas, but when he looked at them, he felt that these people were so pitiful.
Thinking about the days when he fought for their dreams with them last year, he believed that these guys had dreams at that time.
He believed that these guys had self-respect and ideals at that time.
With their own hard work and strength, they suddenly became NBA superstars that everyone admired. This was their original intention to enter the NCAA and enter the University of Texas.
However, reality is always cruel.
When they shouted out their basketball dreams, reality responded to them with: Go to hell!
When they truly feel that their basketball dreams are getting further and further away from them, they can only place their hopes on nothing.
No, yes is not illusory!
Yes is a real existence, and you can touch the tangible reality!
Looking at his success, and then looking at the success of Milicic, David Lee, Rondo, Millsap and Barea, yes is now the only way for ordinary people to realize their basketball dreams.
Their basketball dreams are vulnerable to reality, and they can only hope in fairy tales to realize their dreams.
Thinking of this, the disgust and disdain for these guys on Durant's face completely turned into sympathy and pity.
You are right. If there was no yes, I would indeed be like you, maybe I would just become one of those people who are told by reality, "Fuck you."
But I was attracted by yes!
I am being cared for emphatically by yes!
I just realized the basketball dream that you have always dreamed of but can never realize!
You say, is it annoying or not?
Looking at those former teammates who were constantly looking for a sense of presence in front of yes, but were completely ignored by yes, Durant felt extremely comfortable.
Scoring champion, endorsement contract with an annual salary of tens of millions, fame, fortune, because yes, he already has it all.
"I am an ordinary person with average talent, but because of yes, I have everything I dreamed of coming true."
And you have nothing!
His feelings towards these so-called former teammates went from disgust to pity and now to disregard.
He and these guys are no longer in the same world.
This time when I came to the University of Texas, the players at the University of Texas were very 'enthusiastic' towards Yes, and Yes certainly knew what these enthusiasms meant.
It's a pity that he has no interest in these University of Texas players.
What's more, his mind is not looking for the pot right now.
To be continued...