This season the Seattle SuperSonics have many nemesis teams in the league, including the Mavericks led by Nowitzki Afflalo, the Grizzlies led by Oden Gasol, the Rockets led by Yao Ming Roy, Guy Yi Jianlian Alger

The Timberwolves led by Ferson...

For the Seattle SuperSonics this season, according to many people, the SuperSonics with Ibaka will be four against the opponent's five. In addition, Ye Si will be double-teamed by the opponent, and the SuperSonics' three inside players

Performance is particularly important. Milicic, Millsap, and Marc Gasol. As long as a team can suppress these three people and double-team Yez well, then the SuperSonics are really doomed.

undoubtedly.

The Mavericks, Grizzlies, Rockets, and Timberwolves are all such teams.

In fact, the Suns, which the SuperSonics just defeated, were also such a team before.

Marion and Laga Bell's double-teaming of Leafs was the best in the league. Stoudemire's offensive ability combined with Nash's lethality was also top-notch in the league.

It's not like the SuperSonics haven't played against the Suns this season. The Suns have defeated the SuperSonics before.

But this time, the results have changed dramatically.

Although Marion and Laga Bell's double-teaming of Yes was still excellent.

But Stoudemire can no longer suppress Milicic in the center position.

Milicic has made great progress after beating Larry Brown's Bobcats this season. The main improvement is that he is more confident. He is no longer used to being beaten passively on the court. With Stoudemire's offensive ability, he can be beaten passively.

It's Duncan, he can't stand it.

After Milicic broke the curse of Larry Brown's disdain for his offense and defense, his confidence on both ends of the offense and defense increased. This made Stoudemire, who served as the Suns center, unable to attack with all his strength as before and needed to concentrate on defense.

, under this circumstance, coupled with the help of Marc Gasol and Millsap, Milicic played his career masterpiece against Stoudemire in this huge victory over the Suns.

At the very least, in front of Suns fans, he played in this game that he is qualified to replace Stoudemire in the All-Stars this season, not just because of Yes.

Of course, the biggest reason why the Seattle SuperSonics defeated the Suns in this game is not that Milicic's style of play, which had been passively beaten before, has changed.

The biggest reason is that Ibaka, who has always been a black hole in the past, has no black hole in this game.

In this game, Marion no longer has the ability to unscrupulously use his experience to "conquer the superior" in terms of talent as he could before.

Marion's talent for throwing the blame is inferior to that of Ibaka. In the last confrontation, Marion used his experience to pin down Ibaka, whose talent for throwing the blame is one level higher than his.

In this game, Marion met Ibaka again, and it was very difficult for Marion. His hands were not as long as Ibaka's, his feet were not as long as Ibaka's, his bones were not as strong as Ibaka's, and even his jumping was not as high as Ibaka's.

If he can't make use of his experience, he really won't be able to catch Nash's passing ball under the interference of Ibaka.

He can't play the blame-shifting system, and he doesn't have the singles ability similar to players like Joe Johnson. Letting him play Ibaka one-on-one is not the Suns' regular tactic.

Moreover, Ibaka's ability to upgrade to C-level combined with his talent is no longer something that can be easily bullied by any level of singles players.

It can be said that in this game between the SuperSonics and the Suns, Suns head coach D'Antoni and the Suns players will see despair.

The kind of despair that I might never catch up with Yes and the Sonics from now on.

So for the SuperSonics players, this game really saw hope and a future.

Before the All-Star Game, the Sonics were already aware of Ibaka's progress.

Just because Ibaka has been targeted, his C-level abilities have the same effect on the court as his previous E-level abilities.

This time when we met the Suns, the Suns didn't have an absolutely strong singles player on the front line, and Marion was exactly the player Ibaka could restrain.

So this game against the Suns can really be regarded as a game where Ibaka shined his light for outsiders to see.

In this game, the light radiated by Ibaka was finally seen by those who were still madly criticizing him yesterday.

Since Durant was injured, Ibaka has been the team's starting small forward this season.

From the summer league to the preseason to the current regular season, he has played 53 games. It can be said that Ibaka, a former basketball amateur, has now played almost 100 games at the NBA level.

I have played almost 100 games and been scolded almost 100 times.

Previously, Rondo, Durant, and James Harden, the three generations of players who were crazily criticized, always received more curses than applause.

But at least, these three people's curses were sometimes mixed with applause.

But Ibaka, it was true that before playing the Suns in the last game, there were only curses and no applause.

Not only Nelson has always been worried about Ibaka's situation, but even Ye Si has been worried sometimes.

The final facts proved that Ye Si and Nelson's worries were unnecessary.

Ibaka has a very strong heart.

For more than half a year, his whole body was soaked in pure black, but when he exposed his head, he could still maintain pure white.

This kind of quality is really valuable.

Of course, in the NBA, every player has the potential to shine, and even those players who can play in the NBA have been rewarded by everyone.

As the starting small forward of a Western Conference playoff team, the highlight of his career is just this one game, which is really not enough.

In fact, Ibaka's current ability is indeed not enough.

Yes and Nelson knew this, so they never put too much pressure on Ibaka.

Ibaka himself also knows it very well, so he is always the hardest-working player on the team besides Yes.

Because of the miserable experiences in the past, coupled with the fact that he is a young father and has a large family to support, Ibaka, an African black man, is more honest and understands the importance of opportunities to himself than those black Americans in the NBA.

"Serge, don't put too much pressure on yourself. You have made great progress now."

This season, there are a lot of players around Yes. Apart from James Harden, Ibaka is the one that Yes is most optimistic about.

A talented and hard-working person, although he has been wasted in the past, can still look forward to his future.

Maybe he will never be able to develop Durant's touch, skills, and ball feel, but even if he doesn't have Durant's skills, touch, and ball feel, Ibaka can still become a first-class player.

However, what people fear most is comparison.

Although the game against Marion gave Ibaka a little bit of a blockbuster feeling, it also gave Ibaka some confidence.

But thinking about the Sonics' opponent tonight...

Golden State Warriors.

Now ranked last in the league.

But this team has someone who can beat Ibaka.

If facing Marion, Ibaka can restrain Marion with his talent, it is because Marion's singles skills cannot fully grasp Ibaka's weaknesses.

But Beasley is completely different from Marion.

Beasley's ability to shift blame is actually not as good as Ibaka's.

But Beasley has the ability to defeat James and Wade in a one-on-one in the rookie training camp.

Beasley's pure athletic talent has not reached the top level, but this player's singles skills, intelligence in singles, and his elegant and elegant style of play are something that even Kobe Bryant admires. Although such talent is not a hard talent.

, that is also a talent!

Beasley has enough physical talent, singles talent and technical talent. He is the nemesis of players like Ibaka who have little basketball experience!

In addition, Beasley and Durant are childhood sweethearts who grew up together. Beasley is really good at playing against players like Ibaka and Durant.

Ibaka met Beasley this season, and Beasley never scored less than 40 points.

If it weren't for Ibaka's inner strength, Ibaka might have been psychologically shadowed by Beasley.

Even if Ibaka does not have that kind of psychological shadow on Beasley, it is obvious that Ibaka still cares about Beasley's existence.

The battle with Marion gave Ibaka confidence.

Ibaka hopes to use this kind of confidence in tonight's match against Beasley.

"Get ready for tonight's game."

Looking at Ibaka, whose face was full of hesitation, Yes patted Ibaka on the shoulder and said with a smile.

Get ready for tonight's game...

Looking at Yes's leaving figure, Ibaka recovered from his daze and clenched his hands tightly into fists.

With his rookie status, his abilities, and his status in the NBA, he cannot let any NBA team accommodate him.

The person who can put himself above the team will always be a star player like Yes.

And he, even if he wants to find something from Beasley, he doesn't have that kind of tactical status and team status.

In the Seattle SuperSonics, and in any team in the league, he is the kind of player who does whatever the team needs him to do. If he can't do it, he just stays on the bench.

There is no way for a player like him to say that. I thought, I thought, I felt like this.

He has no such autonomy.

But what is the reality...

The reality is that he is in the Sonics and with Yes, he really has an autonomy that he can't even imagine.

Yes will never restrict the growth of any teammate around him, whether it is the Seattle SuperSonics team or Yes people who need growth.

For the Sonics and Yes, they only need a backup small forward to temporarily replace Durant. He can do this role well. He doesn't need to think so much.

But Yes, Mr. Nelson, the Sonics are really willing to give him more space and stage.
To be continued...