After the hard battle, everyone on the team was eager to get a rest early, but after rushing to Denver overnight, they couldn't get a good rest. Not long after lying down, a fire broke out in a nightclub next to the hotel. The harsh alarm sounded constantly. The fire trucks and police cars were dispatched. In the end, the fire spread to the upstairs of the hotel. The hotel notified one by one to evacuate. Seeing that it would not stop for a while, the team arranged for the players to go to the bus to rest.

It should be noted that when playing away games, the buses are all from away teams, and they have to contact the Nuggets for arrangements. The team is easy to contact, and there is no problem with the bus, but the driver has problems. After the person sent the person to the hotel, he parked the bus to the team and went home to rest. It would take a lot of verbal talk to him if he wanted to call him over. Fortunately, the fire was not too big. When the bus came, the hotel was out of danger. When he was lying down, it was already past five o'clock in the morning.

By noon, basically everyone got up, but there were still some sleepy players who didn't want to get up, so they simply called the food to the room to enjoy and then continued to rest. There should have been a training session. Considering the players' situation, Calesimo asked the players who needed to rest to continue to go back and rest. If you want to train, you can train on your own, but the warm-up time before the game starts must be advanced, and the warm-up time must be extended.

At this time, the media already knew that the Supersonics had a fire last night, and they were reporting it. Fortunately, the matter came suddenly, and the hotel was more careful. The reporters were not infiltrated and the players ran out in a bath towel.

Although the rest time was long enough, it still made many players a little difficult to adapt to because they broke the usual routine of work and rest. After the game, they wanted to enter a rest state. As a result, they just arrived at the hotel and fell asleep, they started to tossing. This is the most uncomfortable thing, and it took several hours tossing.

No matter how long the rest time is, the best rest will not be achieved. During the warm-up, several players are in very bad condition, their shooting feel is extremely poor, and their movements look sluggish and weak. Calesimo wrote down all the names of these players. In this game, these people cannot reuse them.

After the game started, as Caresimo expected, those people performed very poorly and could not see any major problems in training. When the game came, the problems arose. For example, in defense, the first step is very important. If the first step is not kept up, it would not be so easy to catch up. In today's game, it would happen almost from time to time.

Caresimo sighed and began to prepare for a large-scale substitution. He actually wanted to win this game. As the top team in the league, it was a bit unreasonable to be swept by a team with low rankings.

And there is another reason, that is, when faced with George Carl, Carlesimo was also unwilling to admit defeat. The two were about the same age, but George Carl's qualifications were much older than him. Moreover, George Carl's coaching career was far more successful than him. It was only in the past two years that he found confidence when facing these famous coaches, and naturally he was unwilling to be swept away.

He replaced Jalet Jack with Russell Westbrook, replaced Kote Thomas with Sergiy Baka, and then replaced Yao Ming with Cooper. Although Yao Ming had no problem with his attitude in the game, his physical fitness was not very good. Although there was no problem at the moment, Kalesimo still felt that he could rest well and contribute more to his strength in the second half.

The game started again, and the Supersonics' performance was indeed much better. After Kevin Durant came off the court, Damien Wilkins came on the court, and only one of the five starters was left. At this time, the Supersonics suddenly broke out. Under Stephen's push, the Supersonics scored points with breakthroughs. The Nuggets, which have always been good at offense, had no power to fight back in front of the Supersonics and were beaten to retreat step by step.

This made the fans of the Supersonics team in front of the TV very happy, especially those sitting in the bar watching the football. They picked up their glasses and poured them into their stomachs excitedly, as if they didn’t have to pay for beer. As the Supersonics team’s performance became better and better, there were more and more bars themed on basketball. In the past two years, it was very rare. A sport, results were the main reason for attracting fans. Although there are loyal irons who never leave them no matter how bad the team’s performance is, they are a minority after all. The majority of fans who like to see the team win. Seeing other fans beat their home team to death and still excited, that is not a fan, it is called masochism.

The Nuggets naturally were unwilling to give up the defeat. After Kenyon Martin changed to Sergii Baka on the defense, he saw Yao Ming also get off the court and began to bully Sergii Baka with his footsteps and strength. Whenever he got a chance, Billups' pass would come in time, and even an air relay came on Coupard's head. However, after coming back, Coupard did not make him feel good. After receiving Stephen's pass, he turned over and dunked, knocking Kenyon Martin out.

By the end of the first half, the Supersonics led the Nuggets' five points 56 to 51. Although the five-point advantage is not a big lead, the Supersonics, which has always been unable to gain a advantage in front of the Nuggets, has greatly boosted confidence.

In the second half, Stephen began to take a break, with Kevin Durant and Yao Ming taking Jarret Jack, Damien Wilkins and Nick Colinson playing, while the Nuggets were on their own full lineup.

Caresimo was quite relieved at first. Now the lineup on the court is basically his main lineup, but there is one Stephen missing, and one side is still five points ahead. At the same time, he doesn't plan to let Stephen rest for too long, and he will not be able to hold on for five minutes.

But he really couldn't hold on. Within two minutes of the game, Billups overtook the score by one point with a three-pointer, and then Kevin Durant also made a three-pointer, but Carmelo Anthony followed up and made another three-pointer. Damien Wilkins's shot from the open spot was a three-pointer.

After the Nuggets took a slight lead, the offense became even sharper, especially Carmelo Anthony and Kevin Durant could not compete with him at all, especially on the defensive end. Carlesimo had no choice but to send Stephen on the field in advance.

But George Carl soon sent JR Smith to replace Reinado Barkman, intending to send two scoring masters, so that Stephen can only focus on defending one. No matter who it is, it can be much easier to face Kevin Durant's defense. Facing a team with balanced internal and external balance like the Supersonics, you cannot have an advantage both inside and outside. Although the Supersonics have super experts like Stephen on the outside, the Nuggets have more staff than the inside.

Yao Ming in the inside is enough to restrain Nene Hilario. The current power forward Chris Anderson is just a defensive defender, so George Carl feels that he may still have some advantages in the competition on the outside, so there is no hope in the inside.

Sure enough, Billups, JR Smith and Carmelo Anthony are all players who are very powerful on the offensive end, especially the drawer JR Smith, who faces Kevin Durant's defense and shoots like crazy, and his shooting percentage is as high as four of six shots.

In the offense, Stephen not only had to face Carmelo Anthony's defense, but Billups was waiting to assist in defense. Stephen passed the ball more to Jarret Jack or Kevin Durant, but today they didn't feel very good. When they wanted to get as close to the basket as possible, they encountered Chris Anderson's block. In just half a quarter, Chris Anderson sent four blocks, two of Jarret Jack and Kevin Durant each, which was very fair.

Chris Anderson was still an unknown person last season. He started his career from a Chinese club. Two Chinese tattoos on both sides of his shoulders represent his personality and his style. He actively and hard-working in playing basketball, especially on the defensive end. However, at the same time, his shortcomings are also very obvious. In addition to dunks, he lacks other offensive skills. As an inside player, he only weighs 220 pounds, which brings flexibility while also reducing his confrontation. It can be said that when fighting against most inside players, he does not have an advantage, but it allows him to easily compete for rebounds and blocks and rush into the outside players in front of him.

After being blocked continuously, Jarret Jack and Kevin Durant did not dare to rush to the basket casually, but Chris Anderson finally got the ball, but Stephen covered him hard from the side and directly covered him to the ground.

JR Smith scored two consecutive three-pointers to widen the score gap to nine points, but Stephen just received a pass from Jarret Jack. Before Carmelo Anthony could come over, he raised his hand and threw the ball out, which looked very relaxed and casual. After coming over, Carmelo Anthony immediately returned a three-pointer.

When I came back, I thought Stephen would continue to make a three-pointer. Who knew that after Stephen got the ball, he suddenly leaned over, squeezed away Carmelo Anthony, and rushed towards the basket. Chris Anderson rushed over from the inside and blocked Stephen. Instead of rushing over, Stephen turned around and ran towards the other side.

JR Smith rushed over quickly, Stephen suddenly turned around, from back to basket to facing basket. Everyone thought he would shoot, but his hand pushed the ball from behind and pushed the ball to Kevin Durant. Durant made a little adjustment after getting the ball, and before Billups rushed over, he threw the ball out.

Who knew that Kevin Durant finally made a three-pointer and narrowed the score to six points again. Billups also made a three-pointer. The two teams made three-pointers for a while, and they were both extremely accurate.

Finally, it was broken by Stephen. The three-pointer he shot was hit on the basket and bounced high. It was impossible to enter at first sight. Yao Ming jumped for a while but was taken by Chris Anderson, who jumped behind, but he was cut off by Stephen when he passed the ball to Billups. At the same time, Stephen jumped in the air, turned around in the air, pushed the ball out with both hands. When the ball reached the highest point, it began to slide downward and fell into the center of the basket.

In the third quarter, the two sides played extremely fiercely, and the score gap continued to change. Every time the Supersonics finally caught the score, the Nuggets even opened a few goals again. George Carl's expectation was realized. Looking at the players' performance on the court, George Carl smiled. The success of this season was really an unexpected surprise for him. You must know that the management was already very disappointed with him, but no one expected that the team would make such great progress after changing to Billups.

In fact, when every general manager makes a transaction, he does not dare to guarantee that the transaction can achieve the effect he conceived. Especially for such a large transaction, it carries huge risks. Once it fails, it will be difficult to continue operating. While the team's performance increases, George Carl's position has gradually stabilized, which allows him to have more thoughts to put on the team. Otherwise, no one can devote all his energy to work when he is unemployed at any time.

However, George Carl felt that his body was a little unsatisfactory, but the current situation of the team gave him the motivation to persevere, but if he could not succeed this season, he would not know if he could still persist.

The Denver Nuggets are a team that has never won the championship. Since they have never left the city of Denver, they have a deep fan base in this city. The Pepsi Center Arena is one of the few stadiums in the league that are ranked among the top attendance all year round. It turns out that they are not called the Nuggets, but the Denver Rockets, who plays in another league. Later, they joined the league with the San Antonio Spurs and the Indiana Pacers, and then changed their name to the Nuggets.

"Skywalker" David Thompson is their biggest star. He scored 73 points and 63 points respectively in the last game of the regular season, but George Gervin was still the scoring champion of the season. However, although the Nuggets continued to lead the attendance, the team has not achieved much results. After David Thompson of "Skywalker" retired, few top stars came here.

The Denver Nuggets are not short of money. They do not need to worry about luxury taxes like those teams running at low cost, so they traded a big deal to Allen Iverson. After failing, they traded Allen Iverson for Billups. However, their tradition of paying attention to offense and not defense always made them fail in the playoffs, but the tradition is not so easy to change.

In the fourth quarter, Stephen narrowed the gap to one point with continuous scores, but after two minutes, the gap was still one point. Stephen himself didn't know what was going on. Why was the power of Billups and Carmelo Anthony not so powerful when facing other teams or opponents? But when facing himself, Yao Ming, who had enough rest, returned to the court and made continuous strong attacks at the basket, surpassing the score in one fell swoop.

However, Linas Creza came up with a three-pointer and a mid-range shot and scored five points in a row, surpassing the score again. Yao Ming finally caused Nene Hilario's foul, and made all two free throws, surpassing the score again. Billups caused Russell Westbrook's foul, which also made both free throws.

Stephen scored a shot and the Supersonics entered the lead, but when he came back, Stephen fouled again at Carmelo Anthony and was caught by the referee, and also gave Carmelo Anthony two free throws. Carmelo Anthony naturally would not be polite and scored two points at the same time.

Fans who drank a little too much when the Supersonics led the lead in the first half opened their eyes at this time, looking at the big screen's every move, and didn't want to let go of any details. The game was like this that no one expected before the game. Even if the Supersonics were the first in the league, they had never taken advantage of the Denver Nuggets. At the same time, they did not have a good rest due to an accident last night, so this game was even more unlikely to cause trouble for the Denver Nuggets, but the Supersonics played particularly tenaciously, and were more tenacious than the games they had lost before.

The game is like this, and if you want to say who is likely to win and who is likely to lose, even if you take out a supercomputer, you may not be able to calculate it clearly. Even if you meet and have more knowledgeable experts, you will not dare to determine who will win the final victory. The two teams played for more than four minutes, and the score gap between the two sides did not exceed two points, which shows how the game was stalemate.

At the end of the game, after Yao Ming's physical strength had a problem, Nene Hilario began to show off his strength and scored continuously. By the time Caresimo was sent to Coupard, the Nuggets had already taken a five-point lead, and it was less than thirty seconds before the end of the game.

At this time, many people thought that the Supersonics were swept by the Denver Nuggets this season was a foregone conclusion. It seems that the Denver Nuggets' "SuperSonics Nemesis" hat was to be worn more firmly. At this time, Stephen, who was unwilling to admit defeat, only three seconds left to score a three-pointer, telling all fans and audiences that it is still a suspense that whoever wins and loses the game is still a suspense.

When the Nuggets returned to the court after the timeout, Stephen took the initiative to stand in front of Billups. Jarret Jack tactfully defended JR Smith. At this time, Stephen thought that the most dangerous and critical Nuggets player was still Billups.

Billups did not rush to pass the ball when he got the ball, but kept pestering Stephen and wasting time in the game. Anyway, we were the ones leading the ball, while others started running under his command. Stephen kept a half-fitting distance with him. Stephen believed that as an excellent point guard, Billups would definitely give priority to passing the ball instead of taking action himself. Sure enough, twenty-one seconds passed the game, Billups suddenly passed the ball to Carmelo Anthony behind him. However, as soon as the ball left, Stephen suddenly reached out from one side, interfered with the ball path, and then quickly ran towards the direction of the ball.
Chapter completed!