The first four games between the Seattle SuperSonics and Denver Nuggets were all big scores.

These two teams inherited the style from when they met in the regular season.

Neither team seems to be able to limit the other's sharp players defensively.

The Sonics can't guard Anthony, and the Nuggets can't guard Yes. Overall, the Nuggets' players have stronger offensive power.

It is precisely because the Nuggets' players have stronger overall offensive power that the Nuggets have a huge advantage when no one can guard their opponents' cards.

According to the strength gap between the two teams under this similar style, many experts before the game believed that the Nuggets did not even need to make any tactical adjustments in the fifth game between the SuperSonics and the Nuggets, as long as they followed the rules of the previous game.

If you think about it and play the game step by step, you can beat the Sonics.

Therefore, when the Denver Nuggets players stood on the court, the Nuggets' players on the court were exactly the same as in the previous four games: Billups, Hamilton, Anthony, Nene and Camby.

Nothing changes!

In the playoffs, as long as many teams lose, they will make tactical adjustments out of respect for their opponents.

But the Nuggets have no plans to adjust in this regard.

No disrespect to the Sonics.

But the Sonics are really not qualified to ask the Nuggets to make tactical adjustments.

Canby, Nene can't move.

Anthony couldn't even move.

Should Hamilton or Billups be adjusted after a loss in a game?

Stop joking!

In the previous four games, Billups and Hamilton really failed to defend yes.

But considering the contributions of these two people on the offensive end, their performance was qualified.

What's more, besides Jr. Smith, no one in the Nuggets is better at defending Yes than Billups and Hamilton.

Judging from the effect of defensive yes in the previous four games.

Jr. Smith's defensive effect is indeed the best.

yesIn the first four games, I rarely missed a shot, and my shooting rate exceeded 75%!

Most of the missed shots were against Jr. Smith. Jr. Smith was able to "miraculously" make Yes's shooting percentage "only" 50%!

George Karl certainly knows Jr. Smith's defensive ability, and it is definitely not as good as Billups and Hamilton.

But in terms of defending yes, it is such a metaphysics.

George Karl certainly knows that Jr. Smith's defense against Yes in this series was so good not because of Yes's release or because of Jr. Smith's sudden increase in defensive strength.

Whether it is metaphysics or other reasons, considering the team's overall offensive and defensive considerations, there is no need for him to use Jr. Smith to remove Hamilton from the starting lineup now.

Unless the Denver Nuggets have to adjust, such as leading 3-0 and then being pulled back to 3-3.

At that time, no matter whether it is metaphysics or something else, of course you can only go to Jr. Smith.

If Hamilton hadn't been absolutely blown away by yes, he wouldn't have been beaten 3-3 when leading 3-0.

Of course, 3-3 was just speculation, and George Karl never believed that such a thing would eventually come true.

The Denver Nuggets are not a team like the Seattle SuperSonics that can win three consecutive games against one opponent!

In a game like the playoffs where the focus is on targeting and counter-targeting, it is impossible to win two games in a row against an opponent!

The Denver Nuggets' lineup thickness and depth of lineup adjustments are really not comparable to the Seattle SuperSonics.

Even these players on the Nuggets court can make self-adjustments on the court after problems occur.

For example, in the last game, Hamilton and Billups failed miserably against Yes' perimeter defense.

After being broken through by yes, such a defense will allow teammates inside to directly face yes' attack.

After the game started, Hamilton and Billups were no longer the kind of defense that wanted to swallow up Yes.

It's a progressive defense layer by layer.

The biggest advantage of this kind of defense is that even if neither of the two can defend Yes, one of the two can always help defend Yes.

This will be a huge support to the Nuggets' interior defensive players.

After Billups and Hamilton adjusted their defensive methods, yes, after the start of this game, the number of attacks to the basket decreased sharply.

"Let Yes and Hamilton Billups struggle outside!"

George Karl really doesn't believe that Yes can still have such an excellent shooting percentage from the outside!

He recognized the defensive abilities of Billups and Hamilton.

And the outside offense is generally an offense with a lower shooting rate.

Even Anthony's strength has greatly increased after giving up too many outside attacks.

In the first quarter of the last game, the Denver Nuggets were blindsided by Yes's constant attacks on the inside.

In the last game, after the first quarter, the two Denver Nuggets insiders Nene and Camby were fouled twice. Even Anthony almost fouled twice. If it weren't for the Nuggets' last game

It's a home game, and Camby, Anthony, and Nene will all be in foul trouble.

Facing such a crazy Yes, the Denver Nuggets only lost by six points, despite the fact that the final score was a 130-136 loss.

But in fact, the biggest point difference between the two teams was 15 points!

It was only later that after Jr. Smith came on the court, he was very good on both offense and defense when facing Yes, and finally the score between the two sides was narrowed, so that in the end the Nuggets only lost by six points.

In this game, George Karl certainly didn't want to see the same thing happen twice in a row.

What's more, this time, yes and the SuperSonics are playing at home!

Therefore, adjustments like Billups and Hamilton are something he is very willing to see.

The defensive quality of these two Pistons players is indeed the highest on the entire team.

In this game, the Seattle SuperSonics wanted to use yes to bring up the rhythm of the game.

After the rhythm of the game increased, the difference in offensive power between the Sonics and the Nuggets became smaller during the run.

During a fast break, the player's strength will be greatly reduced.

The Sonics players are weaker, but most of the players on this team are young players.

Coupled with the sharp knife of yes, Supersonic's ability in running is quite incredible.

As a head coach who also likes to compete with others, George Karl is certainly not afraid of fast-paced games.

It's just that in this game, he and his team want to end this series.

There is no need to play with the Sonics at such a rhythm that the Sonics like.

"Two teams that were very fast before, slowed down in this game!"

In the fifth game between the Seattle SuperSonics and the Nuggets, after the first quarter of the two teams, the score on the field was 28 to 24!

Judging from the scores of the two teams' previous three games, such a score in the first quarter was very unqualified.

"Although the Denver Nuggets did not make any personnel adjustments after the last game, there were still changes in the game arrangements."

"Because of the offensive versatility of Anthony Billups and Hamilton, the Nuggets' positional offense is as good as their fast-paced offense!"

"In this regard, the Seattle SuperSonics are slightly worse. Durant's offensive stability in the playoffs cost a lot of 'best passes in history'!"

"Even if Durant's offense has the stability of his late regular season, it will greatly improve the situation of the Seattle SuperSonics!"

Durant's performance in the playoffs was very poor, his shooting percentage, turnovers, and other statistics were simply appalling.

According to the words of many reporters who are qualified to vote for the best team.

"If we could vote now, even if he is the scoring leader, even if he is the second-choice player on a 69-win team, even if he can average 35 points per game in a season, we will not give him any vote for the best team!

"

69 wins, 35 per game, scoring leader!

When these three words appear on a player, this player will definitely be the MVP in the history of NBA!

But this season, after this player played in a few playoff games, he was so disliked by reporters and experts that he should not even be included in the best team.

Durant is well aware of the controversy surrounding him.

He doesn't care about the controversy.

Really, now he doesn't care at all about other people's insults and contempt for him.

For him, the most important thing now is to win every next game!

Yes, he sees clearly everything he has done in this series.

The whole world felt that after the Sonics won the last game, yes was finally relieved.

Even Seattle fans feel that winning one game in this series is enough.

But he doesn’t think so!
To be continued...