At the start of the new season, the Seattle SuperSonics had a 3-2 record in the first five games, which is just the eighth place in the West.

"Cherish the current ranking of the Seattle SuperSonics, maybe this thing will last time this season the Seattle SuperSonics will be in the top eight in the West!"

After the Seattle SuperSonics lost at home to the Boston Celtics, Barkley's words in the commentary became the focus of almost all media coverage.

In five games, facing three weak teams at the swing level, the game was extremely difficult, and against two strong teams, it was almost a crisp defeat.

And judging from the content of the game shown by the SuperSonics in these five games, the other players of the Seattle SuperSonics have really gone all out in these five games.

Yes, needless to say, in each of the five games at the beginning of the new season, he scored at least 30 points, and the shooting percentage of each game was above 80%.

That's a horrible efficiency!

Although Yes took more than 20 shots except for the first game against the Warriors, the number of shots in the other four games was only about 10, so to speak, such a number of shots is a little pitiful for Yes, but who made Yes indulge in the memories of playing with Durant last season?

If he can't move on from his memories with Durant, his style of play will always be like that.

Even if Yes didn't go all out in the game, he still topped the league in scoring and scoring efficiency, and after five games, Yes is now the league's leading scorer, the number one player in field percentage, and the league's fifth-highest rebounders and third-highest assists!

Arguably, Yes's performance in the first five games of the season has been his strongest play stuck in the memories of playing with Durant.

And what about the others?

Milicic has also been quite good in attack this season.

Those who watched the five games of the Seattle SuperSonics can clearly feel that Milicic has improved significantly on the offensive end this season compared to last season, which is biased towards defense and rebounding.

Milicic has changed from last season's defense-oriented to this season's offensive and defensive balance, and his average data per game has also become 18+8, although there are fewer rebounds, but the score has increased, and his rebounds have decreased not to defend, but he has changed from backcourt rebounds to card positions in terms of protecting rebounds.

The Seattle SuperSonics have two guards who are very good at rebounding, and the interior card can better protect the rebounding ball.

So don't look at Milicic's rebounding stats, but the number of rebounds of the whole team has increased, and it is still the highest in the league.

The Seattle SuperSonics' No. 1 rebounding volume this season has a lot to do with Millsap as well.

Millsap has also performed better this season than last season.

Millsap's improvement this season is not in the offensive end, but in the confrontation.

Milicic's improvement is that his attack has become better, and his attacking methods have become better.

And Millsap, simply because of his ability to fight, has become stronger.

Millsap's mid-range shooting percentage is down, but his offensive efficiency under the basket is higher than that of Milicic.

When it comes to defending, he is even better than Milicic.

It can be said that Millsap's performance this season is also better than last season.

Coupled with Rondo, who has four triple-doubles in the first five games of the season, the other four players who started the Seattle SuperSonics have improved this season compared to last season.

Especially Rondo, who averaged the first playoff triple-double in NBA history last season, has played five games this season and is currently averaging 11.2 points, 11 rebounds and 12.2 assists per game.

I don't know if Rondo can average a triple-double per game in the regular season this season, but so far, Rondo is the only player in the league who still averages a triple-double per game!

When you have a starting five, a scoring champion, a point guard who averages a triple-double per game, and two interior players who are very good offensively and defensively, all four of them seem to have their best, but in the end you can't easily win against even the weakest team in the league.

Then you need to think about the performance of the other players.

"Ibaka's performance in the first five games of the season can drain all the hard work of the Seattle SuperSonics' four starters this season."

Ibaka's average shots per game in the first five games are now the number one in the entire league, which is higher than the number of shots taken by Iverson, the Pistons' leading player, so far he has averaged 26 shots per game, only 6 shots per game, and the shooting rate is 23%, not even 25%!

"With Durant's shots, Rondo's shooting percentage was played, and after seeing Ibaka, I think the coconut fans all over the world will miss Durant last season and Rondo last season."

Ibaka dragged down the Seattle SuperSonics with his performance.

And after James Harden played the sixth man with the Seattle SuperSonics, he also dragged down the Seattle SuperSonics' bench lineup.

James Harden has a lot of bad problems on the offensive end, after all, he is a rookie, his style of play is not concise enough, sticky ball, poor shooting selection, low efficiency, etc., and the defense is also quite bad, however, compared to Ibaka, James Harden is still not so pitiful, after all, he can make four free throws per game per game in the bench lineup, which is really surprising.

In short, for the Seattle SuperSonics, many people can see that the rest of the team has really gone all out, but because of Ibaka and Harden, the hard power of the whole team is like this now.

Compared to last season, it's a very, very serious drop.

"Unless Yes can have a more magical performance than last season, the Seattle SuperSonics will have to give up on Ibaka and Harden to make the playoffs!"

"Even if it's Yes, I don't believe he can keep filling holes for Ibaka, Yes has a strong scoring ability, but he has almost faced a bag this season, and the opponent playing Ibaka is almost equivalent to hitting the air, one is playing the air, the other is the packing clip, which is very unfair to Yes."

"Desperately, we all know Yes's character, it's impossible for him to give up on his teammates, since his high school days, that's his basketball style as always, even if he sinks with his teammates, he won't jump ship like some people do."

"Perhaps, this season we can see the same shipwreck that Yes had during the Garfield Five Tigers."

Public opinion around the world is now very pessimistic about the state of the Seattle superSounds.

This is not only the reason of the SuperSonics themselves, but the change of the entire West this season is also an important reason.

This season's West has changed very, very dramatically.

The world thinks the best in the West this season are the Lakers and Grizzlies.

But after five games, the first place in the West is the Spurs and Mavericks!

Both the Lakers and Grizzlies were stopped by last season's Western Conference Belly team.

This season, the Clippers, Timberwolves, and Trail Blazers have performed very well in the previous teams in the West, and the Mavericks have returned to their true colors as a strong team after getting Afralo.

If we talk about the West last season, from a very early start, there are only 8 or 9 teams left competing for the playoffs.

But this season, the teams competing for the playoffs are likely to be as high as 12 or even 13!

There are indeed 12 teams with a win rate of more than 50% in the West now.

Of course, the season has just begun, and it's still very early, but the sudden rise of the Spurs and Mavericks is definitely not an accident, and it is not something that the Spurs and Mavericks will return to normal as time goes on.

Because the Spurs and Mavericks are really changing this season.

The Spurs used to be a defensive-minded team, and Vicky is also a team that is entirely defensive-focused.

But this season, the Spurs changed their previous defensive style and actually played offense and running and shooting.

And the Spurs' offense is different from other offensive run-and-shoot, the Spurs' run-and-gun is very focused on passing and moving the ball, and it doesn't look jerky at all.

The Spurs are focusing on offense this season, and the defense hasn't fallen yet, which is terrifying!

As for the calves......

The biggest change for the Mavericks this season is the acquisition of UCLA guard Afflalo, who was considered a first-class All-Star in the draft, with no shortcomings but no top quality, is his peak player, and he has proved to the world in just five games that he is an All-Star!

And an all-star who has reached an all-star level in every way!

Afflalo is not the same as a partial All-Star player like Durant.

Durant's offense may be a superstar, but the defense...... That's hard to put into words.

And what about Afraro?

Offense is an All-Star, defense is an All-Star, physical talent is an All-Star, and playmaking is an All-Star level!

This is a player who has not wasted any of his talent and has developed all his potential to the extreme!

"Youth is to keep running, to keep chasing your limits!"

Affralo and Westbrook, the duo of mentors and apprentices, who always wear strange outfits, have become a hot topic in the NBA since then.

"If your talent is not as good as Yes, and your effort is not as good as Yes, you are not qualified to chase him!"

In the past, Aflaro liked to keep saying that he was a Yes competitor, and everyone else was dismissive.

How could his potential be a contender for Yes!

But now......

There seems to be nothing wrong with such a player, you say that his future is an All-Star at the highest.

But is such a player really just an All-Star?

Because there are no shortcomings, any player can play his all-star strength in the face of any player, and such a player is sometimes more dangerous than many so-called superstars in the league!

It can be said that the six rookies of this year, the most prominent are Rose of the Bulls, Beasley of the Warriors, and Afraro of the Mavericks.

In the West this season, because of the sudden rise of the Mavericks and Spurs, plus the Lakers, Grizzlies, Nuggets, Rockets, and Suns, these five teams are as strong as ever, even if these seven teams were in the heyday of the Seattle SuperSonics last season, they can only be on a par with them, and the current SuperSonics cannot compete with these teams.

The eight spots in the Western Conference playoffs are seven fewer than seven.

Now the Seattle SuperSonics want to enter the playoffs, and they can only compete with the Timberwolves, Trail Blazers, Clippers, and Thunder.

This year's Timberwolves are very strong, Al Jefferson, Yi Jianlian, Ilyasova and Guy continue to grow this season, plus the team has added a very strong Mayo, this team looks on the verge of taking off.

So even the Lakers were accidentally bitten by the Timberwolves this season.

And what about the trailblazers?

Adeldridge, the star player of the Trail Blazers, has scored 20 points in all five games this season, and has been able to average 20+ points per game steadily, and McConley, Webster, and Gortat are also growing.

Last season, the Trail Blazers were a young team with a very good center, power forward, small forward and point guard, and this season, Eric Gordon, who was selected by the Trail Blazers with the 14th pick, was a surprise in the first five games!

Although it is not as good as the first-tier Rose, Beasley and Afflaro, it is definitely not worse than the second-tier Westbrook, Mayo and Love.

The rookie played three of his first five games with 20+, and the efficiency was quite amazing.

It is precisely because of the Timberwolves and Trail Blazers that these two teams are more likely to be the eighth team candidates in the West to enter the playoffs in the eyes of many people.

The Clippers led by Nick Young and Westbrook are also strong, but they are unstable, and they can blow up when they are strong, but sometimes they seem to be able to blow themselves up.

And the Thunder led by Chris Paul and David West, without Chandler's Thunder, the competitiveness of the Thunder is declining, but the strength of this team should not be underestimated.

It can be said that in the entire West, only Jazz and King are still fish belly.

The other thirteen teams are all aiming for the playoffs.

And those teams that are aiming for the playoffs really have the ability to make the playoffs.

That's madness!

Because the superSonics are in a difficult situation right now, the media across the United States are analyzing the situation in the West this season, and the season is beginning to analyze the situation in the entire West like a season sprint.

For this tension in the media across the United States, supersonic up and down is very relaxed.

And Ye Si has been looking for a team to complete the 100-point task.

After playing five games, three were not humiliated even if he died, and two were teams where he couldn't score 100 points even if he opened 96 hands.

November 7, 2008, Key Arena, Seattle.

"Yes, I didn't expect the feng shui to turn so fast!"

Looking at the excited Guy.

Looking at the hateful Mayo beside Guy.

Ye Si's eyes lit up......